I clicked this solely as an excuse to watch the original again. I am still blown away years later by the innocent sounding video title of "do chairs exist?" logically leading to the final statement of "I am not a thing that dies and becomes scattered, I AM death and I AM the scattering." My body just vibrates in confusion as it tries to manifest an emotional reaction to the magnitude of that statement.
Yes, that one is my favorite together with the one on counting past infinity. The mathematics of infinity is extremely interesting and we actually have a much more rigorous and exact understanding of infinity than most people think.
31:50 You make a really good point here and what you're saying here is also covered by Michael in an older Vsauce video called "Is Anything Real". In which he explains how our physical ability to sense the world around us is our ONLY 'portal' into reality. Our perception of the entire universe will always be subjective because we are limited to our biology. In this case, the "context" of chairs existing is fundamentally just our neurons wired in a way to save the brain power of identifying what this object is every time we see one. In this case, a "context" isn't even a thing that objectively exists, but something we made up and projected onto reality.
My first existential crisis in memory was when I was watching the movie "Shark boy and Lava Girl" as a child and near the end of the movie there is a quite "Snow? It can't be snowing in august?" Which confused me greatly, because to me living in the southern hemishphere august is in winter, why would it be weird to have snow in winter. And that is how I learned that seasons are the opposite in the northern and southern hemispheres and exist solely due to the tilt of the earth.
Vsauce is seriously one of the most creative and interesting RUclipsrs on the platform. Unreal content creation. Love your reactions too bro keep it up!
Great to see someone actually be amazed by Michael's ideas and theories... So sad, that he hasn't uploaded new stuff for 2 years now. Please continue with VSauce reactions! My personal favourites: "Did People Used To Look Older?", "Math Magic", "How Many Holes Does a Human Have?", "Which Way is Down?", "Is Cereal Soup?", "Why Are Things Creepy?", "How To Count Past Infinity", "How Much of the Earth Can You See at Once?", "Selfie Waves" And as you talked about your thoughts as a kid if you see the same colours as others do... "Is Your Red The Same as My Red?"
I need more Jon and Vsauce videos! I need that "Messages for the Future" reaction! -Edit, I could on and on. "Cruel Bombs","The Banach-Tarski Paradox", "What is Déjà vu?" are all classics in my humble opinion.
@@seanhoward7037 And what thas the "-ing" mean? That it's a process/happening. Even the stuff you and Michael are talking about isn't "stuff". It's also just some part of a process. What do we get if we go smaller and smaller? Molecules, atoms, elemental particles, quantum strings and/or loops. And these srings/loops are disturbances on quantum fields. Every"thing" is made out of these, but they themselves aren't "things", just like soundwaves in the air or waves on water aren't "things". They are happenings. Elusive events in time. And these events only "exist" from the perspective of other events. When they are interacting with each other. Which means that every"thing" is in constant interaction with some"thing" all the time. And these interactions create the big process called the universe, and every"thing" in it all the time. And time is just the local measurmet of the gowth of entropy. Of how incoordinate the happenings/interactions are "getting".
Oh man I just saw your video reacting to VSauce for the first time two weeks ago while I was doing laundry, so glad youre doing more! Rewatching Vsauce + having your commentary is honestly really entertaining, looking forward to watching this!
For a recommendation, The Banach-Tarski Paradox video was one that took me like 3 watches to actually understand, that was many years ago when I watched vsauce and I undoubtedly forgot all of it by now. Would be fun to re-watch through your channel. There's a whole lot of vsauce I haven't seen so I'm very ready for this journey.
17:20 It's funny, I grew up with vsauce. So thoughts like "do we see colors the same way others do" were sparked even before I was 10 and he honestly led me to my current mindset
when he talks about what constitutes a chair and asks chat. then skims through properties and says "that it has a back? no" the answer is yes. a chair without a backrest is a stool. a stool with a backrest becomes a chair. if you try and fight this logic, i believe you are fighting it for the sake if fighting it and not for finding factual accuracy. one might argue, "well benches have backs, then is a bench a chair?" no. becuase a bench has propeties that a chair simply does not. however, if you removed the backrest of a bench, does it not remain a bench? it does, because those are still properties that make it into one. if you took this back-less bench and shortened it again and again, halving its overall length, eventually it becomes a stool. it loses the property that makes it a bench. so having a back is essential for it to be a chair. which he skimmed over in his assessment. its not really that important. but i felt like bringing it up none the less.
