We are failing to see how much better off humanity could be

This time transparent monsters are hidden because we fail to see the full potential of our future. Early humans lived in a horrible state compared to us, and we live in a horrible state if we compare ourselves to a future more advanced humanity. For example, we still die: we haven’t defeated the dragon-tyrant yet. Another way in which future humanity could be better off is if it will have categories of value that we currently can’t imagine. Music that we lack the ears to hear. Such new values might be be unlocked directly or indirectly through new technology. For example, through new sensory organs, or in the same way we already unlocked new forms of experience through writing, new genres of music, new kinds of entertainment, and even mathematics. You can support our work on:
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[@RationalAnimations]

Our official stance is that we dislike the dragon-tyrant. 🟠 Patreon: www.patreon.com/rationalanimations 🟤 Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/rationalanimations

[@unclehorse3344]

I support this stance with sword and shield in hand!

[@unclehorse3344]

Consistent good nutrition= PAS-TA!

[@seraphwithatank6535]

What an amazing video.

[@lordcirth]

@queerdo Occam's Razor. Any other explanation requires specifying another component, doesn't it?

[@twodumbgamers9285]

It's a shame you didn't even bring psychedelics into the conversation.

[@g4fly4ever8]

Most who say immortalty is a curse forget that the reason that idea came was if you alone was immortal while your loved one weren't. If everyone is immortal and need of resources is a past problem then it's immortality will stop being a curse

[@Bossmodegoat]

For real. People are always terrified of new technology and Ideas and instead of thinking of new ways to safely use them for humanities’s benefit, their first thought is to come up with reasons why it’s bad and we should never do it. People’s wild pessimism about our future very well might be a self fulfilling prophecy.

[@tsnightmare7097]

I don't know if i agree with you but everyone has their own veiws .. i just have a feeling that death is natural because everything dies at some point even stars on the sky

[@avi3681]

A note of caution about the argument here is that the choice theory of transformative experience is quite a bit more complex than for regular (not transformative choices), as L.A. Paul argues in her book Transformative Experience. Basically, for a non-transformative experience, our preferences and therefore our expected outcomes remains stable across the pre and post conditions. For a transformative choice (such as gaining a radical new capacity) our evaluation of the outcomes are different post-choice, i.e., our evaluative capacities are modified as a consequence of the choice. This raises two potential problems. The fist is that pre-choice we may have no way to assess the value that would be attained post-choice (e.g., because it is not imaginable for us). A second, and more disturbing, problem is that when a transformative change may modify our current values, we may have good reason to resist the change even if we could predict that the post-change agent would evaluate themselves as better off. Consider a change where we are modified in such a way that we would be able to realize more value by our post-choice values, but where our post-choice values are monstrous by the light of our present values.

[@radicalpaddyo]

Ahhh, so this is how Slaanesh gets created

[@ioangogov2993]

Lol

[@xymaryai8283]

blood for the blood god! skulls for the skull throne! lust for the lust god! but most importantly... *M I L K F O R T H E K H O R N E F L A K E S*

[@BobelPop]

Too much of a good thing is real, so....

[@TheWebsOfCorruptionNeverFail]

Have faith in the God-Emperor Heretic! Humanity's future is righteous and glorious, unlike the prideful and wretched Eldar.

[@jacksonandrews8714]

NEW SENSATION

[@hampTC]

This is beautiful. Imagining what we might have in the future. Really well done. I briefly imagined myself living in a society 500 years from now looking at our current history. There is so much to be done. So many potential things to unlock!

[@gwho]

Unless totalitarian china has anything to say about it. We HAVE to win ww3 against china when it in comes.

[@erenb.2806]

@@gwho strike first.

[@Colddirector]

@@gwho I don't think direct war with China will ever happen. Both the U.S and China have nukes, and neither country's leaders want their countries being nuked out of existence by the other. A second Cold War where both fight over puppet states controlled by the other is far more likely.

[@theangrydweller1002]

@MrHolyKindness humans are in all senses just monkeys that have been domesticated by society. We call our species intelligence but are only as intelligent as we out because we train each other from birth.

[@ForbiddenFollyFollower]

Society will collapse before that.

[@fiddleriddlediddlediddle]

I LOVE that you used CGP Grey's dragon to represent death.

[@youtubehandlesux]

It's not invented by CGP though, 2005 novel "The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant" did that first and his video is partically an adaption of that novel

[@LoneRising]

I find the concept of death as it is to be abhorrent. I don't want to die, because I want the freedom to choose when I have had enough. I also want to see as much as I can of the future as it comes!

[@mrreyes5004]

Except technology simply won't get to that point. Immortality would be fine and dandy, but need for resources will ALWAYS be an issue (heck, it's a problem now even with finite lifetimes), and it will just get worse if more people are born while older generations never die off. Chasing after a fantasy such as an eternal future just foolishly throws away the chance to enjoy the present, and I've made my peace with eventually passing after a limited but long life of experiences the joys of the world. Sorry, but I intend to live without chasing fantasies.

