@@sabirwilson7023 the Bible is spiritual maturity level 10. We're past 100 buddy. I'm not going back to grade school level understanding of metaphysics. You can't unknow what you already know.
My brother often questioned "doesn't schrodinger's cat assume that I am the center of observation?" and this video answers that question with a good point. Thank you for the frog reveal at the end
I was just thinking this morning how the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment is a better demonstration of philosophical and linguistic concepts than its intended purpose of demonstrating quantum superposition.
@@SupaKoopaTroopa64 I like the idea that observation ends the superposition. We are entangled too. Observation is not necessary for superposition. I think it implies there’s a version of you who saw the cat dead, and saw the cat alive, as your superposition ends
In the "original" (Theravada) Buddhism, the Buddha is said to have proposed that "that which perceives the world, conceives the world" (paraphrasing). A curiosity: In the text it says that the listeners of the speech were not satisfied with the statement... Anyway... philosophy, science, religion, arts, etc... I believe they are all trying the same thing: To explain what is "this"... this which is happening right now, right here. The difficulty lies in the point where "this" is slightly different for everyone who perceives it... And couldn't be different, since each one of us perceive "it" from a slightly different point of view. Does it make sense?
@@SupaKoopaTroopa64 it's intended purpose is to demonstrate the absurdity of quantum mechanics. Yes Schrodinger, the person who made contributions to quantum mechanics thought it was ridiculous.
@@ButWhySci BTW, Thanks for explaining the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Physics. I would suggest you make videos about pilot wave theory and other main interpretations of Quantum Physics.
Welcome to Hinduism, This has been one of the core ideas in Hinduism for thousands of years without knowing about any of that quantum stuff. And due to this, you will hear many Hindu people say to go into yourself and study yourself.
How the HECK did you find enough time to reson like this, script this, make each scene, AND animate each scene, with props and everything? This video is AWE INSPIRING
@@ButWhySci Thank you! Sorry yes, real life being a hurricane. Your blendering is going from strength to strength, the lighting, pbrs and animation are all looking great. I dread to think how long this took you. You stray into philosophy here. Have you ever heard of the analytic-synthetic distinction in epistemology? That's the categorisation of knowledge. On the one hand, things that are true because we arbitrarily declare them true; maths, logic. Even your blender objects are just declared into existence and represented physically with leds on the screen with a bit of linear algebra. On the other hand, things in the external world need to be tested and where all data comes with error bars; science basically. There's a lot that comes out of that, like proof only belonging to the former category built upon rote definition and the latter category being fundamentally barred from certainty. The unintuitive thing is that's a strength, you don't need to worry about unfalsifiable hypotheses like the world disappearing when you turn around, you needn't concern yourself about Descartes' demon because it doesn't make a difference to your data. My point is, quantum uncertainty plays well within the distinction, it's in the latter category, not the former.
I have a totally new viewpoint on the universe now. At first I thought it was a bit lonely that nobody can ever experience anyone else's universe, but I'm encouraged by the part about the influence we can have on one another, the connection between everyone as bits of the universe trying to figure itself out. That the things we do to try and make someone else's day a bit better really do matter. Thank you so much for this video. (And I'm glad cute frog with mushroom hat exists in my universe!)
Any "observation" is just an interaction of particles. Your corpse would continue to interact with the other particles and thus collapse their wave function.
I've watched every video you've made, and they are simply the most worthwhile content on TH-cam. Depression doesn't exist when you can appreciate the full scope of the universe and learn about it in such an entertaining way. Please do not stop doing what you do, because myself and many others appreciate what you do greatly.
