“We begin 100,000 years ago. currently, we are moving 1,000 years per second, as you can see, not much is changing. Our modern world will briefly flash at the end, that’s all it is, that’s all it’s ever been, so try not to miss it, and as always, thanks for watching.”
The last four human ages (Medieval, Discovery, Industrial, and Information) have only taken up around 1500 years of history. Humans have been around for 230,000 years. Less than 1% of Human History.
"But there is blur, it's not a star, it is not a cloud of gas in our galaxy. It is an entirely different galaxy. the Andromeda galaxy, and it is coming our way."
I love how listening to this song gives you sort of an empty feeling, and hydrogen atoms are 99.9999999999996% empty space. If each element had a song that fit it perfectly, this would be the song for hydrogen.
imagine making fun of the idea where people can learn literally anything by using a small device that can fit inside their pocket then you actually live to see it happen
AstroMoo2 Minecrafter i got the jake chudnow insomnia syndrome.. its even worse! You can never sleep because you listen to his music all the fucking time
Shit gets real when this music turns on Like heavy real Like so real you begin pondering the existence of the universe and yourself *So real that you thing of cosmic stuff, and start to realize that the universe would still move on even when you are erased* *SO REAL YOU WILL BE KILLED BY VSAUCE, THE LAST THINGS YOU HEAR IS "Hey Vsauce, Michael here" AND HE BURIES YOUR BODY* Okay *maybe* not that last part, but you get the idea
+Mentaclink H̠̙͍̲̪͎͍̮͆́ͦ͐ͤ͒̉́E̗̟̞͇̗̺̔͌̅̂̏̄̎͜Y̖̔̄̍̊̈́͆͌ͩ ̬̩̯̰͉̻̀͑͡ͅṾ̛̩̃̊ͬ̐͟S̲͎̟̘̳̗̍́͂A̴̷͇̩̞̰̪͕͙͂ͭ͢Ȕ̺̪̝͔͆̈ͭͫ̇C̭̹̍̆̏̏ͥ͞E̶͚͍̓̆̈́ͧͣͮ̂͋,,̵̹̳̟͓͉͖̐ͧ ͎͙ͧ̉͑ͬͩͦ͟͠M̸̡̢̜͈̟͕̱̳̣ͪͭ́̑͊̄ͯͭI̴̪̗͉͎̭͎͊̉̐̍̈̍̅C̪̦͋̋́̅͠H̸̢̺̟̬̞̺ͧ̉͐̀ͬ̂ͮ̄͒ͅȀ҉̡̟̩͔͎̠̞̹̦́E̡̙̝̺̺̗̮̾̀͋̽̽ͤ̐̃ͅL̨̳̞̆ͫ͒ͭ͛ͣͧ ̐̏̓҉͕̥H̒ͤ͒̉҉̮͈̳̭̙͎̦È̞͓̤̙̹̑̃̏̔̉͘̕R̆͋ͭ̈́͏̡̙͈̱̝͈͉̜Ȩ̛̮̗͔̺͔̞ͯͩ͐, Where is your brain! (Okay I'll stop XD)
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Where are your fingers? Seriously. It's a pretty easy question. You should be able to answer it. But how do you know? How does anyone know anything? You might say, well, I know where my fingers are. I'm looking right at them. Or, I can touch them, I can feel them, they're right here and that's good. Your senses are a great way to learn things. In fact, we have way more than the usual five senses we talk about. For instance, your kinesthetic sense, proprioception. This is what the police evaluate during a field sobriety test. It allows you to tell where your fingers and arms and head and legs in your body is all in relation to each other without having to look or touch other things. We have way more than five senses, we have at least twice as many and then some. But they're not perfect. There are optical illusions, audio illusions, temperature sensation illusions, even tactile illusions. Can you turn your tongue upside down? If so, perfect. Try this. Run your finger along the outer edge of the tip of your upside down tongue. Your tongue will be able to feel your finger, but in the wrong place. Our brains never needed to develop an understanding of upside down tongue touch. So, when you touch the right side of your tongue when it's flipped over to your left side you perceive a sensation on the opposite side, where your tongue usually is but isn't when it's upside down. It's pretty freaky and cool and a little humbling, because it shows the limits of the accuracy of our senses, the only tools we have to get what's out there in here. The philosophy of knowledge, the study of knowing, is called epistemology. Plato famously said that the things we know are things that are true, that we believe and that we have justification for believing. those justifications might be irrational or they might be rational, they might be based on proof, but don't get too confident because proven is not a synonym for true. Luckily, there are things that we can know without needing proof, without needing to even leave the house, things that we can know as true by reason alone. These are things that we know a priori. An example would be the statement "all bachelors are unmarried." I don't have to go survey every bachelor on earth to know that that is true. All bachelors are unmarried because that's how we define the word bachelor. Of course, you have to know what the words bachelor and unmarried mean in the first place. Oh, you do? Okay. Perfect. That's great. But how do you know? This time I mean functionally, how do you know? Where is knowledge biologically in the brain? What are memories made out of? We are a long way from being able to answer that question completely but research has shown that memories don't exist in the brain in single locations. Instead, what we call a memory is likely made up of many different complex relationships all over the brain between lots of brain cells, neurons. A major cellular mechanism thought to underlie the formation of memories is long-term potentiation or LTP. When one neuron stimulates another neuron repeatedly that signal can be enhanced overtime LTP, wiring them more strongly together and that connection can last a long time, even an entire lifetime. A collection of different brain cells, neurons that fire together in a particular order over and over again frequently and repeatedly can achieve long-term potentiation, becoming more sensitive to each other and more ready to fire in the exact same way later on in the future. They're a physical thing in your brain, firing together more easily because you strengthen that pattern of firing. You memorized. This branching forest of firing friends looks messy, but look closer. It could be the memory of your first kiss. A living souvenir of the event. If I were to go into your brain and cut out those cells, could I make you forget your first kiss or could I make you forget where your fingers are? Only if I cut out a lot of your brain. Because memories aren't just stored in one relationship, they're stored all over the brain. The events