THE FATHER OF MEMES: A GUIDE TO RICHARD DAWKINS
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The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-19-286092-7.
The Extended Phenotype. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-19-288051-2.
The Blind Watchmaker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 1986. ISBN 978-0-393-31570-7.
The God Delusion. Bantam Press (United Kingdom), Houghton Mifflin (United States). 2006. ISBN 978-0-618-68000-9.
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Memes, the DNA of the soul.
''They are the culture, they are everything we pass on...''
Archetypes
Nah thats dmt
Memes, the powerhouse of the soul.
Well if it isn't saucy Jack
Dawkins was the og reddit atheist
He created the reddit atheists.
literally almost all of the internet atheist movement wouldn’t have existed without this man
@Quantum Passport You're wrong on a couple things.
1. Whenever someone says that one has faith in science or technology, that's a red flag. The Scientific Method uses deductive reasoning, rendering it the polar opposite of faith, and technology, I have no idea what you mean when you say one has faith in it.
2. Religion is not why people make amazing discoveries, or why people form societies together, in fact, religion is known more for dividing people and causing wars, genocides, witch hunts, and so on. I suppose you could use Yuval Noah Harari's way of thinking and say that humans invent myths in order to bond together, but Harari uses the word 'myth' to refer to pretty much any social construct, meaning a society can indeed be formed with myths, but not necessarily religious myths.
3. Mythicism is a minority position amongst scholars, but I don't see that as a reason to discard it, as that would be an appeal to popularity fallacy. The evidence for Jesus existing as a person is pretty scarce, and the people who are cited as being evidence for Jesus don't say anything about Jesus himself, rather, they only parrot what Early Christians would have believed about Jesus.
4. You make Dawkins out to be some sort of imbecile. I do agree, he has said some stupid things, especially in recent times, but to act as if he hasn't done groundbreaking work in terms of biology and hasn't made decent arguments against religion is honestly mind-boggling. Also, Dennet actually knows Dawkins as a person, you don't, so how do you know Dennet doesn't have good reasons for being friends with him?
@Irish deconstruction, you are incorrect about the case for Christ. Please look again and you will find evidence for Jesus.
@@lillysgrandmaable Where is the evidence? You have to backup what you say in an argument, y'know.
Big chungus in a Sisyphus thumbnail.
The internet lately has gone insane and im for it
Always has been
How can a censored platform go insane? Only if its just a madness.
Are you new to the internet?
I think the word Dawkins was looking for is 'dank'.
Dawkin memes
Dankins
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
There's truth in that
"the mark of an educated mind is posting often attributed quotes in the comment section of youtube videos"
-joseph stalin
@@swank8508 it was not a random and meaningless quote, but rather a context relevant comment about the absurd notion that this revolutionary evolutionary biologist fails to grasp the world better than the delusional masses simply because he's older than them.
@@just83542 i didnt say it was meaningless, just that it was misattributed
"Wow that qoute really fit well with the video"
-your mom
I don't understand the issue with the trans tweet. To me it seems pretty clear in what he says. Trans people may not have the chromosomes that they want, but he still refers to them how they want to be addressed out of courtesy and because it's how they identify. If somebody who does see the problem could explain it to me that would be great, thanks.
I would take this as a lapse in the open minded tendencies of Sisyphus, no one is perfect, I’d say he didn’t quite analyse the comment and fell into his own biases on the topic.
@@Catalyst2812 thought so aswell
I am transgender and I see it as a bit iffy but not full blown evil worth total 100% shaming of.
You can't change your chromosomal sex, but you can change several other characteristics of it (hormones, secondary sexual characteristics, etc.)
And with gender being a separate thing from sex, with both a non-deniable biological part to identity (Trans people's brains match closer to their desired sex and lie somewhere between their birth and desired sex), and a socially constructed view of gender (roles, looking deeper into identity, etc).
I concur entirely. If you define by chromosomes, no. Logically and factually 100% correct. If you define by self-identification, yes. Once again, correct. There can be no argument against either one of these claims that isn't fallacious. What people are criticizing him for is what he didn't say, which is entirely unfair. I met him a decade ago and he is indeed a prickly character, and The God Delusion IMH(atheist)O is pretty much a rant, but logically and ethically, despite some disagreements, I have very little criticism of him, and feel that those who do are speaking from emotion and not reason.
