I stopped thinking about these questions a long time ago, the reason being: I'm not a scientist or inventor, it's not my job or desire to reshape the world as I see fit, so therefore whatever things are or aren't is wholly irrelevant to me until that fact changes; What matters the most to me is "is it helpful" or "is it not helpful". Contemplating why water quenches my thirst is an already solved question in biology for the most part, but if it wasn't, I'd still drink water, because it is proven to have a tangible effect on survival. It's kinda like playing a role playing video game. You put an input in, you get a result out. Am I really thinking about why adding this trinket onto my weapon does +2 damage to beastmen? No, I just know that it _is_ and that is the result, therefore the purpose of it, kinda like how you would use a wrench instead of your fingers to try and tighten a bolt.
You may not be a scientist or an inventor but it’s worth asking yourself these questions good for the brain not to mention you might learn something...
@@terminalfilms8074 I learn a lot in my day to day, the entire reason I don't ask these questions anymore is because the answers require effort that could be expended on finding the answers to more pertinent questions that actually affect me. I'd rather be a master of a few things than a jack of all trades and master of none.
I disagree. What does it mean to “truly know”? I think this is a misuse of the word or infinitive “to know”. Humans can know a lot of things because that’s how we use the word “know” in the first place. Language is almost like a living and breathing thing. It changes constantly and is very mechanically complicated. Language is part of the foundation of how social creatures live and function. As such, our words are something that depends on how we function. And we just function certain ways. Humans assume that we can are reliable interpreters of reality. I find it hard to believe that even the most intense of skeptics can really doubt their natural inclination that everything around us is real. It does not matter if this reality is real or not, because what it means for something to be “real” is already based on the assumption that this reality IS real. To remove the circumstances that allow sociological systems like our current systems of language to be created, means we cannot use that language sensibly. The language and social practices themselves are based on this way of operation. If we assume that our way of operating was flawed from the start, can we really utilize the meanings we derived from that false start? We’d need a whole new system and whole new tools. We assume people can know things because that’s how we use the word know. There are many reasons why Socrates was executed, some unjust and some just, but a big reason he was brought on trial was because he bugged people about the use of words and their definitions. The reality is, at least to me, Socrates method of going about finding these things was flawed. Definitions aren’t ever complete, it’s not how our words and language function. We know things because we say we know them. As in many societies use the word “know” casually and without problems all the time. If that is how the word is used in that circumstance, than that’s the word’s meaning. To know” does not necessarily mean to believe something without any doubt and for it to be true. Our words are not that precise nor that simple. Words function in uses within certain social contexts and vary as such. What I mean when I say I know something when speaking to my professor about a math problem and when I know something about my memory of some event when talking to my friend are going to be very different versions of “knowing”. In any case, to have knowledge in the first place implies the ability to be wrong about it. TL;DR: I think saying we can “only know that we do not know” is a misuse of language. This is very Wittgenstinian in thought, which is a philosopher (Ludwig Wittgenstein) he mentions in the video. I recommend checking out his stuff. “On Certainty” would address many of the problems raised in this video.
Pragmatism based on position is necessary to behave in a way suited to the thing you are. Notions of the kind "but what if nothing is real?" that don't actually effect your perceived experience of the world or yourself, are for lack of a better term, folly. If we live in the matrix but there is absolutely nothing that can be done to escape it and no effect that can be wrought on the world from that knowledge other that a sort of sterile awareness of that fact as trivia, then guess what, as far as anyone is concerned their world is real. Because their concerns can only go so far.
@@clydeltheMilkMan Regardless of the use language, we inately are aware ironically that we are not aware. This can be confusing, but if I were to say we just know nothing can be known because of my thinking, somebody would say that I made this conclusion based off the same thinking and conscienceness which I cannot trust. It is useless cyclical thinking of course, but truly even without language, somewhat of a bottleneck or imperfection of expression as you said, we "know" nothing; we are trappes within our own minds. Solopsism brings this up in a neat little package: We only know individually we exist. I only "know" my conscienceness exists and nothing else. Not my body or the world around. Its very amusing to think about these things, too bad it poses no meaning or utility in our lives besides some emotional resolve I suppose
Now I finally have a place I can point people to for the purpose of explaining why I want to study statistics. You can't know anything. However, people have become clever enough to approximate the probability of things and that is the closest thing we have to knowing what we know.
