We Did The Math - You Are Dead!
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2h? You come from past
Universe is big as heck
We live in a simulation I think
Kurzgesagt consistently lures me in with an interesting title, perfectly animates a scientific phenomenon, gives me an existential crisis, and then says “lmao jk, it’s probably fine.”
You and I both! and weirdly, I am fine with it and I guess you are too!
fr it be like they are playing with us😭
@@papanebume too, EVERYBODY'S FINE! YAY
I always though giving people existential crisis and then says jk is how daily conversation goes in Germany
Yes, that's how we do. We feel a lot of "Weltschmerz" and dive into a long depressing discussions as to why nothing makes sense, everything is meaningless and the only constants in life are change and entropy ... and then we laugh and drink beer in leather shorts, clapping our legs while dancing towards the everlasting dawn @@namasayagiri
I love how a lot of crazy cosmic / philosophical theories boil down to “Infinity is a really, really big number”
“hey, vsauce, michael here”
"or is it?"
it's not even a number, just really, really big
Let go of excess, Let go of weight, Let go of speed, to understand myself.
It sure took a long time. Trace on. Essence, unravel. Perfected ideals, converge, forging techniques, reaching critical.
Upon one's arrival, the use of years of devoted studies, Upon one's arrival, the result of countless training.... forging endlessly to create tombs of swords.
Cutting through bonds, through destiny, through fate... This is my unparalleled Tsumukani Muramasa. Severing karma by one's origin. This is the Yaegaki made by sword of senjii.
In short... Your karma is exonerated! Take this as your gift to hell! i'll finish the job with this one swing. Take a good look at this. The pulse of my sword is right here!
Time to set your spirit free. FOr this is my Tsumukani Muramasa.
Infinity isn't a number. It isn't a really big number either. It's...well it's infinite. It's a concept. It's endless, without bound or limit. It transcends numbers entirely. To say it's a big number completely misrepresents the scale of infinity. It's quite literally infinitely larger than that.
For some reason this reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft’s vision of the whole universe being a literal dream of the cosmic entity Azatoth, whose awakening would instantly spell the end of reality as we know it.
SOMEBODY WAKE AZATOTH UP RIGHT NEOW 🗣️🗣️🗣️
@@desiraejones762 we’d stop existing apparently, but that… might still be a good idea.
@@eeyorehaferbock7870 that’s precisely the point 😏 WAKE HIM UP *bangs frying pans*
@@desiraejones762 nice try. But it will take more than that.
Also links awakening to a smaller scale
0:45 currently taking a break from writing my college essay supplementals and have been at a standby on what to write for a specific one. This gave me the best essay idea THANK YOU Kurzgesagt😭
soo, what happened with the essay?
answer the lil guy bro
Huge compliments to the animation team. What a work of art.
Psssssst you got likes
compliment? hell nah, then what's with all the human stuff? where are my birds?
Do not listen to these evil confusing lies. satan is the father of lies. Turn to our Merciful and All-Forgiving Lord (and to whomever accepts Him, Saviour) Jesus Christ, before it’s too late! 🙏🏻✝️❤️🙌🏻🕊
@@starstumpno thank you
@@starstump Nah I'm good actually. Please leave
Two physicists were discussing reality. One said that they were dreaming, the other said he knew they weren't and he could prove it. He proceeded to formulate an airtight proof showing conclusively that the two were definitely not living in a dream. It was such a monumental break through for math and physics that the physicist was awarded the Nobel prize.
And then he woke up.
Good one.
I love this
There's no way I'm dreaming right now, my dreams aren't so mid.
@@Vexas345you’re not dreaming, the universe is. You’re just a mid part of it
@@willrobbins2550ouch that must have hurt him😂😂😂😂
Maybe I have a theory
Lets assume a person named 'john' dies due to a car accident in a universe
In that universe John's relatives will know that john is no more
But in the POV of john no accident had occurred and he is still living his normal life with his family
But for a creature POV who has the power of watcher (A marvel character who watches everything occuring in different universes) know that john has been shifted from one universe to another , where both universe seems similar
Maybe this thing also occurs when people dies , their memory of dying vanishes and they shifted to another universe
This idea may seems to be silly but it facinates me in my childhood 😅😅😅
Ihr macht es mir so einfach mein englisch zu verbessern, durch eure Illustrationen ist es so einfach, dem Inhalt zu folgen, Dankeschön dafür ❤️
Ich kann das lesen!!!!! Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht aber ich kann das lesen AAAAAA
Fun fact: if you were a Boltzmann brain, then you are the one who came out with all philosophies, sciences, theories, and literature in the entirety of history
Well I didnt want to brag....
Actually it would be the universe who made it all up and you would be made up alongside it ...
at least all the ones you know of. also, if you're a boltzman brain, you are also the one who came up with the idea of a boltzman brain.
@@Spooglecraft nahhh Ludwig was first there
Reminds me of that Obama meme where he's giving himself a metal.
The trippy nature of existence is awesome!
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SO YOUR SAYING…. IM THE MAIN CHARACTER 🔥🔥🔥
No bro, I am🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
We all are! It’s a crazy show lol
The thing is, even if i am the dream of a dead universe, this feels real enough to me. It doesnt matter if it is "real" or not - in the end I believe im here. Whether it be hallucinatory or genuine its still a life that is convincingly real, so live it anyways yk
"If you can't tell the difference then it doesn't matter" - Westworld
@@Cookiekopter westworld, havent seen it just did a google
At what point is something real anyway? Our life is real to us
Theres also nothing you can do about it. In fact this should help overcoming your anxiety if you think about it. Your fears are pointless, just live your life and enjoy.
