Here's a book by Paul Bloom, "Decartes' Baby" that catalogs a lot of this interesting work, making the case that many children are intuitive dualists. Thinks they're naturally inclined to think there's something non-physical about the mind. So far, most of this work has not been so much on these core problem intuitions about consciousness, but there's work developing in this direction.
he didn't believe he was you know devout Christian but didn't believe in the Holy Trinity believed it was a kind of a duality basically didn't think that Jesus was as on the same level as God so you couldn't call a trinity and for this he was declared a heretic and banned from Cambridge so he spent the rest of
you have been featured upon Oprah you have you're you know one of the keynote speakers to a conference of Science and non-duality here in the San Francisco Bay area so I'm we're kind of curious why have you come to be so popular for such a vast diverse group of audiences well the obvious answer is I don't know
It was called Duality. Non-duality. Not duality, but the non-duality of it. And it was a serious film about rich and the poor.
This spirit of service, in a way, was nurtured through these experiences. True non-duality is experienced through this realization.
So I think one of the messages I'm trying to get across is that human nature is not this monolithic single thing. There's a duality to it. And we do have an intrinsic capacity for altruism.
It's separate. And when the body dies, your mind lives on. You can call it dualism-- dual because there's two things. There's the mind and the body.
There's the mind and the body. This version of dualism is a theory nobody believes anymore. And now, the idea is that somehow our very physical brains are responsible for every aspect
But I think ultimately, there was no choice. I think the duality, I think the reinvention of one's self in the model of trying to achieve the American dream-- all of these people, to some extent,
You can be both. And there's that duality that I think really runs throughout the whole book. So when I'm talking about communication it's-- you can be kind and direct.
the same world. It's a world that sort of directly affects us, directly shapes us. It's not this dualist separation that we sometimes talk about in philosophy, depending on our particular bent. So it started off with that-- this notion that you have bankruptcies that work a lot like necromancy.
And I think there are some civilians that hate that they need cops. An interesting duality. RICHARD T. JONES: Yeah. And you witness that on the show.
worker bees. That's a whole other story. and right and this duality and I have this uh this kind of obsession at the moment with ethics and tech ethics
It was fully there in his mind. It was called Duality. Non-duality. Not duality, but the non-duality of it.
both in and out of A Song of Ice and Fire. Which character was the toughest to kill off?" George Martin: Well, I won't mention any character names, but the Red Wedding was the forth and the duality .
and you were the right person to do it? I love that you're talking about duality.
and you were the right person to do it? that allow us to have that duality and that complexity of thought that aren't primed for a quick reaction.
"That shining, everything else shines. very close to the Sankhyan dualism of consciousness and the material universe being two, which neither produces the other.
I think there's like a duality there, right?
We can't explain it in more basic physical terms, so we take it as a kind of primitive. And that might lead to dualist theories of consciousness where consciousness is somehow separate from and interacts with the brain. Recently very popular has been the class of panpsychist theories of consciousness.
There's complementarity or wave-particle duality-- complementarity being the idea that Nature has two faces, the wave nature and particle nature.
uses the term natural born dualists.
So one of the kind of dualism and categories that I've been trying to introduce in these stories on Gamergate is to talk
white Catholic Protestant American non-american and you think because you chose one of those Alternatives that you're smart that's called dualistic thinking and that's what we're stuck with right now you see so I I told you before I was going to stop I will stop on this yeah the the law of three
So you know the wave-particle duality.
And it thinks in a dualistic way.
name Cartesian coordinates and Cartesian dualism these are very abstract Notions
problem and the concept of dualism nobody's like rushing for the door yet
So the idea that -- the Descartesian Dualism is that there's a little man in our heads with a bunch of levers. Light comes in from the eyes, from the ears,
Because what you're talking about is the duality of existence, where you're Black, and you identify with your Black culture, and you also are Japanese.
and you were the right person to do it? I'm going to share it with you-- is duality.
Y creo que es muy bueno que se acepte esa dualidad o la multiplicidad que tenemos todos.
They built a new labor force in the kind of dualization of the labor force.
So it kind of-- I think there's a duality there.
We live in a society that is ruled by duality, that is ruled by-- you're too fat, or you're too skinny, or too smart,
You know, the duality of fantasy and reality.
But I think it's based on a notion of Cartesian dualism, where there's this substrate of reality, and then the mind is a mathematical abstraction
But they haven't necessarily put it into a duality.
of the philosophy of mind known as Cartesian dualism, which states that the mind and body are made of different kinds of substances,
information they have to have a physical embodiment this isn't dualism but what
OK. With this duality that you're talking about-- and I think it reflects on a lot of the music that you do.
Our book "Friend and Foe" is about this duality where we're both cooperating and competing with people.
This separation of body and soul was called dualism, and it allowed Descartes fit the theory in better with the religious orthodoxy of the day.
this is actually a line that's from a great non-dualist saint named Nisargadatta Maharaj, from India.
But there's another aspect of the notice duality that I think is important to understand.
We're in a world that there's a real duality, I think, in our environment today.
On the top right, you'll see the duality, which is my aunt, who is very effervescent, and friendly, and is always trying to make everyone happy.
and you were the right person to do it? What I had to basically really internalize and hold is just the fact of duality, that at this point,
And if there's any ideology I have I suppose it's against dualism-- against this or that-- right or wrong.
Well, I don't think that's Cartesian dualism.