What are the chances of YOU existing? A biologist explains | Sean B. Carroll

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[@somethingshiny343]

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[@mikichimiak7326]

hey guys, if history repeated itself and an asteroid wiped out most of life on earth including us humans, would then 60 million years later an other civilized species emerge?;)

[@JonesHand]

Yeah? But I thought that it was seed eaters, backed dinos, + mammals, fish,, etc,, but it was the seed eating dinosaur, beaked.

[@LiquidDaylight]

"Lucky" to be here. Depends on who you ask.

[@LarsGsanger]

Withou the C-(injections we Will be very OK🍏

[@ReneAlexisPenalozaMunoz]

I've been married to a biologist for over 20 years and I have discovered so many beautiful facts about life.

[@nunomontes2922]

Nobody asked

[@veryymuchjojo]

@@nunomontes2922but you replied.

[@itskeagan3004]

All of these beautiful things have a design and in turn must have a designer…right?

[@jaketyler2702]

​@@itskeagan3004You can't be that naive, surely.

[@bear_eater254]

You mean theories cause they rarely have facts just theories.

[@mikeyvon23]

Halfway through this video I got an ad for a monster truck ralley, and I thought “wow. And this is what all of that led up to”

[@joyousenoful]

😂😂😂

[@shreyaaashree]

LMAO

[@Son_of_Bayonetta]

It's such a wild thing to experience this groundbreaking scientific/philosophical information about the nature of our existence only for it to be interrupted by an ad for the Kia summer sales event

[@dream.machine]

​@@Son_of_Bayonetta🤣

[@Scorned405]

The people that are into the monster truck show would not believe this video on science. Lol

[@Patchy190]

Damn I wanted this to be way longer.

[@northwing3416]

Word

[@Sergio2006A]

That's what she said.

[@the13nth25]

​@@Sergio2006A 😂

[@softjones3128]

buy his book..

[@syamprasaddokka]

After his book read sapiens

[@kingcrack325]

The Universe, the Science and the Scientist reminding me why I should be grateful, everyday. Thank you.

[@ahmedzakikhan7639]

Grateful to who ?

[@kingcrack325]

@@ahmedzakikhan7639 grateful for whoever or whatever created me. The chances of me to likely exist is almost impossible.

[@vblaas246]

​@@ahmedzakikhan7639 To the STANDARD MODEL LAGRANGIAN

[@vblaas246]

​@@ahmedzakikhan7639 To the standard model lagrangian.

[@bolinobis]

No thanks for the Almighty God that started all this?

[@GreyCrowe]

Two planetary disasters I owe my life... Oh, so you've met my parents.

[@GillianAnnBlower]

And mine. 😂

[@Kc-dq7zj]

😆💀

[@kelsey_roy]

There have been many forks that lead to dead ends. But I wasn’t there to witness it. The fork I’m currently in I can tell you about, because I now exist, thus enabling me to ask the question. 🙋

[@Saritabanana]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHABABAHjahabndjskmahaaaHAAAAA

[@emmanuelweinman9673]

@@kelsey_roywhat the fork

[@Bugtortoise]

I don't know about the whole "we should feel fortunate for being here" part, but even that aside, this video has to be among one of the most eye-popping on the web. We ARE unique.

[@GolAcheron-fc4ug]

I know it seems like we’re not very fortunate because life can suck serious ass sometimes, but keep in mind how much worse a different universe could have been. We could literally have been born in a universe like the nether from minecraft or something where evolution goes in the direction of pure aggression and no mammalian concept of community or compassion or mercy.

[@giovannivelasquez6065]

You should. Drop the ego brother.

[@stuartrussell1394]

A lots of chance never repeated events that have never been, scientifically proven by experiments in a lab. Chance events that defy the laws of physics are called miracles, a lot more faith need to believe in evolution then in a creating outside force the has the power to build a universe that is perfectly aligned for us humans to flourish. One of a thousand things not set as it is, gravity for example and we or any life is hete. Cell complexity and DNA cannot evolve in the manner or time given, 4,5 billion years is not enough for random chance to evole a single protein strand never mind all we see. None life cannot produce life. The chicken came first, a enzyme in its gut is used for egg shell production, only place it is found. A fully formed human or animal is needed to pass on the genetic DNa code. Information doesn't make sense by random chance no does it random improve any set code it only corrupts. Think computer code, randomly insert new bit of code and see what happens. A leap of faith is one thing for Christians but the Grand Canyon leaps for evolution are many in their multitude!

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

@@stuartrussell1394 Biologists - who know far far more about DNA, protein, and life than you do - disagree with you about evolution. Imagine that. Nope, eggs came before chickens. And it's not even close. Chickens were not the first birds to lay eggs; chickens evolved from earlier birds that laid eggs. And those earlier birds that laid eggs evolved from theropod dinosaurs that laid eggs, on so on. Eggs existed hundreds of millions of years before any chickens did. DNA is not computer code, so trying to draw conclusions about DNA based on computer code is invalid. The Grand Canyon supports evolution (and refutes Young Earth Creationism).

