Come try my free QAL VPN alpha I built that can protect you from quantum computers: www.qalvpn.com/ The talk/video I was referring to is titled “Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't” - th-cam.com/video/EcMKLwVlpJk/w-d-xo.html. It’s captivating and you’ll certainly learn a few very useful things about poverty and stupidity!
@Dylan J. Dance There's a really short story that I would recommend called "The Last Question" by Issac Assimov. I talks about entropy and the death of the universe and I thought you might as well enjoy it. It probably doesn't take more than half an hour to read it, and you can even find some audio versions on TH-cam. Thanks!
Oh I read that book to as a kid and love it.one thing you did not touch on is how Chinese numbers work linguistically. maybe it wasn't in the talk/video. but the full audiobook is on TH-cam th-cam.com/video/X6iTKnk4W4Y/w-d-xo.html
Good point with the introvert extrovert theorie. Another point could be believing in the afterlife is much more important for extroverts, because it’s hard to imagine being alone for ever. Even though we might feel nothing when we’re dead we feel the emotions thinking of being dead
I'm an introvert and not religious and if I imagined that being dead meant being alone forever I'd be way more alarmed than imagining it as simply not existing, or for that matter being accompanied forever.
@@mikicerise6250 it’s my stupid brain. I know I’ll not experience anything and know how it feels to be unconscious. But then I try to imagine how it could feel. No thoughts, time doesn’t exist and the universe basically ends from your point of reference (because Time still goes on without you but you don’t experience it). I basically try to imagine being a stone lol
@@mikicerise6250 already tried that. I felt like a weird nostalgia which may be just my earliest memories. I sometimes randomly think of being a person from the past with the same feeling of nostalgia. Which is 99% because Im an empath and my brain is making things up
While it does make sense that extroverted people might tend to be more religious, I wonder how the study that produced that statistic was conducted as well. It might vary from culture to culture and religion to religion. It might also be simply the fact that religion is often the cause/source of a lot of community and cultural events and festivals, which obviously attracts extroverts.
When i first saw this short story on youtube, it completely blew my mind. When i was a kid, maybe around 14ish, i learned about reincarnation. And i use to think to myself..what if were all the same person? What if theres only one of us living different lives all together. It was so crazy to realize that others had the same thought at some point. Really trippy lol
Since you mentioned your theory on the loneliness defense mechanism being god, you should definately watch "loneliness" from kurzgesagt, It's one of their best videos. A bonus one wich can be pretty interesting is "optimistic nihilism".
I met somebody who also told me that they didn't have a voice in their head for their thoughts and I couldn't even fathom the idea of that. To the point that I had a small debate with him, just to try to understand that and still, till this day, I still can't fathom that. Just shows how extremely different we all are when it comes to the functionality of our brains thoughts.
What are you talking to yourself what you already dont know? Like I dont need inner voice because I know instantly my state of the mind. If I am deciding between choices I dont need talking to myself, I just know my feelings and information in my brain which I see. It would be weird to talk with me about things I already know, exactly like it is weird to see someone talking to himself/herself aloud. Well, I think that there is one instance, where it is really weird, because when I speak and write unprepared I dont let my voice to talk for me but the words come from me without inner dialogue, I speak and write instantly. Hard to explain. I feel like I am one in my brain. Do you feel like you are two? Why do you need to talk to yourself?
I stay awake worrying and thinking of everyone dying and death. Then I think and worry about those at the edge of time... just living in a dark universe trying to survive. Then I go crazy. Lol.
Mate, this is one of my favorite of your videos. I definitely think you should watch more philosophical videos and share your thoughts. Right quick, is Patreon the subscription you were talking about the other day? I want to support you and this channel the best way, so you get the most money out of the donations. Again, thank you for continuing this journey and it’s nice to “meet” someone who has similar thoughts about this experience/simulation. If you’re in mine or I’m in yours, it’s all good for me mate… because you’re awesome. 😎
I wish there were notifications for these! Thank you again Nicholas. I read this comment and meant to respond straight away and forgot. But your comment alone inspired to do more philosophical videos! There's more incoming. About to release the Optimistic nihilism Kurzgesagt one. I was referring to the membership system on TH-cam itself. But look, don't worry about that, come use my software and I'll be happy :) (QAL VPN). But if you still wanted to, would help a lot. There's a button under the videos themselves that says "join." Glad to know there are like minds out there watching. The best part has been connecting with and seeing how many we are. Cheers for watching and the support once again my friend, means a lot. Whoever's sim, it's cool with me too 😎
Have you ever read into what a Tulpa is? It goes hand in hand with being a defence mechanism against isolation. Except it's intentional, and needs constant practice.
I think we r all the same consciousness, but split into pieces and we get so many different types of humans from experiences. This theory is the thing that makes the most sense to me
Finding out my personality type helped me tremendously understanding myself better. I grew up not having any role model or anyone to help me figure out stuff basically.
im one of those people with Aphantasia. I can't picture images or 3d objects in my head. The worst part is being unable to see faces of friends or family without a picture
I've had conversations about this theory with friends but never heard this story until today. I'm sure I picked it up somewhere else along the way but it's cool to see that other people have thought about this same idea before.
I've never heard of The Egg before, but I'm so glad I watched your video because I absolutely loved the story. Please, I'd love to see your recommendations on short stories. I also found your idea on religion super interesting and it was something I never thought of. But tbh, from a behavioral science perspective, it makes sense.
@@Foxner I found Artemis the hardest to get into, and it was different to the others by quite a way. I found it better on re-reads honestly. It was more society-based, than "space is bad" based. I would recommend it, but I rate it the lowest of the three. All three are great, however.
@@Foxner Additionally, I ought to mention: Everyone I've asked about the audiobook for Project Hail Mary have said it's been done excellently. You know exactly what I mean - because the audio is so different to the book.
Its a story by Andy Weir from like 2009, really it was just a pseudophilosophical way of trying to explain away a lot logical opposition to reincarnation with the use of mcguffins. I remember the first time i read it, my first thought was "Do you want a evil/mad god? Because that's how you get a evil/mad god".
13:50 I definitely have to agree with you on that, because the concept of consciousness is still unknown as well as how it occurs to the extent of sentience. I also would like to point out or at least say in my experience whenever you think about death or perhaps what comes after and what’ll happen to you. Your brain somewhat tries to autocorrect that thought to another random thought to “distract” you from giving it considerable thought. You also get this feeling that isn’t really fear but it’s pretty hard to describe.
The issue is that it's a human concept. This is the issue with trying to figure out "why", the only reason we think there is a "why" is because we are humans and want to find meaning, even if there just isn't any. Why does there have to be anything after death?