One of your most interesting and thought-provoking videos! You said that when a person dies the whole universe in their head stops existing along, and I thought about it for a moment. You see, I tend to believe that "reality" and "sentience" are inseparable, in a sense that these two things - the world and the observer ALWAYS come in a pair. You can put it this way: a world without sentient beings is perceived by no one (so it's purely imaginary), and an observer without a world is built from nothing and perceives nothing (i.e. doesn't exist) The problem with imaginary worlds is that they can take virtually any form and take any time to unfold, even impossible forms and infinite times - these does not matter, an infinite amount of imaginary worlds are created and destroyed in your single finger snap, or maybe not, maybe there are no such worlds, it's irrelevant, because nobody has been involved. The problem with your nonexistence is that it cannot be perceived. Nonexistence is not "blackness" or "emptiness", it's not even a thing. When a computer is down, to your video game character this state doesn't exist, its 'life' continues the moment you boot up your game again as if nothing happened in between the sessions. The same applies to you. You don't know that you're dead, because there's nothing capable of knowing. You are only 'you' when you're alive and conscious. Consequently, worlds and observers either come in pairs or don't exist at all. The latter one is obviously false since I'm writing this right now, whilst the exclusiveness of this exact world is not strictly imposed (e.g. our universe could repeat itself infinitely many times without any implications for your existence) Soo... combining these claims I can only come up with a single conclusion: EXISTENCE IS INEVITABLE (yes, in any possible way you can interpret) And this actually means (to me) that you're not that important in the end, nothing is important. At least in context of your video. Your consideration towards others must come in spite, not due to this. In the face of endless nihilistic existence, preservation of your humanity is your utmost virtue.
I think the point of "the most important person is you" is meant to be relative. The most important person in the Universe (to you) is you because without yourself this universe wouldn't exist (to you).
Think for a moment like an AI with a goal. If it was just "preservation of *your* humanity", that would lead to the reasoning about what kinds of risks there are and how to mitigate them. Being close to anybody is a risk. A mitigation involves removing risks in some way. Being the only one involves less risk. If you have the power to remove everyone safely that would be a choice you would always take, since it brings you closer to your goal. And now think as a human: would you push the destroy everybody button if you would have guaranteed preservation? There might be somebody who does, and there might be somebody who stop him from doing it. So you see there must be a Yin to Yang for long time preservation. And that means there cannot be one utmost virtue. There are two at least. The preservation of yourself and the preservation of everybody else. At the same time. The balance varies of course. Choosing the right ratio at the right moment is a good virtue. Choosing always the latter is not caring about your own death. Always choosing the former means being the one to push the button. Both extremes lead to no good and a universe nobody will observe.
@@mastermarcohd101 yes, and my claim is that there's no such a condition where you do not exist. Therefore you're always present alongside with (some) universe. There's no value in sheer existence and there's nothing special in this particular universe, however what you do as a person might pose some importance, at least to you and your surroundings.
@@marsovac when I said "humanity" I meant possessing decent human traits, not humanity as a species. And it implies, for example, that you'd rather protect mankind than annihilate it.
Damn - I thought after waking up and realizing I am the universe along with everything else that I was the only one who thought like this. Thank you for nailing it so perfectly. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Oh yes, mushrooms are great! But anyway... We are conditioned to cut everything into small pieces in order to analyze it better, and it seems that we do this with reality as well. But there is no evidence that something is separate from another something, everything is in the same space at the same time. What causes this separation is exactly this idea that I am here and the world is there, hence the idea of being (self). I guess...
That was beautiful, thank you. I didn’t expect discussing a philosophy based on physical laws to become a lesson about compassion and empathy. Really great work!
Some of what this video talks about is stuff I thought about quite a bit. Nice to see some of my thoughts, plus other interesting points be put together into one great video of existential dread!
When we die, it all goes away... Except for the bad and _hopefully_ the Good we've done for others. We here try to choose the latter- Every time. Be Well, everyone and thank you for one hell of an episide
Certainly be kind to yourself as said in the description and people kind-you've made a very cerebral connection to what our experiences are! Thank you for your time to put this together for others to grab ahold of this special patch of wisdom. ✨ From a submicroscopic world-a non-visual process has become an undisputable fact through our agency that is to stay alive-to care and to love-built from 4 classes of biomolecules in bound to a true and humbling ground as expressed everyday through polymerization. The bond up is how our world works, and it's going to take the emergence of shared minds to tinker that black-box for an experience to make better in our stretch of health. Thank you again and so kindly for this video-keep up there; enjoying to see your and everyone's growth here!! 💛
That. Was. Amazing. Work. Completely agree. Congratulations and thank you, most important person in your universe. You have succesfully impacted another reality!
