Prática de Shadowing: Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? - Maryam Alimardani - Aprenda a falar inglês com o YouTube
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Look at your hand.
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Look at your hand.
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How do you know it's really yours?
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It seems obvious, unless you've experienced the rubber hand illusion.
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In this experiment, a dummy hand is placed in front of you and your real hand is hidden behind a screen.
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Both are simultaneously stroked with a paint brush.
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No matter how much you remind yourself the dummy hand isn't yours, you eventually start to feel like it is, and inevitably flinch when it's threatened with a knife.
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That may just be a temporary trick, but it speaks to a larger truth: our bodies, the physical, biological parts of us, and our minds, the thinking, conscious aspects, have a complicated, tangled relationship.
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Which one primarily defines you or your self?
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Are you a physical body that only experiences thoughts and emotions as a result of biochemical interactions in the brain?
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That would be a body with a mind.
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Or is there some non-physical part of you that's pulling the strings but could live outside of your biological body?
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That would be a mind with a body.
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That takes us to an old question of whether the body and mind are two separate things.
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In a famous thought experiment, 16th-century philosopher René Descartes pointed out that even if all our physical sensations were just a hallucinatory dream, our mind and thoughts would still be there.
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That, for him, was the ultimate proof of our existence.
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And it led him to conclude that the conscious mind is something separate from the material body that forms the core of our identity.
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The notion of a non-physical consciousness echoes the belief of many religions in an immaterial soul for which the body is only a temporary shell.
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If we accept this, another problem emerges.
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How can a non-physical mind have any interaction with the physical body?
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If the mind has no shape, weight, or motion, how can it move your muscles?
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Or if we assume it can, why can your mind only move your body and not others?
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Some thinkers have found creative ways to get around this dilemma.
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For example, the French priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche claimed that when we think about reaching for a fork, it's actually god who moves our hand.
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Another priest philosopher named George Berkeley concluded that the material world is an illusion, existing only as mental perceptions.
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This question of mind versus body isn't just the domain of philosophers.
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With the development of psychology and neuroscience, scientists have weighed in, as well.
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Many modern scientists reject the idea that there's any distinction between the mind and body.
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Neuroscience suggests that our bodies, along with their physical senses, are deeply integrated with the activity in our brains to form what we call consciousness.
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From the day we're born, our mental development is formed through our body's interaction with the external world.
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Every sight, sound, and touch create new maps and representations in the brain that eventually become responsible for regulating our experience of self.
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And we have other senses, besides the typical five, such as the sense of balance and a sense of the relative location of our body parts.
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The rubber hand illusion, and similar virtual reality experiments, show that our senses can easily mislead us in our judgment of self.
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They also suggest that our bodies and external sensations are inseparable from our subjective consciousness.
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If this is true, then perhaps Descartes' experiment was mistaken from the start.
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After all, if we close our eyes in a silent room, the feeling of having a body isn't something we can just imagine away.
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This question of mind and body becomes particularly interesting at a time when we're considering future technologies, such as neural prosthetics and wearable robots that could become extended parts of our bodies.
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Or the slightly more radical idea of mind uploading, which dangles the possibility of immortal life without a body by transferring a human consciousness into a computer.
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If the body is deeply mapped in the brain, then by extending our sense of self to new wearable devices, our brains may eventually adapt to a restructured version with new sensory representations.
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Or perhaps uploading our consciousness into a computer might not even be possible unless we can also simulate a body capable of delivering physical sensations.
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The idea that our bodies are part of our consciousness and vice versa also isn't new.
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It's found extensively in Buddhist thought, as well as the writings of philosophers from Heidegger to Aristotle.
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But for now, we're still left with the open question of what exactly our self is.
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Are we a mind equipped with a physical body as Descartes suggested?
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Or a complex organism that's gained consciousness over millions of years of evolution thanks to a bigger brain and more neurons than our distant ancestors?
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Or something else entirely that no one's yet dreamt up?
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Contexto & Antecedentes
O vídeo apresentado por Maryam Alimardani aborda questões profundas sobre a relação entre o corpo e a mente. Através de experimentos, como a ilusão da mão de borracha, Alimardani provoca reflexões sobre a identidade e a consciência, questionando se somos essencialmente um corpo com uma mente ou uma mente com um corpo. Esse dilema tem intrigado filósofos e cientistas ao longo da história, levando a discussões sobre a natureza da realidade, a percepção e a interação entre nossos aspectos físicos e mentais. Este contexto rico oferece uma base sólida para praticar o inglês, especialmente na compreensão e produção oral.
Top 5 Frases para Comunicação Diária
- “Look at your hand.” - Esta frase simples é uma boa maneira de iniciar uma conversa sobre percepção e identidade.
- “How do you know it's really yours?” - Pode ser utilizada para questionar a certeza ou a propriedade de algo.
- “Are you a physical body that only experiences thoughts?” - Faz uma provocação interessante que pode ser discutida em debates sobre filosofia.
- “Our bodies and minds have a complicated relationship.” - Útil para expressar a complexidade das interações humanas.
- “This question of mind and body isn't just the domain of philosophers.” - Uma boa frase para introduzir temas de ciências humanas em conversas.
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