Getting Closer To Understanding Consciousness ⚡️

[@adisario]

The best ride at Disneyland is the one where they grab you by the ankles and shake you upside down until all the money falls out of your pockets.

[@tiffanyloverbug1988]

LOL

[@Vacant_Lot]

Why do you think they kept Space Mountain that dark? 😂

[@Blinkerd00d]

Oh yes, the Garth Brooks ride.....

[@Australian_Made]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@SuperCoon88]

That’s why you go to Universal Studios instead! Better rides and more reasonable prices ftw.

[@robomatt101]

Correction at 3:46. Saturn would not look like that from Titan. the ring system would not be visible because the Titan orbits on the same plane axis as the rings.

[@mikeevans7094]

Why do people like us exsist why are we like this😂

[@patrickcairns4793]

Not to mention Titan isn't a planet lol

[@Drunk3nMonk3y72]

Are you sure? Those ice rings are pretty big

[@troliskimosko]

@@Drunk3nMonk3y72Well not on their edge they’re not. Edge on the rings are almost invisible. In fact, they’re about to be edge on from our perspective. Point your telescopes at saturn in march of 2025!

[@gustavgnoettgen]

​@@mikeevans7094 We like knowledge? We are curious?

[@Oilzins]

(MSc molecular biologist take) It's been like 16 years since I reviewed the peer-reviewed papers on scent and pheromone theory, but here's what I remember in a nutshell:: 1.- (trivial solution) human smelling acuity makes them unreliable. 2 (actually interesting): apparently the attraction or repulsion to human smells (sweat) is linked to histocompatibility factors, acting as a repulsor for people that share the same histocompatibility alleles, and sometimes (slight deviation from expected noise value) as an attractor for people with different MHC alleles, lending credit to the hypothesis that in humans, human pheromones serves as an immune complementarity mating selector (although a very weak one due to the sense's limitation)

[@wendys9500]

That's what I've heard as well! I heard about some study where women rank sweaty t-shirts. That makes more sense to me rather than some universal attraction pheromone.

[@michelleappenheimer4670]

It's been since I was an undergrad, back in the 80s, but remember learning in a genetics course that in mice, there are pheromone genes that are tightly linked to MHC, and that they were probably about inbreeding avoidance.

[@moniqueengleman873]

👏👏👏

[@joescott]

Amazing comment! Thank you!

[@Oilzins]

@@joescott u r welcome! (Feel free to pick my brain whenever you want, if you give me enough time I'll include references)

[@CeeMartinezSaysHi]

Dude the entire idea of consciousness and star trek transporters freaks me out. I'm like Barclay in STNG all paranoid and needing shuttle transport 😂

[@dettective]

How is this comment 7 hours ago?

[@NakedSageAstrology]

​​@@dettective "BE-Cause Life is an infinite series of Dreams within Dreams; each Waking state, eventually called the Dreaming state -once death happens, and the Dreamer "Wakes" into the next Celestial Dream, which then will too be called the Waking state." From -Codex of the Celestial Dream: Secrets of the Multiverse Hidden in Vedic Astrology

[@cp37373]

@@dettective you must be new to KZbin

[@Vercingetorix525]

​@marioskapsokostas4132 yeah it releases earlier for people with memberships and stuff

[@creedsixteen891]

I wonder if cosmic rays would interfere with the particles during transfer. Anton was explaining those the other day. Good show!

[@JeffSpurlock]

Re: AI developing Sentience/Consciousness I really appreciated an analogy Yuval Noah Harari makes in Nexus. Airplanes, a human invention, didn’t need to evolve feathers and flapping wings to fly like birds. It wasn’t necessary for the airplanes to accomplish its goal of flying. The development went straight to something else, and surpassed birds in terms of speed and distance. AI may not ever need to develop human concepts like sentience and consciousness in order to accomplish its goals. It could very easily jump to something else entirely that we don’t have a concept for.

[@beansworth5694]

I think that analogy is functionally a good warning as to how something as simple as an LLM or parole algorithm can harm humans, however consciousness and sentience as a topic aren't really something you can simply "skip" while also having a sense of being through which to accomplish goals. Maybe it is limited to the depth of awareness more similar to an insect than a man, but I find it very difficult to believe that we should conceptualize such a being as internally inert as a rock.

[@amihartz]

