@@theawakening2946 Even if an Almighty God created the universe, the question remains as to 'why' it exists and why such a being created it. The question is 'why', not 'who' or 'what' created it.
@@andymoore9892 haha don't worry. if one is heading towards earth we will see it months before and we could probably do something..well there's a chance we miss it but i don't think so. and if so..who cares? wouldn't be the worst thing for planet earth if it got rid of us :D
I remember doing the same thing at about the same age. What is a mystery is why a young kid would try to do this, it maybe seemed like an interesting diversion at the time maybe, or maybe it says something about our nature that a 7 year old would delve into it sort of like a temptation brought own by existence itself.
The only solution I have come about is just that, as we go about in a dream accepting logic that does not make any sense, we are blocked by some sort of mechanism now, that our logical structures are not built to answer this question, and maybe if the afterlife exists we will understand it later it will all make sense, and will be simple to us.
Advaita Vedanta, a philosophical school within Hinduism, has been articulated for over 5,000 years. Advaita Veda prove that this life is an illusion. Quantum Nobel physicist Schrödinger has read the Advaita Veda and talked about it
To all people who are spamming in comments "spoiler, he doesn't say the answer": you didn't think you'd find the answer to this in the video on YT, did you?
@@sarans96 yes they are pure idiots. See religion could actually be true. But the type of religion we have is purely stupid. God might exist but Jesus, Hindu gods, Allah all this is pure idiot.Maybe reality doesn't exist at all.
@@lc1777 Reality does exist. "I think therefore I am." That's the only thing we know. We know that we exist, and that is our reality. As to the fundamental reality of the universe, that's a different story... Also, what do you mean when you say "religion could actually be true?"
@@littlewhitebutterflies4586 see I am a atheist myself. And to me physics has given better explanation of our existence instead of any religion.But what if God really exist? Or maybe we are created by a advanced civilization?. But I still doubt that we are living in an reality. Because we just are to timid to understand it. Our theory is That time started with big bang. But I ask then what was between big bang. Big bang wouldn't just happen by itself it needs a push . It needs a force to happen. And why can't time be before big bang. It would still be there but meaningless. Just like our end of universe will be like that. Its so fascinating
@@lc1777 I assume you mean traditional religion, because using physics to draw conclusions about metaphysical phenomena is also in a way a religion. Ultimately some questions can never be answered by science, and we must make our own choices based on personal belief. Well ultimately, what is reality? What is our universe made of? It' not made of molecules, atoms, quantum fields, or even spacetime... It's made of information. And it turns out that it doesn't matter what stores that information, whether it's stored in some supercomputer, the relative distances between molecules in a gas cloud, or imprinted on the surface of a blackhole, as long as that information exists, so do we and our reality. So maybe there is another reality imposed ON TOP of our reality, but our reality exists nonetheless...our reality is our subjective experience, which we know to exist. Also yes, physics is cool ^^
I swear I’ve tried explaining nothingness to my homies at least a dozen times when we’re high, not sure if its too complex, if my stoned self is just incomprehensible or maybe both
Here the new words I learned in this TED Talk: Purported, Thrall, Variegated, Clout, Ontic, Encompasses, Pious, Coupling, Crummy, Deity, Frothing, Wag.
Advaita Vedanta, a philosophical school within Hinduism, has been articulated for over 5,000 years. Advaita Veda prove that this life is an illusion. Quantum Nobel physicist Schrödinger has read the Advaita Veda and talked about it
(God’s Signs 🪧) God said it first in the “Quran” before 1400 years for disbelievers. { And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.} “This verse talking about Space expansion” Also, another one… { Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe? } “This verse talking about the Big Bang” { So are you a Thinker ? }
Some people are satisfied to ask questions and to wonder. It's all we can do with questions like these. If you think you know the answers it just proves you're stupid lol
@@stratosphere2323 yes. It can. Your just having trouble picturing it in your head. Your brain can't comprehend something it's never seen. But let me ask you this to help you see it... What was it like for the billions of years before you were born?
Yes, this question has haunted me a lot. Why something instead of nothing? And after extensively thinking about it, I realised it's a futile cause. Yes, we are humans and our brain is constantly thinking. But not always all thoughts are fruitful. We know very little about consciousness, we don't even know what we are trying to find. So asking why and how is just a search of needle in a haystack. And moreover the needle might not be even there. People have thought their entire lives and got no answer. If we take scientific and atheist view we do not have a plausible explanation. I beg to differ from the speaker in here. Buddhism doesn't advocate that nothingness is world. It is rather that it says the world is an illusion, a maya, root of all our suffering. To ease the suffering, Buddhism asks us to go beyond the worldly afflictions. But one who is living can very well choose to live in Maya. Eternal peace or Nirvana is a joyful feeling that if discovered is even better than life. Not death. Peaceful existence. Now coming to the ontological argument. The speaker said it is a bad argument but I beg to differ. Why? Ontological argument says that the supreme being exists because one of us has to be supreme. I mean why not? If there are all pencils, one will be bigger than others, even if it's all same, patterns do break. Okay maybe not the best arguments. The cosmological argument comes into picture. If something happens it always has a cause. Meaningless life is not what we live. It's cause and effect. If there is a watch there is a watchmaker, and if questions arise who made the watchmaker? Well nothingness would have been better? Then we would not have had this conversation in the first place. In Hinduism it is said actually we all are one not different. One soul. One being. One universe. Then it broke (scientifically big bang) and other atoms and participles were created. God is never bored or has questions where he came from. Because primeval energy or universe always existed. We are conscious of reality is the proof in itself. The universe is aware that it exists. And hence it does not question why and how because existence in itself is beautiful. If you say why god broke into so many participles, because he wanted to play. All of it is a game. He is aware also unaware. He is concerned also unconcerned. So yes we exist because he exists, he exists because nothingness is not the truth. Supreme reality is meant to exist. And non existence is a lie. When we die we return as matter of energy. After all we are bundles of energy and we return back to the universe where we came from who knows the greater scheme of things? God doesn't have be even called god or doesn't even have to be human form it's an infinite source of energy which could create anything and everything out of nothing. Even himself. Because he willed so. And when you yourself are the universe manifestation is very much possible. And this beautiful world is not mediocre. It's elegant. Every creation has its scars. Death, decay, imperfection, struggle, pain all of it is a part which makes life up. Reality is a very small box and we are confined to it. The supreme reality is far hidden from our eyes. But whatever we can see, hear, sense, feel, think is enough. Because I do agree with the speaker on some points- even if there was nothing we wouldn't have been satisfied, we exist that's all that matters not why not how, we have actually won the cosmic lottery and we get to think live and perceive the world because we have won. Yes everything exists in our mind in our consciousness it's nothing but a trickery, actual simple truth is hidden in plain sight. Yes I am a believer so I gave my point of view. Felt like sharing also to calm my intrusive thoughts. If it helps anyone great. If you stick to atheist or science it's fine. But it is undeniable that science explains little, and it couldn't prove the non existence of God either, there is no harm in believing if the thoughts comfort you. I know how troublesome these thoughts can get. So reining our mind not letting it run wild is the main motto. And my explanations I hope is not just religion but also scientific. The question is futile but our existence is not. We should focus on living. Nihilism and other factors are always going to be there. Whenever we feel what is the point of it all we can remind us how miraculous it is to exist and how lucky we are to win this genetic lottery
help me.. this science thing.. theory of everything, quantum mechanic... wolfram Boltzmann brain, nihilism, well nearly everything.. im drowned in it and existential crisis are consuming me, do you know or at least have some thought on how to gain back all the meaning and purpose that we lost because of..these science truth seeking?
@@male20yearsold ben de tam olarak bu durumdayım. Hayatın hiçbir anlamı olmayacağını düşünüyorum ve bu beni korkutuyor. Albert Camus hayatın anlamsız olduğunu söylüyor. Hayatın anlamsız olmasıyla yaşamaya değer olması arasında farklar olduğunu da belirtiyor.
I believe what we see as the "universe" is just the ceiling of our understanding just as an ant seeing headlights will never understand what headlights are but they can observe it. We observe something that is beyond our intelligence and no amount of studying will ever reveal what it is just like a million years from now an ant will never know what those headlights are and dogs will never know why we bathe them. They experience it but can never understanding the reason behind it. We can never understand the reason behind the universe.
@@male20yearsold I was going through something similar. What helped me was the buddhist view on non-attachment. Which would also mean Non-attachment to our thoughts and our world views. If we are consumed by our thoughts and we run around looking for answers, we will just drive ourselves crazy. The point for me now is just to observe and experience, rather than to constant question. I am not in the most articulate mood today. But, in essence: Non-Attachment
***** Actually it's worse. After explaining the shortcomings of previous attempts to answer the great mystery, he then props up the multiverse theory, which has all of the same problems. The multiverse theory provides an answer to 'why is it this specific way?', but it does nothing to explain why anything exists in the first place.
myAutoGen It's uncomfortably possible that humans will never be able to know the answer to that, it's also possible that logic and reason has no utility at that point, and there is no answer. Think about how humans discovered the big bang. If human civilization had come about 10+ billion years in the future, the cosmic background radiation not only wouldn't be detectable(makes you happy to live in a time and civilization where we can at least learn THAT much), but the exponential expansion of the universe would have made it impossible to even see other stars and galaxies. That civilization might grow up thinking they had the only star in existence, oblivious to all of the wonders of our current universe or it's origins.
Why is everone laughing all the time? This is THE philosophical question, if you go in your room for a few hours, think about meaning of life, death, existance, aynthing, and think about it long enough, you will be struck by this, as in you receive a blow, and suddenly you wonder: Why is there anything at all? It's so weird and mysterious.. And this is super interesting and entertaining on its own, not everything has to be laughed at to be good. I think the guy even added some jokes because the audience clearly wanted it, instead of just trying to understand his deep wonder...
Yes, only a few are disturbed by those questions, I am and it's quite scary as it is a kind of obsession for me, but i've come to realize that maybe we should not question existence... Language has its limits and cannot understand this existence. Imagine if suddenly we had the answer, what will we do about it? It doesn't change anything, we'd still be humans and we'd still be mortals! We feel that we are alive, why question it? Feeling our existence should be our only truth, existential questions should be put aside, and we should just live, like we always did and always will till the end of the human race... to stop questionning our existence would probably reduce the pain of existence, no more god, no more ideals, just a plain truth, this present moment...
SirThomasJames Lately my head has been really fried by the concept that we are all one. I fear having to live all those horrifically painful lives. My fallable human mind can't take it.
Because you can say 'what created it' until the cows come home. But what are cows? And what is home? Most of the things we can see have a beginning, before which they do not exist. Why should the universe be any different? And what is the universe if not 'all that exists'? And before 'all that exists' exists, what can exist besides nothing? So how did nothingness create the first thing? And do things really 'exist' anyways, if they are 99.99~9% empty space and 0.00~1% energy? What even is energy, besides a wavelength, vacillating between +1 and -1?
Ayelis There is no such thing as an empty space and the most objects around us gains its mass by the energy in it and energy is nothing other than excitement of particles.
He did. And he explained why he doesn't know. He answered the question, it just clearly wasn't what the majority of commenters were hoping to hear. Most people seem to have expected an answer other than, "I don't know." It's simply a dissatisfying answer. It seems obvious that people read the question and came to the video expecting some form of answer, and discount that "I don't know" is a completely valid - and I believe the only possible - answer.
@@nollaf126 Nobody really knows how the universe came into being, that is, how something came from nothing. However, a number of physicists have posited theories,. yet unproven. At least give us something.
@@jamesanthony5681 The bigger point is that we are here, talking about this: where did this all came from? The fact that we humans exist, as part of a vast (albeit dwindling) collection of carbon-based life points back to questions like 'why are our universe's physical constants which science has been determining what they are?'. Why is carbon such a badass building block for organic strings?
humans give cause to a universe, we have the self reflecting capabilities to bring about the universe as we see it, which ultimately is the final evolutionary stage nature, ie consciousness
WTF did I just watch? It was so all over the place that it went around full circle and CLICKED. I loved this talk. We are all secretly mediocre. Love it!
Seek the truth with a mind that thinks in 3 minutes and don’t be ignorant cause if you think a little bit, everything have a purpose except us and why we’re here?? just to have fun and grow old drinking beer common!! * There must be a stronger entity and it is not a coincidence. Look what god said and you will know the truth, he said * (( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) See by your self :- God said: 1- ( And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me ) 2- ( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.") 3- ( Indeed, these [disbelievers] love the immediate [ life ] and leave behind them a grave Day.) 4- And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming. 5- (We had certainly brought you the truth, but most of you, to the truth, were averse.) If you reached here and you didn’t believe that’s for you, god said: ( Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah? Then will you not be reminded? ) God may guide you that’s Quran....
