“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” -Nikola Tesla
The weirdest deja vu, or premonition maybe? that I ever experienced, was as a teenager. Sitting at home alone in the living room, drawing. A friend, Ryan, was over earlier, and forgot his hat. His mother's van pulls up in the driveway, Ryan get's out, comes to the door. Tells me he forgot his hat, can he go down stairs and get it. I said sure, let him run down stairs, and sat back down to draw. After a few minutes, I noticed the van was gone, but I didn't see Ryan leave. So I went to the top of the stairs, called down to him. Nothing, no answer. So I go down into the basement. No one there. Okay, figured he left, and I didn't notice. Whatever. So, back to drawing. A few moments later, Ryan's mother's van pulls into the driveway, and Ryan comes to the door. He tells me he forgot his hat, and asked if he could go down stairs and get it. I was a little stunned, and asked if he wasn't just there a not long ago. He tells me no. I let him go get his hat, this time went with him, and tell him about what just happened. What the fuck? That experience is burned in my brain. It was the first time anything like that happened, and nothing like it has happened since.
Tarudox I have never really come up with an explanation for it. I assume I was sleep deprived or something. Maybe a combination of that, and what normally causes deja vu? No idea, heh.
Swidhelm very intriguing indeed. Time shift? Alternate realty? Pre-conceived notion of you knowing his dilemma with his hat had given to your expectations of his aforementioned actions...most plausible. Interesting, none-the - less.
You are the most logical and open minded person I have ever seen . The way you admit that science cannot understand each and everything and that it requires controlled conditions to work is so considerate of you.
It's absolutely necessary for us to study the paranormal! Over man's entire history, he has been met with things that at first seemed "paranormal" or seemed like "magic". It was only when man put on his "thinking cap", that we began to pick things apart, delving into the realm of the unknown, in a bid to understand all of the incredible processes around him. Can u imagine giving Neanderthals one of our smartphones, or one of those INCREDIBLE massage chairs you'd be willing to refinance your house for? Neanderthals wouldn't have been capable of comprehending what they were looking at, let alone what it did or how to use it. And to us, they're such an integral and interwoven part of our daily lives, that we can't go back now. Point being, our phones would've appeared magical or paranormal to them. A final note, one of my most favorite quotes relating to all things paranormal is: "The absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence"
I don't think we can dismiss deja vu at all. It's quite the amazing experience. I've had Deja Vu where I actually remember the words people are about to say or a topic somebody will bring up. Say I'm talking to a person and suddenly I feel deja vu, in my mind I'm recalling this conversation and in my head I'm predicting what the person is going to say word-for-word perfectly... Lucky guess? Maybe. However this has happened many times. I don't think it could be anything as simple as a misfiring neuron or some mental illness, especially when I'm correctly predicting words/topics. I've even had dreams where I was watching movies that haven't even been released and I find myself predicting the next scene accurately when I finally do watch.
StoreBrand I don't think these examples are standard deja-vu experiences, you may want to Google "clear seeing", "clear knowing" and/or "scientific descriptions of the psychic modalities" Clearly symptoms of the potential for higher evolution leveling. "Meditate" - release negative energy, negative learned info/opinions, and allow for soul consciousness to emerge. Embrace your "you" and All of your potentials. "Get a guru" ☮⚖⚛❤🔆
Refusal to study something you don't understand is basically openly admitting you are ignorant and do not care about understanding things. We understand so very little of our reality, anyone who tells you otherwise is not doing so based on facts, logic, or reason. It should be our job as humans, scientist, and inhabitants of this universe to specifically seek out that which we do not understand and study it, even if fruitlessly. If we do no study the unknown, how do we expect to discover it?
+Throttle Kitty Well, to most people it's the same as refusing to study unicorns or leprechauns. They think it's a waste of time, and I agree. Well, with most aspects of supernatural. Some would be easy to prove/disprove. And I mean true supernatural, not some of the stuff he talks about here where they do actually study.
cortster12 No, that is not an appropriate comparison at all. If there is no evidence of something's existence, and no one believe's it exists, it is clearly a waste of effort researching it. Anyone with proper comprehension skills should realize that.
I actually have a friend who is a university mathematician studying metaphysics and the nature of the existence of things beyond what is generally scientifically accepted. Those fields seem almost unreconcilable to hear them spoken on alongside the other, and yet he feels he can definitively prove that the things about which we spend time debating the very existence of are in fact as real, if not more so, than our very flesh and blood. So it's a very interesting topic to me.
@yahya s5230 like "Why did I watch this video? I didn't even learn anything. I'm not even paying attention to it." Or _"What am I doing?"_ "Why are fish fish?" _Why can we sometimes see/remember something happening then later on said thing happends?"_ "Why am I asking so much questions?" _"How are words words?"_ Why are things things?" _"How are things things?"_ And many other questions.
I've always been more interested in jamais vu, when you walk into a place you've been in hundreds of times and yet feel like you've never been there before in your life.
***** I just looked at the definition, it's also like when you look at a word for a long time and say it out loud for a while and it randomly looks unfamiliar to you
+Superficially Steph Because sometimes happens in places where you go regularly. For example you go to school everyday and one day you feel as you never been there.
+Máximo Sant De Barrondo That would be a good place to have a jamais vu. Teacher says "whez ya homework jimmeh!?" Jimmie replies "What homework? It's the first day! We've never been here before, teacher. Have you taken ya pills?"
Love how Trace basically translated the scientists "we have no idea what's happening, but here's a cool part of the brain that makes me sound smart"! Trace is awesome!
What about consciousness? Do they really know what it is? how can you build one? how many neurons do you need to create a consiousness?? Does anybody know that?
There are a lot of ideas, and very little truth. Try reading "The Origins of Consciousness in the Bicameral Mind." It may be a bit old, but it shows very well how little we know.
+Hidden Thicket Would you support re-assigning researchers who are currently investigating ways to develop a vaccine against influenza to studying what ways we can best please Lord Chemosh? There are only a limited number of people, a smaller number of them capable of doing productive research, and a limited number of hours in their days. If things which have no evidence to support even the possibility of their existence are deserving of study, what method can we use to determine where we spend these limited resources? People are dying of influenza now, but clearly if we could please Lord Chemosh he could end world hunger. It seems like a difficult choice to make.