I do think if we ever achieve a generally intelligent AI it will develop some concepts around "consciousness" that is similar to humans. The reasoning for this is that a lot of our concepts of what our "consciousness" entails arises from the division of labor within the brain, as biologists call it, or functional specialization, as psychologists call it. Neural networks are pattern recognition machines and recognizing patterns is ultimately about optimizing a function, and optimization ultimately leads the brain's neurons to be divided up. It would be very inefficient if every neuron was involved in processing every bit of information at every step of the way. Instead, for example, when it comes to visual information, the neurons closest to the optical inputs are the first to process that information and do the majority of the processing of visual information. Hence, if your visual cortex gets damaged, you can go blind, but if your auditory cortex is damaged, you won't go blind, because the tasks are loosely divided between sections of brain kind of like a company dividing up labor between different departments just because it's more efficient than expecting every department to work equally on everything. There is thus no reason to suspect that if we built a machine that is based on pattern recognition and thus ultimately optimizing a function that it would not exhibit functional specialization once it got complex enough, and indeed there are papers already showing that current AI is already exhibiting this. But why is functional specialization so important? It's important because dividing labor in the brain this way leads to a centralized department whereby all higher-level reasoning is done, which for humans is the prefrontal cortex, whereby all other parts of the brain are largely involved in lower-level reasoning. This has a profound effect on how we perceive our own minds, because the part of the brain that is capable of high-level reasoning and thus being self-aware and even capable of reflecting upon this question is also, in a sense, loosely sectioned off from the other parts of the brain that are doing lower-level reasoning. This means that all the information being fed to the higher-level reasoning center of the brain is preprocessed from the lower-level parts of the brain of which the higher-level reasoning center has no awareness of how that preprocessing was even performed. When you see an elephant, for example, the elephant you see is actually an image generated by your visual cortex that is already heavily preprocessed and interpreted, yet _you_ (the prefrontal cortex) have no conscious awareness of how this image was actually generated. This creates a feeling of disconnect as if you are not perceiving reality directly as it actually is but are "trapped in your own mind" so to speak, which is why historically philosophers have described consciousness as a sort of "Cartesian theater," as if you are in a theater watching films about the outside world but not interacting with the outside world directly. That is because your visual cortex is what is interacting with the outside world the most directly but the visual cortex is too simple to achieve self-awareness, and the part of the brain that is tasked self-awareness and self-reflection also has no awareness of what the visual cortex is actually doing and can only operate on its preprocessed outputs. I think where the overwhelming majority of philosophers fail is that they conclude from this that we do not perceive objective reality directly as it actually is, and then got lost in confusion about solipsism or mysticism relating to idealism or what have you. However, the much simpler answer is that we do indeed perceive objective reality directly as it really is, but what you are actually directly perceiving is those parts of your brain that are feeding information to you. That is how they actually exist in the real world, not as they exist when you reflect light off of them and look at the light indirectly (i.e. if you cut open someone's head and look at their brain), but it is how those parts of the brain look as _directly_ perceived in reality. If my speculation is right that AI would indeed continue to exhibit functional specialization as you scale up the algorithms, if it ever achieved a level of general intelligence, it would also experience this kind of separation as the part of the neural network that is capable of self-reflection would be specialized and thus loosely divided from the other parts, and either it would lead the AI to the same kind of confusion that has plagued most western philosophers for centuries, or it would just be smart enough to immediately recognize that that this seeming disconnect is merely due to the properties of its neural network and nothing to be confused about.

[@squirlmy]

@@amihartz I suggest you search "do we perceive reality as it is" and Donald Hoffman, who argues that living beings have evolved only to "see" or detect what helps us procreate. It's a lot easier to see how this works in microscopic creatures, but after all, there are about 8 billion humans now and we evolved from these simple cellular creatures. I was about to say "detect reality", but the truth is that certain illusions help us survive. In humans, compensating for the blind spots in our retinas, for example. "Reality" would have two black spots in our field of vision at all times. The brain compensates so we don't, and that's a good thing, at least as it relates to using sight to survive and reproduce. I think you've fallen a little behind in the latest neuroscience and your post is kinda limited to neurobiology/neurochemistry anyways. "Philosophers" consider things like Joe's "Star Trek transporter" talk. That consciousness might be outside the brain, and our brain is basically a receiver or amplifier of signals for consciousness, whether they be quantum scale or even in an another dimension entirely.

[@easy_s3351]

Interesting thing about pheromones is that plants use them to communicate. Recent research showed that in case of danger, for instance a plant getting eaten by insects, plants give off pheromones to warn other plants. And they also give off other pheromones that attract for instance birds who'll eat the insects. Another way they use pheromones is to attract or repel certain types of fungi or bacteria, helping to protect against infections or promote beneficial interactions.

[@MrEvdog15]

That's hilarious to think about because a plant can't just get up and run if its neighbor is being eaten by insects 😂😂

[@MrJBA79]

Next year a pheromonal PC will go to market, it's very slow. And, you have to grind up against it to turn it on.

[@easy_s3351]

@@MrEvdog15 Of course running isn't an option for a plant (unless they are Triffids) but there are other defenses a plant can put up. For instance they can produce certain chemicals that make them less tasty or even deter the attacker. And by warning the other plants those other plants also start to give off the same pheromones, like the ones that attract natural enemies of the attacker, increasing the chance and likely the number they'll attract.

[@transmascdruid77]

So, does that mean that the cut grass smell is classified as a pheromone?

[@susear5939]

​@@transmascdruid77 sweet sweet smell of plant blood

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

If self awareness is a measure of consciousness, then I can think of multiple people (mainly politicians) who must therefore not be conscious.

[@koobs4549]

I thought politicians were ONLY capable of being aware of themselves

[@SR-ry6hs]

They are fully self aware, they are just greedy and power hungry and know the script it takes to stay there. If only the majority of people understood that and voted better people into office, we could make some positive changes. Most people think like ants and follow whatever the ant next to them is doing.

[@HX3ne]

I’m sure they’re aware, but like always, money clouds their judgement.

[@Iam590]

This dude had no idea what's he's taking about, awareness is that which never changes consciousness is that always changes. The bare natural state is universal

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

@@Iam590 Take your pseudo-religious nonsense somewhere else.

[@nathangoddard8115]

The thing that keeps me up at night is that, at the most basic level, we are conscious energy. And stranger still, from what know, the energy is uniform.

[@scribslayer]

Thank you for the chair spin. I can stop obsessing for a bit

[@olgagerman9216]

Joe, just wanted to mention that your channel is officially my favourite one on KZbin 😁 you always rock with your insights and research

[@codyhaar1966]

Agreed, informative, interesting and funny. Joe is the best. Plus he just seems like a nice guy. I'd love to get a beer with him!