Although I agree that the quote shown is not objectively transphobic. I think a different quote better demonstrates his “upsetting” opinions:
In a 2021 tweet, he stated "Some men choose to identify as women, and some women choose to identify as men. You will be vilified if you deny that they literally are what they identify as.”
I think that this quote would have been a better quote selection as it deals with his beliefs on identity, not chromosomes.
I am quite mixed about this because I don’t agree with his views on trans people, I do understand that it’s philosophers job to question things.
The REAL father of memes is Carl Jung
and Nietzsche
@alvi memes matter
father of memes, daddy of milfs
The collective unconscious and its archetypes, yessir
The real father of memes is Sisyphus 55
While the video was great as always, I feel like there was a slight misrepresentation of the Sokal affair. This controversy was by no means the dunk on postmodernists that it's made out to be. Sokal himself has stated:
"From the mere fact of publication of my parody I think that not much can be deduced. It doesn't prove that the whole field of cultural studies, or cultural studies of science -- much less sociology of science -- is nonsense. Nor does it prove that the intellectual standards in these fields are generally lax. (...) It proves only that the editors of one rather marginal journal were derelict in their intellectual duty, "
Jonas Čeika has a great video on this, which I recommend to anyone interested in the issue.
True, the Grievance Studies affair came to a much more damning conclusion with respect to a more specific sub-field of cultural studies.
“Wut, you telling me it wasnt meant to shit on gender studies….. libtards duum”
Out of all the living thinkers that you haven’t done a video for yet, I think Kendrick Lamar might make the most interesting one. I feel like his takes on self-actualization and morality in To Pimp a Butterfly are not talked about enough.
Single greatest album ever made
He listened to you and made a video
He did it
Sisyphus is the only TH-camr who I sit through the ad for just cuz he seems like a nice genuine guy
Delusional.
I'd love to see old trusty Hitch.
5:40 Is it transphobic to agree with (at least partially) the sentiment of that tweet? What defines a woman kinda IS semantic. If we define woman as "person with XX chromosomes", then a trans woman isn't a woman. And if it'd by self-identification, of course a trans woman is a woman. As someone who I think most accurately described as non-binary, I dont see how this is offensive at all.
I mean he isn't wrong per se, but in what context does anyone define a woman by chromosomes? we can't see chromosomes, unless you happen to be a genetic lab. "woman" is, in most contexts, defined by a whole lot of personal characteristics both mutable and unmutable like hair length, use of makeup, bone structure, choice of clothes, general vibe, etc etc, and someone who, say, identifies with a different gender, will (when given the opportunity) change what characteristics they can to match the gender they identify as. so it's a lot easier to just say okay fine, if someone identifies as a woman they're a woman, rather than trying to list out every single possible characteristic you can think of and trying to pin down the metaphysics of being a woman.
@@video_enjoyer that's how just about every conservative defines a woman, by their biological sex. They see sex and gender as synonymous.
@@BC-hu6yq they might say that if you ask them, but if they look at a random person at the street they can probably tell that person's gender (or their gender expression anyhow) without needing to know that person's sex. Even people who claim to define gender that way aren't going around looking in everyone's pants before deciding which set of pronouns to use
The last few decades has seen a lot of changes in gender studies in anglophone academia. But older generations and non anglophone cultures aren't catching up yet. I live in France. Recently some of my friends talked about how in French, the word genre (equivalent of gender) wasn't really used for gender identity in human beings traditionally. They use the word sexe, which is biological sex and not gender. So the whole idea of gender identity is still foreign to a lot of people who weren't concerned and it's just a whole new field of social discussion. And older cisgender people can be easily confused by or be dismissive of the gender identity debate. Last time I looked at the chart of the different groups forming my local pride parade I was confused by a lot of the acronyms and labels too... So maybe Dawkins shouldn't have weighed in on something he didn't understand very well, but I certainly see where he's coming from. Why some on the left gotta be so harsh and boycott anything that doesn't agree with them... it's tiring
If he used the terms male and female in order to talk about biology rather than men and women, it'd have made more sense since one defines a biological given and the other a social construct
All I'm getting when looking for answers is that "the problem lies in the subtext". The problem with that statement is that it has a subtext itself, namely "I'm the deciding authority on what Dawkins REALLY meant". See how annoying that is?