Dustin Rodriguez I never said anything about reassigning anyone away from anything. Only that there is nothing undeserving of study. Some things are more deserving, but nothing is inherently undeserving. I suppose there is eventually a time to give up and study something else, though. Has Lord Chemosh ended world hunger despite our attempts to please him? No. That's why we largely moved along from that sort of thing and changed focus to agriculture and genetics instead.
Hidden Thicket You have to reassign people. There are only a limited number of researchers, and if everything is worthy of study, great swathes of things will be ignored as we concentrate on the things that have evidence to support them. As for Chemosh, we don't know much about him. According to the Christian Bible, he did repel the Israelites and their god when they were trying to invade a city he protected because the leader crushed his own sons head against a rock in sacrifice to him. We haven't studied what benefits we could get from trying to please him in millenia, so we have no way of knowing what benefits there might be. Studying agriculture is all well and good, but if studying Chemosh has value, as you say all things do, we should reassign some people or redirect some of the kids in college studying plant biology to studying Chemosh and other abandoned gods.
Also, Dustin, I get Hidden Thicket's point, you don't necessarily have to reassign researchers. But there simply are no funds to incentivise pointless woowoo research. Sponsor Loch Ness monster expeditions with $10 mil and there will be people willing to spend their time proving or disproving its existence (and no, you wouldn't have to reassign anyone trying to develop the next vaccine against influenza if they don't care about the Loch Ness monster).
I think deja vu is related to whatever makes someone else start humming a song you were thinking of. Something to do with frequencies we detect and aren't aware of that connect us Or that memory being stored immediately and remembered immediately. or both.
you've got something there, there was a writer or songwriter who said he didn't write the song, he was fishing them out from other streams of ideas. which is why there are times we get certain ideas that seem to be similar from others but we've not seen their work. or have heard a song and you feel you've heard it before...
Z Queen dream Javu is creepy to me. rarely happens but it's always something normal, like waking up in a bed I don't recognize with hats on the wall. then years later it happens
I think a deja Vu is just a brain error, where what you see and hear is directly written into memory, so you think this exact thing happened while it just gets written. This is the most logical explanation that I just came up with.
Steve Johnson you were thinking that you knew it before it happened, as I said your brain stored that information while you're thinking. A bit of a positive feedback loop. Nobody can really know what happens in the future, even if it feels like that, senses are not the best way to experience reality, but they aren't the worst either.
Steve Johnson what's supernatural in this exact setting? I can tell you that your brain missfired signals, most likely because you have been frightened of dropping her, I can't know that. But that would be a reason to create that effect of writing the memory while experiencing a moment. (thinking about it is equal to experiencing) I don't expect anyone to understand that phenomenon, but that's the most logical explanation. Also I didn't want to attack you with missfired signals, that's natural, it happens to most of humanity at some point. Friendly? ;D
Steve Johnson how do you want to know if you had a dream about it after that deja Vu moment? What makes you believe something "supernatural" happened? Sorry to disappoint you, in reality is nothing, absolutely nothing supernatural, only our minds can trick us into believing that. I tested my deja Vu theory on some friends, and asked them to describe their experience and I came to this conclusion too. Actually I came to this theory while studying my last deja Vu, it was very recent back then, I tracked that feeling back to a part of my brain, where memory is written, that experience started by positive feedback loop and then corrupts the memory writing and accessing ability. Since then I haven't had a deja Vu moment anymore, normally I had such an experience about every month. I think by tracking this signal back by forcing this experience I either disconnected that process or just made it stable, only time will tell, if I won't get this deja Vu moment again I know for sure that I "cured" it for myself... I really don't hope so, because that experience is kinda fun sometimes and it feels weird.
First of all, this is definitely in my top five series you guys have done just because it's so clever, skirting the razor edge of the boundaries of science to peek at what else is out there through a scientific lens. Well done. That being said, I think what's important to remember here is that science is a tool, and while it's an extremely powerful tool, a chainsaw works great as a chainsaw but not so great as a clamp. The objective world -- which is what science focuses on by definition -- is arguably the *primary* aspect of reality, but it's an extreme oversimplification to say that it's the only thing that makes up human experience. For example, what purely objective motivation do we have to do science? Because things will get better? We're just one of an incomprehensible number of tiny dots in a vast expanse of nothingness with no clear purpose. What *is* "better" in an objective sense? Global warming? Nuclear fallout? It doesn't matter if you believe that there isn't anything "else" out there independent of matter and the universe as we know it interacting with us. The "secondary" subjective experiences may or may not be based purely in hard matter, no pun intended but it doesn't *matter* because they're just as important to *us* as the things we can all agree are the same, and in a sense we *make* them real.
Its true about the placebo effect. Ive stopped smoking a few while back. But whenever i feel stressed or full of anxiety. I close my eyes, breath in a pattern of smoking and i instantly feel calm as what people who smoke feel.
I'm a devout atheist but I believe ESP is possible this way, emotional ESP, animals know when you're frightened, I live in the woods, they also know when you're not, they seem to also know when you're happy, and possibly whales have visited me because I was eager to see them, a personal accidental study, maybe ten out of thirteen attempts, they came! Best sightings ever!
I feel like many paranormal phenomenon are actually within the realm of science, but at a level that we do not understand yet. I mean have you ever been talking to a friend or family member and you think the same thing or say the same thing. Or have you ever just knew a family member was in trouble? I think all of it is explainable, with the right amount of legitimate research, and the advancement of technology.
There is something to understand a "paranormal" phenomenon: most of the time, it relies on some form of "cheating": guessing something using clues you're not supposed to have, relying on people's reaction to know what they are thinking (cold reading and mentalism), using a clever trick (that's the job of magicians), etc. For example the Loch Ness monster and big foot are human creations: people have admitted creating them, but that did not stop the believers. It is also possible to trace back the story of the UFO's and the guy that made the first "photos" of UFO's using pots and pans. So of course, don't dismiss too quickly claims that contradict your beliefs, but in the explanations, don't forget to consider the social elements: humans fabricate stories and there is business in deceiving other people, or even ourselves.
The Easter Island Heads are actually 70 foot tall statues that weigh tons. They are being studied right now but don't know why they were partially buried.
Everything is worth studying. It's up to the researcher to keep pushing the boundary of the unknown as far as it can go, and then figure out how to go a little bit further.