It's impossible to know everything, so we assume that some things are true and work from there! It's the same approach that we take to solve everyday problems, and it's how we view the world
I think the core of the problem lies in words, language, semiotics, etc. We like to put things in certain boxes made up of letters. No chair is the same, but we still use the same word for things that broadly fit the description, despite being different in how we sense each instance. If the word hand didn't exist, our 'hands' would just be our body. And if the term body didn't exist, our 'body' would just be 'me' Reality is the one thing we can't really put into a semiotic box, it is too abstract. In the case of dreams, we have terms for the processes that create what we experience as 'a dream' but our personal experience is radically different from a bunch of biological processes. Life is a bunch of biological processes, so in that regard we could put dreams as an alternate reality
There is no problem. Words are a tool used for many things. Language, and the words that make them up. They are the greatest creation of humanity, both spoken and written. They grant us the ability to understand, and perhaps our senses and mind are limited, flawed. It's a trope often used in sci-fi and even Lovecraftian stories. We put things in boxes so then we can use those boxes, and put them together for many different reasons. For art, science, history, and everything else. There are words for different types of chairs, a chair being a certain shaped object created for the purpose of being sat upon. There is nothing wrong with that. One can argue that it can be viewed as more than just a chair or not a chair at all and I would agree. It can be viewed in many ways, depending on how said person wishes to view it or what they perceive as being. It can be more than one thing or nothing at all. To an alien, it would not be a chair. Objectively it's only a chair if you view it as a chair based on the concept, idea, and label given to it by humanity. Chair is a human word, a human idea, and concept. I think it's better to view words as shifting puzzle pieces. Many words alone can mean a lot, but together they can mean even more. Put the pieces together in an infinite number of ways. This topic is interesting but also pointless. Questions such as whether reality is real or not are folly.
@@ltp7641 Agreed. Imagine if there was a separate word for every single individual thing🤣 Actually that's not a bad idea for an alien race in a sci-fi story.
@@ltp7641 Nicely said. Language is an amazing thing, and even some animals possess it, though in a far more primitive way. It's not something unique to humans as so many seem to believe.
I absolutely adore your content. The editing is looking better than ever and the content itself has always been top-notch. Please continue to think and share, Mister Amazing...!
My answer is a question: Why even give a damn, just roll with it. Life isn't long enough to have time to care about things that leave more questions behind, and in the end does it really matter? Even if you new the day you will die, does it really matter? (Organizing would probably make it worst)
I think you can tell if you're in a dream. When you are dreaming you are either lucid or not. Which is to say, you are self-aware and able to knowingly control your actions. When you are not lucid, you are just playing out scenarios and would hardly question your reality because you are apart of the play, so to speak. When you become lucid, you often do so because reality is inconsistent or surreal, you notice the bizarre reality and wake up from the play but remain in the dream and control your dream reality to some extent. In the real world, we question things all the time, everything is consistent and not surreal, and the waking life has a long chronological time which I can recall going back as far as I choose to remember.
The only thing missing from this video is a critique of causality. The only proof of causality includes causality itself and that is circular reasoning.
Just an idea: surely a failure to perceive the correct sense data leads to less chance of survival, all that we have as a sapient lifeform is our sense perception + the concepts that we have built around sense perception such as measurements of any kind. Though i do like the dream analogy, i have yet to try to use measurements when i'm dreaming, and I know that from various anecdotes that clocks and such warp and bend when you try to view them in a dream, i could be wrong though. [: In conclusion: you have to assume that reality is real if you want to have the best chances of survival, and you have to trust your sense perception to do so.
