Wittgenstein's Beetle in a Box Analogy
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2015
- You can't know exactly what it is like to be another person or experience things from their perspective. Wittgenstein had an analogy for this.
Narrated by Aidan Turner. Scripted by Nigel Warburton.
From the BBC Radio 4 series about life's big questions - A History of Ideas.
This project is from the BBC in partnership with The Open University, the animations were created by Cognitive.
Fantastic. Never thought I'd see an explanation of this analogy that did it justice in under 2 mins. Well done.
It’s mainly about how different people can talk about the beetle in the box. He is a philosopher focused on language analysis.
It's signing Gregor Samsa with Kafka; Beetlejuice; Volkswagen Beetle that founded by Nazi Party that connected with Martin Heidegger; Beatles through pronunciation of the word and finally Schrödinger's cat in the box analogy related somewhat in the box metaphor. Marvellous.
Loving this History of Ideas series
Great visual explanation. Thank you
this is so well made holy moly
awesome works
The length of this video suggests that my lecturer was wrong when he said that the Beetle in the box would extend beyond the remaining time we had left in our lecture. Great video! Good Job!
Please make more of these videos.
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this channel is amazing!
I know that feeling bro...
Great animation!
Interesting!
Yes!! The color experiences!!! So it sounds like this is mostly about how language is an imperfect tool for communicating ideas. But I'm not sure based on the wording. ;P
mind blown
Let's complete this view : the ideas and thoughts are a dynamic process, they change. How do they change : by the interaction that these shared use of words (the situated view presented by the beetle-in-the-box analogy) have with personal experience (the very thing that Wittgenstein says is inaccessible and therefore have no influence whatsoever). But sometimes the difference between personal experiences will lead to paradoxical situations, where things would not seem at all so obvious for some people in the use of these words and ideas. For a difference in the view of colours, this is kind of "physics", people will not see things the same way, just look at the UV pictures of flowers (just like the bees do), and to the question "do you see this", one may say yes, the other may say not really. For difference in the understanding of words and ideas, well, imagine a beetle is 1:(an insect) for somebody, 2:(an annoying disgusting spirit that lives in your house) for another, or just 3:(an empty word that is to be used when it's meant to be so in conversation) for the last one ; they may agree on the fact that it just makes the house such a nasty place to live in, but they will disagree on the ways to get rid of it, the way it feeds itself or reproduces, and disagree also on any new ideas that may come about around this word "beetle". The idea is that personal experience is a driving force to the life of ideas in society, and that knowledge is a discriminating factor that connects both our experience and our language to the real world, which is a nice way to look at life altogether I'd say.
We cannot be someone else but we communicate well enough.
Yes!!!
Thank you BBC Radio 4. Now how many John Malkovich's can you spot in this video?