The song is by Jake Chudnow, all credit goes to him for that. The video was made by Metro at Midnight. You can subscribe to him here: ruclips.net/channel/UCk0ffaYsp1pZNCxZK1DEmLg And once again, credit to AMathMonkey for finding this version of the song
Why do we get old? Or do we? As It turns out, There Is no old age Its just cells decaying and becoming weaker Normally. The cells Would decay and be replaced, but as time goes on It slowly stops eventually all the cells Would decay natrully If you We're to replace every Cell In your body with fresh ones. You Would be younger.
"On December 7th, our beloved friend, educator, mentor, and peer, Michael Stevens has passed away after a tragic shooting on 3rd Street. He will be dearly missed by all of us." We all cried at his funeral. His wife had even made all of us commemorative food, a curry with green, viscous topping...our final Vsauce. "We shall remember him and we shall honor his memory as he would have wanted for all of us." "Or, _would I?_" he says, as he leans up suddenly, holding his weight against the open casket, his supposedly fatal wound still oozing blood through his chest, as his pale, once lifeless skin begins shining in the sunlight with a grim, greyish-blue tone
I just imagine Vsaus’s city getting nuked, and everybody thinks he’s dead, but then he just arises from the ruble and says “Or am I?” and he starts explaining how shapes don’t exist for 20 minutes straight.
@@seducedenvelope Michael's just a humanized never-ending rabbit hole of questions, isn't he? 😂😂😂 (And please don't ask "what's exactly IS a rabbit hole.) I've had enough...(And DON'T ASK what exactly IS enough)!!!
Hey Vsauce, Micheal here. And there's smoke coming out of my oven. My roast is ruined! Or is it? Actually, it's not smoke, it's steam for the steamed clams I'm making. Sometimes something that looks like a disaster can really just be things going just as planned, like in 1996 when a school superintendent mistook the Aurora Borealis for a house fire. Errors in judgement like this are surprisingly common in humans. In your own life you've probably made simple mistakes like mistaking a coat hanging in a dark room as a shadowy monster, or patented Skinner burgers as generic fast food.
The word IQ stands for intelligence quotient, a number used to express the apparent relative intelligence of a person. But what's really interesting is...
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 RUclips 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.
@oreokingwarrior_official7478 According to an official study in 2024 the music Moon Men does infact raise your IQ, in a slow way, very VERY slowly, but to get it faster you have to question everything... Yeah not so great, but if youre trying to know, you have to know. Have to now, and thats reason number 1, the reason number 2 is in the same study, its been discovered that its addicting because of how cool and smart it feels to be, and fun fact the music could also be called the same name as the first person who stepped on the moon, as he was the first to reach the gray and black of our moon
This theme fits so perfectly with Vsauce because it really invokes a feeling of curiosity, inquisitiveness, and mystery, whilst also being a phat beat.
I can only imagine what his funeral would be like. He's just laying in the casket with his friends and family around him, someone in the crowd goes "It's a shame he's dead now," and then all of a sudden Michael sits up and says "Or am I?" And his music plays while everyone panics and freaks out.
@@conanichigawa Now.. jokes are a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline. But what is an "UNDERRATED" joke
Hey Michael Vsauce here, this song has been out for years... or has it? you see this song came out in 2008 and Through introspective verses and poetic storytelling, the song conveys a myriad of emotions. It explores the highs and lows of life’s journey, the joy of newfound love, the pain of heartbreak, and the quest for inner peace. Moonman’s ability to convey these emotions with authenticity and sincerity is what sets him apart as an artist.
@@PowerRangerfan Michael saying "hey Vsauce, Michael here" implies that we as an audience are Vsauce, so he's right. Or is he? **Music starts playing**
Yes it is,it does this because your brain normally perceive something with common assets in a certain topic ,for example we perceive Moon Men with Vsauce because it is mundane to our brain that this goes to this,maybe
Hey Vsauce, Michael here! And The year 6009 will be the first year since 1961 that a year- when written in Hindu-Arabic numerals can be inverted.. and still look the same... but you and I probably wont live long enough to enjoy the year 6009. Human lives just aren’t long enough. We will miss out on that... but what other cool future events will we be... missing?