It's crazy when you talk about IBS and the placebo pill, I feel IBS is affect by stress and for me it's something that happens overnight and it's the worst in the morning and fades throughout the day. So i'd guess it's deffinetly affecting the subconsious
In the PLOS One IBS placebo study, the report says the placebo pills were administered with the description that even though they were placebo, they had been shown to help IBS symptoms in clinical studies. That claim would be enough to trigger the placebo affect. They should have administered the placebo with no indication that it would help. For a fair test, they should have just told them they were getting a placebo, and then defined what a placebo is, not what the placebo has been shown to do. I'll bet if you did the same test but described the placebo as having no measurable effect... they would have gotten a very different result. The power of suggestion is... powerful. Also would have been nice to see a slightly larger test group. The power of the mind should never be underestimated.
Moai "heads" actually have bodies. One easy technique to make them move is with ropes, they attached the rope around the shoulders of the statue and by pulling on each sides, at an interval, they could make the statue "walk".
For so long, I have been complaining about the highly authoritative stance on science these days. There is a lack of balance for not regarding or not acknowledging the fact that we do not know all there is to know nor the fact that we cannot know everything. To me, a truly enlightened civilization is one that accepts that everything cannot be known nor is it meant to be.
Science isn't about knowing everything or thinking we do. It's about observable and repeatable experiments that leads to theory that can accurately predict how things are or will be.
Andre Courchesne No, science is about knowing or thinking you know something. What you just stated is the scientific method by which people come to understand the physical world. With that being said, some experiments lead to a conclusion about how something ultimately functions, but in other cases when we are unable to thoroughly inspect every aspect ( or what we perceive to be every aspect) of something, thats when we draw up this little thing called a theory, which is usually based on extrapolating from principles that we already understand and applying it something we don't fully understand. An example of this is: The planets revolve around the sun, therefore the galaxy must be revolving around an ULTRA SUN or BLACK HOLE! But of course no one can truly prove nor disprove if this is actually happening, but we'll take the theory for now.
+Josh Jones my point is that the sciences are ever changing as we gather new evidences of how things work. To say that some things cannot be understood through the scientific method is to say that it will always be mysterious. Just because we lack the means or didn't reach higher level of understanding to be able to understand doesn't mean we should stop working on it. TL;DR What we do not know today, we may know tomorrow Nothing is out of reach with enough time and resources
Usually when you take in information it goes into your short term memory and your brain considers it something you are experiencing in that moment. If the brain deems it important enough it then sends the information to your long term memory for storage. When you experience deja vu your brain misfires and bypasses short term memory and goes straight into long term memory. Since you process it first from long term memory your brain sees it as a past memory instead of something you are experiencing in that moment. So basically it's your brain working backwards sending information from long term to short term memory instead of the other way around.
It's happened to me to think about something, stop thinking about it for some seconds and when I think about it again it feels like deja vu. So I kinda agree with the hypothesis of it being a connection that goes broken (to a memory) and re-established so it feels like the first time the second time you experience but you think you kinda experienced it before (because you just did).
I would love someone to explain an experience I had 43 years ago. While having a deja vu moment in class, my mind went forward and for a few minutes I clearly saw (as if looking at a re-run), what was about to happen. I told a class mate at the time what the teacher would do and everything occurred exactly as I fore saw. I soooo wish i could enter this state on demand.
People with epilepsy sometimes experience deja vu or jamais vu when they have simple partial seizures and right before a generalized seizure. I personally experience Jamais Vu quite frequently and it has been linked to epileptiform activity in my brain.
Some scientists have proposed a way giving more validity to the out of body experience. It involves having a picture suspended from the ceiling facing the ceiling so none of the doctors or patient know what the picture is of. If the patient can describe the picture after the out of body experience try and explain that one.
you can't just casually toss a statement like "the scientific method is flawed" without further elaboration, and then barrel into an implied accusation of censorship on TED's part... there are statistical shortcomings in most scientific studies, and the anthropic principle is always looming, which along with groupthink may threaten to throw undetected bias into methodology and approach. being "open-minded" here could simply mean being more critical in our thinking and question even some of the more established principles if there is room to grow our understanding.
Actually, when I have Deja Vu I just don't find it familiar, I actually REMEMBER it. When I was 6 I had a dream about something. then I started writing about it and telling my parents about it and then 10 minutes later it ACTUALLY happened? Is this Deja Vu?
I only remember a few experiences of esp like things. I recall being able to tell if a friend of mine was emotionally stressed, who lived over two thousand miles away. I had gone a few weeks of little contact because she was busy with drama class. I called her and she was ether sick or quite sad. Of course I attribute this to my faith, with the spirit and all that. (I'm one of those Mormon boys) The other time in middle school, was a dream I had of math class, taking down notes. The school i was going to at the time had a block schedule, so odd period classes one day, even on the other. So I come into class, and I realize I had already learned it, with a deja vu feel to it. I was going to ask if we had already learned it yesterday, but I remembered the schedule, and tried to think back to what i had done before first learning it, but I had no memory of even entering the class in that memory.
There is a documentary on the Moai and they reconstructed how they made them and moved them. It would be awesome to think it was some great mystery and such, but they were able to move them by using ropes and rocking them back and forth... thus walking them to their spots. Took a while to do it, but they were able to do it fairly easily. Kinda took the magic out of it, but it's still pretty cool ;)
Can you do a series about the maker movement and DIY and makerspaces and people with hobbies? I'm part of a makerspace called Fubarlabs and I would be glad to help and give information for the series.
It makes sense that ibs could be helped with placebos. The diseases is greatly influenced by emotions and is very inconsistent. Any small comfort can influence it's inconsistent symptoms. I had a job I hated and I would get sick every day before work. After calling in I would feel a little better.
