"The questions raised by ‘Mary’s Room’ – including whether anything about experience transcends physical facts – remain some of the most perennial and unsettled in philosophy, even if Jackson himself actually reversed his position, concluding that the experience of colour vision does indeed correspond to a brain state, albeit one we don’t yet fully understand."—TED-Ed, … Continue reading Mary’s Room
Tag: philosophy
Risk Defines Love
https://vimeo.com/391470213 Love, true love, makes possible what was previously impossible. "In this short film from the UK director William Williamson, [French philosopher Alain] Badiou argues that today’s approach to relationships, with its consumerist tendency to focus on choice and compatibility, and the ingrained refrain to move on when things aren’t easy, means that we need … Continue reading Risk Defines Love
