Cosmic perspective - Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Kazoo...]

I found this inspiring...

2006 Neil deGrasse Tyson closes the three day lecture series with an excellent final "sermon" on cosmic perspective and the impact of science.

Watch the vid -

- Do it!!!!

Be a participant in the universe.....

 

[PrimateSphinx]

Gotta love Neil deGrasse Tyson. Just another reason why he is cooler than all of us

 

[onethousandk]

I mostly love Neil deGrasse Tyson. I have heard him say some fairly materialist things before though, like how neuroscience will make psychology irrelevant, which I don't quite agree with. Still a brilliant man though. Certainly better at math than I am.

 

[Citta]

...like how neuroscience will make psychology irrelevant, which I don't quite agree with. Still a brilliant man though.

Why do you disagree? =)

 

[onethousandk]

...like how neuroscience will make psychology irrelevant, which I don't quite agree with. Still a brilliant man though.

Why do you disagree? =)

It seems a bit too reductionist. Bertrand Russell once said that philosophers help scientists figure out where they're going. They allow the speculation that science eventually either proves right or wrong. (He did say that modern science makes the philosopher less relevant, though my argument would be that philosophers aren't working hard enough!) To me this is the relationship between neuroscience and psychology. Saying neuroscience will eventually make psychology irrelevant is like saying that we'll be able to reduce love to a series of chemical reactions. I don't think this to be true. It will always be a chase and psychology will only become irrelevant when they can't out think the neuroscientists.