This is litterally embodied cognition. This man predicted the neurosciences discoveries of the last 3 decades !

You should have at least 100K of subscribers. What you are doing here is exceptional, please never stop!

This is such an exceptional and clear presentation of these complex ideas. Thank you!

This is a remarkably clear, articulate and insightful presentation. I enjoyed it very much.

Merleau-Ponty! My favorite electric jazz violinist of the 1970s!

Thank you so much Prof.

So much to learn, thank you for this. I really enjoyed listening to your videos while I workout.thank you

Thanks . Phenomenology is certainly a legit concept that unfortunately is often overlooked by the average reader . I have a friend who is focused on it for her PhD in psychology . Thanks again for your usual articulate presentation of complex subjects in a short time !

Thanks fellow being for sharing awareness and insights out loud with us

Clear and understandable!!! Thanks.

Such an awesome channel - wow! I really appreciate the drive to showcase philosophical ideas in a more digestible format!😄🙌🏼

I love the way you clearly explain and illustrate. Thanks!

Youre a great speaker with great recall!

Thank you for bringing these ideas to this often mind-numbing platform!

I just came across your channel and subscribed on Spotify. This is great! Merleau-Ponty seems underrated as a philosopher, but I really love his thoughts on an embodied philosophy.

Wonderful synopsis! Thank you for making this. (Also love seeing that you have Sources of The Self on your shelf).

you have worded it all so beautifully. thank you.

Thank you for the video, great explanation.

Great explainer, subscribed!

The way you teach is unique, you have my complete admiration! Thanks for the knowledge

These videos are amazing. Phenomenal presentation 🙂

Thank you this was an excellent presentation ☮

Terrific video! Thank you for making these!

Very precise!! Thank you

I love watching your videos.. thanks for introducing us to these theories ❤

Thanks for your patience , and your contribution.

You had me at "... is just a bunch of pseudo problems" 😁

Beautifully presented

MY NEW FAVORITE CHANNEL. Thank you.

Thanks so much for making all of this philosophical clarity and understanding of influential thinkers available to everybody and for free, liberated from the confines of the academy! You enrich humanity rather than just students and academics.

Such an effusive speaker. Beautiful

Really interesting, thank you!

Superb introduction! Thank you.

Great summary. Thank you.

One of your best videos. Love Ponty, thank you!

Thanks for the summary. Getting back into phenomenology now.

You are such a wonderful teacher Ellie....the level and clarity of your exposition is wonderful 👍😊🌹...I hope someday to experience you personally.....

Excellent presentation. Thank you for sharing

this is very well done

Very helpful! Thank you👍🏽😊

This is class, thank you.

Will need to consider his work carefully. Ty for the introduction!

this saved my life (this week anyway) Thank you!!! just awesome

I just want to say you are wonderful. I perceive that very easily!!

Hi Dr. Anderson. Love this, aligned with my current understandings that challenge my assumption that the mind knows the world but rather my body expresses itself as mind / conceptual thought. Reminds me of Eugene Gendlen and focusing/ felt sense knowing. Thank you for these!

I am loving your bite sized bits philosophers. I spent my thirties watching Michael Sugrue and Darren Staloff on VHS.

Three minutes in and I am hooked Great video

Respect Mam. Great Explaination.

It's so good! But I wish it could be little more elaborative with more examples. Anyway, thank you so much for bringing us these ideas for us.

Thanks!

I love your Work.

Thanks for the refresher! Was introduced to Merleau-Ponty through a uni elective and Phenomenology made instant sense to me. His radically straight-forward take was also very inspiring as a 20 something struggling how to make sense of the mumbo jumbo sea of consciousness studies. Kudos Maurice for being relevant almost 80 years later!

Congratulations! Your channel is amazing. Please talk about Mark Fisher's "Capitalist realism". Great work!

I tried so hard to understand phenomenology in a simple way and here it is... Really good explanation by a very beautiful and cool person, as you seem. Keep the good work!

Excellent introduction!

A clear and correct treatment of the ground of perception.

Thank you, it took me years to grasp what u elaborated in few mins.

Super nice presentation, thanks/ M

this was great. very clear.

I didn't know about Merleau-Ponty or his work, so thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. It seems very similar to the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurit, although K does not philosophize but stays with facts from our day-to-day experiences. He says that the separation of the "subject" and the "object", which he argues is created by the movement of thoughts. This divisive thought at a psychological level creates a lot of conflict. The observer is the observed, he says. He further doesn't believe in any methodology (as methodology itself is a construction of thoughts and not facts) to overcome this division but focuses on direct perception, which requires one to understand this problem without the help of any ideas, philosophers or guru. Depending on the method, idea or someone else for K entails that one is acting from the past (psychological knowledge is always in the past and thus dead), which means there is no new experience. Perception, which comes from observation, for him, is an act of the present where there is no centre because the centre (I, ego, my psyche, whatever) is itself a thought from the past and creates division. So, in perception, there is quietness as there is no movement.

I greatly value her explanation because it will be helpful to me in writing my philosophical paper on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Perception. I believe that anyone can learn because of the straightforward approach in which she presents it; in fact, I am one of those people. Thank ou so much.

Great lecture on a great podcast. Immediately subscribed ! From one prof to another, nice job !

THANK YOU

I am on a binge watch of philosophy videos!