Theologians and philosophers would say we can be more sure of our realness than the rest of observable reality
Interesting how you went through this whole thing without using the word entropy, just explaining in a way more people would intuitively understand
Not using the jargon is a great way to make complex subjects more digestible. If nothing else, people can end up with a wrong definition of what a jargon word actually means and go years without realising because they only ever use the jargon word.
yes! i was thinking entropy the whole time and wondering why
isnt entropy the same idea of arrow of time? just a more simplified term
@@rray5506from my understanding, entropy is the tendency for the universe to choose disorderness over order, the arrow of time is a byproduct of entropy as far as I'm concerned
Kind of, I mean we and everything else would not exist without entropy to begin with. It is the end of all things but also the beginning.@@rray5506
Dear kurzgesagt,
The pixel art animation is absolutely incredible! The motion pictures , expresses a story aside from the
There are so many ways to understand life.
A drop into a glass of water is not the best way to understand life, yet you all have your own way to understand life. I like to see life like a clock of many gears, even the smallest of gears creates the big clock, and without the small things, time would not be. When you express theories or opinion, please make it bold to the public that it is an opinion or a theory, to make sure that people are not confused.
The efforts have potential, and are appreciated.
Best regards,
Kaylan known as Professor Cygnus and Angels
This is an incredibly important message to talk about how scientific theory is just that, Theory. Passing all theories off as fact has a tendency to backfire drastically to the uninformed
I always go through this Rollercoaster of hating the implications of an infinite universe, and feeling incredibly, indeed infinitely, small and insignificant, then feeling immense relief when I realise that that takes a lot of pressure off and I can just carry on enjoying my life without worrying about the potential cosmic implications
I like going in the opposite direction.
This infinity, this impossibility, this hard to imagine scenario of being an infinitesimal small dot of time and space is all we have of our lives. That said, during that small window, we can appreciate this infinity, this impossibility this infinite spectrum.
WE control the perception of the universe completely, in that sense we are more than it.
Dude infinite universe would be wilf because that means every thought/scenario that you’ve had is true/has happened somewhere way far off
Well you are at the center of that infinite universe. So don't feel so insignificant.
For those who may not understand my comment. It is indisputable, per each individual they are the center of their own perspective from which they percieve everything. Thus the true center of their universe, with no possible way to percieve otherwise.
No worries, you (along with the entire planet and it's components and life forms) don't really matter that much.
huh
I think what's even more fascinating is the fact that, as we humans gain more and more knowledge... we're only left with exponentially more questions.
Riight, and those answers even undermine former answers, and eventually are undermined by future answers... Its all just a game. A game that religions speak about. And from what I can sense, science is also slowly proceeding to the realization, that there is no such think as definitive knowledge. Or more like there is, but at the same time there is not. Everything is just omnipotent chaos. And thats the most funny, and the most dreadful realisatiom there is. xdd
Philosophy is fun.
That is the awesome thing about having a spongy knowledge craving brain! I will never run out of ways of learning.
We are chasing infinity. We are chasing God, but we will never find him.
exactly, our knowledge is just like the universe. The more it expands, the more questions (space) arise and the longer it goes on even questions form a lot faster (just like the expansion of the universe)
It's the Dunning-Kruger Effect - the more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Another great video from Kurzgesagt.
The reforming blob reminds me of the storm-in-a-junkyard analogy.
"In the end, there won't be anything. There will be nothing. No life, no land, no energy, nothing." this sentence made me send shivers down my spine.
"Taking science and philosophy seriously can have a positive impact on the world." I couldn't agree more.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOME PEOPLE SEE GODS ALIENS DEMONS DEVIL ANGELS ETC ARE THE HIGHER BEINGS IN UPPER EALEM TRYING TO CONTACT US OR I HAVE APERSONAL THEORY WHEN WE HUMANS SLEEP WE MAY HAVE DIFFERENT TIMELINES AND EXPERIENCED IN OTHER PARALLEL UNIVERSE IN WHICH ARE DREAM SHOW I SAW MY NEIGHOURS DEATH BODY AND HIS FAREWELL IN MY DREAM YESTERDAY BUT IT DOES NOT HAPPENED IN REALITY MAYBE BECAUSE ITS OF SOME OTHER TIMELINE
Last time people did this we got Social Darwinism and a war from that.
@@Shouryavardhansinghtawar-qv4uk yes
@@Shouryavardhansinghtawar-qv4uk Why caplock's.
Anyways...uh...
Nice hypothesis there, dude.
Unfortunately we'll never really know until the future comes.
Too bad only 5% of the population is intelligent and driven enough to make it meaningful. The rest are content to drink themselves to sleep in front of the TV.
I love how this is both a science and philosophy channel. The combination of fact and theory here is incredible.
This video is just religion with math. A loot of the thought experiment is just questions and opinions on the afterlife. Infinitely respawning as different things due to probabilities is just reincarnation with silly math. That's why no one should worry too much - it's the science version of religious faith exercises; What would happen if the ultimate evil tempted the ultimate good, for example.
I couldn't understand really anything though. It would be helpful if someone explains me simply in brief.
