Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Kurzgesagt "The Egg - A Short Story by Andy Weir"

Original Video ‪@kurzgesagt‬ • The Egg - A Short Story

[@Madrawn]

Interesting fact, the author Andy Weir, said in an interview that he wouldn't want his story to become a religion or accepted fact because this interpretation could be easily abused to justify evil behaviour. His example was that people could argue "Well I'm superior because obviously I am an "old soul", those people over there are obviously "young souls". So it is reasonable to force my will upon them, even by violence, as this will only speed up their/our maturation"

[@magnus4437]

i actually saw it in a way that would make you feel more inclined to be nice

[@Equilibrium2903]

@@magnus4437 as would most non-psychpaths. Which does not help, because the amount of actual psychopaths is surprisingly high.

[@gigadotti9780]

But that would not matter. Because everyone would still be the same person, so there would just be one soul and we are fragments of the whole. Though i can see this being har to turn into a religion, as one can't be the "chosen" fragment of the soul. I think...

[@vexedlex8230]

That's fair. Though the same could be said for any framework, religious, fictitious or secular. Pretty much any idea can be perverted to excuse violence.

[@LucasF25]

​@@gigadotti9780thats the point. If we are all one like this is saying, then it's justifiable to do all sorts of heinous crimes because after all, you're doing it to yourself, right? See how that warps such a beautiful message

[@LauraRenewing]

I watched this several years ago and always find it inspiring. A good reminder of how we are all connected and our behaviors ripple throughout humankind.

[@luzellemoller6621]

And how we make stories to explain everything

[@egg.007]

Well you know, us made it, we wrote it and animated it😅

[@Lucky04-23]

But… the video is only 4 years old

[@user-ne7nh4jc1l]

Kurzgesagt is by far one of my favorite youtube channels.

[@ModerationLabs]

Same, I love the art style

[@endercat1707]

Believe me, watching Kurzgesagt is addictive and also turns u into an Philosopher.

[@ArticBlueFox96]

I love the message of the Egg, that we are all one, that we are all capable of the worst evils and greatest goods, that every act of malicious or kindness comes back round to ourselves, that we are growing and magnificent beings, that we are loved by some kind of god and are gods in the womb ourselves. However, I find the solipsism of The Egg to be lonely and suffocating. Though, if you like KZbin animated stories like The Egg, I recommend Rational Animations recently made "The Goddess of Everything Else."

[@chimagamer4157]

You are never alone, you are always with yourself. Don't overstretch the nihilistic view, it just frees you from the imitated ego mind, the world is a playground to learn from, explore it and its quirks and have fun while doing so. :-)

[@lucyandcharlieb2240]

"So the whole universe- its just-" "A theory, a game theory"

[@lucyandcharlieb2240]

why did i do that

[@ElectroKing77]

@@lucyandcharlieb2240 Very good question lol

[@Mrkittkitten123]

*game theory intro music*

[@mechakingghidorah1764]

Guys I think he’s got a theory.

[@gonnaenodaethat6198]

The most comforting version of afterlife that I have ever seen is the Aethereal Sea from Final Fantasy; a place were your soul goes to rest and sometimes be born anew. It has a concept of ones soul having memory that fades after time and sometimes can interact with the corporial world. These people can also manipulate Aether and see these memories from living or passed souls. It's funny how the most beautiful beliefs oft end up in video games. For context, I think people just stop existing...don't even have to worry about a void...you won't exist to be worried about it anyway...it will be just like before you were born :P

[@normal.r]

This man is so underrated

[@thetalantonx]

When I first read the short story it resonated with me so strongly it's become a part of how I view the world. I do try to act as if it is true, and hold to the kindness that such a truth should naturally inspire.

[@egg.007]

Glad i was able to become a nuclear engineer way to go me😂

[@realmetatron]

This is almost exactly what spirituality teaches, and what we all experience when we leave our bodies (in meditation or via psychedelics), and what every NDEr sees. The being which is all humans is what we refer to as the Humanity Being and it sits in the 5th plane (out of 12). In the lower dimensional 3rd plane (here), it appears as all the humans and learns. It is, at this very moment, about to regain self-awareness, which is why humanity is awakening at this moment and the world is dramatically changing.

[@ProfShibe]

schizo

[@Caexkepesk]

"I am he as you are he as you are me, And we are all together"

[@Equilibrium2903]

Andy Weir is an inspiration. Every single one of his books and stories are great.

[@justmf]

This video was so COOL i loved the idea so much

[@AndrewMefford]

It's very thought provoking for sure. I love learning about all these different beliefs/possibilities that aren't necessarily religiously biased.

[@thetalantonx]

The word kind has the same root as kin and kindred and goes back to PIE root "kunjam-", meaning family. It is to treat someone in a family way, which just seems to make sense if you entertain this framework at all.

