The Brain of John Conway (and his Amazing Tongue) - Numberphile
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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Rest in peace, John Conway.
*RIP in peace
John Conway passed away on 11 april 2020... A great mind has left us. :'(
Born on Boxing Day, died the day before Easter Day.
11 april 2020 was a doomsday (see Conway's Doomsday Rule for calculating the day of the week of a particular day of some year)
Bit weird watching this now. Rest in peace.
Had a half an hour chat with Conway back in 1996. Extremely pleasant and down to earth guy.
Of Conway's brain and tongue, nature has decided to bless me with the latter.
well that static background music was honestly annoying
It is all about the content. I found the background music relaxing.
i liked it too because it created a fitting feeling but that was only for half a minute. after that... well i didnt like it
Golol cohan It was a bit loud vs the voices at times, but it wasn't horrible.
This Will Destroy You trying its very best to destroy you, or at least destroy your enjoyment of this video...;-) I've met them, super nice dudes and their music is sensationally beautiful in the right context. I suppose not when competing with voices.
Golol cohan Yep, really annoying, I only just made it to the end. Interesting bit of analysis here - how many liked the sounds, loathed them or wasn't fussed.
Rest in peace, John Conway.
Im guessing many others were able to do the tongue exercises? I did them all pretty easily. and I can tie a cherry stem with it too. Amazingly, my GF couldn't care less.
Niflheim How?
SoulDragonWithFlow Try getting a boyfriend, maybe he might be more enthusiastic about that ;)
Guido Belluomo haha. Maybe.
Guido Belluomo Why?
You're disgusting.
I think it's fascinating hearing someone talk about death the way he does. It's scary in a way, since most old people don't want to mention it, have a thought that there might be an afterlife, or have just accepted it. Seeing an old intelligent man discuss it with the insight that he is soon gone and that's it gives an uncomfortable feeling that is hard to shake, even if I agree fully with his thinking.
I think it'll all be ok. Years ago I set out on a quest to understand consciousness, at the level of physics. I started that with a PhD in engineering, and over the decades since I've learned a LOT of physics. And the conclusion I eventually reached is that... physics offers no explanation. I see ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in our major physical theories that point in any way toward how consciousness "actually works." I think it's just something completely different and outside of those theories and we just DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, at all. That's vastly comforting to me - it really means that science has nothing to say about any of it, including death.
I think that our minds are somehow "more" than our bodies, and while that doesn't guarantee that there is some aspect of existence that persists after death, I tend toward the idea that there is. What exactly it will be I have no idea, and I don't think anyone has any real idea either - I think the chances that any of our major "spiritual world view" is precisely right are slim to none.
I think something probably comes after, and we'll all get to find out what it is eventually. And, if not... well, it won't matter to us then anyway, will it? I've had a wonderful life and have raised five beautiful and wonderful daughters, and am up to three grandchildren to enjoy so far. There have been some difficult times, but generally speaking I have no complaints about the quality of life I've gotten to enjoy.
I love the state of "contented peace" Conway seems to have reached in his later years. I think that's the best any of us can ask for.
Rest in Love, John😭😭😭
I always knew how well know Mac was, but seeing this makes my love for my city that much more. RIP John
Writing quotes on the screen while someone was talking was just cruel.
It's really quite distracting and very disrespectful.
Playing creepy music over him too
@@tiagomoraes1510 4:02
Chris Roberts should ease on the *background* music. But I guess it's done now.
Rest in peace, John Conway.
That was wonderful, I would love to learn more of Conway, his experiences and career.
PLS TURN THE BACKGROUND MUSIC UP MORE! I STILL COULD UNDERSTAND A FEW WORDS!
RIP John H. Conway. Please tell us what you find out about the Monster Group, you beautiful genius.
6:28 Minutes yay tau, he did it again. :)
It is 6:27 minu... Meh, screw it.
4:38 Mrs Conway must be very happy...
Very cool... I've seen a number of the Numberphile vids, but haven't seen them all, so wasn't familiar with Conway.
A note for the documentary; it's hard to understand several parts, as either background noise and/or music makes it kind of tough to make out the words...
Oh, and I see you're wearing your slow watch... ;)
Wow. He died today. Heavy stuff.
R.I.P. John Horton Conway, born 26 December 1937, died of COVID-19 on 11 April 2020 (aged 82).
*John Conway's amazing tongue*
I don't never make these sexual inuendos on phrases, but this one kinda speaks for itself.
double negation
@@Nim2 I was learning English back then
@@10mimu I am an non native speaker and am still learning English too, I was just joking implying that you actually do sexual inuendos on phrases.
What the heck is going on with the background sound? Or is it just me? Really annoying distorted garbage, whenever there is no primary sound.