What I'm thinking a lot of is color. How do I know red is actually red? Like I see red as red, but actually everyone else sees it as green and vice versa. After all color is just something our brains make up. Think about it, during your entire life everyone would point at an apple and say it's red or green, and you get accustomed to it, but actually an apple is purple or black, that is what you understand as purple is what the others understand as red. How can you proof this? Surely through color combinations, some colors just look nicer together or oppose each other, it's quite universal that red and blue for example look opposite (warm/cold), but again that might just be something you've grown up to understand as such. For all I know all the colors are actually just shades of pink
Existence is simple to understand, it just means that a thing is what it is and is not what it is not, or A=A. Things appear "bound" only by our own perception and are subject to change in certain circumstances, like on drugs or in a dream, which then only means that shapes and forms can appear/exist under a certain influence/state, other people might not be able to see them but that doesn't make the appearances any less "real" because said person on drugs or in dream perceived weird shapes & forms. Every finite thing makes up every-thing, the infinite, or infinity, the all. When you see the color red, it is undeniable in that moment that you are seeing red and nothing else, again because A=A states this, our own consciousness is made up of A=A. Another person's experience of the color red just points to the fact that there's no such thing as "inherent existence".
Lucid dream tip, if you think your in a dream pinch your nose and try and breath through it. If you still can, your sleeping, and now lucid dreaming, enjoy (:
Watch the Jay Dyer v. Matt Dillahunty debate on the Transcendental Argument for God's existence (TAG.) Only Orthodoxy Christianity can coherently account for the problems here raised.
One time i had a strong memory that i went to an specific hotel with my parents but when i asked them about that hotel they didn't recall a thing about it and know when i really think about it i know I know it wasn't real,but I dont know where that memory comes from 😐
Tbh what i wrote probably makes zero sense but i wrote it anyway so fuck it haha I honestly never know that I'm dreaming when I am dreaming. I have had super vivid dreams where I was technically lucid or awake and making conscious decisions but I just never would notice that I am dreaming. no matter how crazy it got. I just always find dreams so interesting and I have yet to talk to someone that has dreams quite like me. Some people would at least listen and say my dreams are quite out there and imaginative so maybe I need to go out more lol. But that's beside's the points; I have never truly understood how I never notice that I am dreaming; I have had both dreams where I fell off a mountain, dived underwater for 10 minutes at a time, one time being chased by slender man then jumping off a cliff into a medieval fantasy world; yet I never knew I was dreaming really, at the most I thought I was playing some game in like 2 of my dreams total. I have also had dreams of me just living a normal day but something kinda interesting happens, like a lot of random girls just coming to me randomly, never seen them in real life, just all completely made up faces and people in my dreams, and I have a connection with so many. It's almost like peeking into some alternate version of myself at times.
"What's the real flavour of calantro?" I think that question is indeed illogical. For something to be real its existence must be objective, these two terms are connected. A flavour, however, is an entirely subjective concept.
@@rwo23 What the senses perceive is real, but the way that sense data are processed in the mind does not necessarily make for accurate representatives of the real world, or something that different persons can absolutely agree on. That is the underlying lesson of this video. In practice, it seems that our senses do a reasonably fine job; billions of years of evolution have made sure that we have some capability of telling what is going on around us. But what is important, and what I meant to say, is that there is a difference between flavour (subjective) and chemical composition (objective). Heck, in some cases it is even possible to pin-point the genes that are responsible for our differences in taste. While chemicals can be measured, we cannot tell whether my sensation of the colour red is the same as yours.
This examination of epistemology would benefit from some more (or literally any) examination of epistemology. Also, your 'conclusion' is an ad for Nebula? Not the best showcase of content quality on the platform you're promoting. Sorry. [Note: Nebula has some fantastic content creators. This is not exemplary of its quality.]
Can you give me some sources that would make a future video like this more to your liking? Shoot me an email with some: mister.amazing.yt@gmail.com (or don't)
This is some anti-esstentialist propaganda and I won't stand for it. Everything is made up from the same cosmic gunk, something becomes real when it interacts with something else, creating an impact. What makes a rabbit, a rabbit, or ice no longer a liquid, is our observation of it. We observe arbitrary definitions that we've made real. We might not be able to pin point a single essense that defines a rabbit, but our lack on recognition doesn't nullify it's existence. When we see a rabbit running around we know it's a rabbit because we are interacting with it's essence.