Ive always thought of it like before i was born, there was a big bang and the universe was created and faster than the snap of my fingers 13.75 billion years had passed and i was born instantly then time slowed to the rate of my experience, and after i die way quicker than the time it takes to snap your finger the whole universe has aged trillions of trillions of years have allready passed and the universe is allready over, kaput..
6:47 backing this up a bit, you’re not wrong since looking back at it, one of the proving facts why neanderthals began to fall off is due to them being more isolated to smaller strongly bonded groups while homosapians were much more together, covering much more land and having it in their control and spreading and taking over more land.
@@ThePowerfox18 Would be interesting to know what they’d believe or if they learned about science. Many civilizations went about religion and figuring out science their own way which worked for them while another process worked for another civilization. Just curious and fun thoughts to ponder :)
I've always considered myself spiritual, but not a part of any particular mainstream religion. The number 1 thing I'm always considering is the idea that the individual I am is not necessarily the only me I could have been. If souls exist, then I am me because my soul inhabited this body. If random chance or a higher power had chosen differently, I could have been any person in any time period. So in a cosmic way, I kind of am everyone at every time period, or more precisely, because I could have been anyone I see no reason to treat others as outsiders. Random chance or the will of a deity, doesn't really matter. All people are people, and I could have been anyone. So I've decided to treat everyone with the kindness I myself would want to receive. This ends when I'm wronged or taken advantage of, but even still I try to be understanding of those around me, as if they are all alternate versions of myself.
i love your way of thinking about the universe. a lot of the things you say i think the exact same, except i have less knowledge because i'm younger. but i enjoy watching these videos.
i was always like "why am i me, like why specifically am i this body? why am i not someone else? whats the difference between everyone in every time period that makes me the body here and now and not another body 100 years ago?" i always had this idea growing up that humans are all ultimately the same being just split into seperate compartmentalized conciousness which is why im specifically this body in the here and now, im a fraction of a larger whole, specifically made to be here then again ive had gender dysphoria since i was 7, so having these thoughts are understandable
I've had this thought. Like, why am I this guy in this country in this way and not something else? Or rather, could I have been someone else? What am I? What does "I" actually mean? I think at the absolute root of identity or consciousness is simply consciousness, which at bottom, is the same thing wherever consciousness is, but filtered through its "hosts" particular experiences. In other words, at bottom, we are the same thing. Which I think is a lovely thought, because it is like an absolute eradicator of all the prejudices that plague more surface level characteristics. We are one. Like a Buddhist idea.
i just think the most reasonable option is like when you go to sleep and have no sense of time and you wake up, perhaps death is the same way, and in the span of infinite time your exact brain could be remade and from your perspective you will immediately return to a point where you are living
My hypothesis on the Asian math situation is as follows. Chinese written language has thousands of symbols to remember. Some symbols having minute differences from others. I can’t help but think that the process of learning and remembering so many symbols gives them an upper hand in some respects to someone with a 20-30 letter alphabet. Japanese have a similar situation with their written language. Then Korean is less complex than Japanese. Thai and Hindi look like they could be used as languages in alien spaceships. It seems to me that the complexity of the written language is key. Not the only reason of course. When I think back to the historical great minds, even when just English is concerned, non of them were illiterate.
i must say, from my personal experiences I've come to observe the opposite, meaning extroverts are less likely to be religious and introverts are more likely. I'm a religious introvert myself so I might just be spewing a case of confirmation bias.
I agree with you completely about the introvert vs extrovert take. I have thought the same thing for a few years. I decided that people invented god out of pure fear of the unknown. And to stave off the fear of inevitable death. If they believe there is something there after death, they have no reason to fear it. Where as me, I'm just staring into the black void.
you know what is crazy when I tell my mom that I can hear my voice in my head that I can talk to myself she is astounded she just doen't hear herself she says she just "does" things and I am just so confused about that ... like I can imagine things in my head so clearly and she just can't ... it's crazy
the vast majority of math needed by any major is actually pretty straight forward. that's not to say it's simple, but that being good at these topics is possible with a few hours of daily effort. there are some things that are especially tricky, however many of those things rarely come up or can be remembered after you've seen them a few times. if you struggle with a problem, put it into a list of hard problems, write it down, or write down how to find it: book, page, question number. practice them every few days. you'll get better very quickly.
My old and favourite boss in all my jobs, said,"go within or go without" it took me years to understand, he is a proper decent mentor to me and he be jewish, i have questioned everything all my life, all religions, tech pfft and have discovered that knowledge and lack of ignorance, is all important, question everything often times, trust nobody and introspect, keep calm and carry on ❤
I cannot visualize stuff in my head. Its not like I cant think about an object, but its no where close to what a dream feels like. I don't know how to explain it but I can say in my head what something looks like but I cannot actually visualize it. I feel like the voice in my head may be a bit stronger because of that.
I definitely prefer time alone while playing with theories and concepts and thought rather than being with others and entertained by "outward" things. My perfect day is camping alone with a fire and thoughts/ideas
So, interesting thing: We have a number of interesting things in common. We're both physicists, though I'm an atomic physicist, I did my PhD in a neutral atoms lab studying few-body physics and now work on development of trapped ion quantum computers. We both tested as INTP, though we both see it as pseudo-scientific... not quite nonsense, it's useful in a way as a simple model for trying to recognize differences between people (for example, labeling someone as an introvert or an extravert can help you to recognize that they have different needs, allowing you to modify the way your treatment of them to try to accommodate their needs rather than simply your own), though the fact that it's an imperfect model can lead you to make mistakes based on the model if you're not careful. But this video highlights one very interesting difference: I am quite religious. As I told a postdoc that I worked with in grad school when he expressed disdain for religion and confusion at my believing in God, I have had experiences with God, and with that experience, it just doesn't make sense for me to not believe. After all, when God has given me knowledge of things that are well outside what I could possibly know, that strikes me as more than an invented voice in my head. And of course that has bearing on how I view your theory on introverts and extraverts; perhaps the need for connection has an impact on religiousness, but it's not the whole story. Also, as I said, in some ways we look very similar from the outside, but of course, each person is an individual, so we'll certainly find significant differences between us as well. Which is possibly my biggest problem with viewing personality types as anything more than an oversimplified model.
