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Dr. Evan Thompson is a professor of philosophy at University of British Columbia in Vancouver and works in the fields of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and Asian and contemporary Buddhist philosophy in dialogue with Western philosophy and science. This talk weaves together findings at the forefront of neuroscience and philosophy of mind with insights from thousands-year-old contemplative traditions to offer a unique perspective on questions of consciousness and the self.
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Waking, Dreaming, Being | Dr. Evan Thompson | Talks at Google
Evan starts at 2:10
this topic not understand through logic only.
Many references are there in Upanishads about being and consciousness, metal state etc.
Great talk. He talks about what he knows, and declines to make assertions or draw conclusions re what he doesn't. What a concept.
What is a hallucination, what is a dream, what is delusion? How do we know the brain is generating the dream? Say you talk to a friend in the dream. The body is there. Now you open the scull of your friend. You will see his brain and neurons. In the dream we will be conversing about dreams! Dreams are just as real as this world but more stretched and strange.
I find it hard to take that memory has anything to do with dreams. The ingredients of the dream is space-time and causation. In other words, a entire world. But memory can't conjure up space-time and causation. I can remember a tree but a tree won't appear before me and trick me like the dream does.
He says he is a Philosopher by training.. He goes quite close but wanders away i think because of his training i feel..A profound seeker philosophizes by process of seeking unhindered by thinking ( in fact, training, it limits ) Hindu vedantic Knowledge which is most profound makes it clear that its experiential …Turia and Tapas is required… Meditation is a crude equivalent which the westerners understand…
The big billiard table inference hypothesis. Nothing more or less.
Does anyone know more on how he constructs his process ontology?
Great talk….
Loved this talk.