This video is indeed anti-essentialist, only to the extent I want to raise doubts about essences, though! I like Aristotle’s idea of essences, but I think it’s got a lot of issues.
11:18 Socrates: I know one thing: I DON'T KNOW WHY IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY KEEP THAT IN MIND AS I DESIGNED THIS RHYME TO EXPLAIN IN DUE TIME ALL I KNOW (sorry had to do it)
Once I had a dream where I get up to school, brush my teeth, drinking my morning milk, It felt so real that when I woke up it was damn late and my mother was screaming to get up and I am like " Let's go come on I'm ready already" with my dirty saliva on my lips.
What science does is that it gives us tools for *simplification* (which decomposes everything into more concrete, easy to manipulate pieces), *abstraction* (which organizes and connects things together), *quantification* (translate observations into concrete abstractions) and ultimately, *approximation* (acknowledge our limits to receive and verify information, and quantify them in an objective, verifiable way). Yes, we'll never get to absolute, unquestionable truths (and we now know this is in part due to the nature of the universe itself, with things like special relativity and Gödel's incompleteness), but at the very least we can get to really really good approximations that go beyond what we could ever notice and need in our imperfect, fulfillable lives.
Everything is errors. It’s all dream of sweet nothings that makes sense for a little while. When you drift to sleep you realize that. Words lose all perceptible meaning. Meaningless stories play in the mind yet seem to make sense. Reality blurs with unreality.
I remember my TOK class with this video, everything that comes from this specific question is useless af, no matter how much you analyze it and think about it, you always end up in a "Well I don't know"
Epistemology is ultimately the thing that got me out of the Mormon religion. So happy I learned about it. Hopefully others who are struggling with leaving religion will see this and make the same choice.
Everything is just cake
The cake is a lie
Always has been
I stopped thinking about these questions a long time ago, the reason being: I'm not a scientist or inventor, it's not my job or desire to reshape the world as I see fit, so therefore whatever things are or aren't is wholly irrelevant to me until that fact changes; What matters the most to me is "is it helpful" or "is it not helpful". Contemplating why water quenches my thirst is an already solved question in biology for the most part, but if it wasn't, I'd still drink water, because it is proven to have a tangible effect on survival. It's kinda like playing a role playing video game. You put an input in, you get a result out. Am I really thinking about why adding this trinket onto my weapon does +2 damage to beastmen? No, I just know that it _is_ and that is the result, therefore the purpose of it, kinda like how you would use a wrench instead of your fingers to try and tighten a bolt.
You may not be a scientist or an inventor but it’s worth asking yourself these questions good for the brain not to mention you might learn something...
@@terminalfilms8074 I learn a lot in my day to day, the entire reason I don't ask these questions anymore is because the answers require effort that could be expended on finding the answers to more pertinent questions that actually affect me. I'd rather be a master of a few things than a jack of all trades and master of none.
Sounds like existential crisis?
one of the best editing I've seen
The short answer?
You can't.
The only thing we can truly know is that we can't truly know anything.
Sentience sucks.