EDIT: In the time since I wrote this comment 4 months ago, Richard Dawkins has openly endorsed trans-exclusive feminism by tweeting "Please sign the Declaration on Women’s Sex-based Rights. I have just done so." - that document he wants you to sign? It's fucking wild yo, read it if you have the time. So with all this context and hindsight it's safe to say that his past tweets were dog-whistles. Kudos to everyone who saw what Dawkins was doing all along, I will openly admit that I did not.
Looks to me like a pretty good document, all we need now is a Declaration on Trans-Rights to go with it and add an "along with" between sex and gender identity throughout the bill it would be a pretty good sexual rights achievement. But I do see how it can be off putting to have them disregard gender identity, but like many people say Sex and Gender are different, why shouldn't we have laws for both?
Respect for correcting your comment later, it's sometimes harder to recognise rethoric when it isn't harmful directly to yourself or those like you.
This doesn't seem like a good choice for a profile since Dawkins isn't really a philosopher and his more systematic thinking is scientific. He has opinions but so do most people.
Doesn't he hate philosophy and theology?
@@PabloSensei he thought that studying theology is completely useless. But here you see a good thing about Dawkins: in a conversation with KosmicSkeptic (don't remember where the k are in that name), the latter explained why he thought Dawkins was wrong and Dawkins conceded and changed his mind
What is your definition of philosopher then
Philosophers haven't systematic thinking? I thought this channel is all about that
"a movement that has lost its edge"
This had to be an intentional pun
This video presumes that proceeding generations develop “nuanced” views of the world and that Dawkins interpretation of said nuance is shallow. Maybe his interpretation is nuanced and the generations worldview is shallow. Why must I believe a-priori that a generation and it’s changing worldview is of value worthy of a nuanced interpretation
I 100% agree, most of the tweets shown are not blatantly wrong or offensive enough to justify the presumption that there’s something wrong about his views on modern thought. Quite disappointed about that...
You really saw those tweets and figured they're a-ok?...
@@prod.hxrford3896 Oh please. His views on trans people is ridiculously unscientific.
@@hotrightnow8932 What was unscientific about them? Idk much about gender identity or the trans community.
@@hotrightnow8932 Explain what was unscientific about the chromosome and gender identity tweet
0:50 Kazakstan
world's number one exporter of potassium, if I'm not mistaken
@@dbmassiv awesome
Greatest country in the world.
goddamnit, I laughed way too hard at chung us
this guy scratches such a specific and amazing itch no one else has or can and i love it
There's nothing wrong with saying you should be able to say anything at university. That's what they're there for.
The problem is people dont rlly mean that, taking a look at most universities there is hostility towards socialist groups or stright up a ban on such groups. That statement is often used to exuse harmful ideologys being protected such as natzis
True, university SHOULD be the place we discuss uncomfortable and controversial things, with help of professors, specialists, etc. rather than on social media
@@insidethebox2470 I don't know where in the world you're talking about, but in the US universities have a leftwing slant. 25% of social sciences professors self-identify as Marxist. So lots of people have the opposite experience of universities to what you write - center-rightwing ideas are treated with hostility and injustly labeled nazi while radical left are accepted. You also could argue many ideologies are harmful, it's very easy to argue socialism, communism and Islam are harmful ideologies, so if you think "harmful" ideologies should be banned those could be banned also.
@@Eerielai center right is empathetic to natzis and socialism is isnt even remotely dangerous. Should we nuke Denmark for being a democratic socialism or take away your holidays and worker protections because that's socialist in reality.
@@insidethebox2470 people should allow all ideologies freedom to compete for hearts and minds of new generations in universities. All minds are flawed and biased, it only becomes worse with age, so any ban or regulation of exchange of ideas among students is fundamentally against progress of culture and civilization.
I hope we can agree on this.
I never buy merchandise for youtubers, but I like your channel so much that I couldn't help but buy yours
Wait, by intentionally having the advertisement portion's audio low does that crackpottedly boost algorithm interaction with people more likely to interact to turn it down? Just curious if anybody would be able to add insight on that. Much love man, your content is desperately needed by the generations looking for a way up on better critical thinking and reflection.
I don’t think volume adjustment counts as engagement.
who does that though
“Memework makes the dreamwork”
-Ancient Kekistani Shitposting Sages
if you are still doing your podcast i think it would be super cool to have an episode with Syrmor!! his content is very different from yours but he's talked to a ton of people and shared incredible stories, i think discussions of self made happiness and life would be cool to listen to
he just caught up with our fave boy dawa
I am transgender and I see his comment about it as a bit iffy but not full blown evil worth total 100% shaming of.
