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AlwaysAsking
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AlwaysAsking.com is a site dedicated to discover, explain, and share answers to humanity’s biggest questions.
The main topics include:
- Reality, existence, and the origin of the universe
- The nature and potentiality of consciousness
- Time, freewill, and subjective illusions
- God, afterlives, and themes common across religions
- The distant past, far future, and ultimate limits of technology
This channel features video versions of published articles on alwaysasking.com/
Join us in the search for answers to the big questions. We will strictly use logic, rationality, evidence, and the latest tools and theories of science to wrestle from nature answers to age-old questions.
The main topics include:
- Reality, existence, and the origin of the universe
- The nature and potentiality of consciousness
- Time, freewill, and subjective illusions
- God, afterlives, and themes common across religions
- The distant past, far future, and ultimate limits of technology
This channel features video versions of published articles on alwaysasking.com/
Join us in the search for answers to the big questions. We will strictly use logic, rationality, evidence, and the latest tools and theories of science to wrestle from nature answers to age-old questions.
The Origin of Physical Law
Science can help reveal laws of nature. But where do these laws come from? Some think science can never answer that question. Recent results, from algorithmic information theory, provide some compelling clues.
This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?"
Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html
Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?"
Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html
Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
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The Source of Matter and Mind
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It seems that math exists independently of the physical universe. Could math also be the foundation and source of the physical universe? This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
A Story of Creation
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What answer do math or science provide for explaining why there is something rather than nothing? Might they offer us a story of how reality came to be, and how does this answer compare to what historical thinkers have theorized? This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/...
Universal Equations
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Is there a single equation whose solutions contain everything that can be computed, perhaps including the universe itself? Only recently have mathematicians discovered such an equation and its startling implications. This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anyt...
Mathematics's Foundational Crisis
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At the beginning of the last century, mathematics was in a state of crisis. Resolving the problems led to new discoveries that forever changed our understanding of math. This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
Modes of Existence: Math, Matter, Mind
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There are three modes of existence: math, matter, and mind. What, if any, is the relationship among them? Is one of them the source of the others? This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
Self-Existent Things
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Various candidates have been put forward as possibly "self-existent" things. Things which exist out of logical necessity, which could never not exist. This video explores seven of these candidates. This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
Causeless Existence
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There are three possibilities for causeless existence: a first cause, an infinite regress of causes, or a causal loop. Which one best reflects our universe and reality? This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
The Information Content of Reality
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How much total information is contained in our universe? In reality? It appears to be a huge quantity, but recent findings suggest the true information content might be much smaller than we thought, perhaps even zero. If true, we would in a sense be denizens of nothing. This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-...
Paradoxes of the Library of Babel
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The Library of Babel is a "Total Library" one containing every possible book. While such a library seems the ultimate treasure of information it is in fact as useless as a blank sheet of paper. This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
Defining Nothing
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Can nothing be defined in a manner that suppresses all forms of existence? Is Wheeler's "Neither structure, nor law, nor plan" consistent? This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
Mysteries of Existence
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Our most enduring question is why is there something rather than nothing. Has modern science finally provided us with an answer? This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
Two Answers to "Why Anything?"
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There are only two possible answers to the question of why does anything exist. Either something came out of nothing, or else, there are self existent things. Which answer is right? This video is a clip from AlwaysAsking.com Episode 9: "Why does anything exist?" Full episode: th-cam.com/video/6hGH-roVl3w/w-d-xo.html Full article: alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/
Why Does Anything Exist? - Part II - AlwaysAsking.com
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This is Part 2 of the question: Why does anything exist? Why is there something rather than nothing? Wouldn’t nothing have been so much easier? Every society in every time has wrestled with this dilemma. It’s our most enduring question. For we all seek to know: why we are here? In this episode we will review the latest answers and use the best available evidence in an attempt to settle this age...
Why Does Anything Exist? - Part I - AlwaysAsking.com
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Why does anything exist? Why is there something rather than nothing? Wouldn’t nothing have been so much easier? Every society in every time has wrestled with this dilemma. It’s our most enduring question. For we all seek to know: why we are here? In this episode we will review the latest answers and use the best available evidence in an attempt to settle this ageless question. With an answer to...
How Big is the Universe? [REMASTERED] - AlwaysAsking.com
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Answers Given to the Question of the Meaning of Life
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The Omega Point: Humanity's Final Destiny?
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The Omega Point: Humanity's Final Destiny?
What is the Purpose and Aim of Technology?
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What is the Purpose and Aim of Technology?
Is Consciousness the Source of all Value and Virtue?
