Everything does NOT happen for a reason | Brian Klaas

[@bigthink]

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[@psychclone]

There’s a big difference between “everything happens for a reason” and “we can find meaning in anything/everything that happens”. We are meaning-making machines as a result of evolution and the survival benefits of pattern recognition, but that also means we see patterns and causality where there is none. The vast majority of what we think “happens for a reason”, is just our brain projecting meaning and illusory patterns on random chaos.

[@HumbleShallot]

At the same time, not everything happens for no reason.

[@You_n_mee]

damn... a good one

[@SachiJones]

Somewhat aside from your point, which I agree with first of all, I'm not sure anything is truly random. It think it's a reasonable assumption to say that, as far as we can tell, the phenomena we observe is cause-effect in nature. As such, if something appears random maybe the cause-effect relationship is simply not understood yet, and perhaps only due to current technological or intellectual limitations. For example hurricanes and tornadoes used to seem random but can now be predicted with relative accuracy. And lightning was thought to strike randomly but scientists now understand the conditions that lead to lightning formation and can predict areas more likely to experience strikes during storms.

[@psychclone]

Totally agree. I certainly wasn’t arguing that there are NO cause-effect relationships in nature or, similarly, that some phenomena that currently appear random to us don’t in fact have systematic causes that we haven’t discovered or don’t yet understand (indeed, that’s the whole point of conducting science); I’m simply arguing that evolution has molded our brains to perceive more systematic causality than there actually is. It’s also the case that these illusory cause-effect relationships are often highly anthropocentric, meaning that we not only perceive these relationships where there are none but also that these relationships have some special significance/relevance to us as humans (insert religion here) or to us a person (“that person is in a bad mood, it must be because of something I did”). We don’t all make all of these errors all of the time, but definitely all make these types of cognitive errors, and we’re genetically prone to making them often.

[@prathameshrailkar6919]

I am glad you were the first comment I saw on this, because your comment has everything that I needed to explain before I said why everything does happen for a reason. So Each Individual will see different patterns or in your ignorant words, "Illusory patterns on Random chaos". And from that I derive this simple thing, there are some patterns and meanings that only a single individual human can see, in the same situation or having gone through the same experience no one else will see the meaning that that particular individual does. And this works backwards as well, that individual willnot be able to see a particular meaning that someone else might be able to see in the same situation. This means that everything does happen for a reason, it's just that the reasons can be plural and pertaining the various individuals. It is a convenient way to have a single event or experience influence different individuals in a different way and make us the unique person that we are.

[@jeremyfarley3872]

Years ago I was really diving deep into Buddhism. I was paying close attention to everyones behavior and had noticed that everything we had a cookout, all the couples were stressed out and arguing about who's turn it is to watch their child. I decided to do an experiment and decided this time I would just hang out with all the kids. Keep them occupied, had lots of activities, and pretty much played the role of fun babysitter. It was amazing watching how that change affected the whole vibe of the party. How the couples interacted with themselves and others. The stress was gone. Not one argument that I noticed and everyone had a great time. Years later some of them remembered what a great party we had that day. I've often wondered how those ripples manifested after the party. Did maybe someone's relationship get a little bit better? Was someone a bit nicer to that gas station cashier who then after having a good day at work decided to help that person with a flat tire? I tend to look on the positive side and think, in general the outcomes probably are positive but not necessarily so. What if after the party one couple ended up fighting over things that came to light during the party. Comparing themselves to other couples that seem happier. Comparing their husband to this guy who is great with kids and seemingly puts them first. Maybe that gas station cashier stopped to help a killer. As far as I know nothing of the sort happened but it has amazed me ever since, the profound effect that one person's actions can have. It's overused but we really are all floating in a sea and all of our actions create ripples that make our neighbors bobb up and down in the waves. I've never told anyone about my little experiments. Figured for them to work, no one can know that I'm manipulating them. Imagine the kind of impact I could make if I wasn't so lazy and it wasn't so exhausting? 😅

[@7t9ine]

Wooow !

[@99btyler]

Nice. It's like we are results, and we can create our own results/outcomes

[@UXtatic]

❤❤❤

[@anitarao4932]

I love this!

[@brrryan2908]

Good on you, for doing a kind thing! I often wonder when I'll get on my preferred path, and if that end result would be good.

[@MissBlueEyeliner]

I’ve been obsessed with this concept since I was old enough to see my face in the mirror above the sink in the bathroom. I obviously didn’t have words for it but I would stare at myself and marvel at my existence and how bizarre it is to exist at all. It gradually grew to drive me a little mad. Now I find it soothing.