You can't change your chromosomal sex, but you can change several other characteristics of it (hormones, a lot of secondary sexual characteristics, etc.), sex in its totality is not a binary, and a fully transitioned person would fall non-binary in some spots, male in some spots, and female on others.
And also gender is a separate thing from sex (he kind of mentions this), with both a non-deniable biological part to identity (Trans people's brains match closer to their desired sex and lie somewhere between their birth and desired sex), and a socially constructed view of gender (roles, looking deeper into identity, etc. This stuff is literally so weird when you begin to look at it and runs super deep, and as Lily Alexandre put it, "I see this sh-t in six dimensions, you cannot begin to comprehend just how fake it is!").
It's good that as a formality he refers to someone as their gender, rather than biological sex, as anyone should out of respect.
8:13 let's talk about that iFunny watermark 🍀
I just purchased Susan Blackmores "The Meme Machine" today on a whim and seeing as you've mentioned them in this video a dedicated look into the topic could be highly informative for what I feel is a painfully under highlighted subject and idea
I don't think it always stands that the older you get, the more outdated your views become or you get conservative about certain issues. Noam Chomsky comes to mind as a counterexample.
People can certainly adapt their views over time. However, I think it's less that the person changes and more that the person doesn't change while society does.
A person can have the same set of values their whole life, but those values might be considered liberal in the 50s and conservative now. And they certainly have no opportunity to change their mind once they die
@@owenbillo5513 I agree but I am contending that there are people like Bernie Sanders or Noam Chomsky who've been consistently liberal throughout their life. Rather refreshing to be honest
@@scottlancaster2865 what Anderson? What's your point
@@aishwariyasweety2433 pretty sure Chomsky is an anarcho-syndicalist and Bernie a socialist(I think its his position, he just deals with the dems cuz he has no choices)
Inn this case, it was just as "outdated" for him to challenge the ancient delusional views of the masses as the contemporary views of the masses. His correctness is not dependent on his relative age. Just like Sanders or Chomsky, he doesn't need to change to be correct when the accepted mainstream is wrong.
that last sentence really did strung a chord in me, thanks
All I took from this is gods a meme
Do the rest of the new atheists, especially Dan Dennett!
He already did Sam Harris, but id love to see Dennett and Hitchens too.
Hitchens is finally coming 🥃
If hitch was alive today he would be SOOOOOOOO canceled. Absolutly no doubt. I would love to have his perspective in these times tho, never ever dull.
@@loganlabbe9767 I doubt his nonchalance would let that last; if Hitchs' reinforced anything for me is that cancel culture -as any other sort of fanaticism-, when met with the proper questions, finds no room for self-importance, thus extinguishing the relevance of an "offence"
@@diegoisaias5795 i think thats why the atheism movement kindof petered out and sidestepped into gender related topics which at first glance makes no sense. Second glance though, its still rebelling against brand new tabboos.
Hitch wouldn't let them cancel him; they'd all fall over swooning
Great video, Sisyphus! Keep it up! You're really ahead of the curb.
The man used Logic in 2020. What did he expect?
Bruh the man doesn’t understand how novels work.
True
Big Chungus lives on as the dominant meme
Context is clear & intended meaning was clarified. That said, If some complain yet can't find an adequate word to use in place of a word then should some complain @ all?
8:39 I am disappointed that I didn't get rickrolled
I think not using Twitter is a very good idea.
His tweet raised a genuine interrogation in me since I'm not much of an expert in gender dysphoria but what does it exactly mean to feel like a woman while you're biologically male ?
Because the tweet about comparing identifying as black and identifying as a woman may sound silly but the first objection that came to my mind was "you can't identify as black cause it is just a skin color, it doesn't associate with any personality, behaviour, or anything fundamentally different from being white. Saying you identify as black implies some kind of stereotype that is ultimately unfounded in reality".
But then is this reasoning not applyable to gender too ?
One of the things I came to understand is that gender roles are just a social construct and there's no really any specific personality traits associated with your biological sex. So much so that it's said that it's nonsensical to write a "female character" because a female character is just a character but with a vagina that doesn't change anything in how she should behave.
So when you identify as a man or a girl, does it mean that you just subjectively feel, baselessly, so or is there some personality you have that make you think that way?
Either way I find the two really challenging because it either goes against the inexistence of gender specificities or it legitimates that you could genuinely identify as anything.
