Feser really needs to make a weekly podcast

I lived 20 years of my life just going through the motions, until one day I woke up and thought why did I wake up today.

Now I’m forever fascinated about life consciousness and existence.

Feser is a gift. I’m really grateful he isn’t like Hart who just spins in his own arrogance without letting people in on the fun. Not that I don’t like a good circumlocution, I’d just like him to not ever use words like circumlocution.

nothing’s more humbling than hearing Feser speak. clear, eloquent, truthful

Feser always makes me feel stupid.

If Catholic University of America, we’re still Catholic this guy would be there.

I wish we could have access to the text Feser provided to the audience, because his talk is quite fast paced for my brain...

Thank you for uploading and sharing this excellent lecture by Dr. Edward Feser.

Would you believe me if I said I've heard of the obscure 1970's Japanese pop band called "triangle"?

I like the idea that, for a human to be a complete being, they must have both mind/soul AND body, and if they do not have one of the two they are therefore not entirely human. And while the soul CAN exist independently of the body and the body independent of the mind, neither are complete without the other.

I’m not exactly sure on all the details yet, but this is not at all the “ghost in the machine” kind of independence I was lead to believe it was. It’s so much more interesting.

Drink every time he looks away from the podium

Excellent speech

He has a picture of the completed manuscript of his new book on his blog site:  “Immortal Souls:  A Treatise on Human Nature”!  More details to follow.

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What da dog doin?

Psychedelics and dreams point to this.

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I'd love to see a talk between Ed and Jordan Peterson

I don't understand why immateriality itself implies non-temporalness and changelessness. Immaterial mind only needs to exclude spatiality or extension (although there were some philosophers who attributed even some special, non-physical kind of extension to immaterial minds (ex. Henry More, Samuel Clarke, etc.)). Immortality, which many philosophers think is immaterial mind's necessary feature, itself is a temporal concept. Only infinite and perfect Mind such as God (if God can be called a Mind) might be said to be beyond time and change. So I don't think there can be any special problem about a finite, immaterial mind's learning new things, or going under change.

The fact that plants turn towards the sun is because there is a mechanism of increasing the cell growth on the back of the stalk such that it bends in the sunward direction.