Firas , me and many of your other followers would really love if you put more content connected with Philosophy . I listened to all podcasts you had in that field and 2-3 hours pass very quickly. Thank you very much for your contribution , I also love all martial arts , sports related videos

If Neil lived during the 40s, he would've said smoking is healthy. In other words, he's where the money at.

belief of materialism isn't even material

You are so right! Too many scientists today are not happy just being scientists...they go into philosophy and wind up being terrible philosophers who can be easily refuted. Unfortunately, we live in an age that worships science so too many people are willing to grant them a credibility they simply do not have when it comes to philosophy. The very fact these scientists want to dabble in philosophy proves there is a higher knowledge to be attained than that found in empiricism and materialism.

Just came here to say I've never liked Neil Tyson and he's published and contributed very little to his field yet you keep seeing him everywhere. He's the token TV science space guy. A TV show host.

deGrasse oozes arrogance from every pore!

This video is awesome, you should do more of these coach!

Hello, coach. I just started "Strong & Stable Knees 4 Life". I read pdf and would like to ask, do I choose only one action for ladder every three weeks? Or do you change different actions every week? Because my English is not good, so I do not understand, hope to get help, thank you very much.

Soul is a religious construct, consciousness is not a soul. If you take away your whole identity, ego, likes, dislikes, memory, thought's etc, what are you left with? Just pure consciousness. Soul means that you have a fixed identity, and that's not true, you are just a combination of many different things. Your whole identity is based on external factors, your name, personality, hobbies etc it's all gathered during your lifetime. So there is no soul in your religious understanding.

Coach what books do you suggest for learning about Philosophy? How do you teach this to your children?

Saying the universe is completely deterministic and that you don't have a soul are pretty similar ideas my friend

You don’t have to look very far to find a philosopher who doesn’t find the idea of souls very compelling…

Wow! Didn't expect to find philosophy here. I've actually majored in (engineering) physics, and then studied philosophy and psychology after (thought didn't quite graduate), and I would say you are not wrong. I have always found the materialists frustrating, yep, like Dennett and his side of the argument, which I must say is the dominant side in this particular argument, at this point in time. Like you said, the direct experience of our own consciousness is something still not explained away, no matter the scientific proof they can show, so long as it is insufficient to explain why I have this direct experience of consciousness. Though I would say that I am not discounting one day where neuroscience can indisputably explain away the 'mind', as you put it. In the time that we live in, I am cautious to keep my mind open to all possibilities. This is one of the things that frustrated me the most, that the philosophers only talked philosophy and don't know about advances in physics or neuroscience, and vice versa. I would say that Searle's Chinese room still has not been satisfactorily solved, even to this day, though it does seem things are going to become very interesting with the advances in AI recently. What are we going to say when indeed AGI can be achieved? How would the debate evolve once GPT can be proved to have consciousness? I also love your talk of the idealists. I have the feeling that the prevailing sentiment right now is that idealism is dead. It is left behind to the past; Plato, Descartes, Leibniz, all thought of as wrong by the philosophers of our generation. I actually didn't know about that quote from Leibniz. I am more of a distracted generalist, who love to read around, all over the place, in all fields. I also didn't know about the quotes from both Heisenberg and Schrodinger, but I find it ironic, since they are the two that solved both aspects of the quantum mechanics equations, one with the wave equation while the other with the matrix equation. The ironic part is that Schrodinger actually solved via the wave mechanics, which proves the quantum is energy, i.e. more affinity to the mind (idealism), while Heisenberg solved via the matrix mechanics, which proves the quantum is particle, more affinity to materialism, though the quotes you provided put them in the opposite positions. I am trained in the scientific thinking by my university studies and I still have a lot of respect for it, though I am frustrated by what I would call the arrogance of science nowadays. I think you do put it beautifully with the martial arts analogy. I have nothing against science, that system of thinking is amazingly powerful, but like you said, we wouldn't have all the other disciplines if the scientific method is the be-all and end-all of thoughts. Your point reminds me of mathematics, which one can argue is even more fundamental than physics itself, and there are scientists that argue that physics is the hardest of all sciences. And yet, to your point, mathematics is all in the mind (one can argue). Can we even say that mathematics exists in nature and we merely discovered it? Or did the human mind actually invented mathematics? Does it exist, without the human mind, or any form of intelligence, to think it? Do time and space exist without any intelligence to observe them? I still think Pythagoras was nuts, but I don't think it's so easy to discount his idea that the universe is actually made up of numbers. Good talk, my man. I hope my long, drawn-out comment does not bore you. It's just that I really enjoyed typing this out. Haven't wanted to talk philosophy like this for quite a while now.