leading up to your first kiss are stored in one network, the way it felt to the way it smelled in different networks, all added up together making what you call the memory of your first kiss. How many memories can you fit inside your head? What is the storage capacity of the human brain? The best we can do is a rough estimate, but given the number of neurons in the brain involved with memory and the number of different connections a single neuron can make Paul Reber at Northwestern University estimated that we can store the digital equivalent of about 2.5 petabytes of information. That's the equivalent of recording a TV channel continuously for 300 years. That's a lot of information. That is a lot of information about skills you can do and facts and people you've met, things in the real world. The world is real, right? How do you know? It's a difficult question, but it's not rocket science. Instead, it is asking whether or not rocket scientists even exist in the first place. The theory that the Sun moved around the earth worked great. It predicted that the Sun would rise every morning and it did. It wasn't until later that we realized what we thought was true might not be. So, do we or will we ever know true reality or are we stuck in a world where the best we can do is be approximately true? Discovering more and more useful theories every day but never actually reaching true objective actual reality. Can science or reason ever prove convincingly that your friends and TH-cam videos and your fingers actually exist beyond your mind? That you don't just live in the matrix? No. Your mind is all that you have, even if you use instruments, like a telescope or particle accelerators. The final stop for all of that information is ultimately you. You are alone in your own brain, which technically makes it impossible to prove that anything else exists. It's called the egocentric predicament. Everything you know about the world out there depends on and is created inside your brain. This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Peirce that he drew a line between reality, the way the universe truly is, and what he called the phaneron, the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get. If you want to speak with certainty you live in, that is you react to and remember and experience your phaneron, not reality. The belief that only you exist and everything else, food, the universe, your friends are all figments of your mind is called solipsism. There is no way to convince a solipsist that the outside world is real. And there is no way to convince someone who doubts that the universe wasn't created just three seconds ago along with all of our memories. It's a frightening realization that we don't always know how to deal with. There's even The Matrix defense. In 2002 Tonda Lynn Ansley shot and killed her landlady. She argued that she believed she was in the matrix, that her crimes weren't real. By using the matrix defense, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity, because the opposite view is just way healthier and common. It's called realism. Realism is the belief that the outside world exists independently of your own phaneron. Rocks and stars and Thora Birch would continue to exist even if you weren't around to experience them. But you cannot know realism is true. All you can do is believe. Martin Gardner, a great source for math magic tricks, explained that he is not a solipsist because realism is just way more convenient and healthy and it works. As to whether it bothered him that he could never know realism was true, he wrote, "If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron, my answer is how should I know? I'm not dismayed by ultimate mysteries, I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph." Humble stuff. What strikes me is the cat. Cats do not understand keyboards, but they know the keyboards are a fun place to be. It's a great way to get the attention of a human, they're warm and exciting, surrounded by noises and flashing lights plus cats love to get their scent on whatever they can, a mark of their existence. We aren't that much different, except instead of keyboards we have the mysteries of the universe. We will never be able to understand all of them. We won't be able to ever answer every single question, but walking around in those questions, exploring them, is fun. It feels good. And as always, thanks for watching. Do you want more unanswered questions? Well, you're in luck. Today, nine other amazing channels on TH-cam have made videos about questions we still haven't fully answered. Alltime10s has organized them and to watch them all click the annotation at the end of this video or the link at the top of the description. Enjoy.
Hydrogen is two up quarks and one down quark of three different color charges exchanging gluons which changes their color charges, which holds the quarks together. The three quarks together are positively charged so an electron is attracted to it and stays in an orbital around it. That's hydrogen.
Obi Wan Kenobi Hydrogen gas is invisible but liquid hydrogen refracts light like water does. Hydrogen as plasma emits light and solid hydrogen has never been observed (but it's probably pretty visible).
2:48 this part is just amazing. it makes me look over all my decisions and choices in life and what’s later to come. amazing job jake, you deserve more recognition
This is beyond amazing! I love VSauce and it gives me the feels of Michael telling something at the latter part of an episode, wow! this is just pure awesomeness infused in one video here.
You know what I just realized? Hydrogen is not that different from the earth. Lowly, a single point in spacetime, only one tiny part orbiting it, not knowing of what interactions it may be making with the outside world. That may just prove that, just like there are trillions upon trillions of hydrogen atoms in just our universe, there may also be trillions of earths, waiting to bond with an oxygen planet, making water on a galactic scale.
