that this could be an opportunity from our culture to shift from this kind of keep up with the Jones's materialistic um thing to a mentality where people are a little bit more industrious more um Frugal um and and and more I hope we're going to build a more of a savings culture here there are always opportunities in times of change
I want to speak my truth, I can speak my truth, I am confident, I am courageous. The materialist , the person who's waiting for their wealth to come to feel abundance, they're living by the old model of cause and effect.
That's where some people go wrong. A materialist , again, is just someone who thinks that everything that exists is physical. No one-- I propose no one who understands what physics is thinks that physics can express or descriptively characterize
Both the left and the right and the corporatists overlook the world of creation, with its imagining and venturing and the resulting personal growth, in favor of materialist criteria, such as leisure and wealth. But the sort of quality life that they appear to envision is no substitute for the good life.
In fact, your book presents this development of AI and the dream of AGI in this very ancient context the materialistic view. You see, information-- coming back to information-- information is not material.
So from Trembley's experiment where he cut up a polyp, people were saying there was no such thing as god. So materialists are making pretty big arguments from something small. But on the other side, people were arguing in favor-- sorry, ignore that-- of a vitalism, which I mentioned earlier.
So the experientialists, instead of looking for status, identity, happiness, and meaning in material things-- like materialists did-- experientialists are finding status, identity, happiness, and meaning, and experiences instead. Experientialism-- and I've said it a lot of times-- I think can solve a problem like stuffication.
uh uh like anyone else being programmed indoctrinated into a completely completely materialistic worldview. I really became like most of my colleagues, a great technician who knew everything about the human body and not
There's so much in what you've just said. uh but but uh uh let me start with uh the materialist who says that there's a a huge uh leap uh that's that's that is just casually made in in in that utterance it the the feelings uh are
to what we were saying earlier, not that I'm an idealist, but I think it I would be more sympathetic with an idealist view than a materialist one. I wouldn't be more sympathetic with an idealist view in the sense that the idealist says, well, first and foremost, what we have is experience. You know, the rest we infer. So matter is an inference from experience and all of the laws of
I guess what I'm saying is there's something true and pathological about a narrative like that and it would probably be better I am a materialist and a reductionist, but I would say probably less so than in
"That shining, everything else shines. One answer was the materialist reductionist answer of the ancient Indian materialist , ,, which is that the material universe, matter is fundamental and consciousness
But the thing is that if you think that materialism rules out real seemings, well then, And as a materialist -- Oh, good.
genius and daring and tremendous effort and labor-- was inevitable. But the philosophically materialist view that a feeling just was certain kind of neural activity.
If it ever happened to anybody, nobody ever found them, and they never reported back. I always tease my materialist friends, didn't Carl Sagan show up after his death and announce, it's cool guys. I really don't exist.
It was special. It had a spirit, or it had a vital force, that distinguished it from inanimate objects. It was a materialist , and therefore quite radical, theory, which could be used to say that there was no such thing as a soul-- again,
Second of all, I'm a science writer by training. I'm a rational materialist . And I don't have mystical experiences.
So that is a pre-rendered world. And the materialistic point of view says that we live in a pre-rendered world. The physical world exists.
I'm very materialistic. I don't believe.
were greedy hateful materialistic gluttonous and everything else you understand I'm not putting them down
We're addicted to materialistic things.
Is it just the materialistic self?
It was special. It had a spirit, or it had a vital force, that distinguished it from inanimate objects. And while materialists like La Mettrie argued that the regeneration of the polyps showed that the soul was not an ethereal spirit but just
and not being materialistic.
And I grew up thinking I would be just like my dad. I would be materialistic. But then something happened.
And in the 20th century, I think the answer to that, in many ways, was clear. You should be materialistic because that was creating abundance for everybody. And I think in the 21st century, when our problem isn't scarcity, our problem is abundance-- I think so much
toward life toward a more materialist philosophy where the point of life becomes to just acquire as much money as
So he gave me a list of materialist things which and of course, the entire local tradition.
If you're a brain-based materialist , as I mentioned, then you can't change substrates.
And the other view is a materialist view, right?
But if you're a materialist , you shouldn't think there's two different things, right?
And if you're a materialist , you should think, look, the only thing up here between my ears is neural events, a neural state.
uses the term flatland to describe the materialist scientific, objectivist perspective
It's what's called a materialist view, which is to say there's no supernatural.
And we are also highly materialistic.
any of the accolades or materialistic things.
It doesn't have to be materialistic.
There is a very strong materialistic element to world history.
But if you hold a materialistic view and you're fine with assimilating your own self
The metaphysical extrapolations of a materialistic world view.
So if you have a very materialistic view of the world-- Sorry, say that again.
If you have a very materialistic view of the world, You can come to the conclusion that willpower is actually an illusion.
There were some pretty big questions that come from just one really simple experiment. But some of the hardcore materialists had a solution. There was a French philosopher called La Mettrie who believed that the soul was not distinct from the matter that made up a living being.
in a society that is as materialistic as ours?
-But the sometimes racy and materialistic content has also attracted the attention of China's censors.
Diderot looks at predestination in a different kind of sense-- a materialist sense.
When you get this, when you really get this, you're on the verge, in my view, of becoming a real naturalist, a real materialist . What are your chances of getting this of becoming a real materialist ? If you've had this conventional upbringing.
at what it means to believe in a materialist universe.
And the first is these empirical methods that derive from materialist theories, the second is the harnessing by economic systems
So in other words, what His Holiness Dalai Lama is doing is same thing Buddha did. His Holiness is doing it in terms of secular science or materialist science today, which is the orthodoxy. It's not the dogmatic orthodoxy among scientists today, scientific materialism, and in his day, Buddha did that as well.