on the learning math thing, there's more than just effort. trying to learn math and some related stuff as a disabled person, I tried hard enough to almost completely destroy my physical and mental health. I think it's at least as much, if not far more, a result of what mix of help and barriers you encounter when you do try, how much your needs are met vs arbitrarily made worse by the institutions around you
Yesterday I had a thought too about introvert people. I was talking about a friend why kids cry when they get hurt by falling because to me seems more like only psychological pain could make you cry. she mention that is to get attention to make people care for them and how all kids feel like they are the center of the world. But when I was a kid I always felt like I was watching through a window and things just were happening around me, I just happened to be there. Maybe that’s what an introvert is? But then I thought lots of celebrities are introvert and clearly they feel they are the center of the world so maybe not 😂
Dylan, on your thoughts about religion being an evolutionary defence mechanism, I, as a cognitive scientist, have some thoughts on this too: self-bias -> projection. Basically, we have an ultimate selection bias: the self bias, which causes us to perceive all of our observations in a way that is consistent with our previous experiences (in a way that "makes sense to us"), and what have we experienced the most? People: firstly, our parents being the first people we see, taking care of us, raising us; secondly, our peers and friends being around us and sharing experiences with us; and so on. In my model of understanding, this is what causes "projection" or the tendency for people to "personify" other entities (both inanimate and animate, "unintelligent" or "intelligent") as similar to themselves. We see this at different extremes, from people assuming others understand them just because they expect them to, to assuming pets are "thinking" or "feeling" certain things, just because they would be thinking those things if they were in the same situation, and even so far as to personify insects, inanimate objects like teddy bears, weather, even environments like mountains, forests, and oceans. So for religion, based on the context above, regardless of any hypothesized "evolutionary purpose", I think religion is simply a type of projection, where people personify a weather event or forests, the sea, etc (things which can be, and have been, witnessed in most locations across the world), then different religions started in multiple places across the world, even describing very similar events, because they actually *are* talking about similar events, only interpreting them in different personified ways. For example, a seemingly sudden appearance of dark clouds making rumbling sounds can be personified as "the sky getting angry". From here, what I call the current-opinion bias happens, where the mind automatically assumes its current opinion is correct (and must be disproven to change), and so interprets observations (or lack thereof) accordingly. For example, "the sky getting angry is my opinion, so then it must be an absolute fact", and this person begins literally perceiving the sky as if it were a person, due to this bias. Then, the confirmation bias takes over, leading people to collect and create justifications for their current opinion and anti-justifications for opposing opinions, which manifests as creating stories explaining why their opinion is "a fact". For example, "If the person in the sky is angry, well, people have genders, so let's call it a man, because I'm a man (which is the self bias at work once again), and let's call him Zeus, because wind and thunder make a 'zhwoosh' sound", then "Zeus has children, because I have children" and so on. The mind can quickly imagine entire stories and worlds of justification all on its own (aka "echo chambers"), and if anything else disagrees or doesn't understand, the confirmation bias tends to cause the mind to cling to its own self-justifications, rather than recognize conflicting observations, by either editing its stories to explain the conflicts, or ignoring the conflicts altogether, or if it can't do either of those, the mind fears for its existence and either avoids the conflict, or creates anger to defend its fear, and attacks the "threat to its existence", which usually ends up as people either avoiding interacting with each other, or performing verbal or physical violence anywhere from insults to wars. And up until the current age, people unaware of their biases have been continuing to add to & adjust these stories as they started clashing with new observations (measurements, science) & tested models that are consistent with most other observations, and people generally have been doing 2 kinds of behaviours: - Creating and modifying stories to fill in the gaps that current observations and models haven't tested and consistently observed yet - Outright rejecting observations and tested models, instead asserting their untested, unobserved opinions louder, more often, and with more people all echoing each other's words You might notice this is not restricted to just religion, but for all assertions of untested, unobserved opinions that go against existing (or just don't use any) observation-based and consistent models of understanding, like most religions, conspiracy theories, politically-charged arguments, relationship arguments, and pretty much anything else. These are all just my thoughts, but what do you think?
I've always assumed if there is any continuity after death that it'd be so radically different from our regular experience with space and time that it'd be indistinguishable from nothingness like trying describe a color outside the visible spectrum
I dont think ive tried hard to understand math, no. But ive also never had a problem in understanding it. Nor in understanding what we know about, say, spacetime. Im sure effort can help maybe, but i never needed to put much effort into understanding math. Thats not to say i know everything about it of course, but ill get around to those aspects i havent thought about when i need them.
21:50 same, but will always understand that it has no meaning After we die, its all empty we don't even know we died. U watch your parents die, then u die, all the memories, emotions, bad or good moments are gone instantly and U WILL NOT EVEN KNOW IT So for me, i do think deep down there is no meaning
I'd definitely love to see you do more videos on philosophical topics such as this one. Videos that make you think and challenge your mind are always the most enjoyable in my opinion. Also, that theory about religion being a defense mechanism against loneliness is interesting. I've never thought of it that way, but I think you're on to something. Thanks for all the great content! Btw I'd love to see you react to "The Simulation Hypothesis is Pseudoscience" and "Did the Big Bang Happen" videos by Sabine Hossenfelder.
Once I had my first few lucid dreams where I realized I was dreaming in my bed but could still stay asleep and control my dream reality... I definitely began to think more than twice. I love being alone as well. Spend my spare time mostly alone.
The egg is an explanation to why we would emulate worlds in computers, where in an advanced civilization, when one chooses to die, to create another being, one should live the history of humanity in different points of view, to be a mature mind when developed.
Math success is absolutely not solely related to effort. Some kids can excel with little effort at all whereas others spend hours trying to figure it out and just can’t manage it. However the people who struggle with math tend to be much better at subjects like history and literature than those who excel at math. It’s just left brain Vs right brain.
I had that same thouhts about people being the same but no two brains are the same ... so who someone is is a depended on outside factors but also how you are build on the inside ...
Ive had your exact same thoughts for the past eight years - its hard to shake the perspective that there is not as distinct a separation between each of us and humanity as a whole. But taking it a step further, what is the separation between us an other life on earth of varying "intelligence"? Or even a step further, self reproducing patterns of matter (life) from other states of matter? Perhaps the universe experiences itself through the complexity and interaction of its internal systems - maybe matter interaction itself is consciousness, with the complexity of which determined by the nature of the system? I just don't see how the organizational structure of a human or a brain could conceptually house such a unique formative system to where it's the only matter that transcends the plane of simple existence into the plane of experiential existence.
I definitely think you are right and there are even published papers that try to explain consciousness on a physics basis. It has to do with the interpretation of quantum fields so I have no clue what that could mean for us. I definitely feel that our brain is not solely responsible for making us conscious. Every cell has to be conscious too without it
Thank you for you insight on introvert extrovert. I‘m myself INTP living in Germany (hat to do MBTI in University even if I don’t like the idea to simplify) and I also realized that a lot of extrovert people can’t be alone and prefer groups. My theory was that for a group to function you need a story to distinguish your group from others and strengthen loyalty and religions excel at storytelling. However, I like your idea as well. Anyway, good video 😊
Bro FYI this whole video was taken word for word from the Bhagavad Gita and Advaita Vedanta which is the core of Hinduism and was written in 2000BC. Which I find to be pretty cool.
That is a very "friendly" spiritual and first of all way less disturbing version of these Boltzmann brain hypotheses... And well that's some effort i could see one has to take to be called a god in the end...