I dont think thats true though. What property does bench has that chair doesn't except for being wider. And people will absolutely argue aboht the stool being the chair because chair is seen as more of a umbrella term and stool a special subcategory that you dont actually have to use since people will understand what you are talking about even if you use the word chair.
@@kregy7509 yeah and about the the chair and bench thing, how wide does a chair need to be until it’s considered a bench? That’s something that can mix with a bench and chair
If there is a chair in a video game, is it still a chair? It has no atoms whatsoever, but most people collectively perceive it as a chair, and most people do so by accepting that it meets the condition of being sittable, which also implies the existence of the character to be able to sit on it. Thus a string of implication leads to the conclusion that all "things" exist by nature of perception since these virtual "things" clearly do have meaning, purpose and are generally accepted to be a thing without requiring any simples or structure at all, only a collection of photons, but the photons are clearly not the chair since people can acknowledge the existence of a single chair while having seen it from two different screens and two different sets of photons or perspectives of the chair leaving perception as the only consistent property making it a "thing".
Greetings Jon, i really appreciate how you bring diversity to your reactions and how we can experience several genres of media as a community. No matter if it is music, philosophy or anything else. Keep it up.
I don't really remember having an existential "crisis", but I always loved philosophy from a young age and was first introduced to this concept in Huxley's "The Door of Perception" when I read it in High School. Huxley explains that while tripping balls on mescaline, he couldn't see a "chair" anymore, but just a composition of wood pieces, and goes on to talk pretty much about all what's being talked about in this video. Must be the only part that I remember actually ahah...
Hello there, this is the first video of yours I've seen but I like the way you speculate on the workings of the universe. You mentioned some different things that made you think about what's going on here and one of the things I was interested by as a kid was mirrors and I used to think they were a view port to a parallel universe.
my first existential crisis was when i was 7. My grandma died. spun out my brain for years afterwards thinking about death, life, existence. when i got to 11 or 12 i started reading camus and kafka- which i thought would help but i just ended up hopeless. when I got into college i took a lot of philosophy. It always scratched that part of my brain but in a more logical and a less horrified way.
I love this video, and a lot of Vsauce's dissection of the origins of the words and ideas we all kinda just take as a matter of fact. Everyone could do much with this much wonder for the world.
5:29 When I was younger I used to get Night Terrors. It's like when you wake up from a nightmare but you're in another nightmare, but the new nightmare is just you hallucinating. When I was like six I woke up from a nightmare to a night terror. Everything was perfectly normal, but everything was happening around me SUPER fast. My mom came into the room because I was screaming, but she was walking at super speed and talking so fast I couldn't understand her. The next day after I had calmed down I stopped to think to myself "If I could see things go faster than normal are there people who see the world super slow? Does everyone experience time at the same speed?" Messed me up for weeks lmao.
I've watched the original video a bunch of times but just now, for some reason, I somehow made a connection to a Yoda quote from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, at the end. "Luminous beings we are, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes…"
My first existential crisis was when I was 5 years old, basically discovered the idea of solipsism myself and remember thinking how I couldn't prove that school happens when I'm not there.
One thing that's been consistent about Vsauce's videos, for me atleast, is that they're never about getting answers… More so just asking questions and the various ways it can be answered. I really lije philosophy, and at the heart of philosophy is the art of just asking questions. And this is part of why I really like Michael's videos… cause I always leave with a sense of wonder, new ways to question anything… For this one in particular, I feel like there's only one question that it seeks to really dive into… "What does it take to exist?"
A chair is concept invented by our minds to categorize things that serve a similar purpose. Anything can be a chair, as long as it's used as a chair, which requires "sit-ability". The same could be said about math - it only exists in our minds. That's debatable, but I think the universe appears to obey fundamental laws (patterns we find through observation), at least locally. Math is simply a tool we created to describe and find these patterns!
a chair is a chair if it was made with the intent of being sat on in a way that gets you off the ground, it was made with the intent of fitting 1 average person and needs some form of back support, otherwise it would be considered a stool. If it loses the ability to fulfill the intent behind it is now a damaged, broken or destroyed chair chair and will remain so until it can no longer be identified as a chair at all. 32:34 with the boat I feel it depends, like if I replaced all the parts over 10 years I'd still feel it's the same boat, the name still belongs to it and it looks the same way as it did when it was new. But at the same time, if I had to replace a part with a drawing made by my fictional son on it, or a paint spill from when my fictional dog kicked over a bucket, then I would suddenly feel like replacing those parts would make the boat different, it'll suddenly lose the memories I built over those 10 years while on the boat.