[@LoneRising]

@@mrreyes5004 I don't think entertaining a notion on occasion is living whilst chasing a fantasy, but sure.

[@selainx]

I'm so happy this channel exists. Definitely supporting y'all on patreon. Also the animation made me burst out in laughter several times. Please never lose your sense of humor.

[@Quadr44t]

This is a much needed, more optimistic take on the future, to balance things out. All in all, I am not the most optimistic, given the current societal trends. Though it is good to have some understanding of all the negatives, it isn't all that helpful to only worry about the bad. Particular a later video of this channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXyVZomGmcd0oLc addresses things I have considered. But haven't given much thought. Particularly the larger than exponential growth of tech.

[@kompatybilijny9348]

I can not like this video enough. Whenever I am telling people that they only accept evil, because they do not think they can do anything about it, they either do not believe me, mock me, or tell me I am stupid.

[@NickAndriadze]

Wow. I just found a second ''Kurzgesagt In A Nutshell'' KZbin channel. This video was amazing! How do you have such low amounts of subscribers?! You deserve at least two more zeros next to you 27.5K!

[@Parapon3ra]

Our coping mechanisms are killing us. If we want heaven, we must first confront hell.

[@johnburke8337]

Oddly, when I was watching this and you were covering the portion on new senses and talked about aphantasia, then showed that download button, it spurred a thought. What are the chances that advancements may cause a homogenization of human thought and experience, and should we consider such a path dangerous? Put in another light, it might seem logical that someone with aphantasia or blindness would want to 'upgrade' to the 'best' version of that sense or pattern, but is the cultural push for that problematic in that those ways of experiencing life are somehow less? One thing this calls to mind is the number of influential topologists who were born with sight but later lost it, and how losing sight seems to be something that guided their studies.

[@lordcirth]

Yeah, I want all the extra senses I can handle, but I'm not sure I want to rewire my brain to "fix" aphantasia.

[@SeventhSolar]

@@lordcirth But aphantasia is just lacking one more sense. Furthermore, gaining any sense involves rewiring the brain. Someone born blind does not exist in darkness, but is incapable of comprehending sight. Should they be given sight, their mind will undergo drastic changes even as they learn to comprehend the concept of a straight line beyond muscle movements.

[@lordcirth]

@@SeventhSolar It's not really a sense, though? It doesn't detect the outside world, it's a way of thinking.

[@SeventhSolar]

@@lordcirth Makes sense.

[@lordcirth]

@@DahistheDah I have almost complete aphantasia, and I can read faster than speech. I wasn't aware it was strongly correlated with reading speed?

[@the_aberration7398]

There is definitely value in ideas like this, and indeed, it could make the future much better. But also, we must be careful to stop our quest to improve humanity from leading us to eugenics.

[@Slanimero]

This video and really the whole channel has really brought my faith in humanity back. It feels like it's been years since I've had such an optimistic view on the future again. Thank you. Well deserved sub!

[@zenithmentrada2231]

The joy of building endlessly and watching living creatures live thrive and die over the course of their lifetimes is one hell of an experience i want to sign up for that's for sure. those new experiences unknown to us would be neat.

[@LordAlacorn]

Our future could be literally beyond feats of ancients gods. But lowering my eyes to earth I see petty monkey business and go.. duh... :)

[@no_special_person]

egocentrism and id passifying go burrrr

[@wasdwasdedsf]

sen il incompetent hacks as presidents seems strangelly illfated

[@no_special_person]

@@wasdwasdedsf nothing worth having comes easily the same applies to societies. If you want to do something that's never been done before don't expect it to come without mountains of effort. I guess what I'm trying to say is don't give up hope it's not a surprise that we live in a corrupt world it's part of the course if we are going to get to the point where humanity achieves the higher state of being, it will be coming out of the lower state of being Some time yang shi sure, and I hope it might give you a more positive outlook

[@wasdwasdedsf]

@@no_special_person sure no worries, im quite positive overall, the current clown establishment seems to be on a constant suicide mission in destroying their credibillity, and their intellect seems unable to reach heights enough to even realize what theyre doing

[@no_special_person]

@@wasdwasdedsf 100% in agreement

[@springinfialta106]

So our future is to become the Borg. Great.

[@guard13007]

Absolutely love your use of the dragon for a representation of death. It is such a striking figure, and reminds me of a particular story I'm guessing you were likewise inspired by.

[@LowestofheDead]

CGPGrey also used a drawing of a dragon like this in a video about immortality. Both are probably inspired by Nick Bostrom's story "The Dragon Tyrant"

[@Deltexterity]

they made death hot bruh 😭

[@sethsoarenson7414]

I have a coworker that is "not into music", for their sake I can't wait till the invention of the uditphog and the sweet sweet soundsmells of Sardinian Heavy Scaping

[@derpherp1810]

Is uditphog a weird uh warping of a music genre that spawned from the term Up Dawg? Does Up Dawg have some unforseen signficance in the future like how dude is in our very common vernacular?