The closer I get to my STEM degree the farther I get from spirituality and philosophy. I’m currently trying to balance both and honestly I believe we can live with both as long as we’re not hurting each other physically. There are good points on both sides.

Coach, if I am self studying philosophy what books you recommend reading (10 - 15 books in levels) thanks

Firas, can you recommend any books on the topic of the mind, soul and consciousness? Cheers

Firas, I believe Neil's argument is that words "mind" or "soul" are more like words "beauty" or "courage". These words describe particular clusters of physical structures and physical interactions that neural networks inside homo sapiens distinguish and may react to upon encountering. Say, you describe a girl as beautiful. Neil's argument would be that it is a certain cluster of physical characteristics and actions that your brain is reacting to. It is an imperfect word describing this cluster. The same with the "soul" and "mind".

I agree with Tyson.

sir how can i avoid the trap of being overconfident

Firas, Charles didn’t pull guard against Beneil Dariush. He attempted a lateral drop but Darius pushed off the cage. Pay attention ffs.

i would really like to hear more- i used to be a christian and this is making me think maybe it makes sense or should i become a muslim?

Souls are completely assumed...as is the claim, "the soul is synonymous, with the mind," you're essentially trying to define 'soul' into existence (Anselm has already failed at this multiple times).

who’s the philosopher he mention?

He’s a mainstream scientist for a reason, let me guess he said wear a mask back in 2020 😂

At 7:10 he mention his greatest thinker of all time but I can’t make out what he said does anyone know?

Coach Firas with Neil in one room, only one soul is leaving that room in a body

Can you make a curriculum, or basics to philosophy course video series? THANK YOU!

I completely disagree, this is a horrible train of logic. You are trying to equate A and trying to pass it as B Its a fallacy of substitution. A mind is the operating system of a brain. Without a brain, there is no mind. Show me a mind that exists without a brain. So at least we can say that " a mind" exists provided that a brain exists. I can use a computer as a comparison. Everyting I can say about a motherboard and hardrive, can I say about a software like Microsoft office? No Are they the same no? However one cannot exist without the other because one is just a codified extrapolation of the other. I can take a piece of paper and write down the millions of lines of code to show what makes Microsoft office possible. The same way if we understood DNA and could understand how our hardware processes it, we could most likely write down the millions or trillions of ACGT bases that builds the mind. However, these things are still nestled within the realm of the physical. The soul is not. The soul cannot be defined. We cannot see its effects. We can't even measure it or the hardware on which it operates We don't know how it is proccessed Its basicly Unknown A + Uknown B = Unknown C You are trying to take religion and making your argument stand on nothing. I see a person who took the "soul" concept from religion and is trying really hard to make it possible through word salad. === The mind is synonymous to the soul -> making a claim without evidence. How do you equate both? How do you know you have a mind? well because it produces results which can be repeated. How do I know the sun exists? can i weight it or mesure its corpus or touch it? no i can see the effect it has on our planet. So the very least I can at least assume the sun exists by it's effects. Same with the mind. Science is not absolute, however it is the absolute best way to determine whether something ir right or wrong CURRENTLY. If you have a superior method to science please provide it. = Science cannot grasp - how do you know what science can or can't grasp. claim without evidence. The question is simple, can you provide a superior method to science and please show how this method can solve the world problems more efficiently. A soul has no such equivalence. Someone with brain damages has problems with the mind, so we know they are related. How do you determine a soul in the same way? horrible logic

You are no Coach, You are a Teacher.

Firas please could you do a video on your favourite thought experiments, they blow my mind!

We're just like other animals. We are formed by our experiences in the world and our interactions with those experiences. "You" would not be "You" if you grew up in North Korea. You'd be someone completely different in every way possible. There is no fixed identity (soul). Hume's so called 'bundle theory of self' is a good enough place to start exploring these things. We're very much like the countless ants on this planet: we don't matter individually. We grow old, we die, we are forgotten pretty quickly.

Dang love hearing Firas talk philosophy

NDT is not really a teacher these days. He just says anything to build his personal brand, regardless how dumb it is.

Thanks coach.

I dont get what he means when he says that atoms are not real

please make more philosphy content

Neil doesn’t listen to anyone he just wants to hear his own voice so I don’t think he’d have the ability to listen to anything you say

Isn't it more about the mind not working very well when the brain is gone? Whether the mind still works without the brain or not is where the big split in opinions is. You either think it somehow lives on in the soul or you don't. Sure science can't prove it doesn't live on but does it really need to?

What a straw man argument. I can't stand NDT, but belief in a soul is nothing more than faith (belief in the absence of evidence.) You can use philosophy all you want to "imagine" what a soul may entail, but we (you) cannot deny there is no evidence of its existence. This goes for religion as well. Don't even get me started on consciousness. You have NO idea where that comes from nor does anyone else. Believe in a spiritual realm all you want. The brain is a wired spider web of wet ware/neurons.