RUclips comment starter-pack: "First!" "Notification squad" "Why is this in my recommended?" "Let's be honest, this wasn't in your recommended." "Take a shot everytime ..." "Welcome to another day in quarantine" "See you all when this gets recommended again." "Who is watching this in 2020?" "I like the part where ..." "Why am I watching this at 3 am?" "99% of the comments" "Remember when ...? Neither do I" "Underrated comment" "Edit: Thanks for all the likes!" "I edited this comment so the replies don't make any sense" "5 million people: interesting" "Doctor: you have 6 minutes to live." "So we're all just gonna ignore the part where ..." "Who else is here ..." "I want to like your comment but it's at 69 likes" "r/woooosh" "The dislikes are from ..." Meme Comments "Am I a joke to you?" "No one, literally no one, not a single soul" "... is a paid actor" "But then I took an arrow to the knee" "It's complicated" "Last time I was this early, ..." "Write that down!" "Imagine if this was the only proof of human existence" "He protecc, he attacc" "My goals are beyond your understanding" "I felt that" "So you have chosen death" "Me, an intellectual" "The perfect ... doesn't exi-" "Plot twist" "I'm about to end this man's whole career." "But that thing, it scares me." " ... has entered the chat" "I have several questions" "Everyone gangsta till" "Are you challenging me?" "Hold my beer." "Allow us to introduce ourselves" "We have ... at home. The ... at home:" "Sweating profusely" "Bold of you to assume" "I'm a simple man" "Her: He's probably thinking about other girls. Him:" "Me and the boys:" "Yes but actually no" "Laughs in ..." "How many do you want? Me: Yes." "Say no more." "... would like to know your location" "Legend has it" "Roses are red, violets are blue" "It's free real estate" "Wait, that's illegal!"
"I do not own this music or the video, I just wanted to put the instrumental on RUclips since it's not there yet on its own." Channel name: My Content 0:00
VisualHeroes well we need to go back to the year -1 billion where robo Jesus killed peter griffin with his laser eyes and said “A”. What did he mean about that?
teacher: ok, first of all, let's find out what *is* grade. Technically, it is a correlation of right answers/ wrong answers, expressed by letter or figure. For example, grade A means that your correlation is 1/0, what is impossible, because you made no mistake. Mistakes.. how much we know about mistakes? Me: can I go home?'
@@redacted2237*music starts* but what is the real meaning of learning? yes, naturally we think it's getting to know something, or would it be putting learning into *practice* ?
Perfect music for clarifying/debunking any kind of misconceptions or For explaining any concepts that we take for granted but actually complexity is hidden inside them
Priest: Do you take Michael to be your lawfully wedded husband? Marnie: I do. Everyone: Awwwww Priest: Do you take Marnie to be your lawfully wedded wife? Michael: I do. Everyone: Awwwww Michael: Or do I. Everyone: Ooooo *music starts playing*
@@stupling29 A melody is a set of notes that are played in music But what are also notes used for? Aha! Morse code. Morse code is a type of language or communication if you would like to call it that. The first 6 notes of the song is a long tone then 5 short ones after it (-.....) If translated into Morse code you get (#) or (Hashtag) but that's not all only one of the words in this now confirmed song. Or is it?
What is anything? If anything can infact be ANYTHING than it can be nothing. But, what is nothing? Where is nothing? Nothing is actually everywhere and nowhere but is it nothing if its everywhere?
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? music kicks in 0:02 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 RUclips 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 RUclips 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.
Or is it? 🤨 Every sound we hear is the result of something vibrating, whether it's a guitar string, a drumhead, or the vocal cords of a singer. When these vibrations travel through the air and reach our ears, they create the sensation of sound. And when those sounds are arranged in a particular pattern, we call it music. But here's the thing: all of those patterns are fundamentally the same. The notes that make up a melody, the beats that drive a rhythm, the chords that underpin a harmony - they're all just different arrangements of vibrations. So why do we respond so strongly to certain patterns of vibrations over others? It's because our brains are wired to recognize and respond to patterns. From an early age, we learn to recognize the rhythms of our native language, the patterns of speech that indicate emotion, and the musical patterns that make up the songs we love. But even within those patterns, there's room for endless variation and creativity. Every musician, composer, and songwriter brings their own unique perspective to the patterns of vibrations that make up music. They add their own twists, turns, and surprises to keep us engaged and interested. So, in a way, all songs are the same - just different arrangements of vibrations. But it's the unique ways that those vibrations are combined and manipulated that make each song a distinct and memorable work of art. Thanks for tuning in, and as always thanks for watching!
This song took me literally years to find. Or, did it? (It actually did) I come back almost 3 years later to 1.7k likes and a very interesting thread. This seems to happen to me kinda often. What has the internet become?
The song is by Jake Chudnow, all credit goes to him for that.
The video was made by Metro at Midnight. You can subscribe to him here:
ruclips.net/channel/UCk0ffaYsp1pZNCxZK1DEmLg
And once again, credit to AMathMonkey for finding this version of the song
"The video was made by Metro at Midnight."