[@TheAmazingHuman-Man]

I would stare at my face in the mirror too, but I was just trying to see if bloody mary would show up. 10/10 do not recommend trying. Was all fun and games until someone else started staring back at me.

[@MissBlueEyeliner]

@@TheAmazingHuman-Man 😂 good times.

[@AniketYadav-bl2up]

Us bro us 😅,I was also staring at me all the time forcefully 😩because of my weird GF😒

[@lifecamerakaran]

I used to do this when I was 11 - have a deep existential crisis about why I had come to be. Why was it me thinking these thoughts? What was my purpose in the world? I remember staring at myself in my bathroom's mirror - in the second flat I lived in.

[@TheAmazingHuman-Man]

I’ve been trying to get back into lucid dreaming recently. Doing like the reality check stuff from Inception. I’ll look at my hands to question whether I’m living real life or not because hands/fingers are always messed up in dreams like an AI image. Problem is now that my hands always look wrong and I’m not sure I’ve ever been truly awake. Send Morpheus please.

[@driesverhaag8955]

I love the people you get on these videos, almost always very interesting, passionate and well spoken guests. But I the comments on these videos are just so weird most of the time. Anyway, great video

[@gnocchidokie]

Actual big thinkers take in the material and spend time with it before commenting a hot take, if they comment at all. I ignore 99% of comments online for this very reason

[@louisguerin9929]

​@@gnocchidokie While deep reflection is valuable, timely feedback can also contribute to productive discussions. As someone who has occasionally disagreed with content here, I've found that respectfully expressing confusion or questioning potential logical inconsistencies can be beneficial (Ex : If someone says 1+1=3 I'm confident they are wrong and will broach the issu right away even if they are a nobel laureat). The key is to phrase comments constructively, avoiding defensiveness. Quick responses can be valid, especially for clear logical issues, but it's important to remain open to field-specific context we might not immediately grasp. The goal should be fostering respectful dialogue that refines ideas, regardless of response timing. I also understand that explaining in a few minutes understanding built on years of research is incredibly difficult and sometime straight out impossible (as some things requiere many complex reasonning steps).

[@RealDealy]

I learned this when I was younger, and started puffing herb, I noticed it was the small things I didn't plan that changed my life towards the goals I wanted BUT, it was all based on me making quick decisions. It felt like it was me being tested cause when I made poor choices, my life got HARD, but because it got hard I learned what NOT to do after that I used to think I was put here for a purpose, but as I got older I realized it was ME who was creating these purposes. I think people want to believe they were born with a purpose cause it takes the responsibility of their choices off of them

[@joshkeating7825]

Damn, bro. Well said.

[@chalermako]

When life gets HARD, that's friction, on the other side is of the friction is abundance. One never knows when friction will come, as you mention the small things you didn't plan. Ancient and modern schools of thought say lean into the friction on the the way towards the goals you want and you will bring on the abundance on the other side of friction. In essence, one will always have friction in life, but one can decide to endure and know there is abundance coming or avoid the friction, then 'life got HARD' will come when you don't expect it. 'Embrace the Suck"

[@billpetersen298]

Nicely said. Or put onto a deity.

[@Rufio1975]

I don't know. I sort of see it the opposite. Believing you are here for a purpose almost makes it where you have to take more responsibility for your choices vs someone just drifting along in life with no purpose.

[@Clra2028]

The way I would interpret what you say is the purpose gets accomplished by the way your life is led based on the choices you make. There needn’t be an actual purpose to follow through on. What needs to be followed through is your own journey back to a deeper meaningful sense of self. That is the true purpose. People force themselves into a purpose only leading to a grandiose sense of self.

[@dennistucker1153]

Love this video. Brian is talking about time and how things change over time. I did a thought experiment on this. I thought what if I could go back in time and undo a mistake. After some considerations, I came to the conclusion that it would most likely change or remove every good thing in my life.

[@ladeda3658]

I find myself pulled to let you know I disagree lol but there are many MANY choices I've made that I would change and many many better outcomes could have occurred not just or even to for me but also in the ripples.....

[@sw6118]

Right up there with “everything happens for a reason” is “god never sends you more than you can handle.” Every day, everywhere we see alcoholics, drug addicts, and suicides because people received more trouble than they could deal with. My least favorite is after something goes horribly wrong and things finally begin to turn in a more positive direction, people say “god has your back.” If god had your best interests at heart, you wouldn’t have been in that miserable circumstance in the first place. Life is full of unplanned events, how you respond to them is genetic and based on your prior experience. What’s causing so many problems is that we aren’t taught how to articulate our needs and boundaries, in the US guns are a quick fix. How much better if these gunmen would just talk to the rest of us-and no incels this doesn’t mean you only talk to the hotties, it means you talk to everyone like they’re a human being.