I disagree. What does it mean to “truly know”? I think this is a misuse of the word or infinitive “to know”. Humans can know a lot of things because that’s how we use the word “know” in the first place. Language is almost like a living and breathing thing. It changes constantly and is very mechanically complicated. Language is part of the foundation of how social creatures live and function. As such, our words are something that depends on how we function. And we just function certain ways. Humans assume that we can are reliable interpreters of reality. I find it hard to believe that even the most intense of skeptics can really doubt their natural inclination that everything around us is real. It does not matter if this reality is real or not, because what it means for something to be “real” is already based on the assumption that this reality IS real. To remove the circumstances that allow sociological systems like our current systems of language to be created, means we cannot use that language sensibly. The language and social practices themselves are based on this way of operation. If we assume that our way of operating was flawed from the start, can we really utilize the meanings we derived from that false start? We’d need a whole new system and whole new tools. We assume people can know things because that’s how we use the word know. There are many reasons why Socrates was executed, some unjust and some just, but a big reason he was brought on trial was because he bugged people about the use of words and their definitions. The reality is, at least to me, Socrates method of going about finding these things was flawed. Definitions aren’t ever complete, it’s not how our words and language function. We know things because we say we know them. As in many societies use the word “know” casually and without problems all the time. If that is how the word is used in that circumstance, than that’s the word’s meaning. To know” does not necessarily mean to believe something without any doubt and for it to be true. Our words are not that precise nor that simple. Words function in uses within certain social contexts and vary as such. What I mean when I say I know something when speaking to my professor about a math problem and when I know something about my memory of some event when talking to my friend are going to be very different versions of “knowing”. In any case, to have knowledge in the first place implies the ability to be wrong about it.
TL;DR: I think saying we can “only know that we do not know” is a misuse of language. This is very Wittgenstinian in thought, which is a philosopher (Ludwig Wittgenstein) he mentions in the video. I recommend checking out his stuff. “On Certainty” would address many of the problems raised in this video.
Pragmatism based on position is necessary to behave in a way suited to the thing you are. Notions of the kind "but what if nothing is real?" that don't actually effect your perceived experience of the world or yourself, are for lack of a better term, folly.
If we live in the matrix but there is absolutely nothing that can be done to escape it and no effect that can be wrought on the world from that knowledge other that a sort of sterile awareness of that fact as trivia, then guess what, as far as anyone is concerned their world is real. Because their concerns can only go so far.
@@clydeltheMilkMan Regardless of the use language, we inately are aware ironically that we are not aware. This can be confusing, but if I were to say we just know nothing can be known because of my thinking, somebody would say that I made this conclusion based off the same thinking and conscienceness which I cannot trust. It is useless cyclical thinking of course, but truly even without language, somewhat of a bottleneck or imperfection of expression as you said, we "know" nothing; we are trappes within our own minds. Solopsism brings this up in a neat little package: We only know individually we exist. I only "know" my conscienceness exists and nothing else. Not my body or the world around. Its very amusing to think about these things, too bad it poses no meaning or utility in our lives besides some emotional resolve I suppose
@@lina3068Yeah thinking about this stuff can be intriguing but for the most part it's pointless.
my head can't take this anymore
Happy to see that you're back, I really missed your content.
This guys editing is to not be ignored
Now I finally have a place I can point people to for the purpose of explaining why I want to study statistics. You can't know anything. However, people have become clever enough to approximate the probability of things and that is the closest thing we have to knowing what we know.
It's impossible to know everything, so we assume that some things are true and work from there! It's the same approach that we take to solve everyday problems, and it's how we view the world
I lost this train of thought, thought i must be thinking too much , turns out I'm not the only one with the same intention
Yo what happened, I’ve been subscribed to you for years and I never got a notification or nothing that you’ve uploaded since 2018. :((
The day you make a collab with VSauce the internet will be a bit smarter.
The problem tho is the fact that vsauce hasn’t made cool videos ever since he did that RUclips red show
@@ytmld he has an amazing video about Time in the works!
I think the core of the problem lies in words, language, semiotics, etc. We like to put things in certain boxes made up of letters. No chair is the same, but we still use the same word for things that broadly fit the description, despite being different in how we sense each instance.
If the word hand didn't exist, our 'hands' would just be our body. And if the term body didn't exist, our 'body' would just be 'me'
Reality is the one thing we can't really put into a semiotic box, it is too abstract.