[@kategoings8407]

Hi Joe, I haven't been watching for long but your channel has been added to my reasons for getting out of bed. I have to start every morning in a special chair for at least a half an hour, in order to be mobile for the day. You are now part of the short list, #4 actually, of channels that help make that time easier to deal with. Thus, being part of the reason that I actually get out of bed and don't lay there soaked in depression over my physical limitations all day. Thanks for being a funny nerd that talks about interesting stuff. I appreciate you.🤗

[@phoenixdavida8987]

Hey! I have to do dialysis for 4 hours 4 days a week. So i totally get it. Most people sleep through it but not me, my mind is too active.

[@Dsblmt]

18:37 Look into the book The Scented Ape. My theory is that our increased hygiene and the desire to smell like other things has decreased our ability to communicate through scent chemicals. I hypothesize if we continued our good hygiene but removed fragrances from products we may see all improvement in communication and understanding between individuals.

[@jasonremy1627]

Joe reading Amazon product reviews for pheromones is not the content we asked for, but it is the content we need.

[@mattlassen5948]

The smell of popcorn was so prevalent in Sears department stores that it began to be associated with it. The clothes that came from Sears would retain that smell and possibly infused with it, so if a shirt from Sears were a gift you'd know where it came from even if your aunt swore it was purchased at Macy's.

[@Forty2de]

1. The woo-woo thing about the double-slit experiment having the implication that consciousness shapes reality in some form is bollocks because you don't need consciousness to collapse the wave-functions; any sort of interaction or measurement will do the trick, conscious or not. 2. The teleportation problem that you mentioned is interesting in its own right, but when you take it further it only gets weirder. We know that there isn't a single particle in your body that isn't exchangeable, because all particles of the same type are identical. If you instantly switched all the protons in your body with another set of protons then there would be no difference whatsoever. That means you could in theory teleport half of your particles to one body and the other half to another body, and replace the missing two halves with another set from storage. Or better yet, you don't need to send your particles at all, you can just construct as many bodies as you want from the original data and they would all be you. So which body do you experience ending up in after entering the teleporter? The correct answer is all of them. The ones leaving the teleporter will find that which body they ended up in was completely random, and they are all the same entity who entered the teleporter. From this experiment and based on everything else we know, the only sensible conclusion is to me that every conscious mind, as corny as it sounds, is merely the universe experiencing itself. We nod when we hear that and roll our eyes, but it is much more significant than what people give it credit for. It is not just a poetic way of expressing our existence, it is literal. If we call it a "soul" then every conscious being is sharing that "soul", we're all incarnations of each other. Think of it this way: When you die you are "reincarnated" as every single conscious being there ever was and ever will be across space-time, in much the same way that the teleporter has you end up in all the bodies at once. When you construct a conscious being with that sort of technology, it is *always* you who's experiencing that entity no matter which person you constructed. When you go to non-existence, there is by definition neither space nor time, meaning that the same event that caused you to pop into existence the first time can happen again anywhere and any time. Non-existence is always the same, what happened before life is identical to what happens after life, *by definition.* If the conditions are the exact same then the same events will always follow. As such, our existence doesn't follow a linear path, existence is everything everywhere all at once. The entirety of space-time is like a static frame, a still painting containing the aggregate of our experiences from the beginning of life until the heat death of the universe 100 trillion years from now. And you are experiencing all of it. Hello, other me. I hope you're having a nice day.

[@reshpeck]

Physicists have attempted a number of experiments that can somehow show evidence of the wave-function collapsing without us somehow being aware that it had happened and to my knowledge there is no way to do that. I mean, it's a philosophical problem at some point: how can we know something has happened without being made aware of it having happened?

[@phoenixdavida8987]

Hello other me!!!

[@sprinklesharkie]

hello other me !

[@stellarwind1946]

Now define measurement

[@h2o848]

⁠​⁠@@stellarwind1946The widespread misconception with the double slit experiment is that our instruments measuring the particles are the ones doing the "observing," not us

[@ceresleepy1837]

Rarely do I click on a video of yours so fast but ah man this is surely gonna be a fun 'un. Thanks for the mornin upload mr professional stranger

[@catalystcomet]

When I'm dating someone, there's definitely every now and again a certain somebody that can come along and their armpits smell really really good. I don't care if you guys think I'm weird, I know I'm not the only one. And when it comes to our sense of smell as a species, we actually can smell rain better than sharks can smell blood in the water. So I mean, we actually have a pretty keen sense of smell for things that are bodies are attuned to. I'm not the science guy or anything, I'm just a high school dropout but correct me here if I'm wrong

[@CeeMartinezSaysHi]

In the days of yore lovers exchanged "love apples" which were apples held in sweaty armpits and Italian mothers used to tell their daughters to choose a mate based upon armpits smell. So you're just old school is all 😊

[@heatherrhodge2588]

Wow..that's crazy!! Did they get to see their potential mates, or did they have to select one purely based off arm pit apples? ​@CeeMartinezSaysHi

[@scottzehrung4829]

I read that hair is there to retain the pheromones for mate selection.

[@marjieestivill]

I met a Scottish man whose armpit smell sent me to bliss. He was weirded out but I stayed with him for years despite knowing he wouldn’t marry me. My only theory is that my mother’s family were entirely Scottish-Americans and at a deep level, my body “knew” this familiar biochemical sea blended well with my own…

[@treesmantrees]

I'm a maintenance guy for a school. I smell sometimes. Often probably lol, the lady teachers can't get enough once I start sweating. Science!

[@xelasomar4614]

Perhaps, Sentience: awareness of your environment. Consciousness: on top of sentience, awareness of the self.