[@kathleen88863]

A thoughtful and relevant statement. Thanks for adding to my thought process.

[@Nope-gw7kc]

True. Kids didn't deserve cancer to "handle". The whole positive mentality doesn't work for everything. Totally agree

[@TheGreatWasian_]

I do still agree that God never sends us more than we can handle. We can handle something yet still fail to. Our ability to does not necessarily mean we will. Humans are incredibly resilient, and I do believe that for the most part humans can handle just about anything. I pray that God won't make my life harder for saying this though haha

[@sw6118]

@@TheGreatWasian_ you must be a man. Women everywhere women are saying “thank the universe that I wasn’t born female in Afghanistan” women everywhere do get more trouble than they could possibly deal with, often such trouble is delivered in the name of god.

[@sw6118]

@@TheGreatWasian_ just jeep in mind that every day there are people engaging in self harm because they cannot cope. I wonder why you want so hard to believe that these people needed to receive something so awful to handle?

[@frogery]

the best thing i ever did for myself was to stop worrying about these questions. i can only control my own actions and reactions, and whatever happens was meant to happen.

[@AmitDuttaDU]

Trying to make someone else life a little bit better- that’s a very powerful and positive statement. Loved it. Thanks for sharing.

[@SachiJones]

The statement “everything happens for a reason” can be interpreted more than one way. It seems like it's most often interpreted something like, "This unfortunate event occurred but some good will come from it," which seems to be about finding meaning. But I also hear it this way: "This unfortunate event occurred because of these preceding events." I think in this context everything probably does happen for a reason, by which I mean that for every thing there is a reason, a preceding cause, for its occurrence. And every thing in turn will cause an effect.

[@thisisme5487]

Right. Everything does happen for a reason. If a ball is in the air, there's a reason for it. The ball doesn't stay in the air for itself for a reason. Etc etc

[@thisisme5487]

By itself without a reason*

[@Zed54xp]

I think we, as humans, just always want to see connections and meanings of things to make ourselves feel better that's why it is often told that everything happens for a reason

[@amandanorth6526]

Beautiful model:elegant and useful. I think we experience "meaning" as a function of how deeply an experience resonates in our brains, how many connections we make to previous experience (conscious and subconscious) and to our current worldview - our expectations, hopes, dreams and fears.

[@locaterobin]

"Everything happens for a reason" is a way to reframe/reinterpret events - which have already happened, and their consequences are beyond our control - in a less distressful way. It's a coping mechanism. Also, it's a leap from "we don't have a cosmic purpose" to "I am free to enjoy life!". Our life comes at a cost to others as we consume to live, and consumption causes suffering (sometimes direct, sometimes a few steps removed). The least we can do is to ascribe a meaning to our lives, by helping those who can't help themselves.

[@desiree.s]

I was with him until I realized we’re just in the middle of him on his journey of finding purpose and him not tangibly realizing it yet. Please remember, alllll teachers are on their own path and can only teach from their experience as of the moment they’re speaking. He’ll come to different conclusions the further he goes into his journey. I definitely believe in his beginning thoughts though. ✨

[@TimJohnston911]

Yeah, he has formed his beliefs based on his experiences. It irritates me when people speak in absolutes like the thing is true for everyone when in fact it’s just true for him.

[@HAPPLIP]

@@TimJohnston911 Isn't it more fascinating than irritating though? Learning from other humans experiences is why we grow and evolve as human beings. If we were to show ignorance to that we'd be figuring out how to survives as cavemen. Being able to " wow I never seen/thought of it that way " is a human gift.

[@TimJohnston911]

@@HAPPLIP Totally agree that we can be in awe of, and learn from others experiences and ideas. What irritates me is when people speak in absolutes “everything does NOT happen for a reason” when we really don’t know. For me, life is way more interesting and enlightening when we can acknowledge we don’t know certain things, but some of us come to believe things based on our individual experiences.