In the case of dreams, we have terms for the processes that create what we experience as 'a dream' but our personal experience is radically different from a bunch of biological processes. Life is a bunch of biological processes, so in that regard we could put dreams as an alternate reality
There is no problem. Words are a tool used for many things. Language, and the words that make them up. They are the greatest creation of humanity, both spoken and written. They grant us the ability to understand, and perhaps our senses and mind are limited, flawed. It's a trope often used in sci-fi and even Lovecraftian stories. We put things in boxes so then we can use those boxes, and put them together for many different reasons. For art, science, history, and everything else. There are words for different types of chairs, a chair being a certain shaped object created for the purpose of being sat upon. There is nothing wrong with that. One can argue that it can be viewed as more than just a chair or not a chair at all and I would agree. It can be viewed in many ways, depending on how said person wishes to view it or what they perceive as being. It can be more than one thing or nothing at all. To an alien, it would not be a chair. Objectively it's only a chair if you view it as a chair based on the concept, idea, and label given to it by humanity. Chair is a human word, a human idea, and concept. I think it's better to view words as shifting puzzle pieces. Many words alone can mean a lot, but together they can mean even more. Put the pieces together in an infinite number of ways. This topic is interesting but also pointless. Questions such as whether reality is real or not are folly.
@@ltp7641 Agreed. Imagine if there was a separate word for every single individual thing🤣 Actually that's not a bad idea for an alien race in a sci-fi story.
@@ltp7641 Nicely said. Language is an amazing thing, and even some animals possess it, though in a far more primitive way. It's not something unique to humans as so many seem to believe.
Love this channel SO much!
I absolutely adore your content. The editing is looking better than ever and the content itself has always been top-notch. Please continue to think and share, Mister Amazing...!
What tools do u use to make these amazing videos
The king is back again!
dude here just making me question my whole life
continue
Fantastic amazing video, the editing is so good
My dreams are never that coherent.
In the word's of Hanamon, "everyone knows what, what I'm talkin bout everyone gets that way"
You should continue with more of this funny side to your videos, it really worked on this one.
I hope the next one will be on the analytical philosophy, you know the thing that kind of explains all of this.
I feel like the webcam takes away from the video. It feels... distracting.
Yo can you do what you did with X but with Von??
My answer is a question: Why even give a damn, just roll with it. Life isn't long enough to have time to care about things that leave more questions behind, and in the end does it really matter?
Even if you new the day you will die, does it really matter? (Organizing would probably make it worst)
Imagine not being a lucid dreamer
I think you can tell if you're in a dream. When you are dreaming you are either lucid or not. Which is to say, you are self-aware and able to knowingly control your actions. When you are not lucid, you are just playing out scenarios and would hardly question your reality because you are apart of the play, so to speak. When you become lucid, you often do so because reality is inconsistent or surreal, you notice the bizarre reality and wake up from the play but remain in the dream and control your dream reality to some extent. In the real world, we question things all the time, everything is consistent and not surreal, and the waking life has a long chronological time which I can recall going back as far as I choose to remember.
Dreams are just chaos, at least in my eyes
Well, obviously you don't know
The only thing missing from this video is a critique of causality. The only proof of causality includes causality itself and that is circular reasoning.
Mister Amazing: Face of an English schoolboy, forearms of a Scottish werewolf
Kept waiting for the vsauce background music to come in
In a dream, you can't reflect back to each previous day, month, year. You have less a grasp on the past and future in dreams.
Just an idea: surely a failure to perceive the correct sense data leads to less chance of survival, all that we have as a sapient lifeform is our sense perception + the concepts that we have built around sense perception such as measurements of any kind. Though i do like the dream analogy, i have yet to try to use measurements when i'm dreaming, and I know that from various anecdotes that clocks and such warp and bend when you try to view them in a dream, i could be wrong though. [:
In conclusion: you have to assume that reality is real if you want to have the best chances of survival, and you have to trust your sense perception to do so.
These kinda questions keep me up at night.
Yay, existentialism!
What I'm thinking a lot of is color. How do I know red is actually red? Like I see red as red, but actually everyone else sees it as green and vice versa. After all color is just something our brains make up. Think about it, during your entire life everyone would point at an apple and say it's red or green, and you get accustomed to it, but actually an apple is purple or black, that is what you understand as purple is what the others understand as red.