[@sethsoarenson7414]

@@derpherp1810 What's Up Dawg?

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

@@sethsoarenson7414 GOTEEM

[@ziziroberts8041]

Did I hear 'past' slavery? Now that makes me LAUGH.

[@UNSCPILOT]

As someone who watches (way too much) of the SFIA KZbin Channel and has become obsessed with space based Megastructures, I absolutely agree most people don't have a clue how much potential we have. Solving the climate crisis is easy possible without clueless political blowhards slowing everything to a crawl, we could not just save the Earth but build NEW stable climates on Mars and Venus with a larger scale implementation of similar technology such as L1 lagrange point Planetary mirrors/solar power facilities to regulate temperature globally and even on a local basis, huge air and water processing facilities that remove contaminants and refine them into useful resources, just to name a couple. Stopping current pollution is far from enough, the damage is already done, we don't need to just stop, we need to *Undo*

[@pauljs75]

Dunno dying might not be the worst thing. In the future, immortals might be constantly harangued by telepathic space furries telling them how they could still do better.

[@nandfednu3502]

tell me more?

[@chox7517]

I want this future:3

[@unclehorse3344]

Wow! Outstanding video, and amazing job on the animation!

[@terrapinflyer273]

I feel as though the contents and animations of these videos are awakening something in my mind (and soul). Thank you for whatever that may turn out to be. And please continue! I can't wait to hear more! ❤

[@theletters9623]

the adding extra senses thing feels entirely different for me, a person with severe sensory hypersensitivity. new senses would also mean new pains, like high pitched sounds and bright flashing lights, tastes that make you want to vomit, and just general pain (the pain of touch), which makes it a strange concept to me. Would it be valuable to give people new ways to experience pain and dread if it also meant new forms of art?If a deaf person is given the ability to hear yes they can hear music but they can also hear nails across a chalkboard, there is no such thing as a painless sense so would it be worth it?

[@carso1500]

If you can give a person new sences you can likely adjust then too, i mean we are talking of theoretical technology but for example people with a cloquear implant can already regulate the volumen at which they hesr things Also at that point it would depend on the person in question, do you want new sences or not it would be for everyone to decide on their own neither forcing then to accept it or denying then the access because of ill conceived notions of what they can or can't suport

[@Cubelarooso]

It should be their choice, not forced upon them. Pronatalism is child abuse.

[@SmileyEmoji42]

I'm not at all sure that new senses is actually possible in the sense implied without far more radical brain alteration - Our brains have evolved to have the capacity to process a certain amount of sensory input. Where will the new senses be processed? Surely some other part of our senses or mental functioning would be diminished. We can see that this must be so because we have almost certainly lost our pre-human ancestors keener sense of smell and hearing

[@jumpander]

2:49 I learned active and passive echolocation and I can see with it without any light. It gets better the more I use it but as I sighted person there aren't many situation where I can use echolocation naturally. It looks like a colorless world where you can only see the "imprints" of what exists around you. It's far less visually noisy, yet still detailed enough so that you can navigate. Imagine a constant dense fog that's sometimes as close as 5 meters and sometimes as far as a 100 meters from you and blocks your sight. It's very cool but as all qualia I can only tell and not show you what I "see with my ears".

[@nessiecz2006]

thank you for sharing your experience.

[@jumpander]

@@nessiecz2006 I have even more experience. Ask any question about echoloaction and I'll try to answer it. Thanks for your intereset in my comment.

[@litrpg101]

@@jumpander How does it affect your normal hearing? Is it better or worse? Does it allow you to supplement your situational awareness or something like that? Do you have to concentrate to do it? Lots of questions, sorry.

[@jumpander]