Please if there are people that could help in figuring this out I would be very thankful.
Well, its actually not linked to any real character traits in gender dysphoria. Its just that they *feel* different. Actually, very strongly.
Gender Dysphoria means that you feel very uncomfortable with living in the body you were born with, more precisely, with living with those genitalia of your body.
Yes, gender roles are a societal construct, but...trans people don't really think about those gender roles, nor about the cliché male or female attributes. Its more about the body itself. E.g. Trans People might feel highly uncomfortable with their existing genitalia.
There was actually a case where a doctor changed a very young boy's genitalia and such, gave him hormones etc so that the boy would look like a girl, and the parents were also told to treat the boy like a girl, without losing a single word about the boy being, well, originally a boy
But the boy felt very weird, he didn' feel right in that female body.
Otherwise, there's also information on gender dysphoria from the NHS, as far as I know, which also proved helpful for understanding
@@phonix6352 okay thank you I'll have to read about some studies about the phenomenon but it's really interesting and confusing.
Do you have the name for that case about the little boy ?
@@mohamedrawadali7938 unfortunately, I don't 😬
Its been some time since I read about it, but as far as I know, it was a big scandal
But I think normal studies from the medical community should suffice
@@mohamedrawadali7938 its however understandable that its confusing.
Its not smth we encounter on a daily basis, and we all are only exposed to it after our formative years, so we obviously need some time to comprehend it, nothing wrong with that
@@phonix6352 well I can see why it would not be very...ethically...acceptable
Now there's a pretty meme, exquisite!
A VPN that uses the same encryption by the government usually means that the government is using the same thing but has to pay for the subscription at a higher price lol
Thank you moonson
im so early I love u Sisyphus 55
Seems to be a euro-centric view of religion. With blankets statements absolut religion only really consistently applying to Christianity. Great work bro!
I am wondering what is the difference between "memes", according to the definition of Dawkins, and "archetypes" from Carl Gustav Jung ?
"Free will is a myth! Religion is a joke We are all pawns controlled by something greater: Memes, the DNA of the soul"
-Richard Dawkins
Oh boy! can you do Hitchens next?
What is the problem with 5:40, can someone explain?
Richard Dawkins indirectly invented Big Chungus
Need a dostoevsky video
Unironically “based” might be the best English word to replace “selfish” in regards to genes
fuck your right
No
Hey sir, have you considered making one about Hitchens? Cheers
This will blow up
Nothing wrong with that tweet tho.
No, he falls for the very common misconception of equating sex with gender
@@jcavs9847 he literally stated the difference between gender identity and sex IN THE TWEET lmfao 😂
@@chrisrenfro2058 where
@@jcavs9847 "if you define by chromosomes, no. If by self-identification, yes"
@@chrisrenfro2058 I take the L. I was rgbking about the other tweet
Huge fan of Richard Dawkins! I love his idea of "altruism" in evolution.
@@Dimitris_Half based and breadpilled
Go back before it's too late
I never really liked his stance on belief, even after I left the church. Sure, the chaotic and oppressive forms of Christianity are extremely toxic and he was right to point it out, but he seems to have thrown the baby out with the bathwater in most cases. He says that beliefs that aren't rooted in some form of science are idiotic, but our modern science was formed by all sorts of people with different beliefs. And science is far from a complete picture and changes all the time. He also says it's wrong to follow ideology, but it's clear to anyone who isn't a die hard for his work that he follows a few ideologies himself that he seems unaware of.
His arguments against on religion are surrounded by the questions of whether humans are made worse by religion or better, or are we just the same, but that's difficult to answer. Neitzsche also despised Christianity and religion but he still admitted that it was responsible for disciplining the west during the middle ages.
@@Reedamaster well in that stance, I'm still against him. That's not a question in black and white. Religion has been fuel for wars in the past, but its also give rise to peace in ways that don't usually happen. And Religions are completely different around the world. Some are used for inflicting control, others show paths to enlightenment. To label it all under Religion, ideology, etc is folly. No two definitions of God are the same
Am I the only one who doesn't think his tweets are that crazy? I don't think he said anything wrong.
Absolutely not, the overwhelming (silent) majority of people would see them as perfectly reasonable.