I've experienced de ja vu many times it used to drive me insane but now when it happens I try to embrace it for i usually go thru de Ja va for multiple hours
+Science Plus This was an awesome video, but there is an error in the underlying theme of the video; Science doesn't need to even address these claims. Positive assertions require evidence before belief is justified, the burden of proof lies with the claimant. Also, Science does not make proclamations of Truth, but rather methodically considers the best, most accurate evidence available and then demonstrates what is most likely true. The reason Supernatural hypothesis are less valid than their Natural counter-parts in claims of causation, is that things that do not exist cannot effect those that do. *This is not a claim that Supernature does not exist,* it's a statement asserting that in order for anything, including Supernature, to be put forward as a valid cause, that thing must be at the very least, existent. The things that are in the category of _Things that Might Exist_ are, at this point, no different as far as our capacity to gauge them than the things in the _Non-Existent_ category. Existence cannot be asserted without first being demonstrated. Nature is known to exist. If one wishes to posit Supernatural explanations, we then compound a problem, by putting forward an explanation that requires demonstration. Until we can evaluate, or indeed determine the existence of, Supernature, it is not rational to assign attributes or capabilities to it. When one puts Supernature as the cause, one says that an effect we can't explain, was produced by a cause we know nothing about, and for all we know, doesn't exist. So, "Mysterious Event" "X," is caused by unknown, possibly non-existent "Cause" "Y," which isn't really saying much.
I know that everyone on here has probably heard that several times but: Science doesn't has to disprove Nessie, for example, it has to be proved. Until it is not proved, it doesn't exist. But you don't need to know how it came to be - it just has to be there. But you need to be able to prove that. And the Scientific Method in itself is pretty useful for what it is intended to be for. Unless something isn't repeatable and all the little factors are known, you can't claim to know whats causing something, because it could be any of those factors.
An interesting hypothesis for what the Moai may have meant is that they were chieftains or prominent figures, I can't recall all the details but I think its posited that they were some kind of memorial.
If scientists would be less arrogant, they would not need to waste time finding out such primitive concepts as placebo. It was already known to occult and this power to heal is used widely. I love how people like this can deny this power despite all the evidence right in front of them.
[154thTN] Seth Adam Haha that would be hilarious. I also would like to think that it maybe some sort of novel the author was planning like Tolkens Lords of the Rings.
I think It's valuable to study everything. We aren't doing a trillionth of a percent of the research we should be doing. Ideally, everyone would have to participate in scientific research as part of their tax obligation.
Can you answer in sometimes, I remember trpile or even quadruple dejavus. Double dejavu means that this happenned before and I thought it was dejavu. This is strange.
Well think about the times you had dejavu but couldn’t stop trying to figure it out. Then eventually you realize that person you thought you’d met before was wearing the same perfume as you’re best friend was when u met her....or whatever example. Alternatively, you’re remembering a similar experience from one of ur past lives.
I really liked your video and the topics are really interesting... i found myself speeding the video up but that's just me...i would love to see you use the space behind yourself to show some illustrations or pictures of the topics your discussing i'm easily distracted...i genially think if you done that you could land yourself on mainstream TV if you chose to.
I don't know why you'd call the scientific method "flawed." It's the best possible method there is to discovering any sort of predictive quality of the universe that man has yet to come up with. In that sense, anything that is subject to evolution or amendment is "flawed."
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” -Nikola Tesla
SIMUL4CR4 did he really say that? Wow
Agreed. Dyson's sentiment was the same as many other scientists I have read about. we may never know the really interesting things Tesla was onto.
He was referring to the electromagnetic force
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that has nothing to do with t you dummy 😂
read the book
the un natural war
Smart he was; but also thought he received information telepathically from aliens.
The weirdest deja vu, or premonition maybe? that I ever experienced, was as a teenager. Sitting at home alone in the living room, drawing. A friend, Ryan, was over earlier, and forgot his hat. His mother's van pulls up in the driveway, Ryan get's out, comes to the door. Tells me he forgot his hat, can he go down stairs and get it. I said sure, let him run down stairs, and sat back down to draw.
After a few minutes, I noticed the van was gone, but I didn't see Ryan leave. So I went to the top of the stairs, called down to him. Nothing, no answer. So I go down into the basement. No one there. Okay, figured he left, and I didn't notice. Whatever.
So, back to drawing. A few moments later, Ryan's mother's van pulls into the driveway, and Ryan comes to the door. He tells me he forgot his hat, and asked if he could go down stairs and get it. I was a little stunned, and asked if he wasn't just there a not long ago. He tells me no. I let him go get his hat, this time went with him, and tell him about what just happened.
What the fuck? That experience is burned in my brain. It was the first time anything like that happened, and nothing like it has happened since.
+Swidhelm that's so weird and interesting
Tarudox I have never really come up with an explanation for it. I assume I was sleep deprived or something. Maybe a combination of that, and what normally causes deja vu? No idea, heh.
Swidhelm very intriguing indeed. Time shift? Alternate realty? Pre-conceived notion of you knowing his dilemma with his hat had given to your expectations of his aforementioned actions...most plausible. Interesting, none-the - less.
Dude glitch in the matrix much?
need to take time with the weed m8 ;;00
Trace, I simply refuse to ignore your fabulous face.
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+babul1986 Ohh fabulous babul! your words are so wise!
+babul1986 community reference ?
You are the most logical and open minded person I have ever seen . The way you admit that science cannot understand each and everything and that it requires controlled conditions to work is so considerate of you.
It's absolutely necessary for us to study the paranormal! Over man's entire history, he has been met with things that at first seemed "paranormal" or seemed like "magic". It was only when man put on his "thinking cap", that we began to pick things apart, delving into the realm of the unknown, in a bid to understand all of the incredible processes around him. Can u imagine giving Neanderthals one of our smartphones, or one of those INCREDIBLE massage chairs you'd be willing to refinance your house for? Neanderthals wouldn't have been capable of comprehending what they were looking at, let alone what it did or how to use it. And to us, they're such an integral and interwoven part of our daily lives, that we can't go back now. Point being, our phones would've appeared magical or paranormal to them. A final note, one of my most favorite quotes relating to all things paranormal is: "The absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence"
I don't think we can dismiss deja vu at all. It's quite the amazing experience. I've had Deja Vu where I actually remember the words people are about to say or a topic somebody will bring up.
Say I'm talking to a person and suddenly I feel deja vu, in my mind I'm recalling this conversation and in my head I'm predicting what the person is going to say word-for-word perfectly... Lucky guess? Maybe. However this has happened many times. I don't think it could be anything as simple as a misfiring neuron or some mental illness, especially when I'm correctly predicting words/topics.
I've even had dreams where I was watching movies that haven't even been released and I find myself predicting the next scene accurately when I finally do watch.