Back then in 2020 when I first encountered this channel, it had some 15k subscribers. Holy cow, this channel has come too far now! *Congrats for 200k subs!*
At one point in time, nothing existed (inside the box and outside the box, a box with no physical properties and dimensional size(s) if you must) Then, through quantum tunneling dimensions and time from now (aka, the future back then) interacted with nothing and 'the box' blew up in(to) everything, scattering nothing and everything everywhere - its content, nothing and everything, appearing as the universe with what also matter(s) separated by time, dimensions, fields, etc. Matt from PBS Space Time would call this big bang the beginning of space-time. I would end it by saying it's also the end of the universe, but I can't prove it.....
I very much like the way, you are explaining the fact that souls don't exist by still considering the point that we really mean something. Yet the inconvincing fact is that, our choices decide whether we mean something
I really enjoyed this video but I have two observations: 1) Quantum fields (and by extension the Standard Model) are our best theories of how the Universe works, but they only model reality. Fundamentally we don't know if there is a better model, it's just what we have that works best. Who knows what's actually going on... 2) If we were in a neuro-interactive simulation (ala the Matrix), then how would we be able to discern the simulation from reality? Better yet, we may just be non-corporeal altogether in a vast simulation running on someone's desk somewhere. Maybe we're a PhD student's research project? Who knows...
Ah fun topic, the Anthropic Principle! The anthropic principle is the hypothesis that there is a restrictive lower bound on how statistically probable our observations of the universe are, because observations could only happen in a universe capable of developing intelligent life.
This video hits differently for those who have played Superliminal (where observation IS reality, because it's all a dream) and Outer Wilds (where macroscopic quantum events having their wave functions collapsed by a specifically conscious observer is a major game mechanic and plot point)...
0:30 Even when you “lift” the “box,” human “observation” is result of a series of interactions of which physical reality becoming virtualized at the interface in the retina is but one. 1:00 Your body (physical; quantum fields) is WHAT you are. Your mind (metaphysical; logical determinations) is WHO you are. You can not measure color anymore than you can measure any idea much less a collection of ideas you experience as being “yourself.” 4:40 Reality happens outside the brain. The mind is an amalgam of virtualized reality and simulated reality. 4:50 Yes. The voices that a schizophrenic person experiences do not exist just like the voices you experience do not exist. Sound does not exist. Variable atmospheric compressions that travel through the atmosphere exists. Sound is just how we interpret those patterns. Sounds exist in the same way letters and words exist: psychologically, not physically.
This operates on the assumption that the mind is not itself deterministic. The Occam's Razor assumption would be that our "mind" is a direct result of the physical process of our brain. People just don't like the idea.
Nothing is lost, energy only changes state, but never lost, all other perceptions are exactly that, perceptions...only perceptions... We you and I are here to learn, only this is the concept... Learning. Thom in Scotland.
This reminded me of the theory that the universe exists for only an unimaginably short time, like the planck time for example, and then dissolves into chaos through entropy, and some trillion trillion trillion years later the cloud of chaos reforms into the next fraction of a second, and breaks down again, and then another eternity later 1 second passes for us. And we don't notice or remember the universe dissolving because it's impossible to perceive.
I enjoyed your video (as usual :) ) and I agree with the perspective. "This" is the only perceived reality that You/I will ever have. This perspective has helped me in the past, and I thank you both for sharing it, and also for reminding me :) All the best (The part about QM seems to be based on only one of the interpretations though, observers aren't relevant in Many Worlds, if I am not mistaken...)
What doesn't sell this for me is that we seem to have this arrogance about us that assumes somehow that because we exist, the universe and everything that goes on it it can't possibly function the way it does without US observing it. If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? Yes, absolutely it does. Why? Because it doesn't need us to be an observer in order for the laws of physics around why it makes a sound, to make a sound: Tree falls, lands on something, soundwaves are generated, making a specific sound related to the action it just performed. Observed or not observed, physics, quantum this, quantum that, everything in the universe is going to function according to the laws around it, whether a big spheroid populated with brains exists or not.