[@MrPapamaci88]

I've been working on a science fantasy universe for many years by now, want to write a series of novels but started with building the world first. I do have my own pantheon of gods in this universe, this is one of those stories that did have an influence on me, also Lovecraft's mythology, the old school real world stuff too, and so on. I basically plan to show the positive side of a nihilistic universe where nothing matters and everything is insignificant, from the smallest particles to the greatest gods. There is a lot of horrific stuff, even amongst the gods, really bad stuff, but also really good, and even some of the "evil" gods are not really bad, they just screw around for the hell of it, otherwise not doing anything or even HELPING people at random with no hidden cost. Many of them are terrifying but harmless. The main god (at least for the story) that appears first to my main character in the first novel is one of those jokey, seemingly cruel gods. He will explain to my heroine a lot about tiers of gods, what to watch out for, but slowly, as things come up, otherwise he'll just appear to her to advise, admonish or annoy her. Mostly annoying her for a laugh. 😄

[@chimagamer4157]

this sorta seams like the stories of old, with very human like goods, but then something changed, and now you have that one omnipotent and benevolent being as the highest instance, for all major religions.

[@leicao7921]

"The Tower touches all the mantles of Heaven, brother-novitiates, and by its apex one can be as he will." - Mankar Camoran

[@MisterExtortion]

@11:22 If I'm a nuclear engineer, we're all going to die. Think about if Wiley Coyote's plan to catch the Roadrunner involved a nuclear power plant... it would go about like that.

[@vettir]

I actually first run into this story on 4chan (back when it was less shitty), and it's one of my favorites.

[@Equilibrium2903]

Actually possible it was Andy Weir himself who posted that then, he said that he used to post his stories to 4chan.

[@vettir]

@@Equilibrium2903 I mean, awesome.

[@Lucasdoesrandomstuff-]

It's just a theory, a life theory. lol game theory reference.

[@heianwood6119]

So, that god would have to explain the whole thing over and over 600 quintillion times or whatev the numbers gonna be Pretty patient guy

[@backfischritter]

I mean he would not have to worry about tine or something.

[@norbertjanssen814]

Time does not matter remember

[@heianwood6119]

But repeating something over and over?

[@chimagamer4157]

@@heianwood6119 it would be always different to you, since you only know a tiny piece. maybe over time you progress faster and can stop before all that happens, since in theory, it only would need a few important and well placed lessons, for max growth, which could compound on itself.

[@heianwood6119]

I meant from god's perspective. Answering the same questions

[@Patches_0001]

The belief is that everyone is each other because we’re all the same incarnation of the same person and we are all that same person

[@kewinkarlsjo9248]

Love the video

[@Oxydron]

As old Hindu sage Sri Baghavan Ramana Maharshi once said, 'In the Silence we can see that we are all the same, The Self, Pure Consciousness'. I'm from Brazil and got interested in Hindu metaphysics, and for me, Advaita Vedanta, The Non Dual Path and a true guru as Ramana, are the truest knowledge and wisdom, the first thing a human being should discover and understand in life, 'Who am I?', 'From where do I come?'.

[@CrabCake0]

random question: why is ITER gonna be a hybrid reactor? Seems easier to produce the tritium in an adjacent unit

[@morsecodereviews1553]

Well that was just mind bottling, I'll be dipped.

[@TheTsaqif]

One question i have about this thought provoking piece is that, if i was infinitely reincarnated as every single human being, and always forgot what happened in the lives before. Then wouldn't it mean that the current me, that remembers "this" particular life is the last reincarnation that i will ever have? Because i consciously remember "this" iteration of me. So did something happen during "this" lifetime? Did all life cease to exist after "this" one? Or does the cycle just stops at a random point in time?

[@donnamh8094]

My two cents - I guess it depends on what time is. Our experience of time is like a road - we remember the past like it's behind us, and we contemplate possible futures like they're ahead of us along the road. That's our experience, that's what makes sense. But what *might* be going on, is that time exists as only one ever-changing moment. One evolving instant in which we all live, and there's nothing else. There's only now... that changes into... now. Which keeps on changing into... now. You read a book from beginning to end, but all the words exist on all the pages at the same time while you're reading it. It's all there, right now. To expand on that concept, this one moment might include all times, past present and future, and all times could all be happening at the same time, right now, simultaneously. As mere 3 dimensional mortal human beings, we can't perceive anything outside our own personal 'time road' of linear experience, but those higher orders of multi-dimensional 'god' beings in the story can. So in answer to your question, every stage of the entire process of you (maybe us and everyone else?) evolving into the god might be happening now, simultaneously. There's no 'before' or 'after' lives, because now includes everything. We're only aware of our own tiny slice of now, but it's all there, still happening right now. At least, that's one possibility as I understand it. I'm certainly no expert but it's fun to break my brain and speculate :)

[@lvlupproductions2480]

One of those questions is arguably answered in the video specifically: "if i was infinitely reincarnated as every single human being, and always forgot what happened in the lives before. Then wouldn't it mean that the current me, that remembers "this" particular life is the last reincarnation that i will ever have? Because i consciously remember "this" iteration of me." That part is actually answered in the story, 05:10 here. Basically, your consciousness is limited when your incarnation is a human, but enough time in the void and you remember every experience, so you consciously remember every iteration of you not just the last one before you experienced every consciousness (or maybe just humans) in the universe. At least that's my interpretation.

