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Amira Willighagen in Steenbergen May 20, 2017 Official concert Aquamusica performed on the 20 May 2017 in Steenbergen, the Netherlands. Steenbergen is an hour and a half drive from Nijmegen, closer to the sea coast

Amira Willighagen Moreletapark Auditorium, Pretoria, South Africa, November 11-13, 2016 Afrikaans is Groot concert After her performance in Pretoria in July 2016, Amira Willighagen (then 12 years old) was invited back to South Africa to perform this one song again at the Afrikaans is Groot concert four months later in November. The producers had only planned for 9 performances, but when it was advertised that Amira would be on the program, the demand was such that they had to increase the number of performances to 11. In an arrangement written especially for Amira, the performance begins with the majestic Ennio Morricone composition 'River' from the soundtrack to the movie 'The Mission'. This is then followed by Amira's rendition of 'Nella Fantasia' which is based on the haunting melody known as 'Gabriel's Oboe' written by the same composer for the same movie. Trivia: Amira's parents had to bring a tutor to South Africa in order to get the necessary time away from her school in The Netherlands. The show's producers, Coleske Artists, were making a DVD of the concert and filmed both nights. On one night Amira wore the bracelet but not on the other, when the two recordings were edited together it was not noticed. In 2013 Amira moved permanently to South Africa. Today she has dual citizenship. She attends college at the University of Pretoria, where she is studying music. She also runs her nonprofit Gelukskinders helping disadvantaged children and performs in local concerts. Discovered in season 6 of Holland's Got Talent at the age of 9, Amira Willighagen has emerged as the most popular lyric soprano in the world today.

"La Vergine degli Angeli" (The Virgin of Angels) from Amira's streaming concert "African Christmas with Amira and Friends" from her dual DVD "Streaming Shows of 2020." African Christmas with Amira and Friends was filmed in Pretoria in late November and premiered on December 23, 2020.

"Ave Amira" full original documentary, with redone English subtitles in High Definition COPYRIGHT Omroep Gelderland (GLD) “Ave Amira” is a documentary by GLD of the Netherlands about Amira Willighagen at 12 years old. The 30 minute documentary was originally broadcast on Dutch TV on December 22, 2016. An original version without subtitles (but with closed caption) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-DOKdIaxU The full song performance in Poland is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmJQvLUivU https://amira-online.com/ Documentary "Ave Amira" by regional TV station "Omroep Gelderland". Amira was followed by Omroep Gelderland during the course of 2016 during crucial moments, the first days at secondary school, coaching by a new vocal teacher, a performance in Poland in the middle of a school week, a sold out Christmas concert and at a gathering of the biggest Amira fans during a fanday. The documentary gives a unique insight of Amira's life, both as the singer and the normal girl. Documentary made by Barbara de Baare en Sylvia Willems. The Peace Award Amira attends was initiated by a well-known Polish painter and sculptor Wojciech Siudmak (now living in Paris). It is his attempt to spread the idea of peace through arts. He comes from Wieluń, a city that is believed to be where WWII started. Germans bombed the city circa 5 minutes before they fired guns of the Schleswig-Holstein destroyer at Westerplatte in Gdańsk. The credit on the wall at the end of the film reads "Thanks to Amira and family" in Dutch.

Amira Willighagen returns to Holland's Got Talent for the 2023 Holland's Got Talent All Stars live show. Recorded in Aalsmeer, Netherlands on May 19, 2023. Broadcast on Dutch television channel RTL4 on December 30, 2023. Amira sings Ebben! Ne andrò lontana from the 1892 Italian opera La Wally by Alfredo Catalani. Hosts: Jamai Loman Buddy Vedder Judges: Marc-Marie Huijbregts Dan Karaty Chantal Janzen Edson da Graça https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_d... Featured in the audience are Amira's father Gerret and two of the officers of her nonprofit, Nico Huizinga amd Cor Seltenrijch.