To me, the meaning of life is to evolve, to grow and advance little by little with each turn. To become more then you were before in anything, anyway you choose. And to do it in away that you like. Whether it’s becoming better at a video game you like, Learning a skill or trade, or adding a new story to your mind. All of it makes you a little more than you were before. So Believe in yourself, and if you can’t, Believe in the me that believes in you.
I was very extroverted when I was in a Christian school and went to church. But after I left in pursue of science, I became introverted because of my advanced thoughts
Though, there definitely are a lot of important introverts that have contributed to religion through their philosophies and time spent writing, thinking, contemplating, praying, and meditating alone in caves or out in the desert and such things like that
Thats a good theory. I am introverted but I want friend or friends lol. But only in small doses I guess. Or just some people who won't lie or just use me. I'm a broke person who has been hurt by "friends" lol. It sucks
Chinese actually has a advantage of only has one syllable in any words including those words for mathematical terms. For example 百 for hundred (s) and you are cutting down 2 syllables. So when you doing math and thinking with Chinese it actually takes so much less time for you to process the equation.
About your thoughts on religion and extroverts I think is because religious communities employ rites and community activities that are more suited to extroverts. Then once you are part of a community is more difficult to go against the group because of the fear of losing the group, a thing that most introverts would mind that much I think. Of course this is just my opinion on the matter.
I don't know how familiar you are with Andy Wier - the writer for The Egg, but he also wrote The Martian, Artemis, and Project: Hail Mary. All of them are excellent books (and The Martian is a great movie), but as a physicist, I'm sure you would find them particularly fascinating. Artemis in particular dabbles with physics acting in fascinating ways and the consequences of that, and Project: Hail Mary has a bunch of physics and biology based ideas that are incredible to think about (including what happens when travelling close to the speed of light both with and without protection).
I was waiting for that reaction for quite a long time, glad to see it. I knew you'd like it!! About the extrovert/introvert thing, I think it can definitely be a factor when it comes to religion, but religion gives a whole lot more as well. For example some people really like routines and really like having a concrete plan of what to do and religion gives a lot of that.
You should read or listen to "We put a soul in a computer" creepypasta. Very similar to The Egg, probably inspired but a different take. If you do listen to it I def recommend The Dark Somnium.
I'm an INTP also and this is my favourite idea for what life and the universe are about. I don't believe it to be true either, I don't hold any firm beliefs around life and the universe, but it's definitely my favourite view.
I’ve always thought since a child that we are separate pieces of one thing. God to me is, me, you, us, the grass, the trees etc. we’re all just one entity experiencing life as separate parts to better understand the one entity. I don’t see “god” as separate, I’m also not religious, and introverted mostly but I am human so I am extroverted at times out of necessity I suppose, I don’t give it much though just roll with it… I think god, us, me, always is and always was, time is subjective and relative, possibly not existing at all, just a byproduct as we place thoughts before others to have some sort of sequential order in this physical space. Maybe there is a place that exists in a higher physical dimension, inconceivable to us obviously, where many “gods” exist, that create their own universes of which they separate themselves like this story we just saw, and there is only one above them that they are a part of, and we are the lowest on the totem pole? Maybe there exists a god to the gods. Things can get really weird in your head when you start to think about this. In no way can I say I’m right or wrong, these are just my thoughts I wanted to share. My opinion only. I’m not a physicist, I know nothing about physics other than the basics, although I find quantum theory very interesting and have a basic understanding of it, not of the mathematics but the idea. I hope all of you, all the different versions of me, have a good day. ☺️
Could you please react to the film Arrival it's one of my favourite sci-fi movies out there! And tackles it in such a realistic and empathetic way. Plus the aliens have the best sounds ever.
Wait, you have a voice in your head? I only have my voice, like talking out to a void. And i can only hear it when i'm typing or thinking of every word I say
9:00 around this point there was a part in the original video where the godlike figure said all religions are right in their own minds. Why was that cut from the video?
I don't think religious ideas pop into peoples heads primarily out of fear of loneliness, but more a desire to explain why the "rules" should be followed, what the rules are and why natural phenomena happen. Natural human curiosity at work. Science does the same thing, but it uses math and does peer review and stuff so I trust it more than the array of armchair philosophers that wrote scriptures. I don't have an issue with the potential existence of something divine, or that life could be the whole point of creating a universe. I also think the overall flow of matter and energy throughout the universe might be it's purpose, and it all may be just a component of a larger system. Who knows.
My hope if this is true is that when ‘this’ iteration of me dies I get told I’m going to be reborn in the year two trillion (or something); humanity having outlived Sol. Or perhaps orbiting a cooling neutron star or a black hole, even farther in the future. That would be nice to learn.
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The talk/video I was referring to is titled “Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't” - th-cam.com/video/EcMKLwVlpJk/w-d-xo.html. It’s captivating and you’ll certainly learn a few very useful things about poverty and stupidity!
Hello Dylan, what was that movie you mentioned in a previous video that you and your brother would always watch when you were younger?
@Dylan J. Dance There's a really short story that I would recommend called "The Last Question" by Issac Assimov. I talks about entropy and the death of the universe and I thought you might as well enjoy it.
It probably doesn't take more than half an hour to read it, and you can even find some audio versions on TH-cam.
Thanks!
@@SpaceOutpost He talked abt it in a vid back
Oh I read that book to as a kid and love it.one thing you did not touch on is how Chinese numbers work linguistically. maybe it wasn't in the talk/video. but the full audiobook is on TH-cam th-cam.com/video/X6iTKnk4W4Y/w-d-xo.html
Good point with the introvert extrovert theorie. Another point could be believing in the afterlife is much more important for extroverts, because it’s hard to imagine being alone for ever. Even though we might feel nothing when we’re dead we feel the emotions thinking of being dead
I'm an introvert and not religious and if I imagined that being dead meant being alone forever I'd be way more alarmed than imagining it as simply not existing, or for that matter being accompanied forever.
@@mikicerise6250 it’s my stupid brain. I know I’ll not experience anything and know how it feels to be unconscious. But then I try to imagine how it could feel. No thoughts, time doesn’t exist and the universe basically ends from your point of reference (because Time still goes on without you but you don’t experience it).
I basically try to imagine being a stone lol
@@ThePowerfox18 Just try to remember how you felt before you were born. Remember? Yeah, that. ;)
@@mikicerise6250 already tried that. I felt like a weird nostalgia which may be just my earliest memories. I sometimes randomly think of being a person from the past with the same feeling of nostalgia. Which is 99% because Im an empath and my brain is making things up
I like that approach.
While it does make sense that extroverted people might tend to be more religious, I wonder how the study that produced that statistic was conducted as well. It might vary from culture to culture and religion to religion. It might also be simply the fact that religion is often the cause/source of a lot of community and cultural events and festivals, which obviously attracts extroverts.