[@bryanhuseboe539]

@@giovannivelasquez6065 He said unique, not special. No ego necessary

[@Yutappy99]

It's like my great great great grandfather once said: "Sometimes shit happens."

[@The_Great_Beyond]

wise man

[@LongWeiner-x9y]

My great great great grandfather said phuck your great great great grandfather

[@simonm-m8106]

Real shit

[@diegoalves598]

Or once something is fucked, it can't be unfucked.

[@PJVila]

This video prompted more questions than answers: How did the smaller animals survive without sunlight for three decades? In other words, don't smaller mammals /reptiles/amphibians need plants? How did they eat when there was no sun for about 30 years? Most multi-cellular organisms need plants at some level for survival. How or why does rock reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? He mentions that the Himalayas reduced CO2 emissions which in turn created the ice-age. Also, how does an ice-age increase the size of our brains (relative to our bodies)?

[@weltschmerzistofthaufig2440]

The smaller mammals were burrowers, who already spent much time underground. Moreover, plants survived by evolving more resistant seeds and pollen, as well as optimising photosynthesis.

[@SuperMrAndersen]

It was a short summary, would be great to listen all explanations. They of course exist

[@Nobumblegumforyou]

Hint: They don't know, it's a theory.

[@thefamousdjx]

Its a bullshit story. No way a 10km rock creates such total chaos across the whole planet blocking the sun. I just hate this science that guesses things and passes them as fact, preventing others from looking deeper because 'they already figured it out'. A lot of this actually happened in science where people claim they have something already figured out when they dont know shit and made mistakes and complete guesswork during research

[@Bellatrace]

@@Nobumblegumforyou exactly

[@udoyxyz]

In a nutshell ''You truly are special"

[@geelee1977]

According to math, this is not at all true. According to math, you are nearly guaranteed to occur.

[@aleksmartini4]

@@geelee1977exactly, the initial conditions 😎

[@1SpudderR]

Very difficult to be in a nutshell....? But hey the Universe started with the Whole Universe in a grain of sand by comparison!? And here Endeth the Nutshell paradigms!?

[@jobaermolla911]

Special my butt

[@uvwuvw-ol3fg]

Seems like inherent optimism bias and terror management theory will always help regardless of ideologies such as antinatalism based on consent and efilism.

[@cosmoplakat9549]

Chances are slim to none, and yet at the same time, chances turned out to be 100%.

[@melssf7852]

I know hey. I still am in the "I dont know" phrase of my life. This is amazing and at the same time as much as it is an accident, there is still questions behind questions on how it all came to be before this even began...

[@michaelerickson2596]

Yes!!! Some believe irony is how we came to be! BS

[@anomalousdelirium]

Chances are slim - if we compared Earth to another observable planets. But those other planes are not Earth, so for Earth it was "100%".

[@agnosticpreacher6911]

@@melssf7852think about this, if yo dad busted at a different angle because he banged his hip at work or something, a different sperm would’ve carried different DNA and you maybe would be a very different person I.e. you barely got here, YOU.

[@patbrennan6572]

Great analogy.

[@AuronDzilk]

Being "lucky to be here" might just be a bit of an understatement. Mesmerizing video might be one of the best in KZbin.

[@Leo-s5w9l]

Fortunate to be here , really! This crazy hateful world

[@Cheeks63091]

Tell this to a person battling mental illnesses

[@uvwuvw-ol3fg]

Seems like inherent optimism bias and terror management theory will always help regardless of ideologies such as antinatalism based on consent and efilism.

[@krishp1104]

As a scientific man, I have to ask: at what point does a series of stastically improbable, very lucky and precise accidents become something beyond just dumb luck

[@1SpudderR]

At what point did this randomness start!? I suppose that was random as well!?

[@robertlint697]

EXACTLY!!!!!

[@gwillard19]

Our “luck” was always done other species bad luck. Don’t overthink it. There is not, and never has been, a goal of life.

[@Versole]

My question is at what point we humans were capable of making sense of the world. At what mutation that led to enhanced brain for us. Life has been existed before but never like to this extend.

[@martytdd1606]

As a 'scientific man' you should already know that there is no point where this happens, it's always 'blind luck'.

[@jeffreyjohnson7359]

The chances of me existing are either incomprehensibly infinitesimal or 100%.

[@leroydanny4072]

True and I'd bet on the 100%

[@GwEClanGaming]

Both true in an infinite universe.

[@kermitanderson1596]

That’s the point! Nothing he presented explains whether we exist on purpose or by chance.

[@HelioPopTart]

@@kermitanderson1596there’s the problem in your logic. You think everything is black and white, or binary, when in fact it’s not. He provided plenty of examples, but you are not on the same level of knowledge to comprehend the theory. Therefore, you failed to identify the facts presented upon you and instead externalized your frustration of not coming to a conclusion after watching the video. To me, he was quite clear on the matter, but I am scientifically educated and it took me years to learn the language scientists use. Perhaps start small. It’s not easy to learn another language. It maybe counterintuitive that the language is English, but science is not normal English. It’s medical English, there’s a huge difference. Also, get off this echo chamber. You are subscribing to linear thinking people and unconsciously self aligned yourself to the same ideology. If everyone has the same problem, it’s not the problem, it’s the people refusing to do actual hard work to attain knowledge. Surround yourself with clueless people and do not be surprise to be in the depths of hell on earth. Hey, I might be wrong. But please, prove me wrong. It’s always an opportunity to learn.