This video is about a minor technical matter pertaining to my book "Evolution of Perception Re-Explained" (2021). You can buy my book at Amazon at www.amazon.com/dp/B08XLD3NNP This video was originally recorded and uploaded to YouTube on March 19, 2021. Chris Ott Hub: https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub/home

Live in Madison. Amira Willighagen sings "Amen" at Sandy Creek Baptist Church, Madison, GA (USA) on December 10, 2023. For the official music video with the Ndlovu Youth Choir go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiOY8xk7Eec

This is a redo of Part 1 of a series titled "What Meher Baba Really Taught." The original was long and overly autobiographical. Thus I have replaced it with this shorter Part 1. You can still watch the original if you like here: https://rumble.com/v2fb3du-what-meher-baba-really-taught-part-1.html To see this full series go to https://rumble.com/c/c-4551012 Visit my web hub at https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub

In this video I reflect aloud on my overall intention in doing over 100 videos on philosophy and I bid farewell, at least for now. Part of knowledge is knowing when to stop. Other material by me can be found at the Chris Ott Hub: https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub The book by George Berkeley that I mention in this video is 'Alciphron' (first published in 1732). The book is written in the form of seven dialogues in which Berkeley argues with the so-called 'free-thinkers' of his day that the existence of God is rationally necessary. Berkeley foresaw what he believed was a dangerous trend of atheism, a prophecy that has sadly come true in the West. This video was recorded and uploaded in Myrtle Beach, SC on December 15, 2023 by Christopher Ott. Note: I apologize for the confusing lighting, which can be distracting and annoying. I would redo it, except I'm pretty sure I would not be able to repeat it. I didn't have notes. I simply took a stab at a conclusion, which had been on my mind to do for a long time, and I feel like it generally worked out. It conveyed what I wanted it to convey and accomplished what I wanted to accomplish. Best wishes to all who have accompanied me on this five year journey. Who knows what I'll do next. I like to surprise myself.

Chris Ott Hub: https://sites.google.com/view/chris-o... This video was recorded and uploaded on December 3, 2023.

Perception? Infinite Intelligence? How are the two related and what evolves? Chris Ott Hub: https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub This video was recorded and uploaded in Myrtle Beach on November 30, 2023.

Some of the dynamics of the lens/perceptual schema concept are gone over in greater detail. This video was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC on November 10, 2023. Chris Ott Hub: https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub

We question the prevailing paradigm of physicalist cosmology. In its place we propose a theory of psychic emergence. This video was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC on October 28, 2023. Chris Ott Hub: https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub/home

“The very foundation of all my explanations is sanskaras, which no religion has explained. I have put it so clearly and logically. Nowhere are sanskaras explained so elaborately or so eloquently.” – Meher Baba, Lord Meher, Online edition, p.700 (1926) (retrieved 11/16/23) This video was originally recorded and uploaded May 27, 2022. It had to be re-uploaded in 2023 due to technical problems.

I go over the underlying points I'm making in this series and correct a common misconception about the connection between the brain and perception at the end. This video was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC on October 3, 2023. The full Metaphysics series of 20 videos was uploaded from June 1 - Oct. 3, 2023.

There are two main questions materialism cannot answer. One is ontological and has to do with the mathematical laws of physics. The other is epistemological and has to do with our innate intuitions undergirding the laws of logic. In this video I use the words "material" and "physical" in their colloquial sense. This video was recorded in Myrtle Beach on October 1, 2023.

I summarize the attempts that modern materialists have made in the last 120 years to solve the problems of cause, perception, and the external world. Below are four of the books I reference in this video. * “The Philosophy of Mind,” Peter Smith & O. R. Jones, Cambridge Press, Cambridge. 1986 * “My Philosophical Development,” Bertrand Russell, Routledge, London & New York, 1959 * “Words and Things: An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy,” Ernest Gellner, with an introduction by Bertrand Russell, Beacon Press, Boston, 1959 * “Consciousness Explained,” Daniel Dennett, Little, Brown & Company, Canada, 1991 Links to my essays and websites: sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub "Evolution of Perception Re-Explained: A Radical New View of Reality" at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XLD3NNP

When using the word 'perception' in its full original sense, as it was until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, talk of consciousness is generally redundant. This is because it is already presumed included, since consciousness (wakefulness or awareness) is a necessary precondition for perceiving and so they occur in tandem.