@@seethelight657 it's just a joke, i think critically about existence and a lot of other stuff all the time, I actually used to be a very religious muslim I still memorize a lot of the coran, my family are conservative muslims, but after a lot of thought process and research I cane to the conclusion that... Well.. everything is random, given enough time, life will emerge in some way, and that's how we're here, you think that this is far from possible, but think about it, a god is much more complex that the universe that he would make, how did he came to exist in the first place? Also being omnipotent is logically impossible look it up, going back to you thinking it's far from possible, try to do some research it will make more sense then the story of creation, actually random natural selection inspired us humans to create machine learning (witch is the back bone of Artificial intelligence) it's basically making a computer create arbitrary neural networks and putting it into test and the closest ones to an accurate result will be copied and these copies will be changed again in an arbitrary way (there's a lot of math behind that and not all of it is changing but you get the point) then these new "descendants" of the winner are put into test again and the cycle repeats until almost perfection (and this way with no coding, without the person that created it themself knowing how it actually work it just does!). I liked that feild (AI) for a long time in my life and it's probably the thing that made me concider that evolution is plausible after that I slowly started rejecting creationism and seeing it for the stupid nonsense it is
We are not in the universe, we are the universe. We are the universes ability to understand and express itself. Divinity or no divinity, both are possibilities are astonishing in their own way .
Yes, we are part of universe. Universe is created by nothing/blank. So it proved God is nothing/blank. We should pray from blank that we don't know. That is why mysterious exist in the universe.
@@trueuniv4333 We haven't proven that the universe is creating by nothing. We suppose that it might be so. On the other hand, there may be other possibilities that we haven't been able to imagine yet.
Einstein opined, “it would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning-as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
Well said. Reality is primary in relation to its understanding. This applies to both God and man. God does not know everything, but he can know everything that he wants. If he knew everything, then there would be no place for his creative work, but he is a creative person. Moreover, God cannot do absolutely everything, but he can do everything that he wants, because he is blessed God.
iasmasmodai --The proof for God is in the depth of artistry in addition to the functionality of symbiosis systems of energy, life, and chemical reactions. These could not exist together harmoniously without a 3 dimensional designer.
Henry Robinson So far no evidence of god (much less "proof") in any such functionality. Those assertions invariably amount to nothing more than an argument from ignorance, which is why similar claims were made in the past were eventually shown to be misguided.
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If you're smart enough you will realize that you are not smart enough to comprehend, it's like asking a bacteria why it's in a human body, it just doesn't know.
Some foolish men declare that Creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill-advised, and should be rejected. If god created the world, where was he before creation? If you say he was transcendent then, and needed no support, where is he now? No single being had the skill to make the world - for how can an immaterial god create that which is material? How could god have made the world without any raw material? If you say he made this first, and then the world, you are face with an endless regression. If you declare that the raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy, for the whole universe might thus have been its own creator, and have risen equally naturally. If god created the world by an act of will, without any raw material, then it is just his will and nothing else and who will believe this silly stuff? If he is ever perfect, and complete, how could the will to create have arisen in him? If, on the other hand, he is not perfect, he could no more create the universe than a potter could. If he is formless, actionless, and all-embracing, how could he have created the world? Such a soul, devoid of all modality, would have no desire to create anything. If you say that he created to no purpose, because it was his nature to do so then god is pointless. If he created in some kind of sport, it was the sport of a foolish child, leading to trouble. If he created out of love for living things and need of them he made the world; why did he not make creation wholly blissful, free from misfortune? Thus the doctrine that the world was created by god makes no sense at all.
@@V1V2v We are stuck in the time domain, and therefore none of this makes any sense to us. Suffice to say that with how little we understand of the universe, it would be arrogant to assume that there is no God.
andree hammerschmidt Universe's expansion also mentioned in Quran 1400 years ago from a illiterate man whom grew up in a dessert name Muhammed. He is the final messenger from ☝🏾 God after Abraham, Moses (Musa), and Jesus (Isa)
What remains when we strip all possible forms of identifiableness from an object? Is existence a little less existing when that object doesn't exist any longer? Is existence itself only present in identifiable forms? Could being in it's purest form be formless?
So in conclusion, The Universe: either a fragment of or what we “know” As the physical reality. The Multiverse: A Meta Reality containing multiple realities. The Omniverse: The totality of Reality
A major flaw in this presentation: Everything he says hinges on the belief that the human brain is capable of understanding truths about reality beyond the individual brain's subjective experience. This is a dubious belief for anyone who believes the human mind evolved for the sole task of survival which has no necessary connection to understanding objective reality.
Frank Canepa Well if the human mind evolved to exist in an objective reality then wouldn't it be a harmful trait for human's to have not developed to logically interpret reality?
I suppose you would have to argue that our minds evolved to be a part of objectivity. But considering the sole reason for evolution in a naturalist model is adaptability it's hard for me to see why objectivity is a likely outcome.
***** My knowledge of the source of this argument is from Alvin Plantinga, a philosophy professor. Here is a link to a summary of this argument that he did, you may find it more compelling (or not) than my two sentence version: www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_alvin/an_evolutionary_argument_against_naturalism.pdf
Frank Canepa Oh, I'm not arguing that humans have perfectly developed to understand the objective world. I was talking about humans' ability to reason relatively well, and how their subjective experience should reflect objective reality because it would probably be helpful for survival : www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1yp2k0/how_do_we_know_that_our_logic_is_true/
Understanding Creativity and Consciousness is the key, as it seems to me these two elements of human behaviour are not really needed for pure biological evolution and pro creation, they seem added special extras; and if we are a part and reflection of the Universe then unlocking these two mysteries could unlock greater answers. I find it fascinating that their is no real complete understanding of either, just generalized explanations.🙏
This was generally about Quantum Fluctuations, not about creativity or humans in general. Check out some Brian Greene videos on Quantum Physics, it'll blow your mind.
Why assume everything came from nothing? We know things exist. We do not know a thing about non-existence. We don't even know if it is at all possible to have absolute nothingness - no matter, no energy, no time, no dimensions, etc. We have absolutely no clue if such a state is even possible.
I like this, a perpetual state of existence. If you think of time as circular as opposed to linear this makes sense. Thanks for this comment you just open opened my mind even more.
We have not assumed anything. The big bang did bring forth the universe 13.7 billion years ago. By saying that all this is an assumption would be to discredit all the peer-reviewed studies and research done on it.
@Rich There are more people who watch sports whom also play sports, than people who don't watch sports and play sports. By your logic playing sports is how you become healthy. Therefore the people whom watch sports will be more healthier than people whom do not watch sports. Watching sports on TV has encouraged our youth to exercise for decades. Lets say you got rid of all these famous athletes our kids try to emulate. Do you think they would be running every day trying to get better at some sport, or do you think they would be playing video games?
I wish families would get together and play together more. Don't get me wrong teams are cool but family playing together and enjoying each other's company well just my opinion. By the way God is good.
Yes and no. I wouldn't possess the ability to feel unsatisfied in the first place, because there would be no "i". There would be no expectations on anything at all, total freedom from the burdens that comes with existing.
Still there are people that are saying he didnt say anything funny. That's funny and it's a joke. It wasnt meant to be taken literally...guy above this comment
@@grattata4364 You mentioned that you would not possess the ability to... (so on and so on). You are making a claim about what would be true if nothing were true. Where does that claim exist in a reality of nothing?
I love these sorts of talks, we’ve grown so accustomed to people just saying facts instead of leaving us with more questions. And given the choice, I prefer the latter almost every time.
If I am going to watch a content that consists of simply.... a guy talking for 15 minutes straight and by the time his speech/video comes to end..... I would then prefer my knowledge being improved and feel that ever slightly more educated in the subject matter! Of which, I spent the last 15 minutes (out of my 10 waking hours ) processing and make a decision on what to do with the particular information! But, to come away with increased knowledge of the subject matter that was being presented, it goes without saying that, the newly attained information will raise the need for additional intel... This is a natural phenomena that occurs in the human mind. For example, you see an ad on tv of a supermarket promoting it's "Special Discount Week" campaign... Subconciously, in your head you'll say to yourself: " what's on offer" " How much can I save" "Do i have any money to spend" etc etc. The point is any information we view, our minds will always respond with questions!
@@lynnfisher3037 ====== Universe is a first cause event. Something had to start the universe. E=mc2 is testament to that. Since energy and mass are the same thing and interchangeable. Where did the energy for our universe come from, that latter became mass ergo here we are. Even the laws for physics and chemistry came from the big bang, a first cause event. Even the fine tuning of the universe, with its existing and specific sets of individual laws and equations of physics and chemistry, that is right now giving us our current universe with 18 different parameters for each sets of different strengths and weaknesses in particles, like how strong or how weak gravity is, if changed to a millionth of one percent in strength of weaknesses, we wouldn't be here. This is just one of the fine turned laws out of eighteen in our universe that is needed for out EXISTENCE. This is by DESIGN. Not by an accident. === Evolution = Self Assembling Atoms = Impossible =====
The comments and the level of entitlement of some people, dear God. Did you really expect the question the most brilliant minds of this world have pondered about for literally thousands of years to be answered in one youtube video?
@Anita Walczak The answer is in the mind and the conscious of the beholder. Just like you said literally thousands of years perhaps thousands of answers and true ones were given...only if we could understand the answer.
I love how a talk is devoted to a single question, and he does not end up even approaching somewhat sort of even touching upon any semblance of an attempted answer.
@Akshay Sharma humans do not 'create' anything but merely observe , copy and transform up against something...the nothing concept is but a response to it.
Tiger gotta hunt, bird gotta fly. Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why? Tiger gotta rest, bird gotta land. Man gotta think that he understand. -Kurt Vonnegut
@@ImmortalFabrizio above us is the sky, above that is the firmiment, the dome, above that is heaven where God is. the world is flat. there is no space. man as never been to space. nothing can go higher thn low earth orbit. nothing can break through the dome. there are waters above.
@@questioneverything8301 LOL trying to spread disinformation to confuse people to make them not to have real awakening like if with that you'r going to stop the rise in consciousness that's happening hahaha
@@ImmortalFabrizio so you seem like one of those cia agents that get paid by you tube to shill on line and spread lies and disinformation. it is too late though the cat is out the bag. people and woken up and can see the truth with their own eyes. look up you might see the real world we live in also. it is shills, nasa, the government, and you tube that spread the lies and disinfo, not I , and they also supress the truth. but then their empire depends on it.
Seek the truth with a mind that thinks in 3 minutes and don’t be ignorant cause if you think a little bit, everything have a purpose except us and why we’re here?? just to have fun and grow old drinking beer common!! * There must be a stronger entity and it is not a coincidence. Look what god said and you will know the truth, he said * (( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) See by your self :- God said: 1- ( And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me ) 2- ( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.") 3- ( Indeed, these [disbelievers] love the immediate [ life ] and leave behind them a grave Day.) 4- And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming. 5- (We had certainly brought you the truth, but most of you, to the truth, were averse.) If you reached here and you didn’t believe that’s for you, god said: ( Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah? Then will you not be reminded? ) God may guide you that’s Quran....
7:10 I gain immediate respect. I have been waiting so long for someone to shout this from a stage! It feels like I live in a land blind. Keep asking why until you can no longer ask why.
I disagree, what we want is central to how we interpret and perceive our world, if it wasn't important the discussion about the existence of God could have ended long ago...
Nice speech, but a bit misunderstanding of Buddhism and the "vacuity" in the Buddhist language. In fact "vacuity" is not precise translation as the concept itself is difficult to explain even in its original language. Apart from that, very inspiring speech.
Similar "vacuity" also exist in Taoism, but still not the same as the definition in western world. Has to do with some cultural gap and language difference.
Jing Ji - Good point; the view he expresses seems to be based on a misunderstanding (mistranslation...) of the Buddhist notion of emptiness, which specifically does not mean vacuity, and to whatever extent I understand it would better be described as saying that everything lacks independent existence (which is very different than saying that everything lacks existence). Which is not to say that I didn’t appreciate the rest of Holt’s presentation, and I thought his book on the subject was excellent.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein ---we can't solve universe creation problem using universe rules
Time is the mystery. If there is no time then there is no universe, so how time started is really the only questions, and when we know how time started we will know why there is a universe.
@@fivish : When discussing anything scientific one simply explains what is known. It doesn't pretend to have answers to everything like religion does. "I don't know" is a far more honest answer than making up a fairy tale.
@@fivish Because there is no answer to the question of "why". It simply does exist, but humans are constantly trying to assign meaning to things that have no implicit meaning.
@@lrvogt1257 Discussing science most certainly is not a matter of explaining what is known. That's nearly the opposite of science. There is no place for science among things that are already known. (Think of the difference between a lab and a library.) Science is not knowledge, or a set of knowledge, or a collection of what is known. Science is something you do. It's a process of observation, prediction, testing, collecting data, critically evaluating it, and by doing so, generating new, robust, and shareable knowledge. Scientists are obsessed with what we don't know because science is nothing but a systematic method of learning those things we don't know, at least to a significant likelihood. Science needs the unknown - problems & questions - or it has no function.