I actually know what he's talking about. 20 years ago I was diagnosed with brain cancer. At the time I was 25 years old and suddenly confronted with my own mortality when up to this point I thought I was nearly invulnerable. As if you were at max speed at one moment and then everything is in slow motion in the next. I don't know if anyone can unterstand this without having experienced something of this kind.
The background music in the minidoc is absolutely horrific! After watching it I have little idea what was said, most of what I inferred was a sense of dread and confusion.
Rest In Peace
I can do those things with my toungue...
Sandwich247 But you cannot spell the word "tongue".
Sandwich247 No, you can't. Sandwiches can't do things with tongues. Mainly because sandwiches don't have tongues.
nonindividual no. I can not. Spelling is not my fortay.
Forte, not fortay. "Forte" is French for strength.
ophello Again, spelling. I'm not so grat at it :P
Would've liked to see less about his tongue and more about his brain.
SHOW ME THE SCIENCE!
(bonus points if read in Cruise's voice)
I had to pause after 3:35 to take a break from the music. I had an urge to throw myself off the balcony!
Rest in Peace John Conway, a great mathematician
RIP John Conway
You did not lose your Game of Life Dr. You won the game like Archimedes,Galileo,Newton,Gauss and Euler. You'll be with us forever, for almost surreal number of years. Bon Voyage and A Salute of Bravery.
By the way I'm astounded by your Fractran.
Can you do an episode about the number 252? I don't know the significance of it but I see it everywhere.
i can do all four tongue exercises and to add to it, i can make a 4-pronged clover leaf
Wait, what was significant about December 20 for him?
Blaze Thrower 0:52
Joe Steinregen What do you mean? He didn't die.
Joe Steinregen oh boy, everyone thinks he's dead haha. No he didn't die, they just used his brain for research
David Lam Well the way he spoke of it all it sounded like the research was going to end with that being the result.
Ciccarello That's the bummer about documentaries though - facts about people are spoilers :P
I remember having a strange amount of fun playing Conway's Game of Life as a kid.
I also used to play around with other similar cellular automata with different neighbor rules. They all looked different visually from the explosions in Conway's Game of Life for example I noticed some would form tunnels and others would form crystal-like shapes. I don't remember the rules or names of these cellular automata but it shouldn't be too difficult to find similar ones online.
"Conway is a creative genius." - so, is he, like, Kanye West's relative?
Ha! Kanye would be in a category miles and miles and miles away from Tim! (And that's not a very good category to be in.)
mishival mamaaaa, i just killed mayn
ಠ_ಠ
mishival He is who Kanye imagines himself as.
Please do the goldbach's conjecture
Anyone know what the music pieces were that were used? I'm particularly interested in the very last piece. Very reminiscent of Stars Of The Lid.
Bad Bandwidth Found it already, it's This Will Destroy You.
Daryde - sandstorm
I know ones called "static"
nielsvanb If you're going to use an ancient troll, at least spell it properly
God don't use that music for anything
I'd like to read a book about Klein Bottle Guy.
Vanessa Walsh What about wikipedia? It's not a book, but it's even better.
Cliff? How about some books *BY* him?
GOOG is your friend (for a small enough definition of 'friend').
The tongue thing is actually pretty common.
Can you make a Video explanier the surreal numbers
julius groenjes explaining*
julius groenjes you forgot the question mark
Wait, I can do all of those tongue things... so am I a mathematical genius?
No you were born with it.
Scotty Catman Yes
I can do all 4 tongue tricks, where's my genius certificate?
Am I the only one that thinks he would be absolutely incredible at narration?
RIP
I can do 3 of 4 tongue thingies... welp, time to practice! xD
It's genetics I think. Practice wouldn't help :P
Tom Monk I guess the tube is super easy, the twisting and the o - can be learned; the waving depends somewhat on your cerebellum, and the folding on the flatness and size of your tongue.
I can do all the tongue thingies as well, plus some additional tricks ;)
Amazing.
But i can do all of those tricks. And another one: the ball.
Thanks for the video, but if you have any hearing disability you are in trouble with that noisy music.
I am so sad I never had the opportunity to meet him in person
Its the first time I noticed cricket bats in your background...
In my opinion, you're suppose to study the brain while it is still functioning. If he dies, his brain would just be like any other brain.
Ryanator Well, they used fMRI on his living brain... so they did study it while it was still functioning.
pcljet It doesn't tell us much relative to the whole picture, but it tells us a significant amount relative to what we can typically observe without equipment. They are invaluable tools that we continue to improve upon. Cognitive neuroscience has made progress in leaps and bounds thanks to these tools.
*****
I guess I was mistaken in thinking that I was commenting on avoiding drawing overly detailed conclusions from limited data. I apologize for doing such a terrible job in communicating a point and in trying to infer what was or was not known.