In brief, you would understand even less.@@grapeshott
@@grapeshott One of the key themes throughout this video, but which wasn't mentioned by name, is the philosophical theory of Indirect Realism, as the name suggests, it's a view of reality where we can only see/engage with the real world (base reality) indirectly- a way of understanding this for example is by looking at your computer screen, you engage with the computer screen with your senses (you watched the video, you read this comment etc.) but you can't see the internal mechanisms of your computer screen, you can't see past the screen to the wires inside, in this example the base reality is the wires inside the computer screen that give rise to/project the screen you're reading. They did it nice visually where the person is looking at his picnic and then colour is added, the base reality is grey and then the indirect experience of that base reality is the colours added on top.
I hope that was clear and concise enough. Bertrand Russell is a key figure for Indirect Realism and is worth checking out, if you have questions regarding anything else in the video let me know
@@MarkSeymourSinged considering probability as something already real is a fantasy and reasoning about it is nothing more than a daydreaming
I’ve thought about stuff like this before. I think it’s great how much detail this goes into, and how it doesn’t just ignore stuff either.
Your animation is perfectly motioned and the physics behind it makes it even more interesting. Just here sitting with my existential crisis hahah. Well done!
Honestly if i were a floating brain and i made all of this up, i think that would be pretty cool. So insanely lucky to have had the opportunity to experience all this.
If I were a floating brain I wish I could have been more imaginative and exciting. This experience is so dull.
Until you wake up and realize it was all a dream, and forget all about it within an hour.
So the source "my source came to me in a dream" is actually a legit source?
@@Sweetyhide You just need to regain the curiosity your child brain had years ago. Start questioning things around you - existence is absurd and confusing, let that be positive not negative
Shut up, everything you know, love, care about. All the memories. The love of your parents. Sadness and all that encompasses the human experience would all be an illusion because you in fact have NOTHING else. And you think that would be cool and lucky? Not to mention all the hard work and suffering others have experienced including yourself. All for truly truly nothing.
That was interesting
Perfect animations.
If I need a title to speak about with my friends, I just watch one of your videos. Prefect 👌
This video gave me an existential crisis. Good job, Kurzgesagt.
As soon as it was mentioned that the ink in the glass could form any shape, I was sure this was going to be a Boltzmann brain video. This is probably the best succinct summary of the concept I've seen.
I know nothing about science, but the ink in the glass got me confused, and maybe you know the answer. Doesn’t gravity affect the ink in the glass, and isn’t that why the ink spreads downward?? If the same thing was done on a spaceship, would the ink move the same way?
@@pamjacobs12 the ink is dissolved in the water, the same way sugar can be dissolved in water making a uniform solution despite being denser than water. so gravity isnt a factor.
but, even being dissolved like that, given an infinite amount of time, the ink can form a blob.
@@pamjacobs12 In this case the ink naturally floats on top as it's less dense than water. It disperses into the water for complex fluid-mechanic reasons as well as entropy.
This does make one big mistake in its assumptions tho: The chances that a brain will emerge as part of evolution are much, much, much higher than the chances that a brain will emerge spontaneously out of a random configuration of particles, In our universe we only needed 14 billion years for brains to emerge.
It also makes the mistake in assuming that a planet or a galaxy is much less likely to form than a brain.
A planet or galaxy don't need to form in the precise exact manner, meanwhile a brain capable of hallucinating the entire reality does. So while a galaxy may be orders of magnitude bigger and more complex than a particular brain there's simple laws of physics that just require matter to exist in order form a galaxy, meanwhile for a brain everything needs to be in the exact right place and of the exact right type.
@@spliter88 agreed
Now, I'll tell you something, I was expecting this video to be way more existentially dreadful than it turned out to be! This was quite an interesting exercise!
You and I must have watched different videos.
I only thought of Azathoth and his apocalyptic sleep patterns
such a wonderful distraction
I don't want to be a brain
Said the brain
@@cecilkeith1951 Or they're more used to watching existential videos
Love these videos, and now I'm encoured to take up a career in science!
I like the idea of the Boltzmann Brain. It simultaneously makes you think that everything is meaningless because you are simply a screenshot of a moment in a life that was constructed at random yet it changes nothing, because you have no clue whether that is true or not, and you can still live your life entirely normal because you have no idea.
It's like the most fundamental change anyone can realise in their life. Yet it is functionally a non issue. It doesn't change anything about your life, whether it's real or an illusion, so you just keep trotting along like you always have.
This is my brain going on a rampage at 5am when I'm trying to sleep😭
Can relate buddy! 🤣 You and me are alike!
@@ALFAkroketeveryone likes kurzgesagt
Jeracraft what the hell are you doing going to sleep at 5am
@@ActuallyFunnerLNot everyone, but a lot of people do.
yeah he loved to watch futurama brain episode 😂
How far this channel has come, I don't think we'll ever get tired or bored of you guys. With all the other things in life, you guys make the world a better place to live in.
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Yes they've certainly come far. I've never heard this amount of nonesense in in a video. What a total waste of time. These atheists need a hobby.
«How far this channel has come»
it's gone from butchered science down to new age religion bullshit.
because they have bilionaire sponsors. That's why.
My theory is that the universe will, at one point between now and virtually forever from now, begin retracting at the same speed it's currently expanding until it condenses to a point of infinite mass/energy, creating another big bang. Some sort of quantum stuff in that ohase will break apart all of the created elements and we'll start back up with hydrogen, etc.