While trying to answer this question, we mustn't leave out the answers of future generations. The question is ongoing. Meaning that no single answer is the truth. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to find answers. It means that we can never be satisfied with one. The answer to the question is another question. If our motive is to satisfy our need to know, we'll either eventually settle down on a relatively accurate story or suffer tremendously. That's where the Buddha's teaching comes in. I don't know what Buddhists believe in, but his teaching was not about answering the question, finding it to be nothingness. His teaching is about not suffering because of our inabilities and unanswered questions. I still try to do my best to find answers or help others in doing so. The only difference is that I no longer do it because I want to fill my hungry stomach and finally relax. I'm always relaxed.
to act smart, or make others think they are one of the smart ones, this Ted talk is about people pretending to be smart and other people who act like they understand, no offense but it's just a show and shows made to get money, now Adam's ruin everything that's a show i prefer to watch over these.
Lol - I'm glad this comment appeared on top. I couldn't get pass the name-dropping and had to tune out. For an otherwise good speaker, how can he not know how off-putting that habit is?
“Why does something exist rather than nothing?” is answered simply by this equation, “1+0=1.” They both exist simultaneously. You just can’t experience the nothing so it’s a mute point. Imagine a dark room then strike a match in it. The darkness vanishes but it’s still there underneath it all. “Why do we exist?” is the right question. Whether a scientist who believes in evolution or a Buddhist who believes we are one with everything or a Christian who believes we came from one God, we all believe in a same single source. There is no doubt that we all live in our own private Idaho’s. That is to say, we each experience the same Oneness from a different point of view. We are but different incarnations of the same thing. We are made of the the thing which we are experiencing. We think we are separate but we aren’t. The proof of this can be explained many different ways but I prefer the more philosophical proof - there is no way to prove that all of this isn’t just for me and me only and everyone knows this without even having considered it. One last question remains. “Who is it who knows this?” Or more properly worded, “Who are You?” The answer? You are the something. You are the nothing. You are the Everything.
Oh Neo, one day they need to wake up. To things that go beyond science. It is already happening in fact and also in all my life, the thing you gave here is the highest amongst highest realizations one can have. SEPERETENESS = AN ILLUSION. THEREFORE: does not matter what people think WE ALL COME FROM THE SAME SINGLE STREAM OF THE RIVER. It has been said that why everything exists will remain a cosmic secret for ever. Only the fact that many other ET species exist and been known for ohh a very long time. They have higher conciousness then humans, i wonder which species know the most secrets. Namaste lovyyyyy
Truth can be expressed in different ways but will never reach the full truth. Nobody is right and nobody is wrong, the full truth goes beyond words. Beyond death so to say beyond life as we know it.
The Fandom Menace I can see where you are coming from. Calm water is everything with no discernible difference between its constituent parts until a trough pulls the crest into being, stretching the length of the surface into something more than it was. We usually see the crest and ignore the trough when we see a wave however. This is why I called it “0” but “-1” is probably more accurate. This could also be why black holes are surrounded by so much “stuff.” Calm spacetime becomes something more as it gets stretched.
42? BUT WHAT"S THE QUESTION? Nothing is SOMETHING, because it can be named (it has a name and that is something), therefore something always existed. There never was truly Nothing, because there would always have had to be 'something' to compare to, in order to define the concept of 'nothing' in the first place. The statement: "God turned nothing into something" is an impossible sentence, because there cant be "Nothing" simultaneous to there being 'God' (SOMETHING). The most accurate statement of vagueness you could make is: "God turned Something into something else". But if you ask me, that makes the mention of God, or even the thought of God existence, completely and utterly pointless. There is no god because there is no need for god because there was never nothing in the first place so there is no need to invent "something".
Buddhist "nothingness" does not mean vacuity. It's rather disheartening to hear a "learned" person speak so matter-of-factly about Buddhism and be so damn wrong. "Nothing" in Buddhism doesn't mean a vacuum, it means no "thing." "Things" are ideas, concepts, and definitions that we (as conscious humans) apply to the forms and stuff we see and experience in this existence. Buddhism simply reminds people that it's our mind (and its desire to define the world) that tries to break the world into lots of separate parts (things). But it's just our mind that does that. The world outside our mind doesn't have edges and isn't limited by concepts.
It does make very much sense. If it doesn't, please look for the border between You and the External world. Where does an object end and another one start ? Where do You end, and the External World starts ? This is what the mind does, it creates distinctions where there are none. Everything is one, and This is It. All is The One and One is The All.
Because we are all part of the universe a matter exist in the space if some one want to fit him in the equation who has created him is doing terrible mistake he the creator clearly saying he is not equal or comparable to anything or nothing but he is the creator of both ....
His elegance in accepting the fact, after going through a rollercoaster of different possibilities, we still can't come to a conclusion and pulling out the cell phone joke😂>>>>>>>>>>>>
I presume we are allowed to ask as many questions as we like while we're here on this planet. That's kind of intrinsic to being alive and having consciousness. I have been quite preoccupied with both the "why" and the "how" of existence at many times throughout my life. I am very suprised to see in the comments how upset so many people were that Jim asked the question at all and/or didn't provide an answer. I'm quite sure the point of the talk wasn't to announce to the global community that Jim knows the how/why of existence. I, for one, was glad to walk through some of the most prominent theories, dogmas, beliefs with Jim and go over a few strengths and weaknesses. Especially where it pertains to scientific theory. There is an incredibly arrogant culture thriving in some segments of the scientific community, the members of which speak about these kinds of questions in terms such as "we KNOW" - ie. Krauss, Dawkins, Harris, etc. Was nice to hear Jim point out what is obvious to me - that the scientific community actually KNOWS very little about the how/why of the origins of the universe. Scientific theories that are clutched on to too tightly basically become religion.
Just remind when Holt quotes Leibniz; that's probably the source of these comments you wonder about. And I agree with you that science is about to transform into a religion: If you don't believe whats propagated then you're blasphemic...and in case it turns out that your disbelief had reason then the community will tell you that your reasons for your disbelief were not scientific. Nowadays universities are about to become the catholic cathederals of the middle ages, professors are like priests and like Holt quotes: Some questions are not allowed to be asked. And the worst of all: If you want to push an agenda then all you need to do is found some studies and then call them scientific. And once its science, who will dare to doubt it...
@@thomasgroflin9073 that's right, as can be evidenced by almost any science "educator", as Neil deGrasse Tyson famously states "I don't want people to understand science, I want them to *feel* science". Neither should it be too astounding as the modern university system was conjured up by catholic institutions (the Jesuit order, primarily) whose purpose was to study, proliferate and reify religious concepts and beliefs. Eventually, science became part of that equation within catholic institutions, and that hierarchical structure of scholarly pursuit and info dissemination predicates and outlines the development of all later academic institutions. So, unbeknownst to most researchers, they are actually active in evangelizing and indoctrinating the world in their methods and unconscious belief paradigms.
Exactly! "Science" has turned into a religion. The most arrogant claim is that: "we don't know now, but we will in the future." Kinda like the EXCUSE of the "future science of the gaps."
i think not in our dimension. but what if existence is built by layer over layer, and each "awareness" can only percept the matter that makes part of theyr world. now prove me im wrong XD, or that im right. thats impossible too ;)
Samuel Trajano Surely, if that was the case, it wouldn't matter to us? Since it would have nothing to do with our layer of reality? I merely care about the humans in our universe, killing other humans due to their belief in there being a Heaven in our layer of reality. That's a big problem and a fallacy too.
I read his book on this subject and at the end it has the same answer, " We don't know'. Well, thanks Jim from a former NYUMC faculty. I expected more.
Anyone thought of this: What makes you YOU? If you have brothers and sisters, then why are you not one of your other brothers and sisters? Why are you YOU? If your parents would have never met, would YOU still excists in a nother body? Or would you not excist at all? But if YOU would not have excisted at all, then you would have never known about the universe. So by YOU not knowing about the universe at all, then can we say that you never excisted in the universe or did the universe not excist because you never excisted? Basically, if there wouldnt be any life in the whole universe, none would notice the universe can you say that the universe excists if none is there to notice it? You can take this question even further. So there is none to notice the universe. But what about you only knowing about 10.000 people in your whole life and NOT knowing anything about the other 7 billion? Then that means that those 7 billion people dont excist?
"You" is a construct, it's something that that computer in your head decided to call a singular entity when in reality you're a collection of cells, which themselves are a collection of molecules, which are made out of atoms, which are made out of subatomic particles (at least as far as we can tell), (and you are a "cell" of a larger living organism, the earth, even though that concept might sound odd). Your brain simply considers you a singular entity because it's easier for it to process it and distinguish from the environment (newborns don't have that yet for example). What makes you, you is simply convenience, a shortcut your brain has created in order to survive in a non-you environment. There isn't any more "you" than a collection of bricks is a house.
Spliter So do you posit that we are simply biological machines that have learned to cognize the reality that we all share? Or are we holograms of eternal consciousness which has splayed into a myriad of forms, like light through a prism?
Timothy Kelly I dont think that we are "eternal", because just think of things that happened in the world 2 years before your birth. Your parents experienced them. At that very moment they might or might not believed in God and were also Questioning same things as we do. But where were you? You were not in an "eternal" place. You simply were nowhere.
best explanation i heard of how to understand where the universe came from...even what happens when you die...how we are here...all those fun thoughts can be settled with thinking about what you remember before you were born. ever had a deep deep sleep when you wake up and can't remember the dream? simple reason it's all here is there isn't one, the human mind simply can't imagine nothing. it is here, it has been here for a long time and why?...no reason, just is.
Whatever the answer to philosophers' _ultimate_ question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is -and let's face it, the ultimate answer to that question would be "Because."- it can be followed with another, simpler and unanswerable question: *"BUT WHY?"* Just like asking whether there was a god/prime-mover/creator is a futile quest, since we'd be stuck in a chicken-egg loop. "But what/who came before god?" etc... -Why the universe? -Because [X] -But why [X] -Because [Y] ... Primitive human logic at best. Just make the best of it, by figuring out HOW and stop wasting time trying to figure out WHY.
I wouldn't say it is all philosophers ultimate question. It certainly isn't my ultimate question. My ultimate question is of what is the 'best' life if there even is to be one. That is something that can very much effect people physically.
The process of continuously asking why is also a form of answer. You could argue against it by framing it in a more meta point of view. The 'why' of the universe is an infinite regression of infinite causation. Why is there something instead of nothing is because of a "set of infinite whys."
The Moment you ask a question, Why is there something, you have already accepted the fact that there is something and nothing. Our language is a great limitation. In terms of understanding the true nature of reality. That is why Buddha kept quite when asked for the ultimate truth. What is beyond time, space and causation cannot be put in words. Buddha did not say it was nothing, He just kept silence and which is probably the best answer.
Silence can mean many things and is open to interpretation. That is what his lesson was - there is no reason for anything. It's all open to interpretation.
@@assassinaria from our perception we can say that there is no reason for anything and it's all about your Interpretation but we are born into delusion, as Krishna say in the Bhagavid-gita, "All living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by the dualities arising from desire and hate" not knowing our true identity as transcendental reality (consciousness ) we think matter is all there is to reality but out of his mercy God gives us transcendental knowledge to enlighten us.
yes, i was wondering why people are laughing from the things he says that doesnt even nake any sense. he just wasted 17 mins of everyones time with a bunch of nonsense
Too much synchronicity...too much co-ordination....too much Human Life for it to be a Big-Bang co-incident. How is it that our Ecosystem is JUST PERFECT for the sustaining of ''life''.....BY COINCIDENCE??????
I obviously didn't expect to hear the answer to the question from him, but in the end it felt like he spent most of his time, talking about others approaches to answer that question being wrong, while seemingliy being unabled to exactly tell why. Lot's of talking, full of names and numbers, but lacks of actual content.
This is when people inside to not believe God and God's entitlement . Human's nature and brain want tobfind ife's mission because everything has a reason and human also must be.
I have decided that in striving to ascertain a true accounting of the origin of our reality I have ultimately bit off more than I can chew, and so must spit it out. Life is for living, not for understanding.
Nobody can answer why the universe exists, science can only say HOW it has come into existence. Science only deals with how-questions, not intentionality.
Well, you've already ruled out the possibility that everything exists because you've said nobody can answer why the universe exists. If nobody knows the purpose of the universe, then there is no possible way that everything (every possible person) can exist.
panthamor If everything exists, then there must be at least one person who knows why the universe exists. But there is no such person, so we must be in a universe where there is at least some absence of something.
