Daoist Philosophy: Life and Death | Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Dream

Großartig, dass dieser zentrale Text von Zhuangzi auf verständliche Weise visualisiert und so klug kommentiert wird! Damit öffnet sich endlich auch didaktisch eine Tür für den Einsatz dieses Textes im Philosophieunterricht der Oberstufe. Ich wünsche diesem professionell gemachten Video viele begeisterte Zuschauer und Zuhörer. - Mi-Chi

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Hi, from reddit. Very enjoyable, hope to see more

Excellent work in my opinion! Very nice and subtle use of sound and sound effects. I subscribed like a pro ,) Btw. maybe this is where Alan Watts got his idea about society embracing death instead of making it a taboo, which is truly what our society needs. We can dream about it eh?
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Yes, yes and yes! Please, make Zhuangzi relevant today. Thank You "Philosophy in Motion"! I wait for more.

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This was an unexpectedly well done video! Thank you very much for this! :) Looking forward to more content like this! Many greetings from Austria.

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Very excellent! I am honestly and disappointedly surprised at how few views this video has. I will be recommending it to everyone I can.

Very nice! Knowing next to nothing about Daoism, these well-made videos are very welcome. Looking forward to dipping my toes a bit.

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Such a well constructed video, I was so surprised that this video had under a million views,,, you rly deserve it thank you

A channel that animates stories from the Zhuangzhi? Already subscribed.

All I know is I am

Listening to this as I’m passing out to go to bed! Sweet dreams everybody!

I'm happy that I found this channel. I should say that this was the most original explanation that I've ever heard regarding that passage. Truly educational content with pleasing aesthetics. What more one could ask for?

Extremely beautiful video! I admire how this channel depicts a more accurate translation of eastern ideas to western audiences without any sort of an idyllic orientalist bend

nice!

Great explanation.

I like that you don't speak with that ASMR/serene guru voice.

Can you please provide a text version?

Holy moly, this video is only 12 minutes long! The density of it felt to me like I watched a full 4 season series on comparative philosophy. I really loved it! And I found it particularly funny that one could pronounce Nietzsche in a way that makes him sound akin to Chuangzi or Laozi. Great video!

Your voice is pleasing to my ears

Cool but it's all just a philosophy. If you cut a brain from the body, brain without blood supply is unable to produce dreams. There's no transformation into another state.

I'd be curious to know how this compares to the Kashmiri Shaivist Advaita Vedanta- Obviously the end goal here is not the liberation from life, but instead living at peace with the ephemeral nature of being; but, if life is this ultimately formless ephemerality, which materializes briefly through the performance of a body into an "identity"- that sounds like a very similar perspective to Advaita Vedanta. It's just that, instead of the phenomenal being illusory and deceptive, it's the encounter of life with itself in its many forms which projects these phenomena

If we want to see Daoism as a philosophy, we must examine the examples it gives literally. The extrapolation of dream mechanism to propose an afterlife can not be supported with current knowledge about brain. We are material finite beings, as so are our brains which hold our souls.
Metaphysical aspect of soul comes from it's computational, or broadly - informatic structure. It is in that sense immortal and infinite, as any other computer program is immortal, and can run infinitely.
The problem is complexity of the hardware which runs individual soul, the complexity (and individuality) of principles of computation for each particular soul, are at current state of knowledge impossible to reproduce, or copy, and therefore every soul, which is a computation performed on a material neurocalculator, perishes together with it's hardware.

This means we can only take Daoism as either poetry (a historical perspective on specific rhetorical devices, imagination, etc.) or religion (believing it, suspending the materialist critique).

The whole concept of transformation is a religious concept, so we can not polarize it against any other religious concepts, such as "eternal soul".
The materialist equivalent of transformation is evolution, which follows a non-repetitive chain of things which can only categorically be seen as similar, but in reality are always UNIQUE in space and time.

Even to the level of subatomic particles, when properly accounting for time and space, we can not talk about any form of repetition in absolute sense. It is only categorical (statistical, taxonomical) repetition of our imperfect perception.

Repetition itself is already a metaphysical movement. It does not occur in nature.

Insightful, thank you!

Thank you whoever the owner of this massful and charismatic voice. Right, so would people concur that when your status haven't changed in a long time, for a big portion of that time you'd say that you're not dreaming every night?

In dreams, we don't actually confirm who we are or sometimes we see ourselves watching what we are doing. This video is interesting.

Your summaries and explanations are the best ones I managed to find

I am now three videos in and loving each one more and more. Thanks for making these :D

Great video - using it for class! Although, it's possible to learn to pronounce Chinese names properly!

And how do you know that "butterfly in the dream doesn't remember Zhu."? ;)
You are not the butterfly to know it remembers or not. Therefore it was just an assumption.

What a smile on my face that crept up on me watching this video

I love this video. It’s amazing how much insight you can gleam from such a short story.

Your Videos bring me Joy and are so enlightening!

The Butterfly dream has always been the most calming to reread.

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Can you make a video on king janaka dream , ashtavakra and king janaka.

Hehe awesome, like springs and falls transforming into summer and winter.

funny. might be it's about reality vs dream.

the chapter entitled: " A little talk about evening things out "
Chuang Tzu said: " When we sleep our spirits roam. When we wake we open to the world again. Day after day, all we touch entangles us, and the mind struggles in that net: vast and calm, deep and subtle....."
this is from David Hinton' s translation dated 1997 published by Counterpoint.

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Writing you right from Lecture with Prof. Moeller in China, Danyang 2023. Link provided in Presentation “Zhuangzi 1pt”

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