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

Since you do exist, the probability that you exist is 100%. However, if we logically go back to when your father and mother's gametes were produced, that later fused to produce you, then the probability of you (with your specific genetic make up that makes you, you) existing is about 1 in 70 million. It's like if you shuffle a deck of cards and you randomly select one and get the 9 of clubs. What is the probability you got the 9 of clubs? 100%. It already happened. But if we logically go back to before you drew that one card, what is the probability that you would draw the 9 of clubs? 1in 52.

[@ianlassitter2397]

Who knew Santa Klaus was so knowledgeable about biology and cosmology?

[@touchingsouls795]

What matters is his knowledge and presentation

[@albertperez7930]

There's only one Santa. One in 70 trillion!

[@dwidana2574]

Another day another video to think about the meaning of life. Love it.

[@arthurn8952]

When someone says everything we know is an accident discounting the thousands of variables required for intelligent life to develop and thrive, you can't help but dismiss any point of view they have to offer. It's like finding a smartphone deep inside a cave then say it evolved by a series of accidents

[@pavankumarramabhotla6623]

Other versions of existence are possible and that as much as we see the universe tends towards non-life rather than life. Any one who takes this and believes some higher power has made your existence possible is a bit self-centred.

[@bigneiltoo]

Everything happens for no reason.

[@govind.vijayakrishnan]

That my friend, itself is a reason!

[@sebastianbroscheyoga]

BRB putting that on a Tshirt

[@sbaumgartner9848]

It is truly amazing at the very low chance that we were each born. It's too bad most of us don't make enough of this unique life we were gifted.

[@xk8xl]

The ones who have their finger on the red button need to be reminded of this by all these experts

[@STR82DVD]

I virtually ran to Play Books to buy your book. Bloody brilliant. 3.5 hours of random goodness. Thank you!

[@TheRandomINFJ]

Audiobooks aren't reading. It's listening. Only reading is reading. ❤, An audiobook narrator who still believes in paperbacks

[@STR82DVD]

@@TheRandomINFJ You're arguing medium, whereas I really only concern myself with content.

[@ArkenGAMES]

​@@STR82DVD Understandable, however keep in mind that by reading you use more brainpower which in turn benefits you more than just listening. Creating the sound of words in your own head is an extra step.

[@TheCelticsAREboss]

@@ArkenGAMES Nothing wrong with listening to audiobooks if you don't have the time to sit down and focus on reading a book. Also, some people aren't good at reading and easily get distracted. They could be have preference towards echoic learning.

[@ArkenGAMES]

@@TheCelticsAREboss Agreed.

[@frenchpete88]

Puts everything into perspective and... triggers squillions of additional questions! How infinitely lucky I feel to be coming across such an intelligent, enlightening and inspiring speech! Bravo! More of this!

[@paulacon28]

He answers how we got here, but why? If the probability of us not existing is much greater than the probability of our existence as we know it, what made the difference? His answer that this is all an accident is too simple for such complex events, it’s an easy way out, another way of saying, “I don’t know”.

[@Rickol91]

I understand your point of view but in some way every event can be both simple and complex at the same time for example: Someone died of a lightningstrike which is rare on its own but anyway .. If the newborn baby of the buss driver didnt cry all night, the bussdriver would have sleep well, he probably didnt fall because of his unknotted shoelaces, the buss was not canceled, The guy didnt had to walk in an open field.. then Boom!! You see what I want to point out?

[@JustennWolfe]

There doesn’t need to be a why. I think people when asking this question forget that we are a floating rock, orbiting 1 of trillions of stars. It’s not like all these crazy things that needed to happen happened so easily. It’s that we are just one of the lucky happy accidents stacked against infant possibilities. That’s why a “why” doesn’t, and likely can’t, be answered.

[@bonnyfasius1216]

I don't think there's a reason. Things that made us don't have brains so I guess all of this just happened it just did. The universe found its balance point and it formed us. I think we're gonna exist anyway. Sorry for my bad English😅😅 I actually have more thoughts but I'm unable to put it into words

[@melissaevans1177]

Makes you think there must be a creator after all. Like a poem has a writer and a painting has a painter it's all evidence of creation and creator

[@DamianSAAAN]

Sounds like you want a specific answer

[@jayski9410]

The thing that first convinced me of life being an accident is just that we're in the only orbit where life is possible. Any closer to the sun and life can't exist yet any further away from it you still get nothing. Then you had to hope that a planet forms in that orbit. And even with that, you had to hope organic chemistry develops. There's just so many ways thing could have gone wrong before you even get to single celled organisms.

[@leroydanny4072]

Life isn't an accident tho I admit there is so much we don't know about ourselves

[@geelee1977]

You should not be convinced. "What are the chances of YOU existing" --> Nearly a 100% guarantee of it happening. If you have a 1/1000000000000 chance of a dice roll happening, but, you have 1/1000000000000000000000 rolls to make, then you can nearly guarantee that the "rare chance" roll, will definitely happen.