Okay I get it now :) But there's a fault in your logic, How do you know no such person exists? If everything exists, then there will be infinite worlds where such a person that knows why exists, but also, there will be infinite worlds where such a person doesn't exist. So we have no way of knowing to which kind of infinite world we belong. Pheww, this is heavy stuff.
panthamor Okay. I was misled to believe that when Mr. Holt was discussing the world in which everything exists, he was referring to one universe and not many universes.
This question bothered me since I was about 18 years old, to the point of depression, so I chose not to think of it, I kinda found peace in the abstract, philosophical logical/mathematical hypothesis I've came up with.
Silver Mirai I don't ignore them. These type of questions about existence can only possibly answered under certain conditions such as believing in an almighty deity. However, as we are now well into the 21st century with sience providing us with all kind of evidence about how the creation of the universe really went, the so called ''why-questions'' become superfluous.
robby12320 Naive. Oh how naive, I don't even feel the need to explain. But whatever, I'll give you a sense of the things I'm thinking. There is evidence supporting the big bang theory, such as the newly discovered radiations from the explosion and rapid expansion of the universe, that supposedly broke the light speed. Even so, if that was true, that is not even close to answering my questions. How did the explosion came to be, if dense matter like that can explode outside of time, why aren't things exploding all the time, are there other universes.Why did the dense matter even existed, who made it, who put it there, and if someone or something put it there, who made the someone who put the matter there in the first place. Something had to exist eternally or nothing at all, in that case we wouldn't reach the current present if there is infinity of time towards the past. There are many things that do not make sense. These questions of existence don't matter for most people. As if I would bring a robot with consciousness into this world not giving it any information about his creation, and it would accept the reality as it is, not questing how is it even aware, alive, what consciousness even is. Some things off the top of my head not even structured in a presentable way, I just got tired of presenting these notions to people who can't comprehend them, perhaps I should give up explaining. Editing my thoughts in a way that people can more easily understand. In the end to realize they haven't understand the idea itself. If something created something, what created first thing in the place, and if something always existed, we should not exist in the first place. Because time would be irrelevant.
Surely there’s a scientific “why”? If I ask why the earth exists, the answer is that gravity brought together space dust and rocks and it eventually left a planet. If I ask why do humans exist, the answer evolution over millions of years.
So why are u here? Why do u have a worldview? Why is there something and not nothing? Why does the universe conform to a language Galileo described as advanced mathematics? Or must u believe mindless matter is the only game in town?
@John connor No, it's not the end of story. It's just you who stop asking questions when the word God comes up, because you think that it's a sin to doubt Him. And in a way you are right since science and religion can't co-exist. But there's no doubt wich one of the two things that fear the other. Science has never burned anyone for questioning a ready made answer, but religion has and it does.
try to learn something from that: its the same with the universe - a waste of time. furthermore you can spot some very important names in his speech: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arthur Schopenhauer, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - there philosphical legacy is really worth studying, if you are into such things. cheers (:
He could have just said: "Hello everyone. We don't know why the universe exists, and we probably never will. Thank you".
I guess we were given this answer but some of us are refusing to accept it
Why does he assume Jesus is not perfect?
GOD
@@theawakening2946 Even if an Almighty God created the universe, the question remains as to 'why' it exists and why such a being created it. The question is 'why', not 'who' or 'what' created it.
@@johnbarry8553 he doesn't exist in the first place
When you are watching these types of videos, its really the time to sleep
i watch them to get sleepy :D
You're probably right. I've been scaring myself looking up asteroids hitting Earth all night.
@@andymoore9892 haha don't worry. if one is heading towards earth we will see it months before and we could probably do something..well there's a chance we miss it but i don't think so. and if so..who cares? wouldn't be the worst thing for planet earth if it got rid of us :D
thank you
Andy Moore That just means you were watching JRE before this.
I remember being 7 years old, sitting on the steps of my front door, and blowing my mind trying to imagine nothingness.
It happened to me when I was about 7 as well, but i grew up and read the holy Qoran and it cleared up the mystery.
@@hshf.6292 brain washed is another word for it I guess
@@hshf.6292 I read the Holy Donald Duck, but it was The Prophet Scrooge McDuck than answered all my questions.
@@johnhough7738 good for you.
I remember doing the same thing at about the same age. What is a mystery is why a young kid would try to do this, it maybe seemed like an interesting diversion at the time maybe, or maybe it says something about our nature that a 7 year old would delve into it sort of like a temptation brought own by existence itself.
The only solution I have come about is just that, as we go about in a dream accepting logic that does not make any sense, we are blocked by some sort of mechanism now, that our logical structures are not built to answer this question, and maybe if the afterlife exists we will understand it later it will all make sense, and will be simple to us.
i think the same
i think our minds aren’t made to understand
You are living your millionth afterlife right now
what about lucid dreams?
Advaita Vedanta, a philosophical school within Hinduism, has been articulated for over 5,000 years.
Advaita Veda prove that this life is an illusion.
Quantum Nobel physicist Schrödinger has read the Advaita Veda and talked about it
To all people who are spamming in comments "spoiler, he doesn't say the answer": you didn't think you'd find the answer to this in the video on YT, did you?
Exactly.. people want easy answers...
. That's the reason that non sense like religion has taken over the world..
@@sarans96 yes they are pure idiots. See religion could actually be true. But the type of religion we have is purely stupid. God might exist but Jesus, Hindu gods, Allah all this is pure idiot.Maybe reality doesn't exist at all.
@@lc1777 Reality does exist. "I think therefore I am." That's the only thing we know. We know that we exist, and that is our reality. As to the fundamental reality of the universe, that's a different story...
Also, what do you mean when you say "religion could actually be true?"
@@littlewhitebutterflies4586 see I am a atheist myself. And to me physics has given better explanation of our existence instead of any religion.But what if God really exist? Or maybe we are created by a advanced civilization?. But I still doubt that we are living in an reality. Because we just are to timid to understand it. Our theory is That time started with big bang. But I ask then what was between big bang. Big bang wouldn't just happen by itself it needs a push . It needs a force to happen. And why can't time be before big bang. It would still be there but meaningless. Just like our end of universe will be like that. Its so fascinating
@@lc1777 I assume you mean traditional religion, because using physics to draw conclusions about metaphysical phenomena is also in a way a religion. Ultimately some questions can never be answered by science, and we must make our own choices based on personal belief.
Well ultimately, what is reality? What is our universe made of? It' not made of molecules, atoms, quantum fields, or even spacetime... It's made of information. And it turns out that it doesn't matter what stores that information, whether it's stored in some supercomputer, the relative distances between molecules in a gas cloud, or imprinted on the surface of a blackhole, as long as that information exists, so do we and our reality. So maybe there is another reality imposed ON TOP of our reality, but our reality exists nonetheless...our reality is our subjective experience, which we know to exist.
Also yes, physics is cool ^^
This guy is talking exactly what I think when I’m stoned.
Me too homie
Pass that blunt over here dude
I swear I’ve tried explaining nothingness to my homies at least a dozen times when we’re high, not sure if its too complex, if my stoned self is just incomprehensible or maybe both
Shaun Bishop in Germany you are considered an Ehrenmann, google it. Safe bro
@Shaun Bishop most people do this when high on weed and hallucinogens
I feel like watching speeches improves your vocabulary and overall your speaking
only if you go speak and fail and speak and fail and so on. lot of success in that
They also have subs in many different languages!
Here the new words I learned in this TED Talk: Purported, Thrall, Variegated, Clout, Ontic, Encompasses, Pious, Coupling, Crummy, Deity, Frothing, Wag.
@@FallenLight0 nice
me not
I tried explaining this to my dog, she just looked at me like 'yeah, are we going to the park or not?'
Your dog is in the now 🦴🐶🙏🏻
Advaita Vedanta, a philosophical school within Hinduism, has been articulated for over 5,000 years.
Advaita Veda prove that this life is an illusion.
Quantum Nobel physicist Schrödinger has read the Advaita Veda and talked about it
Your dog speaks english?
@@DrewfromLex Doesn't speak but understands
This 17 minute video is the longest "I don't know" I've ever seen
There is no necessity to ask the question,” Why does anything exist?”
Intellectuals...
Ah i found right comment to describe what i feel
Did you expect him to solve the meaning of the universe? lol
Welcome to Philosophy
Universe: *exists*
Humans: "Why you gotta do us like that!?"
@Brad Watson why do I understand this.......thats absolutely absolutely astonishingly familiar to be correct.. but how do we get to the next level
😂 😂 😂
(God’s Signs 🪧)
God said it first in the “Quran” before 1400 years for disbelievers.
{ And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.}
“This verse talking about Space expansion”
Also, another one…
{ Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe? }
“This verse talking about the Big Bang”
{ So are you a Thinker ? }
No way we can know what existed before nothing ..
@@seethelight657
Thanks for this insight Brother.
With all the open questions left, this talk was deeply satisfying.
I wanna hear him talk more
Odly satisfying to think about while also filling me with extreme amounts of existential dread all at the same time
Excellent presentation. Hilarious and entertaining 🤣 I can't get enough.
Some people are satisfied to ask questions and to wonder. It's all we can do with questions like these. If you think you know the answers it just proves you're stupid lol
@@stratosphere2323 yes. It can. Your just having trouble picturing it in your head. Your brain can't comprehend something it's never seen. But let me ask you this to help you see it... What was it like for the billions of years before you were born?
Yes, this question has haunted me a lot. Why something instead of nothing? And after extensively thinking about it, I realised it's a futile cause. Yes, we are humans and our brain is constantly thinking. But not always all thoughts are fruitful. We know very little about consciousness, we don't even know what we are trying to find. So asking why and how is just a search of needle in a haystack. And moreover the needle might not be even there. People have thought their entire lives and got no answer. If we take scientific and atheist view we do not have a plausible explanation. I beg to differ from the speaker in here. Buddhism doesn't advocate that nothingness is world. It is rather that it says the world is an illusion, a maya, root of all our suffering. To ease the suffering, Buddhism asks us to go beyond the worldly afflictions. But one who is living can very well choose to live in Maya. Eternal peace or Nirvana is a joyful feeling that if discovered is even better than life. Not death. Peaceful existence. Now coming to the ontological argument. The speaker said it is a bad argument but I beg to differ. Why? Ontological argument says that the supreme being exists because one of us has to be supreme. I mean why not? If there are all pencils, one will be bigger than others, even if it's all same, patterns do break. Okay maybe not the best arguments. The cosmological argument comes into picture. If something happens it always has a cause. Meaningless life is not what we live. It's cause and effect. If there is a watch there is a watchmaker, and if questions arise who made the watchmaker? Well nothingness would have been better? Then we would not have had this conversation in the first place. In Hinduism it is said actually we all are one not different. One soul. One being. One universe. Then it broke (scientifically big bang) and other atoms and participles were created. God is never bored or has questions where he came from. Because primeval energy or universe always existed. We are conscious of reality is the proof in itself. The universe is aware that it exists. And hence it does not question why and how because existence in itself is beautiful. If you say why god broke into so many participles, because he wanted to play. All of it is a game. He is aware also unaware. He is concerned also unconcerned. So yes we exist because he exists, he exists because nothingness is not the truth. Supreme reality is meant to exist. And non existence is a lie. When we die we return as matter of energy. After all we are bundles of energy and we return back to the universe where we came from who knows the greater scheme of things? God doesn't have be even called god or doesn't even have to be human form it's an infinite source of energy which could create anything and everything out of nothing. Even himself. Because he willed so. And when you yourself are the universe manifestation is very much possible. And this beautiful world is not mediocre. It's elegant. Every creation has its scars. Death, decay, imperfection, struggle, pain all of it is a part which makes life up. Reality is a very small box and we are confined to it. The supreme reality is far hidden from our eyes. But whatever we can see, hear, sense, feel, think is enough. Because I do agree with the speaker on some points- even if there was nothing we wouldn't have been satisfied, we exist that's all that matters not why not how, we have actually won the cosmic lottery and we get to think live and perceive the world because we have won. Yes everything exists in our mind in our consciousness it's nothing but a trickery, actual simple truth is hidden in plain sight. Yes I am a believer so I gave my point of view. Felt like sharing also to calm my intrusive thoughts. If it helps anyone great. If you stick to atheist or science it's fine. But it is undeniable that science explains little, and it couldn't prove the non existence of God either, there is no harm in believing if the thoughts comfort you. I know how troublesome these thoughts can get. So reining our mind not letting it run wild is the main motto. And my explanations I hope is not just religion but also scientific. The question is futile but our existence is not. We should focus on living. Nihilism and other factors are always going to be there. Whenever we feel what is the point of it all we can remind us how miraculous it is to exist and how lucky we are to win this genetic lottery
jesus christ you are pretentious
help me.. this science thing.. theory of everything, quantum mechanic... wolfram Boltzmann brain, nihilism, well nearly everything.. im drowned in it and existential crisis are consuming me, do you know or at least have some thought on how to gain back all the meaning and purpose that we lost because of..these science truth seeking?
