Nexus Void
Is the Universe CONSCIOUS? Philosophy of Idealism by Bernardo Kastrup
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Ellis, George F. R. (2020). Emergence in Solid State Physics and Biology. Foundations of Physics 50 (10):1098-1139.
Rosas, F. E., Mediano, P. A. M., Jensen, H. J., Seth, A. K., Barrett, A. B., Carhart-Harris, R. L., & Bor, D. (2020). Reconciling emergences: An information-theoretic approach to identify causal emergence in multivariate data. PLoS Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008289–e1008289. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008289
Schmickl, T. (2022). Strong Emergence Arising from Weak Emergence. Complexity (New York, N.Y.), 2022(1). doi.org/10.1155/2022/9956885
van Hateren, J. H. (2015). Active causation and the origin of meaning. Biological Cybernetics, 109, 33–46.
van Hateren, J. H. (2021). A mechanism that realizes strong emergence. Synthese (Dordrecht), 199(5–6), 12463–12483. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03340-z
Learn about The Origins and History of Consciousness: youtube.com/watch?v=5LnUi1aniHY
Discussing the Bicameral Mind Theory: youtube.com/watch?v=Dsf5cJ4QxwI
The Bicameral Mind in Ancient Egypt: youtube.com/watch?v=YHzqE_VixA4&t=1s
This video uses The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Master and His Emissary to elucidate the deep psychological significance of Elden Ring. Elden Ring depicts the state of the human mind through its fascinating story and characters, and my job is to show you how.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Elden Ring
1:29 The Greater Will, Queen Marika, and the Golden Order
2:55 The Shadow Archetype
6:13 The Giants
7:55 The Dragons
11:02 The Moon
12:59 Night of the Black Knives and the Master and Emissary
16:13 The Demigods
17:39 Queen Rennala, the Mother Archetype
21:50 Ranni, the Anima
26:45 Radahn, the Animus
30:55 Blaidd the Shadow
31:45 The Serpent
36:24 Morgott, the King
37:43 The Shadow of the Golden Order
42:23 Malenia, Feminine Chaos
45:57 Miquella, the Divine Child
54:49 Mohg and the Great Mother
1:01:32 The Fire Giant
1:03:20 The Pre-Egoic State
1:05:45 The New Order
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Sources:
Thomas Schmickl, "Strong Emergence Arising from Weak Emergence", Complexity, vol. 2022, Article ID 9956885, 17 pages, 2022. doi.org/10.1155/2022/9956885
Hernández-Orozco, S., Hernández-Quiroz, F., & Zenil, H. (2018). Undecidability and Irreducibility Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution and Emergence. Artificial Life, 24(1), 56–70. doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00254
Free Will, Temporal Asymmetry, and Computational Undecidability Stuart T. Doyle Third Force Reconnaissance Company, USMC
Ellis, G. F. R. (2020). Emergence in Solid State Physics and Biology. Foundations of Physics, 50(10), 1098–1139. doi.org/10.1007/s10701-020-00367-z
van Hateren, J. H. (2015). Active causation and the origin of meaning. Biological Cybernetics, 109, 33–46.
van Hateren, J. H. (2015b). Causal non-locality can arise from constrained replication. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 112, 20004.
van Hateren, J. H. (2015a). The natural emergence of (bio)semiosic phenomena. Biosemiotics, 8, 403–419.
van Hateren, J.H. A Clear and Understood Case of Strong Emergence. Biosemiotics 10, 5–7 (2017). doi-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/10.1007/s12304-016-9278-z
van Hateren, J. H. (2021). A mechanism that realizes strong emergence. Synthese (Dordrecht), 199(5–6), 12463–12483. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03340-z
Hao, Z., Liu, J., Wu, B., Yu, M., & Wegner, L. H. (2021). Strong Emergence in Biological Systems: Is It Open to Mathematical Reasoning? Acta Biotheoretica, 69(4), 841–856. doi.org/10.1007/s10441-021-09423-1
0:00 Was I WRONG About Free Will?
2:17 Why Determinism is in Conflict with Free Will
4:54 Emergence Explained
6:10 Weak Emergence Explained
7:28 Strong Emergence Explained
14:50 Conway's Game Life shows Weak and Strong Emergence
15:44 Theoretical Constructions of Strong Emergence
17:28 How Randomness and Determinism Imply Strong Emergence
20:30 Why EVOLUTION is Strongly Emergent
26:26 Incompleteness, Undecidability, and Self-Reference
31:37 Why Evolution Needs Undecidability
33:15 Strong Emergence in Particle Physics
34:45 Why Ohm's Law is Strongly Emergent
37:05 Semiconductors are Strongly Emergent
41:13 Other Examples of Strong Emergence in Nature
42:52 Is Free Will Strongly Emergent?