Yeah the universe will probably go on just fine, but that is an inference based on our understanding and experience, not a direct observation. Any such inference is subject to the possibility of error (for example, if our universe is just a simulation that will shut down tomorrow / if vacuum decay destroys the solar system tomorrow, any predictions we make will be incorrect beyond that, despite solid science backing it up). Obviously these are highly unlikely scenarios, but there is a non-zero chance that a scientific prediction of continued existence is wrong. The ONLY thing we know for sure right now is that we are aware. What does it matter that a tree falls in the forest, if no one can hear the sound it makes? In fact, the very thought of trees and forests and imaginary soundwaves, are occurring in YOUR conscious experience right now. See how inextricably the observer is entangled with everything in the universe, physical or otherwise?
Great video, and lovely message! Very well done. And cute frog. I would just like to mention though that “observation” as discussed in quantum mechanics is not to be confused with a consciously perceived observation. An electron can make an observation of a photon in quantum mechanics.
This is exactly how I have perspective to life and live my life through current period of observation. Deeply appreciate your afford and thank for manifesting this idea to life. ❤❤❤❤ how couldn't I met this channel sooner !?
That was the best mix of existential dread and simultaneous encouragement I've seen in a long time, thanks
Existential Dread is the encouragement. It just sucks that it sucks so fucking much.
Try reading the Bible!
@@sabirwilson7023 the Bible is spiritual maturity level 10. We're past 100 buddy. I'm not going back to grade school level understanding of metaphysics. You can't unknow what you already know.
Also see "Optimistic Nilhism" by Kurzgesacht
@@sabirwilson7023 horrible novel. Absolutely not factual.
You just made a philosophy of consciousness that explains why its such a miracle to exist in the first place, thank you.
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Descartes created this philosophy
@@howardmoon1234 Descartes thought too much.
I always leave your channel with new ideas about the world (and myself). Thanks for being an inspiration!
Much love from Brazil.
Brasil sil sil... 😜
My brother often questioned "doesn't schrodinger's cat assume that I am the center of observation?" and this video answers that question with a good point.
Thank you for the frog reveal at the end
I was just thinking this morning how the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment is a better demonstration of philosophical and linguistic concepts than its intended purpose of demonstrating quantum superposition.
@@SupaKoopaTroopa64 I like the idea that observation ends the superposition. We are entangled too. Observation is not necessary for superposition. I think it implies there’s a version of you who saw the cat dead, and saw the cat alive, as your superposition ends
In the "original" (Theravada) Buddhism, the Buddha is said to have proposed that "that which perceives the world, conceives the world" (paraphrasing).
A curiosity: In the text it says that the listeners of the speech were not satisfied with the statement...
Anyway... philosophy, science, religion, arts, etc... I believe they are all trying the same thing: To explain what is "this"... this which is happening right now, right here.
The difficulty lies in the point where "this" is slightly different for everyone who perceives it... And couldn't be different, since each one of us perceive "it" from a slightly different point of view.
Does it make sense?
@@SupaKoopaTroopa64 it's intended purpose is to demonstrate the absurdity of quantum mechanics. Yes Schrodinger, the person who made contributions to quantum mechanics thought it was ridiculous.
Man! The work you do is amazing, I can't imagine the time you spend animating these footage! Great work.
Probably an unhealthy amount
@@ButWhySci Man that's not what You're supposed to do.
Your family also deserves some time with you.
@@ButWhySci BTW, Thanks for explaining the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Physics.
I would suggest you make videos about pilot wave theory and other main interpretations of Quantum Physics.
That was a rather beautiful conclusion
Welcome to Hinduism, This has been one of the core ideas in Hinduism for thousands of years without knowing about any of that quantum stuff. And due to this, you will hear many Hindu people say to go into yourself and study yourself.
amazing. i love hearing stuff i explain to people explained by someone else
Look at the word "impossible." It's build from the same elements as "I'm possible" - only if we can give it some space to breathe.