Great points
When i first saw this short story on youtube, it completely blew my mind. When i was a kid, maybe around 14ish, i learned about reincarnation. And i use to think to myself..what if were all the same person? What if theres only one of us living different lives all together. It was so crazy to realize that others had the same thought at some point. Really trippy lol
Since you mentioned your theory on the loneliness defense mechanism being god, you should definately watch "loneliness" from kurzgesagt, It's one of their best videos.
A bonus one wich can be pretty interesting is "optimistic nihilism".
my channel the egg stroy
Yeah. I watched both of them. They blew my mind. Every video of Kurzgesagt is beautiful.
@@sahilsheikh5651 i agree, their videos makes me think more than all i've seen all those years in school
I met somebody who also told me that they didn't have a voice in their head for their thoughts and I couldn't even fathom the idea of that. To the point that I had a small debate with him, just to try to understand that and still, till this day, I still can't fathom that. Just shows how extremely different we all are when it comes to the functionality of our brains thoughts.
What are you talking to yourself what you already dont know? Like I dont need inner voice because I know instantly my state of the mind. If I am deciding between choices I dont need talking to myself, I just know my feelings and information in my brain which I see. It would be weird to talk with me about things I already know, exactly like it is weird to see someone talking to himself/herself aloud. Well, I think that there is one instance, where it is really weird, because when I speak and write unprepared I dont let my voice to talk for me but the words come from me without inner dialogue, I speak and write instantly. Hard to explain. I feel like I am one in my brain. Do you feel like you are two?
Why do you need to talk to yourself?
I stay awake worrying and thinking of everyone dying and death. Then I think and worry about those at the edge of time... just living in a dark universe trying to survive. Then I go crazy. Lol.
Mate, this is one of my favorite of your videos. I definitely think you should watch more philosophical videos and share your thoughts.
Right quick, is Patreon the subscription you were talking about the other day? I want to support you and this channel the best way, so you get the most money out of the donations.
Again, thank you for continuing this journey and it’s nice to “meet” someone who has similar thoughts about this experience/simulation. If you’re in mine or I’m in yours, it’s all good for me mate… because you’re awesome. 😎
I wish there were notifications for these! Thank you again Nicholas. I read this comment and meant to respond straight away and forgot. But your comment alone inspired to do more philosophical videos! There's more incoming. About to release the Optimistic nihilism Kurzgesagt one.
I was referring to the membership system on TH-cam itself. But look, don't worry about that, come use my software and I'll be happy :) (QAL VPN). But if you still wanted to, would help a lot. There's a button under the videos themselves that says "join."
Glad to know there are like minds out there watching. The best part has been connecting with and seeing how many we are. Cheers for watching and the support once again my friend, means a lot. Whoever's sim, it's cool with me too 😎
Umm ur Hitler and more too 🤦🏻♂️
Have you ever read into what a Tulpa is? It goes hand in hand with being a defence mechanism against isolation. Except it's intentional, and needs constant practice.
Now my mind is blown knowing there are people out there with no inner voice. That just seems wild.
I think we r all the same consciousness, but split into pieces and we get so many different types of humans from experiences. This theory is the thing that makes the most sense to me
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!
Finding out my personality type helped me tremendously understanding myself better. I grew up not having any role model or anyone to help me figure out stuff basically.
im one of those people with Aphantasia. I can't picture images or 3d objects in my head. The worst part is being unable to see faces of friends or family without a picture
How did you discover it, if I might ask?
I've had conversations about this theory with friends but never heard this story until today. I'm sure I picked it up somewhere else along the way but it's cool to see that other people have thought about this same idea before.
I love videos like this that just make you think. There’s nothing concrete/scientific but it still exercises your mind
I've never heard of The Egg before, but I'm so glad I watched your video because I absolutely loved the story. Please, I'd love to see your recommendations on short stories.
I also found your idea on religion super interesting and it was something I never thought of. But tbh, from a behavioral science perspective, it makes sense.
The Egg is written by Andy Weir - the same writer of The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary. A truly fantastic writer.
@@acrefray Yeah, I just read Project Hail Mary, it was so good. I'm a bit hesitant to read Artemis tho, the synopsis didn't really catch my interest.
@@Foxner I found Artemis the hardest to get into, and it was different to the others by quite a way. I found it better on re-reads honestly. It was more society-based, than "space is bad" based. I would recommend it, but I rate it the lowest of the three. All three are great, however.
@@Foxner Additionally, I ought to mention: Everyone I've asked about the audiobook for Project Hail Mary have said it's been done excellently. You know exactly what I mean - because the audio is so different to the book.
Its a story by Andy Weir from like 2009, really it was just a pseudophilosophical way of trying to explain away a lot logical opposition to reincarnation with the use of mcguffins. I remember the first time i read it, my first thought was "Do you want a evil/mad god? Because that's how you get a evil/mad god".
13:50 I definitely have to agree with you on that, because the concept of consciousness is still unknown as well as how it occurs to the extent of sentience. I also would like to point out or at least say in my experience whenever you think about death or perhaps what comes after and what’ll happen to you. Your brain somewhat tries to autocorrect that thought to another random thought to “distract” you from giving it considerable thought. You also get this feeling that isn’t really fear but it’s pretty hard to describe.
The issue is that it's a human concept. This is the issue with trying to figure out "why", the only reason we think there is a "why" is because we are humans and want to find meaning, even if there just isn't any. Why does there have to be anything after death?
Ive always thought of it like before i was born, there was a big bang and the universe was created and faster than the snap of my fingers 13.75 billion years had passed and i was born instantly then time slowed to the rate of my experience, and after i die way quicker than the time it takes to snap your finger the whole universe has aged trillions of trillions of years have allready passed and the universe is allready over, kaput..
The Egg might be my favorite videos on TH-cam. Such a beautiful and profound story
I have thought about that theory of religion before it’s really a endless rabbit hole you can just sink deeper in to
6:47 backing this up a bit, you’re not wrong since looking back at it, one of the proving facts why neanderthals began to fall off is due to them being more isolated to smaller strongly bonded groups while homosapians were much more together, covering much more land and having it in their control and spreading and taking over more land.
And they didn’t draw much on walls (deities). So Neanderthals are atheists. Got it
@@ThePowerfox18 Would be interesting to know what they’d believe or if they learned about science. Many civilizations went about religion and figuring out science their own way which worked for them while another process worked for another civilization.