[@mpv9866]

Sitting here on my patio watching this, next to my butterfly garden, full of monarch, gulf fritillary, swallowtails etc in their various stages... just doing my small part to save them, our planet, and allll 8B of us 🙏💚🦋 ♾

[@TheAmazingHuman-Man]

Could you stop saving them perhaps? I’m getting beat down by a hurricane over here

[@mpv9866]

@@TheAmazingHuman-Man sorry for your current weather woes. Been through Katrina and many horribly destructive weather events myself. Perhaps more people could/should protect pollinators in your area, instead of your proposal? Whose to say really. I don't feel like I am "saving them", but merely giving them a small space to flourish on their own accord. Speaking in the language of Nature, as best I can, but more importantly, listening to Her, 💚 pachamama 🙏♾ *if your comment was intended as a joke, it was almost humorous while also being almost triggering, thanks either way ⚖

[@saukash]

To anyone who is interested in the concept discussed in this video, I recommend you play the game Detroit: Become Human. That game is a perfect example and application of the fact that your decisions in the present change your future drastically. That game is a perfect example of convergent and contingent events.

[@Penwiggle]

Just bought your audiobook. Can’t wait to start listening to it.

[@bitofwizdomb7266]

I’ve always thought like this . Always been fascinated with the intricate interplay of cause and effect down to the smallest atoms, awareness, ripple effect etc. Buddhism philosophy/psychology teaches about this

[@RokBraker]

Great video - I have thought this way for a long time. We are not given purpose but you can decide how to give your time-limited existence meaning, or not. You do you.

[@sherececocco]

No meddling. Make you and your life better ✨️ everything else figures itself out. Control and connection Will not live in the same universe ✨️ No forcing. I was scared to watch this and I am glad I did. No news is truly good news. Own your mind or something else will.

[@craigmerkey8518]

Thank you for this great video! From my experience people love to blame the victim with some invisible entity in the sky instead of offering concrete action or empathy!

[@know1355]

Fate is our current circumstances in the present moment, free will is how we respond to our fate, and our destiny is a result of those choices. Our future is an ever-changing potentiality from the present moment, and our past is an ever-changing integration from the present moment. Time converges through healing (the past) and surrender (the future) in the timeless, eternal now.

[@TimJohnston911]

The world is the world is, love and life are deep, maybe as his skies are wide.

[@jaquessiemasz8650]

"It's just a ride" - Bill Hicks 1992

[@KristelViljoen]

I know from an early age that I have a cosmic purpose. Strangers would often approach me, telling me about their lives and in particular their struggles and hardships. My family are in constant awe when it happens and they are there to experience the phenomenon with me. I am used to comforting and encouraging people in my day to day living. It happens so often that this doesn't phase me anymore.

[@kimberknutson831]

Brilliant. Love this. Thank you.

[@shughes6878]

I enjoyed this video and loved the way the speaker discussed the topic. It provides me with some ways to speak about these ideas the next time I end up in a discussion of “everything happens,for a reason” versus not. And that will happen. It always does. 😂

[@EyeFreezeDry]

Wow klaas you are spot on, thank you for your explanation 🔥

[@DarkoNomad]

I enjoy listening to Brian and perspective of the world that he is exploring

[@JB.2414]

I’ve had to rewind and re-listen to this a few times. Man I need to go back to school. Very interesting and great production.

[@kingsleylaurent562]

This goes over many heads. This is some deep stuff

[@souxcasa]

"Amor Fati" is something that needs to be brought back

[@Clra2028]

This is a an excellent video, which to me has one flaw. Life has meaning and purpose. It taps into the mystical nature of life when our own lives are both ordinary and mystical and the journey of life is to go into ourselves in a way that takes us from what is ordinary to what is mystical. Then all interconnected makes sense, that our own life isn’t a fluke becomes real and how that translates outward into how we can help others becomes possible in a way that is beneficial to all. Not just me, not just you, but us. But, it takes a certainty in the wisdom that nothing is a fluke . This is my experience.

[@krembryle]

No, everything is a fluke AND it doesn't mean it's unimportant.

[@Clra2028]

@@krembryle I actually see your statement as totally valid, it seems as an inverse of what I say, yet to me it presents a valid point. Thanks!

[@crystalstrader9806]

I would submit that your description of life being both ordinary and mystical, and that we’re all interconnected, is precisely what the author argues here. You just consider it a purpose, whereas he thinks of it as a byproduct of life

[@Clra2028]

@@crystalstrader9806 I didn’t sense the same meaning I was coming from in what you say as byproduct from the video. Thank you!

[@rickemmet1104]

Hey Brian, do you read Timothy Snyder? Your work reminds me of his (to an extent) and his work overlaps the work of Orwell to a surprisingly large extent. His book, "The Road To Unfreedom" is one example and his essays on the war in Ukraine are another. I like the idea that we are constantly changing the future and what we do matters. This is similar to Snyder's starting place for any inquiry into history; he starts with existentialism. The idea that you don't have a cosmic purpose is something most thinking people grapple with, but you can simply choose a purpose! Teaching students and engaging the public with good ideas is not a bad thing to settle on.