They looked forward to that 1+1=💀 with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another. But when they looked at me with their sweet eyes full of love, when I felt that in their presence my heart, too, became as innocent and just as theirs, the feeling of the fullness of life took my breath away, and I worshipped them in silence. Their children were the children of all, for they all made up one family.
I'm barely 0:12 into the video and I'm amazed how far Kurzgesagt has gone in terms of animation. The character's expressions at the beginning are just NEAT. You guys are really an inspiration.
ah it's amazing what a few million in billionaire money can buy!
@@confuciuslolaTH-cam channels don't make that much money
@@confuciuslolalmao what? Kurzgesagt has a net worth of 6.69mil dollars. That's not the same of dispensable capital, so no they do not spend a couple million for a video, and I doubt they drop that much for the entirety of their video catalogue in a year.
Hey look it's PewDiePie in your timestamp!
@@confuciuslolaI can animate like this on my shitty laptop and have ai narrate up to this standard with eleven labs. meat canyon does animations all the time completely by himself and so many others you just have to understand the process.
We wouldn't be able to tell when time flows backwards. And we wouldn't know it did when it goes forward again.
Some nights, I have dreams within dreams. Everything is so real. I can read and tell time and find my way around every "reality" I'm in atm. Its weird. ❤
As long as Kurzgesagt keeps these iconic animations and transitions consistent throughout the whole video I'm happy to watch at the cost of an existential crisis 😂
Brilliant move... eh I mean comment
nah, easy fix - don't have an existential crisis. What got me through mine was the realisation if that nothing matters, then why does it matter that nothing does? Just gives you the freedom to live how you want, without infringing on the happiness of other people. If you've learned of a philosophy that scares you, like this one, just remember; it doesn't change anything, because it always was. It's nothing to be afraid of. Live life good my g. (I know you were kidding, man, but I just wanted to share that :) )
@@eamonndalton i like to think of it the same way, and live while im there lol
Don't worry, about a quarter of all their videos is complete bullshit.
Then your thirst for knowledge is not genuine
-Absolutely excellent animation and visuals.
-An existential crisis that my brain cannot even comprehend at first.
-Cute birdies.
Ah, good old Kurzgesagt. It's been a while since I last visited this channel, and I just got into this absolute existential bomb of a video lmao
The animation and overall quality of the videos are better and better each time. Just when I think you cannot go any higher, you surprise me yet again. It's crazy. Keep it up, guys!!
oh and NEOLIBERAL PERSPECTIVE, not that bad this time tho
@@user-jy8np7zx3z How is this political? And what is the difference between liberal and neoliberal? What even is the difference between liberals and conservatives? Is that just another name for democrats and republicans, which I also have no idea what makes them different.
@@The_mrbob well, liberals of the past are neolibs now. I mean, this is kinda getting old
Libs differ from conservatives? I mean, those are different dimensions - so folks can be both libs and conservatives(like in most of US)
Now i dont know if you are real and i have really no way of knowing either
@@neighbourhoodSpiderman2923 same for me lmao
Thank you for the great animations !
It is funny how talking about existence while topping it with some physics is acceptable, when it is just a matter of speculations and fiction, but when someone brings faith it is considered " Scientifically illogical ", as if science had anything to do with philosophy.
I dont think anyone else in the world think like me other than you. I thought I was an idiot to keep thinking about all this. But glad to know I am not alone. We are never alone. This is the best channel. You make me so happy.
Never before heard of the Universe getting repopulated with particles after Entropy. That’s a much brighter future than absolute cold darkness 🥲
It stands to reason that you can't actually die.
Since you don't experience anything once you've died, a near infinite amount of time will pass. Time in which everything tgat can happen, will happen.
One of those happenings will be you. So from your perspective, you just experienced passing away and immediately waking up.
@@VikingTeddy I dont image randomly teleporting around near instantly in a cold, empty universe for all of eternity to be very fun
@@Chazcam_Gamingoh but it is!
@@VikingTeddy I was thinking the same for a long time. But now I dont believe that the person who wakes up after you die, will be "you".
I´d like to compare a human being to a computer (or AI). If you destroy one computer and then build another, 100% indentical to the first one, it would be still a different computer.
Or you could imagine that you are a newborn baby. You die and after your dead, a 100% identical baby will be born. Will it be you? I dont think so. If you think that it is still you, then we have the following paradox: You are a newborn baby. The futuristic machine will create your 100% identical copy. Do you have now the same consciousness in both bodies? Are both babys "you" at the same time?
We still dont fully understand the consciousness.
I was lately having the following thought experiment: A baby is bornt. The baby is blind, deaf, cannot feel pain, cannot feel anything, it does not interact with the world at all. But otherwise its brain function "normally". Does this baby has a consciouness? It has literally no thoughts, no language, no feeling.
@@erikdurjak467
In the case of the two identical copies one of those copies will have to be you. You will know it and you will know which one because you will experience conciousness in that body.
What he’s trying to argue is that by definiton conciousness cannot be interrupted or can not not exist. So you will always exist in what form? Well just look around and find out.
You know your conciousness can experience lapses (knocked out, sleeping) and yet you wake up and it’s still you, you make new memories and it’s still you, your personality changes and it’s still you.