StoreBrand
I don't think these examples are standard deja-vu experiences, you may want to Google "clear seeing", "clear knowing" and/or "scientific descriptions of the psychic modalities"
Clearly symptoms of the potential for higher evolution leveling.
"Meditate" - release negative energy, negative learned info/opinions, and allow for soul consciousness to emerge. Embrace your "you" and All of your potentials.
"Get a guru"
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perhaps us humans are capable of foresight, some more adept than others, but are all still unaware of how to control it
Good to know I’m not the only one that dreams about situations that didn’t happen yet but end up happening later on in real life...
That’s amazing. I wonder how you became that in tuned to that sense. That’s something that hasn’t developed for me.
Refusal to study something you don't understand is basically openly admitting you are ignorant and do not care about understanding things. We understand so very little of our reality, anyone who tells you otherwise is not doing so based on facts, logic, or reason. It should be our job as humans, scientist, and inhabitants of this universe to specifically seek out that which we do not understand and study it, even if fruitlessly. If we do no study the unknown, how do we expect to discover it?
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+Throttle Kitty It's okay, the tv & news will inform us & take care of us.
+DrDeathAribertHeim lol
+Throttle Kitty Well, to most people it's the same as refusing to study unicorns or leprechauns. They think it's a waste of time, and I agree. Well, with most aspects of supernatural. Some would be easy to prove/disprove. And I mean true supernatural, not some of the stuff he talks about here where they do actually study.
cortster12 No, that is not an appropriate comparison at all. If there is no evidence of something's existence, and no one believe's it exists, it is clearly a waste of effort researching it. Anyone with proper comprehension skills should realize that.
I actually have a friend who is a university mathematician studying metaphysics and the nature of the existence of things beyond what is generally scientifically accepted. Those fields seem almost unreconcilable to hear them spoken on alongside the other, and yet he feels he can definitively prove that the things about which we spend time debating the very existence of are in fact as real, if not more so, than our very flesh and blood. So it's a very interesting topic to me.
He was right, this channel doesn't answer our question, it just leaves us with more questions
@yahya s5230 like "Why did I watch this video? I didn't even learn anything. I'm not even paying attention to it." Or _"What am I doing?"_ "Why are fish fish?" _Why can we sometimes see/remember something happening then later on said thing happends?"_ "Why am I asking so much questions?" _"How are words words?"_ Why are things things?" _"How are things things?"_ And many other questions.
@yahya s5230 that's pretty cool. And hopefully someone will reply.
If science wasn't limited by money I'm sure we would already have a long going research on these things...
the world isn't as simple as u think
Ronin TDSM it can be once the idiots die and can't pass on lifetime wasting ideas
Science and technology aren't limited by money; they're controlled by the people who HAVE the money
I think the dancing plague was the discovery of ecstasy, lol.
@5:38 "Some argue that it's just called Coachella" LOL THE SHADEEEE
Damn it, I need the scientists to prove ghosts exists, I know I'm not crazy. Well, maybe a little.
I've always been more interested in jamais vu, when you walk into a place you've been in hundreds of times and yet feel like you've never been there before in your life.
+wratched That's gonna be the next thing, and it sounds cool, freaky, and scary at the same time
+wratched Ooh I've never heard of that before
***** I just looked at the definition, it's also like when you look at a word for a long time and say it out loud for a while and it randomly looks unfamiliar to you
+Superficially Steph Because sometimes happens in places where you go regularly. For example you go to school everyday and one day you feel as you never been there.
+Máximo Sant De Barrondo That would be a good place to have a jamais vu.
Teacher says "whez ya homework jimmeh!?"
Jimmie replies "What homework? It's the first day! We've never been here before, teacher. Have you taken ya pills?"
Love how Trace basically translated the scientists "we have no idea what's happening, but here's a cool part of the brain that makes me sound smart"! Trace is awesome!
What about consciousness?
Do they really know what it is? how can you build one? how many neurons do you need to create a consiousness??
Does anybody know that?
+Felhek Lehrian well, that blew my mind... or my consciousness?
This is a cool idea. There must be a study on this already
There are a lot of ideas, and very little truth. Try reading "The Origins of Consciousness in the Bicameral Mind." It may be a bit old, but it shows very well how little we know.
Life may not be real. We are actually all cats wearing frog hats.
+Calvin Brady But... Im afraid of frogs...
There is nothing that is undeserving of study.
+Hidden Thicket Would you support re-assigning researchers who are currently investigating ways to develop a vaccine against influenza to studying what ways we can best please Lord Chemosh? There are only a limited number of people, a smaller number of them capable of doing productive research, and a limited number of hours in their days. If things which have no evidence to support even the possibility of their existence are deserving of study, what method can we use to determine where we spend these limited resources? People are dying of influenza now, but clearly if we could please Lord Chemosh he could end world hunger. It seems like a difficult choice to make.
Dustin Rodriguez
I never said anything about reassigning anyone away from anything. Only that there is nothing undeserving of study. Some things are more deserving, but nothing is inherently undeserving. I suppose there is eventually a time to give up and study something else, though. Has Lord Chemosh ended world hunger despite our attempts to please him? No. That's why we largely moved along from that sort of thing and changed focus to agriculture and genetics instead.
Hidden Thicket You have to reassign people. There are only a limited number of researchers, and if everything is worthy of study, great swathes of things will be ignored as we concentrate on the things that have evidence to support them. As for Chemosh, we don't know much about him. According to the Christian Bible, he did repel the Israelites and their god when they were trying to invade a city he protected because the leader crushed his own sons head against a rock in sacrifice to him. We haven't studied what benefits we could get from trying to please him in millenia, so we have no way of knowing what benefits there might be. Studying agriculture is all well and good, but if studying Chemosh has value, as you say all things do, we should reassign some people or redirect some of the kids in college studying plant biology to studying Chemosh and other abandoned gods.
Sure, are you gonna fund it?
Also, Dustin, I get Hidden Thicket's point, you don't necessarily have to reassign researchers. But there simply are no funds to incentivise pointless woowoo research. Sponsor Loch Ness monster expeditions with $10 mil and there will be people willing to spend their time proving or disproving its existence (and no, you wouldn't have to reassign anyone trying to develop the next vaccine against influenza if they don't care about the Loch Ness monster).
