BFC Session-12 [Dec 26 2020]

[karnamdpdurga (DP)]

Last week, while chatted about “X made Y”, and reflected on the notion of “agency”. See the post for the summary.

Extending the conversation on “What is being Human?” series, in the last 5 weeks, we will continue our chat live, this Saturday, 26th Dec 2020, from 3-5 pm at webinar

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Previous Session Recordings

BFC Session-11 [Dec 19 2020]

In this video, we continue the analysis of “X made Y” and agency. We analyse what it means to “make” or “create”. Then we discuss the creation – the world – and debate possible views of explaining these consistently drawing on some ideas about steady-state theory of cosmology, and other theories of creation. Also, see the description by @palaneprashant

BFC Session-10 [Dec 12 2020]

In this session, we start with an analysis of “X made Y”. We discuss what this entails, and touch upon the relation of Cause and Effect and the notion of “Time”. Then we critically look at the issue of creation and creator and the validity of such claims, from a complex systems perspective. We also explore the aspect of agency, emerging from the idea of a creator as an agent. Numerous examples were examined. Also see related discussion at "X made Y" Analyse this - #7 by palaneprashant

BFC Session-9 [Dec 05 2020]

In this video, we continue the conversation on “what is being human?” and touch upon the issue of a Creator God again. Eventually, we end with a philosophical exercise. See below post.

BFC Session-8 [Nov 28 2020]

Recording of Session-8 In this video, we explore the fault-lines between religion and philosophy touching upon the notion of “God”, as we reflect on the features of being Human. This emerges as we allude to the human capacities of imagination and developing ideas. We end with a need to touch upon the relations between mind brain and culture. May be in future chats, we will discuss these as well. Please view, share and discuss more continuing our chat!

BFC Session-6 [Nov 7 2020]

In this video, wandering around the question of “what is being Human?” we reflect on the human activities of doing science, philosophy, and even cooking as rule-following games and eventually end wondering about non-human entities. An interesting thought, we end up with leading to next discussion is - “Does having two legs make us human or does a particular way of walking make us human?”

BFC Session-5 [Oct 31 2020]

We started of with general conversation around what it is to be human? We then touched upon various aspects anchoring on the very activity of doing Philosophy. A natural free flowing conversation around the multiple issues of language, poetry, experience, ideologies and maturities were covered. Here is the recording of the session. In this video, we start with various activities that human Beings engage in ranging from Art, philosophy, science etc, and make an attempt to understand these as…

[karnamdpdurga (DP)]

This was the last session of the year 2020 In this video, we continued our conversation on the multitude vs unity about the nature of origin of creation and causes for any effect, in general. In the process, we discussed the notions of agency and non-agential causes (or factors) leading to an effect. Towards the end, we hit at the notions of form/structure and content in shaping our understanding about the nature of reality (as multitude or unity).