Galen Strawson

Self, Death, Free Will, Panpsychism

[jeremyhickersonsalem]

I need to thank you for putting me on to Paul Tillich's "Shaking of the Foundations" (in one of your other videos). I'm reminded of Tillich's sermon on Time, where he shows that none of its manifestations (past, present, future) can be grasped, that all of these three are inaccessible.

[curioushmm]

well i will go watch a video of him now...you've interested me that much!

[mitchelaxler]

When you reread In Search of Lost Time were you ever tempted to read it as In Search of Lost Selves? Would it have made any difference?

[aklcraigc]

I'm not altogether sure I followed that completely, is the general idea that conscious is not an emergent property of complexity?

[MarcNash]

these more all-embracing stabs at human consciousness and the materiality of the observable world (and the juxtaposition of all to our mortality), ought to undermine the relentless quest for identity that dominates the social and political discourse of the West. Politically one can utterly see the need to pursue identity, but in the bigger picture it just serves to nullify human understanding. Have ordered "Things That Bother Me" not having read Stawson before, so thanks for the heads up

[paulwillisorg]

About free will and God's omniscience. Point one is knowing is not acting. Number two is what does "knowing the future" mean? The future isn't a thing.