Dang guess I was wrong. Though Terrance McKenna coined the term Meme
"Biologist under fire for views on gender identity" ain't that a headline?
so smoothie if you think its accordingly this way
ah yes my 4am mountain time sispuss upload
You have a mistake in your video. The 2015 Tweet is not the one which sparked the decision to withdraw the Humanist of the Year Award. The withdrawal happened this year, and the sparking tweet is also from 2021.
Also Dawkins book was 'The Blind Watchmaker' NOT 'The Blind Watchman'
😊 so 2 mistakes
Alan Sokal shoutout! 💯
Can you give a better take on how his beliefs now are bad? Because of the tweets? And what do you have to say about them?
being a woman doesn't just mean having two x chromosomes, like dawkins implies. gender is much more complex than that, and dawkins doesn't seem to understand that.
HE CLEARLY SAYS "ON A CHROMOSOME LEVEL".
He's not talking about the whole picture. But you can't simply deny the part he speaks about
@@xXxchi11xXx Do you not understand euphemisms and dog whistles? And tainting a political discussion by outrage bullshit
@@vickysmashesyouwithahammer Exactly.
Gender is a if not the most important part of what one's identity is, specially when it's one of the first to be truly exposed to a social level; the "first mask" of your person other people perceive.
Given its importance, the idea of indiscriminate approval of everything even barely related to gender identity is causing unnecessary clash between those who advocate for said approval and the biased "senile"... at first.
For quite some time in the present, the clash's now with the HBTQA+ community itself with more and more different views popping up, just like what happened to early Christianity and Jesus' message being shared around people who had each of their interpretations acknowledged as an entire separate one.
But differently from religion, is the fact we are working with people's perception of self and how delicate and personal that has to be built into.
And to that, everyone screams "just be you!", caring little about all the other specifics that can drive one's gender dysphoria even further downward.
And I won't even mention the gender groomer problem.
tl;dr "mur transphobic arse gtfo"
Do a video on Ken Wilber and integral theory
that tweet doesn't seem that wild honestly
Yes but it angered the hivemind. Critical thinking is not allowed if it implies any criticism of the corporate HR department brand of virtue signaling.
Yah it’s not even that bad 😂
The muslim one seemed super unnecessary
@@chinobambino5252 Going with his gut instinct without thinking it through or understanding the theory and referencing chromosomes in a conversation about gender is what passes for critical thinking these days?
@@karltanner3953 I was talking about the initial tweet shown but yeah that one was a little distasteful
5:40 Dawkins was actually stripped of his Humanist of the Year award in April 2021 for a different tweet that month (not 2015), an honor he said wasn’t important enough to put on his CV.
When stripped of it just say , it was not good for me anyways 😂, this is exactly what I do most of the time
@@samjebaraj24 If you care too much about awards and honors are you really working for the work's sake or are you working for the recognition and awards?
do ram dass next!
The original reddit athiest
2:00-2:02
Holy S,
His head Turned.
Animation getting real yo
It’s the desire to be on the right side of history that will end with you in wrong
hahaha tell me you're stupid without telling me you're stupid
What is your issue with his tweets that you've shown? Every single one of them is very reasonable.
Have you done a video about Christopher hitchens?
Can ANYBODY even explain what is wrong with his tweets?
Everything he said in these tweets is true.
Nothing. He didn’t say anything wrong
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The "Arete" ("excellent") Gene
“What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition. Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, it's far over 20%.
...the general tacit assumption in thought is that it's just telling you the way things are and that it's not doing anything - that 'you' are inside there, deciding what to do with the information. But you don't decide what to do with the information. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false information that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.
Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally. This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against what it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it. And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call "sustained incoherence”…
David Bohm, quantum physicist, unknowingly wrote the final necessary calculations that made the Atomic Bomb possible in his doctoral dissertation that was seized by the US Government
Which children’s book did he make?
In the whole 11:31 I clearly don’t know what you were talking about😂
Ugh, this hits close to home. I used to be such a stan for Dawkins and the new atheists since back in the aughts. Then they all started to be anti-muslim and anti-feminist and I gradually came out of the rabbit hole. An interesting journey, that I'm sure I share with many.
Why would an atheist being anti-Muslim surprise you? It's a religion.
@@zachariahpoltergeist4516 Being against organized religion is not a reason to be a bigot :)
@@Fnidner but the only thing that makes a person Muslim is just that- adherence to an organized religion. It's not a race, it's a choice.