@@litrpg101 How does it affect my normal hearing? Is it better or worse? I can't really tell because the process of acquiring human echolocation took place over several months, gradually increasing my ability and understanding. As any slow change, you hardly notice or look for it. But in retrospective I can say that my hearing feels better. First of all, I have hyperacusis or have developed it. I don't know if I always had it but my guess is yes. My hyperacusis makes me hear the high frequencies above 3 kHz to 5 kHz louder than other people. This means that opening an aluminium/plastic pack of chips (even though I don't eat chips) hurts like hell on bad and is uncomfortable on good days. But me learning echolocation definitely "worsened" my hyperacusis. But it's only "worse" if you can't use your different hearing. My hearing is not perfect, I'm 23 and can hear comfortably up to 16kHz and on good days up to 17k to 18 kHz. Although I can't tell that easily because I listen to audio devices very very low in comparison to other people (as much as 3 to 5 times as low, if other people listen to music at 50% - 70% of total the volume I listen at 4% to 12%, I tested it). That means I hear higher frequencies more intense and I hear things louder than other people. Whether that developed due to me learning echolocation, that... I don't know. But because I'm now aware of my hearing I can protect it better, that means slower presbyacusis (becoming hard of hearing the older you get) because of less damage over a lifetime. That alone makes or will make my hearing better than that of others. But enough of my hearing alone. Me learning echolocation made me able to better focus on specific sounds. So for example, when someone listens to traffic that someone may distinguish a few cars, a few pedestrians and mostly what's in front of him/her and what's in sight. For me I can focus on finer details because my brain knows what to expect and anticipates it. I hear all the cars around me and across the streets, I hear the pedestrians walking and talking behind, beside and in front of me, I can make out what's happening, how someone's oriented, where they're looking (if they are talking) even if I don't look, etc. So basically before I could only hear what I saw with my eyes and now I can hear/see everything that's around me. This seems awkward on occasion because I sometimes talk with people not looking at them or with closed eyes. What they don't know is that I still see them, I just don't look at them with my eyes. Furthermore, as a natural consequence I talk quieter than other people because I hear "better" or more. That causes issue sometimes. Does it allow me to supplement my situational awareness or something like that? Definitely, yes. I have to force myself to look (at a crossing) when riding a bike because that's the normal way to do it. If I were serious I wouldn't have to look but just listen. I'm still not a master, I can't walk long distances without a blindman's stick and I don't have much experience in urban areas, because I'm afraid of cars hitting me and me hitting other people. But when it comes to echolocation in the forest or inside and outside of buildings and rooms, I'm already so good that I don't need anything further: Just my ears and closed eyes. Besides, I don't have to look anymore to see something. If someone enters a room full of people, for example, almost everyone will look at said person. But I just sit there and listen, listen to every detail I can make out. Therefore, I don't need to look anymore. When it's dark inside or outside I don't need to use light anymore to find the right way. And I can make out the size and shape of dark spaces I normally couldn't enter (like a tunnel, a room where I can't get into, a deep well, the size of a room behind me, etc.). So yes, echolocation very much supplements my situational awareness. (It actually creates situational awareness even if there is none. For example 3D-audio story videos on youtube are really great because I don't just hear it but I can actually see it.) Do you have to concentrate to do it? As everything in life, you have to train it or it will become stale. The more I actively echolocate with closed eyes and the more uncomfortable new places I go to for said training, the better I become. If I don't train for like more than a month I need a few minutes (and mostly an hour) to re-learn the ability a little bit. The framework is there, I just have to remind my brain that echolocation is a thing that it can do. And when I'm echolocating I constantly have to concentrate. I analyze the sound (in that order) as followed: As an example I'll use a normal long and high 'brick wall'. - I look for what's actually there that I hear: A tall and wide object that reflects sound very well. - Then I look for what I can't hear: I can't hear the echos behind the wall, but I can hear the echos that the object walls back at the walls behind me. I can't hear people talking, leaves blowing in the wind and rain falling behind that object, so it must be pretty solid. - Then I look for what may be there: A tall and wide object that's thick enough to not let through any sound and reflects almost all frequencies of my tongue click. So it is a wall! - Now that, but way more detailed than just "a wall". I can tell how I'm oriented to the wall, how tall it actually is, how long it goes on on both sides, whether there are windows or doors, whether there are street lights in front of it, whether there's grass or stones as a fundament; and so on. However, in the early stages of learning echolocation I had to concentrate a lot more than I have to now. Now, it's almost natural because of honest repetition and years of exposure. But I daily discover new objects that I haven't looked at with echolocation yet to add to my inventory of echolocated-objects inside my head. The more I'm familiar with the places I'm echolocating at the easier it obviously is. Summarized: I have to concentrate but way less than I had to when I started learning echolocation. Lots of words for lots of questions. :D I can answer more if you're still interested.

[@liam8370]

@@jumpander so do u form an image in your brain of your surroundings or have a.. sort of feeling or can sense and know there's something and how accurate is it compare to vision also do u hear echos in your daily life and what if a bat was echoing will u be able to sense with that? sorry for so many questions but i am really curious now

[@l30nandres56]

This channel just became one of my favorite KZbin channels, no doubt you will grow rapidly!! Awesome videos!

[@MarkusAldawn]

