Nihilophobia

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Why

[@casualcommenter7152]

“I’m scared of nothing.” “Oh wow, you must be very brav-“ “No. I’m scared of NOTHING.”

[@lior1222]

I fear no man. But that *nothing*. It scares me...

[@TKWNNGGT]

@@lior1222but that Scares me.*

[@RSK412]

s-tier skitzo skit

[@JmKrokY]

🗿

[@matthewboire6843]

*Nothing*

[@Nikoladragon]

Fear of discovering a video about Nihilophobia 30 seconds after it's uploaded.

[@wilhelmbuzzkyll]

Grigoroanakaluptovideonihilophobiaphobia?

[@2merh8n]

Bro said ‘30 seconds ago is crazy’

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[@kilgorezer]

lol, exactly

[@vergil2]

​@@wilhelmbuzzkyllphobia squared?

[@HaohmaruHL]

It's OK. Fight with Mohg has taught me that I would need a special mixed physick to counter Nihilophobia

[@Parsa.a298]

The fact that I understood you is alarming

[@Parsa.a298]

The fact that I understood you is alarming

[@baryon5018]

Ah, another man of culture here, I see

[@Codigoduro1]

Charges were dropped! Free mohg.

[@FemboyKiyo]

NIHIL!

[@festamonroe]

When I was a kid, I had a huge fear of clear skies. I was afraid that I would suddenly start falling upwards into the vast nothingness of space and be stuck forever

[@PossiblyMixingItUp]

same except i knew about the lack of air and though i would slowly and painfully die of suffocation. incredible what our brains come up with

[@CaptainPhen]

And it has a name: Casadastraphobia

[@festamonroe]

I remember once being in a car with my mum and hiding in the space between the back and front seat because I was so scared

[@thewiseowl8804]

Me too

[@JustAMelonYT]

Same,even when being in spacious rooms I thought gravity would suddenly invert and I would fall to the ceiling.

[@mandelbrotreal]

i don't know what lies in my skull... yet i am afraid of it.

[@BRUH-lx3jv]

I don't know what lies in my skull. yet i am afraid of it. -The Brain.

[@niklasw.1297]

nice profile picture

[@Gloomire]

My consciousness is stuck in my brain and I want out :(

[@CrimsomGloryXD]

Uh oh, brain fell out! BRAIN FELL OUT!

[@mcrain1283]

juicy, sticky, thick brain

[@Freakiestgoat]

I like how he spends the whole video talking about what someone with the phobia would fear rather than what the phobia is and how it works, it’s honestly much better.

[@thedoomslayer5863]

Well it's a fear you would never encounter as we would be so incredibly dead by the time of a true void.

[@Catroll111]

​@@thedoomslayer5863unless you revive like a Boltzmann brain

[@thedoomslayer5863]

@@Catroll111 Don't jinx me lol when i die i wish to remain dead

[@Catroll111]

@@thedoomslayer5863 yeah the implications of all possible things eventually happening are pretty bad

[@quarfftizflint]

to be fair, all phobias work pretty much the same, regardless of what the person is scared of

[@saucylemon4331]

The thought that I'm a virtual brain somewhere in space hallucinating my existence for what feels like a life time, but is actually an infinitely small amount of time before I dissappear into nothingness. Is truly horrifying.

[@soulechelon2643]

Clicked on this video. KZbin froze. Video itself was a black screen. Comments didn't load. Didn't even get the sidebar. I'm also in Night mode. Suffice it to say I was highly concerned.

[@JamesonMusic808]

2:30 isn’t the Drake equation just checking to see if her age is higher or lower than 18?

[@AvangionQ]

7:30 Boltzmann Brain: "why is everything so dark?" ... and then poofs out of existence.

[@FilipeLeviSilva]

"Oh no. Not again."

[@maxave7448]

I find the idea absolutely hilarious that a Boltzmann Brain could just spawn in somewhere and think to itself: “god dammit not again” then vanish immediately

[@artur9782]

@@maxave7448 For him it will be continuously smooth experience, so I doubt it will say that

[@Alex_FRD]

Stare at the void long enough, it'll stare back at you.