...or _was_ it
And as always...
My Content im your 200th subscriber
no all credit goes to vsuase
Or is it?
Hearing this I somehow Immediately start to question everything
Lol
Or did you?
or did we?
Or is he?
Conspiracy mode activated
You know shit's about to get real when this starts playing.
Or does it?
stolen atleast the second time already ^^
and you know shits about to get depressing but also in a positive way when Hydrogen starts playing
dog acid aka every DONG
why are you here sunny?
Finally
be gone goose
Dolan Dark vsauce Michael hey here
It all makes sense now
safehaven for memes
yes
"Now that didn't happen because I was so strong, *even though I am...*"
-Vsauce
*…or am i?*
me when *now that didnt happen because i was so strong, even tho I AM*
I saw that short
ruclips.net/video/-hzue8KIS9M/видео.html
Are you the strongest because you are vsauce or you are vsauce because you are the strongest
This music will never get old
or will it?
Using the quantum theory of relativity, we can figure out that the statistic chance of-
@MarcothemanmarcoOr do they?
@@DoggosGamesor can we?
@Marcothemanmarcosenescence, I remember this one
Why do we get old?
Or do we?
As It turns out, There Is no old age
Its just cells decaying and becoming weaker
Normally. The cells Would decay and be replaced, but as time goes on
It slowly stops eventually all the cells Would decay natrully
If you We're to replace every Cell In your body with fresh ones.
You Would be younger.
At Vsauce's funeral, everyone thinks he is dead, but then this kicks on and he says, "or am I?"
or will he?
@@Boiman-y2jor is he?
You mean it's Michael's funeral no? Vsauce is what he calls his subscribers
"On December 7th, our beloved friend, educator, mentor, and peer, Michael Stevens has passed away after a tragic shooting on 3rd Street. He will be dearly missed by all of us." We all cried at his funeral. His wife had even made all of us commemorative food, a curry with green, viscous topping...our final Vsauce. "We shall remember him and we shall honor his memory as he would have wanted for all of us."
"Or, _would I?_" he says, as he leans up suddenly, holding his weight against the open casket, his supposedly fatal wound still oozing blood through his chest, as his pale, once lifeless skin begins shining in the sunlight with a grim, greyish-blue tone
@@JohnWarosa999or is it
I can imagine Michael explaining how all of these random images actually relate in the most mind blowing way.
Rey Vázquez or will he 0:02
No gas = smashed fruit
*or do they* **song starts**
Or
@@the-kc4gp does it?
"Hey Vsause, Michel here. Your home security is great. Or is it?"
Oh nah bruh, we done for fr fr
"Now I'm inside your house"
The official anthem of “or is it?”
or is it?
@@potentialdivider or is it the anthem for or is it?
Or is it?
v sauce nation
Or can you?
This reminds me of a certain bearded man who got me extra credit in Science once.
Or does it?
@Devesh Mahajan or is he?
@@ayo7216 or isnt he
@Devesh Mahajan He could be anyone of us!
@@jinxyjangle Or could he?
Everyone gangster until Michael says “or is it”
Or Will We?
Everybody gangsta
Or are they?
Or are we?
Or am I?
Or are they?
“I can feel my left eyebrow raising already”
-some guy on the vinyl announcement
yea I read that comment
Literally😂😂😂❤
Or can you?
Imagine you're about to marry your wife, she says 'I do' and when you lift the veil you see Michael's face and he says 'Or do I?'
And then the violinist tries to play this song on violin.
hot
This is not my beautiful house
And this is not my beautiful wife
Then you say, "I'm not gay, or am I?"
AAAAAAHHHHH !!!!
OR IS IT?
0:02
10/10 IGN
this song should just be renamed to "or is it?"
Goggles Tigerkhan *or should it?*
Fucking hell yack
I just imagine Vsaus’s city getting nuked, and everybody thinks he’s dead, but then he just arises from the ruble and says “Or am I?” and he starts explaining how shapes don’t exist for 20 minutes straight.
😂
michael is death, and he is the scattering. fear him, or perhaps learn his wisdom.
lol
or do you?
Reality is an illusion; the universe is a hologram.
-Michael Cypher
"Your bedroom is locked at night.”
"Or is it?”
😰
*Vsauce Breaks Into My Room* VSAUCE PLS NO PLS NO- *Gets Kidnapped By Vsauce*
I THINK VSAUCE IS WORKING WITH DUOLINGO HELP!