What pattern something holds is decided at interations. What IS only changes the probabilities of outcomes taking into account the universe, i.e. all else that IS.
My mom always shares this story about me when I was younger, in her words (i dont remember this), I had a fit at my first week of the first time I attended school. The teacher gave us homeworks the day before and as I came to class the next day and the teacher asked me for the homework from yesterday I said "You gave it to the me from yesterday." So when she was calling me unruly for not having homework she decided to phone my mom and said I was in hysterics insisting that I didnt do my homework lol
A chair... could be something CONSTRUCTED with the INTENTION of providing a seat to a single individual, and FUNCTIONS in doing so. That would make a "love seat" a bench, though. Once it ceases being able to provide its intended function, it could be said that it is no longer a chair... or that it is, instead, a broken chair. It retains the intention, and the fact that it was constructed, but no longer retains its function.
It’s late and way after vsauce made this video. But I feel like I have a good theory. The chair shown is most likely a chair, it’s a gradient. A dog is most likely a dog, but can be a chair, and unlikely a black hole. It’s more of a black hole than a photon since it can be squished into one and a photon can’t, but dog is the BEST descriptor. Every object and object piece has gradients on what it can be described as. A chair can be a table, but chair fits better. If I made a new thing that looks like a table, it can be called a table, but if I give it a specific name it’s not suddenly no longer a table, the name I gave it just suddenly goes in front of the label “table” and it’s more appropriate to call it by its new name. Everything can be described as almost everything else. The chair isn’t a chair. It’s an object that the word chair CAN describe best, out of all other words. Until you get to brands or models, the specifics describe better and then override its simple chair label, but it doesn’t remove its chair-dom. It’s still equal as chair-like, but I got a brand name that is more specific and fits the object better. A Kleenex can be loosely described as a plant, better as a tree, somewhat as a crane if it’s in the shape, very close as paper, closer as tissue, and very accurate as Kleenex. We can go further and name the specific pack or individual tissue we have. This tissue is named Bob. So yes it’s a tissue, but Bob 𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴 better. To make Bob into a crane would mean only the description of crane would increase in appropriateness, but most others stay the same. Bob, tissue, and Kleenex still describe it best. Although if it’s a crane is further from a table, rug, or carpet.
im only 13 mins into the video, but the way i see it is that all objects are compositional. so if we have a two piece bikini, the one compositional object we would refer to as a bikini is composed of two individual objects, the bikini top and the bikini bottom. the same logic applies to the hypothetical trog. we don't normally consider a trog an object, but say we found a purpose for putting a tree and a dog next to eachother, like it functioned as an energy source or something like that, we most likely would start to consider a trog an object. almost all objects are made of several different objects in this way, we just classify things as singular objects based on if it serves a purpose to consider it as such or not.
Bro I litterly used to think about these things and one day I found Vsauce channel that was a life saving experience for me. That I'm not the only one with insane mind thinking these type of things 😂
I used to think quite a bit about “reality”, but have come to that we can’t really know an objective real on a fundamental level outside of our consciousness. All the learning and talking and pondering we do is on models, and “all models are wrong, some are useful” (don’t recall who said this). This is why even though people keep saying Isaac Newton was “wrong“, engineers and physicists still use his theories all the time. His model is still useful, given a certain subjective criteria. Models allow us to turn perception into decision.
For me it is still the functionality of the thing, the functions have to have the exact same function, no more, no less. The composition can still be different. A rock in nature can be a chair, but it is not man made.
If we apply the logics that are discussed in this video then nothing exists but simultaneously everything exists. And it also leans into to theory of One where we are all one continued united consciousness. And that any separation is merely an illusion.
bro just be reacting to anything now
But what is anything?
this video does count in the 'anything' category i must say
@@ItsMikeyYo mate wait til you see the video of him eating a burger
I’m not mad at it lmao
Does anything exist?
I hope we get more vsauce reactions, you clearly enjoy this too. I watched most of his videos few years ago and it's fun to rewatch it now
yeah, same here
Every few months I’ll rewatch basically everything of his, lol. Hope he uploads a full video soon.
