Evaluating Speakers John Searle, Jim Carrey, and Roger Penrose

John Searle

John Searle uses the first-person and third-person points of view to explain that knowledge in detail. He utilizes ontologies that reveal a lack of interaction between material entities. He describes them from a third-person point of view to show that human understanding of casualty is in what others perceive (What Things Really Exist). The speaker uses facts and evidence to deliver his message. This rhetorical analysis alludes to the philosophy of language in underscoring existentialism. The first-person point of view allows John Searle to analyze how things exist and delivers his message using audible voice and vocalized pauses. While the vocal emphasis helps keep the audience engaged in the subject since they follow the speaker’s ideas’ volume, pitch, and articulation, John uses facial expressions that combine with articulation to explain that the best way to test a theory rest on the existing understanding.

The speaker’s purpose is to explain that real things exist because people think deeply about what the world is. The speaker has in-depth knowledge about the subject matter and answers the interview question in a simple language that every audience can understand. John’s facial expressions contribute to the conversation and the subject matter. He maintains eye contact, sits composed, and smiles to exude the overall body language when engaging the interviewer. Therefore, his arms indicate that he is confident about his message on artificial consciousness, which is materialistic. Thus, John chooses words suitable for linking ideas and explains how the details trigger the brain’s consciousness. Therefore, a person can study physical events to initiate conscious experiences in their lives.

 Jim Carrey

The speaker recounts his days as a famous actor to reveal the challenges of an identity crisis. The speech utilizes the first-person point of view, reflecting on an actor’s role and the balance they need to strike in living a harmonious life. The speaker’s purpose is to examine the intricate scene happening when acting. The first-person point of view draws the audience into personalizing what happened to Jim Carrey when he was acting. Therefore, the speaker succeeds in allowing the audience to identify with him instead of dismissing him as an actor who lost the clause. Although Carrey outlines the impact of identity crisis on the depression of a speaker, he invites people using rhetorical analysis to be careful and prevent what happened to him because it can happen to everyone.

Jim Carrey uses reliable evidence to emphasize his message. Although his ideas are unconventional, the audience will likely feel that the statements are mere antics of a hopeless actor. However, he dissects the concept of identity in a way that begins with his relation to acting and the impact of activities going beyond the screen. Thus, he indicates that the character a person plays stays with them as an actor, likely making an individual forget about themselves. Therefore, it is easy for a character to lose themselves and live the character they are playing (What Exists under the Surface). The reliability of these facts helps create a mental picture of the question of identity and the realization of a person’s identity, which is likely to cause concerns.

Jim Carrey utilizes pathos and ethos in his speech. He appeals to the audience’s emotions and ethical concerns when he reflects on his experiences. In addition, he deals with his troubles in adjusting to “himself” after finishing the act. The rhetorical strategies allow Jim Carrey to invoke the feeling of sympathy in the audience when he personalizes his troubles as an actor. 

The speaker maintains stances and premises that he makes about identity issues. He supports the perspectives he makes by illustrating his life as an actor and the extent to which Carrey went till he suffered from depression. Thus, the speaker links his ideas using appropriate connectors. The choice of words is effective in making the audience follow his speech. Moreover, Carrey uses a clear tone to describe the real-life acting balance. 

Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose provides content about mathematical inventory and innovation that is engaging and useful. The speaker uses the first-person point of view to discuss reductionists, mathematics, and quantum mechanism. He also delves into Plato, truth, beauty, and goodness. The goal is to engage in a scientific conversation that alludes to impossible triangles. Therefore, the audience follows his contributions to scientific relativity.

Penrose provides evidence and fact that are reliable. The examples that emerge in the conversation explain the aspects of science and mathematics and the relationship that exists between general relativity and quantum mechanics (What Things Really Exist). Thus, Penrose proposes that there are certain mysteries about consciousness and existence.

The speaker uses the rhetorical strategy of pathos to appeal to knowledge. He ensures that the audience can look at science and mathematics in a manner that helps them understand the abstract world, the physical world, and the conscious world. Thus, these bridges all forms of the world. Consciousness allows the audience to see the world abstractly, thereby reifying them in the physical world.

The speaker links ideas using simple language. The intellectual dilemma occurs when he alludes to the timelessness or the beginning of time. Therefore, the choice of language is suitable for the general audience to follow the comprehensive understanding of concepts of existence and illusion. He smiles, maintains eye contact, and pauses to allow the audience to digest his revelation and understand the concepts he is talking about. The speaker utilizes pauses and emphasis to reveal the role of quantum mechanics in explaining the world. All of these are relevant in the tonal variation to help talk about the role of mathematics in depicting the world and other internal phenomena. Through pathos, Penrose helps demystify the mystery around mathematics. Given that such mystery comes from the artificial difference people make between quantity and quality, there is a need for distinction. However, this distinction does not exist in the real world.

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Works Cited

Carrey, Jim. “What Really Exists under the Surface.” YouTube, uploaded by The Journey of Purpose TJOP, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TucyzpHDNlE

Penrose, Roger. “What Things Really Exist.” YouTube, uploaded by Closer To Truth, 25 July 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Q6SWcTA9w

Searle, John. “What Things Really Exist?.” YouTube, uploaded by Closer To Truth, 6, Mar 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAUaP1IcZUc