[@Jacob-ed1bl]

​@leroydanny4072 You literally have zero evidence or proof as to make the claim "life isn't an accident." You're correct about one thing, there's much we don't know but that doesn't change the fact this is a random accident.

[@prasadpatil8507]

i think universe is pre determined

[@malayneum]

so why should single celled organism exist? it shouldnt exist at the first place. they have no business here.

[@Darwin_is_my_copilot]

The OTHER awesome Sean Carroll!

[@timoooo7320]

Oh I was waiting to see Sean Carroll, didn't realize it's a different Sean Carroll 😂

[@SolaceEasy]

Nah, neither.

[@robertsimon6674]

This is absolutely awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr. Sean B. Carrol should be back !!!

[@realkingfitz]

so what you're saying is i'm horribly unlucky

[@grandzeweiterworth7628]

Unfortunately my parents met each other

[@b3u3g3g3y]

The "one in 70 trillion event" to made YOU can also be multiplied by 1 in 70 trillion odds for the existence of each parent. And again for their parents, on and on backward in time.

[@mRibbons]

I dated someone who vehemently denied the existence of dinosaurs. Sadly, I couldn't let it go and leave it be.

[@eastafrika728]

I would love to hear every other biologists interpretation from professors to students, so that there is no bias.

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

There are tens of thousands of biologists. You'd better get started and better work fast if you want to hear every other one of them.

[@lovetownsend]

if you took .0 and made it one square inch in size, there isn't enough space in our solar system to show the percentage of you being alive today. It's unfathomably lucky. It's so lucky, luck doesn't even seem the right word to describe it.

[@oldpossum57]

Well, luck doesn’t exist. Accidents do

[@lalalanf2955]

This video made me realize once again how much lucky i am to be here, living. I'm special for the universe like I'm for my parents 😊🙏🏽

[@FranzVonZeta]

This is like rolling 100 dice and after seeing the result saying: omg, it was sooo unlikely that this exact combination happened!! What were the chances?? We are so lucky!! Meanwhile, in some parallel universe, some intelligent reptilian called Sean Barney Carroll: "If the asteroid had entered half an hour earlier and hit, for example, in the Yucatan, well, we wouldn't be here anymore, and we wouldn't be having this conversation, so that's one thing that had to go right, and, yeah, many things could have happened in a different way that we wouldn't be here at all, so I think we should feel fortunate that we are here".

[@geelee1977]

If you roll 100 dice 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times, you'll see EVERY combination guaranteed. The universe has made that many rolls, or more.

[@FranzVonZeta]

@@geelee1977 if you're lucky, yes

[@geelee1977]

@@FranzVonZeta Incorrect, it is a literal guarantee, because math & set theory.

[@FranzVonZeta]

​@@geelee1977 Nope, you got that wrong I wonder where you got that number from though

[@MikeBlaze718]

Aliens were responsible for that “asteroid” and that made way for humans to be seeded on earth and prosper

[@emmaleonavinyu]

What a blessing it is to be alive and what a blessing it is to understand this life thing and that this really isn't so random.

[@mandelbot5318]

As a few other people have commented, the chance of ME existing is 100%. The question “What are the chances of ME existing?” refers to a specific individual, ME. The question can only be asked, then, if I do, in fact, exist. In a world where I do not exist, no questions can be asked about ME, since those questions would refer to nothing. For this reason, questions regarding the chances of a thing existing cannot be asked of things with specified, unique identities.

[@TorMax9]

It depends on the initial conditions you are aware of and the point in time and your mode of calculation. Yes, you can come up with a probability of a future event. Bookies do it all the time. The probability that you come up with is not OBJECTIVE - because we can never include all the variables - but SUBJECTIVE - only including the variables that we can. Bookies often get it wrong and lose money. Stock brokers often get it wrong and lose money. Generals often get it wrong and lose the battle/war.. Once you do exist, it's 100%. Before you existed, it becomes increasingly small as you go back in time. After the football game has ended, who won is 100%. Before the game, different bookies will come up with different probabilities. Investors gamble all the time. Government programs gamble all the time.

[@FrancescoDAndrea]

The question is about the chances of a new born to have a specific genetic code. Like, "wha are the chances, if we throw 10 dices, to get the combination: 6431524316?" - of course, there are infinite gene codes only if we'll never end as a species - or if life will never end. Otherwise the question makes sense.

[@ronaldmorgan7632]

There are trillions of combinations with the likelihood of none of them ever duplicating. That is what he means. I'm just sad that he would never consider how many things have to go right for there to be a you. The answer is so large that it may have him thinking about something that he doesn't want to.

[@filippetrovic845]

You are stupid 100% all i can say. How could you possibly not understand this?