Just curious and fun thoughts to ponder :)
I've always considered myself spiritual, but not a part of any particular mainstream religion. The number 1 thing I'm always considering is the idea that the individual I am is not necessarily the only me I could have been. If souls exist, then I am me because my soul inhabited this body. If random chance or a higher power had chosen differently, I could have been any person in any time period. So in a cosmic way, I kind of am everyone at every time period, or more precisely, because I could have been anyone I see no reason to treat others as outsiders. Random chance or the will of a deity, doesn't really matter. All people are people, and I could have been anyone. So I've decided to treat everyone with the kindness I myself would want to receive. This ends when I'm wronged or taken advantage of, but even still I try to be understanding of those around me, as if they are all alternate versions of myself.
i love your way of thinking about the universe. a lot of the things you say i think the exact same, except i have less knowledge because i'm younger. but i enjoy watching these videos.
i was always like "why am i me, like why specifically am i this body? why am i not someone else? whats the difference between everyone in every time period that makes me the body here and now and not another body 100 years ago?" i always had this idea growing up that humans are all ultimately the same being just split into seperate compartmentalized conciousness which is why im specifically this body in the here and now, im a fraction of a larger whole, specifically made to be here
then again ive had gender dysphoria since i was 7, so having these thoughts are understandable
I've had this thought. Like, why am I this guy in this country in this way and not something else? Or rather, could I have been someone else? What am I? What does "I" actually mean? I think at the absolute root of identity or consciousness is simply consciousness, which at bottom, is the same thing wherever consciousness is, but filtered through its "hosts" particular experiences. In other words, at bottom, we are the same thing. Which I think is a lovely thought, because it is like an absolute eradicator of all the prejudices that plague more surface level characteristics. We are one. Like a Buddhist idea.
You guys are awesome, i also think like this ,the individual feeling at the same time(now) is common between you and me
Imagine being reborn as an alien in a solar system on the other side of the universe where they've already figured out galactic travel and such.
Are you going to make a video on the James Webb Space Telescope?
i just think the most reasonable option is like when you go to sleep and have no sense of time and you wake up, perhaps death is the same way, and in the span of infinite time your exact brain could be remade and from your perspective you will immediately return to a point where you are living
My hypothesis on the Asian math situation is as follows. Chinese written language has thousands of symbols to remember. Some symbols having minute differences from others. I can’t help but think that the process of learning and remembering so many symbols gives them an upper hand in some respects to someone with a 20-30 letter alphabet. Japanese have a similar situation with their written language. Then Korean is less complex than Japanese. Thai and Hindi look like they could be used as languages in alien spaceships. It seems to me that the complexity of the written language is key. Not the only reason of course. When I think back to the historical great minds, even when just English is concerned, non of them were illiterate.
I actually can see this
This works well
That’s my thought as well
i must say, from my personal experiences I've come to observe the opposite, meaning extroverts are less likely to be religious and introverts are more likely. I'm a religious introvert myself so I might just be spewing a case of confirmation bias.
I agree,introverts tend to be more religious coz they reflect a lot more
I like that explanation. Add psychedelics to it, and there it is. God
my take on the meaning of life thing is "life has no meaning, it's up to you to give it meaning"
my earliest memory is a flash of light, a sensation of falling and an indeterminate amount of time floating in complete darkness.
Schrödinger Believed That There Was Only One Mind in the Universe: our individual minds are not unique but rather like the reflected light from prisms
I agree with you completely about the introvert vs extrovert take. I have thought the same thing for a few years. I decided that people invented god out of pure fear of the unknown. And to stave off the fear of inevitable death. If they believe there is something there after death, they have no reason to fear it. Where as me, I'm just staring into the black void.
The void is null.
Theres no perception of it.
you know what is crazy when I tell my mom that I can hear my voice in my head that I can talk to myself she is astounded she just doen't hear herself she says she just "does" things and I am just so confused about that ... like I can imagine things in my head so clearly and she just can't ... it's crazy
Asians do not have as bad B.O as other ethnicities either.
the vast majority of math needed by any major is actually pretty straight forward. that's not to say it's simple, but that being good at these topics is possible with a few hours of daily effort.
there are some things that are especially tricky, however many of those things rarely come up or can be remembered after you've seen them a few times.
if you struggle with a problem, put it into a list of hard problems, write it down, or write down how to find it: book, page, question number. practice them every few days. you'll get better very quickly.
My old and favourite boss in all my jobs, said,"go within or go without" it took me years to understand, he is a proper decent mentor to me and he be jewish, i have questioned everything all my life, all religions, tech pfft and have discovered that knowledge and lack of ignorance, is all important, question everything often times, trust nobody and introspect, keep calm and carry on ❤
I cannot visualize stuff in my head. Its not like I cant think about an object, but its no where close to what a dream feels like. I don't know how to explain it but I can say in my head what something looks like but I cannot actually visualize it. I feel like the voice in my head may be a bit stronger because of that.
I definitely prefer time alone while playing with theories and concepts and thought rather than being with others and entertained by "outward" things. My perfect day is camping alone with a fire and thoughts/ideas
So, interesting thing: We have a number of interesting things in common. We're both physicists, though I'm an atomic physicist, I did my PhD in a neutral atoms lab studying few-body physics and now work on development of trapped ion quantum computers. We both tested as INTP, though we both see it as pseudo-scientific... not quite nonsense, it's useful in a way as a simple model for trying to recognize differences between people (for example, labeling someone as an introvert or an extravert can help you to recognize that they have different needs, allowing you to modify the way your treatment of them to try to accommodate their needs rather than simply your own), though the fact that it's an imperfect model can lead you to make mistakes based on the model if you're not careful. But this video highlights one very interesting difference: I am quite religious. As I told a postdoc that I worked with in grad school when he expressed disdain for religion and confusion at my believing in God, I have had experiences with God, and with that experience, it just doesn't make sense for me to not believe. After all, when God has given me knowledge of things that are well outside what I could possibly know, that strikes me as more than an invented voice in my head. And of course that has bearing on how I view your theory on introverts and extraverts; perhaps the need for connection has an impact on religiousness, but it's not the whole story.
Also, as I said, in some ways we look very similar from the outside, but of course, each person is an individual, so we'll certainly find significant differences between us as well. Which is possibly my biggest problem with viewing personality types as anything more than an oversimplified model.
Love the religion theory, it does apply to me as a somewhat introvert, and great hearing your thoughts and rambles
on the learning math thing, there's more than just effort. trying to learn math and some related stuff as a disabled person, I tried hard enough to almost completely destroy my physical and mental health. I think it's at least as much, if not far more, a result of what mix of help and barriers you encounter when you do try, how much your needs are met vs arbitrarily made worse by the institutions around you
Yesterday I had a thought too about introvert people. I was talking about a friend why kids cry when they get hurt by falling because to me seems more like only psychological pain could make you cry. she mention that is to get attention to make people care for them and how all kids feel like they are the center of the world. But when I was a kid I always felt like I was watching through a window and things just were happening around me, I just happened to be there. Maybe that’s what an introvert is? But then I thought lots of celebrities are introvert and clearly they feel they are the center of the world so maybe not 😂
Dylan, on your thoughts about religion being an evolutionary defence mechanism, I, as a cognitive scientist, have some thoughts on this too: self-bias -> projection. Basically, we have an ultimate selection bias: the self bias, which causes us to perceive all of our observations in a way that is consistent with our previous experiences (in a way that "makes sense to us"), and what have we experienced the most? People: firstly, our parents being the first people we see, taking care of us, raising us; secondly, our peers and friends being around us and sharing experiences with us; and so on.