The word 'consciousness' can mean many things. Here I clarify how I use the word, i.e. as the state of being awake, nothing more.

Philosophers talk a lot about "internal" and "external" experience. They refer continually to the external world or outer world. Some philosophers go further and claim there is no such thing as a private internal world of experience like dreams, thoughts, and memories. See, for example, "Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self" (Oxford University Press 2003). But does such talk of "internal" and "external" perception bring us any closer to explaining our experiential world? In actuality, this strange metaphysical dichotomy of in and out has resulted in numerous paradoxes and conundrums including the infamous mind-body problem. Here we begin to carve a path for a new way of explaining the same distinctions that these terms are meant to account for, without the metaphysical baggage they produce.

Now that I've defined how I'm using the word 'perception,' I talk about problems philosophers create for themselves as a result of how they try to define it -- literally in terms of its hidden metaphysical cause. Here I propose a new approach to dealing with causes that is consistent with modern trends in science, i.e. proposing a causal process rather than causally responsible occult entities.

The word perception comes from the Latin word percipere, which means to take, gather, or collect. By extension it came to mean to cognize or become aware of something. At the end of the 18th Century the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid narrowed the meaning to refer only to perception of outer objects, and differentiated perception from internal sensations such as pain. Oddly, Dictionaries followed Reid (rather than the greater philosophers of the Enlightenment before him) and it is now standard. We will be discussing the problems this change caused in philosophy. But understand that in all future videos on the topic of perception, we will use the original classical (broader) definition.

This is a redo of part 11 of this series on metaphysics. In it I attempt to better clarify the four main points in the first video. In review they are: 1. It is much harder to prove a proposition than most people realize. A philosophical skeptic is a person who, for philosophical reasons, believes absolute certainty to be strictly impossible. 2. Even logic can't fully resolve a feud between interlocutors over whether a proposition is true or not. No matter how carefully we apply logic, our logical conclusions (both deductive and inductive) are only as true as our premises. And logic cannot help us determine if they are true. For that we rely on testimony and observation, which are imperfect. If one is being consistent (has no contradictions) one is being logical, but that doesn't establish that one's opinions are true, only that one's opinions are logical. One can have a completely false system of beliefs that has no contradictions. 3. Philosophical skepticism is meant to keep us undogmatic in our beliefs, i.e. to help us maintain an open mind as we seek the truth. However, if one adopts the hardened view that knowledge is impossible, one ironically winds up contradicting himself, by making a knowledge claim while at the same time claiming we can have no such knowledge. This contradiction implies a logical error somewhere. I present an alternative form of skepticism that I call "positive skepticism." In short, positive skepticism is the prescriptive attitude that, in the face of our uncertainty about things, all things remain possible. This is in contrast to the descriptive form of skepticism that declares certainty that knowledge is impossible. I call that "negative skepticism." I assert that positive skepticism (the prescriptive attitude that, until we know otherwise, all things remain possible) allows us to maintain a very open mind, and yet does not lead us to make a contradiction, or to sink into an unjustified cynicism about knowledge all together. 4. Finally, I go over a form of logic that I introduce in my 2022 book "The Evolution of Perception Re-Explained." I believe this unique application of deductive logic leads to real epistemological certainty about at least one class of beliefs, if used properly.

Explaining the history of the Intelligence Notebooks. This video was made especially for a Zoom study group led by Christina Riley. A PDF of the Intelligence Notebooks, as well as an encapsulation of this history and the original source scans used in it, can be downloaded at this site: https://sites.google.com/view/intelligencematerials/home Filmed by Chris Ott in Myrtle Beach, SC August 5, 2023.

Many people are quick to say they are careful to rely on facts and logic. But many of the people most proud of their careful thinking are not familiar with the complex issues surrounding the discernment of what is and isn't fact, and the limits of what help logic can provide them in making that determination.