[@Existentialist946]

The idea it's blind luck is utterly implausible. Even just focussing our attention to supposing our own existence is due to a specific sperm and egg meeting (a 1 in 70 trillion chance) is completely implausible. Especially when one considers one's father and mother also only had 1 in 70 trillion chance of existing, and the same for all our ancestors. Any other potential human being out of the other 70 trillion would feel the same way? Well, yes, but this is irrelevant. Here's an analogy: Suppose someone -- let's call him Peter -- were kidnapped, and the kidnapper is a psychopath and sets up some explosion device that is tied to Peter. The device is programmed to shortly generate 10 random numbers. If the numbers so generated are anything apart from 10 zeros, it will instantaneously explode, and hence kill Peter. So Peter thinks, well this is it then. The chance of me surviving is 1/10^10 or 1 in 10 billion. However, much to his delight, the contraption duly displays the 10 zeros! So he says to the psychopath "you had me worried there, you must have programmed it to display 10 zeros!". The psychopath responds, "no no, not at all! It was completely random and you're just incredibly lucky. Don't forget, if it had been any other combination of numbers, you would be dead and wouldn't be here to think about it. You can only live in a world, and hence contemplate your situation, where 10 zeros come up. Of course, this sounds preposterous and we would surely conclude the psychopath is lying.

[@carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523]

Beautifully explained!

[@linli6012]

There will never ever be anyone like you,ever again on the planet or ever before.❤

[@maxxbenzz7842]

That's good for humanity that there's only one of me.

[@alexgoslar4057]

Did it occur to you that the time and space correlation in the universe and for that matter, the multiverse, are entirely different from what we understand time and space to be? All we can measure is what the human mind can perceive, and that is insufficient for getting a better understanding of the universe.

[@spuriusscapula4829]

Religious creationists going nuts in the comments. It's so hard for them to learn and read.

[@whatcouldgowrong7914]

How could anyone honestly think that the infinite number of variables that had to happen in an exact way, one after another, at all scales from atoms up to universe could possibly be an “accident”. The universe is unfolding exactly as it was always intended to and you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.

[@filippetrovic845]

Then atleast admit that we have no free will at all. So accept us that think otherwise, we just cant help it.

[@whatcouldgowrong7914]

@@filippetrovic845 I never said we had free will… I do believe free will has a part in this at higher levels but not in this life itself…

[@oldpossum57]

@@whatcouldgowrong7914 “higher levels”: unless you have evidence of “higher levels”, I think it is above your pay grade and mine to even imagine that these higher levels exist It is awfully vain to place oneself back at the centre of the universe when you have been shown so convincingly you are an accident.

[@reeves5000]

Really, the reason we are here is the fine structure constant.

[@natzcam2219]

"Why we exist?" is a peculiar question because that question was brought about by our own existence!

[@thefamousdjx]

And the fact that you know you exist and there's not much you can do about the fact that eventually after a few thousand days you'll stop existing, gone forever, is super scary.

[@BondJFK]

Parents decided to get married

[@pip915]

We exist to keep nature alive ❤

[@manelumi]

But we keep killing it

[@gavinterrell5894]

Ecclesiastes 3:11 - "He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end."

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

"War! The Republic is crumbling under attacks by the ruthless Sith Lord, Count Dooku. There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere." Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith

[@aleja_tedemi]

It takes humility to accept that we humans are not God. Not everyone can/will admit that =\

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

@@aleja_tedemi It takes brains to accept that there is no God. Not everyone is smart enough to realize that.

[@aleja_tedemi]

@@TonyTigerTonyTiger You’re not as smart as you think you are.

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

@@aleja_tedemi You failed to show that. So just another unsupported claim vomited out by you.

[@The_Great_Beyond]

If I woudn 't exist, I also wouldn 't be able to wonder about existing...

[@filippetrovic845]

You non existing is so real you dont even grasp how real it is. Existing in comparaison is so rare that its almost impossible. FYI you will die one day so you wont be able to wonder about existance anymore so be quick to apreciate this opportunity.

[@Kerlleyp]

You are a unique being. Just like everyone else.

[@ckm2184]

This was f***ing great

[@foispar161]

当他说道幸运，它是对现状的一种肯定，一种满意，一种知足，一种对于神的崇拜和命运的敬畏

[@Xalphoria]

1:47 they cut it but he sat there in silence waiting for a response for 30 minutes

[@markvance9438]

What we have here is amazing! All the improbable random coincidences over time to bring forth incredibly complex life and thought, brought about by one unexplainbable miracle, the big bang, there was nothing, then there was everything! Materialist struggle with the begining!

[@livelyp]

this was posted on my birthday wow❤

[@mikesercanto9149]

What are the chances?😊

[@Earthtime3978]

And 1.5 billion other individuals birthdays .

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

@@Earthtime3978 1/6 of all people on Earth were born on the same day?

[@Earthtime3978]

@@TonyTigerTonyTiger A very high percentage, not exactly that amount. Picked a fun number.

[@derrickscott9469]

The universe is so vast and varied that extremely unlikely events happen all the time. There's cause and effect but no "reason" why humans or life in general exists. It's just the result of random chances in physics and chemistry played out over billions of years. But that explanation of reality isn't emotionally satisfying. So we grasp at straws for some ethereal explanation that makes us feel better. That's why the vast majority of people, even in our modern scientifically enabled civilization, are theists or spiritualists of some sort despite a lack of hard evidence.