Part 1: Why You Should Believe in Free Will : youtube.com/watch?v=RpAW_q6ZvU0
Part 2 : What even is Free Will? : youtu.be/tlsKsw31kOY?si=jKHSyCurMKFYv_Tp
Part 3: What Actually Possesses Free Will? : youtu.be/TN1aqqv40Hk?si=fC54zzRuEgGi8QtO
Part 4: How Sentience Gives you Free Will? : youtu.be/BlafgzKh3LI
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Part 1: Why You Should Believe in Free Will : youtube.com/watch?v=RpAW_q6ZvU0
Part 2 : What even is Free Will? : youtu.be/tlsKsw31kOY?si=jKHSyCurMKFYv_Tp
Part 3: What Actually Possesses Free Will? : youtu.be/TN1aqqv40Hk?si=fC54zzRuEgGi8QtO
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Part 2: youtu.be/tlsKsw31kOY?si=oHUeDkU0NHAQ-tKW
Exurbia video: youtube.com/watch?v=WX0xWJpr0FY
Jung and Psychic Realism: youtube.com/watch?v=MbSBqpICAnw
In this video I take a closer look at the definition of free will. This is the second part in a new series on the concept of free will.
Patreon: patreon.com/nexusvoid
Sources:
Ng, J. Y. Y., Ntoumanis, N., Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C., Deci, E. L., Ryan, R. M., Duda, J. L., & Williams, G. C. (2012). Self-Determination Theory Applied to Health Contexts: A Meta-Analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(4), 325–340. doi.org/10.1177/1745691612447309
Vohs, K. D., & Baumeister, R. F. (2009). Addiction and free will. Addiction Research & Theory, 17(3), 231–235. doi.org/10.1080/16066350802567103
Introduction to the Bicameral Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=ll12kPSi1Xc
Deep discussion of the theory of the Bicameral Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=Dsf5cJ4QxwI
The Bicameral Mind in Ancient Egypt: youtube.com/watch?v=YHzqE_VixA4
Psychology of the Bicameral Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8uwZHBwCU
Addressing the biggest flaw in the theory of the Bicameral Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=RlEQnTD0h0M
How the Gods were responsible for civilization: youtube.com/watch?v=KLSXUzku2fI
Sources for the video will be in the comments.
0:00 The Origins of Ancient Egypt
3:25 The Rise of Horus
7:03 The Narmer Palette
8:46 Marriage of Horus and Neith
10:05 Wars and Internal Strife
11:14 The Ascendancy of Seth
Introduction to the Bicameral Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=ll12kPSi1Xc
Deep discussion of the theory of the Bicameral Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=Dsf5cJ4QxwI
The Bicameral Mind in Ancient Egypt: youtube.com/watch?v=YHzqE_VixA4
Psychology of the Bicameral Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8uwZHBwCU
Addressing the biggest flaw in the theory of the Bicameral Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=RlEQnTD0h0M
How the Gods were responsible for civilization: youtube.com/watch?v=KLSXUzku2fI
Sources for the video will be in the comments.
0:00 Introduction to the gods of history
4:47 The Origins of Ancient Egypt
8:17 The Rise of Horus
13:32 The relationship between gods and men
18:15 Horus, Neith, and Ptah
21:12 Internal Strife in the Kingdom
22:20 The ascendancy of Seth
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In this video I discuss Oppenheimer, which has become one of my favourite movies of all times which has important ideas to offer to the discussion about nuclear weapons.
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In this video I discuss Jung's paper on the Transcendent Function which can be found in volume 8 of his collected works.
This video is about the Ancient Egyptian Ka, how it is understood, and the evidence for a new interpretation of the Ka.
Sources:
Luxor Temple and the Cult of the Royal Ka," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 44, no. 4 (1985): 251
Stephen Thomas, Ancient Egypt: facts and fictions 2023.
This video is to celebrate reaching 10,000 subscribers on youtube! In it, I answer the questions you folks left for me in the last video.
Patreon: patreon.com/nexusvoid
Sources for the claims in this video:
Definition of Science: Wilson, E.O. (1999). "The natural sciences". Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Reprint ed.). New York: Vintage. pp. 49–71. ISBN 978-0-679-76867-8.
Epistemic symmetry: Kastrup, Bernardo (2018). Conflating Abstraction with Empirical Observation: The False Mind-Matter Dichotomy. Constructivist Foundations 13 (3):341-361.
