Ideasthesia: How do ideas feel? - Danko Nikolić
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/ideasthesia-how-do-ideas-feel-danko-nikolic The traditional model of our mental function is that first our senses ...
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Long before Descartes famously declared, "I think, therefore I am," and long after that, scientists and philosophers alike have puzzled over what they call the mind-body problem. Is the mind some separate, non-material entity piloting a machine of flesh? Or if it's just a particularly elusive part of our physical body, how can it translate the input of our animal senses into the seemingly non-physical experiences that we call thoughts? But though the answers have been debated endlessly, new research suggests that part of the problem lies in how we pose the question in the first place, assuming a distinction between our sensory perception and our ideas that may not really be there. The traditional model of our mental function has been that the senses provide separate da...
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Long before Descartes famously declared, "I think, therefore I am," and long after that, scientists and philosophers alike have puzzled over what they call the mind-body problem. Is the mind some separate, non-material entity piloting a machine of flesh? Or if it's just a particularly elusive part of our physical body, how can it translate the input of our animal senses into the seemingly non-physical experiences that we call thoughts? But though the answers have been debated endlessly, new research suggests that part of the problem lies in how we pose the question in the first place, assuming a distinction between our sensory perception and our ideas that may not really be there. The traditional model of our mental function has been that the senses provide separate da...