The point about sight to the blind goes by a bit fast imo. It's not at all clear to me that the sender of sight is inherently something we should push people to accept as merely good as a function of being an addition. Some deaf people refer to hearing, when offered prosthetics and cybernetics to give them it, as a burden, as a distraction, as extra information to be sifted through and discarded, and decide to take their implants out, or stop using hearing aids, or ask to be re-deafened, and the same is true, I'm sure, for the blind, and every other sense and experience. You will see news articles describing the joy of someone hearing their partner for the first time, or videos of them experiencing it directly themselves. You won't see a video of someone suffering a panic attack because it's bright, it's too bright and the light doesn't stop when I close my eyes it's still there it's still _there and I can still see the floaters on my eyes, the backs of my eyelids, the fuzzy distortions of lines and patterned fields and shapes and I can _*_still see._* Largely because nobody likes reading a downer like that. There are many who would, when reading a book, enjoy if sound effects were added. But also many who enjoy the peace and quiet of their book, and the fact it cuts out all extraneous information and lets the mind make its own scene. And while the argument "just close your eyes" might seem to apply, blindness and closed eyes are not the same things. Nor is closing one's ears a workable response to displeasure with a soundscape (I have utilised earplugs and music and every solution under the sun, but as with sight- blocking sound out is not the same as not hearing it. We might call this the Dolittle argument. It might be maddening to hear the thoughts of every insect. I don't think it would increase our potential to taste the results of a blood scan, or see into the UV 'lengths, just change it. There's no such thing as an expanded umwelt without an expanded mental capacity- just optimisation, or refocussing. We can pick up and then set down a blood scanner, or a UV camera, or what have you. Integration of those into our bodies is just taking our a middle step, but if you simply ignore that interpretation will always happen, and that integration causes (different) blindspots, you may as well claim legs are useless, and that walking should be viewed as a tragic waste of human time. Why not, after all, stimulate your muscles electrically and your mind electronically? Why not cut out commutes, and save an hour or more each day? Why not optimise your life to make no seconds wasted? Turn over every fold of grey matter so none of _it_ is wasted? Early humans might look at us and recoil, horrified. Why does their opinion matter less than a hypothetical late human's, looking back and recoiling, horrified? "They couldn't taste music?" they whisper, drawing blank pages on how they would even live without that _basic_ indulgence. The answer, to the future, is just fine, thank you. And when we whisper back, "they spliced their veins into machines and their brains to optic cables?" they nod, say "what's tattoos, but analogue cybernetics? What's contact lenses, what's laser eye surgery? Why _not_ see the world through clear eyes? Why not pursue a bigger slice of the picture directly, as opposed to seeing it through photographs?" Maybe I'll get to argue this in person, to the people who've used it and like it. I hope so. I just don't think it's a one-line gotcha that we should accept as proof of 'wasted potential.' It's a great video, but potential is not owed and therefore cannot be wasted. And the extension of experience does not need to come through the increase in direct ports with which to plug in experiences.

[@wandering5381]

We have a professional Reddit user right here.

[@MarkusAldawn]

@@wandering5381 not used it in ages, and didn't do much with it when I did- My longwindedness transcends platform! Idk, just irks me when people use a metaphor to show how obviously correct they are, and then don't examine that metaphor. More often than not, the metaphor is as debatable as the actual debated point, and it's just relied on that people don't want to argue about not one but two things- not saying it was intentional, but it does happen. Jokes on them, though, I'm perfectly willing to write a small novel based on a few lines I didn't quite agree with.

[@Exile_Sky]

Under-rated comment.

[@Excal111]

@@MarkusAldawn I actually really appreciate the lengths you went to in examining the metaphor. I myself am a CODA, of a Child of Deaf Adults. Both of my parents are deaf, but I am hearing and have had the experience of growing up around the deaf community. Its shockingly common to see deaf people decline the use of hearing aids and even frown upon cochlear implants (For those unaware, a cochlear implant is a surgical procedure which implants a magnet in the skull to hold a receiver for what is more or less a very advanced and much more sensitive hearing aid). In fact my parents, despite both of them having gotten CIs scarcely ever wear them. My mom found it very cool she could hear the train on the tracks a ways from where we lived at the time or the sound of rain, but quickly got annoyed with some of the more repetitive noises like the A/C kicking on, car horns, the fire alarm chirping when the battery needed to be replaced, etc, all things that hearing people have a tendency to just tune out. Information overload is very much a real thing and people who never had the ability to hear or to see likely have adapted naturally to compensate for their condition and the addition of new stimuli can quickly become overwhelming or irritating. In addition to that, should we "fix" all these conditions there are things that we stand to lose as well. For example, what is the use of sign language without the deaf? Sign is a fascinating language that can often communicate better than the spoken word because it combines signs, body language, and imagery to convey a message rather than just words. In short, what may look to be disadvantages or disabilities to some can be seen as an avenue to an entirely different way of looking at the world to others. Who is to say which has the greater potential?

[@MarkusAldawn]

@@Excal111 I find what your parents do really interesting- because if you don't wanna wear your augmentations, or don't want them sometimes, or want to pick and choose, it should be up to you. Seems like a pretty good starting principle of just Things in general. Although now I'm imagining your parents having people around for dinner while the fire alarm is screeching, so any guests who can hear are just thinking "what sort of bizarre power move is this?" and admittedly, the idea does make me laugh. Honestly, I like Baby from Baby Driver as an example of managing your own sense-experience. Got tinnitus? Drown it out with music. Got to drive? Hit the rhythm. Got to communicate? Lip-reading and sign-language. I'd make a strong argument that Baby Driver put forward the case of sensory self-determination, and for a movie that's literally based around the concept of music as a thing, it's not necessarily a natural point to end up with a character with a hearing difficulty, who communicates almost exclusively through sign language, and who uses lip-reading to understand the conversations taking place around him, so it's extremely cool that it did. Only a few times does he actually have to rely on his hearing to communicate, and mostly he uses it like your mum does- to listen to things that sound cool, and to gather and enjoy information on their terms (for your mum, "it's raining" or "the train's coming," for Baby "I need to drive like nobody has ever driven before and I will do it to the rhythms of Africa by Toto"). Idk, I just think it's cool that we can have the take "person who listens to music all the time in a movie where music is integral to the plot can also be an allegory for only using your cochlear implant how you want to." Maybe it doesn't make as much sense as I think it does, but imo it's pretty neat.