This is a strong show. Perhaps one of my preferred philosophers also. Of coarse, they all add something to the brew.

Thank you so much, wanted to read this.. Thank you, thanks youtube for reminding

I like listening to you. I don’t always understand but it’s a start. I do have one problem. You have Clarice Lispector’s collected stories on the shelf behind you and I love them so much I start drifting away thinking of “The Smallest Woman in the World” and other stories. I find it refreshing to know you read her stories. Thanks for helping me understand so much.

I'm the FIRST COMMENTOR!! Great philosophy from Ponty! Well expounded by Ellie! This world doesn't exist without living beings... We are the ones who give essence to the world.

Great theme and walked through in depth. Thanks. Precise name for the _ just self labeled me..

wow, well done!

really helpful. thq

thank you

Another grand slam by Prof. Ellie !!

Yay MP!!

EXCELLENT !!!!! ❤

Quite nice summary of Merleau-Ponty thinking. Thanks !!..That make me understand more his ideas. That ideas remind me what is found in the book “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience” by Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson and Francisco Varela. Hope this can be included in this place.

Interesting, Ponty's take on space reminds me of how space is described in the Dao De Jing, a text over 2000 years old!

Great video. YT algo served me well today.

Thanks for the great content. Overthink for me is being dogged, and not letting go of my ADHD perhaps not quite motility. Operating outside of the common narrative familial bubbles of this world can let us see at least part way into the dimensions of water, air, soil, space and life. People remains a work in progress, but this helps me fill in another part of the puzzle.

Great! 👍 One thought though…; Allo- vs egocentric regarding geographical space, and communication (explicitly). If my wife is telling me about say, a new shop, she’ll try to convey its location in an egocentric way. I.e. her perception of where it is located relative to another shop, a distinct green house or a huge tree nearby. Being who I am (and I love my wife to bits) I don’t ever seem to understand her directions - even after 17 years… The allocentric AND in this case objective and “boring” solution is an address and a map, paper or Google’s. THEN I get it immediately. Fun fact, in reverse she is very puzzled if I show her a map telling her about… well, a new shop. To me it seems that her perception focuses around the experience she had visiting the shop, whereas I focus on where it’s located, and an objective way of sharing just that. My own experience of the shop is just mine, and I can’t really expect even my wife to share everything about it. At the same time, my attitude opens up to her not having to carry my bias into her experience. So, in communication, objectivity has its place, I think…

You just fucked my mind up. I had to share this with the only philosophy professor I know. I await her comments. Thank you for giving me something above mundane to think about.

Very interesting to see the connections between Pont y’a phenomenology, John Dewey’s theory of experience, and current work in Active Inference, Active Externalism, and 4E cognition. Philosophy is love, philosophy is life.

I would say Eugene Gendlin is one of the most important philosophers ever as he tackles this profoundly

Thanks. Very similar to the book that I am reading now, being and nothingness.

excellent

I've been a huge fan of MP for decades. This is a good, brief, introduction to his ideas. You might mention, however, that at the end of his life (1961) he was working on a radically new conceptualization which he called "the flesh". He only wrote the beginning of thebook before he died, which is really unfortunate for us. I think that if he had lived and finished it he would have eclipsed Heidegger in his influence. As it stands, he's still extremely important, probably the purest furtherance of Husserl's ideas in in ideas 1 and 2.

Man, I i remember hearing about Husserl from Sartre in "Being and Nothingness". This fills in some holes. Thank you prof!

She must really know the material if she can explain it so easily, nice!

Sources of the self on the shelf and a discussion of MMP... well, I think I like where this is headed.

No idea why this was recommended to me, but that blazer is wonderful.

Another great video. I'm going to read Merleau-Ponty, it seems to be the missing piece in my research.

Imagination brings us back to the world, it is the third distinction that grasps the bull between the horns. Consciousness at times gets in the way of the imagination, the first time we are surprised about something, it happens because consciousness was put on hold for a bit in order to get the fresh surprise of those discoveries which we are going to have. I think about egocentricicy, in his terms, and that it is a space or background for consciousness to emerge in action. Thank you for your talk.

Don’t care for Merleau-Ponty or Phenomenology but your explanation is superb.

Really enjoy this video and learned a lot from it! However, I don't understand about the last words of this video about perception is not just about we perceive into our inner world but an active way when we engage in the world. Can you explain a bit more? Thanks!

Thank you for this excellent overview of phenomenology. Along with its younger sibling, embodied cognition, I consider it "Western Zen."

This was recommended to me after I watched a video of Pearl Davis, an anti-feminist (ironically a girl) who thinks women shouldn't even have the right to vote. Don't look her up. My point is it would be paradise on Earth if we cherished people who actually know something and wish to educate like you. Keep on and thank you for this mini lecture! 💚

Im glad David Abram's The Spell of the Sensous brought me here. Merleau Ponty's teachings (only what I have read) has changed my view of places , interactions, and people.

Some profundities clearly and efficiently, even elegantly, delivered. Are these KZfaq talks the same audio on the audio only podcasts?

This just showed up on my feed less than 24 hours after the books title caught my eye as I saw it in an episode of the BBC adaptation of 'The City and The City'. Eerie.

Nice presentation. I mostly agree with him, I think he was opposed to people who exaggerated or over reported philosophy or made unrealistic claims.