There is major difference between intelligence and wisdom

The argument about the mind and the brain seems absurd. No, you cannot separate the mind from the brain. If someone is brain dead, the have a brain, but no mind. There is no set of circumstances where you can have a dead brain and a healthy, functioning mind. But there is a set of circumstances where you can have a living brain, but no (discernible) mind. It seems like it's more appropriate to look at the thing we're calling a mind as a function of the brain, not as an independent entity. It is a part of the brain that helps us to reason, hold experiences (memories) and helps us to be social animals. But it's FULLY dependent on the life and health of the brain. Look, for example people with degenerative brain diseases like dementia and Alzheimer's don't have the same minds they once had, and that is directly because of physical changes to the brain. So it seems much more likely that what we're calling the mind is a function of the brain that as something independent of it.

Coach don’t you have the burden of proof? There is a soul so prove it right? I think Neil said there isn’t enough proof to convince him so not that he didn’t think there wasn’t enough to make him believe

Damn. Love to hear you speak about this.

Pretty sure Neil deGrasse Tyson would say he is higher than Heisenberg.

I love philosophy but I did not find anything in philosophy that is a definitive proof of anything. Every single philosophical theory has a counterpart. So with all due respect. Against your explanation I would say you can’t have a mind without physical brain. Even AI needs software and hardware to run. With your reasoning disconnecting physical brain from mind. What do you think about AI as a mind, is it a soul too? Thanks for your answer.

I went off Tyson when I watched him on Patrick bet david. His ego is out of control.

the presentation about mind was interesting but not relevant to what NT said. And was linked by an affirmation mind=soul that is not proved (in the conversation) but was presented as such. This is actually the meaning of NT. If you can prove that there is something then we agree that "something" exist. For now we know there is a brain, there is electric impulses, there is a "mind" about we know little. But we cannot test and confirm by experiments that a soul exist and about its measures (size, energy, mass, etc.). The beauty is there is a room to provide tests, replicable test, etc.. to provide that indeed there is a soul. And everyone will welcome the prove. There is an another distraction by moving the target towards another topics in the end of the video. The only part that is solid is that indeed Philosophy should be practiced by anyone, and that the philosophy was and should be more interconnected with hard science and physical activities. A complete human should be able to express ideas, test them and accept the changes in their ideas, (like scientist test and accept changes) and this is reinforced by training, you learn what is working and what not, you are forced to change your previously level on understanding always accepting that this is a continues journey.

All this talking, just prove the existence of souls.

Maybe he's operating under the idea that the universe is mental? I just noticed this Neil deGrassi Tyson post as well and he has said before that there are humans waiting to come in so by humans he means souls?

The mind exist, but it doesn't mean there's a separate soul

Love your content Firas. An atom is a particle that consists of a nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by a cloud of electrons. Then protons & neutrons are types of hadrons which break down further to Quarks and there may be even smaller particles that make those up. The rabbit hole goes further than most realize. As more precise tools and methods are developed, science progresses. This is a process. Thanks for your comments, I'm still not convinced there's a soul in people. If there is, then all life has a soul, right? If not, why do we have one and our relatives do not? Things that make you go hmmm... 🙂

He’s a real disbeliever

All I have to say is "cartiesian newtonian paradigm"

I'd like to see a podcast involving Firas and Neil, where only Firas is allowed to speak for 30 minutes. Then, only Neil allowed to speak for 30 minutes. Teaching things that each other. Not arguing, just listening to each other. Guaranteed millions of viewers.

You two should go to Joe Rogan to have a full contact debate about everything !!! Neil used to be a wrestler in his youth .

Love the philosophy content coach!

It's a one-way conversation with Neil.

Neil is such a diva...... I remember when norm macdonald put him in his place

Thank you, Bruce Lee🙂, you actually ignite my philosophy, I just love the way you combine philosophy and martial arts it's brilliant, especially for young persons in MMA it's fascinating! Moreover, it's even useful in philosophy departments! great respect from Iran I wish one day I become your student in Canada but we're under sanction + I have no money!🙏👌❤

Neil deGrasse Tyson was speaking for himself.

I would love coach to give Niel a few lessons

Niel doesn’t listen to other people

Mind and soul are not the same thing, are they? Neil would not argue that the mind doesn't exist, at least not as you described it at first. He would then say the soul does not exist, due to lack of evidence. I think this might not have been a waste of time had Firas taken a moment to watch Neil's video.

How did Walter White get into this podcast

Heisenberg, and Leibniz were both devout Christians.