[@roel3377]

I love these kind of videos, they make me think differently about life

[@wideawake5630]

Haven't watched yet but thanking you for the title. When I lost my home and family in a fire "everything happens for a reason" was beyond offensive, it was assaultive. Some things are by God's design. Some are not. There is such a thing as random tragedy. And, conversely, serendipity. Now I'll watch.

[@THORIFIC]

Your lesson of "accidentally here" is the only "given" purpose of life - to experience the diverse and creative opportunities which you life thru, with opportunity to grow thru them and enhance the future experiences one lives thru

[@sarathb1708]

Great insight 👍 thanks

[@nicole.wacuka]

So profound, thank you for sharing this!

[@michaelpilos]

Almost there… the next level is understanding Purposeful Design.. and Creative Energy… BUT “accident” it’s not such an intelligent positioning.. you will get there eventually 💙

[@Daniel-nm4kt]

If everything was designed by a supreme inteligence, It is inconceivable that an infinitely lesser been like humans should try to change the design. So why the hell are we curing cancer then???

[@PauL-xc6pl]

love this one! esp. the existentialism part

[@dustinmatthews387]

Another great example of the butterfly effect:the random combination of Gavrilo Princip being where he was, archiduke Franz Ferdinan deciding to visit injured friends in the hospital, despite the rioting, his motorcade trying to navigate streets they werent familiar with a flat tire incident, etc. All kicked off WW1...then during WW1, a british private deciding Not to shoot adolph hitler on the battlefield, in combination with the board of directors of the vienna art school deciding to decline hitler's admission to the school, not to mention the penalty reprocussions levied against germany for WW1, all leading to hitler & german people's resentment, which led to WW2....and just 4 yrs ago, the world changing effects because some random person residing in China, made the very poor decision to dine on an undercooked bat.🥴😬🙄

[@anora_abduhamidova]

Purpose, knowing oneself as part of something larger then isolated, self-centred concerns. Idea that in the information “ acceptance that we are just tiny beings who has no purpose and everything is just happen to happen. Well if we take look our nature I see complete opposite. I see that all we are connected in every level of our existence. And of course I cannot exist without this idea

[@bluest1524]

Thanks for putting not in all caps. Regarding the example however, of Kyoto and Hiroshima... you could hardly dream up a more dramatic example of how every tiny thing matters.

[@Flyanb]

It only appears chaotic because we don’t have the capacity to model or understand this, but if you did, I think you would see the world through the super deterministic lens. It’s just a matter of perspective. We can model three balls interacting on a pool table very accurately so that it appears deterministic. Why would it be different just because the scale is bigger? I don’t think anything is a fluke? Every quantum interaction no matter how small has a cascading impact, we just can’t see it.

[@lighting4001]

Point ☝️

[@little.pixiedoll]

5:41 "We never think that way" It's literally all I think about.

[@adalbertoruize]

To give it “your all” means to stand by the humble courage of wisdom, whose way is everlasting (unconditional/holy) life (spirit/love)

[@NashPotatoesOutdoorShow]

"Enjoy the ride." I love it!!

[@peege9000]

That Back to the Future clip is from Back to the Future Part II (1989), not the first one from 1985.

[@bthomson]

There are patterns to perceive. But there are limits to those patterns. I have a routine but things break my routine. Climate change is a big breaker of norms! Education ( of almost any sort) extends the chance that luck will happen. The saying that " Luck is when preparation meets opportunity" is important. We can create a better outcome at least some of the time!

[@HizenHerz24]

Agreed! Its always so cringe when people say "everything happens for a reason". To me its just intellectual laziness!

[@anthonyyu478]

While it might be argued that not everything has a purpose, one might make the same case that all things have consequences. The difference, I believe, lies in proactivity and mindfulness. Even the most conscious singular actions will catalyze multiple reactions. Some intended, others not. So each time we say everything happens for a reason, we either want to reinforce what we want to believe, or we are simply accepting the laws of cause and effect. Or both.

[@MichaelC-to7uz]

If everything doesn't happen for a reason, then people can find their own reasons through reflection and create meaning in their lives. Here are some ways to create meaning: Reflect: Reflective writing can help people re-evaluate situations and identify personal strengths. Create something valuable: People can take what happened to them and create something that has value. Look back with pride: People can look back at what happened with pride. Define a path forward: People can define a path forward that they might not have taken otherwise. Some say that the brain projects meaning and patterns on random chaos, making it seem like things happen for a reason. Others say that things happen by chance with no cause or reason, which is called random.

