Is Technology Dangerous? (Star Wars + Heidegger) - 8-Bit Philosophy
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2015
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Episode 30: Is Technology Killing Your Creativity?
(Star Wars + Martin Heideigger)
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I would set a serene sunrise as a background wallpaper on my iPad.
But not a real or authentic one.
Ah. Now that's a philosophical quandary. What are chia seeds good for? :P
***** lol
Person A: Why are we growing all this Chia?
Person B: Why? For all of the Chia seeds we can harvest!
Person A: And why do we need the Chia seeds?
Person B: How else are we going to grow more Chia?
Both: Profit!
b1merio I think chia seeds are edible so there is that.
Chia pudding yo
Yuppie smoothies?
GREAT - SUBTITLES FINALLY!!! IT WAS VERY HARD FOR ME TO WATCH WITHOUT SUBS!! I AM RUSSIAN, I AM NOT SO GOOD TO TAKE ENG FROM VOICE, BUT WITH SUBS I CAN UNDERSTAND IT ALL!! GREAT!! I WILL GO REWATCH ALL 8-BIT PHILOSOPHY AND THUG-NOTES!!!!
Sam Fisher Glad they help!
+Sam Fisher Also pressing Caps Lock would improve your and our satisfaction.
+Sam Fisher It was hard for me too: I'm mexican and to understand something complex as a Martin heidegger's philosophy i need subtitles. !!
+Ricardo Rafael i am russian so i have no ENG-speakers around, but i thout mexicans know ENG good cause they close to US!! O_O
Yep, it is more easy for us, but for me still difficult, cause i'm hearing the philosophy of one of the most complex philosophers... in english. I'm used to hear people speaking english , but more quotidian things... For you this have to be more difficult, in fact! A big hug! hope you're fine :D
Disembodied British voice reminds me of 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'
Batman "Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was 'Oh no, not again.'”
Peter S "Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
Batman 42
+Batman Yes - somebody has gone to lengths to get a very Stephen Fry like voice there. However- I think the narrator might not be British.
That sick burn on chia seeds tho.
Please add more content on Heidegger and his work "Being and Time". Thank you!
Check out this video we did: m.ua-cam.com/video/iHT-xeU1LEk/v-deo.html
Wisecrack Oh my god how did I even miss this one?? Thank you so much!
Great videos +Wisecrck. I'm very much enjoying these 8 Bit Philosophy videos
I love everything on Wisecrack but a new 8-Bit Philosophy is what I look forward to the most.
On your recommendation, I checked out "The School of Life." That's exactly what I want more of in my life. Thank you so much for that!
Keep up the great work.
I love you, Disembodied British Voice! ^^
Liked the shoutout to school of life. You two are awesome
Just been assigned to watch this video by my lecturer as an intro to Heidegger, I love it!!
Love the shout out to school of life!
I REALLY enjoy this one... I love Star Wars + Videogames + Philosophy and + Martin Heidegger. Epic. Keep doing videos like this!!!
I would love to see one of these on The Technological Society by Jaques Ellul, or a 8 bit philosophy on the ideas of John Zerzan
Haven't even watched this but the title and predicted thought piece alone is a like to me!
The animation in these videos is quite good, especially considering the frequency with which the videos are released.
Wisecrack presents complicated matters into a simpler but just as informative manner.
Whether that is books/cinematography/philosophy
I tried reading Heidiger but he keeps on using incomprehensible German words.
Thanks for entertaining us Wisecrack!
"When Stanley came to a set of two open doors, he entered the door on his left."
I can not unhear this from 8-bit narrator.
Wisecrack vids awesome as always. Brings up some good points/questions.
But couldn't help but think that there may be some irony in trying to create a reasonable argument against reason. I know that through my mindset reason would be be unfalsifiable, but I can't help that that's how reason works.
I can never watch wisecrack videos on my phone past the 2 minute mark. Idk why, but I started noticing this consistently since the Alice in Wonderland thug notes, so I thought it was worth mentioning
Congrats for your 30th video! As for your last question, definitely yes and I don't even have A an iPad...😊
Excellent as ever.
Hey, Wisecrack guys! Love, LOVE your stuff. I was really curious about the results of your last survey, asking whether we'd like you to add sociology (I voted yes). So, will you release the results? Thanks!