AH HELL NAW
my mind
*"How long can a toddler survive in a freezer."*
And that's how the dinosaurs went extinct, and as always, that's for reading. XD
@@seducedenvelope Michael's just a humanized never-ending rabbit hole of questions, isn't he? 😂😂😂 (And please don't ask "what's exactly IS a rabbit hole.) I've had enough...(And DON'T ASK what exactly IS enough)!!!
@@seducedenvelope 🖕
@@cartoonmaster2401 hey that's not cool just because they outsmarted your comment doesn't mean you have to flip them off...dipshit.
@@collegemaster5683 Or do you?
Soviet armies finding hitler’s bunker: “Hitler is dead!”
The history channel: *or is he?*
hahahahaha
wait *what?*
@@therandomalts1840 "hunting hitler"
German mustached man in Argentina: 😏
I forgot that I ever commented on it.
People at funeral: I'm so sad he's dead
Dead Guy Wakes Up: *Or am i*
This song begins to play
or does he?
0:02
And all the people start staring the camera
But what is death?
5 minutes later
And that is why we are not real.
That’s Michael’s funeral right there.
*Or is it?*
Now THIS is an iconic bassline.
Or is it?
@@GumSkyloard Let's start by the definition of iconic
"I can hear a bald man teaching science from a mile away."
-Vsauce
fr
Fr
or can you?
Or can you ?
My science teacher is bald. Wow.
*_digestion begins in the mouth_*
*where are your fingers?*
*_play some rock music_*
but what does is the meaning of fork?
how much does Wikipedia weigh?
There are over millions of articles in wikipedia and if you were to put all of them in different sheets of paper how many would we have?
Hey Vsauce, Micheal here. And there's smoke coming out of my oven. My roast is ruined! Or is it? Actually, it's not smoke, it's steam for the steamed clams I'm making. Sometimes something that looks like a disaster can really just be things going just as planned, like in 1996 when a school superintendent mistook the Aurora Borealis for a house fire. Errors in judgement like this are surprisingly common in humans. In your own life you've probably made simple mistakes like mistaking a coat hanging in a dark room as a shadowy monster, or patented Skinner burgers as generic fast food.
I read this in his voice
And it scared me how accurate it was
The most underrated comment
Is that an actual video?
this deserves to at least get pinned and framed on a wall
LOVE
.. _"We can resolve this problem by realising that Oranges ARE Apples"_
- The Greatest Man Alive,
Michael Stevens
or are they?
or are they?
or are they?
or are they?
They are.
just listening raises your IQ
back for an update 2022:
it is not helping in college
or does it?
Well first we have to break down the meaning of iq............
The word IQ stands for intelligence quotient, a number used to express the apparent relative intelligence of a person. But what's really interesting is...
no, you are mistaken and of course neutron stars were discovered by Timothy A. Neutron in 1969
no, you are mistaken and of course neutron stars were discovered by Jimmy Neutron
Hey Vsauce, Micheal here.
War crimes are wrong.
Or are they?
0:02
*becomes bass boosted*
il re del sud è ovunque
Sundowner: SOMEONE MENTIONED WAR CRIMES?
Vsauce just turned Serbian
*left eyebrow raises
or does it?
where are your fingers?
Hello daddy
Dig your videos
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 RUclips 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.
HaiImDan You amazing bitch
or are they?
man this is the greatest instrumental music ive ever heard
*or is it?*
OMORI OST - 172 DUET is greatest instrumental music for me
@@romagusar6133fr fr bro it hits harder than my brother pushing me down the stairs
@@utsukushii100176or does it?
@@romagusar6133
or is it?
Yes it is
Sometimes I feel like this song invented science and math, not the other way around
Or did it?
@@kathrynej3390 Hey Vsauce, Michael here. And is *school* real?
Lol ur here
what@@3twibles4sweetrevenge
@@FranticErrorsare we real?
Saw a comment that said, “The Sound of Knowledge.” Legend
Fun fact : Vsauce in Finnish means wisdom .( viisaus )
Romans: “that Jesus guy is finally dead”
Jesus on the third day: “or am I?”
This comment is so underrated
underrated
Or ruclips.net/video/CetZMidw2BM/видео.html
Yeah "romans"
@@gstv8453 Yeah Liam Vonz has some reading to do.
Vsauce: Or does he?
WHY IS THIS SO ADDICTIVE
Or is it?
@oreokingwarrior_official7478 According to an official study in 2024 the music Moon Men does infact raise your IQ, in a slow way, very VERY slowly, but to get it faster you have to question everything... Yeah not so great, but if youre trying to know, you have to know. Have to now, and thats reason number 1, the reason number 2 is in the same study, its been discovered that its addicting because of how cool and smart it feels to be, and fun fact the music could also be called the same name as the first person who stepped on the moon, as he was the first to reach the gray and black of our moon
Or does it@@RetroV_V
Bro I'm replaying it continuously for 42 minutes
Or am I?