[@paulcarter7445]

The ancients didn't fear death so much as fear what the gods would do to them when they were dead - at least that fear is partially mitigated. The fear of death is an evolutionary driver, and without such fear, humanity wouldn't have lasted long. The trick is to realize that one shouldn't be overly fearful of one's death, but death should be avoided as much as possible - i.e. tame the evolutionary driver (fear), but enjoy living by thoughtful avoidance of death.

[@DeusExNihilo]

My guess is that, in the future, humans will quickly grow tired of immortality. They'll probably build simulations where they can experience living with death, and they'll just do that over and over again for as long as they can keep the simulations running. Maybe that's what we're doing right now

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

i think the video frased it too simply, i think we should eliminete unwanted death but the ability to die should be permited and seen in a good way as long as the one who wishes it makes a wise and thoutfull desicion and does really think about it

[@riblix4744]

@@DeusExNihilo I very much doubt that humanity will grow tired of immortality. There is already so much thing that are possible to experience and it pretty much impossible to experience them all in one life. You could spend multiple human lifespan only to master a single form of art. Many things can only be experienced when you live hundred, thousand or millions of year.

[@DeusExNihilo]

@@riblix4744 I didn't mean that they will end it all, but more like they'll play video games that you don't know are video games and you can feel pain and die in. Basically a hard mode

[@riblix4744]

@@DeusExNihilo I mean, that just another type of entertainment that is open to people seeing as Death has been Killed. But, again, it doesn't mean that a Immortal Humanity will be mostly bored. I think it going to be the opposite. There is just too much to life to be lived in a single lifetime even in thousands of human lifetime. And beside, boredom is not the worst of feeling. I actually prefer boredom to feeling like I'm wasting precious, limited time.

[@sampowers510]

Thank you for proving to me that I'm not crazy when I look around and see all this untapped potential in humanity lol I'm no longer alone in these thoughts 💕

[@genericgamer1319]

think about all the energy of all the stars being wasted & all the quadrillions of people that could be thriving using that energy

[@petertemp4785]

Really nice video. Always looking forward to the next!:)

[@old_ham2970]

This channel will surely blow up soon. Great content guys!

[@andresgonzalez-gm5ry]

Despite all of our amazing and mind blowing advances, I cannot help but to see humanity as a still very primitive creature

[@kbro6618]

We will always be children in the eyes of Time

[@wren_.]

Primitive, yes, but not stupid. We feel pretty good about things like iPhones and spaceflight, but our brains are still the same as they were 50,000 years ago. If brains like that could do all of this, then I don’t feel like we’re as primitive as you say

[@andresgonzalez-gm5ry]

@@wren_. Yeah I agree. I guess what I was thinking is that we are at a point where we can truly begin to understand just how much we still don't know and the incredible size of our limitations. Still, all of that makes us even more amazing and like you say, the fact that we've managed to take things to the level that they are now with pretty much the same biology it's really mindblowing.

[@Merilirem]

@@wren_. Its relative. All we have done and could do will likely seem trivial once we grow past our fragile little bodies of evolved meat. If anything it will probably seem impressive we got so far with so little.

[@legion8328]

Don't think I've subscribed faster before, awesome video and animations keep up the good work and you guys deserve way more subs than this!

[@agustinluchia-puig4857]

Honestly, great content yall. The channel is underrated and if you keep up you guys will explode!

[@kmatcyk]

Wow. Excellent job. Please keep up the good work. Amazing insight and creativity.

[@ataraxia7439]

Gosh it’s so odd because I use the extra senses hypothetical as a reason we shouldn’t pressure blind or dead people into being “fixed” if they’re uninterested. I think the experience of not having a sense (for some people not all) can be more valuable and interesting and pleasurable than having it. I personally would like to live a long time and cycle through many various combinations of having and not having senses. Imagine the unique experiences of having to rely on touch and smell to navigate the world instead of seeing and hearing. I’d welcome being able to see ultra violet as a color but think there could be valid reasons some one could be content with our original chromatic scale heheh. I feel the same way about deathZ I personally would like to live forever & believe even most people who think they derive meaning from death would actually value being alive much more, but that some people genuinely do live better more meaningful lives when it’s for a shorter duration. My hope is a future where we acknowledge that very different kinds of experiences and ways of living are what’s best for different people and that there’s no unambiguous way to make it better for any given person aside from evaluating their own personal wants and needs. Still love the video regardless, I think it’s still pointed in a better direction than how most people think of life.

[@RationalAnimations]

Seriously good points. I wish I had said this in the video. Ultimately technology should enable more freedom and not force us into experiences we may not want. As you say, everyone should be able to experience exactly what they choose to experience and live as they want to live, with probably some constraints (example: no kill other ppl please).

