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"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
-William Morris

"... matter in equilibrium is 'blind,' while in nonequilibrium it begins to 'see' ...the more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism." -Ilya Prigogine

"Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it." - W.B. Yeats

" 道可道, 非常道。"-Laotze
Name: Matthew
Age: 22
I am a self-describing self. How 'bout that!
Hometown: Hollywood, Fl
Country: United States
University/College/School: California Institute of Integral...
Books: "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts "Sex, Ecology, Spirituality" by Ken Wilber "The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light" by William Irwin Thompson "The Embodied Mind" by Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch "The Passion of the Western Mind" by Richard Tarnas "The Ever-present Origin" by Jean Gebser
Website: http://karmabuster.gaia.com/blog
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the morning of sunday (7 hours ago)
beautiful, i'm going to put this on my channel page if you dont mind!
Materialism/Metaphysics (8 hours ago)
...as our background sense of "bodily selfhood." We might call it sentience. If we want to understand consciousness, we cannot attempt to isolate it from its bodily background of sentience. The "building block" model is just not a very accurate way of describing experience.
Materialism/Metaphysics (8 hours ago)
I suppose I don't feel NCC needs to be disproved. It was never proved. Materialism is a metaphysics masquerading as an epistemology. Or rather, it is a metaphysics unconscious of itself and aware only of its abstractions about the world. It tries to reduce consciousness to brain states, but to do so first reduces conscious experience to qualia. Qualia are a poor description of consciousness, though. Our actual experience is not made of discrete sensa, but of a unified whole temporally extended..
Materialism/Metaphysics (8 hours ago)
Phenomenology sees our actual experience quite differently. There are no discrete sensory states absent bodily purposes and temporality; each of our experiences is always already part of an ongoing intentional action in the world, always already soaked in emotion and significance. The NCC reseachers who study the visual system in isolation from the rest of the body and the world are telling us more about the affect of their experiments on consciousness than about consciousness itself.
Materialism/Metaphysics (8 hours ago)
Thompson and Noe also point out that it is possible that neural correlates are not sufficient for consciousness, but that the body, as well as its sensorimotor environment, all play a role. NCC researchers also assume that conscious states can be isolated into discrete sensory abstractions, like vertical lines, colors, etc. Searle calls it the "building block" model of consciousness.
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Movies about consciousness, mysticism, culture, language, history, life and death.
Discussion about the development of consciousness.
Several videos on the nature of evolution as applied to the life sciences, with special focus on the developments leading us away from the standard neo-Darwinist picture.
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Channel Comments (165)
LimpLoser (29 minutes ago)
I Just saw the ghost of Alan Watts. he said to me.

" Being dead is pretty cool, i get to do what i want nobody gives me any shit"

Then he said

" Tell Matt to keep promoting me in his video's, my message must not be forgotten"

Then he ascended back into the clouds whence he came!
stetzeltyska1986 (2 days ago)
Hello! sweet profile, have a look at mine! :P
OkayFine5 (4 days ago)
You are now my Guru and I now sit longingly at your feet. Okay, okay I sit at my 'puter monitor, but it's the thought that counts.
normonics (5 days ago)
Said the Buddhist to the hot dog vendor: "Make me one with everything.".... lame i know lol
sikkilawesterling84 (1 week ago)
Hey there, new video up.. check mine out!
ozjthomas (1 week ago)
You're awesome, man. Just wanted to drop by to thank you for all the philosophizing and the wise quotes from Watts.
AnarchyInYourHead (1 week ago)
How do you make your featured video on your channel autoplay? I thought I read that this was a feature limited to partners but then I've also read conflicting information.
wgaule (1 week ago)
I've been watching some of your videos, which I came across by accident, and I have been enjoying listening to what you have to say on some very interesting subjects, especially on phenomenology.

I would recommend that you might think of presenting your thought differently in terms of the images. Using still that relate to your topics. Just a thought, and it might give a more documentary feel to your work.

Of course it's your call, and what you say is what is important. Anyway, keep it up. Good to see intelligent videos on here.
5amcrain (1 week ago)
do you have any specific thoughts on mental illness, especially manic-depressive disorder and schizophrenia which tend to be genetically influenced? are they just strange special defects?
5Sissy (1 week ago)
Great channel, Thank you
Loving thoughts from Illinois
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