@@male20yearsold ben de tam olarak bu durumdayım. Hayatın hiçbir anlamı olmayacağını düşünüyorum ve bu beni korkutuyor. Albert Camus hayatın anlamsız olduğunu söylüyor. Hayatın anlamsız olmasıyla yaşamaya değer olması arasında farklar olduğunu da belirtiyor.
I believe what we see as the "universe" is just the ceiling of our understanding just as an ant seeing headlights will never understand what headlights are but they can observe it. We observe something that is beyond our intelligence and no amount of studying will ever reveal what it is just like a million years from now an ant will never know what those headlights are and dogs will never know why we bathe them. They experience it but can never understanding the reason behind it. We can never understand the reason behind the universe.
@@male20yearsold I was going through something similar. What helped me was the buddhist view on non-attachment. Which would also mean Non-attachment to our thoughts and our world views. If we are consumed by our thoughts and we run around looking for answers, we will just drive ourselves crazy. The point for me now is just to observe and experience, rather than to constant question. I am not in the most articulate mood today. But, in essence: Non-Attachment
Spoiler alert: He never says anything about why things exist.
***** There is no requirement of a why for existence. There is clearly a how.
mastertheillusion
First off that's the same thing. Second, the title of this video says why.
***** He doesn't has the answer, just loose talk.
***** Actually it's worse. After explaining the shortcomings of previous attempts to answer the great mystery, he then props up the multiverse theory, which has all of the same problems. The multiverse theory provides an answer to 'why is it this specific way?', but it does nothing to explain why anything exists in the first place.
myAutoGen It's uncomfortably possible that humans will never be able to know the answer to that, it's also possible that logic and reason has no utility at that point, and there is no answer.
Think about how humans discovered the big bang. If human civilization had come about 10+ billion years in the future, the cosmic background radiation not only wouldn't be detectable(makes you happy to live in a time and civilization where we can at least learn THAT much), but the exponential expansion of the universe would have made it impossible to even see other stars and galaxies. That civilization might grow up thinking they had the only star in existence, oblivious to all of the wonders of our current universe or it's origins.
Why is everone laughing all the time? This is THE philosophical question, if you go in your room for a few hours, think about meaning of life, death, existance, aynthing, and think about it long enough, you will be struck by this, as in you receive a blow, and suddenly you wonder: Why is there anything at all? It's so weird and mysterious.. And this is super interesting and entertaining on its own, not everything has to be laughed at to be good. I think the guy even added some jokes because the audience clearly wanted it, instead of just trying to understand his deep wonder...
Yes, only a few are disturbed by those questions, I am and it's quite scary as it is a kind of obsession for me, but i've come to realize that maybe we should not question existence... Language has its limits and cannot understand this existence. Imagine if suddenly we had the answer, what will we do about it? It doesn't change anything, we'd still be humans and we'd still be mortals! We feel that we are alive, why question it? Feeling our existence should be our only truth, existential questions should be put aside, and we should just live, like we always did and always will till the end of the human race... to stop questionning our existence would probably reduce the pain of existence, no more god, no more ideals, just a plain truth, this present moment...
SirThomasJames Lately my head has been really fried by the concept that we are all one. I fear having to live all those horrifically painful lives. My fallable human mind can't take it.
SirThomasJames why shouldn't be something rather than nothing???
Because you can say 'what created it' until the cows come home. But what are cows? And what is home? Most of the things we can see have a beginning, before which they do not exist. Why should the universe be any different? And what is the universe if not 'all that exists'? And before 'all that exists' exists, what can exist besides nothing? So how did nothingness create the first thing? And do things really 'exist' anyways, if they are 99.99~9% empty space and 0.00~1% energy? What even is energy, besides a wavelength, vacillating between +1 and -1?
Ayelis There is no such thing as an empty space and the most objects around us gains its mass by the energy in it and energy is nothing other than excitement of particles.
He could have just said he doesn’t know.
He did. And he explained why he doesn't know. He answered the question, it just clearly wasn't what the majority of commenters were hoping to hear. Most people seem to have expected an answer other than, "I don't know." It's simply a dissatisfying answer. It seems obvious that people read the question and came to the video expecting some form of answer, and discount that "I don't know" is a completely valid - and I believe the only possible - answer.
@@nollaf126 Nobody really knows how the universe came into being, that is, how something came from nothing. However, a number of physicists have posited theories,. yet unproven. At least give us something.
@@jamesanthony5681 The bigger point is that we are here, talking about this: where did this all came from? The fact that we humans exist, as part of a vast (albeit dwindling) collection of carbon-based life points back to questions like 'why are our universe's physical constants which science has been determining what they are?'. Why is carbon such a badass building block for organic strings?
humans give cause to a universe, we have the self reflecting capabilities to bring about the universe as we see it, which ultimately is the final evolutionary stage nature, ie consciousness
no such thing as experiencing nothing.
also it should be no thing as nothing by itself can exist
WTF did I just watch? It was so all over the place that it went around full circle and CLICKED. I loved this talk. We are all secretly mediocre. Love it!
No one:
Universe: exists.
Me in the future but also in the present at the time of my death: *am I a joke to you?*
None of you 11 year olds are funny
@@harryferrett9420 you must be very humourous then :)
This is the perfect use of this joke.
@@harryferrett9420 you're 12 year old, that's pretty good for a duck
If we are part of the universe, thinking about how it works it's like the universe studying itself.
Your statement is so altering in terms of way of thinking...
Thanks..
You studying biology is a group of cells trying to understand itself
you are the universe experiencing itself
You are Creator experiencing Your Own Creation
exactly you got this...... we are the universe experiencing itself through human form,
The universe: **exists**
Philosophers: *hmm..*
@@joshualaird6167 it's okay for two people to have the same name on RUclips
There is a relatively big channel named Jesus Christ
@@whytho9350 those are not the real nicknames, the names that shows up on the comments are like a "mask"
RUclips: *exists*
Commenters: hmmm
Seek the truth with a mind that thinks in 3 minutes and don’t be ignorant cause if you think a little bit, everything have a purpose except us and why we’re here?? just to have fun and grow old drinking beer common!!
* There must be a stronger entity and it is not a coincidence. Look what god said and you will know the truth, he said
* (( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?)
See by your self :-
God said:
1- ( And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me )
2- ( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.")
3- ( Indeed, these [disbelievers] love the immediate [ life ] and leave behind them a grave Day.)
4- And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming.
5- (We had certainly brought you the truth, but most of you, to the truth, were averse.)
If you reached here and you didn’t believe that’s for you, god said:
( Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah? Then will you not be reminded? )
God may guide you that’s Quran....
@@seethelight657 it's just a joke, i think critically about existence and a lot of other stuff all the time, I actually used to be a very religious muslim I still memorize a lot of the coran, my family are conservative muslims, but after a lot of thought process and research I cane to the conclusion that... Well.. everything is random, given enough time, life will emerge in some way, and that's how we're here, you think that this is far from possible, but think about it, a god is much more complex that the universe that he would make, how did he came to exist in the first place? Also being omnipotent is logically impossible look it up, going back to you thinking it's far from possible, try to do some research it will make more sense then the story of creation, actually random natural selection inspired us humans to create machine learning (witch is the back bone of Artificial intelligence) it's basically making a computer create arbitrary neural networks and putting it into test and the closest ones to an accurate result will be copied and these copies will be changed again in an arbitrary way (there's a lot of math behind that and not all of it is changing but you get the point) then these new "descendants" of the winner are put into test again and the cycle repeats until almost perfection (and this way with no coding, without the person that created it themself knowing how it actually work it just does!). I liked that feild (AI) for a long time in my life and it's probably the thing that made me concider that evolution is plausible after that I slowly started rejecting creationism and seeing it for the stupid nonsense it is
We are not in the universe, we are the universe. We are the universes ability to understand and express itself.
Divinity or no divinity, both are possibilities are astonishing in their own way .
Yes, I agree ... we are one of the brains of the universe. It may have other thinking centres, too, but we haven't come across them yet.
Yes, we are part of universe. Universe is created by nothing/blank. So it proved God is nothing/blank. We should pray from blank that we don't know. That is why mysterious exist in the universe.
Shankaracharya?
@@tracesprite6078 Another way to put it, the universe only exists because of us.
@@trueuniv4333 We haven't proven that the universe is creating by nothing. We suppose that it might be so. On the other hand, there may be other possibilities that we haven't been able to imagine yet.
Einstein opined, “it would be possible to describe everything
scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description
without meaning-as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation
of wave pressure.”
Well said. Reality is primary in relation to its understanding. This applies to both God and man. God does not know everything, but he can know everything that he wants. If he knew everything, then there would be no place for his creative work, but he is a creative person. Moreover, God cannot do absolutely everything, but he can do everything that he wants, because he is blessed God.
Got any proof your god exists outside of your skull?
iasmasmodai --The proof for God is in the depth of artistry in addition to the functionality of symbiosis systems of energy, life, and chemical reactions. These could not exist together harmoniously without a 3 dimensional designer.
Uh, no.
Henry Robinson So far no evidence of god (much less "proof") in any such functionality. Those assertions invariably amount to nothing more than an argument from ignorance, which is why similar claims were made in the past were eventually shown to be misguided.
when the essay has a word limit so you stretch 'we don't know' to over 17 minutes
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If you're smart enough you will realize that you are not smart enough to comprehend, it's like asking a bacteria why it's in a human body, it just doesn't know.
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"Never in my life have i had a cell phone", totally more astonishing than the answer to the universe.
@Brad Watson 😳😳😳
Not necessarily, you can use an iPad to do pretty much anything a cell phone does.
Some foolish men declare that Creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill-advised, and should be rejected. If god created the world, where was he before creation? If you say he was transcendent then, and needed no support, where is he now?
No single being had the skill to make the world - for how can an immaterial god create that which is material? How could god have made the world without any raw material? If you say he made this first, and then the world, you are face with an endless regression. If you declare that the raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy, for the whole universe might thus have been its own creator, and have risen equally naturally. If god created the world by an act of will, without any raw material, then it is just his will and nothing else and who will believe this silly stuff?
If he is ever perfect, and complete, how could the will to create have arisen in him? If, on the other hand, he is not perfect, he could no more create the universe than a potter could. If he is formless, actionless, and all-embracing, how could he have created the world? Such a soul, devoid of all modality, would have no desire to create anything. If you say that he created to no purpose, because it was his nature to do so then god is pointless.
If he created in some kind of sport, it was the sport of a foolish child, leading to trouble. If he created out of love for living things and need of them he made the world; why did he not make creation wholly blissful, free from misfortune? Thus the doctrine that the world was created by god makes no sense at all.
@@V1V2v We are stuck in the time domain, and therefore none of this makes any sense to us. Suffice to say that with how little we understand of the universe, it would be arrogant to assume that there is no God.
It does explain how he still doesn't know why we exist. ;)
I was just thinking these thoughts this morning. Strange that this video showed up in the search engine because I didn't type it in or look for it.
I come to this side of RUclips when I want to procrastinate but not feel like I'm procrastinating.
Same 😂
I try to put off procrastinating for later
Ha ha ha I do when I want to fall asleep very effective
Yes, I used to be indecisive about procrastinating but now I'm just not sure.
@@captainwill3796 ha ha ha
I think of this question sometimes and the more you embrace it the trippier it gets
trust Jesus , call on him and he will answer
I shall call myself a fool for thinking I can find the answer on RUclips........
It's all over youtube - hang on in there...
you are a fool! if you think, you can find some definitive answer. humans have not evolved enough to have answers to such tings yet.
+Gam3B0y The day we do we probably aren't in human form anymore...
andree hammerschmidt Universe's expansion also mentioned in Quran 1400 years ago from a illiterate man whom grew up in a dessert name Muhammed.
He is the final messenger from ☝🏾 God after Abraham, Moses (Musa), and Jesus (Isa)
The Quran is the Answer! "I'm No telling you to become muslim" ... Just Read the quran and u will get it.
This talk gets better every year like a good wine?
Knowledge about the lack of knowledge is still useful to know.
Ciertamente, tal como la teoría de lo incompleto de Gödel demuestra.
KnowledgeSeeker Perhaps you prefer to see it as a simulation because you don't sit well with the real one
Consciousness of all consciousness is conscious
"Awareness is known by awareness alone," is the sole irreducible axiom of reality. To put forth a syllable to the contrary is but to concede.
that is quite a remark bret. curious: is this a quote from someone? I think your comment is excellent.
Indeed... Precisely explained.
Plot twist: This ted talk is actually a metaphor of the universe symbolizing that it exists just to exist, serving for nothing, just like this talk.
I have a cell phone.
That's sad asf
@@justsam7919 is that a meme or a joke q vine cuz i dont get ur comment
He is trying to prove his existence .