I love 8-bit philo. It doesn't pander to the LCD but explains things from a new perspective. Plus it's 8-bit!
Thank you for this, and yes I'd give up I pad for a sunrise!
Ohh, por favor, podrías traducir al español todos los videos!! Están buenísimos ...
I don't have an iPad.
***** Good then hippie thought has no sway over us. Onward to nuclear power and sunsets on alien worlds. Meanwhile the hippies and vegans will be eaten by the caterpillar people of vagabond 5.
ShoutingCoffee Oh please, the Caterpillar People of Vagabond 5 are a peaceful race and you know it.
Lonestarr1337 I know but fuck them they are weak. I love you.
What about the crab people of Butersran 7?
I use technology to assist me in answering questions and to create art...
It shows Heidegger kicking down a stormtrooper, when in reality he'd be goose-stepping right alongside them.
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No need to thank me internet.
Star Wars + Heidegger thats why I love this chanel :D
I've read Being and Time and I'm confused for so many reasons, mostly by the book, but also through that book in this video I am made more confused
Am I the only one who would buy a soundtrack album for this series?
ALL-NEW 8-BIT PHILOSOPHY! :)
man, whoever does the music. cheers.
I love this channel. Really makes you think and question what you have come to internalize through social conditioning.
Hmm: Jingoism, Islamophobia and state apologies.
Respect for the SoL shoutout, philosophers should help each other!
hey need to do one on philosophy of chia seeds so we know what they are good for
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Personally, I'm hoping for an augmented reality in which you can physically hike up a mountain, view a real sunrise and have a chat with a holographic Tupac.
Would I give up my tablet for a serene sunrise? No. Next question.
3:17 - The best kind of British Voice.
A trite embarrassing charicature, that panders to the Yank stereotype.
Nice!
You should do an 8-Bit Philosophy on Marshall McLuhan... actually, 'should' is a push. I just want to see it, please. EDIT: Also--wow! I didn't know Alain de Botton was on YT, thanks for the shout!
I enjoy these videos but as a graphic design student I would really appreciate if you would pay more attention to kerning. Some passages are very awkward to read just due to bad kerning and the font.
Could you please make a video that explains natural law theory?
I never understood the idea that technology could kill our humanity. Technology is uniquely human. No other species has the gift of being able to create technology. We should embrace it.
I mean, I thought about that, but that seems so technical, I didn't know if it was worth mentioning. Fine. "Advanced technology" is uniquely human.
SelfAwarePedant The problem is not technology itself, but it is the results it brings us. We're tuned by evolution for a different environment, and we struggle as a species in the modern world. That is the "will technology destroy us?" problem.
SelfAwarePedant Like he said in the video, it's not the technology itself, but the way we use it.
Lucas Garibaldi Right, I get that, but that always feels like such a cop-out argument to me. Because, ultimately, people will stretch that out to mean that technology as a whole is bad, and they will oppose technological progress because of that.
SelfAwarePedant Tech... will be/is Humanity's legacy. As we evolve from a bio-organism to a tech-organism and everything in between.
The Singularity is approaching, and with it, our next evolutionary jump.
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I'd say Wisecrack is a great use of technological advancement. These videos always force me to rethink my position in the universe. I like it, how uncomfortable it may be sometimes.
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There's tremendous wonder to be found in iPads and sunrises alike.
I had a smartphone, lost it, never missed it. Now I use a classic mobile phone. Watching the sunset while drinking a cold beverage is a thousand times more satisfying than anything technology can offer me. Now I just have to reduce my daily internet time from 3 hours to 2 hours somehow and I'm set.
Before cell phones and technology, people would have to fill the silence with inner thought. People would ponder things and they would have their own perspectives and would probably create more content than consuming. When you're always watching curated stuff like your insta feed, or youtube, you don't have to think and you just consume all the things presented to you, you don't have to think at all and most people just want a distraction.
damn.. somebody made an effort in the gfx
do an episode on lacan,deluze or derrida
This is the first time I've seen this series.
