Dualism and Solipsism - Philosophy of Mind I

Join George and John as they discuss and debate different Philosophical ideas, today they will be beginning a 3 part debate focusing on Philosophy of Mind. A very fascinating topic in Philosophy questioning the nature of mind.

In this video they will be looking into Dualism, the idea that the mind and body are in fact separate. As well as Solipsism the idea that the only thing one can be sure of is the existence of their own mind, so it is completely possible they are the only being that truly exists!

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0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Dualism Explained
2:59 - Psychophysical Parallelism
3:41 - Occasionalism
4:15 - Epiphenomenalism
6:12 - The problem of Solipsism

[PhilosophyVibe]

This script is part of...
The Philosophy of Mind eBook, available on Amazon:

[dawnwatching]

Somehow I always find it funny how George goes on explaining for minutes at a time, then John finds an immediate refutation and George just goes "yes, I agree" 😂

[kabirnigam]

"Im just interacting with the reality Im in..."

[UNVERSS]

I combine dualism and monism.
The mind and the body are seperate things, but they're connected.
What the mind thinks affects the body, and what the body feels affects the mind.

[hanamzhr]

Was trying to understand dualism since so long, there were always so many doubts. but you guys just answered all my questions!! Thank you, this is a great video !!

[jasonzheng]

You guys really get tough philosophical problems easily understood！

[allenmorgan]

Subjective reality, thoughts, feelings, are not real but are products of our perception of objective reality. If an evil doctor lied to us and told us we were about to die we would become afraid and worried but then if we got a second opinion and found out the truth our thoughts and feelings would change.

[cathalg]

I recommend watching House MD Season 3 Episode 14 "Insensitive". It addressed the point of whether another does actually feel pain if hurt or if the observer is actually just believing they are hurt by the guest star being a patient with a congenital insensitivity to pain (CIPA). The patient who was in a car crash with her mother and both were injured. The doctors are only interested in studying a patient with a rare condition so they poke and prod her to see where it hurts. The patient is only interested in her mother so she tries to fake pain to get the tests or of the way sooner and the doctors believe that when she screams she's in pain but she's not...

[zaveeramini]

One thing to be aware of here 08:00 is that your body is also part of the outside world in question in solipsism.

[happierabroad]

Another possibility is shared solipsism, which is that there are a few real people or real souls in this matrix or dream, but most people are NPCs. Matt from the Quantum of Conscience channel talks about this and that's why most people are not awake at all.

[inthemomenttomoment]

Although we appear separate in mind & body we meditate to achieve True Oneness overcoming involuntary forces thus bringing IT into the True Harmony of Spirit and Matter or Pure Energy & Clean Body.

[jbezteman]

the best argument to destroy any vague theory. ❤❤❤

[jackmallory]

"The solipsist flutters and flutters in the fly glass, strikes against the walls, flutters further. How can he be brought to rest?
" - Wittgenstein.
A bit of fly spray might help.

[BooksInSeconds]

I am not a student of philosophy but
for 17years of my life I have wondered much in line with solipsism so I was very much elated to hear that there are people who have put forward this theory
you can never prove the validity of other's people existence that's why we're only present in the reality around us.
for example, if something is going on here I can only know about it for the period I'm here the moment I step out of this place, I can't know about anything that happened without being present unless someone tells me
if I'm operating on the point that I'm a single entity.. how do I know that the moment I leave there anything happens at all? how do I know that the action doesn't stop the moment I leave? how do I know I'm not the only real being on earth because I logically can only validate my reality? how do I know the entities I meet are not just moulds for my world?
most times it can feel like the world is revolving around me
when I die how do I know that the world doesn't go with me? or do we just have individual worlds?
all these are my grounds for solipsism
you can answer my questions but can't give PROOFS because we can never proof beyond what we know, we can only infer and I don't see inference as a strong ground to accept something as "truth"

I still have a lot of questions, like I said earlier I'm not a Philosophy student but I am philosophical by nature.

Edit: great by the way
Definitely subscribed

[jessemartin]

So I guess George and John reversed their positions on solophsism on this video

[savagepatience]

Brain scans can show that two people, experiencing the same pain (say the "hand in ice water experiment") have activity in the same part of the brain. We are getting close to being able to prove that people have the same experience of consciousness.

[cjdabes]

Great stuff guys, really like the channel.

I wonder if Max Stirner will show up in any way at some point ;)

[hossamali]

You can doubt everything but inferring the existence of other minds existing should be good enough, not to establish philosophical truths but to deal with the world in the most utility. We are well aware of the problem of inference and its lower status to a deductive argument yet its the next best thing and simply doubting it without a cause or the next best thing (an alternative) can be a good mental exercise yet living that way is impossible,

[SabiazothPsyche]

In accordance to my experience, the mind is immaterial, that which is all awareness and non-affected/non-effected. It is perpetual awareness; unchanging, and yet, approachable.

[amphimrca]

Is mind produced by body...or if they are separate things what produced mind??