I think deja vu is related to whatever makes someone else start humming a song you were thinking of. Something to do with frequencies we detect and aren't aware of that connect us Or that memory being stored immediately and remembered immediately. or both.
I legitimately believe it's a psychic ability. I've had déjà vu so often that my dreams, more often than not, are all déjà vu
you've got something there, there was a writer or songwriter who said he didn't write the song, he was fishing them out from other streams of ideas. which is why there are times we get certain ideas that seem to be similar from others but we've not seen their work. or have heard a song and you feel you've heard it before...
can also be like a transmission? and we somehow were able to glance the moment that was ahead of us? sort of like pseudo- time traveling.
Brandon Miller that would be pretty cool is so
Z Queen dream Javu is creepy to me. rarely happens but it's always something normal, like waking up in a bed I don't recognize with hats on the wall. then years later it happens
Its never a true party until someone dies, or at least collapses from exhaustion...
@Ro Grant party of the century
Hey Trace, awesome show. Very interesting topics and your unique analysis and wit is really good. New subscriber. Rock on
I think a deja Vu is just a brain error, where what you see and hear is directly written into memory, so you think this exact thing happened while it just gets written.
This is the most logical explanation that I just came up with.
Steve Johnson you were thinking that you knew it before it happened, as I said your brain stored that information while you're thinking.
A bit of a positive feedback loop.
Nobody can really know what happens in the future, even if it feels like that, senses are not the best way to experience reality, but they aren't the worst either.
Steve Johnson what's supernatural in this exact setting?
I can tell you that your brain missfired signals, most likely because you have been frightened of dropping her, I can't know that.
But that would be a reason to create that effect of writing the memory while experiencing a moment. (thinking about it is equal to experiencing)
I don't expect anyone to understand that phenomenon, but that's the most logical explanation.
Also I didn't want to attack you with missfired signals, that's natural, it happens to most of humanity at some point.
Friendly? ;D
Steve Johnson how do you want to know if you had a dream about it after that deja Vu moment?
What makes you believe something "supernatural" happened?
Sorry to disappoint you, in reality is nothing, absolutely nothing supernatural, only our minds can trick us into believing that.
I tested my deja Vu theory on some friends, and asked them to describe their experience and I came to this conclusion too.
Actually I came to this theory while studying my last deja Vu, it was very recent back then, I tracked that feeling back to a part of my brain, where memory is written, that experience started by positive feedback loop and then corrupts the memory writing and accessing ability.
Since then I haven't had a deja Vu moment anymore, normally I had such an experience about every month.
I think by tracking this signal back by forcing this experience I either disconnected that process or just made it stable, only time will tell, if I won't get this deja Vu moment again I know for sure that I "cured" it for myself... I really don't hope so, because that experience is kinda fun sometimes and it feels weird.
I yawned when he mentioned yawning.
Same
Kyle Underhill me too lol and again when I read your comment haha
Kyle Underhill I yawned as soon as I read your comment..
great, that means you have a healthy brain- you're not a psychopath.
Definitely A Russian Paid Troll hi
1880: We will have flying trains in the future!
2016: Déjá vu
2024 Deja vu😊
love how trace said "aliens" while making the hand gestures XD
First of all, this is definitely in my top five series you guys have done just because it's so clever, skirting the razor edge of the boundaries of science to peek at what else is out there through a scientific lens. Well done.
That being said, I think what's important to remember here is that science is a tool, and while it's an extremely powerful tool, a chainsaw works great as a chainsaw but not so great as a clamp. The objective world -- which is what science focuses on by definition -- is arguably the *primary* aspect of reality, but it's an extreme oversimplification to say that it's the only thing that makes up human experience.
For example, what purely objective motivation do we have to do science? Because things will get better? We're just one of an incomprehensible number of tiny dots in a vast expanse of nothingness with no clear purpose. What *is* "better" in an objective sense? Global warming? Nuclear fallout?
It doesn't matter if you believe that there isn't anything "else" out there independent of matter and the universe as we know it interacting with us. The "secondary" subjective experiences may or may not be based purely in hard matter, no pun intended but it doesn't *matter* because they're just as important to *us* as the things we can all agree are the same, and in a sense we *make* them real.
My guy gave the best description of bigfoot ever
Keep goin dud love ya vids
Buzzfeed Blue does a great segment on unexplained phenomena or "ghost stories" that are pretty persuasive for the paranormal to an extent
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Can't explain that.
+VP um actually tides are completely explainable
+David Moro
What about magnets?
+David Moro he's quoting Bill O'Riley
first off that's racist, second i'm white, third of all if you think how the tides go in and out cannot be explained then you are a dumb fuck not me.
+David Moro He was making a joke, dude. It's an old Bill O'Reily quote made while Bill was trying to discredit science.
Ive saw Loch Ness... just never saw any monster :) ... Great channel by the way, loving it :)
Its true about the placebo effect. Ive stopped smoking a few while back. But whenever i feel stressed or full of anxiety. I close my eyes, breath in a pattern of smoking and i instantly feel calm as what people who smoke feel.
I seriously love this channel!!
This was pretty interesting. Great episode.
I'm a devout atheist but I believe ESP is possible this way, emotional ESP, animals know when you're frightened, I live in the woods, they also know when you're not, they seem to also know when you're happy, and possibly whales have visited me because I was eager to see them, a personal accidental study, maybe ten out of thirteen attempts, they came! Best sightings ever!
this video feels so familiar
basically dead true i just had Deja Vu about this video, the irony 😂
my four year old nephews thought they could fool us adults by blaming a ghost for pooping on the floor.
I feel like many paranormal phenomenon are actually within the realm of science, but at a level that we do not understand yet. I mean have you ever been talking to a friend or family member and you think the same thing or say the same thing. Or have you ever just knew a family member was in trouble? I think all of it is explainable, with the right amount of legitimate research, and the advancement of technology.
There is something to understand a "paranormal" phenomenon: most of the time, it relies on some form of "cheating": guessing something using clues you're not supposed to have, relying on people's reaction to know what they are thinking (cold reading and mentalism), using a clever trick (that's the job of magicians), etc. For example the Loch Ness monster and big foot are human creations: people have admitted creating them, but that did not stop the believers. It is also possible to trace back the story of the UFO's and the guy that made the first "photos" of UFO's using pots and pans. So of course, don't dismiss too quickly claims that contradict your beliefs, but in the explanations, don't forget to consider the social elements: humans fabricate stories and there is business in deceiving other people, or even ourselves.