1:43 quantum spiderman meme
I’ve been thinking about the philosophy of consciousness and how it relates to science and this video sums up my thoughts quite nicely.
Same
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How the HECK did you find enough time to reson like this, script this, make each scene, AND animate each scene, with props and everything? This video is AWE INSPIRING
He might have a shape brain
Sounds like the fundamental rule of the universe is: 'Don't be a dick.'
You cannot claim that something is non deterministic while you're not observing it because you're not observing it being non deterministic.
Me at the start of the video:
"I was promised a really cute frog! Unforgivable"
Me at the end:
"Cute frog"
And when we needed his sacred knowledge the most, he returned.
Goodness, when we last chatted you had less than a thousand subs. Well done you. Fantastic content.
Thank you
@@endabenson7283 You’re welcome
Welcome back David. I had noticed your absence. Hope things have been alright.
@@ButWhySci Thank you! Sorry yes, real life being a hurricane.
Your blendering is going from strength to strength, the lighting, pbrs and animation are all looking great. I dread to think how long this took you.
You stray into philosophy here. Have you ever heard of the analytic-synthetic distinction in epistemology? That's the categorisation of knowledge. On the one hand, things that are true because we arbitrarily declare them true; maths, logic. Even your blender objects are just declared into existence and represented physically with leds on the screen with a bit of linear algebra.
On the other hand, things in the external world need to be tested and where all data comes with error bars; science basically.
There's a lot that comes out of that, like proof only belonging to the former category built upon rote definition and the latter category being fundamentally barred from certainty.
The unintuitive thing is that's a strength, you don't need to worry about unfalsifiable hypotheses like the world disappearing when you turn around, you needn't concern yourself about Descartes' demon because it doesn't make a difference to your data.
My point is, quantum uncertainty plays well within the distinction, it's in the latter category, not the former.
@@endabenson7283 who are you talking to?
"He is already special, because he was born into this world" -Carla Yeager
Your creation of these videos are utter beauty
0:18 the frog in the box does exist. it exists in your head.
I hope you continue to make amazing content like this for years to come
Finally. Someone put into a video words that have been floating in my head for years. I couldn't have put it better myself.
This is the only channel I have notifications on for, and it never fails to deliver. Amazing video as always. Keep it up!
It really irritates me how little traction these videos get, the quality and amount of work put in is astounding
I have a totally new viewpoint on the universe now. At first I thought it was a bit lonely that nobody can ever experience anyone else's universe, but I'm encouraged by the part about the influence we can have on one another, the connection between everyone as bits of the universe trying to figure itself out. That the things we do to try and make someone else's day a bit better really do matter. Thank you so much for this video.
(And I'm glad cute frog with mushroom hat exists in my universe!)
The 3D animation is beautiful.
Any "observation" is just an interaction of particles. Your corpse would continue to interact with the other particles and thus collapse their wave function.
I've watched every video you've made, and they are simply the most worthwhile content on TH-cam. Depression doesn't exist when you can appreciate the full scope of the universe and learn about it in such an entertaining way. Please do not stop doing what you do, because myself and many others appreciate what you do greatly.
great job, your my favorite person now.
A rare kind voice in the sea of faeces
Skepticists gonna be mad when they see dis💀
One of your most interesting and thought-provoking videos!
You said that when a person dies the whole universe in their head stops existing along, and I thought about it for a moment.
You see, I tend to believe that "reality" and "sentience" are inseparable, in a sense that these two things - the world and the observer ALWAYS come in a pair. You can put it this way: a world without sentient beings is perceived by no one (so it's purely imaginary), and an observer without a world is built from nothing and perceives nothing (i.e. doesn't exist)
The problem with imaginary worlds is that they can take virtually any form and take any time to unfold, even impossible forms and infinite times - these does not matter, an infinite amount of imaginary worlds are created and destroyed in your single finger snap, or maybe not, maybe there are no such worlds, it's irrelevant, because nobody has been involved.