The term "here" refers to the location that the individual themselves is in. But what "individual" is actually speaking to you? The truth is, I'm not speaking to you right now. Your computer is simulating my message, you're being spoken to by pixels on a screen. But the computer isn't the one trying to tell you something; *I'm* trying to tell you something, and the computer is repeating my message. So, which is it? Who- or what- is speaking to you? I know you posted this a year ago, but I couldn't help myself. I'll bet you totally forgot this comment existed. Interesting psychology though; what if I didn't bother replying to this comment? You'd go the entire rest of your life totally forgetting that you ever posted this. Not that it matters much. But now you'll be reminded of what would otherwise be totally forgotten. But, with time, you will forget this comment again. You will forget I replied. I will forget this, too. But both your comment and my reply have been immortalized into this platform. Even after being forgotten, your comment and my reply will persist on the internet as long as this video exists on this platform. ...Honestly sounds like a better love story than Twilight. (P.s. I think you spelled his name wrong, lol.)
at what point did human sentience begin? Between us and our pre-sentient ancestors, there was a missing link that behaved much differently than us or their own ancestors. Did a proto-human at one point just mentally snap and put two and two together, or was it gradual between generations? What are the intermediate stages of sentience and will we ever really know?
Dolphins hunt for sport, a human activity. Chimps conduct skirmishes, a human activity. A large portion of animals use tools in some way, another human activity. Elephants have intelligence on par with primates and cetaceans. And cetaceans are also quite smart. The boundary is grey, but many creatures approach it. Only humans & our dead hominid relatives have surpassed it.
I had a nightmare that i was waching a video, not at all related to the sause boy and I started hearing this song and then Michael popped up next to my bed and started talking about the existence of God and I woke up at like 4 in the morning covered in sweat because I was so anxious. Actually I had caught the flu and was having fever dreams but I just wanted to say thanks. I havnt watched vsause in like 3 years and I had to go looking for this song but I genuinely even after all these years feel the same existential dread I felt when I was a teen watching these videos. I needed that nestolga in muh life
Imagine just imagine hearing this at night it’s as if it’s repeating it’s scary it’s taking out your sole although all of these things it feels hella good
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this is the music that makes you feel empty inside as you experience an existential crisis with that smart bald man
"Hey! VSauce. Smart bald man here."
Tristan Quioco YOU FEEL EMPTY BCAUSE YOUR TO STUPID FOR KNOWLEDGE Vsause is cool
Or is it?
@Astro I think it's Ben Wheeler?
Yes, indeed.
Hey Mikesauce Vehicle Here
Amazing
@@warau.exe2 what the hell have you done
This is the best of these type of comments I have ever seen
*car noises*
Excuse me sir, but I believe it is pronounced *”Ve-Hicle”*
*starts pondering existence*
How specific :/
Hey, Vsauce Michael here.
Now that was specific.
Or was it?
....
Hey Michael, Vsauce here. what is space on a scale of waaaaattttttsss uppppp to 69
ThatGuyFromCanada Hey Vsauce, Michael here.
Do you exist?
**Still pondering existence*
“We begin 100,000 years ago. currently, we are moving 1,000 years per second, as you can see, not much is changing. Our modern world will briefly flash at the end, that’s all it is, that’s all it’s ever been, so try not to miss it, and as always, thanks for watching.”
This specific scene will always live with me. Insane to watch
Been trying to find the is song for the past year because of how powerful this quote hit.
The last four human ages (Medieval, Discovery, Industrial, and Information) have only taken up around 1500 years of history. Humans have been around for 230,000 years. Less than 1% of Human History.
That one scene in particular now causes me to tear up every time I hear this song
Which vid is it from?
"But there is blur, it's not a star, it is not a cloud of gas in our galaxy. It is an entirely different galaxy. the Andromeda galaxy, and it is coming our way."
I knew I heard this in that video
@@emm.kash708 me to
Bruh, that profile picture XD
_And it’s coming our way_
Now right now it looks like this, in 3 billion years, Andromeda would have approached so closely, that people would look up at the sky and see *this*
Vsauce: And of course, the earth is real
Me: No please...
Vsauce: Right?
Me: Nooo....
*music starts*
Me: DAMMIT
That was good for a hearty chuckle.
Beautiful.
xDDD
SHREK STAR no
I KNNEEEW it!
Isn't this like the actual atomic vibration of Hydrogen made into music or something?
Ya Boi Yeah
Only Heterosapiens
*Ya Boi*
Yeah
*Bonzane* lol I honestly thought you were saying "yea boi yea"… but realized it's the username
Ya Boi yes, it is
Fun fact: The wheezing sound is actually the vibration of hydrogen atoms, made into an audible noise
seriously?
@@ibrahimhasananshory8966 Yes, obviously the original sound is far too high for humans to hear, but it's pitched down by several orders of magnitude.
@@starry4471 ok, thanks
@@starry4471 dude i just realized that you posted the comment 3 years ago and yet you respond so fast. you are a legend.
@@ibrahimhasananshory8966 But of course.
as a drummer, this piece is rather demanding to exercise to, of course whilst having cosmic existential crisis at the same time.