[@Salma_Sayed11]

I may oppose to the idea "I am a fluke as in my existence" but I liked the difference between fluke and convergence. Definitely interesting video.

[@PersonalDevice-u7c]

Well, I really didn't understand that much... Any Explanation??

[@deeprincess3159]

❤Thanks for sharing awesome

[@annakonda6727]

Thank you for saying so! It turns my stomach when I hear ignoramuses bleating "everything happens for a reason"!!

[@David-gu8hv]

It is just as mistaken to think that you KNOW that everything does NOT happen for a reason as it is to think you KNOW that it does. We can't know either way. Either belief is a faith. Scientists are often inclined to believe that it's not true while religious people are inclined to believe that it is...

[@shyamalganguly3598]

I'm a firm believer of: EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON! The problem is we are so little to have the meanings of all the happenings in the universe - too enormous to comprehend - even at a tiny level around our individual entity of existence which is the effects of many unnoticed, inexplicable, beyond our reach in a regular apprehensive manner could be trapped or made to be by a decisive divice we don't have within us or available by the aggregation of best human efforts up till now! Butterfly effect is just a concept which isn't a reality or proven to be said decisively that it's real! In these scenarios of little information even at the tiniest level of apprehension is too infinite to be fathomable by our capacity to explain, we are better off with the thinking that what is beyond our comprehension shouldn't be accounted for and better not even try them because it seems impossible at the moment we are happily placed! We make ourselves happy by saying that each one of us is a chance Or fluke - what else we cannot even think of - because, we are unable to connect the random happenings around our individual existence, not to try them foolishly for reason of them being incomprehensible! But it is possible to understand or feel at the least giving a little effort if made anyway we we'd see all the happenings are only the connections of experiences we missed to reason an aftermath of a great mishap or happiness! We generally term unhappiness as not being properly channelled to be in the state of grief or we're in the right channell not to have found an obstacle to have bothered them to see a smooth life of happiness! But in practice both happiness and grief have definite resons to befall someone! One unhappily born child could a series of positive things - mostly go unnoticed- falling in place made it through the unhappiness and well placed we easily infer that he or she is happy because of his or her luck or maybe fluke or just chance, because all are the lack of our data sets (maybe available but not encrypted or beyond our capacity to even encrypt the vital data to provide the conclusive decision) which made us to conclude that! Taking birth is chanced as long we don't know which single father sperm out of hundreds of thousands would bond with a mother egg to make us take the one of us and this is where we are so easy to say that we are all from a chance factor and nothing more than that! If Hiroshima Nagasaki incidents weren't in place it must be feeling of the love of the places transmitted (it's my explanation) somehow to destruction ( needless, we may infer, for the inability to know why it was really needed on the innocent peace loving people) of the two places rather than it was meant for! We have lot of experiences of unfortunate destructive events in lives of humble people much less a sight for the more imposing foreboding lives which could be natural or man-made, but in depth it's overtly man-made - as long as we can have data for an event - and complacency of being untouched where we are! It's an unfinished topic whether something happen as an effect of many prior related happenings is incompressible for definite reasons we cannot have right at the moment of our civilization! Maybe one day we'll be able to decipher everything the cause of an event! 😅😅❤❤

[@AntoineVideoLibrary]

Great video, but the ad is extremely long.

[@alexeyrodokanakis8827]

It’s seems strange that the progression of technology is subsuming the arts instead of mindless tasks. Ai is killing the writers, the visual artists and the musicians but it isn’t doing taxes, cleaning houses and picking up the trash…

[@spillagonner]

I have never been told that I am in control of my "path through life."

[@MrRatMommy]

7:00 just be a good person and make this world a better place.

[@lorenzofrizzera]

Recognizing randomness as the ultimate driver of events still requires a trust based on scientific evidence and the capability of our models to describe and predict our reality. It remains a matter of faith since intermediate drivers exhibit emerging order and the universe seems to accumulate information in chaos.

[@Cosmosisification]

Brian Klaas is one of the best speakers I've ever seen. I mean, I'm not gonna watch this video because I suspect I won't care about whatever he's about to talk about and I'm afraid he's going to jedi mind trick me into caring about something stupid. But I've seen him in other videos and he's a world-class speaker. I'm particularly drawn to his talk about how our political system is built specifically to get people elected who just want power. Very compelling guy.

