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How To Tell You Picked The Wrong Car
Neil DeGrasse Tyson could easily feature this on a new-season Cosmos episode about space curvature phenomenon.
Bill Nye makes fun of Neil deGrasse Tyson's reply to Dawkins
Tyson just can't stand not being the smartest person in the room so he compensates by ensuring that he's the center of attention.
He's always been very proud of everything that comes out of his mouth. Is the first time anyone else noticed?
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Bill Nye makes fun of Neil deGrasse Tyson's reply to Dawkins
Tyson's only interesting statement before Nye spoke was to suggest Dawkins' question was wrong, or at least premature as he wonders, "...whether there is no such thing as consciousness at all".
It is a silly suggestion because we all agree we experience consciousness, therefore, de facto, it exists, as an experience. The question is why we have the experience, not whether we have it. This conclusion that experience of consciousness might not exist is what Nye was reacting to because Tyson hadn't said anything yet about where our understanding of it might come from.
After Nye's comment, Tyson says our understanding of consciousness might come from some place altogether unexpected. Most answers to the big questions do. That's why they're big questions. So to a scientist, that's an unremarkable statement, not worthy of comment. But you can't go from there to, "asking why is a bad question". Tyson's analogy with the procession of Mercury was a bad one because nobody suggested that perhaps Mercury's procession didn't appear out of whack. It did. People only asked why it did.
In saying that it's possible the 'answer of consciousness' could come from somewhere completely unexpected, or unrelated, to what people are thinking now. Like the example he gave where it took something completely new (General Relativity) to explain Mercury.
It seemed pretty self-explanatory in the video.
Bill Nye makes fun of Neil deGrasse Tyson's reply to Dawkins
I think Tyson was actually stoned or otherwise impaired, and Nye was calling him out. Watch his behaviour from the start imagining he's smoked a big bowl before going on stage.
His statements are related, but really not logically connected. He overexplains things people already agree on. His statements seem profound and philosophical to him, but not to anyone else. He is unaware of his physical space (his arms). He loses his place in his thoughts and has to go back and work them out before he can continue... or maybe he just says something else at random, like, "...there is no such thing as consciousness at all..." to save face because his initial train of thought plunged off a cliff.
Bill Nye makes fun of Neil deGrasse Tyson's reply to Dawkins
Seriously, is Tyson high here?
Bill Nye makes fun of Neil deGrasse Tyson's reply to Dawkins
Why is Tyson correct? What's the line of reasoning?
Tyson is correct.
Bill Nye makes fun of Neil deGrasse Tyson's reply to Dawkins
Or video title could be
"Tyson makes a valid point and is shot down by some geriatrics"
Tyson is correct. And that is why psychology is mostly hocus pocus and we have yet to develop artificial intelligence.
Bill Nye makes fun of Neil deGrasse Tyson's reply to Dawkins
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Neil deGrasse Tyson explains meaning of life to 6 year old
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Neil deGrasse Tyson explains meaning of life to 6 year old
By six I had decided that there was no pre-determined "meaning" to life, which is what most people mean by the question. I had not yet learned that, like Tyson, I could derive meaning in learning function, and perhaps that the only real 'meaning' to life is experience.