The problem with your nonexistence is that it cannot be perceived. Nonexistence is not "blackness" or "emptiness", it's not even a thing. When a computer is down, to your video game character this state doesn't exist, its 'life' continues the moment you boot up your game again as if nothing happened in between the sessions. The same applies to you. You don't know that you're dead, because there's nothing capable of knowing. You are only 'you' when you're alive and conscious.
Consequently, worlds and observers either come in pairs or don't exist at all. The latter one is obviously false since I'm writing this right now, whilst the exclusiveness of this exact world is not strictly imposed (e.g. our universe could repeat itself infinitely many times without any implications for your existence)
Soo... combining these claims I can only come up with a single conclusion: EXISTENCE IS INEVITABLE (yes, in any possible way you can interpret)
And this actually means (to me) that you're not that important in the end, nothing is important. At least in context of your video.
Your consideration towards others must come in spite, not due to this. In the face of endless nihilistic existence, preservation of your humanity is your utmost virtue.
I think the point of "the most important person is you" is meant to be relative. The most important person in the Universe (to you) is you because without yourself this universe wouldn't exist (to you).
Think for a moment like an AI with a goal. If it was just "preservation of *your* humanity", that would lead to the reasoning about what kinds of risks there are and how to mitigate them. Being close to anybody is a risk. A mitigation involves removing risks in some way. Being the only one involves less risk. If you have the power to remove everyone safely that would be a choice you would always take, since it brings you closer to your goal. And now think as a human: would you push the destroy everybody button if you would have guaranteed preservation? There might be somebody who does, and there might be somebody who stop him from doing it. So you see there must be a Yin to Yang for long time preservation. And that means there cannot be one utmost virtue. There are two at least. The preservation of yourself and the preservation of everybody else. At the same time. The balance varies of course. Choosing the right ratio at the right moment is a good virtue. Choosing always the latter is not caring about your own death. Always choosing the former means being the one to push the button. Both extremes lead to no good and a universe nobody will observe.
@@mastermarcohd101 yes, and my claim is that there's no such a condition where you do not exist. Therefore you're always present alongside with (some) universe. There's no value in sheer existence and there's nothing special in this particular universe, however what you do as a person might pose some importance, at least to you and your surroundings.
@@marsovac when I said "humanity" I meant possessing decent human traits, not humanity as a species. And it implies, for example, that you'd rather protect mankind than annihilate it.
Damn - I thought after waking up and realizing I am the universe along with everything else that I was the only one who thought like this. Thank you for nailing it so perfectly. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Oh yes, mushrooms are great!
But anyway... We are conditioned to cut everything into small pieces in order to analyze it better, and it seems that we do this with reality as well.
But there is no evidence that something is separate from another something, everything is in the same space at the same time. What causes this separation is exactly this idea that I am here and the world is there, hence the idea of being (self).
I guess...
That was beautiful, thank you. I didn’t expect discussing a philosophy based on physical laws to become a lesson about compassion and empathy. Really great work!
You have tackled a very difficult topic. And you have done so very well. Well done! This was a great video
We've seen the frog but still dont know whether it was inside the box ,such is fate
Some of what this video talks about is stuff I thought about quite a bit. Nice to see some of my thoughts, plus other interesting points be put together into one great video of existential dread!
This was beautiful.. A beautiful message everyone needs to be reminded of..🤩
🌏☮️♾️
His animations are getting better with each subsequent video
When we die, it all goes away...
Except for the bad and _hopefully_ the Good we've done for others.
We here try to choose the latter-
Every time.
Be Well, everyone and thank you for one hell of an episide
criminally underrated channel
It makes me sad that this work of art has just 36000 views :( !
There is copper wiring under your skin. Get it out. Get it OUT. GET IT OUT
Certainly be kind to yourself as said in the description and people kind-you've made a very cerebral connection to what our experiences are! Thank you for your time to put this together for others to grab ahold of this special patch of wisdom. ✨
From a submicroscopic world-a non-visual process has become an undisputable fact through our agency that is to stay alive-to care and to love-built from 4 classes of biomolecules in bound to a true and humbling ground as expressed everyday through polymerization. The bond up is how our world works, and it's going to take the emergence of shared minds to tinker that black-box for an experience to make better in our stretch of health.