[@hoominbeeing]

@@RationalAnimations What's wrong.with experiencing k1lling other ppl but not actually doing it? You already do this in a pseudo form with video games

[@Nizati]

@John Barber **disappointed necromancer noises as I stop the 'speak with dead' spell

[@Nizati]

Good point.... Reminds me when i'm exhausted and my head is fuzzy, I will actually close my eyes on my walk home, and rely near-completely on my hearing, tactile feeling through my feet and just raw memorization of a path I walked many times before. Somehow it took my exhausted mind to a sense of being focused and calm. Sometimes, turning off senses really does give one value they wouldn't expect.

[@DeusExNihilo]

I think it's likely that when technology advances to the point where we can have perfect simulations with direct neurological integration, we will want to experience life in an infinite variety of ways. If we are able to block out our memory and reconfigure our senses, we could live non human lives for fun. Maybe that's what this life is right now

[@pcdm43145]

I'll say this about the video; it's a pretty impressive sales-pitch for using "technology" to transform mankind into a race of monsters...

[@AreGeeBee]

Man plus machine equals improved man. Not monster

[@LKRaider]

Everyone imagines these enlightened immortal beings would be them, and not the psychopaths, the power mongers, and just how about anyone would become evil by having the freedom of not dying and being bored. They paint a complete dystopia as an utopia. It is the very definition of a cult mindset being brewed in this video.

[@thepooaprinciple5144]

first time watching one of your videos and I got to say ...I really enjoyed the concepts you discussed and the animation techniques used to describe them. It was a pleasant watch. I will definitely be subscribing. Keep it up.

[@theforcefor]

WTF, Why YT didn't recommend me this channel in the past, I see great potential

[@TheBloodRedDane]

I hate the mentality of thinking death is a good thing. I truly wonder if we would have solved aging by now if we as a society didn't hold this idiotic belief.

[@geniegogo]

in writing science fiction, it allows one to ponder certain situations that might normally not be thought about much. So imagine in a science fiction story where technology is so advanced it's not a problem at all reattaching limbs. Therefore there is a city where everyone visits to play at being sword masters, it's the dueling suburb, in the city of blades. Surrounding there are training camps, amusement parks... Everyone in the population is already physically fit but there are some who train their bodies to be capable of amazing feats. In the town of swords, friendly contests are allowed but there is technology that prevents steel from cutting through vital areas. Everyone watching says it's a beautiful thing to see such skills and mastery of ancient pursuits. Thursdays are team nights. Such is the time spent in the future where the living touches upon the forever and living with damaged bodies are a thing of the past. Reviewers of the book say it's a juxtaposition between the fear of living and the human need for physical challenges.

[@cherilynnfisher5658]

DAYMN! This channel is becoming my favorite. . . FAST! Awesome! Thank you!

[@ZuhZero]

Thanks for this video, this is something I think about a lot

[@agni3743]

I love the anime references lmao

[@SuperAlphaKirby]

Hey i just wanted to tell you that this video has helped me a lot with dealing with my AI depression. I'm optimistic about our new future now, Andi can't wait to see how amazing humanity can get!

[@SmileyEmoji42]

Do you feel sorry for our pre-homo sapien predecessors? How do you reconcile this with your attitude to possible post-homo sapien succesors? The only, evenly remotely defensible argument must rely on some notion of gradualism but that doesn't seem terribly reasonable to me and it still falls to the idea of gradual prosthetic enhancement which will clearly eventually reach the same state as direct replacement by AI.

[@dylanyung5257]

​@@SmileyEmoji42trust me humanity has failed much worse when we killed God in the first and not to much that they're greedy bastards who only want to colonize other planets once we destroy this planet and the environment because everything has to come to an end at one point and with the amount of problems that humans cause these days without seeing their own mistakes that are programmed to repeat all the time

[@MateusMeurer]

Dude, your animations are the best in this genre (the infographics show, Kurzgesagt, Koranos)

[@official-obama]

I had to double check, you made "epic conway's game of life" 11 years ago. You're improving!

[@lunasills8031]

I just about cried when you brought up the idea of someone born before the synthesizer never falling in love with music. For the longest time I couldn't listen to music, it just, didn't feel right. But id get panic attacks from not having audio stimulation. Then I found my sound. Its hard to even describe. But it's definitely modern. I can appreciate the classicals, even sometimes properly just leaving it on in the background. But I couldn't imagine a musical world without modern instruments, specifically electronic instruments. The idea of someone in Rome or Greece, China or Korea, back in the B.C.E times or early C.E. times. Not being able to enjoy that sound? It's devastating. Imagining someone who gets panic attacks from lack of audio stimuli, like myself, who isn't able to listen to music 24/7 with earbuds like we can. And when they get to hear music, they can't vibe with it. Or worse, it actively makes them have panic attacks. There's definitely things that can be better in life. But, the fact most people can't see it, simply because they haven't lived those issues, it's sad. We are on the cusp of creating so many brilliant technologies, that'll solve so many problems. I just hope they aren't shunned by those who are indifferent because cant see the brilliance and prosperity they'll bring.