What the main constituents of religious texts are: Charles Elster (2003). "Authority, Performance, and Interpretation in Religious Reading: Critical Issues of Intercultural Communication and Multiple Literacies". Journal of Literacy Research. 35 (1): 667–670.
Mayan myth about the origins of the moon: Carrasco, David; Aveni, Anthony; Boone, Elizabeth; Chance, John; Flash, William; Manzanilla, Linda; Taylor, William, eds. (2001). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Vol. 3. New York: Oxford. p. 22. ISBN 0-19-514257-8.
Creation stories are really about the origins of consciousness: Neumann, E. (1954). The origins and history of consciousness. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Mythology is a fundamental constituent of religious texts: Leeming, David (2005). The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (ePub ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515669-2.
Significance of the Exodus myth to the Israelites: Russell, Stephen C. (2009). Images of Egypt in Early Biblical Literature. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-022171-8.
Deeper meaning of the myth of Demeter and Persephone: Agha-Jaffar T. Demeter and Persephone : Lessons from a Myth. McFarland & Co.; 2002.
Historicity of the Mahabharata: HC Raychaudhuri, Political History of Ancient India, pp.27ff.
Historicity of the Iliad: Bryce, Trevor (2005). The Trojans and their Neighbours. Taylor & Francis. pp. 36–39. ISBN 978-0-415-34959-8
Alexander the Great: Green, Peter (2007). Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age: Volume 1 of Universal History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Religion of Alexander the Great: Lily Ross Taylor: The cult of Alexander in Alexandria. In: Classic Philology. Vol. 22, 1927, pp. 162–169.
Religion is largely proscriptive: Religion and Science, John Habgood, Mills & Brown, 1964, pp. 11, 14–16, 48–55, 68–69, 87, 90–91.
Why science can't generate proscriptive claims: Cohon, Rachel. "Hume's Moral Philosophy". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 ed.). Archived from the original on 25 May 2023
Benefits of Mindfulness meditation: Chen, Bin ; Yang, Ting ; Tao, Lin ; Song, Yuqing ; Liu, Ying ; Wang, Yan ; Xiao, Lei ; Xu, Changxia ; Chen, Hong. BMJ open, 2022, Vol.12 (4), p.e058686-e058686, Article e058686
Connection between Christianity and Healthcare: Agnew, John (12 February 2010). "Deus Vult: The Geopolitics of Catholic Church". Geopolitics. 15 (1): 39–61. doi:10.1080/14650040903420388
Funerals and Religion: Hoy, William G. (2013). Do Funerals Matter? Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415662055.
Marriage and religion: "The origins of marriage". The Week. 1 January 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
In this video I discuss Carl Jung's concept of the shadow archetype and break it down in detail.
0:00 Intro
0:53 Origins of the archetypal shadow
1:57 The dynamics of social animals
3:05 the birth of culture, law, and morality
4:18 the development of the ego
5:49 symbols of the shadow
6:39 the formation of the personal shadow
7:49 distinguishing the personal unconscious and the personal shadow
9:26 why we can't hide our shadows forever
12:11 Shadow projection
14:53 shadow integration
In this video I discuss Martin Heidegger's essay "What is Metaphysics?" and attempt to explain what he meant.
Related videos
Jungian Archetypes: youtube.com/watch?v=UXKyUschuis
The Mother Archetype: youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZjV0pNW5I
The Father Archetype: youtube.com/watch?v=jolyYQuPVM0
The Shadow: youtube.com/watch?v=BGQ8XYxTO_8
The Anima/Animus: youtube.com/watch?v=yOd55oPxGpk
The Bicameral Mind Explained: youtube.com/watch?v=F30Jykk8z0E
Another Explanation: youtube.com/watch?v=ll12kPSi1Xc
Discussion of the Bicameral Mind: youtube.com/watch?v=Dsf5cJ4QxwI
Language and Consciousness: youtube.com/watch?v=2hTShowbifM
In this video I explain why I haven't been able to put out content and what I want to do to change that.
Consider supporting me at patreon: patreon.com/nexusvoid
0:00 Introduction
3:58 The state of Canada today
8:24 Shadow's experiences in Sri Lanka
12:12 On dealing with trauma
18:10 what it's like being in Canada as an immigrant
21:32 does Canada make us softer?
25:00 discussion of racism
32:49 liberal ideology in the education system
40:48 psychology of climate change
44:16 the purpose of education
54:23 what is Canadian identity?
1:04:20 how covid changed Canada
1:20:58 the state of therapy in Canada
In this video I discuss the archetypes associated with masculinity.