0:55 So I’m a physics PhD student…and I’ve actually studied a phenomenon in quantum mechanics which is pretty much exactly the equivalent of a drop of dye coming back together after spreading out into water! It’s called quantum scarring, you get some weird situations where if you set the initial conditions for your experiment just right, the system will keep returning to that same initial state (but if you set it up any other way, it just rapidly decays to thermal equilibrium like you’d expect). Not exactly related to the video but I think it’s pretty cool!
think of thought as an observer and all of NOW happening concurrently, then use quantum mechanics to explain intuition.
Using the bodies cells to communicate a potential outcome through vibrational signals and other means of communication.
using "spooky action at a distance" theoretically our cells can be in constant communication with potential futures. We need only hone our intuitive functions to grasp what is being communicate when we have those moments of intuitive.
So learning the language of your body could help someone navigate their current present much more fluidly.
I read this as “So im a ADHD student..”
Is this related to time crystals?
@@santosdr2 cells don't communicate via 'vibrations'. Don't bring in pseudoscience like 'cells could communicate with potential futures if you tried hard enough' into an actual thought experiment.
The best way to navigate the current present is to be practical about it and live in the present, not by grasping at straws of seeing futures. That's not what people of science live by.
That's really cool. Was it, like, a simulation, something like that?
partly lost my sanity but very cool keep up the work kurzgesagt team
4:44 Here it is, Kuzgesagt mentioned Eminem, TH-cam is completed now
Funny I was just going to play some Eminem it’s true that anything and happen anywhere all at once
@@ArcticYT1945yeah like one time i said in a roblox game "lucky clover" when they got lucky at something and they said "HOW DID YOU KNOW I WAS LISTENIG TO CLOVER" I don't remember how it actually went though this is kinda accurate to what happened
The concept of the Boltzmann brain theory and the idea that our reality might be just a fleeting thought in the vastness of the cosmos is both fascinating and somewhat unsettling. It's incredible how these videos manage to introduce concepts that I've never even thought about before in such a clear and engaging way.
And of course, a huge shoutout to Steve Taylor for his amazing voice-overs. His narration always adds depth and gravitas to the content.
Overall, this video left me with a profound sense of wonder and a lot to think about. Kurzgesagt continues to expand my horizons with their thoughtful and beautiful work. Can't wait to see what they explore next
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Boltzmann brain theory is when scientists start doing too much drugs
Thank you, for giving me an existential crisis that made realise to make the most of life while you can.
Hi this was super fun to learn about !! My little sister really enjoyed this video and learning science through your channel!!!!!! She said she loved this video and that she will subscribe! Thanks!
so I just may or may not be real? thats chill, im fine...
Why hello TH-cam?!?
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Yo youtube what's good
Yo what's up TH-cam!
how the hell does youtube have 3 likes..
Reminds me of a quote from Brennan Lee Mulligan
"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you are the instrument by which the universe cares."
Well he was a philosophy major, wasn't he?
And the ever stable axle around which everything turns
How is it that these animations look this good? Far and away the best looking animations I’ve ever seen.
Its prolly because they might paint the separate limbs or the birds or humans and them move them seperately, they might also reuse backgrounds and the animation style is pretty simple actually but its still amazing
Istg just yesterday i felt like the things i see doesn't seem real and asked myself "what if I'm actually in a dream or a virtual reality"
And then this video got recommended to me...
This is why I stick with the old "I'm gonna just do my best to make my little corner of the world a kinder, more loving place". If it's all real, then I hopefully kept that place a little brighter with my time there. If it's all fake, then I still made that place better. If it turns out everything around me is not real, then at least I treated it all with the kindness and respect that reality deserves.
Or I just concocted this philosophy as a defense mechanism against any existential crisis. Probably the latter, if I'm being honest :P
At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter if our lives are real or not because it is, as of now, the only existence that we know off. So just try to make the most out of it, and if it doesn't work out, it doesn't matter anyway cause it could all just be a dream of the vast cosmo haha. Have a nice day
This o all of this would be of no "matter" to us, no matter ahat the reality be the Lives we live currently is the ons that's matter inthe end😂
thats a pretty gay thing to say
Yup, the ol "nothing I can do about it, looks like all I can do is enjoy this existence I seem to have."
@@jairastogi4644?
My first shrooms trip was exactly this experience. For a solid two hours or so, I imagined that I was a brain floating in the universe, making up all of my experiences to avoid the eternal nothingness of space. Everything I thought existed was just a creation of my mind, and I was slipping out of my reality and into THE reality.
The only thing that pulled me back was calling my wife and telling myself that even if it's all made up, it's been pretty great. I told myself that my wife was the best thing I ever made up 😂 Overall, a fun trip lol.
Made up he says... perhaps it was just a glimpse into reality.
I had the same experience but in a very unpleasant way. Individual humans etc being compartmentalised pieces of consciousness as part of the greater whole, to which we will eventually return; the entire physical universe being an imagined set of dimensions, like a playground of sorts created by the parent for its children, so that we can exist in a world which makes some sort of sense and follows logic.
Leaving it behind removed all logic from my experience, and suddenly the question of "why is there something rather than nothing?" was mine alone to answer.
Still haven't put together the experience but it's not a state I'm eager to return to, and I hope for all our sakes it's not a true representation of reality. What made the experience enjoyable for you, if I may ask?
psychedelics are mid tbh 🥱
Exactly man. I think all this is something of an illusion we've made for ourselves, you may be right. But it certainly feels real, doesn't it? It's certainly full of wonder and love, to those who can see past all the fear they have created in themselves. We are all the same yet we are all different, slightly varied expressions of the same source. I think it's beautiful and nothing could be better, you just need to understand how to uproot the construct of fear within you that is making it terrifying. "The only thing to fear is fear itself."