I clicked this solely as an excuse to watch the original again. I am still blown away years later by the innocent sounding video title of "do chairs exist?" logically leading to the final statement of "I am not a thing that dies and becomes scattered, I AM death and I AM the scattering." My body just vibrates in confusion as it tries to manifest an emotional reaction to the magnitude of that statement.
"I am death, and I am the scattering" goes incredibly hard
"do chairs actually exist?" *37 minutes later:* "I am not a thing that dies and scatters, I am death, and I am the scattering."
@@man-from-2058 The average V-Sauce Michael video experience lol
Metal AF
"Why are things creepy" is a good one
That was the first video of his I watched and by far my favorite
the banach tarski paradox vsauce video still has me f'ed up 9 years later... watch that next
Yes, that one is my favorite together with the one on counting past infinity. The mathematics of infinity is extremely interesting and we actually have a much more rigorous and exact understanding of infinity than most people think.
Oh no he won't be able to handle that.
The music of Vsauce is also a thing of its own. When Michael says “Or is it?” And the beat drops we all go nuts
The vsauce video "what is down" is always my recommendation to people
Up dog! Up dog is always down 😎
Yes! That's my favourite one
My favorite is the moon terminator illusion. The whole foreshortening thing changed the way I perceive the world forever
This video changed my life.
31:50 You make a really good point here and what you're saying here is also covered by Michael in an older Vsauce video called "Is Anything Real". In which he explains how our physical ability to sense the world around us is our ONLY 'portal' into reality. Our perception of the entire universe will always be subjective because we are limited to our biology. In this case, the "context" of chairs existing is fundamentally just our neurons wired in a way to save the brain power of identifying what this object is every time we see one. In this case, a "context" isn't even a thing that objectively exists, but something we made up and projected onto reality.
My first existential crisis in memory was when I was watching the movie "Shark boy and Lava Girl" as a child and near the end of the movie there is a quite "Snow? It can't be snowing in august?" Which confused me greatly, because to me living in the southern hemishphere august is in winter, why would it be weird to have snow in winter.
And that is how I learned that seasons are the opposite in the northern and southern hemispheres and exist solely due to the tilt of the earth.
Vsauce is seriously one of the most creative and interesting RUclipsrs on the platform. Unreal content creation. Love your reactions too bro keep it up!
"messages for the future' is a trip, great video from him
Great to see someone actually be amazed by Michael's ideas and theories... So sad, that he hasn't uploaded new stuff for 2 years now.
Please continue with VSauce reactions!
My personal favourites:
"Did People Used To Look Older?", "Math Magic", "How Many Holes Does a Human Have?", "Which Way is Down?", "Is Cereal Soup?", "Why Are Things Creepy?",
"How To Count Past Infinity", "How Much of the Earth Can You See at Once?", "Selfie Waves"
And as you talked about your thoughts as a kid if you see the same colours as others do...
"Is Your Red The Same as My Red?"
He does youtube shorts now
@@qwiimyy Nobody wants stupid shorts!!!!
Hoping this does well so we can get more vsauce reactions
love watching you react to this stuff (without which there would be no "this stuff", as we've learned)
no joke i literally just subbed yesterday after watching your first Vsauce react video LETS GO!
just wanted to say that i love the non-music reactions as well :)
I need more Jon and Vsauce videos! I need that "Messages for the Future" reaction!
-Edit, I could on and on. "Cruel Bombs","The Banach-Tarski Paradox", "What is Déjà vu?" are all classics in my humble opinion.
Exactly! "Things" aren't existing, they are happening. They aren't "things" either, they are temporary parts of a process.
but what does "exist" mean ?
@@ArachisNPO things aren't things they're just some stuff that is thinging
@@seanhoward7037 And what thas the "-ing" mean? That it's a process/happening. Even the stuff you and Michael are talking about isn't "stuff". It's also just some part of a process.
What do we get if we go smaller and smaller? Molecules, atoms, elemental particles, quantum strings and/or loops. And these srings/loops are disturbances on quantum fields. Every"thing" is made out of these, but they themselves aren't "things", just like soundwaves in the air or waves on water aren't "things". They are happenings. Elusive events in time.
And these events only "exist" from the perspective of other events. When they are interacting with each other. Which means that every"thing" is in constant interaction with some"thing" all the time. And these interactions create the big process called the universe, and every"thing" in it all the time.
And time is just the local measurmet of the gowth of entropy. Of how incoordinate the happenings/interactions are "getting".