[@DudeMaybeSomeday]

He's not trying to jedi mind trick you into anything. He's explaining that life is simply what it is and to put too much meaning behind your existence is just silly. You can still do all the things you're already doing, but the reality is you're just tinkering with your time until death, so make it a wholesome experience. You 'should' already know this. I clicked on this because I was curious about the 'everything doesn't happen for a reason' title. Things may not happen for a reason, but the actions we take can provide reason when things do go right or wrong, and that is subjective for everyone. However, he is correct that nothing happens for a reason, but the reality of actively thinking this doesn't improve quality of life; so meh.

[@edgarmorales4476]

Most people shy away from the suggestion that they alone are responsible for their troubles. It is more difficult for most people to face up to their inadequacies than it is for those who have the inner strength and self-confidence to look at themselves fairly and squarely. Nothing happens by chance! Everything is woven out of the inner threads of our personal consciousness-thoughts, expectations, beliefs in life, fate, "God." We live in a world of our own making! This is why children raised in the same environment turn out differently. Each one has their own individual mindset constructed according to inherent character traits. Most people go through their entire life believing they are unfortunate. They think that other people have been mean, unkind, ugly to them and have made their life thoroughly unhappy. They believe that "other people" quarrel with them and constantly make difficulties, while they are absolutely innocent of any provocation. On the contrary, "other people" are not to blame. It is the personal mindset that is attracting to them their negative conditions.

[@chocomalk]

Technically, as far as we know, chaos derives from the same source everything else does and that is the big bang so if that is correct then it isn't chaos just more effect from the original cause IE hard determinism.

[@theartistbanda]

I once had Idea, same like your sponsor Ground but, I thought of social media rather than a news channel. As lots of the news are consumed today on social media. I assume 60% of the readers don't care about the legitimacy of facts or truth. A social media for such a wide audience, which also helps them to see they are being manipulated is business with a great cause.

[@Kevin-ew1xz]

This was really interesting. Thank you 🤩

[@Pumpkiwi47]

I read his book just last month, safe to say I don't see the world the same way anymore.

[@Uncommonsenses]

All things have causes, therefore all things happen for a reason. Where we go wrong is in supposing that all things happen in our favor or all things happen for an eventually apparent moral reason.

[@edgarmorales4476]

Most people shy away from the suggestion that they alone are responsible for their troubles. It is more difficult for most people to face up to their inadequacies than it is for those who have the inner strength and self-confidence to look at themselves fairly and squarely. Nothing happens by chance! Everything is woven out of the inner threads of our personal consciousness-thoughts, expectations, beliefs in life, fate, "God." We live in a world of our own making! This is why children raised in the same environment turn out differently. Each one has their own individual mindset constructed according to inherent character traits. Most people go through their entire life believing they are unfortunate. They think that other people have been mean, unkind, ugly to them and have made their life thoroughly unhappy. They believe that "other people" quarrel with them and constantly make difficulties, while they are absolutely innocent of any provocation. On the contrary, "other people" are not to blame. It is the personal mindset that is attracting to them their negative conditions.

[@jungleking9]

We have reached a point where no person is controlling their own fate.. the algorithms decide what we watch.. the billionaires decide what we do and the government decides what we can't.. our Individual choices are non-existent 😢

[@SPIRITWILDCHILD28]

I have never believed that everything happens for a reason, it just makes no sense. It's more like a religious thing, which also makes no sense. Thank you so much for making this video.

[@aadityabanerjee7878]

I disagree. Even if it may seem that some of our actions have no consequences, they may have consequences for others, or they are not visible to us.

[@tyranmcgrathmnkklkl]

Butterfly effect. The smallest shift in trajectory will lead you to an increasingly different life, the further in time you go.

[@GloryDaze73]

@ Big Think . Wtf is that background NOISE effect ??

[@AndreaLikesMusic]

Being yourself and loving people can be a cosmic purpose. Has your life ever changed bc someone loved you authentically? You don’t have to be some great inventor or philosopher to have a huge impact. Think about it. ❤

[@AidanDorrian-ji9cj]

Imagine Rational, Emotional, and Vibrational convergences, in the continuum

[@BillyJupiter]

When "For A" turns into "Without", the quest for, turns into an answer why. "Careful seeking meaning, where there is none." - Gandalf

[@KobyFCooking]

Both ways of thinking are valid. The problem is that you can't prove either is true. You can't prove that you're a cosmic accident, neither can you prove that fate is real. All you can do is learn about the nature of reality and come up with your own conclusions. Know one thing - regardless of your conclusions reality is what ultimately decides what's true. Not you.