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The Meaning of Life: What History's Greatest Thinkers have Concluded
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The Meaning of Life: What History's Greatest Thinkers have Concluded
Answers from Religion on the Meaning of Life
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Answers from Religion on the Meaning of Life
What is the Meaning of Life? - AlwaysAsking.com
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Fine-Tuning: God, a Multiverse, or some Combination?
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Fine-Tuning: God, a Multiverse, or some Combination?
Vacuum Energy -- Einstein's Greatest Blunder?
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What Makes Carbon "King of the Elements"?
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What Makes Carbon "King of the Elements"?
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What I find amazing is that even great minds contemplating time as simply another extant axis like the three axes of space, are still bound by time-as-a-flow-based thinking. In the Einstein universe, saying something's been decided "already" is nonsense since there is no "already." There is no previous point along the timeline when something is already decided. It all exists at once, so "when" a matter is decided is the point on the timeline when it's decided. Not previously. When are decisions made in a block universe (the universe talked about in the video)? They can't be made "before" because all times coexist. Your decisions can't have been made "already" because in the block universe, there is no "already." There is no "pre" in predeterminism. It's all one axis in which everything exists (for lack of a better phrase) at the same time. Quantum physics tells us that God DOES play at dice. That there are random elements. That Laplace's universe of everything, including the future, being knowable through the laws of classical physics is an illusion based on statistics. It's likely that Laplace's demon can see the future, but not a hundred-percent certainty. There is uncertainty, so Schrodinger's cat is only determined to be alive or dead at the point on the timeline when we open the box and the possibilities collapse. Not anywhere earlier on the timeline. So when do your decisions happen? Well, since they can happen any time along the timeline, then why not the time when we experience those decisions happening? Why can't the cat be determined to be alive or dead at the exact moment when we open the box in our (and the cat's) time frame? Why can't we decide what our career path is when we finally make up our minds? Does a time frame where someone else can see the outcomes of our decision "before" we make it negate the idea that we made a decision? In our time frame, all the causes are there and the effects comes further down the time axis. The fact that someone else can see those effects before seeing the causes doesn't mean that the decision-maker's time frame is invalid. It just means that someone read about Frodo getting to Mount Doom before reading the part in the Council of Elrond where Frodo offers to take the ring to Mordor. The observer can't change it, and Frodo still makes the decision. (Yes, I know that Tolkien made the decision, but to apply Tolkien in this analogy means we have to have a God in our universe. Possible, but not proven. And similarly, there is no proof that He makes the decisions for us. In the theology I grew up in, he certainly blames us for bad decisions and provides punishment, so that would indicate that He doesn't make those decisions.) All this to say is that the block universe does NOT negate free will. It only assigns your free will to your own time frame. Your decisions may be set in stone, but you still make them. You could have decided differently, it's just that, from the point of view of the observer that sees your future, you just didn't decide differently.
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Like David Hume clearly explains, we can only know "whats" not "whys". "Why" is an absurd question. Why do things fall to the ground? Because of gravity. Why❤ gravity? Because mass attracts mass. Why? We don't know. We only know the "what" happens.
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Nothingness cannot logically exist because it would mean there are no possibilities. But possibilities do exist, some things are possible and others are not, so there cannot be a state of nothingness devoid of possibility. Therefore, at minimum, reality consists of an empty physical world with a platonic realm of possibilities hovering above it. This is the simplest possible logically coherent ontology that can be conceived.
I would agree that coincidence is far to unlikely to be considered. The problem with both Providence and Multiverse is that both are outside of our known scientific knowledge and are scientifically untestable . Both have issues. The Multiverses best hope was String Theory and this now looks extremely unlikely. If the answer is Providence it is really no answer and just kicks the can down the road. Who created the creator? It is great to live in an interesting time with many questions to ponder!
Just one question.... c, the constant speed of light, was determined exactly how by physics in the first place? Just not understanding how the only fundemental constant that there is can be determined by using the exact same form of measurement it is supposed to be defining in the first place!?!?!? 😂😂😂😂😂🤔😵💫
Hi Sarah, that's a really great question! I had to think on it for some time. If not for relativity, speed, time, and distance would all be constant and agreed upon by all observers in all situations. In such a case, we would consider any of these as constants in a given situation: Speed = Distance / Time Time = Distance / Speed Distance = Speed * Time In light of relativity, however. We get into situations where observers moving relative to one another can disagree on time and distance. If we stay on Earth while a rocket ship travels near the speed of light to a star 50-ly away, to us on earth, we see them take ~50 years to complete their journey. To those on the rocket, it feels like ~5 years. So we disagree on time. Likewise, to those on the rocket, the star seems only 5-ly away, while to us on Earth it seems 50-ly away. So we disagree on distance too. The only thing that those on the rocket, and those on Earth can agree on is that they are traveling very close to the speed of light. But we disagree, by a factor of 10, on both the distance and time of the journey. Since the astronauts can return 100 years later and only have aged 10 years, we can throw out time as being a constant. And since we know the astronauts didn't travel 10X the speed of light (another impossibility) to reach their location in 5 years, we can also throw out distance as being a constant. So it seems the only constant that all observers can agree on, in the face of relativity, is the speed of light. But relativity forces us to (on occasion) disagree on distances and times. I hope this helps!