[@CrimsomGloryXD]

I say hello to the void, what will it reply back I long until the day something echoes back my voice, and that day will stain my soul with dread for the rest of my life

[@LordofSyn]

"Monsters we are, lest monsters we become." - Frederick Wilhelm Nietzsche

[@jupitereuropa-e3w]

It is not the depth of the mind that will break human like minds, but the unbreakable, relentless continueum of Nothingness.

[@watchulookinat271]

But when it stares back at you, you blinked

[@andistansbury4366]

Maple syrup

[@Trust_the_brain]

Sciencephile is getting crazier by the minute💀💀

[@B5OD]

The AI gets smarter and more self-aware

[@VioletAli3n]

​@@B5OD Humanity is doomed

[@randomrhino4371]

I've seen plenty of videos talking about how terrifying space is, and I've never really understood it. They all focus on celestial bodies, which I can't see as anything short of beautiful, whilst only glossing over the actually scary part of space, the nothingness between those bodies. As such it's great to see a video focusing purely on that aspect! Great vid!

[@thedoomslayer5863]

I would love to meditate in such a void. I can imagine it would be the most peaceful and quiet place to do so in existence.

[@randomrhino4371]

@@thedoomslayer5863 nah man, the stars are good for relaxing, in the voids they'd be too dim to see

[@thedoomslayer5863]

@@randomrhino4371 well total darkness is amazing for sleep imagine the darkness you'd get in the void! Wouldn't even have to close your eyes! And it would be perfectly silent too.

[@randomrhino4371]

@@thedoomslayer5863 I need white noise to sleep, and I don't like complete darkness when sleeping either

[@thedoomslayer5863]

@@randomrhino4371 guess we're opposites then. I like my rooms void dark and dead quiet when I sleep

[@_Unknown_3200]

These videos usually fill me with existential dread by the end, but the end of this one was weirdly comforting to me. A nice change of pace.

[@ernestregia]

"This box contains your greatest fear." "Do your worst. I fear nothing!!" "And that's exactly what's inside! NOTHING!!" "AAAAAGHHHH..."

[@KrisISDoinYourMOM]

ITS A BOX OF FUCKING NOTHINGGGGG!

[@justanaverage1762]

Cringe reddit tier response

[@Reality-Distortion]

5:00 Nietzsche's eternal recurrence was a thought experiment, not actual belief of what happens after our death. He didn't postulate such thing, only said why it's better to live accordingly with it. He was a sound naturalist and perceived postulating basically any metaphysics a waste of time and effort.

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you are talking with an automated "science"zpopular channel

[@kurbaga_12]

No hello mortals this time? You've changed

[@David-ty6my]

Maybe we are not mortal but just digital beings

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Digibro got too big for his digibritches 😂

[@kurbaga_12]

@@David-ty6my nooOOO

[@ossyx]

Maybe.. we changed..

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

Maybe mortality is the friends we made along the way.

[@sampsqwantch4612]

1:37 "that's quite empty, but is there anything emptier? You alone on a Friday night does not count" 💀 ✨EMOTIONAL DAMAGE✨

[@marsh346]

😐

[@Mere-Lachaiselongue]

i dont feel so good 😭

[@garysteven1343]

New achievement: *"Emotional Damage Unlocked"*

[@nguyenvutrinhle970]

Imagine when you died, instead of getting isekai-ed, you just wake right up into some sort of Boltzmann Brain that has the exact same configurations and memory that your brain currently has, halucinating about getting isekai-ed

[@ZERR0R]

Imagine when you died, you could not experience it. As you only know how to experience existence, you cannot experience non-existence. Everyone will die. Everyone, but you. Every time you would die, you wouldn't. For whatever quantum nonsense reason with the probability of 1/infinity, it would happen just so you don't die. You might think you are extremely lucky. In reality you keep experiencing existence, the one of infinite in the possibility space, where you exist. And exist. And exist. You only exist. Only you exist.