@@zachariahpoltergeist4516 Really? There’s no personal religion or spirituality? Either way, no reason to discriminate or hate the individual
@@Fnidner there... is. And that's Dawkins' whole point- it's rediculous. Your own personal spiritual belief is just as baseless and arbitrary as any established religion.
semantics meaning words. a male is only a woman through words and sexist stereotypes. that completely true and his tweet is based
Now this guy still says race is real (when genetics has shown it isnt) and isn't against many progressive movements of today
if you accept memes, in the way Dawkins meant it, then race is real but not in a biological sense. it's real 'cause we deal with it.
@@ruudderks4284 he literally tweeted out that he believes race is a biological reality when Modern Biology and DNA says no
@@nikibronson133 I don 't follow anything on Twitter and haven't read his writings on race zo I can't give any intelligent reply to this claim. Only that I don't know Dawkins as someone who would mean anything unscientific with it. He is usually misunderstood because he says everything in a strictly scientific sense, without thinking of social presures or sensitivities (like the tweet that was mentioned in this clip). An admirable though not always practical way of expressing ones views.
@@ruudderks4284 Richard Dawkins does not say everything strictly in a scientific sense. I feel like you have a very naive and idolize Viewpoint of this man. He said some really dumb stuff that's why he's kind of fallen from Grace.
There are articles from Psychology today, even though I'm not very fond of that publication because it's more like a Blog, and different sources that make a similar statement to which you thought Richard Dawkins said. Race is real but not in the way that you may think. Meaning that race is real in a social matter meaning that we still deal with the social ramifications and categorization but it's not real in a biological matter as it's a social construct. This is a fact.
Richard Dawkins does not believe that race is a social construct. He believes race is biological even though all DNA evidence and historic evidence shows that this is not true.
twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/678519868166152192?s=19
www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/richard-dawkins-accepts-the-usefulness-of-race
@@nikibronson133 as have I and since your comment that I reacted to gave the impression that you think that race isn't real (and not just unbiological) as have you. I don't idolize Dawkins I just don't judge him as harshly as you apparently do, which to my knowledge is my prerogative.
Ah, the DNA of the soul
He might be the father of memes but he is no meme lord.
Jung is the father of memes, through his theory of the collective unconscious and its archetypes which can be observed as recurring over all cultures.
Stick figure adult Dawkins was less than 0ne third from a hate crime on the dl
I had to pause a re-read the tweet (being up too fast to read and assuming it was a really spicy take)... it was not spicy at all. I'm assuming it was sarcasm that he lost his humanity award?
Dawkins's "Selfish Gene" = Schoepenhaur's "The Will." Arthur just wrote it over 150 years earlier.
Schoepenhaur explained how natural selection works at the level of individual genes instead of individuals within a population even though he died within a year of On the Origin of Species being published?
I don't see why people have to overreact to some tweets just because they don't agree with them. Seriously. They're just tweets. People need to find something better to do with their time
People have been conditioned to think sharing & disliking statements by public figures in the name of "anti-whateverism" is somehow intellectually important & a statement of "protest" against a position. Discussion of topics, especially on twitter, is a non-starter & giving credence to people shitting on a tweet is a disservice to open forum discussion to begin with.
*"Wipe this meme from the face of the earth"*
Ah, fear of the unknown in all its glory
lol the guy was born in the same year and place as Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement, died.
the Christian side of me is saying he’s a jackass but on the other hand the Philosophy side of me is saying he’s a Genius for example if religion gives you purpose than that’s good and if you study Evolution as a job that’s good or so just do something that makes you happy 😎🥸
Instead of calling him old, could you talk about his arguments? You act as if what he is saying is absolutely idiotic, as if it is self evident that he is wrong. Please anyone, tell me why he is wrong.
He is wrong, becz he spits facts.... Got it?
I was searching 'big chungus lore' and then i enter TH-cam and see this! Is this a sign from god chungus!!!
i thought this was the other type of meme
"For a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live) it must evolve such that it provides greater and greater access to the currents that flow through it."
(The constructal law of design and evolution in nature)
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0302
The god facade is a shared meme that has a continuum of expression across dominance hierarchal cultures or those conquered by cultures of economic dominant drives/memes., the western European patriarchal colonialism.
Does line of meme magic. YEA das the gud *SSSHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEETTT*
Richard Dawkins, suffering from success
Memes the smallest basic building block of a religion 😏 each meme or a set of it I think is a possible and different religion
Big Chungus religion