Can you maybe upload a drum cover? That would be epic!!
odd time signatures are the most interesting imo
3 bars of 7/4 then 1 bar of 6/4 is really weird
that weird polyrhythm part at the bridge really gets me ;(
@@equilibrium3736 emphasize the 1 and the 4 during the count in your head. Helps alot
the video with the entire history of mankind in a minute
From vsauce
Me too, the Cleopatra transition was amazing
So be sure not to miss it, and as always, thanks for watching.
Our narrow slice
Yes
The background of this song is the electromagnetic waves that hydrogen releases, converted to sound, and pitch-shifted into the audible range
I always thought it was down-pitched sonar pings
i hope its pitched down by octave intervals, so we can still kinda hear the base note
I just watched minutephusics' video on the sound of hydrogen and recognized the ambient 'wheeze' throughout this song.
Lel same
cool
it's about time you get a response that's really cool good job
minute *phusics?*
*Angelflame Animations* lol
We are the VSauce
He is the Michael.
Cthuloso WeSauce
Woah
We sauce,
He Michael
Dude
Unless he's really saying 'Hey, VSauce-Michael here.'
I love how listening to this song gives you sort of an empty feeling, and hydrogen atoms are 99.9999999999996% empty space. If each element had a song that fit it perfectly, this would be the song for hydrogen.
The sound at 0:17 is literally the sound of hydrogen.
They sampled the sound of hydrogen decaying for a part of the song
why do i keep finding people with my profile pic
@@questionablegaming8014 it's incredibly common
@@normified makes sense, but that was the one day i found 4 people with my profile
Now this is my all time favorite Vsause soundtrack. That first minute give me goosebumps everytime
Yeah but me after orgasm 2:47
Is it the Our Narrow Slice ending where the skyscrapers are the last frame and the rest is caveman?
When we are long gone, Jake Chudnow will be remembered as one of the great composers of the Information Period.
He practically created Vsauce.
literally never watched vsauce but here we are
Jacqueline Taylor
If you don't want the VSauce there's always my sauce :megaflushed:
@@Mentaclink the fuck?
@@ytpanda398 It's a joke, we know each other, lmao
@@Mentaclink oh ok cool. Nice compilation btw.
Jacqueline Taylor HOW?
Am I the onlhy one who finds it somehow creepy that the Hydrogen is slowly getting closer and tilting clockwise?
how u notice?
dinorex compare the last and first frames and you will see it
press the numbers 1-9 on your keyboard quickly
Emmanuel Gapud why? I don’t see what that does?
UnfairFunfair, Holy crap it is you.
I'm being hunted by a fucking alien mothership
+Yhetti64 If you hear space Jazz, you know they're a'comin
+Yhetti64 Lemme help. What's your number? I have an alien mothership destroying company.
+Yhetti64 You might want to contact someone named The Doctor. I heard he's good at scaring away aliens.
Wut~
I was actually really high when I said this
In Our Narrow Slice, the ending with the human progression from stone age to rocket is so mind blowing and this song fits it so well
imagine making fun of the idea where people can learn literally anything by using a small device that can fit inside their pocket then you actually live to see it happen
I wish I could listen to this for the first time again. Those synth arpeggios near the end that pan left to right are so beautiful.
Most songs Vsauce uses would go perfectly in the No Mans Sky soundtrack. Especially the beginning part of this one.
as well as astroneer
You've been diagnosed with an addiction to this song. I recommend listening to it on repeat for 10 hours.
Thank you, Doctor, now I have a chronic case of Jake Chudnow Addiction Syndrome, instead of a mild one.
AstroMoo2 Minecrafter Then I recommend listening to the most annoying song you can find for 1,000 hours of your life.
AstroMoo2 Minecrafter i got the jake chudnow insomnia syndrome.. its even worse! You can never sleep because you listen to his music all the fucking time
*HOLY FUCKING HELL* that prof pic is scary
Thats some *l i t* profile picture there
The time signature in this song goes:
3 bars of 7 beats per measure
1 bar of 6 beats per measure
Comes out pretty damn groovy 😎
Thanks I was wondering how to count this song
i didnt even notice that, i thought it was just 7/8 the whole time
7/8 for 3 measures and one is 6/4. Almost had it though.
oh HELL yeah that is groovy
@@vogelvogeltje It's either 7/8 into 6/8 or 7/4 into 6/4. 7/8 into 6/4 would make the fourth measure almost twice as long as the other measures.