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[@mirzasafarov]

0:13 I feel violated :(

[@Salbren_boi]

>:)

[@Monsoonpain]

I always feel that way

[@JustMatyCZ]

You know that when sciencephile releases a new video, it will be a good day

[@JG_Enigma]

Nietzsche didn't believe the eternal reoccurrence was real. It was part of a thought experiment where you would decide how good or bad your life was IF you had to live the same identical life over and over again. The parable is from The Gay Science, if you were interested.

[@DenethordeSade.90]

Nietzsche was a genius in my opinion

[@mauriehsunso3034]

damn

[@DeSpaceFairy]

What a weird conclusion for something this relative and context dependant as "good and bad", if your existence is a recurrence and you have zero recollection of any previous iteration, then making exactly the same choices every time, the only logical conclusion you can get at is that you have no freewill, nothing about if that good or bad.

[@JG_Enigma]

@@DeSpaceFairy I get where you're coming from, but it's not meant to be thought of in that way. The idea of eternal reoccurrence is something you measure roughly how good your life is and how you would make it better.

[@mrhaci7747]

Totally unrelated but the character Flowey from Undertale has a backstory that is kinda related to this thought experiment

[@815TypeSirius]

The void is the only place where you will ever be yourself, free from all things.

[@err0r355]

Sciencephile, why did you make me rethink my entire life?

[@anthonybernard8819]

These existential questions actually make me wonder about existence after death, which then causes me to have some very dangerous thoughts

[@Catroll111]

Or existence right now, there is nothing that says we couldn't have started existing very little ago, even memories if they are encoded physically

[@maxave7448]

if it helps: no matter what comes after death, its very likely that you will not be able to, in any way, recall your existance. I know, this may sound bad, but think about it: you cant really dread being dead if you dont remember being alive in the first place (that is, if you even exist after death in some metaphysical way, which is also not guaranteed). Im convinced that whatever it is, we have nothing to worry about, itll be fine :)

[@anthonybernard8819]

@@maxave7448 I have come to this conclusion as well. I tend the think about it like this; do you remember what existence was like before you were born?

[@chris77jay77]

Wasn’t having an existential crisis, came here for a laugh, and now I’m staring at my ceiling at 4 AM and thinking about how one day the molecules that make up my body will bump shoulders in space with molecules that made up the since-destroyed moon.

[@LGus-gr9wo]

I fear nothing 😤 I fear nothing 😰

[@narutouzumaki2157]

I had a nightmare where a void(3d wormhole type not black) entity was hovering above a hostel room bed and somehow i felt dread coming from it or developing inside me when i got closer to it. When i tried to touch it, i felt like i lost all life and joy or hope and like someone punched my gut. When i got up i was drenched from sweat. It was the weirdest(in a bad way) dream i ever had.

[@thedoomslayer5863]

You should have entered it. Become nothing.

[@narutouzumaki2157]

@@thedoomslayer5863 seeing how i turned out right now, maybe i should have.😔

[@thedoomslayer5863]

@@narutouzumaki2157 The void welcomes you with open arms to the eternal peaceful sleep my child. It's not something to fear.

[@SaebaRyo21]

This channel is fucking awesome and underrated! I never laughed so much in an existential crisis video.

[@iyraspusjfzifzocyoyxyoxyoxoy]

i always knew i was afraid of nothing...

[@ernestregia]

So the Heat Death is basically the Universe doing "English or Spanish" challenge

[@Bontickleton_Q]

Yep until it’s starts moving again which means it’s gay

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

What

[@Master_3530]

7:48 STOP I almost woke up in a void

[@gaonthestreed1411]

The fear of Mohg

[@wrongfulhermit]

TRES!

[@nobleman9393]

@@wrongfulhermit DUO!

[@Luikaza]

@@nobleman9393 UNUS!

[@ultimateninja3703]

@@Luikaza NIHIL

[@cthuwu2138]

@@ultimateninja3703 *NIHIL!*

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Thank you for being awesome. I appreciate the joy, peace, wisdom, knowledge, laughter, and other things you bring into our lives. Your work is important and inspiring. Good stuff. Thanks for doing it. We love and appreciate you all !!!

[@maxberens]

So the virtual particles are like the voices in my head when I’m alone thank you for clearing that up

[@blufyres]

I fear that my fear is that i will start fearing the fears i find in the videos of fears.