Same man same, but I didnt consume any psychedelic. It was just normal w*ed. I cant even explain what other things I felt.
oh my god thank you so much i was so afraid of the end of the universe but this makes not fear the death of the universe you most likely destroyed my existential crisis. my gratitude is eternal
The Netflix series Midnight Mass brought up the whole metaphor of life being the universe dreaming of itself so nicely
do you mean Midnight Gospel?
Mass is gospel In Spanish.
I clicked on this video thinking about the death monologue in that show. One of the best written moments in a show I can remember
@MrCyfert No, Midnight Mass. Its a very good series.
Erin's monologue 😀
Been thinking about this for a while. That as long as we are conscious, so is the universe. We coexist, and forever will be interlinked. We are understanding not only ourselves, but the universe itself, which also it’s us.
We are the universe experiencing itself. As if the Universe is viewing itself in the third person, it's wild to think about.
If you strive, inevitably the most subtle will be yours
i am the universe???
@@notrhythmwe all are
@@notrhythmyes you are, you are experiencing being human
I come here to feel even more worthless than I already seem to be as a regular worker. This makes me realize so much things, mostly that I don't mater. i love it here no body tells me they care about me.
Infinity is a concept, not a number.
Therefore in a finite universe, anything that doesn’t obey our laws of physics is merely a concept, not a reality.
Fun fact, this is an idea called the Boltzmann brain, that was thought up when the idea of thermodynamics were still being invented, and physicists began realizing that everything is random chance
it's also dumb and wrong, but why interrupt the entertainment right
edit: they said that in the video nvm
I'll have whatever Kurzgesagt is smoking
Same bruv
He is smoking to enter the new hallucinationary universe.
everytime i see your videos i know i shouldnt watch them, and everytime i still do, and almost everytime i wish i could just forget i ever did. this is one of those times ad infinitum
I keep getting existential crisis while watching these, WHY DO I KEEP COMING BACK!?
As a random floating monkey-typed brain in space, I approve of this concept.
I knew you'd eventually type this
same
aren't we all just monkeys in space typing things
“Life is a vision, a dream. Nothing exists save empty space and you. And you are but a thought.” -Mark Twain
This is very on topic
Whoever says that should go to North Korea, Afganistan or Ukraine to see how much of an illusion life really is. People just say this cuz they are bored
"That last quote was generated by ChatGPT" - Albert Einstein
The world is decending into madness. I guess pretending it's not real is exactly what we need 🤡. Could you be anymore useless?
i dreamed that a bunch of normies once got upset at kurzgesagt for showing skepticism towards the theory of human induced climate change and the religion-like certainty that came along with such beliefs.
Your video has got me thinking, I'm interested!🤔
The whole “Brain in a dead universe” thing doesn’t work if a brain can’t sustain itself alone or if it’s fluids would boil in a vacuum, but then again, that is assuming a dead universe is a vacuum or if I’m not just a brain in a vacuum. Great video :)
I would really love to see a more in-depth video about the whole "the universe expanding fast enough makes things essentially an inverted black hole where the space fills with particles again" - that's definitely a new interpretation I've seen of dark energy-driven expansion, and I didn't really see anything in the sources that fleshed that out.
Look up hawking points. Potential proof the universe is cyclic.
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Yeah that felt weird to me. Basically just saying reverse Hawking radiation will fill everything back up?
The TL;DR is that since space expands exponentially there's a certain distance where additional space fills the gap between you and an object at that distance at the same rate as something moving at the speed of light through space would cross it, resulting in the most positive speed toward you being zero (negative meaning away from you). If you go even further space fills the gap even faster so even a light speed object pointed right at you would be moving away overall, which would make it even further away and escalate the effect.
People are fawning over this video, but the number of assumptions going on here just makes it sound like my buddy on acid. It's all just empty speculation.@@thomascampbell2128
A week without Kurzgesagt is a week without incredible animation and existential dread.
Tru that
There's other guys for existential dread too like SciencephiletheAI, Aperture,etc
All this shit and we still going to work and school tomorrow...
Kurzgesagt always attracts people with catchy titles, but when I actually watch them, it's full of science I can't understand yet and will not for a long time
And that's the best explanation about boltzman brain that I've ever seen
I like how they act so calm and subtle with saying it it’s like “oh hey there :) you are dead and we did the math :D!”
they??? he
@@inquarantine7441kurzgesagt is ran by many people? Also they is an appropriate general pronoun
@@allstar4065What do you mean „they is an appropriate general pronoun“?
@@Nico-qs5dy
They is a good way to describe someone or a group of someones as it’s singular, plural, and androgynous
@@ohgeezrick2019 „a group of someone’s“ 😂
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so, even if you believe you are a floating brain, you'd have to admit that you have no good reason to believe that you are actually a floating brain.
-Kurzgesagt, September 12, 2023.
Hey Kurz-
The sections on the video timeline seem to be the wrong ones. Awesome video!
The energy in our universe will fade out, it can't just reassemble it self no matter how much time you give it.
It makes my heart so happy to see you guys partnering with 80,000 hours. This is how we change the world, we can do so much good.