Shit gets real when this music turns on
Like heavy real
Like so real you begin pondering the existence of the universe and yourself
*So real that you thing of cosmic stuff, and start to realize that the universe would still move on even when you are erased*
*SO REAL YOU WILL BE KILLED BY VSAUCE, THE LAST THINGS YOU HEAR IS "Hey Vsauce, Michael here" AND HE BURIES YOUR BODY*
Okay *maybe* not that last part, but you get the idea
H̠̙͍̲̪͎͍̮͆́ͦ͐ͤ͒̉́E̗̟̞͇̗̺̔͌̅̂̏̄̎͜Y̖̔̄̍̊̈́͆͌ͩ ̬̩̯̰͉̻̀͑͡ͅṾ̛̩̃̊ͬ̐͟S̲͎̟̘̳̗̍́͂A̴̷͇̩̞̰̪͕͙͂ͭ͢Ȕ̺̪̝͔͆̈ͭͫ̇C̭̹̍̆̏̏ͥ͞E̶͚͍̓̆̈́ͧͣͮ̂͋,,̵̹̳̟͓͉͖̐ͧ ͎͙ͧ̉͑ͬͩͦ͟͠M̸̡̢̜͈̟͕̱̳̣ͪͭ́̑͊̄ͯͭI̴̪̗͉͎̭͎͊̉̐̍̈̍̅C̪̦͋̋́̅͠H̸̢̺̟̬̞̺ͧ̉͐̀ͬ̂ͮ̄͒ͅȀ҉̡̟̩͔͎̠̞̹̦́E̡̙̝̺̺̗̮̾̀͋̽̽ͤ̐̃ͅL̨̳̞̆ͫ͒ͭ͛ͣͧ ̐̏̓҉͕̥H̒ͤ͒̉҉̮͈̳̭̙͎̦È̞͓̤̙̹̑̃̏̔̉͘̕R̆͋ͭ̈́͏̡̙͈̱̝͈͉̜Ȩ̛̮̗͔̺͔̞ͯͩ͐
Ẃ̜͙̙̜͙͍͉͕̾͒̏̒͘͠ͅH̷̡̦͙̔̅ͬ̍Ȩ̯̜͚̖̹̦̖͖ͭ̉̽̓́ͅR̭̹̹͊̌̏ͥ͂ͬ̿̄̀E͉̖̳͕̐̽ͦ͒̍̉̀͜͜͞ ̴͚̯͇͎ͯ͒ͥ̚A̵̶̯͉͒ͨ͊̚R̝̦̒̒ͬ̈́̅͛E̼̝̠ͧ͌͡ ̱̻͚̤̥̄̒ͮͦ́̎̎̔̚̕Yͯ͛ͧ̎͏̛̩͕͙̀Õͯ͌͗ͮ̃ͥ̽͏̲̜̦̼̞̭̖̝̳U̮̘̝̱̭̱̺͋͐͢R̮̥̮̒̇̇ ̧͈̝̤̞̜̗̺̺ͫ͒ͬ̎̔̅̈F͉͉̽ͪͦ̑ͥ̽̓̇͡͞ͅI͎̫̥̯̗͉̤̽̏ͥͭ͟N̶̵̛̠̬̘͙̜̗̈́́͊ͨͬG̡̞̦̬̪͑E̡̛̙͇̹͒͂̀̓̓R̴̩̱̟̝̹͑ͧͤ̈́͝͝Ś̰̄̆ͧͬ̌̀́͞?̫̱̙̼̖͔̄͗͟
+Mentaclink
H̠̙͍̲̪͎͍̮͆́ͦ͐ͤ͒̉́E̗̟̞͇̗̺̔͌̅̂̏̄̎͜Y̖̔̄̍̊̈́͆͌ͩ ̬̩̯̰͉̻̀͑͡ͅṾ̛̩̃̊ͬ̐͟S̲͎̟̘̳̗̍́͂A̴̷͇̩̞̰̪͕͙͂ͭ͢Ȕ̺̪̝͔͆̈ͭͫ̇C̭̹̍̆̏̏ͥ͞E̶͚͍̓̆̈́ͧͣͮ̂͋,,̵̹̳̟͓͉͖̐ͧ ͎͙ͧ̉͑ͬͩͦ͟͠M̸̡̢̜͈̟͕̱̳̣ͪͭ́̑͊̄ͯͭI̴̪̗͉͎̭͎͊̉̐̍̈̍̅C̪̦͋̋́̅͠H̸̢̺̟̬̞̺ͧ̉͐̀ͬ̂ͮ̄͒ͅȀ҉̡̟̩͔͎̠̞̹̦́E̡̙̝̺̺̗̮̾̀͋̽̽ͤ̐̃ͅL̨̳̞̆ͫ͒ͭ͛ͣͧ ̐̏̓҉͕̥H̒ͤ͒̉҉̮͈̳̭̙͎̦È̞͓̤̙̹̑̃̏̔̉͘̕R̆͋ͭ̈́͏̡̙͈̱̝͈͉̜Ȩ̛̮̗͔̺͔̞ͯͩ͐, Where is your brain! (Okay I'll stop XD)
+alejandro garcia
Because of Vsauce
@@Tach_ion
Because he'll come up to Thanos and say
"Hey, Vsauce, Michael here, W H E R E A R E Y O U R F I N G E R S"
Well, Hydrogen is the lightest element, so not that heavy.
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Where are your fingers? Seriously. It's a pretty easy question. You should be able to answer it. But how do you know? How does anyone know anything?
You might say, well, I know where my fingers are. I'm looking right at them. Or, I can touch them, I can feel them, they're right here and that's good. Your senses are a great way to learn things. In fact, we have way more than the usual five senses we talk about. For instance, your kinesthetic sense, proprioception. This is what the police evaluate during a field sobriety test. It allows you to tell where your fingers and arms and head and legs in your body is all in relation to each other without having to look or touch other things. We have way more than five senses, we have at least twice as many and then some. But they're not perfect.
