Ted-Ed class 25-11-2021 "Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body?"

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Welcome to today's class!

Today:

-Watch a Ted-Ed video.

-Answer questions about the video

-Discuss a statement with regards to the video

Why?

-We first off are working on the listening skills and also reading skills.

-Afterwards we are discussing, which is great practice for the speaking exam.

About the upcoming speaking exam. 

The exam:

make a vlog/podcast/talk show/trailer about a trip you’ve been. You form a script and decide the points you want to discuss. 

Should be around 7-10 minutes with you mostly talking about the trip. Think about transportation, currencies, sightseeing, hotel, food and activities done. 

More about it later. 

Voor de vakantie of tijdens je stage?

1. Voor de vakantie
2. Tijdens stage

1. In the rubber hand illusion, the dummy hand feels like the viewer’s real hand because of the synchronization between two sensory inputs from both hands. What are those two sensory inputs?

1. Touch and sound
2. Touch and vision
3. Vision and pain
4. Vision and proprioception

2. Sixteenth-century philosopher René Descartes believed that the mind is something separate from the body because:

1. The material world is an illusion existing only as mental perceptions
2. The existence of anything that we perceive from our senses can fundamentally be questioned
3. Even if we assume that our body is an illusion, our thoughts are still there and that is the ultimate proof of our existence
4. God is moving our bodies and God is immaterial

3. What can we learn from rubber hand illusion or other virtual reality experiments?

1. Our senses can easily mislead us in our judgment of self
2. Our bodies are inseparable from our subjective consciousness
3. Our bodies and minds have a complicated, tangled relationship
4. All of the above

4. Which of the following philosophers believed in the idea that the body is part of the human consciousness?

1. George Berkeley
2. Martin Heidegger
3. Rene Descartes
4. Nicholas Malebranche

The theory that the mind and body are two separate beings is called mind-body dualism in philosophy. How has the emergence of scientific views changed this debate over time?

Mind-uploading is the idea of transferring human consciousness into a computer by scanning and simulating brain activities. Many believe that the simulated mind could exist and operate within a virtual reality. What are the challenges in this process from the mind-body interaction point of view?

Discussion time

The idea of integrating machines and living organisms might have been science fiction decades ago, but today we can control a neural prosthetic with our brains, bring the sight back to the blind with a pair of bionic eyes, and restore memory with a brain implant. What do you think about mind-body interaction and the change of brain structures as we enter this new era?

Well done, thank you and goodbye!