@@ASTROALL he thinks, therefore he is
What remains when we strip all possible forms of identifiableness from an object? Is existence a little less existing when that object doesn't exist any longer? Is existence itself only present in identifiable forms? Could being in it's purest form be formless?
No one:
“Why does the Universe exist?”
Audience: *immediately laughs*
So in conclusion,
The Universe: either a fragment of or what we “know” As the physical reality.
The Multiverse: A Meta Reality containing multiple realities.
The Omniverse: The totality of Reality
Gabe Saravia it’s so cool tbh...
I’m glad you think that way
and the universe responds: Am I a joke to you??
Can someone explain ?? I don’t understand why it makes people laugh /:
A major flaw in this presentation: Everything he says hinges on the belief that the human brain is capable of understanding truths about reality beyond the individual brain's subjective experience. This is a dubious belief for anyone who believes the human mind evolved for the sole task of survival which has no necessary connection to understanding objective reality.
Frank Canepa Well if the human mind evolved to exist in an objective reality then wouldn't it be a harmful trait for human's to have not developed to logically interpret reality?
I suppose you would have to argue that our minds evolved to be a part of objectivity. But considering the sole reason for evolution in a naturalist model is adaptability it's hard for me to see why objectivity is a likely outcome.
Edit: adaptability in terms of survival and reproductive I mean.
***** My knowledge of the source of this argument is from Alvin Plantinga, a philosophy professor. Here is a link to a summary of this argument that he did, you may find it more compelling (or not) than my two sentence version: www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_alvin/an_evolutionary_argument_against_naturalism.pdf
Frank Canepa Oh, I'm not arguing that humans have perfectly developed to understand the objective world. I was talking about humans' ability to reason relatively well, and how their subjective experience should reflect objective reality because it would probably be helpful for survival : www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1yp2k0/how_do_we_know_that_our_logic_is_true/
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.
At least credit that quote.
@@its_just_roberto www.brainyquote.com/quotes/neil_degrasse_tyson_800277
@@its_just_roberto my humblest apologies. It was Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Neil McMahon same with God.
Nothing is under that obligation, but through study we have figured tons of stuff out.
Understanding Creativity and Consciousness is the key, as it seems to me these two elements of human behaviour are not really needed for pure biological evolution and pro creation, they seem added special extras; and if we are a part and reflection of the Universe then unlocking these two mysteries could unlock greater answers. I find it fascinating that their is no real complete understanding of either, just generalized explanations.🙏
Exactly.Yes.There is definitely something.
They were needed, otherwise we wouldn't have had them.
This was generally about Quantum Fluctuations, not about creativity or humans in general. Check out some Brian Greene videos on Quantum Physics, it'll blow your mind.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Beautiful ❤️
Why assume everything came from nothing? We know things exist. We do not know a thing about non-existence. We don't even know if it is at all possible to have absolute nothingness - no matter, no energy, no time, no dimensions, etc. We have absolutely no clue if such a state is even possible.
Interesting thoughts
I like this, a perpetual state of existence. If you think of time as circular as opposed to linear this makes sense. Thanks for this comment you just open opened my mind even more.
you mean existence don't need to have a beginning? thats a lot harder to comprehend compare to non-existence
Of course it is, but I think that's because our minds are so wired to think that everything has a beginning that it's difficult to imagine otherwise.
We have not assumed anything. The big bang did bring forth the universe 13.7 billion years ago. By saying that all this is an assumption would be to discredit all the peer-reviewed studies and research done on it.
I can beat his last statement. I'm a 65 year old American male and "Never in my life have I EVER watched a football game." Thank you!
Man of good taste, twenty two years going strong on my end
@Rich There are more people who watch sports whom also play sports, than people who don't watch sports and play sports. By your logic playing sports is how you become healthy. Therefore the people whom watch sports will be more healthier than people whom do not watch sports. Watching sports on TV has encouraged our youth to exercise for decades. Lets say you got rid of all these famous athletes our kids try to emulate. Do you think they would be running every day trying to get better at some sport, or do you think they would be playing video games?
@@brian7897 Well said, Brian. Funny how people can so easily judge what they do not understand.
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I wish families would get together and play together more. Don't get me wrong teams are cool but family playing together and enjoying each other's company well just my opinion. By the way God is good.
The universe was made in China.
Good one xD
Ikea made the planets
Black Hole That explains all the glitches.
*Since ancient time.
Then it will definitely fall apart.
Truly fascinating. How can he live without owning a cell phone?
It should be isolated and studied, immediately- shaved a sterilized until we understand.
In the same way that humans lived without them for almost all of human history.
Yeah, all the things you can do with a cell phone nowadays. You make it pretty hard on yourself, but I respect the willpower.
A millennial, living a "mediocre" life, I would argue has experienced as much positivity as negativity from a cell phone.
----"Why is there something rather than nothing? "
----"Oh, even if there was nothing, you still wouldn't be satisfied."
Yes and no. I wouldn't possess the ability to feel unsatisfied in the first place, because there would be no "i". There would be no expectations on anything at all, total freedom from the burdens that comes with existing.
Still there are people that are saying he didnt say anything funny. That's funny and it's a joke. It wasnt meant to be taken literally...guy above this comment
@@lukemcguire6363 Yeah my bad, sorry for being a thickhead
@@grattata4364 You mentioned that you would not possess the ability to... (so on and so on). You are making a claim about what would be true if nothing were true. Where does that claim exist in a reality of nothing?
@@kodyamour6330 It's purely my own assumption based on the human concept of what true nothingness would mean.
Maybe a universe will spring from this talk.
"Oh.even if there was nothing you still wouldn't be satisfied." That's me
Shanay- If there was nothing you would not exist so you would never know that you would not be satisified.
Stick with it till the end it’s quite good!
I love these sorts of talks, we’ve grown so accustomed to people just saying facts instead of leaving us with more questions. And given the choice, I prefer the latter almost every time.
If I am going to watch a content that consists of simply....
a guy talking for 15 minutes straight and by the time his speech/video comes to end.....
I would then prefer my knowledge being improved and feel that ever slightly more educated in the subject matter!
Of which, I spent the last 15 minutes (out of my 10 waking hours ) processing and make a decision on what to do with the particular information!
But, to come away with increased knowledge of the subject matter that was being presented, it goes without saying that, the newly attained information will raise the need for additional intel... This is a natural phenomena that occurs in the human mind.
For example, you see an ad on tv of a supermarket promoting it's "Special Discount Week" campaign... Subconciously, in your head you'll say to yourself: " what's on offer"
" How much can I save" "Do i have any money to spend" etc etc.
The point is any information we view, our minds will always respond with questions!
Name just ONE fact if matter does not exist. You can't
@@originalunoriginal4055 aaaaaaaaa
@@lynnfisher3037 ====== Universe is a first cause event. Something had to start the universe. E=mc2 is testament to that. Since energy and mass are the same thing and interchangeable. Where did the energy for our universe come from, that latter became mass ergo here we are. Even the laws for physics and chemistry came from the big bang, a first cause event. Even the fine tuning of the universe, with its existing and specific sets of individual laws and equations of physics and chemistry, that is right now giving us our current universe with 18 different parameters for each sets of different strengths and weaknesses in particles, like how strong or how weak gravity is, if changed to a millionth of one percent in strength of weaknesses, we wouldn't be here. This is just one of the fine turned laws out of eighteen in our universe that is needed for out EXISTENCE. This is by DESIGN. Not by an accident. === Evolution = Self Assembling Atoms = Impossible =====
Yes, we need more questions and less answers.
The comments and the level of entitlement of some people, dear God. Did you really expect the question the most brilliant minds of this world have pondered about for literally thousands of years to be answered in one youtube video?
i haven't even made it half way through the vid. thanks for the spolier, without the alert!
@Anita Walczak The answer is in the mind and the conscious of the beholder. Just like you said literally thousands of years perhaps thousands of answers and true ones were given...only if we could understand the answer.
@Rich very, very true.
VERY FUNNY! Have you seen this? ruclips.net/video/QmIc42oRjm8/видео.html The Privileged Planet... Here is the answer to the WHY
He wasn’t so brilliant. He didn’t even conclude with his opinion! Epitome of laziness!
I love how a talk is devoted to a single question, and he does not end up even approaching somewhat sort of even touching upon any semblance of an attempted answer.
I think this is the fastest anyone has ever captured the audience's attention in an opening line
"Nothing" might be a concept made up by the human mind.
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@Akshay Sharma humans do not 'create' anything but merely observe , copy and transform up against something...the nothing concept
is but a response to it.
@UCXIVWlWgMEtYifoX7Y9-1_w get the f*ck outta here
@Akshay Sharma Wouldn't you say that ALL concepts are created by humans?
@@ericscaillet2232 Interesting idea. But I'll ask whether observations, copies and transformations are "created."
Tiger gotta hunt, bird gotta fly.
Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why?
Tiger gotta rest, bird gotta land.
Man gotta think that he understand.
-Kurt Vonnegut
simple answer. there is no universe, it doesnt excist.
@@questioneverything8301 If it doesn't exist you'r saying the nothing exist, and nothing by definition is nothing.
@@ImmortalFabrizio above us is the sky, above that is the firmiment, the dome, above that is heaven where God is. the world is flat. there is no space. man as never been to space. nothing can go higher thn low earth orbit. nothing can break through the dome. there are waters above.
@@questioneverything8301 LOL trying to spread disinformation to confuse people to make them not to have real awakening like if with that you'r going to stop the rise in consciousness that's happening hahaha
@@ImmortalFabrizio so you seem like one of those cia agents that get paid by you tube to shill on line and spread lies and disinformation. it is too late though the cat is out the bag. people and woken up and can see the truth with their own eyes. look up you might see the real world we live in also. it is shills, nasa, the government, and you tube that spread the lies and disinfo, not I , and they also supress the truth. but then their empire depends on it.
I’m so high on shrooms right now and this guy gets it
science knows da wae
Bro I'm high on weed right now and YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT. HE JUST GETS IT JUST LIKE WE DO.
@@kodyamour6330 I never touched a drug or anything like that but I think like this everyday
Broooo.....
Same boat homie......
Seek the truth with a mind that thinks in 3 minutes and don’t be ignorant cause if you think a little bit, everything have a purpose except us and why we’re here?? just to have fun and grow old drinking beer common!!
* There must be a stronger entity and it is not a coincidence. Look what god said and you will know the truth, he said
* (( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?)
See by your self :-
God said:
1- ( And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me )
2- ( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.")
3- ( Indeed, these [disbelievers] love the immediate [ life ] and leave behind them a grave Day.)
4- And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming.
5- (We had certainly brought you the truth, but most of you, to the truth, were averse.)
If you reached here and you didn’t believe that’s for you, god said:
( Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah? Then will you not be reminded? )
God may guide you that’s Quran....
7:10 I gain immediate respect. I have been waiting so long for someone to shout this from a stage! It feels like I live in a land blind. Keep asking why until you can no longer ask why.
_"...so we don't want to live in that special reality."_
What we want is irrelevant.
I disagree, what we want is central to how we interpret and perceive our world, if it wasn't important the discussion about the existence of God could have ended long ago...
Grim Reaper Sorry, that was my own fault. What I meant was; what we want is irrelevant to what is true.
+Grim Reaper Aaaaaaall our tiiiiiimes have come!
+Ashley Small Auuuuugh my mind! ^_^
+Ashley Small Dayum, i saw the first comment and I knew this exact comment would follow up.
My english is not enough to explain my feelings about that subject but we will ask that ''why ?'' question forever.
Agreed.No body will be able to find the mystry of our universe since we , are also part of it
The only mystery is that we choose not to understand it over animalistic pleasures.
Nice speech, but a bit misunderstanding of Buddhism and the "vacuity" in the Buddhist language. In fact "vacuity" is not precise translation as the concept itself is difficult to explain even in its original language. Apart from that, very inspiring speech.
Similar "vacuity" also exist in Taoism, but still not the same as the definition in western world. Has to do with some cultural gap and language difference.
Agree. I am about to comment the same thing. Thanks
Jing Ji - Good point; the view he expresses seems to be based on a misunderstanding (mistranslation...) of the Buddhist notion of emptiness, which specifically does not mean vacuity, and to whatever extent I understand it would better be described as saying that everything lacks independent existence (which is very different than saying that everything lacks existence). Which is not to say that I didn’t appreciate the rest of Holt’s presentation, and I thought his book on the subject was excellent.
Thanks so much for posting
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein ---we can't solve universe creation problem using universe rules
Sorry, but I disagree and fail to see that logic.
More likely, we can’t solve the problem. Who cares, any way. It has no effect on the cost of eggs.
Time is the mystery.
If there is no time then there is no universe, so how time started is really the only questions, and when we know how time started we will know why there is a universe.
Time started from big bang. Before big bang, there was no time.