There are optical illusions, audio illusions, temperature sensation illusions, even tactile illusions. Can you turn your tongue upside down? If so, perfect. Try this. Run your finger along the outer edge of the tip of your upside down tongue. Your tongue will be able to feel your finger, but in the wrong place. Our brains never needed to develop an understanding of upside down tongue touch. So, when you touch the right side of your tongue when it's flipped over to your left side you perceive a sensation on the opposite side, where your tongue usually is but isn't when it's upside down. It's pretty freaky and cool and a little humbling, because it shows the limits of the accuracy of our senses, the only tools we have to get what's out there in here.
The philosophy of knowledge, the study of knowing, is called epistemology. Plato famously said that the things we know are things that are true, that we believe and that we have justification for believing. those justifications might be irrational or they might be rational, they might be based on proof, but don't get too confident because proven is not a synonym for true. Luckily, there are things that we can know without needing proof, without needing to even leave the house, things that we can know as true by reason alone. These are things that we know a priori. An example would be the statement "all bachelors are unmarried." I don't have to go survey every bachelor on earth to know that that is true. All bachelors are unmarried because that's how we define the word bachelor. Of course, you have to know what the words bachelor and unmarried mean in the first place. Oh, you do? Okay. Perfect. That's great. But how do you know?
This time I mean functionally, how do you know? Where is knowledge biologically in the brain? What are memories made out of? We are a long way from being able to answer that question completely but research has shown that memories don't exist in the brain in single locations. Instead, what we call a memory is likely made up of many different complex relationships all over the brain between lots of brain cells, neurons. A major cellular mechanism thought to underlie the formation of memories is long-term potentiation or LTP. When one neuron stimulates another neuron repeatedly that signal can be enhanced overtime LTP, wiring them more strongly together and that connection can last a long time, even an entire lifetime. A collection of different brain cells, neurons that fire together in a particular order over and over again frequently and repeatedly can achieve long-term potentiation, becoming more sensitive to each other and more ready to fire in the exact same way later on in the future. They're a physical thing in your brain, firing together more easily because you strengthen that pattern of firing. You memorized. This branching forest of firing friends looks messy, but look closer. It could be the memory of your first kiss. A living souvenir of the event. If I were to go into your brain and cut out those cells, could I make you forget your first kiss or could I make you forget where your fingers are? Only if I cut out a lot of your brain. Because memories aren't just stored in one relationship, they're stored all over the brain. The events leading up to your first kiss are stored in one network, the way it felt to the way it smelled in different networks, all added up together making what you call the memory of your first kiss.
How many memories can you fit inside your head? What is the storage capacity of the human brain? The best we can do is a rough estimate, but given the number of neurons in the brain involved with memory and the number of different connections a single neuron can make Paul Reber at Northwestern University estimated that we can store the digital equivalent of about 2.5 petabytes of information. That's the equivalent of recording a TV channel continuously for 300 years. That's a lot of information. That is a lot of information about skills you can do and facts and people you've met, things in the real world. The world is real, right? How do you know?
It's a difficult question, but it's not rocket science. Instead, it is asking whether or not rocket scientists even exist in the first place. The theory that the Sun moved around the earth worked great. It predicted that the Sun would rise every morning and it did. It wasn't until later that we realized what we thought was true might not be. So, do we or will we ever know true reality or are we stuck in a world where the best we can do is be approximately true? Discovering more and more useful theories every day but never actually reaching true objective actual reality. Can science or reason ever prove convincingly that your friends and TH-cam videos and your fingers actually exist beyond your mind? That you don't just live in the matrix?
No. Your mind is all that you have, even if you use instruments, like a telescope or particle accelerators. The final stop for all of that information is ultimately you. You are alone in your own brain, which technically makes it impossible to prove that anything else exists. It's called the egocentric predicament. Everything you know about the world out there depends on and is created inside your brain. This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Peirce that he drew a line between reality, the way the universe truly is, and what he called the phaneron, the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get. If you want to speak with certainty you live in, that is you react to and remember and experience your phaneron, not reality. The belief that only you exist and everything else, food, the universe, your friends are all figments of your mind is called solipsism. There is no way to convince a solipsist that the outside world is real. And there is no way to convince someone who doubts that the universe wasn't created just three seconds ago along with all of our memories. It's a frightening realization that we don't always know how to deal with. There's even The Matrix defense.
In 2002 Tonda Lynn Ansley shot and killed her landlady. She argued that she believed she was in the matrix, that her crimes weren't real. By using the matrix defense, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity, because the opposite view is just way healthier and common. It's called realism. Realism is the belief that the outside world exists independently of your own phaneron. Rocks and stars and Thora Birch would continue to exist even if you weren't around to experience them. But you cannot know realism is true. All you can do is believe.
Martin Gardner, a great source for math magic tricks, explained that he is not a solipsist because realism is just way more convenient and healthy and it works. As to whether it bothered him that he could never know realism was true, he wrote, "If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron, my answer is how should I know? I'm not dismayed by ultimate mysteries, I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph." Humble stuff. What strikes me is the cat.
Cats do not understand keyboards, but they know the keyboards are a fun place to be. It's a great way to get the attention of a human, they're warm and exciting, surrounded by noises and flashing lights plus cats love to get their scent on whatever they can, a mark of their existence. We aren't that much different, except instead of keyboards we have the mysteries of the universe. We will never be able to understand all of them.