The Easter Island Heads are actually 70 foot tall statues that weigh tons. They are being studied right now but don't know why they were partially buried.
I really love this new layout, but I think it would be cool if there were some pictures
"some argue that that's happened again, it's called coachella"
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+Adi Malhotra i actually laughed out loud at that one. Good job, Trace!
is it available on some other audio app?
soundcloud.com/dnewsplus
Everything is worth studying. It's up to the researcher to keep pushing the boundary of the unknown as far as it can go, and then figure out how to go a little bit further.
Paranormal, magic, supernatural, means not "strange" or "not understood", but "impossible".
I always thought that deja vu was when your brain mistakenly wrote the experience to your long term and short term memory banks at the same time.
I legit always get deja vu. Pretty crazy stuff, people will say or do something and it's like I've seen it before.
It's crazy when you talk about IBS and the placebo pill, I feel IBS is affect by stress and for me it's something that happens overnight and it's the worst in the morning and fades throughout the day. So i'd guess it's deffinetly affecting the subconsious
In the PLOS One IBS placebo study, the report says the placebo pills were administered with the description that even though they were placebo, they had been shown to help IBS symptoms in clinical studies. That claim would be enough to trigger the placebo affect. They should have administered the placebo with no indication that it would help. For a fair test, they should have just told them they were getting a placebo, and then defined what a placebo is, not what the placebo has been shown to do. I'll bet if you did the same test but described the placebo as having no measurable effect... they would have gotten a very different result. The power of suggestion is... powerful. Also would have been nice to see a slightly larger test group.
The power of the mind should never be underestimated.
Moai "heads" actually have bodies. One easy technique to make them move is with ropes, they attached the rope around the shoulders of the statue and by pulling on each sides, at an interval, they could make the statue "walk".
'Science can't even explain yawning' ... I yawned within seconds after hearing that
Perhaps our brain performs operations at the quantum level that has yet to be uncovered.
For so long, I have been complaining about the highly authoritative stance on science these days. There is a lack of balance for not regarding or not acknowledging the fact that we do not know all there is to know nor the fact that we cannot know everything. To me, a truly enlightened civilization is one that accepts that everything cannot be known nor is it meant to be.
Science isn't about knowing everything or thinking we do.
It's about observable and repeatable experiments that leads to theory that can accurately predict how things are or will be.
Andre Courchesne No, science is about knowing or thinking you know something. What you just stated is the scientific method by which people come to understand the physical world. With that being said, some experiments lead to a conclusion about how something ultimately functions, but in other cases when we are unable to thoroughly inspect every aspect ( or what we perceive to be every aspect) of something, thats when we draw up this little thing called a theory, which is usually based on extrapolating from principles that we already understand and applying it something we don't fully understand. An example of this is: The planets revolve around the sun, therefore the galaxy must be revolving around an ULTRA SUN or BLACK HOLE! But of course no one can truly prove nor disprove if this is actually happening, but we'll take the theory for now.
+Josh Jones my point is that the sciences are ever changing as we gather new evidences of how things work.
To say that some things cannot be understood through the scientific method is to say that it will always be mysterious.
Just because we lack the means or didn't reach higher level of understanding to be able to understand doesn't mean we should stop working on it.
TL;DR
What we do not know today, we may know tomorrow
Nothing is out of reach with enough time and resources
Anywhere to find that TED talk that was mentioned toward the end?
or did it ever go public?
the irony that I yawned literally right before he said yawning...
There is a good theory on how the Rapanui moved the mo'ai. They "walked" the statues.
love how you immediately moved on from the cochella joke
Usually when you take in information it goes into your short term memory and your brain considers it something you are experiencing in that moment. If the brain deems it important enough it then sends the information to your long term memory for storage. When you experience deja vu your brain misfires and bypasses short term memory and goes straight into long term memory. Since you process it first from long term memory your brain sees it as a past memory instead of something you are experiencing in that moment. So basically it's your brain working backwards sending information from long term to short term memory instead of the other way around.
+Alaskaguyd why doesn't happen all the time? everyday? at least 1 per month?
That's why it's called a misfire. If it happened all the time it would be called "the way your brain works".
My brother sometimes dreams of what is going to happen the next day and only remembers he dreamed it when it happens
It's happened to me to think about something, stop thinking about it for some seconds and when I think about it again it feels like deja vu. So I kinda agree with the hypothesis of it being a connection that goes broken (to a memory) and re-established so it feels like the first time the second time you experience but you think you kinda experienced it before (because you just did).
The Heads at the Easter Island are not only heads - they're entire bodies that are inside the earth. Archeologists found that last year, btw.
love these videos man
Very nice podcast, it's very useful for who is studying english
Why is there only one of your podcasts in Google Music's library, though??
I would love someone to explain an experience I had 43 years ago. While having a deja vu moment in class, my mind went forward and for a few minutes I clearly saw (as if looking at a re-run), what was about to happen. I told a class mate at the time what the teacher would do and everything occurred exactly as I fore saw. I soooo wish i could enter this state on demand.
People with epilepsy sometimes experience deja vu or jamais vu when they have simple partial seizures and right before a generalized seizure. I personally experience Jamais Vu quite frequently and it has been linked to epileptiform activity in my brain.
Great episode, but I kept getting distracted by the low rumble in the audio. Vibrations traveling through the mic. I guess.
I thought yawning ( 8:44 ) was to get more oxygen to stay more alert in case anything happens until you can find a safe spot to sleep :o
Even Von "Hotelier" did concede that they can be walked by humans; the statutes.
Some scientists have proposed a way giving more validity to the out of body experience. It involves having a picture suspended from the ceiling facing the ceiling so none of the doctors or patient know what the picture is of.
If the patient can describe the picture after the out of body experience try and explain that one.
Déjà vu is a warning for the imminent seizure disorder.
you can't just casually toss a statement like "the scientific method is flawed" without further elaboration, and then barrel into an implied accusation of censorship on TED's part...
there are statistical shortcomings in most scientific studies, and the anthropic principle is always looming, which along with groupthink may threaten to throw undetected bias into methodology and approach.
being "open-minded" here could simply mean being more critical in our thinking and question even some of the more established principles if there is room to grow our understanding.