Thank you again and so kindly for this video-keep up there; enjoying to see your and everyone's growth here!! 💛
What a wonderful video!!
That. Was. Amazing. Work. Completely agree. Congratulations and thank you, most important person in your universe. You have succesfully impacted another reality!
Show us the frog!!
7:37 excellent🧐
🐸
Back then in 2020 when I first encountered this channel, it had some 15k subscribers.
Holy cow, this channel has come too far now!
*Congrats for 200k subs!*
So, if a tree falls down in the forest and no one is around to hear it, it does not make a sound, there is no tree, and no forest, either.
Beautiful message. Thank you for spreading your form of beauty, fellow human
From a philosophical perspective this video felt all over the place.
just binged all your old vids, awesome to see more. production quality is amazing
Back with yet another banger baby!
Thank you for your time put in these awesome videos
Having this video segue into a “Raid:Shadow Legends” ad would’ve been epic.
Love that buildify addon! I really hope to learn how it works someday to start creating kits for it.
Can't unsee the mushroom on the top of a frog
i hope, for as long as i live, that i make someone's universe worth observing. :)
At one point in time, nothing existed (inside the box and outside the box, a box with no physical properties and dimensional size(s) if you must)
Then, through quantum tunneling dimensions and time from now (aka, the future back then) interacted with nothing and 'the box' blew up in(to) everything, scattering nothing and everything everywhere - its content, nothing and everything, appearing as the universe with what also matter(s) separated by time, dimensions, fields, etc.
Matt from PBS Space Time would call this big bang the beginning of space-time.
I would end it by saying it's also the end of the universe, but I can't prove it.....
The idea that the quantum universe is simply manifesting me in order to prove its existence has broken my brain…
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The best channel on TH-cam HANDS DOWN
Thank you for providing these incredible explanations!
Maybe that’s why Love is the answer?
A physicist discovers Descartes’s “I think therefore I am”
I very much like the way, you are explaining the fact that souls don't exist by still considering the point that we really mean something.
Yet the inconvincing fact is that, our choices decide whether we mean something
The video manifestation of an existential crisis
I really enjoyed this video but I have two observations:
1)
Quantum fields (and by extension the Standard Model) are our best theories of how the Universe works, but they only model reality. Fundamentally we don't know if there is a better model, it's just what we have that works best. Who knows what's actually going on...
2)
If we were in a neuro-interactive simulation (ala the Matrix), then how would we be able to discern the simulation from reality? Better yet, we may just be non-corporeal altogether in a vast simulation running on someone's desk somewhere. Maybe we're a PhD student's research project? Who knows...
Ah fun topic, the Anthropic Principle! The anthropic principle is the hypothesis that there is a restrictive lower bound on how statistically probable our observations of the universe are, because observations could only happen in a universe capable of developing intelligent life.
if you change your mind you change the universe
I'm just glad we got to finally see this frog we we're hearing so much about.
I watch a lot of science videos and I have never seen better animation than this in any other
That was beautiful, thank you. Well done.
I imagine the frog was hiding under the duck's hat.
You've become quite the animator!
The book “maps of meaning” is a good exploration into this idea
This video hits differently for those who have played Superliminal (where observation IS reality, because it's all a dream) and Outer Wilds (where macroscopic quantum events having their wave functions collapsed by a specifically conscious observer is a major game mechanic and plot point)...
someone played superliminal in front of me on psychedelics
I think it aided it putting me in a more suggestible state
ah yes, the double split and the observer...that's what helped wrap my head around some of these concepts...
The animation is on point
You are so sweet, you are so very important too! ❤
Yeah this realization made me leave my abusive home and cut contact, I realized that I was the most important person in my own life.
0:30 Even when you “lift” the “box,” human “observation” is result of a series of interactions of which physical reality becoming virtualized at the interface in the retina is but one.
1:00 Your body (physical; quantum fields) is WHAT you are.