YESSS, been waiting for the second Vsauce reaction , would love to see this as a regular
One of his best videos for sure. I love this idea of you reacting to things beyond music too. Keep it up please!
MORE OF THESE REACTIONS PLEASEEE 🙏🙏
22:42 - 24:30 this is peak random guy trying to figure out what a chair is
Oh man I just saw your video reacting to VSauce for the first time two weeks ago while I was doing laundry, so glad youre doing more! Rewatching Vsauce + having your commentary is honestly really entertaining, looking forward to watching this!
Loving these vsauce reactions ngl, keep them coming!
Congratulations on 500k JD the Prophet!
For a recommendation, The Banach-Tarski Paradox video was one that took me like 3 watches to actually understand, that was many years ago when I watched vsauce and I undoubtedly forgot all of it by now. Would be fun to re-watch through your channel. There's a whole lot of vsauce I haven't seen so I'm very ready for this journey.
17:20 It's funny, I grew up with vsauce. So thoughts like "do we see colors the same way others do" were sparked even before I was 10 and he honestly led me to my current mindset
this is easily my favorite vsauce vid, so glad you checked it out!
Keep the VSauce reactions coming, these are great! 'Messages for the future' is a very good one.
when he talks about what constitutes a chair and asks chat. then skims through properties and says "that it has a back? no"
the answer is yes. a chair without a backrest is a stool. a stool with a backrest becomes a chair. if you try and fight this logic, i believe you are fighting it for the sake if fighting it and not for finding factual accuracy.
one might argue, "well benches have backs, then is a bench a chair?"
no. becuase a bench has propeties that a chair simply does not. however, if you removed the backrest of a bench, does it not remain a bench?
it does, because those are still properties that make it into one. if you took this back-less bench and shortened it again and again, halving its overall length, eventually it becomes a stool. it loses the property that makes it a bench.
so having a back is essential for it to be a chair. which he skimmed over in his assessment.
its not really that important. but i felt like bringing it up none the less.
I dont think thats true though. What property does bench has that chair doesn't except for being wider. And people will absolutely argue aboht the stool being the chair because chair is seen as more of a umbrella term and stool a special subcategory that you dont actually have to use since people will understand what you are talking about even if you use the word chair.
@@kregy7509 yeah and about the the chair and bench thing, how wide does a chair need to be until it’s considered a bench? That’s something that can mix with a bench and chair
VSauce is a treasure trove, but if I can make a recommendation based on something you said in the last video, watch the "What will we miss?" one.
Let’s goooo I loved the last vsauce vid you did and this is my favorite of his
I love your vsauce reactions! Pls keep doing them, even if in patron - id probably subscribe for that alone
RUclips is now putting this video in the algorithm for people who like Vsauce, and never saw you before, so good job I think!
If there is a chair in a video game, is it still a chair? It has no atoms whatsoever, but most people collectively perceive it as a chair, and most people do so by accepting that it meets the condition of being sittable, which also implies the existence of the character to be able to sit on it. Thus a string of implication leads to the conclusion that all "things" exist by nature of perception since these virtual "things" clearly do have meaning, purpose and are generally accepted to be a thing without requiring any simples or structure at all, only a collection of photons, but the photons are clearly not the chair since people can acknowledge the existence of a single chair while having seen it from two different screens and two different sets of photons or perspectives of the chair leaving perception as the only consistent property making it a "thing".
love these vsauce reactions
Greetings Jon, i really appreciate how you bring diversity to your reactions and how we can experience several genres of media as a community. No matter if it is music, philosophy or anything else. Keep it up.
Banach Tarski is a must
I don't really remember having an existential "crisis", but I always loved philosophy from a young age and was first introduced to this concept in Huxley's "The Door of Perception" when I read it in High School. Huxley explains that while tripping balls on mescaline, he couldn't see a "chair" anymore, but just a composition of wood pieces, and goes on to talk pretty much about all what's being talked about in this video. Must be the only part that I remember actually ahah...
"I am not something that dies and scatters. I am death and I am the scattering." goes so hard.
Hello there, this is the first video of yours I've seen but I like the way you speculate on the workings of the universe. You mentioned some different things that made you think about what's going on here and one of the things I was interested by as a kid was mirrors and I used to think they were a view port to a parallel universe.
A chair doesn't even need sit-ability? After all, a broken chair is still a chair.