In my model of understanding, this is what causes "projection" or the tendency for people to "personify" other entities (both inanimate and animate, "unintelligent" or "intelligent") as similar to themselves. We see this at different extremes, from people assuming others understand them just because they expect them to, to assuming pets are "thinking" or "feeling" certain things, just because they would be thinking those things if they were in the same situation, and even so far as to personify insects, inanimate objects like teddy bears, weather, even environments like mountains, forests, and oceans.
So for religion, based on the context above, regardless of any hypothesized "evolutionary purpose", I think religion is simply a type of projection, where people personify a weather event or forests, the sea, etc (things which can be, and have been, witnessed in most locations across the world), then different religions started in multiple places across the world, even describing very similar events, because they actually *are* talking about similar events, only interpreting them in different personified ways. For example, a seemingly sudden appearance of dark clouds making rumbling sounds can be personified as "the sky getting angry".
From here, what I call the current-opinion bias happens, where the mind automatically assumes its current opinion is correct (and must be disproven to change), and so interprets observations (or lack thereof) accordingly. For example, "the sky getting angry is my opinion, so then it must be an absolute fact", and this person begins literally perceiving the sky as if it were a person, due to this bias.
Then, the confirmation bias takes over, leading people to collect and create justifications for their current opinion and anti-justifications for opposing opinions, which manifests as creating stories explaining why their opinion is "a fact". For example, "If the person in the sky is angry, well, people have genders, so let's call it a man, because I'm a man (which is the self bias at work once again), and let's call him Zeus, because wind and thunder make a 'zhwoosh' sound", then "Zeus has children, because I have children" and so on. The mind can quickly imagine entire stories and worlds of justification all on its own (aka "echo chambers"), and if anything else disagrees or doesn't understand, the confirmation bias tends to cause the mind to cling to its own self-justifications, rather than recognize conflicting observations, by either editing its stories to explain the conflicts, or ignoring the conflicts altogether, or if it can't do either of those, the mind fears for its existence and either avoids the conflict, or creates anger to defend its fear, and attacks the "threat to its existence", which usually ends up as people either avoiding interacting with each other, or performing verbal or physical violence anywhere from insults to wars.
And up until the current age, people unaware of their biases have been continuing to add to & adjust these stories as they started clashing with new observations (measurements, science) & tested models that are consistent with most other observations, and people generally have been doing 2 kinds of behaviours:
- Creating and modifying stories to fill in the gaps that current observations and models haven't tested and consistently observed yet
- Outright rejecting observations and tested models, instead asserting their untested, unobserved opinions louder, more often, and with more people all echoing each other's words
You might notice this is not restricted to just religion, but for all assertions of untested, unobserved opinions that go against existing (or just don't use any) observation-based and consistent models of understanding, like most religions, conspiracy theories, politically-charged arguments, relationship arguments, and pretty much anything else.
These are all just my thoughts, but what do you think?
honestly I feel like I've never had a single original idea on a side note Have you guys ever tried to imagine "nothing" or a new color?
I've always assumed if there is any continuity after death that it'd be so radically different from our regular experience with space and time that it'd be indistinguishable from nothingness like trying describe a color outside the visible spectrum
Maybe it's a good thing we're all clueless, if we knew everything we'd be really depressed knowing that that's all there is to it.
I dont think ive tried hard to understand math, no. But ive also never had a problem in understanding it. Nor in understanding what we know about, say, spacetime. Im sure effort can help maybe, but i never needed to put much effort into understanding math. Thats not to say i know everything about it of course, but ill get around to those aspects i havent thought about when i need them.
21:50 same, but will always understand that it has no meaning
After we die, its all empty we don't even know we died. U watch your parents die, then u die, all the memories, emotions, bad or good moments are gone instantly and U WILL NOT EVEN KNOW IT
So for me, i do think deep down there is no meaning
I'd definitely love to see you do more videos on philosophical topics such as this one. Videos that make you think and challenge your mind are always the most enjoyable in my opinion.
Also, that theory about religion being a defense mechanism against loneliness is interesting. I've never thought of it that way, but I think you're on to something. Thanks for all the great content!
Btw I'd love to see you react to "The Simulation Hypothesis is Pseudoscience" and "Did the Big Bang Happen" videos by Sabine Hossenfelder.
Once I had my first few lucid dreams where I realized I was dreaming in my bed but could still stay asleep and control my dream reality... I definitely began to think more than twice. I love being alone as well. Spend my spare time mostly alone.
The egg is an explanation to why we would emulate worlds in computers, where in an advanced civilization, when one chooses to die, to create another being, one should live the history of humanity in different points of view, to be a mature mind when developed.
Math success is absolutely not solely related to effort.
Some kids can excel with little effort at all whereas others spend hours trying to figure it out and just can’t manage it.
However the people who struggle with math tend to be much better at subjects like history and literature than those who excel at math.
It’s just left brain Vs right brain.
I had that same thouhts about people being the same but no two brains are the same ... so who someone is is a depended on outside factors but also how you are build on the inside ...
Logic's album "Everybody" has this same story in the form of skits between songs, voiced by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Didn't realise it was a common story.
I'm so happy you looked at this video. It's one of my absolute favorite videos from Kurtzgesagt ❤️
Thanks for telling me this, me.
This is your first video I am watching. And I have already become your huge fan. The way you think is bloody rare.
21:46 I'm 18 and ever since I was 9 I've thought this way and it has made it hard to truly put effort into anything I do in life.
Ive had your exact same thoughts for the past eight years - its hard to shake the perspective that there is not as distinct a separation between each of us and humanity as a whole. But taking it a step further, what is the separation between us an other life on earth of varying "intelligence"? Or even a step further, self reproducing patterns of matter (life) from other states of matter?
Perhaps the universe experiences itself through the complexity and interaction of its internal systems - maybe matter interaction itself is consciousness, with the complexity of which determined by the nature of the system?
I just don't see how the organizational structure of a human or a brain could conceptually house such a unique formative system to where it's the only matter that transcends the plane of simple existence into the plane of experiential existence.
I definitely think you are right and there are even published papers that try to explain consciousness on a physics basis. It has to do with the interpretation of quantum fields so I have no clue what that could mean for us. I definitely feel that our brain is not solely responsible for making us conscious. Every cell has to be conscious too without it
I am a total introvert as well.