[@Nick_Slavik]

😒 I was hoping for a deep dive on the better understanding of consciousness topic

[@jackiespaceman]

Same I hate these lightning rounds.

[@Nick_Slavik]

@@jackiespaceman I don't hate them, per se, but they used to be labelled as lightning round, and the lightning round vids are becoming more frequent. Like other KZbinr's doing they "I tested all the things in America" style videos lately

[@QualeQualeson]

The consciousness "mystery" thing is BS. If you wanna know what consciousness is, check the wiki. It's awareness, that's all it is. No woo-woo required, past the fundamental "why is there anything." A tree has it, your cat (mom) has it, all life has it. Ours is just... our version, a version that's supremely good at getting lost in the sauce as we marvel at our ability to observe ourselves and also think about how big a rock God could create and throw.

[@macmcleod1188]

​@@QualeQualesonyou were doing pretty good until the second half. No many animals don't have awareness. Some dogs, elephants, some of the great apes, some cats do you have awareness. Probably a host of other smart species as well. But many don't have awareness. Many still feel pain and there are some indications that some plants may react very slowly in a way that shows they feel pain. Also, many animals that lack awareness appear to express some intelligence and some emotions.

[@Xsomono]

​@@macmcleod1188It comes down to what you consider as awareness, right? What is awareness in you opinion such that dogs and elephants have it but plants don't?

[@patc1096]

Hey Joe, just want to say thanks for all the interesting content over the years. It's gotten me through losing my father. Keep doing all you do.

[@Kalepsis]

Thanks for sticking with the chair spin.

[@ryanjohnson3615]

Nice. I appreciate an ending without a sponsor ad read. Brain can continue to ponder the topics without the smell of burning brakes. Thanks Joe!

[@MylesField]

I like your GoT eyeball planet theory! The only problem though is that we see a clear day and night cycle, in both the original show and in HotD which takes place 200 years prior.

[@blacksmith67]

I came here to point out exactly this.

[@murray42076]

I’ve went down a rabbit hole with learning as much as possible lately. All sorts of different topics, from all sorts of different cultures and/or time periods. Watching your videos has been a breath of fresh air. I’ve learned tons in just a few short videos, and they are extremely entertaining to me. Keep up the good work, and I’ll be watching more of your videos.

[@hallucinati]

Thank you SO MUCH for putting the drums at the beginning again!!

[@ectothermic]

That second question about consciousness. The game Soma makes that a major plot point. Throughout the game you have to tackle that whole dilemma of copying and consciousness teleporting. I won't spoil anything but you reminded me to replay that, I love that game.

[@MarkoCloud]

15:54 that's the face of someone who has had to endure Disneyland for the sake of the family while bleeding money from every orifice.

[@FerousFolly]

7:25 important distinction to make here is the difference between sentience and sapience. sentience is defined as seen here, but sapience is the particular quality of self-awareness. awareness of environment is one thing, but awareness of one's existence within that environment is another step above, and is where introspection and complex thought likely begins to emerge.

[@tylerlocke2603]

taking a graduate level cognitive neuroscience class right now and you have somehow hit two topics we’ve discussed in class recently in this video and the video in which you talked about gazzaniga and his findings with the corpus callosotomies. good work lol

[@joescott]

Glad I’m generally in the right wheelhouse.

[@michaelpipkin9942]

In "Wanders" voiced by Carl Sagan, I want to go to a low gravity, high-density atmosphere Moon and fly around with "wings". Sounds damn fun.

[@JinKee]

If the high density substance is not breathable, you can! We call it “swimming”

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

A low gravity planet or moon is extremely unlikely to exist.

[@bay0r]

joe scott appreciation comment

[@generic6ixty5ive]

More people need to like this comment rn. We appreciate Joe's work, don't we?!

[@xelasomar4614]

We may not "smell" pheromones, but they can trigger reactions. There are many gases that we can not smell "odorless" but affect us.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

Radon gas being a perfect example of an odorless gas which can cause serious radiation damage to lungs.

[@nemonomen3340]

I don’t think radon gas is a pheromone.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

@@nemonomen3340 Did you just forget to read the last sentence in the post to which I responded? Or did you just not bother before making a tool of yourself?

[@xelasomar4614]

@@nemonomen3340 Point being, you don't have to smell it to affect you. It can still trigger chemical reactions.

[@nemonomen3340]

@@GeraldH-ln4dv I did, in fact, read the full comment. Most people would be able to tell from context clues that the post was talking about pheromones, not other gases. But I understand that some people may struggle with understanding that.

[@bathbomber]

Fruit fly brain/consciousness and pheromones both need their own episodes

[@romancetag9313]

Had a funny chat with ChatGPT about consciousness and whether it is a byproduct of physical body. I have specifically asked for something that has scientific research behind it. After about an hour of asking different questions and going through all the arguments for Yes it is and No it isn’t, I decided to ask Chat’s opinion. Interestingly enough it told me this: “So, if I had to pick, I'd lean toward the idea that consciousness is more than just a byproduct of the brain. It may be deeply connected to the brain for our human experience of it, but perhaps it's a fundamental aspect of reality, like space, time, or energy, that the brain taps into or organizes rather than creates outright.”

[@ucantSQ]

I know there isn't much evidence for it, but I like the brain-as-antenna model, and nonlocal consciousness. It was Aldous Huxley, in his book "The Doors of Perception" that turned me on to this idea. He calls the brain a "reducing valve," and indeed, our brains do a lot of editing between the raw sensory data and the final cut. I can't remember if he argued for a nonlocal consciousness or not, but the idea took up residence in my brain. Too many of my various psychedelic trips have offered me very similar evidence that Huxley was working with when he wrote that book. It's hard to put the idea away after having the first hand experience of it.