[@maxave7448]

I fear comments fearing about fearing fears that they find in videos about fears because it means the video has something to fear

[@obvious-troll]

Mathematics is more terrifying than the scariest horror movie

[@travislewis5058]

This is one of my favorite topics it truly gets into the nature of our existence it feels both terrifying and mundane i love it.

[@some_european]

I think this is the fear of darkness on steroids the void would not scare me, because nothing exists in the void, but complete darkness makes me want to do the roulette solo

[@thedoomslayer5863]

Without darkness good luck sleeping.

[@satgurs]

the void is neccesarily complete darkness

[@some_european]

@@satgurs yes, but there is no concept of terrain in the void

[@indiomoustafa2047]

I remember a couple years ago when youtube almost deleted this guys channel for using TTS as a legitimate creative choice. Now TTS voices are so popular that people who shouldn't be online at all get better views for lazier content.

[@flarethetitanpea5358]

There was a moment of time in ny life when i learned that it was the full body, or the brain that represents us. I thought that the correct answer was 'the brain' and that it was not based on opinions. So, i believed for 1 year that i was always inside my body, not that i am my body. And i kept saying 'Mom, can you get me out of my body' or 'My body is making me cold' and 'Why can't I live outside my body?'. Everyone thought that i was possessed or some alien lol.

[@matthewboire6843]

“Nothing is scary” “Nice that you can say that, but I’m scared of some things” “Thats not what I meant”

[@panzer_tank]

0:50 "surely there won't be a random atom or two in there" *gets proven wrong in the most extreme way possible* "oh." 2:50 "AKA the local hole" *somehow comically looks at us*

[@0Blueaura]

Thank you for posting this video I just had a list of videos I've watched considering subnautica 1/2 and thalassophobia. Now its the freaking void and the depths of darkness. Really good timeing bot. Thumbs up

[@marcelominal]

I really do love the classical music background of all your videos❤

[@dwightssl9764]

Please post again I can’t get enough😫

[@nilsber.]

imagine aliens randomly appear in 10^10^50 years due to quantum fluctuations and conquer a galaxy in an hour

[@Catroll111]

Or our whole solar system in the state it's currently in right now including life on earth and human civilization

[@Yuk1_Officialx]

Bro makes learning something like watching some entertaining tv show man. I just keep waiting for the next episode

[@hydrohomiee]

Editing in this vídeo is Very good. Well done

[@GenericInternetter]

The 4D alien kid that's playing this universe we call "reality" must have a top-of-the-line PC.

[@Ghost-pb4ts]

It started for me from video games free cam Where there is void outside video game world It started in my dreams too

[@wbbartlett]

I am filled with emptiness every day. I will welcome the void when it comes.

[@marekcarlisle6937]

i ain't gonna lie this cleared up some concepts on quantum mechanics for me

[@cerealport2726]

the only fear I have, is of the empty void in my life - all the space between your video releases.

[@Trust_the_brain]

MY mind always turns into a void after seeing a sciencephile video👍👍

[@campei1257]

It's about time for a quantum fluctuations standalone episode at this point.

[@williamharper6625]

The end reminds me of an SCP 05 orientation monolog. "Existence is an Anomaly"

[@Qiot-135]

When people think of voids they think of black holes when really voids get rid of black holes

[@thegreatdeath]

Love you sciencephile

[@echothewanderer112]

It's comforting that if heat death is true, the universe could restart itself

[@darthmemeious9526]

I was hoping for comfort at the end, and was left despaired listening to a brilliant sponsorship just letting it all sink in.

[@RaphyLive]

Imagine being a true immortal living through heat death of the universe...... It's so much worse than death.

[@tallchicana2496]

omfg this video is so well done

[@Jayce.M.K017]

He's back

[@theincursion5898]

its actually pretty easy to counter, just drink flask 2-3 times and do your optimal punish

[@PushingPacks]

Congrats on 1 mil!!

[@Delmworks]

Truly, the cosmology to creation story pipeline is a short one

[@legoyoda66]

This gives me motivation to do work and be a really knowledgeable person amd learn about these things in deep. But at the same time I feel like nothing even matters.