We won't be able to ever answer every single question, but walking around in those questions, exploring them, is fun. It feels good. And as always, thanks for watching. Do you want more unanswered questions? Well, you're in luck. Today, nine other amazing channels on TH-cam have made videos about questions we still haven't fully answered. Alltime10s has organized them and to watch them all click the annotation at the end of this video or the link at the top of the description. Enjoy.
Underrated.
Who read it all?
@@Poyni i did
r/madlads
Whoa, blew my non existent mind
Whenever this music comes, you know stuff is going to get good
This is human history, 1000 years a second...... Breathtaking
If life had a credits scene at the end, this would play there.
Since hydrogen is the building block of most atoms. That could make sense
the 'loading' music as you wait to be created into a new being
Hey, Vsauce, Michael here. There's hydrogen in this room. But... WHAT IS HYDROGEN?
what is this ROOM?
Hydrogen is two up quarks and one down quark of three different color charges exchanging gluons which changes their color charges, which holds the quarks together. The three quarks together are positively charged so an electron is attracted to it and stays in an orbital around it. That's hydrogen.
But the real question is, Can you see hydrogen?
Obi Wan Kenobi Hydrogen gas is invisible but liquid hydrogen refracts light like water does. Hydrogen as plasma emits light and solid hydrogen has never been observed (but it's probably pretty visible).
You can when its a plasma, burning your face off
2:48 this part is just amazing. it makes me look over all my decisions and choices in life and what’s later to come. amazing job jake, you deserve more recognition
Post Awareness confusions from Stage 4, Amazing album.
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I didnt even notice that part
This is my favorite Vsauce song. Probably cuz of how mysterious it sounds.
or is it
It's Jake Chudnow.
Going Down bt chudnow is also a good one
Mine too
and as always.... thanks for watching!
Odnoklassniki
(Ok)
Why did he not post this in his channel? It is awesome.
+Lucas Balaminut Probably just hasn't made a trippy af vid for it yet.
+AlgoRythm
Hem hem.
145 (Poodles).
He doesnt make them.
Well he makes the songs but not the videos.
He makes the videos. Its in the description. Well, he edits together content that anyone can use.
I feel like this type of music is this community's little secret , it's great
I cant believe im vibing to the vibration of hydrogen.
this is how you know shits bout to go down
fun fact, this song is in 7/8 time signature
Damn jake, you really cooked on this one
This song creeps me out and I love it
I also like how that synth that starts at 2:47 keeps moving from your left ear to your right ear and back
Listening to this at loop in midnight has its own specialty! Everytime it hits differently!
If I ever go to space, I want this playing as we float
This song makes me imagine a hydrogen atom just floating in space right after the Big Bang occurred.
*380,000 years after
@@BeanOfBean Thank you I was thinking the exact same thing.
here because i had a dream Vsauce released a new video called "Is Fortnite actually a Fortnite?"
This is beyond amazing! I love VSauce and it gives me the feels of Michael telling something at the latter part of an episode, wow! this is just pure awesomeness infused in one video here.
13 years after I first watched Michael’s videos, this song still gives me a combination of existential crisis and deep wonder about our universe.
I just poured myself a glass of water to this song, it goes perfectly with drinking water too.
I like it when the drums come in
You know it’s getting existential when the drums kick in
Best song by jake Chudnow!!!!!!??????
Yes me
+antonio cabrera thanks me
+antonio cabrera IM TALKING TO MYSELF IM SO LONELY‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Cool cool
+CanYenTay YES FINALLY I FOUND SOMEONE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!!!!!!!! AHHH!!!!!!! Lol
lets just take a moment to feel sad for the people that cant find this song
ok moment over
Just glad I found it
@@flatbread6252 same
Heyyyy vsauce, michael here.
Pls notice me senpai ;-;
+- D3F4LT - ok
Senpai is friend :D
+Clovis senpai Your profile pic is adorable x3
+Clovis senpai But what is "here". Does alien life know the meaning of "here", "there" ? Let's find out
Did anyone here notice that the background was growing/moving closer?
and as always, thanks for watching.
J Aravind the background sounds like hydrogen.. no seriously
took me three watches, but eventually saw it.
No its not
There background is a hydrogen atom
This is the sound of knowledge.
You know what I just realized? Hydrogen is not that different from the earth. Lowly, a single point in spacetime, only one tiny part orbiting it, not knowing of what interactions it may be making with the outside world. That may just prove that, just like there are trillions upon trillions of hydrogen atoms in just our universe, there may also be trillions of earths, waiting to bond with an oxygen planet, making water on a galactic scale.
Ikol23 no dip Sherlock hydrogen is like the Earth, Earth is partly made up of hydrogen
The earth is made partly from hydrogen though
deep
U high as fuck homie
Breaking news: man discovers theory of the ages! Quoted: “circle look like bigger circle”
I love how this track goes from nihilistic to a bop by the end.
You know when this song plays, he’s definitely talking about something in space that you can barely comprehend, and then he ends the video
I really love the drum roll on this
I pray to god to not let the numbers infect this comment section
They're already here, they're just lurking in the shadows of the comments section
I find comfort in existentialism. I don't know there's something comfortable in the fact that you can be swept away at any moment.
