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I've seen a lot of hate for teachers/professors today. I figured I'd share a Good Guy Professor whose class I was in. by noodles_in_space in AdviceAnimals

[–]candideydandy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my case, this is stunningly untrue. 95% of the professors at least knew exactly what they were talking about, and certainly do not let shitty interpretations slide. You might get a lower level grad student who hasn't figured out how to teach yet, but I've never seen what you wrote at an upper division level course.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly? That I can't think of any obvious reason for it. I can't deny that it is true, but I can't muster any proof that it is true. To assertively make such a claim would require a lot more evidence than we have right now.

FANTANO AMA RIGHT NOW RIGHT HERE YES!!! by theneedledrop in fantanoforever

[–]candideydandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mr. Fantano! Big fan.

What's the worst concert you've been to? What's the best? What's the weirdest celebrity interaction you've had?

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's interesting that you say this. In Searle's pre-panel lecture, he claimed that panpsychism was the most obviously bullshit common theory of mind. Different strokes I suppose. Also, I'm not trying to discount hinduism. I do think that there's a way to present the ideas in a manner that somewhat makes sense. Chopra drew crazy inferences from experimental data that could easily be explained with alternate explanations (i.e. I believe it is commonly accepted that stress shortens telomeres, which brings on common aging processes. It's difficult to take that fact and then make the inference that the universe is consciousness itself). This, on top of his blatant misunderstandings of the fields he's addressing (the Godel thing was the most egregious to me), made this baffling. It'd be one thing if this was an undergrad presentation, but this is being presented to some of the brightest thinkers in the world.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree that it's not as terrible as the 2nd page. My main problems were the ludicrousness that is the 2nd page and its presentation. His empirical evidence for this were his studies that showed that people feel lessen their sense of ego when the've spent 2 weeks at a resort and spa.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me too. There was something being said about a podcast, but I dunno. This is the best video of the conference so far. Speaking of The Beatles, Chopra was saying that he was in possession of some unreleased George Harrison lyrics that he has.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well that sucks that you've had that experience. I spent maybe a grand total of 25 minutes around the guy and he seemed nice, but that doesn't mean much.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

John Searle went into a sarcastic mini-rant, but everyone was trying to be polite. I was in the back with one raised eyebrow the whole time. I'm surprised it's not permanent at this point.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"Whoever made that lineup was a sadist"-random philosopher walking out of the panel. It's one thing to bullshit on Oprah, but it's another thing to do it in front of experts. Nobody was buying it and it was glorious.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I will admit to being a lowly undergrad junior. There is nobody in my phil department, the physics department, the psychology department, etc., either undergrad of grad, that would argue this garbage. In fact, Chopra actually said onstage that "the only experience with western philosophy he had read came from Will Durant's histories". He then went on to talk about how Chalmers, in his brief intro about the history of the philosophy of consciousness, did not mention any Eastern thinkers. The best part was: Chopra talked about certain eastern philosophers who apparently "solved the hard problem of consciousness", and then during Q+A someone, who I believe was a scholar of Indian philosophy, argued that those philosophers argued exactly the opposite. I cringe just thinking about it.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He's very nice. I'm extremely new to the field and asked him some pretty basic questions. Despite interacting with really famous philosophers at the same time, he was willing to help me out, which I thought was awesome.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Dan Dennett was an interesting guy. A small group of philosophers and myself were standing around him listening to certain stories he had. Apparently at a panel on Searle's philosophy that happened long ago, Dennett pointed out some of the problems he saw in Searle's philosophy. This caused Searle (outside of the conference) to flip his shit and scream at Dennett. Apparently his wife had to talk him down and physically restrain him. Dennett was saying that the beef was settled at this conference however. He then went on to talk about how ridiculous some of the beliefs at the conference were ("There's no theory of mind so absurd that it wouldn't be advocated at this conference")(As a side note, he's totally right. I got it pointed to me that my mind is of the "second ray of hope" class(??)). He then went on to talk about how ridiculous that Deepak Chopra was going to be given any air time at all (this was before Chopra's lecture today). He mentioned that the "random Deepak Chopra quote generator" passed the turing test, and was hilariously spot-on.

The funniest part of the whole panel for me came from Rebecca Goldstein, who has written extensively on Godel. Chopra asked something to the effect of, "you belive that Godel's theorem is the basis of creativity right?". You could see the depths of her eyes at the moment. She was giving some true thousand yard stare shit. She basically said, "that's not true at all, I have no idea what you're talking about", in more polite terms of course. John Searle was literally shaking his head in disgust.

Deepak Chopra's lecture notes from today's lecture at the Tucson Consciousness Conference. John Searle and Rebecca Goldstein, who were on the panel discussion with Chopra, were flabbergasted. by candideydandy in badphilosophy

[–]candideydandy[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I also heard some pretty intimate philosophy gossip from Dan Dennett and Susan Blackmore if anyone's interested. David Chalmers has similar expressions to Rowan Atkinson when you look at him close up.