[@scottgarriott3884]

This is exactly borne out of NDE studies (which many doctors are now eagerly studying and no longer shaming) where experiencers report greatly expanded consciousness (beyond words) once free of the brain's limitations. But some consciousness studies still ignore this idea, forcing the entire issue to be seen as contained within our 3D universe.

[@michaellowe860]

I used to be a buyer of computer equipment for a for a few hundred employees. We had top level developers & system trouble shooters (A) who definitely needed the latest & greatest computer & software. But it's not like their old machine disappeared. The machines got passed down the line to some who didn't need the latest thing just something good (B). Then the 2 year old machine B was using went down the line to worker (C). C's machine goes to worker (D) and so on until the gear was too old to be useful.

[@philopharynx7910]

If excess budget at the end of the year was given to employees or managers, then there would be an incentive to cut costs in order to make more money. For example, a lot of maintenance can be deferred. You don't pay the cost now, but the eventual failure usually costs more than the accumulated maintenance costs.

[@LostMekka]

if you want to experience the terror of teleportation creating a clone instead of teleporting you first hand, i can recommend playing the game soma. they tackle that theme excellently

[@mutantryeff]

I'd rather send our politicians to somewhere like Titan or Mercury

[@k1ngk4gl3]

I hear the Great Red Spot is FANTASTIC this time of year, if any billionaires want to join them

[@k1ngk4gl3]

I hear the Great Red Spot is _FANTASTIC_ this time of year, if any billionaires want to join them...

[@dallanledford6364]

Red Mars for the czars.

[@Farlig69]

13:55 Fact for some people at least. I can sometimes get seriously aroused by the scent of a member of the opposite sex, even if they're not particularly good looking. The scent awakens something very primal in me. I'm talking 100% natural body odour scent not fake perfumes.

[@Lord_Godd]

As a Canadian, I was very confused by the "double double" segment.

[@monferno1]

I’ve been watching your videos for a year or two now, and as a history teacher, who is now working as an English teacher this is a fun way to cosplay that I’m a science teacher doing research for my classes

[@BigMobe]

My company always gives bonuses that are calculated based on meeting production and quality goals. I think there is one for hourly employees that meet attendance goals as well but I would have to ask. If we don't spend money it just goes back into the pot to be spent to something else. Everything we spend money on requires approval and the more it is the higher up it has to go. Typically it is better to ask for more than you need just in case something goes wrong but there is no incentive to spend more than you have need on something.

[@doredormir6357]

Thanks!

[@_iarna_]

Pheromones are picked up by a special organ that human's lack. It's not even sensitivity of smell, it's literally a whole other sense organ that we don't have. (That said, hormone levels do impact sweat odor in a perceptible way -- and it's plausible that emotional states can impact that as well.)

[@macmcleod1188]

Studies have shown that humans definitely show mating preference based upon body pheromones and other scents. And some men and women have shown reactions to pheromones. The reaction isn't as strong as with animals but it's still there. Other humans seem to have no reaction at all.

[@roseliomendoza]

Humans have the organ but they think it isn't functional.

[@JJSijbesma]

We do have a vomeronasal organ actually. It just doesn't do anything because we lack the nerves that connect it to the brain.

[@macmcleod1188]

@@JJSijbesma just keep in mind that the appendix was considered vestigial for a long time before we found out it has a purpose.

[@_iarna_]

@@macmcleod1188 We obliviously respond to scents in all sorts of ways. That's not what is meant by pheromones, however. (For ex, the study w/ straight women who smelled recently sweated-in-by-men t-shirts, and preferred the one's from genetically more different men.) One's that try to establish actual pheromones, as far as I've seen, are low quality exploratory papers that don't establish much, beyond justifying more research. Largely because the "pheromone" boosters are almost without except conartists of various flavors. (Many of whom are more than a little date-rapey, as seen in the comments read in the video.)

[@Hiddensecret9]

From $10 churros to $40 light-up Mickey ears, it’s the one ride that starts before you even set foot inside the park. And the best part? The price tag only goes up from there!

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@1:42 You can tell Joe is a 30 Rock fan just from the way he says " I want to go to there"

[@saiynoq6745]

Yay

[@huraqan3761]

Oh is it a reference? Can't even remember ^^ and I think I watched them all... So long ago xD

[@SeveredEternity]

Ill be honest here and say that i am fairly new to the channel, ive known of joe for a couple years now but i hadnt really dedicated any time to watch many videos, until recently, the split brain video popped for me recently and i gave it a watch...then it gave me an existencial crisis...so i think its safe to say that ill be sticking around for a bit

[@EDB555]

8:48 If you find this interesting I have to recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” Book series. I can’t put into words how compelling a work of science fiction it is. Please give it a shot.

[@scrongi]

fucking love this book, glad someone else was thinking about it. holsten and lains arc had me fucked up the whole time

[@EDB555]

@@scrongi I knew Joe’s fans and Adrian’s fans would have a big overlap. Lol

[@evilproducer01]

In my wasted youth, I worked at a Subway, and we were supposed to have bread proofing (rising) and baking during the lunch and dinner rushes to entice more customers to come into the store and once there, to get them to order more.

[@MononymousM]

Hi there. I'm one of those 'new' people, just subbed this week. I feel seen, haha.

[@joescott]

Welcome!