NGT has always put a weird taste in my mouth whenever I hear him speak…. Seems like he needs Jiu-Jitsu to curb that ego and help him remember we don’t actually know anything about space 😂😅…. Let alone whether or not humans have a soul. I guarantee this guy has never read Plato’s Phaedo and been confronted with the proof of the human soul that Plato logically demonstrated several thousand years ago.

reading the world from one prism isn't generally a wise behaviour

Bait and switch. Soul /= Mind.

You'd think with all your philosophical study you'd be able to understand how you didn't rebut anything NGT said.

i thought BJJ doesn't give you CTE, but Firas proved me wrong

You can tell he is uncomfortable thinking that he may not have a soul. Show actual evidence of a soul, not just word games and mental gymnastics. The mind is by-product of the brain. One has trauma to the brain, the mind is affected is it not.

Please, don't quote Heisenberg and then completely misinterpret what he said to match your point of view... He was referring to how quantum particles like electrons for example don't have a set position, but their position is instead described by a wave function, which is something that is related to his work. In fact it even says so in the quote, he was specifically referring to elementary particles. Then you proceeded to say that scientists don't understand the quote but philosophers do, which was quite funny given the context.

All due respect...but the content of your message and the way its articulated is analogous to the musings of a c+ undergraduate paper in philosophy. The truth is that this issue remains unresolved.

4:26 ad populum

Neil didnt just say it, people been saying that for centuries.. Do ants and fish have souls? Does bacteria have souls? Wtf even is a soul?? 😂😂

In these two videos coach Zahabi goes deeper in these matters: 1) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ht2bqptmy7i7pH0.html 2) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8BjdJl_msnPY5c.html

Just because Neil has a degree in physics doesn’t mean he knows everything. That guy is the definition of arrogance.

Would love to see you have a separate channel for philosophy or maybe videos focused on philosophy. I understand it is a mma channel but none the less philosophy has a role in martial arts 🥋

With due respect, im not asking mr tyson about anything other than science.

degrasse needs to be in his upper threshold of pain tolerance to feel his mind come to reality

Tristar gym do you believe in the holy trinity?

wow

you can say neil doesnt understand philosphy at all, but he is right. You guys essentially make assumptions after assumptions, while providing no proof for the metaphysical world. A lot of you, people like Firas were brought up muslim. He cant help but be biased

what is subatomic particle .God particle

Consciousness Explained is actually a brilliant book, filled with genius ideas. Note that Firas dismissed it without providing any of those arguments and refuting them.

I think the Man needs a lot of spiritual work, please God 🙏 let us helping him 🙏🙏💥😂😂😂😂😂

Scientists like Neil should stop pretending to be philosophers. Full stop.

What else would you expect from a rank materialist like him?😂

If you debated him he would constantly move the goal post and condescending play mental gymnastics with your arguments. Neil Degrasse-Tyson is the Dr. Phil of science. He’s more theatre than understanding his field. Despite that I’d still love to see you debate him.

I would like to meet you one day, i respect you very much.

The question asked to you had zero context in it outside of the title of the video that it came from and so without it, your response to Neil's response kinda doesn't work because if you actually watch the video, his answer really isn't too far off from what you're saying but only through a scientific lens. More along the lines of that he just doesn't believe in the soul as it's typically described by people (something that exists outside of your physical form or like a ghost) and that it's really more of just consciousness and the neurosynapses of the brain. To me, it felt more like he was simply addressing the semantics involved when people use the term "soul" and not at all denying the existence of the mind. It was a fairly objective answer, just taken out of context.

We don’t have a soul and I agree. You lost me when you mentioned philosophy and science.

I doubt you have a clue either as far as the soul is concerned, beyond the narrative. It is a human concept and can't be demonstrated. As far as mind is concerned, if you experience brain damage, that which we refer to as mind, has computational errors. The language of the soul is sloppy and imprecise.

Tyson 33 rd degree - please debate robert malone to debate tysons outright sponsored lies just like about this li

We are beginning to be able to empirically measure the mind. They can already use AI to decode and recreate subjective observed data. This begins to suggest that our inner qualia is in fact just a reflection of a physical state of the brain.

The mind could just be neuron connections in the brain. Think about it

Great coach and martial artist, but if philosophies were martial arts Firas would be an Aikido teacher I'm afraid.

He also dismisses most of the UAP stuff. Dude is just a puppet, Michio Kaku is an example of a "mainstream" scientist that's actually credible and not a puppet..

If everyone we can say about A we can also say it about B then A is a subset of B, it not necessary that A=B, I’m very happy that I heard you missing something. To make sure that you are a human being, Machallah

Firaz only believes the philosophy that agrees with him. Everybody is pushing their own agenda and paradigm