@@RetroV_V I read it in Michael's voice, and it's fitting way to nicely
This theme fits so perfectly with Vsauce because it really invokes a feeling of curiosity, inquisitiveness, and mystery, whilst also being a phat beat.
Or... Does it?...
Pog
@@TheMonkeyThatDoesYourJobBetter
Well, for a start, we'll have to learn about different music types and their correlations to emotions
Or, do we?
@bruhest or is it?
"Hey vsauce, Michael here. Your house is safe when you lock it at night.”
"Or is it?”
This is going to play at Vsauce's funeral
Or is it?
@StreetXside i hope
I can only imagine what his funeral would be like. He's just laying in the casket with his friends and family around him, someone in the crowd goes "It's a shame he's dead now," and then all of a sudden Michael sits up and says "Or am I?" And his music plays while everyone panics and freaks out.
@@mpg01 and thus began the zombie apocalypse
@StreetXside Or will he?
Robber: YOUR GETTING MUGGED
Vsauce: or am I
Music starts to play
Robber: you better be careful I got a gun
Vsause: or do you?
Also Vsause: and what is a gun?
But first, what is a mugging, and why do we do them?
*you're
@@sillygoose2878 a mugging is defined by attacking or robbing someone in a public place. but we're not in a public place. *we are in a studio*
@@Monster_Lock ok boomer
"...Or is it?" jokes are really underrated.
Or are they?
What are jokes? And what is...
underrated?
@@conanichigawa Now.. jokes are a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline. But what is an "UNDERRATED" joke
@@Wendy-rv3mh To answer that we need to find how many cows can fit in an alien spaceship
@@yash12345 let's say we have 15 cows and 15 spaceships, one to each spaceship, right? Well...
Now there is a very simple formula.
You have to divide the size of the cow by the size of the spaceship.
Vsauce in his one video belike:
hey vapers micheal here you will be celebrating your 40th birthday...or will you?
Today is october 4th, but why do we have 2 nostrils?
Today is March 5th.
its a vsauce meme
No, it's March 19th.
no it's march 21st.
**EDIT**
correction: march 7th.
no it's march 25th. but what is ..... march?
Hey Michael Vsauce here, this song has been out for years...
or has it?
you see this song came out in 2008 and Through introspective verses and poetic storytelling, the song conveys a myriad of emotions. It explores the highs and lows of life’s journey, the joy of newfound love, the pain of heartbreak, and the quest for inner peace. Moonman’s ability to convey these emotions with authenticity and sincerity is what sets him apart as an artist.
So the song’s name is Jake Chudnow
It's actually "hey Vsauce, Michael here".
Chatgpt writing FIRE 🔥🔥🔥
@@tetraploid5000the songs name is moon men tho
or is it?
@@PowerRangerfan Michael saying "hey Vsauce, Michael here" implies that we as an audience are Vsauce, so he's right. Or is he? **Music starts playing**
it's literally impossible to not think about vsauce while listening to this song
Or is it?
0:02
I only remembered it was vsauce when i read the comments lol
@@mike-cool. you're michael
or are you
@@superguy199 holy fucking shitty crap my fucking dicking head has fucking shitting exploded
Yes it is,it does this because your brain normally perceive something with common assets in a certain topic ,for example we perceive Moon Men with Vsauce because it is mundane to our brain that this goes to this,maybe
So glad to finally find this
FINALLY I FOUND THIS SONG!
Or did I?
**music plays**
JAMIETOOMEYLIVE Nailed it
Haha
joshua rocha you sound like an A E S T H E T I C comment
W A Y F
H R O I
E E U N
R R G
E E
R
S
reading comments have never been so fun.
Hey Vsauce, Michael here! And The year 6009 will be the first year since 1961 that a year- when written in Hindu-Arabic numerals can be inverted.. and still look the same... but you and I probably wont live long enough to enjoy the year 6009. Human lives just aren’t long enough. We will miss out on that... but what other cool future events will we be... missing?
everyone does.
But.... WHO'S EVERYONE?
+Yextrsa same
and how much does it _weigh_ ?
.com
but why do we have two...
nostrils?
0:00 The most iconic cymbal brush strokes in modern history.
Dude, timestamp only works at the 1 second mark...
@@LizziesLukas or does it?
@@LizziesLukas it does work
Or is it?
0:02
Before 2012: No Gas! Blame H*tler!