PLEASE KEEP THIS UP JON YOUR MY FAVORITE REACTOR SINCE ROCK REACTS
I binge watched all Vsauce videos 10 years ago on the bus ride to school having an existential crisis every morning.
Congrats on 500k mate
This is where science and language clash.
those are not mutually exclusive
@@gobbelgub4031nobody suggested that
unironically some of the most riveting content on youtube
lol I love that you reacted to this
my first existential crisis was when i was 7. My grandma died. spun out my brain for years afterwards thinking about death, life, existence. when i got to 11 or 12 i started reading camus and kafka- which i thought would help but i just ended up hopeless. when I got into college i took a lot of philosophy. It always scratched that part of my brain but in a more logical and a less horrified way.
I love this video, and a lot of Vsauce's dissection of the origins of the words and ideas we all kinda just take as a matter of fact.
Everyone could do much with this much wonder for the world.
I love when people react to Vsauce
Hell yeah! Another VSauce reaction! Let’s go 🔥
5:29
When I was younger I used to get Night Terrors. It's like when you wake up from a nightmare but you're in another nightmare, but the new nightmare is just you hallucinating.
When I was like six I woke up from a nightmare to a night terror. Everything was perfectly normal, but everything was happening around me SUPER fast. My mom came into the room because I was screaming, but she was walking at super speed and talking so fast I couldn't understand her.
The next day after I had calmed down I stopped to think to myself "If I could see things go faster than normal are there people who see the world super slow? Does everyone experience time at the same speed?"
Messed me up for weeks lmao.
lol love these reactions
the intense music that came in when he said "cheeseburger" was absolutely perfect comedic timing
we had that same advert with "simples" in australia
I’ve been waiting for someone to react to this video.
A chair has 4 legs, something to support the back and space for only 1 person to sit
17:57 it can lie to you or use false information pretty well too
I've watched the original video a bunch of times but just now, for some reason, I somehow made a connection to a Yoda quote from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, at the end.
"Luminous beings we are, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes…"
More Vsauce plz, i love it, and clearly you do as well hah.
HELL YEAH! ONE OF MY FAVOURITE VIDEOS
I love what this channel has become 😂 W Jon
29:09 😭😭😭😭 i feel that emotion
omg 500k subs! proud to say I’ve been here since the rock reacts days
My most recent existential crisis was initiated by finding out that our universe is described by the scientific terms "gunky" and "junky"
Looking forward to your next video!
Absolutely need more vsauce
My first existential crisis was when I was 5 years old, basically discovered the idea of solipsism myself and remember thinking how I couldn't prove that school happens when I'm not there.
Oh this is a great one, good pick Jon-boy
One thing that's been consistent about Vsauce's videos, for me atleast, is that they're never about getting answers… More so just asking questions and the various ways it can be answered.
I really lije philosophy, and at the heart of philosophy is the art of just asking questions. And this is part of why I really like Michael's videos… cause I always leave with a sense of wonder, new ways to question anything…
For this one in particular, I feel like there's only one question that it seeks to really dive into…
"What does it take to exist?"
keep these coming!
You gotta watch "Did people used to look older?". Goated vid.
I remember watching this for the first time and thinking, "I just watched a 40min video on chair lore"
"oh god this was a mistake"
A chair is concept invented by our minds to categorize things that serve a similar purpose. Anything can be a chair, as long as it's used as a chair, which requires "sit-ability". The same could be said about math - it only exists in our minds. That's debatable, but I think the universe appears to obey fundamental laws (patterns we find through observation), at least locally. Math is simply a tool we created to describe and find these patterns!
I think my favorite Vsauce video is the Tarski Paradox
a chair is a chair if it was made with the intent of being sat on in a way that gets you off the ground, it was made with the intent of fitting 1 average person and needs some form of back support, otherwise it would be considered a stool. If it loses the ability to fulfill the intent behind it is now a damaged, broken or destroyed chair chair and will remain so until it can no longer be identified as a chair at all.
32:34 with the boat I feel it depends, like if I replaced all the parts over 10 years I'd still feel it's the same boat, the name still belongs to it and it looks the same way as it did when it was new. But at the same time, if I had to replace a part with a drawing made by my fictional son on it, or a paint spill from when my fictional dog kicked over a bucket, then I would suddenly feel like replacing those parts would make the boat different, it'll suddenly lose the memories I built over those 10 years while on the boat.
“Blue big cheeseburgers” Michael just Feebleminded you
What pattern something holds is decided at interations. What IS only changes the probabilities of outcomes taking into account the universe, i.e. all else that IS.