[@tyranmcgrathmnkklkl]

I like this. We can attempt to get closer to reality. Godspeed to those who try.

[@burningoceanfloor1560]

And yet there it is. How is chaos undeniable if it's all we've ever known. You have to understand that the person you think you are is also a figment of your imagination that helps you stay grounded on this world. Without it you'd leave. The you places these patterns because wherever it comes from, things do happen for a reason

[@marius7454]

This guy just explained the meaning of life in 10 minutes, amazing

[@spidercherry108]

Not really

[@andrewpepperoni197]

Im definetly reading the book.

[@anthonymcnamee6297]

Balance is the key

[@derrickscott9469]

Everything happens for a cause. That's the truth of a causal universe. "Reason", "meaning", "purpose", "free will" etc. are inventions of the mind. We assign value to these concepts because they help our feeble minds make sense of the universe, human behavior and social order in a good enough way for us to function. It's how we cope, which is fine in moderation. What's not fine is our growing extremist/anti-intellectual culture where people seem to reject belief in truth, causality and empathy because they prefer magical malignant bullshit.

[@tyranmcgrathmnkklkl]

Effects are preceded by causes, in a chain spanning the length of known time. The complexity of which may give rise to an illusion of free will.

[@derrickscott9469]

@@tyranmcgrathmnkklkl spot on. The equation is too long and intricate for us to grasp more than a few variables at a time.

[@regaininglife9084]

There are nothing wrong with those inventions of the mind. Or else you will be a sheep led to slaughter.

[@regaininglife9084]

@@tyranmcgrathmnkklkl There is some truth to this. But you are basically saying your destiny is set in stone and you should be a sheep that is led to slaughter. You are basically saying we are all helpless. Not true.

[@bipolargamechanger]

“Life is synchronicity for those with the eyes to see it.” - Carl Jung

[@unchartedterritoryofficial]

please do correction in subtitle section, doesn't match with voice

[@bernardzsikla5640]

How is this perspective different than the stoic concept of soft determinism???

[@thomasallison1514]

Clip at 5:33 is actually from Back to the Future II.

[@debbi555]

Dude spot on. My brain is alive

[@elcuranderointerior7542]

I agree with everything, humans we have a need to explain, find reasons, meanings, explanations, it is embedded in our evolutinary wiring and it takes a lot of humbling to come to accept we are just accidents, as everyhting aournd us is, there is no reason, no script, all chaos, only cherish the present moment.....

[@ekakijsn]

5:51 Wait! How do you know,…that?

[@jeronimotamayolopera4834]

NOTHING WE DO MATTERS.

[@tyranmcgrathmnkklkl]

It does. Your actions shape the future. Students talk about significant teachers guiding their life's path. If you kill someone, you've taken away a family member, a source of happiness and emotions in general. Every person you interact with is changed because of it. Some moments of your life are more significant in _mattering_ than others, but you matter nonetheless.

[@george5464]

Everything happening for a reason is just the recognition that it doesn’t happen for any reason we could possibly give. Call it the Tao, God or just the unfolding of nature. It happens because it happens, which in other words means it happens for a reason

[@crystalstrader9806]

What, bro?

[@alphamale950]

i cant understand, why your channel dosen't have subscribers in billions??

[@joannemarkov]

Sliding Doors taught me all this decades ago. Kidding - this is a fascinating topic.

[@crystalstrader9806]

Brian Kyla’s mentions Sliding Doors in his book!

[@joannemarkov]

@@crystalstrader9806 That's awesome!

[@joshc643]

I will be unreasonably mad at myself for the next week still, because the day the powerball was won last week was when I said mega millions ticket to the gas station attendant, and not powerball. Logically I know I had zero chance to win anyways, but knowing I slipped up on the day it was won will be in my mind for awhile. Again, logically I know I wouldn't have won, but the damn emotion of shame is there. That slight misstep could've fd me over or who knows, maybe winning would ruin me too. We can never know.

[@GamingNXS]

Him: "We ARE somewhere between chaos & order" while explaining Convergence vs Contingency. Me: Jordan Peterson-lookin' ahhh. (P.S> No shade, both are brilliant. Just a joyful little reminder of someone he's likely studied at one point, among so many others that have educated this brilliant man)

[@unchartedterritoryofficial]

correct the subtitle timestamps

[@hva61]

It's very difficult to understand the mechanisms of law of karma

[@bobbeckishere]

That clip is from Back to the Future 2 in 1989, not Back to the Future in 1985.

[@jakeho4390]

at any given point in time, your present is now your past