Now: OR IS IT?
My brain while in shower:
My brain during a test: _"Arabic nokia"_
My brain while being mad: *aggressive doom music*
My brain 24/7, we are a long long way from ba sing sae
RUclips comment starter-pack:
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"Notification squad"
"Why is this in my recommended?"
"Let's be honest, this wasn't in your recommended."
"Take a shot everytime ..."
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"I like the part where ..."
"Why am I watching this at 3 am?"
"99% of the comments"
"Remember when ...? Neither do I"
"Underrated comment"
"Edit: Thanks for all the likes!"
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"r/woooosh"
"The dislikes are from ..."
Meme Comments
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"... is a paid actor"
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"Her: He's probably thinking about other girls. Him:"
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"Laughs in ..."
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"Legend has it"
"Roses are red, violets are blue"
"It's free real estate"
"Wait, that's illegal!"
@@electronium6378 finally a sane man in a RUclips comment section
@roblox memes and other stuff y thank you but where are the other packs
"I do not own this music or the video, I just wanted to put the instrumental on RUclips since it's not there yet on its own."
Channel name: My Content
0:00
"I do not own this music or this video..."
"Or do I?" 0:02
I love the neutral expression Michael always makes before saying "Or is it"
Or do you ?
🤨
"This music wont be forgotten till the end of time"
"-Or will it?"
teacher: you got an A
me: ok great :)
teacher: or... did you? *0:02*
LK9 ouch
Michael : First thing first what is A?
VisualHeroes well we need to go back to the year -1 billion where robo Jesus killed peter griffin with his laser eyes and said “A”. What did he mean about that?
teacher: ok, first of all, let's find out what *is* grade. Technically, it is a correlation of right answers/ wrong answers, expressed by letter or figure. For example, grade A means that your correlation is 1/0, what is impossible, because you made no mistake. Mistakes.. how much we know about mistakes?
Me: can I go home?'
If my teacher pulled that shit on me I’d go on a mental breakdown.
Goku: This is what it is like, when ive passed my limit!!!!
Vsauce: Or is it?
read this comment *This music starts playing*
this is what it is like, when people don't know how to use commas!!!!
i liked this comment
hey vsauce michael here, this is a youtube video... or is it? 0:02
Vsauce beats Goku
"Hey Vsause, Michel here. The earth's core is stable. Or is it?"
oh... OH... OH FU-
Oh god oh god oh god no fu-
We’re cooked💀
@@SoCalledSuperHumanor are we?
On no we are fu-
Hey Vsauce, Michael here. I'm about 100 meters from your current residence, Run
I came here from VSAUCE.
But how did I get here? (music plays)
No, seriously, how did you get in here? Michael does not posts any credit to music he used in the videos whatsoever.
I don't know, do you have 90 minutes?
@Mason Parr AGH you beat me to it
@Mason Parr Now 90 minutes is a value of time. But what is time? Does it even exist?
Or am i?
"Where are your fingers?"
-Vsauce
Right here. Or are they?
0:02
The Doggo took it, or did she?
@@zelktheinvader7874 ah yes, was expecting a reference
In my moms
Or is it?
I've learnt so much while listening to this
Or did you?
@@redacted2237 Well to find about that we need to
Blame Hitler not them
@@redacted2237*music starts*
but what is the real meaning of learning? yes, naturally we think it's getting to know something, or would it be putting learning into *practice* ?
@@cuboembaralhado8294 *5 minutes later*
And that is why the moon is really made out of toothpaste.
“Hey Vsauce, Micheal here. You have the right to live… or do you?”
I love how this music wasn’t created to be the theme song of Vsauce. It’s so iconic so it feels like it is the theme song of Vsauce.
Or is it?
Or was it?
*raises eyebrow and vsause music plays*
@@evakallis8248 No, that would be silly!
OR WOULD IT?
What the heck is this thing?
robber: THIS IS A ROBBERY!!!
Vsauce:or is it?
And how much does it weigh
But what is a Robbery (*music starts playing*)
@@lopolik a robbery is something you can do online now guys
@@Cartbs229 like that thing called torrent?
never heard of it either.
My mouse battery died at the end of the video while i was trying to rewatch this. "Or was I?"
*Clicks spacebar to rewatch
The #1 theme when someone asks you a tough question.
Or is It?
Or did they?
or did so?
Or am I?
Or are we?
Hey Vsauce micheal here
let's stare at this banana
*15 minutes later
and that's how blackhole works
Or does it?
@Gerald Vounas Or does it?
Or is it a banana, no its actually a black hole, or is it
What?