*has to think about something difficult
“Jesus no I’m getting on Instagram reels”
You and I are a lot alike Jon 😂😂
My mom always shares this story about me when I was younger, in her words (i dont remember this), I had a fit at my first week of the first time I attended school. The teacher gave us homeworks the day before and as I came to class the next day and the teacher asked me for the homework from yesterday I said "You gave it to the me from yesterday." So when she was calling me unruly for not having homework she decided to phone my mom and said I was in hysterics insisting that I didnt do my homework lol
A chair... could be something CONSTRUCTED with the INTENTION of providing a seat to a single individual, and FUNCTIONS in doing so.
That would make a "love seat" a bench, though.
Once it ceases being able to provide its intended function, it could be said that it is no longer a chair... or that it is, instead, a broken chair. It retains the intention, and the fact that it was constructed, but no longer retains its function.
17:29 oh a reaction series to vsauce would be gas
Sending good energy your way JD!
It’s late and way after vsauce made this video. But I feel like I have a good theory. The chair shown is most likely a chair, it’s a gradient. A dog is most likely a dog, but can be a chair, and unlikely a black hole. It’s more of a black hole than a photon since it can be squished into one and a photon can’t, but dog is the BEST descriptor. Every object and object piece has gradients on what it can be described as. A chair can be a table, but chair fits better. If I made a new thing that looks like a table, it can be called a table, but if I give it a specific name it’s not suddenly no longer a table, the name I gave it just suddenly goes in front of the label “table” and it’s more appropriate to call it by its new name. Everything can be described as almost everything else. The chair isn’t a chair. It’s an object that the word chair CAN describe best, out of all other words. Until you get to brands or models, the specifics describe better and then override its simple chair label, but it doesn’t remove its chair-dom. It’s still equal as chair-like, but I got a brand name that is more specific and fits the object better. A Kleenex can be loosely described as a plant, better as a tree, somewhat as a crane if it’s in the shape, very close as paper, closer as tissue, and very accurate as Kleenex. We can go further and name the specific pack or individual tissue we have. This tissue is named Bob. So yes it’s a tissue, but Bob 𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴 better. To make Bob into a crane would mean only the description of crane would increase in appropriateness, but most others stay the same. Bob, tissue, and Kleenex still describe it best. Although if it’s a crane is further from a table, rug, or carpet.
im only 13 mins into the video, but the way i see it is that all objects are compositional. so if we have a two piece bikini, the one compositional object we would refer to as a bikini is composed of two individual objects, the bikini top and the bikini bottom. the same logic applies to the hypothetical trog. we don't normally consider a trog an object, but say we found a purpose for putting a tree and a dog next to eachother, like it functioned as an energy source or something like that, we most likely would start to consider a trog an object. almost all objects are made of several different objects in this way, we just classify things as singular objects based on if it serves a purpose to consider it as such or not.
Bro I litterly used to think about these things and one day I found Vsauce channel that was a life saving experience for me. That I'm not the only one with insane mind thinking these type of things 😂
You should react to how people disappear its an older video but i feel like youd enjoy it
I commented on the last one that its replicators that keep me thinking endlessly. Looks like he's getting a taste
I used to think quite a bit about “reality”, but have come to that we can’t really know an objective real on a fundamental level outside of our consciousness. All the learning and talking and pondering we do is on models, and “all models are wrong, some are useful” (don’t recall who said this). This is why even though people keep saying Isaac Newton was “wrong“, engineers and physicists still use his theories all the time. His model is still useful, given a certain subjective criteria. Models allow us to turn perception into decision.
I'm sitting on a chair exactly the same as that one on the Vsauce video.
I really like the VSauce video called "Did People Used to Look Older". I'd thought about it a lot and it was a very interesting video
More Vsauce please! His older videos are really good too
man i wish i could watch Vsauce videos for the first time again lmao
For me it is still the functionality of the thing, the functions have to have the exact same function, no more, no less. The composition can still be different. A rock in nature can be a chair, but it is not man made.
Neeeed more vsauce reactions!!!
more vsauce, michael is the goat of youtube
If we apply the logics that are discussed in this video then nothing exists but simultaneously everything exists. And it also leans into to theory of One where we are all one continued united consciousness. And that any separation is merely an illusion.
Vsauce is RUclips royalty. Michael is another Bill Nye, in my opinion.