Time is a measurement of action. If things stopped doing, then it would time is frozen
@Gert Jan Trooster Your ego has to get out of the way.
Not necessarily. Theories about time existing outside the universe vary. Some deny time exists independent of space, others are not sure.
This is exactly the kind of thing I enjoy. I loved this video.
But u didn't understand
@The Illogist there are people who love doing drugs and spoiling their life while still not having any answer to it.
That's because you like watching videos that gets you nowhere and makes you even more confused.
Thinking this will send you mental, we are not supposed to know yet, I feel we will find out once our bodies are gone and we are one with everything.
He would make a good politician, completely dodging the question LOL
Good science is always on the edge of the unknown.
He had no answer.
@@fivish : When discussing anything scientific one simply explains what is known. It doesn't pretend to have answers to everything like religion does. "I don't know" is a far more honest answer than making up a fairy tale.
@@fivish Because there is no answer to the question of "why". It simply does exist, but humans are constantly trying to assign meaning to things that have no implicit meaning.
@@lrvogt1257 Discussing science most certainly is not a matter of explaining what is known. That's nearly the opposite of science. There is no place for science among things that are already known. (Think of the difference between a lab and a library.) Science is not knowledge, or a set of knowledge, or a collection of what is known. Science is something you do. It's a process of observation, prediction, testing, collecting data, critically evaluating it, and by doing so, generating new, robust, and shareable knowledge. Scientists are obsessed with what we don't know because science is nothing but a systematic method of learning those things we don't know, at least to a significant likelihood. Science needs the unknown - problems & questions - or it has no function.
While trying to answer this question, we mustn't leave out the answers of future generations. The question is ongoing. Meaning that no single answer is the truth. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to find answers. It means that we can never be satisfied with one. The answer to the question is another question. If our motive is to satisfy our need to know, we'll either eventually settle down on a relatively accurate story or suffer tremendously. That's where the Buddha's teaching comes in. I don't know what Buddhists believe in, but his teaching was not about answering the question, finding it to be nothingness. His teaching is about not suffering because of our inabilities and unanswered questions. I still try to do my best to find answers or help others in doing so. The only difference is that I no longer do it because I want to fill my hungry stomach and finally relax. I'm always relaxed.
...''My People perish for LACK OF KNOWLEDGE''...!!!!!
@@fratc.karakus4612 Your point?????
The biggest Why is why the audience is laughing at every word he says
Good question! lol
I think there all pissed up or something
he's funny.
@StefenF ofcourse, humans can know.. It exists because........... Goodness Gracious :O
to act smart, or make others think they are one of the smart ones, this Ted talk is about people pretending to be smart and other people who act like they understand, no offense but it's just a show and shows made to get money, now Adam's ruin everything that's a show i prefer to watch over these.
The universe exists so I can name-drop all my friends. -Jim Holt
Lol - I'm glad this comment appeared on top. I couldn't get pass the name-dropping and had to tune out. For an otherwise good speaker, how can he not know how off-putting that habit is?
Richard Hole glad you liked it dickhole
@@JayyVee41 ;) glad you like my trolly pseudonym.
“Why does something exist rather than nothing?” is answered simply by this equation, “1+0=1.” They both exist simultaneously. You just can’t experience the nothing so it’s a mute point. Imagine a dark room then strike a match in it. The darkness vanishes but it’s still there underneath it all. “Why do we exist?” is the right question. Whether a scientist who believes in evolution or a Buddhist who believes we are one with everything or a Christian who believes we came from one God, we all believe in a same single source. There is no doubt that we all live in our own private Idaho’s. That is to say, we each experience the same Oneness from a different point of view. We are but different incarnations of the same thing. We are made of the the thing which we are experiencing. We think we are separate but we aren’t. The proof of this can be explained many different ways but I prefer the more philosophical proof - there is no way to prove that all of this isn’t just for me and me only and everyone knows this without even having considered it. One last question remains. “Who is it who knows this?” Or more properly worded, “Who are You?” The answer? You are the something. You are the nothing. You are the Everything.
Oh Neo, one day they need to wake up. To things that go beyond science. It is already happening in fact and also in all my life, the thing you gave here is the highest amongst highest realizations one can have. SEPERETENESS = AN ILLUSION. THEREFORE: does not matter what people think WE ALL COME FROM THE SAME SINGLE STREAM OF THE RIVER. It has been said that why everything exists will remain a cosmic secret for ever. Only the fact that many other ET species exist and been known for ohh a very long time. They have higher conciousness then humans, i wonder which species know the most secrets. Namaste lovyyyyy
Truth can be expressed in different ways but will never reach the full truth. Nobody is right and nobody is wrong, the full truth goes beyond words. Beyond death so to say beyond life as we know it.
The Fandom Menace I can see where you are coming from. Calm water is everything with no discernible difference between its constituent parts until a trough pulls the crest into being, stretching the length of the surface into something more than it was. We usually see the crest and ignore the trough when we see a wave however. This is why I called it “0” but “-1” is probably more accurate. This could also be why black holes are surrounded by so much “stuff.” Calm spacetime becomes something more as it gets stretched.
All of these commenters complaining that he didn't actually have an answer! Did you really expect one? (The answer is 42)
Thanks hitch hiker.
Why ask in the first place..i clicked on this video to humour myself
42? BUT WHAT"S THE QUESTION?
Nothing is SOMETHING, because it can be named (it has a name and that is something), therefore something always existed. There never was truly Nothing, because there would always have had to be 'something' to compare to, in order to define the concept of 'nothing' in the first place.
The statement: "God turned nothing into something" is an impossible sentence, because there cant be "Nothing" simultaneous to there being 'God' (SOMETHING). The most accurate statement of vagueness you could make is: "God turned Something into something else".
But if you ask me, that makes the mention of God, or even the thought of God existence, completely and utterly pointless. There is no god because there is no need for god because there was never nothing in the first place so there is no need to invent "something".
Is that you Slarty?
Many answers.....
speed of light in vacuum {\displaystyle c} c 299 792 458 m⋅s−1 defined
Newtonian constant of gravitation {\displaystyle G} G 6.67408(31)×10−11 m3⋅kg−1⋅s−2 4.7 × 10−5
Planck constant {\displaystyle h} h 6.626 070 040(81) × 10−34 J⋅s 1.2 × 10−8
reduced Planck constant {\displaystyle \hbar =h/2\pi } \hbar = h / 2 \pi 1.054 571 800(13) × 10−34 J⋅s 1.2 × 10−8
magnetic constant (vacuum permeability) {\displaystyle \mu _{0}} \mu_0 4π × 10−7 N⋅A−2 = 1.256 637 061... × 10−6 N⋅A−2 defined
electric constant (vacuum permittivity) {\displaystyle \varepsilon _{0}=1/\mu _{0}c^{2}} {\displaystyle \varepsilon _{0}=1/\mu _{0}c^{2}} 8.854 187 817... × 10−12 F⋅m−1 defined
characteristic impedance of vacuum {\displaystyle Z_{0}=\mu _{0}c} {\displaystyle Z_{0}=\mu _{0}c} 376.730 313 461... Ω defined
Coulomb's constant {\displaystyle k_{\mathrm {e} }=1/4\pi \varepsilon _{0}} {\displaystyle k_{\mathrm {e} }=1/4\pi \varepsilon _{0}} 8.987 551 787 368 176 4 × 109 kg⋅m3⋅s−4⋅A−2 defined
elementary charge {\displaystyle e} e 1.602 176 6208(98) × 10−19 C 6.1 × 10−9
Bohr magneton {\displaystyle \mu _{\mathrm {B} }=e\hbar /2m_{\mathrm {e} }} \mu _{\mathrm {B} }=e\hbar /2m_{\mathrm {e} } 9.274 009 994(57) × 10−24 J⋅T−1 6.2 × 10−9
conductance quantum {\displaystyle G_{0}=2e^{2}/h} {\displaystyle G_{0}=2e^{2}/h} 7.748 091 7310(18) × 10−5 S 2.3 × 10−10
inverse conductance quantum {\displaystyle G_{0}^{-1}=h/2e^{2}} {\displaystyle G_{0}^{-1}=h/2e^{2}} 12 906.403 7278(29) Ω 2.3 × 10−10
Josephson constant {\displaystyle K_{\mathrm {J} }=2e/h} {\displaystyle K_{\mathrm {J} }=2e/h} 4.835 978 525(30) × 1014 Hz⋅V−1 6.1 × 10−9
magnetic flux quantum {\displaystyle \phi _{0}=h/2e} {\displaystyle \phi _{0}=h/2e} 2.067 833 831(13) × 10−15 Wb 6.1 × 10−9
nuclear magneton {\displaystyle \mu _{\mathrm {N} }=e\hbar /2m_{\mathrm {p} }} \mu _{\mathrm {N} }=e\hbar /2m_{\mathrm {p} } 5.050 783 699(31) × 10−27 J⋅T−1 6.2 × 10−9
von Klitzing constant {\displaystyle R_{\mathrm {K} }=h/e^{2}} {\displaystyle R_{\mathrm {K} }=h/e^{2}} 25 812.807 4555(59) Ω 2.3 × 10−10
😂 the reason he writes off in the beginning is it. The ontological argument is a good one!
God would never ask "where" time and space are illusory!
God wouldn’t ask a bloody thing. It’s a figment of your imagination. A bit of undigested potato.
this video is great definition of “nothing”
So it would seem....
Buddhist "nothingness" does not mean vacuity. It's rather disheartening to hear a "learned" person speak so matter-of-factly about Buddhism and be so damn wrong.
"Nothing" in Buddhism doesn't mean a vacuum, it means no "thing." "Things" are ideas, concepts, and definitions that we (as conscious humans) apply to the forms and stuff we see and experience in this existence. Buddhism simply reminds people that it's our mind (and its desire to define the world) that tries to break the world into lots of separate parts (things).
But it's just our mind that does that. The world outside our mind doesn't have edges and isn't limited by concepts.
It does make very much sense. If it doesn't, please look for the border between You and the External world. Where does an object end and another one start ? Where do You end, and the External World starts ?
This is what the mind does, it creates distinctions where there are none. Everything is one, and This is It.
All is The One and One is The All.
@American Fuel TV If you say so
The solar system was called nonsense by some in the past. Its not nonsense.
This is something simple and obvious when you look with honesty. But looking with honesty is not possible when you have so many opinions to defend.
u saved me 17mins, ty.
The universe came into existence when you yourself came into existence. There is no universe without you ❤️
Damn
There is no universe outside of your consciousness.
There is no universe if you're not there to percieve it
@@javfares1504 exactly
Because we are all part of the universe a matter exist in the space if some one want to fit him in the equation who has created him is doing terrible mistake he the creator clearly saying he is not equal or comparable to anything or nothing but he is the creator of both ....
His elegance in accepting the fact, after going through a rollercoaster of different possibilities, we still can't come to a conclusion and pulling out the cell phone joke😂>>>>>>>>>>>>
Spoiler: He doesn't know.
Really, he doesn’t
@@circulargates7949 lol, good one
@@circulargates7949 Whys that then? Or rather How's that then?
but i know.
🤣🤣🤣
Everything is clear when you look from Creator's perspective. So much Love!
What a useless thing to say. And, if you truly believed your own BS, what an astoundingly arrogant thing to say.
The title should have been : How do modern humans think when they do not have cellphones ?
@Brad Watson Keep commenting and Im going to report you for spamming and harassment.
I presume we are allowed to ask as many questions as we like while we're here on this planet. That's kind of intrinsic to being alive and having consciousness. I have been quite preoccupied with both the "why" and the "how" of existence at many times throughout my life. I am very suprised to see in the comments how upset so many people were that Jim asked the question at all and/or didn't provide an answer. I'm quite sure the point of the talk wasn't to announce to the global community that Jim knows the how/why of existence. I, for one, was glad to walk through some of the most prominent theories, dogmas, beliefs with Jim and go over a few strengths and weaknesses. Especially where it pertains to scientific theory. There is an incredibly arrogant culture thriving in some segments of the scientific community, the members of which speak about these kinds of questions in terms such as "we KNOW" - ie. Krauss, Dawkins, Harris, etc. Was nice to hear Jim point out what is obvious to me - that the scientific community actually KNOWS very little about the how/why of the origins of the universe. Scientific theories that are clutched on to too tightly basically become religion.
Just remind when Holt quotes Leibniz; that's probably the source of these comments you wonder about.
And I agree with you that science is about to transform into a religion: If you don't believe whats propagated then you're blasphemic...and in case it turns out that your disbelief had reason then the community will tell you that your reasons for your disbelief were not scientific. Nowadays universities are about to become the catholic cathederals of the middle ages, professors are like priests and like Holt quotes: Some questions are not allowed to be asked. And the worst of all: If you want to push an agenda then all you need to do is found some studies and then call them scientific. And once its science, who will dare to doubt it...