They have pictures of culinary staff on their website. You will not be happy if you pursue a career in the culinary industry... the issue with this world isn't a lack of smart capable people with big dreams, it's a system which rewards selfishness and punishes new ideas. You can turn a hundred factory workers into biologists, it doesn't mean they're gonna get funding to research herbal medicines. They'll still be proving prozac's better than St Johns wort until money loses its value and potential to sway people altogether
Care to explain how explaining a concept using videos is scientifically "good" ?
@@ambhat3953 people will stop being ignorant.........Pro....bably
You never fail to give me several existential crises in the span of 10 minutes ❤️❤️
how do we get over it?
You should watch Exurb1a for extra existential crisis
This are type of questions you ask your self..when youre on someting
@@lululunarcat That's the fun part-*You don't*
Just live bro. Accept the things you can't change
why can't my floating brain imagine me a better life
This channel is infinitely amazing.
I have been following this channel since it got it's golden button. And heck yeah it has improved on their animation to unimaginable levels. Today watching this video, I felt goosebumps with every animation masterpiece which passed by. Keep up the good work bro❤❤❤
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A beautiful quote from an interesting online sci-fi book : ..."The Universe exists because from my perspective I am observing it, when I observe it, I think about it and when I think about it, it exists. The Universe and I are but one thing, it is a thought of mine, an eternal thought, the fruit of the complexity of my mind and of which I am a prisoner. I am a prisoner locked in an infinite prison, as if it were a dream, an eternal dream that I want to wake up from."...
5:13 LOVED the reference to the movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" ❤ Great job! 😎
Been watching them since week 1, and still amazed at their work quality.
It doesn't matter if this is a dream or not, we can't do anything about it so we might as well keep living life the same way we did yesterday.
Yeah we cannot do anything but just to think and feel different
@@uzumakisasuke5026yep facts, discovered new things, find new place, live in the moment,
A beautiful quote from an interesting online sci-fi book : ..."The Universe exists because from my perspective I am observing it, when I observe it, I think about it and when I think about it, it exists. The Universe and I are but one thing, it is a thought of mine, an eternal thought, the fruit of the complexity of my mind and of which I am a prisoner. I am a prisoner locked in an infinite prison, as if it were a dream, an eternal dream that I want to wake up from."...
You might want to look into something like the Gateway Tapes if you feel powerless to do anything 😉
Every day is a new day
My brain has popped up in a dead universe waiting in line at the DMV.
This is similar to this one thought I had when I was younger, that we don't know if we are still alive after we wake up.
And I am not talking about the body, but what we are. We define ourselves through our memories, so anything that has our memories will think it is us, meaning that every night when we go to sleep we (the consciousness controlling the body) will die and when we wake up a new consciousness is controlling the body, believing it was the same consciousness that has been controlling the body since the beginning, but the only proof we have for it is that we have memories of yesterday and of 5 years ago, though just having memories alone isn't solid proof, especially because 90% of our memories are lost, we can't remember every single moment in our life, so us not remembering everything could be a problem that occurs when copying the memories to a new consciousness where data gets lost or due to storage issues, the least important information gets left out.
It's also similar to the though that if we managed to achieve teleportation, would we actually be the same person after teleporting or would the person at the start die and a new person that has our memories and believes it is us come into life.
The concept of the inverted black hole, where the event horizon is outside and it generates Hawking radiation inward is kind of fascinating. I don't think I've heard it before. But what kind of singularity would be beyond that horizon? I suppose it would be a singularity of time rather than space, a frozen eternal moment.
In other words the answer would be "yes"
No time, no change, no space nothing. And that nothing is turning into everything without the act having occurred in that frozen nothingness of everything.
We'll never be able to fully know the answer of what reality is, or more importantly in this instance: For reality to be explained, we would have to explain the absence of reality that is required for reality to exist.
i once tried to apply the formular to calculate the temperature of hawking radiation onto the particle horizons diameter and i think i got to around 2 K ( dunno been a while and i am too lazy to redo it 😂) but it was fascinating seeing that you get the same outcome (lowest possible temperature due to heisenberg uncertainty) just by looking at it from another angle or i am just completly missremembering the result 😂
also since the wavelength of hawking radiation depends on the radius of the blackhole i guess it has a wavelength of the whole visible universe
It's a canon event bro
the horizon described here is not a that theoretical concept trough its called the particle horizon basically the furtherst point light can reach us due to expansion of the universe the hard part here is that while you can tread it as the event horizon of a black hole from our perspective its not like there is really a event horizon at that edge its just that space expanding over its whole volume adds up to the same effect
I’m glad you guys are spreading existentialism concepts. I think consciousness will soon find its place in science and we need more people investing ideas and practice into consciousness.
we were almost there, but sadly existentialism has lost the zeitgeist in favor or more passing ideas. I hope you are right that interest will return.
Yes. This entire video is essential hinting at infinite consciousness and the true nature of ourselves. The funny part is calling infinite consciousness a “dead universe.” It made me giggle. Infinite consciousness is the source of all life despite entropy because it tuned all the constants of nature for life. This universe and all its contents to include our bodies is the “dreamed reality” of the infinite consciousness that we all are.
I think it already has. I think a lot of neuroscience and a bit of psychology is basically a description of and a search for how certain physical phenomena relate to consciousness
If you like critical theory you should check out Karen Barad! She's essentially a feminist philosopher with a PhD in physics focusing on the history and philosophy of quantum theories. She combines Bohr's work and contemporary critical theory in really interesting ways to talk about consciousness as fundamentally relational, really interesting stuff!