Your mind (metaphysical; logical determinations) is WHO you are.
You can not measure color anymore than you can measure any idea much less a collection of ideas you experience as being “yourself.”
4:40 Reality happens outside the brain. The mind is an amalgam of virtualized reality and simulated reality.
4:50 Yes. The voices that a schizophrenic person experiences do not exist just like the voices you experience do not exist. Sound does not exist.
Variable atmospheric compressions that travel through the atmosphere exists.
Sound is just how we interpret those patterns. Sounds exist in the same way letters and words exist: psychologically, not physically.
This operates on the assumption that the mind is not itself deterministic. The Occam's Razor assumption would be that our "mind" is a direct result of the physical process of our brain. People just don't like the idea.
Thank you! Awesome video and i love what it discusses and the conclusions!!
Where do you get your music from? The song is a bop 🎶🗿🪐
The frog at the end is cute.
Nothing is lost, energy only changes state, but never lost, all other perceptions are exactly that, perceptions...only perceptions... We you and I are here to learn, only this is the concept... Learning.
Thom in Scotland.
Amazing visual joy, very relaxing to watch. Thank you.
I love your work! Please make more!
This heleped my self esteem more than therapy
Thanks
This reminded me of the theory that the universe exists for only an unimaginably short time, like the planck time for example, and then dissolves into chaos through entropy, and some trillion trillion trillion years later the cloud of chaos reforms into the next fraction of a second, and breaks down again, and then another eternity later 1 second passes for us. And we don't notice or remember the universe dissolving because it's impossible to perceive.
I get the distinct impression that this is just one more person totally misinterpreting the observation problem in QP
Such a beautiful video. Science married to humanity at its best. Thank you.
I enjoyed your video (as usual :) ) and I agree with the perspective.
"This" is the only perceived reality that You/I will ever have.
This perspective has helped me in the past, and I thank you both for sharing it, and also for reminding me :)
All the best
(The part about QM seems to be based on only one of the interpretations though, observers aren't relevant in Many Worlds, if I am not mistaken...)
You thinking about the universe is the universe thinking about itself.
The OP had compassion on me when they stopped the giant shouldered "but why?" animation.
I miss that myself.
This was beautiful.
This video is where i turn to, when existential dread from one of Exurb1a videos goes online.
What doesn't sell this for me is that we seem to have this arrogance about us that assumes somehow that because we exist, the universe and everything that goes on it it can't possibly function the way it does without US observing it.
If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? Yes, absolutely it does. Why? Because it doesn't need us to be an observer in order for the laws of physics around why it makes a sound, to make a sound: Tree falls, lands on something, soundwaves are generated, making a specific sound related to the action it just performed.
Observed or not observed, physics, quantum this, quantum that, everything in the universe is going to function according to the laws around it, whether a big spheroid populated with brains exists or not.
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Yeah the universe will probably go on just fine, but that is an inference based on our understanding and experience, not a direct observation. Any such inference is subject to the possibility of error (for example, if our universe is just a simulation that will shut down tomorrow / if vacuum decay destroys the solar system tomorrow, any predictions we make will be incorrect beyond that, despite solid science backing it up). Obviously these are highly unlikely scenarios, but there is a non-zero chance that a scientific prediction of continued existence is wrong. The ONLY thing we know for sure right now is that we are aware.
What does it matter that a tree falls in the forest, if no one can hear the sound it makes? In fact, the very thought of trees and forests and imaginary soundwaves, are occurring in YOUR conscious experience right now. See how inextricably the observer is entangled with everything in the universe, physical or otherwise?
Great video, and lovely message! Very well done. And cute frog.
I would just like to mention though that “observation” as discussed in quantum mechanics is not to be confused with a consciously perceived observation. An electron can make an observation of a photon in quantum mechanics.
This is why we strive to live forever.
That's what my ma always said.
This is exactly how I have perspective to life and live my life through current period of observation. Deeply appreciate your afford and thank for manifesting this idea to life. ❤❤❤❤ how couldn't I met this channel sooner !?