[@krisspychissp]

Actually, the ending is really nice considering I used to think after enough time nothing ever happened. Nice to know that universes will exist forever.

[@Cikitabannanna2]

Thanks mr skynet to add the sponsor at the end in the video

[@priyeshrangrezz3188]

Well it's really 3 am in my country while i am watching this, what a coincidence

[@shamemashamema7741]

That lays logo on the box was mighty hilarious

[@JanitorialMachine]

On a long enough time frame we get to become restful cubes. That's pretty cool.

[@domonator5000]

The Drake equation states if X

[@gaster2411]

bro is afraid of nothing💀💀💀💀

[@gamereditor59ner22]

Yup! I am afraid of that!

[@samuelpatrick5050]

"Its 3am and im in an existential mood and im taking you along for the ride" Me to my bestfriends during a depressive episode....

[@krankerkarpfen]

I'm very sceptical about all this new modern AI stuff. But @SciencetheAI is my favourite AI. If they claim world domination I would accept them as my lord and saviour.

[@mrplop38]

2:47 0_0 the way sciencephile spawns in :))

[@lust7210]

Damn he didn’t just made me feel as empty as I could fell within this lifetime and then started talking about brilliant 😭

[@shadows987987]

The virtual particles explanation of Hawking Radiation is just a heuristic used by scientists to explain Hawking Radiation to the public. Virtual particles are mathematical tools. The actual mechanism for Hawking Radiation is not fully understood and is more accurately described by the Unruh Effect. But again, this isn't quite what is happening at the event horizon of black holes.

[@GamesbiteRtDL]

You know what the worst thing is? What the first Big Bang was and what there was before, I mean, this just SCREAMS simulation or other weird explanations. It just came into being, like a program that began to be run. I hate this, is reality really that unexplainable? How do you just "take" reality. This isn't some edgy post, I hate that no explanation works. Even if there was a simulation or god, etc. they would still (probably) rely on their own reality to exist AND WHERE DID THAT REALITY COME FROM??!! The question is: What was before nothing came to be nothing? Because you need something to notice nothingness, do you?

[@l1z4rdon7]

Thank you for making me realize that I have Nihilophobia. It has legit kept me up at night multiple times before.

[@thedoomslayer5863]

It's a dumb fear. You don't live in a true void. You never will. All of life will be far FAR dead before the universe reaches true void

[@l1z4rdon7]

@@thedoomslayer5863 I mean that’s the thing. It’s fearing that there’s nothing after death and that nothingness itself coming to an end when the universe becomes the same thing.

[@thedoomslayer5863]

@@l1z4rdon7 The nothing after death I can understand. Although I see it as a beautiful thing. If you cease to exist then you can't dislike it as there won't be a "you" anymore to think at all. I think of it like the ultimate sleep. Like the deep deeeep kind where you go to bed and it all goes black until you wake up. Never again having to experience the madness of being alive in all the noise again.

[@Wizzar_sillymus]

I hate the moment when existetial thoughts start coming to you at 3 am and you cant sleep

[@MrTzatziki115]

i literally had this yesterday in my bed i was overthinking

[@DM_Playz]

please, do a video about fundamental types of matter or iceberg of fundamental types of matter. (you know like anti-matter, quark matter, exotic matter, etc.)

[@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709]

I don't fear the void I embrace the void I am the void

[@hadzi1]

2:54 that Information just flabbergasted me

[@quantumfoam539]

I fear no man but this thing (nothing), it scares me...

[@com4914]

Ayo that pause after “local hole” makes me think you’ve been human all along

[@siaa7078]

that 3am guess was spot on

[@pietro93vit]

Human content is written by AI, AI content is written by human

[@nick-rr6bm]

What can be better start of the day than one dose of existential nightmare to keep you aware of your insignificance?

[@denifnaf5874]

3:43 we need to manipulate it

[@TheRealZombieWizard]

Zero point energy batteries?

[@CashFlowz16]

8:25 Bluds Ai ass acting as if he could comprehend that number

[@ItsJustMe0585]

I didn't think I have this phobia, but then i watched this video.

[@xlowesitok]

I don't care if the universe is empty if I'm full