How can you proof this? Surely through color combinations, some colors just look nicer together or oppose each other, it's quite universal that red and blue for example look opposite (warm/cold), but again that might just be something you've grown up to understand as such.
For all I know all the colors are actually just shades of pink
Existence is simple to understand, it just means that a thing is what it is and is not what it is not, or A=A. Things appear "bound" only by our own perception and are subject to change in certain circumstances, like on drugs or in a dream, which then only means that shapes and forms can appear/exist under a certain influence/state, other people might not be able to see them but that doesn't make the appearances any less "real" because said person on drugs or in dream perceived weird shapes & forms. Every finite thing makes up every-thing, the infinite, or infinity, the all. When you see the color red, it is undeniable in that moment that you are seeing red and nothing else, again because A=A states this, our own consciousness is made up of A=A. Another person's experience of the color red just points to the fact that there's no such thing as "inherent existence".
Read Nihilism by Fr. Seraphim Rose it is quite short but a very lucid read
Respectfully: that is not what the phrase “begs the question” means.
does anyone know the image on 8:26?
pseud
*overthinking: a video*
Don´t get me wrong, I love these kind of questions myself and going there in my head.
Lucid dream tip, if you think your in a dream pinch your nose and try and breath through it. If you still can, your sleeping, and now lucid dreaming, enjoy (:
Watch the Jay Dyer v. Matt Dillahunty debate on the Transcendental Argument for God's existence (TAG.) Only Orthodoxy Christianity can coherently account for the problems here raised.
Bro pls chill I just wanna live
Nice video
One time i had a strong memory that i went to an specific hotel with my parents but when i asked them about that hotel they didn't recall a thing about it and know when i really think about it i know I know it wasn't real,but I dont know where that memory comes from 😐
Happy 300000
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A New View of Life🤯
Tbh what i wrote probably makes zero sense but i wrote it anyway so fuck it haha
I honestly never know that I'm dreaming when I am dreaming. I have had super vivid dreams where I was technically lucid or awake and making conscious decisions but I just never would notice that I am dreaming. no matter how crazy it got. I just always find dreams so interesting and I have yet to talk to someone that has dreams quite like me. Some people would at least listen and say my dreams are quite out there and imaginative so maybe I need to go out more lol. But that's beside's the points; I have never truly understood how I never notice that I am dreaming; I have had both dreams where I fell off a mountain, dived underwater for 10 minutes at a time, one time being chased by slender man then jumping off a cliff into a medieval fantasy world; yet I never knew I was dreaming really, at the most I thought I was playing some game in like 2 of my dreams total. I have also had dreams of me just living a normal day but something kinda interesting happens, like a lot of random girls just coming to me randomly, never seen them in real life, just all completely made up faces and people in my dreams, and I have a connection with so many. It's almost like peeking into some alternate version of myself at times.
No it's so simple. The system says it is.
Dude, did you even make this video?
Who dafuq is Einstein
a bout of solipsism I suppose?
You look like Gibby but younger and more tired
i think simulation theory is really likely.
"What's the real flavour of calantro?" I think that question is indeed illogical. For something to be real its existence must be objective, these two terms are connected. A flavour, however, is an entirely subjective concept.
Your point, taken to its natural conclusion, is that what the senses perceive is not real. Science must have been a mistake.
@@rwo23 What the senses perceive is real, but the way that sense data are processed in the mind does not necessarily make for accurate representatives of the real world, or something that different persons can absolutely agree on. That is the underlying lesson of this video. In practice, it seems that our senses do a reasonably fine job; billions of years of evolution have made sure that we have some capability of telling what is going on around us. But what is important, and what I meant to say, is that there is a difference between flavour (subjective) and chemical composition (objective). Heck, in some cases it is even possible to pin-point the genes that are responsible for our differences in taste. While chemicals can be measured, we cannot tell whether my sensation of the colour red is the same as yours.