Actually, when I have Deja Vu I just don't find it familiar, I actually REMEMBER it.
When I was 6 I had a dream about something. then I started writing about it and telling my parents about it and then 10 minutes later it ACTUALLY happened?
Is this Deja Vu?
One thing that wasn't mentioned is how human thoughts can influence random number generators.
I only remember a few experiences of esp like things.
I recall being able to tell if a friend of mine was emotionally stressed, who lived over two thousand miles away. I had gone a few weeks of little contact because she was busy with drama class. I called her and she was ether sick or quite sad. Of course I attribute this to my faith, with the spirit and all that. (I'm one of those Mormon boys)
The other time in middle school, was a dream I had of math class, taking down notes. The school i was going to at the time had a block schedule, so odd period classes one day, even on the other. So I come into class, and I realize I had already learned it, with a deja vu feel to it. I was going to ask if we had already learned it yesterday, but I remembered the schedule, and tried to think back to what i had done before first learning it, but I had no memory of even entering the class in that memory.
It is worth studying the paranormal, but they have yet to publish a peer reviewed paper on anything credible.
There is a documentary on the Moai and they reconstructed how they made them and moved them. It would be awesome to think it was some great mystery and such, but they were able to move them by using ropes and rocking them back and forth... thus walking them to their spots. Took a while to do it, but they were able to do it fairly easily. Kinda took the magic out of it, but it's still pretty cool ;)
Can you do a series about the maker movement and DIY and makerspaces and people with hobbies? I'm part of a makerspace called Fubarlabs and I would be glad to help and give information for the series.
i think dejavu has something to do with our similar lives in the parallel universe
It makes sense that ibs could be helped with placebos. The diseases is greatly influenced by emotions and is very inconsistent. Any small comfort can influence it's inconsistent symptoms. I had a job I hated and I would get sick every day before work. After calling in I would feel a little better.
Let's start a Kickstarter campaign to prove the existence of Loch Ness with a team of scientists!
+Jesper Forsberg I'm pretty sure nobody ever denied the existance of the lake
+RodrigoWaxen ha-ha very funny
it is worth mentioning that the easter island statues are full bodies that are buried by dirt
my subscription has become successful, enjoyable video like always!
I've experienced de ja vu many times it used to drive me insane but now when it happens I try to embrace it for i usually go thru de Ja va for multiple hours
The paranormal is only worth studying if you built a team of scientists, from all around the world, dedicated to doing just that .
+Science Plus This was an awesome video, but there is an error in the underlying theme of the video; Science doesn't need to even address these claims. Positive assertions require evidence before belief is justified, the burden of proof lies with the claimant. Also, Science does not make proclamations of Truth, but rather methodically considers the best, most accurate evidence available and then demonstrates what is most likely true.
The reason Supernatural hypothesis are less valid than their Natural counter-parts in claims of causation, is that things that do not exist cannot effect those that do. *This is not a claim that Supernature does not exist,* it's a statement asserting that in order for anything, including Supernature, to be put forward as a valid cause, that thing must be at the very least, existent.
The things that are in the category of _Things that Might Exist_ are, at this point, no different as far as our capacity to gauge them than the things in the _Non-Existent_ category. Existence cannot be asserted without first being demonstrated. Nature is known to exist. If one wishes to posit Supernatural explanations, we then compound a problem, by putting forward an explanation that requires demonstration.
Until we can evaluate, or indeed determine the existence of, Supernature, it is not rational to assign attributes or capabilities to it. When one puts Supernature as the cause, one says that an effect we can't explain, was produced by a cause we know nothing about, and for all we know, doesn't exist. So, "Mysterious Event" "X," is caused by unknown, possibly non-existent "Cause" "Y," which isn't really saying much.
I know that everyone on here has probably heard that several times but: Science doesn't has to disprove Nessie, for example, it has to be proved. Until it is not proved, it doesn't exist. But you don't need to know how it came to be - it just has to be there. But you need to be able to prove that. And the Scientific Method in itself is pretty useful for what it is intended to be for. Unless something isn't repeatable and all the little factors are known, you can't claim to know whats causing something, because it could be any of those factors.
love the series trace keep it up! can we maybe have a series on our moon?
An interesting hypothesis for what the Moai may have meant is that they were chieftains or prominent figures, I can't recall all the details but I think its posited that they were some kind of memorial.
If scientists would be less arrogant, they would not need to waste time finding out such primitive concepts as placebo. It was already known to occult and this power to heal is used widely. I love how people like this can deny this power despite all the evidence right in front of them.
showing some reference images will boost the experience rather thn watchin yo homie face
Could Deja Vu be the effect of gravitational wave ripples in spacetime?
I was hoping you would mention Rupert sheldrake. I was very interested in what he had to say
What if that book with a language nobody knows was just a next level troll that wrote down random letters?
[154thTN] Seth Adam Haha that would be hilarious. I also would like to think that it maybe some sort of novel the author was planning like Tolkens Lords of the Rings.
I think It's valuable to study everything. We aren't doing a trillionth of a percent of the research we should be doing. Ideally, everyone would have to participate in scientific research as part of their tax obligation.
Wi-Fi was made by aliens and Donald Trump is a orange alien.
Can you answer in sometimes, I remember trpile or even quadruple dejavus. Double dejavu means that this happenned before and I thought it was dejavu. This is strange.
Well think about the times you had dejavu but couldn’t stop trying to figure it out. Then eventually you realize that person you thought you’d met before was wearing the same perfume as you’re best friend was when u met her....or whatever example. Alternatively, you’re remembering a similar experience from one of ur past lives.
I really liked your video and the topics are really interesting... i found myself speeding the video up but that's just me...i would love to see you use the space behind yourself to show some illustrations or pictures of the topics your discussing i'm easily distracted...i genially think if you done that you could land yourself on mainstream TV if you chose to.
wierd; I was yawning right before he said "scientists can't explain yawning"
I don't know why you'd call the scientific method "flawed." It's the best possible method there is to discovering any sort of predictive quality of the universe that man has yet to come up with. In that sense, anything that is subject to evolution or amendment is "flawed."