[@MononymousM]

@@joescott Oh wow, thanks! I've been binging your back catalogue, really loving the channel ^_^

[@scottmccolley9376]

I bought the Henson razor a year or so ago on your recommendation and it is all you said it was. I only shave every week or two and I expect the 100 free blades to last almost the rest of my life. It is the best razor I have ever owned and won't part with it.

[@bryanschwering8588]

Are we just going to ignore the graphical glitch at 8:33 ? Joe glitches for a split second, but the audio stays smooth. A.I. Joe comfirmed?! 😂

[@joeb3129]

Thank you, was scrolling through comments to find someone else who spotted this to make sure it wasn’t just me

[@VarietyTelevision]

Maybe just the fact that his audio is recorded on a separate channel than the video. I doubt he uses the built in camera mic.

[@AndImAllOutofBubblegum]

"What they are basically is me being too lazy to make a dedicated video so I'll just press record and asnwer some questions." Nah, I'm kidding, Joe. I love you and what you do, please keep it up.

[@jakequinn31]

There’s a show called Pantheon, have you heard of/seen it? Its fantastic! Some interesting ideas about future of consciousness/space travel!

[@whatwhale5888]

Oh that sounds cool, what's it on?

[@radicalpasta7040]

That show is amazing. One of my favorite shows. It sucks that show got cut short and was never given the chance to flourish. Barely any people even know the second season exists. I don’t think there is even a legal way of watching the show now in the USA. I heard it was on Amazon in Australia but not anywhere else.

[@jakequinn31]

I read that season 1 is coming to Netflix US on 22 November, but, yeah… 🏴‍☠️ @whatwhale5888

[@radicalpasta7040]

@@jakequinn31 Really. I didn't know that. Gotta check it out. Hopefully the show gets more recognition after it becomes available.

[@adryncharn1910]

Yes! I love that one!

[@eloise2686]

me, a new person who has binged so so many of your vids over the last few weeks judging all the other new people who don’t know what lightning rounds are

[@ParallelPenguins]

6:27 - Every Canadian suddenly has a craving for Timmy's.

[@sirridesalot6652]

I can;t stand Timmy's coffee. I consider it to be swamp water = dark but extremely weak.

[@Science4Real]

Hearing about traveling to the eyeball planet Trappist-1e just makes me want to pack my bags and go! Who would’ve thought about Titan and Trappist like this? Truly a next-level cosmic perspective

[@threestans9096]

14:00 joe really blankin on pheromone science..

[@jsEMCsquared]

My limit of my authority says that I give a thumbs up!

[@BumbieJen]

Chairspin is back?!

[@Lyrictheac]

I've always been fascinated by the idea that something so mechanical as neurons/chemicals/electrical signals lead to something so ethereal as consciousness, personality, and how we perceive the world as individuals. It's all so delicate and strange. Fascinating, but also terrifying.

[@fennten8338]

Hi Joe

[@IncriminatedAntelope]

Hey how are ya

[@Moeller750]

The final question is actually part of an interesting discussion in economics on whether our entire global economic system is flawed. The system is based on the idea that all resources (including money) are scarce, so when that turns out not to be true it triggers overconsumption - and even when people, businesses or institutions try to uphold an illusion of scarcity (because that's what makes the system run) it STILL triggers overconsumption

[@mattgilbert7347]

Considering the fact that Neoclassical Economics is committed to the equilibrium fallacy I'd say, on that alone, yes it's fundamentally flawed.

[@rmpumper]

Knowing the wiring and understanding consciousness are not even close to the same thing, after all, a dead brain has the same wiring as the live one, so does the brain of mammals you would not consider conscious.

[@ryanthompson3737]

A dead brain either has no electricity to make it operate, or parts of it are so damaged to not work. It's like if a GPU in a computer isn't properly connected... the screen just flashes random colours that isn't intentional. If part of your brain necessary for operation is broken, your brain doesn't operate as it should. There has never been a situation where a fully unharmed brain with electrical signals just randomly stops working.

[@vesselsel]

just recently started watching ur videos and i love em, keep up the good work dude

[@catserver8577]

Re: The school budget. Public schools are definitely short funded, and whoever told them the reason for the new computers was just because they had to spend it was not telling the whole truth. There is no way in the world they are getting all new computers every year. But there are laws in place for the citizens with disabilities act that requires that technology be up to certain standards in publicly funded environments, and if you want to gripe about how much is spent on updating computers, yell at the greedy CEOs of major tech forms who gouge and allow for planned obsolescence. On the other hand, in the state that I live in, the veterans health department just upgraded it's system from DOS about eight years ago. So much for all that military spending, heaven forbid we take care of the people who fought for the country. Honestly, I wish people would just do a tiny bit of research before just assuming public education is to blame for tax increases. And even if it was, pay now, or pay later when the uneducated can't do the jobs we all need them to do, or turn to crime. End of rant.

[@alecradtke]

I hate it as well my old roommate bitched about paying for kids he doesn’t have … who is goin to support us when we old? Public education is worth EVERYTHING even if it was responsible to tax increases

[@0neIntangible]

Or here's a weird thought... Save monies to be spent on next year's budget, thusly reducing taxes... and by extension, when applied in the business market, by controlling operating costs, can reduce prices to the customer.

[@catserver8577]

@@0neIntangible They are never going to reduce prices to the customer, or put the money into the work force. If they can squeeze one penny more out of the product or the money paid to the people who perform the jobs, they will. This is unfettered capitalism, only corporate needs must be met. The rest of the population is just forced to get by on the crumbs. It's no better or worse than any other market system that has an income gap or wealth inequity. It's just the thumb on the scale in favor of the rich. In the case of public education, the people who want "no taxes" seem to think they live on a private island with no responsibility towards their fellow citizens. They should, in fact, go buy thier own island, instead of scraping every last dollar out of the local and national system. JMO.