[@gravestone4840]

The very moment that every particle popped into existence and spun off on their trajectories was the moment that everything that is came into being. We can take note of individual events along the path that lead to us but we would run out of numbers before we named even a fraction. Whatever the root cause of reality or even if there is no root cause, every event in every moment was the result of the events and moments that preceeded it, the stage was set and always was. We were inevitable.

[@EricSable]

👏🏼👏🏼 damn

[@squakke]

Exactly. The chances of us existing is 100%.

[@kelleyrc5671]

Just finished reading Chaos by James Gleick and it shows that nothing is inevitable

[@majoman7713]

That would make life deterministic and will result in having no free-will. I believe free will is the essential part of consciencious so this theory wouldnt hold up.

[@Earthtime3978]

Matter either always existing or forming from who knows what to form complex organisms? I don’t get it.

[@SlappyGomez]

Things have happened, are happening, & will happen exactly as have, are, & will.

[@Earthtime3978]

But why?

[@martinsapsitis4292]

Looking forward to your book! Enjoy your enthusiasm and analyses.

[@Justin-uc8sc]

Martin can you please call Sarah back she is worried sick

[@digitaltabseer]

“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?” [21:30]

[@oldpossum57]

I counter your Bible quote with my own, just as relevant! :Ezekiel 23:19-21 “Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”

[@muhammedsaidcakir]

In order for the things to collide, they need to exist in the first place. If they exist, which they do then they must be coming from a source, since existence only can come from an existing being. So accepting the existence necessitates accepting a source of existence. It does not make sense to refer the existence to a concept that does not exist-like accident. There is existence not accident nor chance. So the existence of a source of this universe is more certain then the existence of the universe.

[@ernieestrada5774]

yes, using "accident" as a reason stops all reasoning.

[@johnhulshoff4794]

Totally agree with your final sentence. And that "source" is God.

[@Conics22]

@@johnhulshoff4794 Yes we know. Some people who were uneducated wrote all about god and magic and what not. The other 17999 gods are man made and false. But the one you believe in is real. Why? Because you think so.

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

Well, that was a load krap masquerading as wisdom.

[@minorthrFPV]

@@johnhulshoff4794 and which god is that?

[@thesofthuman]

Believe me, professor, I've been asking myself The same question For six years.

[@dk6024]

Does it even make sense to talk about being lucky to have been born?

[@lexreason258]

YES!!! This perspective is necessary, in order to be grateful and hopefully live better lives.

[@LordBrittish]

Being grateful to be alive is a much better ideology than believing the world revolves around you. (not YOU)

[@readynowforever3676]

@@LordBrittish I don't disagree with your premise, I actually live to personify it. But that doesn't discourage me to challenge it. Why, out of all the species that have ever existed, is it especially useful for ours to be "grateful" ?

[@readynowforever3676]

@@lexreason258 I'd be interested in hearing your perspective on that inquire as well (?)

[@lexreason258]

@@readynowforever3676 Because the contrary to gratitud is entitlement. And with entitlement comes thinking you are better, superior and more deserving than others. The myth of meritocracy. (That doesn't mean we should not value or recognize hard work, it goes deeper) And we all know how that has turned out in our history. Heck! Is happening right now and we are closer to WW3 because of it.

[@jonathanr781]

Thank God everyday you exist no accident, everything here is for a purpose.

[@JLChristopher]

I love this. Thank you.

[@kariannecrysler640]

Wonderful information 💕

[@osmotreno]

And this is just an extremely small part of all the accidents that had to happen for the emergence of human civilization. For example, our galaxy had to be far away from others so as not to collide with them, our solar system had to be in the right part of the galaxy, the Sun had to be so unusually calm, the Earth had to be in the habitable zone and collide with another planet below a certain angle to create the Moon, to stabilize the axis of rotation, the formation of tectonic plates and a strong magnetic shield. We are enormously lucky, but we don’t appreciate this at all and are heading towards our own destruction.

[@filippetrovic845]

Exactly what i was thinking when he started from 66M years ago. I was like “wait it started 14B years ago, and was surely eventful regularly”. BTW im shocked how many people are completely ignorant on this videos comment thread.

[@xoejy5]

Buddhism and Taoism were some of the earliest schools of philosophy that highlighted this. It took such a long time for westerners to tune to the same direction. I am a big believer of destiny. Even the probability of us not yet destroyed is too infinitesimally impossible.

[@patbrennan6572]

This explanation may seem far, far fetched but it's much more probable than the old 'God did it' answer that there's no proof for either.

[@calebbaker8353]

It’s much more probable that a god created all this rather than its all just randomly coming to being.

[@patbrennan6572]

We always hear that question, If god created everything then who created god ? Ancient men did, and they created many gods.

[@oldpossum57]

@@calebbaker8353 Nope. The probability of a god is zero.

[@glaurunga8875]

Fascinating concept to think of. A Series of Fortune Events was an excellent book on the real improbability of us existing, yet we do. Which renders the life we have invaluably priceless.