I absolutely love you, jake.
I feel like I'm living inside it,
inside it all
This one always freaks me out
Hey, Vsauce, Micheal here.... or am I?
The term "here" refers to the location that the individual themselves is in. But what "individual" is actually speaking to you? The truth is, I'm not speaking to you right now. Your computer is simulating my message, you're being spoken to by pixels on a screen. But the computer isn't the one trying to tell you something; *I'm* trying to tell you something, and the computer is repeating my message. So, which is it? Who- or what- is speaking to you?
I know you posted this a year ago, but I couldn't help myself. I'll bet you totally forgot this comment existed.
Interesting psychology though; what if I didn't bother replying to this comment? You'd go the entire rest of your life totally forgetting that you ever posted this. Not that it matters much. But now you'll be reminded of what would otherwise be totally forgotten. But, with time, you will forget this comment again. You will forget I replied. I will forget this, too. But both your comment and my reply have been immortalized into this platform. Even after being forgotten, your comment and my reply will persist on the internet as long as this video exists on this platform.
...Honestly sounds like a better love story than Twilight.
(P.s. I think you spelled his name wrong, lol.)
WaffleSaber
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Why hello there, I am here so you don't forget this comment
@@donovancronin6477 ok ty
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This, along with some Kurzgesagt music, is the bringer of existential crises.
0.5 speed sounds fucking terrifying!
Dang it, I'm on mobile, wish I could hear it.
+BloodyOldGuy same ☹️
The beginning of the song in 0.5 speed sounds like ambient sounds from the movie alien.
Thanks for telling us, its a whole different song like that.
Half the speed, twice the horror.
Vsauce: Are you real?
Me: I would say so?
Vsauce: *music plays*
Me: Crap, I guess I'm not real
Me: *Kills myself*
Micheal: But wait! What if you haven't died yet?
VSauce: But first, what happens when we die?
Commits stop flow of blood
or did you
Vsauce: jk we are real
Conversation:
Person: Man! This coffee is really hot!
Vsauce: But whats the hottest thing in the universe?
*vsauce music starts*
You have no idea how long I've been trying to find this
Almost 5 years late but love the drums on this one.
Watching things decompose is actually very fitting with this music
Hydrogen makes the WEEEEEEEE noise in this song, that’s literally what hydrogen sounds like
DONT DELETE MY F***ING COMMENT YOU TUBE
dafuq
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well, its what hydrogen would sound like if you converted its emission spectrum from light to sound and then pitch shifted it down
"Look closely and you'll see our civilization at the end, but be careful not to miss it..."
Micheal: Says something dark
*Music starts playing*
This came on my recommended randomly and i was like "its alright ig..." Then that bass drum hit and i was like " no fuckin way"
I want a 10 hr version of this.
I love the main synth pauses at the start of the song.
This is the music that plays during the post-game credits of life
“How space is so empty and quiet yet, SO GRAND”
2:47 Waltuh 🗣🗣🗣
One of my favorite tracks from Jake :D
I always hear "for the first time, the enemy has used... cruel bombs"
This music is something out of this world
5 years ago: man I wanna know this music name, sounds so cool but I can't find it
now: finds it randomly
Holy crap I've been looking for this music for forever.
This song makes me want to travel a 1000 years a second
This song always freaked me out when i was younger watching vsauce
It's reminds me of pink Floyd
this reminds me of the metroid prime sound track so much, i love it!
fav by far!
at what point did human sentience begin? Between us and our pre-sentient ancestors, there was a missing link that behaved much differently than us or their own ancestors. Did a proto-human at one point just mentally snap and put two and two together, or was it gradual between generations? What are the intermediate stages of sentience and will we ever really know?
*sapient
Dolphins hunt for sport, a human activity.
Chimps conduct skirmishes, a human activity.
A large portion of animals use tools in some way, another human activity.
Elephants have intelligence on par with primates and cetaceans.
And cetaceans are also quite smart.
The boundary is grey, but many creatures approach it. Only humans & our dead hominid relatives have surpassed it.
I had a nightmare that i was waching a video, not at all related to the sause boy and I started hearing this song and then Michael popped up next to my bed and started talking about the existence of God and I woke up at like 4 in the morning covered in sweat because I was so anxious.
Actually I had caught the flu and was having fever dreams but I just wanted to say thanks. I havnt watched vsause in like 3 years and I had to go looking for this song but I genuinely even after all these years feel the same existential dread I felt when I was a teen watching these videos. I needed that nestolga in muh life
0:37 - 42 sounds like something you'd hear in a dark eerie long hallway
Finally, I found the 7/8 song in Vsauce videos I’ve been looking for.
You should get this music put in Astroneer, I think it'd be pretty *swank* as the cool kids call it
And as always, thanks for listening.
I truly enjoy your music.
Imagine just imagine hearing this at night it’s as if it’s repeating it’s scary it’s taking out your sole although all of these things it feels hella good
Thank god i found this in my recommended
ayo half-life 3 soundtack be ballin
Everyone talking about Moon Men playing in Vsauce vids but you know stuff's bout to get real when this hits
Yeah
Things just got friggin *d e e p*
This song is forged from pure vibes