But I must state up front that I completely approve of the "8-bit philosophy" title of the series. Too often I find "8-bit something or other" animations that are just pixel art, and completely misunderstand what the 8-bit in the name even means. You clearly have kept within the 8-bit colour palette (really the only aspect a video stream animation can do 8-bit... it's not like you program this series in an 8-bit memory space).
Aristotle warned of this in his De Anima quite explicitly.
Do Marshal McLuhan!
I don't have an ipad, so . . . yes? Might Heidegger have something to say about negative objects?
The closing question does not actually go against what you are trying to explain? exchanging your iPad for a sunrise? Isn't that materialistic? the iPad could be a source of techne if it is used in a way to bring wonder (as in making a movie out of it and sharing it), there's no contradiction between the two.
Good video
And that with him not witnessing the anxiety and different social effects of modern technology on our lives
I find wonder in the working of the technology. I need not the sun that burns me when I can see with technology what makes up said sun and understand it.
Yes, this is exactly the point of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (prolly all of the Deus Ex series).
hmm. Chia Seeds..... is that like what they uses in:
"Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia, Chia-Pet the Pottery that Grows."
I mean most plants have some kind of utility, even if it bi proxy, like certain animal grazing, or bees making honey etc.
"Face Palm" confusing the concepts of technology , science and knowledge with each other are we .
How can i contact you about translating your videos to my native language?
Don't care much for Heidegger, but he is a "big name" philosopher, so its good to have him covered. But i do think there were better guys to talk about technology (Herbert Marcuse, just to name one).
excellent video, as always. Some suggestions:
Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels - The German Ideology
Max Horkheimer - The Eclipse of Reason
Henri Lefebvre - The Production of Space
Jacques Ranciere - Hatred for Democracy
Nicos Poulantzas - State, Power, Socialism
Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish
Louis Althusser - Ideological State Apparatuses
is there a script i can find online anywhere of this?
Have we also been given too many Circuses that we are not noticing the slow lack of Bread?
Can't I have both an iPad and a serene sunrise?
Why wasn't this available last year when I had to do a test about Heidegger and I couldn't understand shit about it? T_T
Who is to say if the rules of progress in this universe end with us? Perhaps we are merely a stepping stone to some other planetary state, one that requires opposable thumbs, and higher level thinking to complete, that we are merely a process in something greater's evolution. As for the question, do people want simple beauty? Or has the level of complexity we've gotten to, changed the game? Life isn't sitting around the radio anymore, isn't sitting around a candle reading a book. There is a lot to keep up on, and a lot to learn, just to maintain. Maybe beauty has evolved to engineering. Not sure, lots of good things to think about, another good video, thanks.
Am I seeing things or the explosion was middle-finger-shaped?
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who needs the sunrise when i can watch it over and over on my ipad in hd lolz
+SilentNoise103 So many people think they're so smart posting the same message, not realizing how dumb they sound to those not addicted to screens. It's like alcoholics romanticizing the feelings they get from their drug.
So essentially, would you trade technology, for the ability if not the chance that the world would remain unexplored, and that it could have untold wonders just past the horizon? An intriguing question. To lose infinite knowledge of the universe, and restore the infinite wonder and mystery of the universe?
You can't honestly expect me to go watch videos on philosophy that aren't cartoons with midi soundtracks.
The question posed is a logical fallacy.
iPads do not exclude sunrises, serene or no.
I would say Heideigger's fear of humanity being overrun by soulless machines has long passed as modern technology has adapted a broader sense of purpose. The very same iPad mentioned earlier allows its user to share that sunrise with their friends and family, and stay connected from around the world. It can impart information in the arts thought lost by Heideigger to instruct its user on how to contribute to those arts.
Jeffman12 The problem nowadays is that people prefer googling "pretty sunrise picture" on their iPad and "Sharing" it with their friends and family, rather than actually taking the extra effort to go out and witness an actual sunrise with their loved ones. If you think that doing the first is equivalent to doing the second then Heidegger was kind of right. :)
Cesar Felipe Nope, that's not the "problem" posed at all. The primary concern is that we would lose our ability to appreciate said pictures for their aesthetic qualities as our technologies would be adapted to evaluating only their material worth. This is not a black and white naturalism versus science argument, it's about the underlying philosophy of all technologies as they are developed.