Damn bruh
you don’t know anything about music theory
Indeed!
misteramazing hahahaha what
Lmao
I bet he's seen the video
GOD
Lol pragmatism. The answer is pragmatism
This one's good
Ur barely post😢
This examination of epistemology would benefit from some more (or literally any) examination of epistemology.
Also, your 'conclusion' is an ad for Nebula? Not the best showcase of content quality on the platform you're promoting. Sorry.
[Note: Nebula has some fantastic content creators. This is not exemplary of its quality.]
Can you give me some sources that would make a future video like this more to your liking? Shoot me an email with some: mister.amazing.yt@gmail.com (or don't)
Solo c q nada c. Epic
This is some anti-esstentialist propaganda and I won't stand for it. Everything is made up from the same cosmic gunk, something becomes real when it interacts with something else, creating an impact. What makes a rabbit, a rabbit, or ice no longer a liquid, is our observation of it. We observe arbitrary definitions that we've made real. We might not be able to pin point a single essense that defines a rabbit, but our lack on recognition doesn't nullify it's existence. When we see a rabbit running around we know it's a rabbit because we are interacting with it's essence.
This video is indeed anti-essentialist, only to the extent I want to raise doubts about essences, though! I like Aristotle’s idea of essences, but I think it’s got a lot of issues.
imagine disagreeing with the interpretation of some random guy from thousands of years ago, the absolute nerve!
epistemology moment
Yeah, with a hint of phenomenology, should I add.
I dunno, why are you asking me??
11:18
Socrates:
I know one thing:
I DON'T KNOW WHY
IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY
KEEP THAT IN MIND AS I DESIGNED THIS RHYME
TO EXPLAIN IN DUE TIME
ALL
I
KNOW
(sorry had to do it)
underrated comment
Once I had a dream where I get up to school, brush my teeth, drinking my morning milk, It felt so real that when I woke up it was damn late and my mother was screaming to get up and I am like " Let's go come on I'm ready already" with my dirty saliva on my lips.
y'all need to take a philosophy class ♥️
But what if... I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking? Hohohohohoo. Delightfully devilish Seymour.
What science does is that it gives us tools for *simplification* (which decomposes everything into more concrete, easy to manipulate pieces), *abstraction* (which organizes and connects things together), *quantification* (translate observations into concrete abstractions) and ultimately, *approximation* (acknowledge our limits to receive and verify information, and quantify them in an objective, verifiable way). Yes, we'll never get to absolute, unquestionable truths (and we now know this is in part due to the nature of the universe itself, with things like special relativity and Gödel's incompleteness), but at the very least we can get to really really good approximations that go beyond what we could ever notice and need in our imperfect, fulfillable lives.
The Big question is: Why does something being real give it value. Terrible things can happen in reality so does reality really matter
2:10 BLM Redifing the word "peaceful"
this channel is mad underrated
yes
I like your opinion, Ford bronco
@@ytmld yes
*always has been*
Everything is errors. It’s all dream of sweet nothings that makes sense for a little while. When you drift to sleep you realize that. Words lose all perceptible meaning. Meaningless stories play in the mind yet seem to make sense. Reality blurs with unreality.
The editing and production on this is sick
I remember my TOK class with this video, everything that comes from this specific question is useless af, no matter how much you analyze it and think about it, you always end up in a "Well I don't know"
Epistemology is ultimately the thing that got me out of the Mormon religion. So happy I learned about it. Hopefully others who are struggling with leaving religion will see this and make the same choice.
challenge: take a shot every time he says _"begs"_
CONGRATS ON HITTING 300K!!!!!!!!
Assessing abject abnormality and deconstructing normality.
your editing just keeps getting better, mate.
keep up
for real man, it inspires
Oh sweet now I can’t sleep amazing thanks just great just fuckin great
I would pay you to teach me how to research and write for video essays lol
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check your instagram dms please.
check Instagram dms please.
you watch Kurtzgesagt, i know it
please do a video on hyperpop
Can you do a vid on suicideboys?
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Proud of you for not squeezing Theseus' ship in there
Expertly crafted video, and super well done