The House of Being (Consciousness) (I-VI)

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Channel: Footnotes2Plato · 2008 · Science & Technology

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The first part of the video got cut off. I said, "It's hard try to make a philosophical video like this..."

Videos I and II: Many ideas discussed, including the essence of language, the development of consciousness, relating to mother/nature, learning how to read, creating worlds.

Video III: Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny and other tidbits about the development of consciousness. Discussion of Jean Gebser. 

Videos IV: Reading and commenting on text from Gebser's wiki site. 

Videos V and VI: Discussion of John Searle and Alan Wallace's views on consciousness. The nature of paradigm shifts and their relation to transformations in the structure of consciousness.

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