@@liwoszarchaeologistCorrect me if I’m wrong, but I thought zeitgeist is not something that is lost, but something that evolves over time
Since I was a kid I always had a strange feeling that I am every person just living a different life, it feels like there is nobody but me when I talk to people, 90% of the time I can predict what they’re going to do once I rly started thinking abt it, which made it that much creepier
Same
Would be interesting to have a simulation where you can see how with more time the inc would form some kind of shape again. This is such an interesting theory I’m just blown away.
The boltzmann brain theory is one of my biggest existential nightmares. The moment you started talking about a disembodied brain, I knew exactly what this video was going to be about lol
I would love if someone could explain this to me in the most easy to understand terms. I love Kurzgesagt, but this video made no sense to me once we got past the first five minutes, and I'd like to understand the ideas presented here.
@@DanGrant365 From wikipedia: "The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a single brain to spontaneously form in a void, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did."
@@nighthawk0913 thanks for responding. I got that general overview, I just couldn't follow along/make sense of the math of it all.
Lol, it changes nothing though.
To me it is comforting. It would be nice to actually discover one day that all the horrible things you witnessed in your life didn't actually happen but were a figment of your imagination.
Huge shoutout to Steve Taylor for devoting his amazing voice-overs for us all to enjoy 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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You wish you had a huge shout out...
You take "anything can happen" to the next level
You know this is actually uplifting, if this is right then even after it's eventually heat death, the universe is capable of recreating itself.
What's fascinating is that under this same theory you could argue that right now you aren't a floating brain, but at any moment you could die. Once you die any amount of time could pass before a floating brain forms with the exact memories of you. Your life would continue, but in one of these dream worlds. This would patch the issue with the dream universe being based on our observation of this real universe since this universe actually does exist in this case, but it's still subject to the limitations of our understanding of how this universe actually works.
Pretty cool if you think about it and there is a minute chance that someone on this planet has the same brain configuration and memories as someone who lived long before
my argument is if anything is possible at any time then why does the word 'never' exist?
@@thatdelta That's strictly not a possibilty. It WOULD be, if the external variables, such as technological and societal development, weren't factors, but they are, plus there were many slight genetical differences humans experienced due to small-scale evolution.
In a vacuum, it could be possible, just not in the current reality.
@@zackdipaolo7858great argument, you said so much here.
@@andresan2023 fair enough thats a good way to look at it....or is it? Lol
Loved this. Follow up reading for anyone interested is Katie Mack's book "The End of Everything." She goes in depth into the possibility of a piano spontaneously assembling itself over the google of years during the universe's existence
if you're referring to the number, not the company, its 'googol'
Btw this video can be taken a step further
This also means that everyone is immortal, because when we die, an ♾ time might pass, but eventually we will live again, and experience everything, and even retain our memories.
If anyone want to loom up more about the videos, it's called a "boltzmann brain" experiment. Surprised they didn't mention it in the video.
@Litkeen that's taken from the big blip theory or Cyclic universe theory I believe, we would have different versions distanced from us over huge amounts of time and space
not everything Is taken from somewhere else, I made that conclusion by myself in the shower @@amanpreetgill7564
I think there will ALWAYS be *some* matter/energy in the universe and therefore a "time" in which to observe it. Even if the iron cores of long-dead stars are still present, they are still comprised of matter and therefore will also exert a gravitational influence and thus collide, re-ignite and repeat. It makes more sense that a cyclical universe which is MUCH MUCH MUCH older than we could possibly ever guess/calculate is a valid hypothesis. Some objects are simply too far apart, at opposite ends of our visible universe, for time to even have any effect on them at all.
Amazing. Love it ❤
This takes "Life could be a dream" to a whole other meaning
No, this is just what it means
Life couldn't be a dream though, factually
Life is a dream and we are actually orangutans swimming in the river
Sha boom
@@lexruptor Depends on your axioms.
I love the fact that this video helps me look less crazy because I really think about stuff every single day of my life like I know there is WAY more out there than what we know lol 😂 it just has to be.
Of course there is, every single theory on existence and the universe I've ever read or watched always brings me back to two solutions. Either we are just incredibly small pawns in a huge, possibly infinite game that do not matter at all, or the Boltzmann theory. That there is just one single being, or maybe not even that, that dreames this reality up and it all doesn't even quite exist in the first place.
Then I always get led to a single question, but what comes after that? There always seems like there has to be something more, something to complete it, but then again, it can't ever be complete. If it could, nothingness would be possible. But how? I think most of us don't want to accept that ''nothing'' is possible, so we keep looking for something else. What is outside our universe? Another universe. What is outside of that? Another,...Well after the last universe if that even exists, what comes? Someone or something that dreamt this all up or created it. And where is he? In an even bigger universe...
Well I probably talked about that longer than I have to to make it plausible but you get what I mean!
what do you know ?
I encourage you to read the book of Luke I believe you will find answers there.
@@andinda7915Luke who? Full name please.
@lelouchvibrittania1170 I mean the book of Luke in the Bible. I am not saying this in a provocative manner, but that's what I know helped answer a lot of my questions.
If you do get a chance, kindly do so, tell me what you think.
The problem is, if you think, therefore you are.
Regardless of whether or not you are not.
Holy crap this sounds like a lot of panic thoughts that haven't been explained so dark