{"id":10743,"date":"2013-04-05T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10743"},"modified":"2013-04-07T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T05:06:10","slug":"short-video-zizek-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/04\/05\/short-video-zizek-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Short video \u017di\u017eek in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like \u017d&#8217;s recent trip to Brazil in March 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U7-bHikbgi4\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t296YGOY7dk&quot;&gt;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t296YGOY7dk\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t296YGOY7dk\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ep2ikbkjtuU\" target=\"_blank\">Part 3<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ep2ikbkjtuU\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xrpkil_fgEU\" target=\"_blank\">Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our autonomy always was an illusion. Isn&#8217;t our language our symbolic system a kind of big dialisis machine, we need to link with it, we can&#8217;t survive without it. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xrpkil_fgEU?t=1m27s\" target=\"_blank\">Daniell Dennet<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xrpkil_fgEU?t=2m16s\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Sex<\/a>\u00a0 In a way sex always was virtual.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xrpkil_fgEU?t=3m\" target=\"_blank\">Fantasy <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe we&#8217;ll lose just some narcissistic illusions. We should never forget that the most intelligent machines, work only with their connection with human intelligence.\u00a0 We need always bear in mind the uniqueness of human subjectivity\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xrpkil_fgEU?t=4m37s\" target=\"_blank\">Disagrees with Kurzweil<\/a>\u00a0 New collective mind blah blah, he still speaks as an ordinary human, we will still feel and reason and emotion as singular human beings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xrpkil_fgEU?t=5m40s\" target=\"_blank\">Paul and Patricia Churchland<\/a>: No free self, we are just neuronal machines.\u00a0 The illusion of freedom is part of our biological nature. There will be forever a gap, between what we scientifically know, and a users illusion.\u00a0 Then there is Habermas, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xrpkil_fgEU?t=7m32s\" target=\"_blank\">then there is the Churchlands<\/a> We can imagine a society which will succeed in making the scientific truth that we are simply neuronal mechanisms part of our daily self-experience. Thus it will be a softer society, one that does not punish etc.<\/p>\n<p>Now \u017d is more in line with <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xrpkil_fgEU?t=8m22s\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Metzinger<\/a> who wrote a book called, <em>Being No One, The Self Model Theory of Subjectivity<\/em> 2003. There is only one spiritual position which really elevates our self-experience to the level of brain science, it is Buddhist meditation. Thoughts without Thinker. It is only the radical Buddhist who goes through getting get rid of the illusion of free self who emerges at the level of todays sciences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fora.tv\/2012\/03\/24\/Being_Human_Mental_Representations_Decision-Making\">German neurologist: Thomas Metzinger\u00a0 No such thing as a Self<\/a> Something tremendously new may emerge, but it won&#8217;t be linked to intelligence. When we imagine the future, as in George Lucas&#8217; <em>Star Wars<\/em>, we still imagine in categories of federation, Emperor all the medieval ideology has to return etc. It is really very hard to try to imagine a different future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like \u017d&#8217;s recent trip to Brazil in March 2013. Part 1 Part 2\u00a0 Part 3\u00a0 Part 4 Our autonomy always was an illusion. Isn&#8217;t our language our symbolic system a kind of big dialisis machine, we need to link with it, we can&#8217;t survive without it. Daniell Dennet Virtual Sex\u00a0 In a way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/04\/05\/short-video-zizek-in-brazil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Short video \u017di\u017eek in Brazil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10743"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10754,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions\/10754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}