By the way, please do not presume the nature of my character based on your own personal strawmen and then proceed to judge me. You don't know me, I don't know you, and frankly I quite wish to keep it that way with that sort of behavior.
Jeffman12 Chill out buddy. I neither said this was THE problem, nor that I was talking about you specifically. You know what, just forget I said anything. Sheesh.
Sorry I got all up in arms, the word "you" implies a lot. As in "If you think that..."
Jeffman12 Yeah, I see how you could have taken it like that, it wasn't my intention. I apologize as well.
Combat the Wyrm wherever it dwells and wherever it breeds.
Is it bad I was wishing the old 8-bit star wars videogames had this detail of graphics??
Well I just learned about Heidegger through technology so there is that
Video on Chesterton or C.S.Lewis?
Am using my ipad to look up pictures of sunrises. Take THAT humanity!
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
-- Betteridge's law of headlines
I don't see why iPads and sunsets are mutually exclusive. It's not impossible to have technological progress and still save the beauty of nature.
***** because apple doesn't let their youth workforce out in time to see them is why... i want to see a tech rebellion where we dump all the silicon in the bay... i think that would start a momentous dialogue... i know the sentiment maybe came out of nowhere, but the theme of the video calls for horror, and 'death of humanity' has a way of turning into a cliche of all things
*****
Yes, but inevitably, you will not always be able to have your cake and eat it too. Eventually you will have to choose the natural world or the technological one.
***** but that just makes me think of going to look at a sunset but texting the whole time
***** but isn't the current trend to depend on software that engineers come up with? it just seems like to have a shot toward a brighter potential, we would need a more intimate knowledge of the tech at our fingers than stitching it into our survival...
asking google what to do during a hurricane as its hitting versus knowing what google would say but maybe double-checking for up-to-date alternatives
***** I'm not sure if that was the point the video was trying to get across. The Greek idea of "Techne" was mentioned, suggesting that technology could be used for poetic and artistic purposes
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I'm more inclined to give up the Internet for a beautiful sunrise on a green mountainside hilltop.
is this really doing justice to heidegger? some of this is silly, why do i have to choose between the sunrise and my phone lol?
Is it progress if a cannibal eats with a knife and fork?
Depends on one's measurement.
Also, depending on whether or not there is written consent. Cannibalism is legal if the other party gives consent
This slightly addresses the confusion caused by Athena being called the goddess of wisdom, strategy, war, justice, logic, mathematics, a whole bunch of other things, and... crafts? In essence, however, that last one translates better as **technology** (not scrapbooking, although she was quite fond of weaving - ask Arachne).
Besides being one of only three Greek goddess to retain her virginity (despite Hephaestus' intentions), she wasn't even created through sex. She sprang, fully clothed and armored, from Zeus' forehead after he got a migraine. (No, I'm not making that up.)
Despite his labor pains, she was Zeus' favorite child. Because she was a total badass. (Yes, I'm a bit of a fan.)
Well, the thing is that the grandure of the world is only reduced to utility IF the grandure of the world is only reduced to utility.
The act of creating a tool doesn't necessarily imply you're inhibiting artistic endeavor, and there's no reason why you wouldn't find amazement in the act itself or technology creation.
I would not give up my 'tech'' but I won't exchange the beauty of nature either. I middleground should be possible, afterall that is why the idea of asteroid mining is so appealing, of colonizing the Moon and other celestial bodies. For folks like me we see the wonders we can create out of those things rather then just stripping them for parts.
"Would you give up your ipad for a serene sunrise?"
Simple, wake up early in the morning to see the sunrise then snap a picture of it using the ipad. Post it on a social media of choice to share it for those who cannot see the sunrise.
I never thought about the irony of the FF7-Scientist Heidegger...
Technology has infinitely improved all our lives. Just take this YT-channel as an example. Anyone who doesn't realize that is being silly. We need a public that is concerned with science, technology, its applications and philosophy instead of trivial matters.
do an agamben episode
To ask if its getting better or worse seems inherently limited. It doesn't take into account that every technology developed comes with both its own set of problems and its own solutions. Technology doesn't make life better or worse. It only changes it.
Why is there no more Pop Pysch