Precisely. Glad I'm not alone in that thinking
@@thomasgroflin9073 that's right, as can be evidenced by almost any science "educator", as Neil deGrasse Tyson famously states "I don't want people to understand science, I want them to *feel* science". Neither should it be too astounding as the modern university system was conjured up by catholic institutions (the Jesuit order, primarily) whose purpose was to study, proliferate and reify religious concepts and beliefs. Eventually, science became part of that equation within catholic institutions, and that hierarchical structure of scholarly pursuit and info dissemination predicates and outlines the development of all later academic institutions. So, unbeknownst to most researchers, they are actually active in evangelizing and indoctrinating the world in their methods and unconscious belief paradigms.
Well said, indeed. I'm glad I'm not alone in being intrigued by his query, as you were.
Exactly! "Science" has turned into a religion. The most arrogant claim is that: "we don't know now, but we will in the future." Kinda like the EXCUSE of the "future science of the gaps."
inexistence is a paradox in itself, therefore everything exists.
Samuel Trajano So that means heaven exists lol
i think not in our dimension. but what if existence is built by layer over layer, and each "awareness" can only percept the matter that makes part of theyr world. now prove me im wrong XD, or that im right. thats impossible too ;)
Samuel Trajano Surely, if that was the case, it wouldn't matter to us? Since it would have nothing to do with our layer of reality?
I merely care about the humans in our universe, killing other humans due to their belief in there being a Heaven in our layer of reality. That's a big problem and a fallacy too.
Samuel Trajano yeah, sound like _turtles all the way down_
***** or i could be raped by a child... who knows
So basically this guy says a whole lot of nothing for 17 minutes. That was more impressive than any other ted talk I've ever listened to.
ikr. he gave no answer. he said that he doesn't like the inflation model then goes and uses it anyway it doesn't make sense
Exactly. Boring talk.
😂
I suppose this guy doesn't believe in Spirit .
but what do you mean by nothing?
I read his book on this subject and at the end it has the same answer, " We don't know'. Well, thanks Jim from a former NYUMC faculty. I expected more.
Heard this talk , and now pondering why I am using smartphone when my exams are tommorrow
Anyone thought of this: What makes you YOU? If you have brothers and sisters, then why are you not one of your other brothers and sisters? Why are you YOU? If your parents would have never met, would YOU still excists in a nother body? Or would you not excist at all? But if YOU would not have excisted at all, then you would have never known about the universe. So by YOU not knowing about the universe at all, then can we say that you never excisted in the universe or did the universe not excist because you never excisted? Basically, if there wouldnt be any life in the whole universe, none would notice the universe can you say that the universe excists if none is there to notice it?
You can take this question even further. So there is none to notice the universe. But what about you only knowing about 10.000 people in your whole life and NOT knowing anything about the other 7 billion? Then that means that those 7 billion people dont excist?
"You" is a construct, it's something that that computer in your head decided to call a singular entity when in reality you're a collection of cells, which themselves are a collection of molecules, which are made out of atoms, which are made out of subatomic particles (at least as far as we can tell), (and you are a "cell" of a larger living organism, the earth, even though that concept might sound odd). Your brain simply considers you a singular entity because it's easier for it to process it and distinguish from the environment (newborns don't have that yet for example). What makes you, you is simply convenience, a shortcut your brain has created in order to survive in a non-you environment. There isn't any more "you" than a collection of bricks is a house.
Spliter So do you posit that we are simply biological machines that have learned to cognize the reality that we all share? Or are we holograms of eternal consciousness which has splayed into a myriad of forms, like light through a prism?
I stopped reading after you started misspelling "exist" continuously.
Cat the Turtle You are right, there are some words that use xc. Im Sorry, I am just a 21 year old student from the Netherlands.
Timothy Kelly I dont think that we are "eternal", because just think of things that happened in the world 2 years before your birth. Your parents experienced them. At that very moment they might or might not believed in God and were also Questioning same things as we do. But where were you? You were not in an "eternal" place. You simply were nowhere.
best explanation i heard of how to understand where the universe came from...even what happens when you die...how we are here...all those fun thoughts can be settled with thinking about what you remember before you were born. ever had a deep deep sleep when you wake up and can't remember the dream? simple reason it's all here is there isn't one, the human mind simply can't imagine nothing. it is here, it has been here for a long time and why?...no reason, just is.
That's the worst explanation 🤣
you're speaking minecraft enchantment table
Just coming here to say the thumbnail looks like a great meme format, especially with the title.
Whatever the answer to philosophers' _ultimate_ question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is -and let's face it, the ultimate answer to that question would be "Because."- it can be followed with another, simpler and unanswerable question: *"BUT WHY?"*
Just like asking whether there was a god/prime-mover/creator is a futile quest, since we'd be stuck in a chicken-egg loop. "But what/who came before god?" etc...
-Why the universe?
-Because [X]
-But why [X]
-Because [Y]
...
Primitive human logic at best.
Just make the best of it, by figuring out HOW and stop wasting time trying to figure out WHY.
I wouldn't say it is all philosophers ultimate question. It certainly isn't my ultimate question. My ultimate question is of what is the 'best' life if there even is to be one. That is something that can very much effect people physically.
Conor Baxter _ultimate_
#doyouevenlanguage
The process of continuously asking why is also a form of answer. You could argue against it by framing it in a more meta point of view. The 'why' of the universe is an infinite regression of infinite causation. Why is there something instead of nothing is because of a "set of infinite whys."
SoulEnFlame
...but why?
Oh, but that 'why' is already included in the "set of all whys." It's really a meta-branching concept so I understand it's difficult to grasp.
His ability to engage his audience is superb!
Him: "Why does the universe exist?" Audience. "BWAHAHAHAHA!"
17min of my precious life i will never get back
Watching this for communication assignment . Hope this would help. 🙏🏻
The Moment you ask a question, Why is there something, you have already accepted the fact that there is something and nothing. Our language is a great limitation. In terms of understanding the true nature of reality. That is why Buddha kept quite when asked for the ultimate truth. What is beyond time, space and causation cannot be put in words. Buddha did not say it was nothing, He just kept silence and which is probably the best answer.
In truth, it's just another form of consciousness.
Silence can mean many things and is open to interpretation. That is what his lesson was - there is no reason for anything. It's all open to interpretation.
@@assassinaria from our perception we can say that there is no reason for anything and it's all about your Interpretation but we are born into delusion, as Krishna say in the Bhagavid-gita, "All living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by the dualities arising from desire and hate" not knowing our true identity as transcendental reality (consciousness ) we think matter is all there is to reality but out of his mercy God gives us transcendental knowledge to enlighten us.
Really ? Our language is a great limitation ? Is that why "Buddha kept quite " ? That's quiet interesting.
They laughing cause they know this is going nowhere
Laugh track overused
Like life lol
yes, i was wondering why people are laughing from the things he says that doesnt even nake any sense. he just wasted 17 mins of everyones time with a bunch of nonsense
If you didnt find any of the things he said amusing then you dont have a very good sense of humor
Doesn't mean we can't talk about it and ask questions.
As I listened to Jim, I began to wonder why his hands were so RED?
He might be a smoker so some veins might be blocked making his hands and feet cold
I've had an out of body experience trying to contemplate how something came from nothing and how we are here because of it
Bruh. And how that nothing came about in the first place 🤔
Too much synchronicity...too much co-ordination....too much Human Life for it to be a Big-Bang co-incident. How is it that our Ecosystem is JUST PERFECT for the
sustaining of ''life''.....BY COINCIDENCE??????
@@douglasrowland3722 it isn't perfect. but in the everexistence of the universe, all chance must be fulfilled. We are chance, and we are beautiful m8
@@douglasrowland3722 It could be .Yes.
Nice mushrooms 😊
The dude needs a phone. He missing out on the cute cat and dog videos at 3am.
I obviously didn't expect to hear the answer to the question from him, but in the end it felt like he spent most of his time, talking about others approaches to answer that question being wrong, while seemingliy being unabled to exactly tell why. Lot's of talking, full of names and numbers, but lacks of actual content.
And nervously stumbling, not calm and deliberate. Fail~
@@rranger1014 you are a failure of our special reality
This is when people inside to not believe God and God's entitlement . Human's nature and brain want tobfind ife's mission because everything has a reason and human also must be.
Do you expect answer for philosophy? Wake up, we're not science.
"I know, I know, you're special, but you're still kind of secretly mediocre, don't you think?"
Amazing.
I have decided that in striving to ascertain a true accounting of the origin of our reality I have ultimately bit off more than I can chew, and so must spit it out. Life is for living, not for understanding.
Nobody can answer why the universe exists, science can only say HOW it has come into existence. Science only deals with how-questions, not intentionality.
Well, you've already ruled out the possibility that everything exists because you've said nobody can answer why the universe exists. If nobody knows the purpose of the universe, then there is no possible way that everything (every possible person) can exist.
i don't follow
panthamor If everything exists, then there must be at least one person who knows why the universe exists. But there is no such person, so we must be in a universe where there is at least some absence of something.
Okay I get it now :)
But there's a fault in your logic, How do you know no such person exists? If everything exists, then there will be infinite worlds where such a person that knows why exists, but also, there will be infinite worlds where such a person doesn't exist. So we have no way of knowing to which kind of infinite world we belong.
Pheww, this is heavy stuff.
panthamor Okay. I was misled to believe that when Mr. Holt was discussing the world in which everything exists, he was referring to one universe and not many universes.
Spoiler Alert: He dont have a cellphone
I see ur comment everywhere
@@Aliyahsarchive may be he is from India became his I'd name I am saying thia
This question bothered me since I was about 18 years old, to the point of depression, so I chose not to think of it, I kinda found peace in the abstract, philosophical logical/mathematical hypothesis I've came up with.
Silver Mirai It's a really bad question. I don't understand how someone can be so bothered by it.
robby12320 It's pointless to debate, one can either ignore the questions of existence, or seek answers in vain.
Silver Mirai I don't ignore them. These type of questions about existence can only possibly answered under certain conditions such as believing in an almighty deity. However, as we are now well into the 21st century with sience providing us with all kind of evidence about how the creation of the universe really went, the so called ''why-questions'' become superfluous.
robby12320 Naive. Oh how naive, I don't even feel the need to explain.
But whatever, I'll give you a sense of the things I'm thinking.
There is evidence supporting the big bang theory, such as the newly discovered radiations from the explosion and rapid expansion of the universe, that supposedly broke the light speed.
Even so, if that was true, that is not even close to answering my questions. How did the explosion came to be, if dense matter like that can explode outside of time, why aren't things exploding all the time, are there other universes.Why did the dense matter even existed, who made it, who put it there, and if someone or something put it there, who made the someone who put the matter there in the first place. Something had to exist eternally or nothing at all, in that case we wouldn't reach the current present if there is infinity of time towards the past.
There are many things that do not make sense.
These questions of existence don't matter for most people. As if I would bring a robot with consciousness into this world not giving it any information about his creation, and it would accept the reality as it is, not questing how is it even aware, alive, what consciousness even is.
Some things off the top of my head not even structured in a presentable way, I just got tired of presenting these notions to people who can't comprehend them, perhaps I should give up explaining. Editing my thoughts in a way that people can more easily understand. In the end to realize they haven't understand the idea itself. If something created something, what created first thing in the place, and if something always existed, we should not exist in the first place. Because time would be irrelevant.
Silver Mirai You are ignorant.
Still the best video on RUclips
Stephen Hawking said in “A Brief History of Time” that physics will never be able to answer why. It’s a purely human question.
Everything that happened before the singularity is immeasurable, so it doesn't matter.
Surely there’s a scientific “why”? If I ask why the earth exists, the answer is that gravity brought together space dust and rocks and it eventually left a planet. If I ask why do humans exist, the answer evolution over millions of years.
So why are u here?
Why do u have a worldview?
Why is there something and not nothing? Why does the universe conform to a language Galileo described as advanced mathematics? Or must u believe mindless matter is the only game in town?
Sick Revolting Piss ya and who made gravity
@John connor No, it's not the end of story. It's just you who stop asking questions when the word God comes up, because you think that it's a sin to doubt Him. And in a way you are right since science and religion can't co-exist. But there's no doubt wich one of the two things that fear the other. Science has never burned anyone for questioning a ready made answer, but religion has and it does.
as soon as I tapped on this video, I went to the comments hoping to see praise for it but all I see is that apparently it's a waste of time :(
try to learn something from that: its the same with the universe - a waste of time. furthermore you can spot some very important names in his speech: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arthur Schopenhauer, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - there philosphical legacy is really worth studying, if you are into such things. cheers (:
i found it incredibly enlightening.
Nothing matters. We don’t know anything for sure.
@The Shitstorm Starter*You took it to a whole new level , man!*
@The Shitstorm Starter 😂😂😂😂😂