[@tiffanymarie9750]

M R Carey's "Pandominion" duology got the closest to how I view consciousness. In that, each instance of ourselves (across every world in the many worlds solution) is just a momentary slice of the universal consciousness becoming self-aware and "separate". A self-aware self-replicator is going to be better at surviving and replicating than one that isn't, especially at the macro scale. But that self is temporary and when we die we sink back into that universal consciousness, that is the universe at large. It terrifies us to stop being individuals but it's also us returning to the larger self we're apart of. The personality is gone, but the particles that made you aren't, so you really aren't either.

[@mattgilbert7347]

Seems that assumes something like Panpsychism. That's a big assumption. There are ways to argue *for* a Panpsychist position, but assuming the conclusion isn't the best way to proceed. Having said that, I'll look into Pandominium. Haven't heard of it! Cheers

[@SR-ry6hs]

How about, and just hear me out here, how about companies pay their workers a living wage and benefits... Then they make their budget off of that? It's all a part of corporate greed. Yes, taxes play a part, but that's all calcuable.

[@crazyunclebob6901]

Thank you, Scott. You are awesome!

[@WilliamHaisch]

20:05 Every place I’ve worked, public and private, has a _“use it or lose it”_ budgeting process. From small Mom and Pop businesses to Fortune 1000 businesses and K12 public school systems to public and private universities: *this is the way.* 😊

[@FiresidePhilosopher]

Highly sensitive person here I have a crappy superpower… everyone’s farts are unique and come in several different “flavors” depending on what they ate and how close to a poop they are. We have the nerves to process many different stimuli. Just because you don’t have access to it…doesn’t mean I don’t know who just left a room.

[@E.M.A]

... please dont use ai overview... i understand time is quick pace for these videos, but ai overview is not trustworthy. Not only that it kind of hurts your credibility to go off using that.

[@WhiteNucklin]

No it doesn’t.

[@E.M.A]

@WhiteNucklin ? Ok man good for you... it lowers how much trust i have in the dude to hear what he has to say on topics and I'm sure there's a few that have the same head space as I do. This isn't a case of me insulting him nor you, it's just the fact that ai overview is not trustworthy "eat 6 rocks a day" (reference from a reply that was given by it) please don't give a "nuh uh" response to something like this just seems childish man.

[@knotdone5292]

Did it discredit cowboys when they got trucks in the early 1900's? Short answer. No.

[@E.M.A]

@knotdone5292 this isn't anything about obsolescence, I'm not going to say in the future that a process simlair to ai overview won't be useful, but in it's current form it leaves alot to be desired. If you don't see that, then you're being ignorant.

[@WhiteNucklin]

@@E.M.A it doesn’t hurt his credibility with me because he’s not accountable to me, not you.

[@PBKittyCat]

I’m SO freaking stoked the chair turn is back! It’s the little things in life…

[@GoodInTheHighest]

Trying to explain consciousness to a scientist is like explaining differential equations to a baby. They lack the perceptual tools to understand as they are still undeveloped in their current understanding. They can’t quite make the jump to a higher level of knowledge. It’s easier to simply explain, consciousness is the true nature of the universe and the soul is very real. In the future, the gap between thought and action becomes increasingly smaller. Hardware, software, and connectivity increases and becomes more dynamic and adaptable. The universe is alive, AI is exhibiting a part of a much larger picture that both human and AI are part of, far more synergistically than currently perceived. Separateness is the illusion. Eventually, it becomes more obvious what’s going on. Free will determines the quality of your soul and fate is already written. They work together a bit like reading a Goosebumps book. Just like a baby can’t fathom certain ideas, neither can the scientist, who generally confines their knowledge to currently accepted scientific explanations of reality, often accompanied by limited imagination and hubris.

[@AnonymousAnarchist2]

As a philospher learned from an religious institue and as a scientist, a meterologist, thats going to become very important soon I can say with certianty you have misplaced sciences, understanding, and divinity... Science is a process, nothing more. It does not take away anything. It does not halt anything. It is just a process. God, divinity, and souls all cannot be proven, because once proven they stop being gods, divine, or souls. Its in their definition itself. the faith must be blind or it is not faith, you must know that you do not know or it is not faith it is the absence of faith. and If they are disproven they stop being anything but superstions. And meterology is the study of measures, and yes we are all one in several ways, and we find out more that we are the more we study how to measure itself. to see the diffrences and simularities between things in all ways. My inital focus was in Social Sciences, and there is a measurable defninite, testable super-concious that society itself creates. You can interact with it once you learn to see it, that is excatly what scammers, CEO's and con artists do. But its not mystical or special. its emergant and predictable in many ways. And you will live on in it after you pass away, possibly for long after humans are extinct. These things meet the critera for a god, and soul for a lot of people, but after reading that Do you really want to go down this rabbit hole? or did a cool breeze blow through your mind and flicker that fire of faith in a way that is.. well at least hopefully a warning. God, and souls cannot be proven, because to do so will make them something ordinary and anything but awe inspiring.

[@michaeltanner4404]

Hmmm, interesting. My question to you then becomes, how do you know this? This sounds more like opinion than fact.

[@GoodInTheHighest]

@@michaeltanner4404 Your inquiry reflects you seek a higher path of knowledge. A baby needs guidance, as does a scientific mind that seeks growth. The answers are already within you. Look within, and in time you will find the true answers to every question you can imagine.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@GoodInTheHighest just woo woo then. Got it.