@@AlwaysAsking So, what you are saying is the speed of light is constant because it MUST be, right? I understand; and, both agree and disagree.... language limits us in ways to describe anything unknown to us. But, it seems like instant, rather than constant, would be a better way. Simultaneously, that might eliminate some confusion in quantum understanding.
@@sarahrussell9808 Perhaps "invariant" is a better word than constant? Though, there are some interesting things about how we measure the speed of light. For example, it is impossible to determine if the speed of light is the same going in one direction as it is returning from that location. Any test we might imagine to determine this will fool us. Here is a video on that: th-cam.com/video/pTn6Ewhb27k/w-d-xo.html Of course we assume it is the same in both directions, but it is only an assumption. It can't be settled.
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If this happens what about who were born with abnormalities and diseases, etc. Al to, consciousness can be duplicated so how do you know the real consciousness ?
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It must be impossible to have nothing.
Run that past me again with some crayons and a colouring book.
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Thank you so much! I appreciate it greatly. 😊
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This is a beautiful joy to listen to this video while falling asleep
And this is what I keep telling you about ancient books of wisdom. They were composed by people, my age and older who come to realize it is the most important to share experience with young generation to prevent disasters. Your well-being is more important than my personal benefit because this is the only way to reassure, good future you will never hear from my mouth any put down racism of the regulatory statements. I’m here to benefit young generation to extend allowed by time. 😊😅😮😢🎉 I thought I will share this statements. I will attach when I will be sharing your video with my friends via WhatsApp.
New insight when you pointed out that finding a book (in an organized version of the library) is precisely as difficult as writing the book. In that sense, we in fact live in the library of Babel. Also, one of the most troubling things about the library to me, is that for any book you pick up, there is another book that can act as a decoder to turn it into any third book in the library. So there is a peculiar sense in which every book is every other book if only you knew how to interpret it. This points to the fact that no text (e.g. this comment, or the binary file that becomes the video) or encoding contains any information except in the context of a decoder/interpreter.
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I’m trying to prevent my mind from deterioration, but I’m not stupid. I’m noticing very strange things happening in the past five years something to do with time and space, memory and brain plasticity. I have nothing to worry about everything is provided for the rest of my life, but at the same timeat the same time of the same time what I was gonna say it doesn’t matter really I know I am immortal. I can’t wait to go back to God. I’m so tired of this planet. Thank you for doing this David.
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I am almost certain acquiring information especially incredible information produces dopamine. sufficient continues sweet satisfaction. Yes, it feels amazing to learn. I feel my brain plasticity at work. It expends my consciousness. It changes who I am. acquiring information just for the sake of the process of knowing is tremendous. it’s an inspiration to …get of the couchand do something I have never done before, or as Captain Kirk says “to go boldly where no man had gone before”(learning is better than sex ! don’t tell my girlfriend I said that😅 #Bogoslowsky 😅
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I am obsessed about creative process and this is the definition of being a creator, manipulating shapes with temperature is not a new invention, however I am learning how to control/manipulate shapes of plastic (recycling material) under influence of temperature and create unusual shapes. It’s a new technology of making original sculptures from free material a.k.a. recycle plastic😂#bogoslowsky
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th-cam.com/video/j07eKObTQE0/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared I’m actually very inspired by ancient ideas and concept of the universe one of the magical items I have created. I call the “ #swordofMars “ the God of war the sword was found on planet Earth and lost again. It’s the most powerful weapon in the universe. it creates a black hole and it can swallow many solar systems in a splash of a second #Bogoslowsky 😊😊😊😊
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2:06 i dont care How i got here. I know that. I want to know Where i am. That alone will tell me everything else
No the real question is how your sock under your bed got there by coincidence or by someone
As I promised every time I stop by your video I will leave you an emoji this is how I fall asleep by watching your videos, but I think it should be recorded in cyberspace so I can create my digital immortality. My name is Bogoslowsky . I am mortal I don’t care about anybody or anything.
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I was always told, God has a plan for you. In that case no free will.
Excellent question. We are still trying to figure it out
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