Bananas are fantastic. They are actually one of the most radioactive foods.
Hey Vsauce, Michael here. Do you want your eyeballs to combust?
Loll 💀💀💀
Or will they
Hey Vsauce, Michael here. Your room is totally safe and locked... Or is it?
cumbust*
hi, hintshot here
where is your gun?
"Hey its me goku,i heard your pretty strong"
Vsauce: Or am i
*Insert vsaucd goddamn music*
We are gathered here today to celebrate a legend. Thank You, Michael
Bruh did he die
Or are we?
Are we or I were? We am.
Rest in peace,
*or will he?*
@@zeta2705 or did he
I swear, this is the song that plays in my head everytime at 3:00 A.M. restless from excitement, watching TV a few hours before travelling.
... Or is it?
or is i-
oh my gosh, I think you've just explained that perfectly
@@GameTimeWithMaxor did they?
So specific...
Sure, the yin-yang symbol was a bright idea.
*but what's the brightest thing in the universe?*
Each one of those transitions makes me think every time a little more that Mike's a stoner.
but why do we have two...
nostrils?
.com
0:02
MrChowder90 xD
vsauces funeral:
"He was so innocent😭"
"Or was i?"
Not only is it good for vsauce videos, it's actually a masterpiece
Or is it?
@@alexandru4674 you made my day
@@pumpkinman5026or did he?
or is it?
@@pumpkinman5026 "But... what is a day?"
WE FOUND IT BOIS
Or did we?
It found us! Ô0Ô
獅子猫又NiffirgkcaJ
But first we have to breakdown the meaning of “found”
@@surrk1057 Oh no… *0:02** **_Moon Men_** plays.*
this plays when you can't find your fingers
Where are your hands?
But what are fingers?
is this a motherfucking vsauce reference?!
or can you?
Gosh xD
Perfect music to work on science assignments
Perfect music for
clarifying/debunking any kind of misconceptions or
For explaining any concepts that we take for granted but actually complexity is hidden inside them
Or is it
or is it
But first of all, what is a misconception?
@@sanicishere7295 and what are concepts?
@The God Of Weed and what is music?
Priest: Do you take Michael to be your lawfully wedded husband?
Marnie: I do.
Everyone: Awwwww
Priest: Do you take Marnie to be your lawfully wedded wife?
Michael: I do.
Everyone: Awwwww
Michael: Or do I.
Everyone: Ooooo
*music starts playing*
Instylegamer I always imagine this face like: O_o
Marnie, WHERE ARE YOUR FINGERS?
*Stares at the camera for 5 minutes straight*
I hope they played this at his wedding!
Imagine them having sex.
Wife:"Take me"
Micheal:"Sure, but if I do...where will we go?"
*ambient music plays*
Wife: "Oh shit not again..."
0:02
What if I put my minecraft bed next to yours?
Haha just kidding
Or am I?
Well, actually... I... Could...🤨
Underrated
What.. is a bed?
No homo
*Or am I?*
Repetitive funny but didn't laugh
"Your home security is great! or is it?"
~Vsauce
I love this song.
Or do i?
Now first we need to define what a "song" is.
A song is a poem or a set of words set to music
So this song is a masterpiece
Or is it a song?
No it's not a song it's a melody since it's doesn't have any words in it
Or does it?
@@superzmz now what is a word? Anything can be a word really. Word is a hard Word to defy. Any nonsense can be considered "words" to some extent.
Now, relating to what @superzmz said and the question of what is a word? Now we are going to ask, what is a melody? *vsauce music continues*
@@stupling29 A melody is a set of notes that are played in music
But what are also notes used for?
Aha! Morse code.
Morse code is a type of language or communication if you would like to call it that. The first 6 notes of the song is a long tone then 5 short ones after it (-.....) If translated into Morse code you get (#) or (Hashtag) but that's not all only one of the words in this now confirmed song.
Or is it?
Truly, a thought provoking song.
Or is it?
Or is it though?
I explained to my friend what a room devoid of atoms would look like to this song
Or is it?
I love how everywhere you go you see "Or is it?"
“But... how do you know? How does anyone know anything?”
What is anything? If anything can infact be ANYTHING than it can be nothing. But, what is nothing? Where is nothing? Nothing is actually everywhere and nowhere but is it nothing if its everywhere?
@@goc19777 You don't need a where. Not even a when. That's how every it gets.
@@goc19777 or is it?
@@theilluminatibenefactor Screw this. I wanna go somewhere, be something. "Oh, i paused it"
@@alfredothemuscleking do u not remember the vid
"There no music"
"Or is there "
-Vsauce
You know we finna have a science lesson when this starts playing
Or are we?