[@sumirsookdeo9443]

Well explained. Great lecture.

[@prasadpatil8507]

There are no accidents. -Master Oogway

[@Archimedes1988]

Solid reference

[@Lifeistooshort67]

I, "We" really shouldn't be here. Truly embrace every single minute. It's not always easy to remember that when life gets in the way of "LIFE!!!"

[@simple3152]

The chances of me existing is 100% You can’t argue my math. I exist.

[@joshnull6132]

How many unique people can two individuals create? Over 70 trillion plus additional buffer for mutagenic events. Here’s a tough question, setting aside random mutagenic events, how many unique people can the complexity of our genome create? What’s the pantheon of all possible humans and how big is it?

[@AVOCADO.plus.ORANGE.Vintage]

No chance involved. Consciousness is a force that creates us.

[@petraravn5421]

How do you know that?

[@geelee1977]

Too bad there's no evidence of that, despite thousands of years of looking.

[@AVOCADO.plus.ORANGE.Vintage]

@petraravn5421 How much time do you have? It is a person journey of understanding. A recent winner of the nobel prize proved that this experience is a simulation of consciousness. This changes one's relationship with what really going on here.

[@lorenzogumier7646]

Says who?

[@wasifmondal7978]

We are what we are today, it's not just because of 1 or 2 or 10 factors went in the right direction...it's because million of things went in to work together, the balance and everything that is there to sustain life on earth is simply increable. For me the probability of all the things working together and everything being so much precious accurate it's out of probability... imagine buying 1000 lotary tickets and getting a jackpot on all of them, sounds impossible for probability, right? Well over here we are talking about millions of jackpots... It's almost feels like everything is just pre-planned. It feels like to me everything is controlled by someone out there... because not only on earth but even in universe there are things that exists because billions of factors went in the exact right direction and at the right time to form it which is out of question for that to happen my misunderstanding. I don't know why every minute I think about it it comes down to one point... we are created by that power out there, one that controls the whole universe... Now these are my thoughts... and who am I? Nobody...

[@redem75]

Agreed, it's not rationale to put faith in random happenstance. Something isn't created from nothing. There was a start and beginning to everything, the debate is what or who had intent and implemented the beginning of all things.

[@orangelip1]

FANTASTIC ❤

[@Suchness_of_Life]

Be consciously grateful for being alive. The meaning of life is just to be alive. It’s so plain, so obvious and so simple. - AW

[@amusicment4829]

Wow!! Absolutely brilliant video, thank you - will get the book A Series of Fortunate Events , thank you!

[@shreyaaashree]

this was SOO fascinating!! especially the 1 in 70 TRILLION CHANCE!!!

[@catatonicbug7522]

Just because the chances of my existence are slim doesn't automatically mean I'm lucky or have anything to be grateful for. I just have to suffer through my existence, and eventually I'll die, just like all other life.

[@CallingAllMadMen]

Right?! Like I want to be here with all these a-holes.

[@keilder8543]

So time flies, you're only here once... make the most of it

[@BritonAD]

Hopefully there is something better after this. Yes, we didn't ask to be here.😝😝

[@ilona5746]

We didn’t ask for it, but might as well make the most out of it

[@danielclearer8026]

Yeah I dont wanna be here either fuck this world fuck my parents for having sex fuck it

[@SpiritintheSky.]

How fascinating, refreshing and thought-provoking! Thank you very much

[@joelharris4399]

Life is like a phoenix, rising from the ashes of calamities🔥 and desolation

[@LordBrittish]

So you’ve been married, huh?

[@baaro-v2x]

My fave BT gratitude vid ever 🥺🙏🏽

[@salmankayani8095]

But the question is how life started from nonliving things and what about consciousness? we can explain the materials but unfortunately, there is no clear evidence of where life and consciousness come to make our material body evolve according to time needs. we can easily understand how we are born but how and who gives soul and consciousness to a body and the only answer is that there is a creator for all these.

[@thefamousdjx]

I hate when they pretend evolution is the answer to everything instead of admitting they dont know anything! They talk as if they all come to that same conclusion but no its driven by the same text books written by clueless people that made a lot of guesswork and passed it as fact

[@shawnstatzer95]

It is natural for people's brains to fill-in-the-blanks for missing information. It is often expressed via survival and can be tested and retested ending with consistent results. It is far better to not conclude anything without sufficient evidence and to just say "I do not know." Certainly, there is nothing inheritly wrong with searching for answers and throwing out some possibility, but to label things as facts when the facts are not known, is putting the cart before the horse.

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

Since humans don't have souls, your last part was meaningless

[@victoriadepew6863]

There is no evidence for a "soul". It's a philosophical concept not a biological one. As for consciousness I think that to we overstate. Consciousness is likely an illusion of our brain that evolved over time. We weren't magically bestowed with it. Life starting at all... well that does seem to be rare and hard.... but there is also a whole lot of stuff out there .

