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[jamesriendeau]

I think a lot of people who grew up working with computers or playing video games are more inclined to a sort of idealist metaphysics than people of say, the 19th and 20th century were. The concept of "software" and the fact that you can run the same program on different machines indicates that a program has an eternal, immaterial existence of some sort. If you wrote a program out in full on a sheet of paper and then typed it into a computer a hundred years from now, you could run the same program. One also speaks of different copies of the same book as "the same book" because the "software" component is the same even though the "hardware" (the physical paper and binding) differs. This shows that "Idea", information, or mind actually does transcend the material used to manifest its presence, and must be said to exist in some sense. Many people are put off from Idealism from reading Plato, who explains it rather mystically and clumsily. Nevertheless, it is quite usual in our modern computer culture to think of information as an immaterial phenomena which can interact with matter in various ways.

[Studioithy]

Thanks for answering my question! I'm getting the impression that idealism is one of really controversial and complicated things, where there are many different branches (in the broader sense) of ideas and definitions. I'd previously thought of it as the belief that the mind plays some important role in constructing/perceiving reality that doesn't externally exist...

[DanielL]

Best description and explanation of Idealism. The problem with philosophy is that I've encountered several directly contradictory definitions of these terms, not just a loosey goosey spectrum (i.e. hard vs soft core idealism).

One video said that Plato was a Dualist not an Idealist, meaning that his world of Forms and the shadowy world of materialism both 'exist' simultaneously and have a relationship, or we would not be talking about it (however I'm guessing that he meant that the material world was an illusion or projection or individual substantiation of the ideal universal forms and therefore has a claim to being more real even if beyond the limits of our empirical observation and therefore a result of logical deduction.)

Who the hell do I believe? Where to find an authoritative reference that is not ridiculously technical. Your channel I hope. I will be checking out your other videos for sure. The trick is to not dumb it down but also keep it accessible to the person who does not speak 18th century German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

Surely no one believes that there is an Ideal triangle or an ideal watermelon or an ideal girl (Taylor Swift)? Thanks.

[garyball]

It took me time to find this but thank you this was seven years ago that this video was taken out all I have to say is happening now about idealism

[lescobrandon]

My favorite part of this video is the BONUS

[krystylsummers]

I agree that it's a more political strategy rather than philosophy.

[PASSWORD]

My idea of idealism, is that my philosophy is righteous but also outwardly thinking, listen to other people and decide on there idealism and call people out on there ideas when they're wrong. Deductive idealism, if you will

[moreirapsic]

The ideia of this Channel is very good! Good job!

[brd]

Idealism is possible. Malice is felt and allowed.

Money is the motivation. Money is needed but asking for money is a matter of self-respect mostly.

For the malicious it is a matter of prestige or status that they may feel of importance.

Prestige is glory. Status is public image.

Righteousness only can generate money. Ethics earn money. Fairness is inevitable in society for living a normal life which consists of lawful justice.

[chidedneck]

internerratum:
Transcendental Idealism isn't described in Kant's "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals." Go for his "Prolegomena for any Future Metaphysics", "Critique of Pure Reason", or since this is a very introductory video, IMHO the viewer should gradually increase the length and academic level of videos on Transcendental Idealism. :-D

[choconatic]

I don't think my brain is big enough to comprehend what this guy is talking about, but it sure SOUNDS fascinating! lol

[Donestre]

Can you explain actual idealism please??

[TheVirtualTourist]

“I do not know what the word - materialism - means. Speaking as a physicist, I judge matter to be an imprecise and rather old-fashioned concept. Roughly speaking, matter is the way particles behave when a large number of them are lumped together. When we examine matter in the finest detail in the experiments of particle physics, we see it behaving as an active agent rather than as an inert substance. It’s actions are in the strict sense unpredictable. It makes what appear to be arbitrary choices between alternative possibilities. Between matter as we observe it in the laboratory and mind as we observe it in our own consciousness, there seems to be only a difference of degree but not in kind.”

“This view of our place in the cosmos may not be true, but it is as least logically consistent and compatible with the active nature of matter as revealed in the experiments of modern physics.”

"Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding."

Freeman Dyson was a theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering

Kurt Gödel on Idealism

"I had begun to think that consciousness is really nothing more than simple existence. By way of leading up to this, I asked Gödel if he believed there is a single Mind behind all the various appearances and activities of the world."

"He replied that, yes, the Mind is the thing that is structured, but that the Mind exists independently of its individual properties.

I then asked if he believed that the Mind is everywhere, as opposed to being localized in the brains of people."

Gödel replied, “Of course. This is the basic mystic teaching.”

"In materialism all elements behave the same. It is mysterious to think of them as spread out and automatically united. For something to be a whole, it has to have an additional object, say, a soul or a mind. “Matter” refers to one way of perceiving things, and elementary particles are a lower form of mind. Mind is separate from matter."

"What Turing disregards completely is the fact that mind, in its use, is not static, but constantly developing. … Therefore, although at each stage of the mind’s development the number of its possible states is finite, there is no reason why this number should not converge to infinity in the course of its development."

"I don’t think the brain came in the Darwinian manner. In fact, it is disprovable. Simple mechanism can’t yield the brain. I think the basic elements of the universe are simple. Life force is a primitive element of the universe and it obeys certain laws of action. These laws are not simple, and they are not mechanical."

"Even Bertrand Russell one of the greatest analytic philosophers of the 20thC and the inspiration of the Logical Positivists, develops a phenomenalism and accepts that science has to employ logical fictions and models; and that there was no fundamental difference between mind and matter."

[As_Amit_Singh]

Perfect explanation 👍 but you didn't discussed the 3rd idealism and suddenly jumped upon 4th from 2nd idealism.

[eugenmalatov]

I have to das after 4:30 I am still as clueless as before

[samrowbotham]

Interesting when he mentions the word mind for the first time he unconsciously points to his head. The Mind is not in the head it is not in the brain either, people have it inverted, the head, brain and everything else is in the Mind. What Kastrup calls Mind at Large.
The head is an image in Consciousness this is all being dreamed and it is up to us to become lucid.

[Ivan-tdkb]

If idealism is true, then it is also true that you can only perceive your own consciousness not the consciousness of others. Does it mean that my consciousness doesn't exist because you cannot perceive it?

[mistymarsh]

I invented YouTube in my preexistence. I also invented Facebook, Twitter, news, people and the whole universe. I created other worlds, other universes, and other things. Sometimes people I created agree with me, because I wanted them to. Other times, people I created don't agree but that's so I could investigate and discover all that I have done ;)

[alloneword]

I’d say Alan Watts also would fit in this.

[mencadotranforming]

I noticed that you twice said "our mind" and pointed to your head, but it sounds to me as though it is not necessarily according to idealism that there is any head - inside of which there is any mind.