@@shangaiguarisnaque9277yes, yes we are
or do we?
or will we?
Well you see, science. Is it truly science? Maybe it isn’t. Or is it?
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?
music kicks in 0:02
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 RUclips 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 RUclips 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.
Legend
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No no nono its a long ass comment i got trapped
Did- did you just- the whole... the entire.. the.. no.. you.. this- this is- i- HOLY FUCK ITS THE WHOLE VIDEO
this song is called "Moon Men"
but what are Moon Men??
*Moon Men starts playing*
Icarus uhhhhhhHh
kkk is like saying hahaha in brazil but more like kkkkkk
*A N D H O W M U C H D O T H E Y W E I G H ?*
@@Shhehwhsi24 qualquer lugar que voce va, havera um br kkk
Pedro Hauari no
“I am the last person alive. HAHAH!” -Guy after killing everyone on Earth
“Or did you?” -Micheal
*New parents:* playing Mozart for your baby will make it smarter
*Me, an intellectual:*
Lol
Or does it?
Or will it?
you see being an intellectual means being smart, but what is smartness
@@rustable4165 being smart means having a lot of knowledge,.. but what is knowledge?
and as always..... thanks for watching
exactly like this? the "and as always" doesn't really make sense in that context...
or does it? Did they know Vsauce?
"don't blame us blame hitler"
michael: *or should we?*
music starts
You see hitller might not be the bad guy if wee look at the science
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5 minutes later
And that’s why the polar spin of a quark is an integer and a half integer.
Or is it?
0:03 Just leaving this here for myself
At Vsauce’s Funeral:
People: “He truly was a good man. He is in a better place now.”
Sound coming from the casket: “Or am I?”
Or are they?
*everyone screaming*
OK, let him out now.
song start playing
*everyone screams*
vsauce gameplay: funny bearded man talks about science
vsauce lore:
Underrated
Or is it
Vsauce soundtrack:
michael from vsauce: hey vsauce michael here. there are enough bones in the human body to make an entire skeleton
*or are there*
vsauce music:
What the fuck on gods sweet earth is your fucking profile picture?!
i hate your pfp with a passion
giorNO NOT THAT OH GOD GET IT AWAY ITS SO FUCKING DISGUSTING
or is it?
wtf is your pfp
"Water is wet."
"Or is it?"
One of the world’s greatest mysteries is why this song isnt on Spotify
Or is it?
@@thepriestofvaranasi is it?
or is it
Or is it? 🤨
Every sound we hear is the result of something vibrating, whether it's a guitar string, a drumhead, or the vocal cords of a singer. When these vibrations travel through the air and reach our ears, they create the sensation of sound. And when those sounds are arranged in a particular pattern, we call it music.
But here's the thing: all of those patterns are fundamentally the same. The notes that make up a melody, the beats that drive a rhythm, the chords that underpin a harmony - they're all just different arrangements of vibrations.
So why do we respond so strongly to certain patterns of vibrations over others? It's because our brains are wired to recognize and respond to patterns. From an early age, we learn to recognize the rhythms of our native language, the patterns of speech that indicate emotion, and the musical patterns that make up the songs we love.
But even within those patterns, there's room for endless variation and creativity. Every musician, composer, and songwriter brings their own unique perspective to the patterns of vibrations that make up music. They add their own twists, turns, and surprises to keep us engaged and interested.
So, in a way, all songs are the same - just different arrangements of vibrations. But it's the unique ways that those vibrations are combined and manipulated that make each song a distinct and memorable work of art.
Thanks for tuning in, and as always thanks for watching!
@@LarryDeskPlantI just like reading your reply while the music just plays.
Vsauce title: How was youtube made?
2 minutes later: And that's why hotels have so many floors
wow
hey vsauce pewdiepie here
RUclips was made to be a dating site and dating can mean motels....
School: Pluto is a dwarf planet
VSauce: Or... is it?
Mason Wyberg but not as hot.... what is it to be attractive? Well back in the 1700’s Jesus killed Godzilla and gave birth to America
Mason Wyberg no not really. It’s half it’s size actually.
I finally found it
You found "it". But what is "'it"...?
YTSunny **creppy vsauce music plays**
oh hey!
0:02
Hello brother
This song took me literally years to find.
Or, did it?
(It actually did)
I come back almost 3 years later to 1.7k likes and a very interesting thread.
This seems to happen to me kinda often. What has the internet become?
same
I just searched "vsauce music"
I found it on vsauses story
@@vineboomsoundeffect5395 Same
Yea, some people too