Cartesian Skepticism – Neo, Meet Rene: Crash Course Philosophy #5

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1. Asking if life is actually an illusion and if our world world is beyond what we are living , i think there is a good answer for that question in Islam as it says that we have three lives : the one we are living , one when die a.k.a barzakh , and another one after (hisab) when people go to either heaven or hell .. so what he is saying could technically be right !

2. I think that I think which makes me think that I am but what if I am not and the evil genius has designed the conundrum in which I think I am thinking.

3. What if we're globally dreaming and death is the only way to wake up? And the only way you attain the realization is to die and that everything is an illusion but we sense this illusion and all of our minds are tricking us and making us to believe that we sense and perceive everything when in fact, everything is just a mutual perception of everyone who experiences the false platform?

   I don't know. Maybe I just need a good sleep.

4. "Choosing truth at the cost of comfort and happiness"

5. Zion is within the matrix and not part of the real world. Go watch the episode of Film Theory where Matpat proves it

6. can prove the russel hypothesis is wrong,
   Imagine a teacher teaching this philosophy today and said that the whole universe is created last five minutes and the year after he thought the new students the same thing saying that the universe is created last minute, does that mean that his previous conversation never happened. In other words you and I can have a conversation about this philosophy now and then talk about it next month, does that mean our current conversation never existed and you yourself don't exist now. You can apply this for internaty thus making you a non existing being which contradicts with russel's hypothesis

   And like this i proved that this philosophy is wrong ladies and gentleman

7. Hank: "Take my word for it. That idea has some problems."
   The most ironic statement every made by a philosophy teacher. If I take your word for it then I am no longer doing philosophy. Or even being a critical thinker.

8. 4:40 I'm watching this in bed 😂😂

9. It could be that he tried to trick whatever was creating this illusion by saying and even thinking that he “knew” that nobody made this all up and that it is the real creation of a god. However, I have no clue what the end goal would be other than perhaps to waver the attention he might have thought he had from the creator of this life by pretending to go along with the dream itself. Idek what I just wrote

10. Thank you for making this content 🙂
    You make knowledge I want in my mind easy to grasp and make me laugh as well.

11. This is awesome sauce!!

12. A common theory for the matrix is that it is a trans analogy. Gender identities and gender roles are social constructs. Some of us will not fit cleanly into this system. Once you realize this you can make the the choice that every trans person had to make at that time. Take the red estrogen pill to accept and embrace the dangerous freedom or take the blue Prozac pill to live in and cope with fictitious reality in which you live.

13. reality is just what you perceive. it's entirely possible that we're in a simulation, but we can still find out the laws of this made of universe
    edit but it would be cool to find ultimate reality

14. "Modern philosophy begins with Descartes, whose fundamental certainty is the existence of himself and his thoughts, from which the external world is to be inferred. This was only the first stage in a development, through Berkeley, Kant and Fichte, for whom everything is only an emanations of the ego. This was insanity… " (Bertrand Russel "History of Western Philosphy" pg. 8)

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16. Cogito ergo sum is an interesting concept. However, what if the so called “evil genius” planted thoughts into one’s brain, therefor there are no original thoughts and we do not think on our own but are rather manipulated to do so by the “evil genius”.

17. Well you say how can I be sure the world around me exist?

    Through observing similar experience. For example, I observe someone burning their finger. I recall a similar reaction when I experience it. I see a beautiful park, and read someone else's description of it. I hear a speech and confirm it with others. I smell something delicious and hear someone else describing it's smell.

    If I say my senses are deceiving me, then I must conclude everyone is being deceived by these similar experiences through their senses. Experiences are subjective, but similar experiences show that not only you (if you can prove your existence) but others are experiencing something objective – universal. Whether this is timeless or not. It is a truth in a point in time. If I can share similar experience with others, I can reasonably conclude they exist. Since they can think like myself.

    Now I ask, is truth truly bound by time?

18. What if the evil genius who created the illusory world our thoughts are built upon, also implanted doubt in our minds? This would make him/her/them/it even more evil and genius, if it existed.

19. Well if life is like the matrix I don't think I know anyone smart enough to do this.

20. Does consciousness, being aware of your own conscious thought and being, not then prove your existence?

21. If the world is flat then why don't cubes bounce like balls do?

22. You could have said Wachowski sisters. Opportunity missed.

23. Interesting about Descartes. He wasn't able to shake his belief in a Bronze Age belief. Consequently, his attempt at deconstructing reality failed. In fact, it influenced his belief of an 'evil genius', which is another Bronze Age belief!

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