Thank you for you insight on introvert extrovert. I‘m myself INTP living in Germany (hat to do MBTI in University even if I don’t like the idea to simplify) and I also realized that a lot of extrovert people can’t be alone and prefer groups. My theory was that for a group to function you need a story to distinguish your group from others and strengthen loyalty and religions excel at storytelling. However, I like your idea as well. Anyway, good video 😊
Bro FYI this whole video was taken word for word from the Bhagavad Gita and Advaita Vedanta which is the core of Hinduism and was written in 2000BC. Which I find to be pretty cool.
That is a very "friendly" spiritual and first of all way less disturbing version of these Boltzmann brain hypotheses... And well that's some effort i could see one has to take to be called a god in the end...
To me, the meaning of life is to evolve, to grow and advance little by little with each turn. To become more then you were before in anything, anyway you choose. And to do it in away that you like.
Whether it’s becoming better at a video game you like, Learning a skill or trade, or adding a new story to your mind. All of it makes you a little more than you were before.
So Believe in yourself, and if you can’t, Believe in the me that believes in you.
I don't have an inner voice/monologue or the ability to visualise images in my mind, I'm also an atheist.
Please leave me in peace and town sir ?
I was very extroverted when I was in a Christian school and went to church. But after I left in pursue of science, I became introverted because of my advanced thoughts
0:56 Yep. It is. I cant explain, i really love this part and feel so connected too you. Love ur vids!!! Never know you watch these type of videos lol
Please adjust your own sound volume to match the one of the videos you're presenting. It can make quite a difference.
Though, there definitely are a lot of important introverts that have contributed to religion through their philosophies and time spent writing, thinking, contemplating, praying, and meditating alone in caves or out in the desert and such things like that
Thats a good theory. I am introverted but I want friend or friends lol. But only in small doses I guess. Or just some people who won't lie or just use me. I'm a broke person who has been hurt by "friends" lol. It sucks
i also dont have an innervoice, they think its because im dyslectic. i think in Pictures and video
Chinese actually has a advantage of only has one syllable in any words including those words for mathematical terms.
For example 百 for hundred (s) and you are cutting down 2 syllables. So when you doing math and thinking with Chinese it actually takes so much less time for you to process the equation.
About your thoughts on religion and extroverts I think is because religious communities employ rites and community activities that are more suited to extroverts. Then once you are part of a community is more difficult to go against the group because of the fear of losing the group, a thing that most introverts would mind that much I think. Of course this is just my opinion on the matter.
you should play "999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors" - that will blow your mind.
Yes, I read a book based on a theory that the belief in a higher power was due to our being social animals that evolved it as a defense mechanism.
I don't know how familiar you are with Andy Wier - the writer for The Egg, but he also wrote The Martian, Artemis, and Project: Hail Mary. All of them are excellent books (and The Martian is a great movie), but as a physicist, I'm sure you would find them particularly fascinating.
Artemis in particular dabbles with physics acting in fascinating ways and the consequences of that, and Project: Hail Mary has a bunch of physics and biology based ideas that are incredible to think about (including what happens when travelling close to the speed of light both with and without protection).
Im so glad you reacted to this one!
I was waiting for that reaction for quite a long time, glad to see it. I knew you'd like it!! About the extrovert/introvert thing, I think it can definitely be a factor when it comes to religion, but religion gives a whole lot more as well. For example some people really like routines and really like having a concrete plan of what to do and religion gives a lot of that.
Best reaction at the best video (my opinion)
but aren't extroverts statistically less lonely than introverts because they find people and community more easily?
Love the video man keep up the great work!
You should read or listen to "We put a soul in a computer" creepypasta. Very similar to The Egg, probably inspired but a different take. If you do listen to it I def recommend The Dark Somnium.
I READ THE TITLE AS "Racist reacts to The Egg" LOL
I'm an INTP also and this is my favourite idea for what life and the universe are about. I don't believe it to be true either, I don't hold any firm beliefs around life and the universe, but it's definitely my favourite view.
Do a video reacting to Sciencephile the AI, I'd love to know your thoughts on his videos, since most of them are very theoretical.
7:58 don't be sure now there are being development of technologies like nueralink maybe we can open mind and understand someday
I’ve always thought since a child that we are separate pieces of one thing. God to me is, me, you, us, the grass, the trees etc. we’re all just one entity experiencing life as separate parts to better understand the one entity. I don’t see “god” as separate, I’m also not religious, and introverted mostly but I am human so I am extroverted at times out of necessity I suppose, I don’t give it much though just roll with it… I think god, us, me, always is and always was, time is subjective and relative, possibly not existing at all, just a byproduct as we place thoughts before others to have some sort of sequential order in this physical space. Maybe there is a place that exists in a higher physical dimension, inconceivable to us obviously, where many “gods” exist, that create their own universes of which they separate themselves like this story we just saw, and there is only one above them that they are a part of, and we are the lowest on the totem pole? Maybe there exists a god to the gods. Things can get really weird in your head when you start to think about this. In no way can I say I’m right or wrong, these are just my thoughts I wanted to share. My opinion only. I’m not a physicist, I know nothing about physics other than the basics, although I find quantum theory very interesting and have a basic understanding of it, not of the mathematics but the idea. I hope all of you, all the different versions of me, have a good day. ☺️
This video isn't even remotely scientificly accurate but it's interesting nonetheless.
There's a video of Kurzgesagt about loneliness, and why it's a defense mechanism. It's very good.
Could you please react to the film Arrival it's one of my favourite sci-fi movies out there! And tackles it in such a realistic and empathetic way. Plus the aliens have the best sounds ever.
Wait, you have a voice in your head? I only have my voice, like talking out to a void. And i can only hear it when i'm typing or thinking of every word I say
My personal experience would also point heavily at the theory of extroverts being more religious.
The single electron in that universe, frantically moving back and forth through time, just rolls its eyes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
The story reminds me of the one electron idea
9:00 around this point there was a part in the original video where the godlike figure said all religions are right in their own minds. Why was that cut from the video?
I don't think religious ideas pop into peoples heads primarily out of fear of loneliness, but more a desire to explain why the "rules" should be followed, what the rules are and why natural phenomena happen. Natural human curiosity at work. Science does the same thing, but it uses math and does peer review and stuff so I trust it more than the array of armchair philosophers that wrote scriptures. I don't have an issue with the potential existence of something divine, or that life could be the whole point of creating a universe. I also think the overall flow of matter and energy throughout the universe might be it's purpose, and it all may be just a component of a larger system. Who knows.
My hope if this is true is that when ‘this’ iteration of me dies I get told I’m going to be reborn in the year two trillion (or something); humanity having outlived Sol. Or perhaps orbiting a cooling neutron star or a black hole, even farther in the future. That would be nice to learn.