Raymond Tallis - What Exists?

Lots of things exist. But what is so absolutely fundamental in that it cannot be further reduced into anything more fundamental, but other things that exist can be reduced to it? The challenge is to discern the minimum number of basic categories that can explain the entirety of existence.

Raymond C. Tallis is a a retired physician and neuroscientist from Great Britain. His resume boasts titles like philosopher, poet and novelist. He is also a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Physicians and Royal Society of Arts.

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[KingJorman]

Only one thing exists and that is everything. Anything parsing everything into smaller bits is conceptual differentiation.

[charleswood]

Personal identity must be a bedrock fact if relativity applies to experience. The primitive coordinate system which is the theater for experience or mind conveys ordinal; and yet could no since among dynamics, there is is no fixed point of reference by which to determine whether one thing is going or coming in a relation. A relativistic invariant in a reference frame we make only by presumption and can only do so from personal identity as at absolute rest in a primitive coordinate system's observational reference frame. Thus experience or mind is modeled scientifically. Empirically, look to Denis Noble who thinks it is an anthropomorphism when he speaks of physiology as directed. A person, a personal identity as an invariant cannot derive from dynamics. The third law forbids such.

The way C. G. Jung put an epistemic is thus: VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT, Called or not by whom? A me. Jung put in stone his epistemic, then. I am real and god is real.

[Ekam-Sat]

"Everything in temporal nature is descended out that which is eternal, and stands as a palpable visible outbirth of it, so when we know how to separate out the grossness, death, and darkness of time from it, we find (in it) its eternal state." - William Law (English cleric and theologian)

[OBGynKenobi]

I see these as being fundamental, energy, information and apace.

[rishabhthakur]

Only 'Existence' exist. Existence is appearing as things, mind, consciousness, universe, etc .

[NotNecessarily-ipvc]

0D = fundamental and "more real"

1D, 2D, 3D and 4D = not-fundamental and "less real"

[LivingNow]

What exist ?
Here and now: everything 😊

[tedgrant]

If you really want to get closer to truth, read Bertrand Russell's books.
He answered all your questions a long time ago.

[sjur]

You were probably hoping for feedback on the new format (filming, angel, zoom etc), and I can say: I didnt like it. The angels and camera standing still had more class over it.

Also: I dont know if you made the cuts (cut frames) earlier this time to make the dialog thighter and more compact, but this way it all seemed to be more staged and scripted in a way.

Love the show tho

[turnerthemanc]

All that is very interesting, but what I would like to know is why someone is having a very slow game of air hockey off camera

[misterhill]

What exists?
You, me, the Internet connection and YouTube.

[longcastle]

By “personhood”, Tallis seems to simply mean human beings or homo sapiens. His putting “personhood” in a separate category, therefore, from all other living things seems unjustified and questionable to me. And seems to disregard a lot of biology, genetics and evolutionary science showing human beings clear connections and relations to the rest of the animal kingdom.

[moemuggy]

I'm the only thing that actually exists. You and everything around me is just a figment of my imagination. My conscience created reality and the matter it's made of. The sky is only blue because I say it is.

[rc]

both order and chaos take the stage, one at a time, but not simultaneously 🤔

[jamesruscheinski]

person has awareness of free will and consciousness?

[siriosstar]

existence exists and the entire relative field exists inside of that existence that is awake to itself as that .

[theotormon]

He has thought out his perspective cleanly and impressively.

[catherinemoore]

We are story tellers. Our own personal story being continually updated.

[kipponi]

Two categories Energy and Information covers everything. And those are first things which happened "somewhere past"😂. Maybe...

[stoictraveler]

I could listen to that dude for hours. Not sure i buy all that though.