[@oldpossum57]

Your conscious mind cannot make your body evolve. That is nonsense. Though obviously there is no settled explanation of what consciousness is, your choices are “Magic!” (not an explanation at all) or that consciousness is produced by physical bodies. Your creator is “Magic!”. The thinking pattern is obvious: I have a mother and a father. Therefore the universe as a mother and father.

[@KaMiQa16]

Amazing talk

[@MiguelQUECAMINA]

And this is why... we should ALL celebrate LIFE!

[@steelearmstrong9616]

Yep. In the end nothing matters. We are all on the same sinking boat that inevitably ends in tragedy. We will all be pain free very soon

[@MiguelQUECAMINA]

@@steelearmstrong9616 ohh someone woke up a bit catastrophic this morning....... And maybe you are right, but in the meanwhile, we can still enjoy and celebrate life!

[@steelearmstrong9616]

@@MiguelQUECAMINA ☠

[@cherylsapcote7327]

We exist because we can. Lots of matter, lots of space. Lots of dimensions, virtually infinite time. Given the basic probabilities, Why not ?

[@frankiecal3186]

Yup Accidents.😒

[@prabhakarv4193]

Very nice and informative. Thank you

[@neo26]

4:47 Wow!! DID NOT know that...and i randomly watched this. Thanks for that info. Hope humanity realizes that existence is a miracle and live in peace. Unlikely to happen but still..

[@ndrew5809]

if the meteor didn’t hit how would’ve the dinosaurs evolved now

[@cribb6376]

Be grateful your alive

[@Ingreed13]

There is no “series of accidents”. There is no coincidence. There is no luck. There is no chance. There is one God, one Creator, and everything was created and done with a purpose.

[@AngelZamorano-ug9jx]

Amen well said! It’s so ridiculous how this atheist want to deny the existence of God when it’s so obvious! They want to keep denying the existence of their own Creator who created them and loves them like that’s just crazy. Imagine how God feels or thinks when he sees all this atheist which are his creation just denying his obvious existence when the proof of his existence is all around them! A building has a builder, a painting has a painter, nothing makes itself or creates itself from nothing. Nothing comes from nothing, so there has to be something to makes something. 0+0=0, 1+1=2. There has to be an uncaused cause who always existed and is outside of time, and that is God the Creator who created all things perfectly and designed!

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

@@AngelZamorano-ug9jx Proof of his existence? Nope. But hey, you made a claim ... go ahead and support it.

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

@@AngelZamorano-ug9jx Hey kid, you've had a week to show this alleged "proof" of your god's existence, but you haven't even tried. What's the matter?

[@oldpossum57]

@@AngelZamorano-ug9jx You really are vain! You create an anthropomorphic god in your own image! The universe was created just for you, so you could sing a song of praise to the god that made all of this..for you! Self-important, are we?

[@AngelZamorano-ug9jx]

@@oldpossum57 do you agree there has to be a Uncaused Cause for there to be anything at all?

[@VietTran-xl2ms]

100%. Everything that could possibly exist has 100% of existing sooner or later. Only things that have no chance of existing will never ever arise because of the nature of impossibility itself.

[@NashPotatoesOutdoorShow]

Great video with an interesting theory...just because you speak with confidence doesn't make it so!

[@donovanjones4175]

Makes sense when you follow the science, as opposed to say, religion. In the future more information will be gathered and we will understand more.

[@KeithDart]

A confidence that comes from absorbing many years of research studies. The video is a very short summary of that accumulated knowledge. If you want to know more, you can go to your local library and read some books on evolutionary biology, geology, astrophysics, etc.

[@TattooedGranny]

Thank you! This was so informative.

[@أكرهالعربالخونةتحيافلسطين]

Describing all these amazing events as coincidences is a myth Mathematics does not like coincidence at all. The world began in a state of amazing entropy How could a zero information state suddenly produce a highly order information state without the personal intervention of an intelligent Creator?

[@Pepe-mv1ir]

then you can go a step further and ask,"how was the intelligent creator capable of creating such complex creation created" and so and so on..

[@93CRAZY93]

Why zero information state? The information was there, it was just put together in a certain way that allowed us to exist, which easily couldve been an accident in an infinite frame of space and time

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

You don't explain anything by calling upon a magical being.

[@angeladawn805]

This is essentially the opening, welcome chapter to Bill Bryson's History of (almost) Everything. It's well worth a read, it's Bryson at his best, both witty and informative

[@HakuCell]

incredible. the asteroid had to hit earth at the right time and place, in order for us to emerge. it's like a prophecy come true.

[@marcioamaral7511]

Except prophecies didn't even exist

[@edwardlee9817]

Considering how old the universe is, it’s merely a statistical probability.

[@DanFedMusic]

Atheists don't wanna hear that…

[@lm4836]

​@hope1416Who ? Luke Skywalker ? Did he cause the asteroid ?

[@ywhyy99]

@@lm4836 Lisan Al-Gaib he did😂

[@aftabkhan1961]

You exist because of statistical possibility. That’s all you need to know. We exist, we live and we die. That’s it. Get used to it and enjoy your brief time in this infinite universe.

[@kateng3081]

I feel so loved and validated by this video

[@nickrajotte6802]

Would be fitting if the video was 11:11