Experience and the Spiritual Dimension - Professor Keith Ward

It is a widely held philosophical belief that all knowledge begins with experience. But experience needs to be interpreted. This lecture argues that there are widespread human experiences of ‘transcendence’, and looks at the arts and at morality as providing examples of this. Such experiences need not involve God explicitly, but they postulate the existence of objective values that put in question a materialist view of reality.

[neddyladdy]

I appreciate that someone, at last, tried to define spirituality before talking about it. It leaves me none the wiser though.

[DTestUser]

"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else." -
Erwin Schrödinger

[SeanMauer]

A very clear job explaining the nature of reality, but without accounting for the origin of the mind and the environment in which the mind interacts. I suppose these explanations can only come from special revelation.

[wanderingbiku]

Oh the days one could cough in a room full of people with impunity!

[Hythloday]

10:00 NOT cutting of the branch he is sitting on ! Depends on what definition and understanding of 'conscious experience' and 'knowledge'.
i.e. Consciousness is neuron structure and workings, knowledge is neuron structure expressing relationships is entirely self consistent and not self refuting / detonating.

[CharlestonWhite-Clips]

I honestly feel like somehow I tapped into a spiritual dimension of some kind cause when I had came back into my town from being away for a couple days when I got to my neighborhood everything was grey and worn down and felt dead there was nobody outside no cars entering or leaving the neighborhood trees were dead grass was dead houses looked old and abandoned road looked old and cracked too the only way I could explain it well was that it looked like somebody took a grey crayon and colored the whole neighborhood grey

[rahowhero]

If you want to know what something looks like while no one is looking, simply use video or photography. Simple really, no need for 11 dimensions, or any philosophy at all, just a simple, repeatable, falsifiable experiment.

[rahowhero]

They must be handing the title of professor out for any old shit these days, professor of smurfology?, of wizard of ozology, or are only certain obvious fairy tales considered. Shame Gresham, shame! If it isn't evidently true, it has no place in serious education.