π David Hume challenges the idea that conditioning can control minds.
π¬ Hume adopts an empiricist approach to investigate consciousness.
π§ Hume believes human consciousness is not superior to that of animals.
π Hume investigated the relationship between thoughts/ideas and sense impressions.
π§ He discovered that ideas depend on sense impressions, and we can't generate ideas independently.
π Hume developed a model of consciousness and used it to deepen his investigation.
π± Hume questioned the concept of causality and the idea that one object causes another to change.
π He examined the sense impressions of a billiard ball and found no evidence of inherent power or property within it.
π₯ Hume discovered that witnessing one instance of objects colliding does not guarantee that all similarly disposed objects will collide and repel each other.
π± Hume challenges the idea of causality based on billiard ball collisions.
π Causal powers come from repetition and our familiarity with certain events.
ππ The concept of causality applies to different situations, like Pavlov's Bell and treats.
π Hume examines the concept of causality and argues that there is no inherent evidence of causal powers in our sense impressions.
π Hume challenges the distinction between the causality of billiard balls and the causality of a bell, highlighting the lack of empirical evidence for one causing the other.
β Hume raises questions about the role of volition in causality and the origin of our ideas of volition based on sense impressions.
π Confabulation and the complexity of human volition.
π Comparing the context of the bell and the boss.
π± Hume's problem of induction and the belief in constant conjoined events.
π Hume's view of causality is a subjective determination based on individual judgement.
π The laws of physics cannot be violated, according to Hume.
𧩠Immanuel Kant's perspective on causality and how he reintroduced it into objects will be discussed in the next video.