[@chimagamer4157]

You probably could access all the other "memories", though that would require you, to tap into that all encompassing consciousness, and if that is possible, you still only would be able to look at a tiny slice of it, at anytime. (since it is so "big") The issue that then would arise too, is that it probably will just seep into your current reality, as a very low-key felling/knowledge, if you would have constant access to it (since if you didn't, you wouldn't be able to access it at all), maybe this is what explains different psi/esp phenomena, like remote viewing and clairvoyance. You say "remember" but you don't actually have a perfect copy of that "4th dimensional point" in your mind, just a limited version that is like that, which also fates with time, until it is like the future, an unknown unknown constant, it kinda turns in to a known unknown on a subpar level maybe this is what déjà vu is, a paradox of duality, known and unknown, that is and isn't, at any, every and no time, and as far as one can tell, there then would be no difference between end or beginning. the world is stranger than fiction, if this is the case, just a paradoxical mess.

[@shardinhand1243]

damn man... this really reminds me of the show panteon... i wish i had the means to force the higher powers in control of networks to allow that show to continue... but... regardless, its current end is still so expansive and beautiful... i dont really mind its end.

[@User-zh8rp]

Plot twist: he just smelled some powdered milk and imagined everything

[@Kovyc]

I can't believe I made this video for myselves..

[@Aaaalfaroeo]

Watching myself watching my own work was nice. Good job me

[@AlbetinaWinkel-ps5nj]

What's up me from another life 😊

[@trstmeimadctr]

I would get tired of explaining it every time they died

[@shardinhand1243]

11:18 theres layers to it, yes we are all the same we come from the same subspecies of great ape, we all come from africa, we come from the same single species that reached out and touched another world we all our differint yet that difference is so tiny that we can touch eachother emotionaly even when words fail, but we are also a species in potential transition, we are aproching the edge of an explosion in evolution never seen before as genetic enginiering and technology to map and emulate brains advances to staggaring width and differinces between people... perhaps becoming greater than the diference between ants and chimps. we just cant know what future versions of humanity will be, not being limited to a single body, a person could be multiple people, a mind could expand to thuasands of years old while in human experianced time still only being a few years old... the limits the creations we will make and what we will reshape ourselves into are impossible to know....

[@stapuft]

one of the BEST short stories ever, too bad kurtz doesnt really do it justice.

[@McGayveR80]

This how you say someone "literally go f. yourself" D:

[@clarkspoerl-lh7dw]

I don’t think I have watched it so it will be fun.

[@mistero1513]

😊

[@erikjonsson6594]

i think its just a pretty cool short story and i really liked your reaction to it:)

[@kewinkarlsjo9248]

Hi!

[@kaijukojin4371]

Something else to think about. Is that he is also all the aliens and intelligence life on all the other planets as well... It's a cosmic being with all of space time to play with. Humanity is only an aspect of the god-being to teach certain lessons... Turning into a colony of ants 🐜... and experiencing the full life of that... there is even more to see🎉 😢😢😂

[@gargitripathi5667]

Hello

[@gonnaenodaethat6198]

In a sense, because they never remember their past existence, it doesn't mater if it is one person being reincarnated many times or many people being reincarnated a few times...the result from earths perspective will always be the same. oh...Good, evil, hero, or villain it matters not in the end if it is all you. All those actions would balance out and converge into...enlightenment. Sin and purity would mean nothing in the end...only in the moment we find ever so fleeting. It is humans alone who wont for meaning were there is non to be had, but that's ok because what it really means is we give ourselves meaning...we are the arcitects of our own destiny; no mater how much it feels the world is against you, reguardless of failure or loss...when we put our minds and souls together...we can shape the future as if it really was one person burdened with giving the universe meaning.

[@thomsonfamily8363]

so am him am enistin am stalin am i made these commets

[@ElectroKing77]

You are also me, barack obama, and micheal jackson

[@hoslow9727]

How many hours have “I” spent in school?

[@hoslow9727]

It never seems to end on one life spans

[@MarcusCollins69]

At least one hour

[@MarcusCollins69]

In all honesty, i hate the idea of reincarnation

[@dmg.2443]

Maybe that's why we're meant to forget.

[@chimagamer4157]

why tough, it just tells you that there likely will be a second chance at life, if you mess up, or get messed up by circumstances.

[@chimagamer4157]

@@dmg.2443 it certainly turns into a more intense experience, like a game with one life is way more intense and harder, than if you have another shot at it, with a quick reload or retry.

[@balkanbaroque]

Well that’s too damn bad

[@fereshtebahaedini6614]

So basically this fetus will have to develop for an eternity ! And never becomes God! Plus, next question would be ´what is the point of God procreating ?😅 to what end?

[@astorolus7380]

this contradicts evolution, it assumes humans are immutable

[@DanksterPaws]

You dont have to accept it as fact, but it is a good philosophy to live life by.