*****, ah yes. I know my synaptic learning machines well. The issue is that when you do the math the neuron is a critical part of the math. Mathimatically the nueron is the transform and the synapse is the data. When you don't have active data going there is only so much it can tell you. To understand the brain would be to understand what transforms it is performing when it receives data not which data lines were used the most / were possible. Of course looking at the data lines can be inspiring and might help settle a question or two for which there is debate but it will never lead to understanding a particular brain at an intimate level. No amount of math is going to save you if the data just isn't there in the synapses to do the math at that level.
Ryanator You may be able to see more of the activity based on stimuli when it is still functioning, but there are other things you can look at when it is not.
Did not expect to be turned on by an elderly mathematician’s tongue movements today 😮 RIP ❤
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Thanks for the migraines Numberphile!
I remember wathing the Numberphile video on Game of Life, and there John mentioned he does not think that is the highest pinnacle of his mathematics. I am interested to know what is, and if it is something that could be explained in a Numberphile video, I would like to see that, and I think many others would too. Have you thought of that, Brady?
finally some neuroscience....
Ok the Clover Leaf is impossible. Can anyone besides this genius do it?
I can do it, plus all the other ones, lol. I always called it the "frog legs" since it looks like a pair of frog legs kinda when you do it right ;)
I CAN DO ALL OF THOSE WITH MY TONGUE!!! finally i feel special
0:56 Decemebr
we all miss you
Anyone else notice how Conway sounds almost exactly like the Narrator from the Stanley Parable (Kevan Brighting)? I can picture him narrating the game. A 24-dimensional game, and there's GoL things everywhere "Go back and look at that glider, Stanley. This glider will be very important to the progression of life later on in the game."
Where are the numbers?
@4:41 Those guys are going to need more buckets.
Brady is no layman.
R.I.P.
The background viola, or whatever sound it is , that plays while he is talking is thoroughly unnecessary and annoying.
Amazing short. I'm glad you shared it.
I can do all the tongue tricks except the last wave
John Conway.... The Infinite Hotel. Great discussion on infinities.
I guess it's sort of cheating if the attachment between the bottom of my mouth and my tongue was clipped when I was four. And aren't there five exercises?
RIP incredible John Conway
Next week i've an exam on Conway
In what class?
HereComesThe MightyMath i study for "esame di stato" (I'm a italian boy) and it is equivalent of the Advanced Level in england
Fighi Blue How does Conway come up in that... You don't study set theory, do you?
Joshua Mcateer i talk about conway's game of life in my text, I was a little sketchy in my first comment
this guy talks about himself like he's going to kick the bucket within 5 mins, its depressing and i am honestly repelled by that behaivior. he's a brilliant mathematician but this? not cool bro.
Didnt enjoy it . I would have liked it more if Brady had an interview with him where they talked about these things rather than a documentary that jumps from one point to another without completing it making it boring and with loud music that the stuff of importance in the video I was barely able to hear .
Can someone please tell me what does he meant by saying "now its almost behind me" what is that behind him?
Zergfed Fear of death.
That video clip was eerily disturbing!
I can do all this tongue stuff, what now?
I cant do any of them LOL
Wanted to watch, shame the background music made it unbearable.
What's up with the static "music" or whatever. It's kinda shite.
rip
Rest in peace brother
damn, i get that this sound is supposed to make it all tense and interesting, but boy is it annoying
I can do all except the wave, but that one just looks like it needs practice to learn.
OOo u play cricket?! plz record a few shots off the bat pplz.
pity about the horrible background noise.
Rubik's cube in background not solved. Must solve. Brady pls.
There's a friend of mine who can do the waves, and the cloverleaf, and even turn it 90 degree. is the fourth one thick and thin? where can i find the reader's digest article?
I don't think the point of this video is the tongue exercises.
RIP, sir. :-(
I didn't expect that to be quite so depressing.
An amazing video for an amazing man
RIP John.
Hi
Could that be, by any chance, be an authentic signature by Edwin Aldrin on the photograph on Brady's mantelpiece?
Mendelssohn gets a nice little tribute here too!
Numberphile Please explain this!
There's an old Tamil statement that predicts the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle to an astonishing accuracy considering it doesn't involve roots! This is how it goes:
“Odum Neelam Thanai Ore Ettu
Kooru thaaki Koorilae Ondrai
Thalli Kundrathil Paadhiyai Saerthal
Varuvathu Karnam Thane”
This translates to something like -
"Subtract one eight of the length (longer side) from the length, and add a half of the height to get the hypotenuse" i.e. 7/8*L + H/2 which approximates quite well to the hypotenuse! Seems like an interesting subject to elaborate on! Please reply! :D
Is the background noise?