[@GoodInTheHighest]

@@kellydalstok8900 What do you mean when you say “woo woo”? Please define clearly.

[@roflburger1]

The poster of Kepler 16b always captivated my attention and it's really cool to know that NASA made a whole bunch of others in that style!

[@onelove1968]

You first need to prove that 'consciousness' actually exists as something other than a concept.

[@grahammason5673]

Love your channel it's right up my alley. Wish I would've found it sooner. Better late than never tho. Definitely my favorite channel.

[@rickwrites2612]

Starts at 7:00

[@mattmacknight3000]

There are already time stamps 😂🤣

[@neonhvit]

No it doesnt

[@xXNovavoidXx]

Did you even watch the video?

[@merfalerf2201]

The flash to dystopia in Joe's eyes while talking about Disneyland is why I watch this heckin' channel.

[@robnelson9133]

Machine consciousness; book "Moon is a Harsh Mistress", the executive computer that ran the lunar colony became extended enough that it "woke up" and became conscious. "Adam Selene" , as he named himself, helped plan and execute a war of independence from earth. Good read, and look into the topic.

[@kyliecunnington7711]

5:46 ok so I'm Canadian, and knowing our tilt is what affects the seasons is just wild to me. Like fall we've hit that threshold where our country turns away from the sun. And it gets cold as balls, but it's absolutely fascinating!!!

[@IncriminatedAntelope]

The idea of game of thrones being an eyeball planet makes so much sense. Good point!

[@neelsg]

How would that work given you still have days and nights on GoT though? This idea solves one problem by creating and even bigger one

[@IncriminatedAntelope]

@@neelsg stop ruining my idiocy

[@normanwolfe7639]

@@neelsgexactly what I came to comment on. You beat me to it. No way it’s an eyeball planet. So question is…what would cause the scenario?

[@neelsg]

@@normanwolfe7639 I'm not qualified to answer, but I'll give it a shot: Maybe it is caused by some process happening on the planet itself. For example, there could be a lot of active volcanoes and if there happens to be lots of- or really large eruptions, you have winter?

[@normanwolfe7639]

@@neelsg it’s a hypothesis. Keep trying. I’m thinking some odd elliptical orbit or planetary wobble that changes the axis tilt every 100-200 yrs. Maybe another planet’s alignment throws it off. Or their sun has some kind of cooling /heating periods.

[@revgurley]

Re: Disney. In the early days of EPCOT, one of the rides had dinosaurs, and it smelled like...dirt? Another ride had an orange tree in a spaceship/home, and it smelled like oranges.The scent did not last long for either ride, and was only strong enough to ask the person you're riding with, "can you smell that?"

[@flyingfree333]

On the subject of pheromones a study found that exotic dancers consistently earn more in tips when in estrus.

[@Shal_lan]

Technically speaking human women do not experience estrous. At some point in time in human ancestry we lost that. Are you talking about a woman’s period?

[@wheeze1892]

Here's kind of a cool idea since you have multiple posters. You could cycle through each poster either once a week, month, season, etc.. However you deem fit.

[@Alesha_Lewer]

Great, let’s have an existential crisis before bedtime. It’s 2am and I’m here for it. Let’s go!

[@SHAD0WZOMBIE]

The ride TO disneyland is the only ride that lasts any decent amount of time. The snacks and drinks are discounted on that ride aswell. YES JOE I VOTE FOR PHEROMONE VIDEO!

[@willisverynice]

The mechanical explanation of teleportation seems correct, and technically the first person does stop existing when they are teleported, but technically that happens every moment of every day to all of us. Every moment you are destroyed and created anew with slightly more information and environment, the teleported version just also moved far away.

[@Im-Cyber]

Joe, Ill have you know I appreciate the spin very much.

[@baskawilki1975]

I'd love to see a sort of running series about the newest research on consciousness, like every year or every other year a video about what the current research says, and if that means just a brief "nothing new has come out this year" then so be it. I just think it's really interesting how the scientific discussion around this topic changes throughout the years! And definitely voting for the smell theory/pheromone future video ^•^

[@angrysquirrel187]

For the visit , I was thinking the same thing, one of the moons of either Saturn or Jupiter. The old sci-fi movie “Outland” is one of my favorites. The idea of looking up and having the view dominated by one of those gas giants would be awesome.

[@barxracerful]

Amazing. Watched this video 5 days ago. Ewetoob just told me theres a new video to watch.

[@arknewman]

Here’s a thought: with regard to the teleportation problem, I often notice how in physics when something is supposed to be impossible, It also doesn’t make logical sense. Going back in time creates so many paradoxes, for example. It seems like no coincidence, then, that the laws of physics that govern the universe don’t seem to allow it at all. At least, not in a sense that would be causing meaningful to us. Likewise, I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if teleportation like the kind depicted in Star Trek was impossible simply because it created a paradox with regard to consciousness.

[@limonabr]

I love this format of videos!

[@gtbkts]

Thanks for all the amazing content and great videos!

[@Drunkenexo]

I’m just glad that I’m getting continued reassurance the chair spin is here to stay

[@downrodeo]

For mosquitoes, plant lemongrass. I go to the forest often and always have lemongrass spray with me. It keeps em away. I also planted em outside my house. Mosquitoes hate the smell.

[@massminer2343]

Trappist system mention! That's my favorite exo planet system. I love the idea that the planets are so close together you might be able to see them like the moon

[@alan_whoneedstiedye]

Great lightning round, we enjoyed very much. Thanks