[@varrantgreen4259]

Now imagine that same thing but with birds. And other random natrual sounds that occur outside all day Evey day. There you go. Your horror is an illusion a prison to make you feel like the entertainment being pumped into your skull gives you meaning. When one of your problems is probably a severe lack of phsycal stimulus and physical engagement. Seriously. Try lifting weights. See if that changes how your nervous system communicates with the body and brain. (From someone who get a panic when ever I'm not staring at a phone screen/have audio stimuli)

[@Exile_Sky]

That you skipped over why "Death is good" shows a little bit of a lack of perspective. The "Death is good" argument runs on the notion that eternity is torture. If you are long lived enough to do everything, you will do everything. Once you have done everything existence loses the glimmer of "something new" that humans are so enraptured with. "New" things are a novelty that humanity is always chasing, because we already know how the "old" things work, thus we only go back to those for comfort, not intrigue or engagement. Granted, the greatest problem that comes with the idea of eliminating physical death isn't the staying alive part. It's the remembering everything part. The problems caused by limitations in data storage and processing that is the human brain, or any brain for that matter. Humanity may be capable of eliminating Death in the physical sense, but after a certain amount of time, no matter how advanced the tech gets, there will be a capacity that once reached you would no longer be able to record new experiences without deleting old ones. If its purely the mind of a human without a technological assist that problem becomes even more advanced. The amnesiac immortal who will die billions of tiny deaths as they lose themselves to time, but never ceases to be, is a frightening prospective existence to give humanity.

[@ThingsStuffington]

It seems like the two 'death is good' perspectives here cancel each other out. Like, if data storage capacity is an issue and you can't record new experiences infinitely without deleting old ones, then one can revisit 'old' deleted things and engage with them as if they were new.

[@Exile_Sky]

@@ThingsStuffington "Like, if data storage capacity is an issue and you can't record new experiences infinitely without deleting old ones, then one can revisit 'old' deleted things and engage with them as if they were new." It actually brings up the question of "How would that be any different from dying, then?" If you are functionally a different person, why resist that natural process of advancement and recycling at all? That's what having children and dying is after all.. Procreation *is* evolution, and death is a recycling of biological materials back into the system. That recycling process actually ensures biological material continues to increase. Given we live in a generally symbiotic biome, our corpses are actually useful. (realistically it would be better for the Earth's system if we put our bodies through a blender and fertilized the landscape instead of burn or preserve & bury the bodies). If we have all our old vices, I could see reproduction of humans easily going off the charts for far longer than it should and damaging that process. Hopefully if we're at the point we're stopping aging, we should be marginally better at genetic engineering, so maybe this won't be so much of a problem as just engineering our fertility down, or even rendering our whole species infertile and only lab growing children when and if needed could fix those issues. I can imagine a lot of our current species having problems with those solutions. Since we all know what giving god-like power to humans tends to do, and technologically enhancing ourselves with bio-engineering doesn't mean we're going to be any better morally than we are now. We actually seem to be trending back towards pure xenophobia due to certain groups within our current political spheres. Depending where you are on the spectrum of that, it likely won't be who you are thinking. Though this entire question of "Killing the Monster: Death" just raises more questions and concerns. Immortal people are easily a resource problem. Resources in any region are finite, this includes space. Our ability to travel, according to all known practical scientific hypothesis, cannot exceed the speed of light. Eventually all other galaxies will be traveling away from our galaxy cluster at the speed of light (because how quickly space expands is slowly speeding up) meaning we will only have what we've got and having a growing population that exists eternally will cause the critical issue of resource limitations for the future by their sheer existence now. You also have to consider the goal of eliminating "death" and how you go about it. Realistically, from what we know about the universe, there is no salvation at the end of time. Heat death is heat death and there really isn't anything anyone can do about it in the grand scheme of things. At least not with our current mathematics and understanding of how everything works (which is fairly solid, not perfect but solid). So you really have to think about it. If you're biologically immortal and continue to accrue and use resources (and you will) you are depriving other entities of resources later. Who decides who gets to be immortal, why are they chosen, are they replaced, can we overcome human and technological limitations to continue with an uninterrupted stream of consciousness for as long as possible, what is the practical use of this? These are all things you should consider before you think about "killing death". Sure it's a pleasant idea in the short term, but it has extremely long term ramifications that most people would have trouble quantifying. I more agree with a cyclical existence that we can't necessarily fully control. Chance is far fairer than we as humans could ever hope to be, since if we went the immortal route humans would have to get used to playing God. Surely we would be preferential to those we personally endorse. While this video is good for drawing up these questions, it's very shallow in content. If you're really interested in Futurism Maybe check out the Isaac Arthur KZbin channel if you want someone that's more involved in thinking about this stuff in a more practical fashion. kzbin.info/door/ZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g Sounds kinda like Elmer Fudd, but the man will get you thinking hard about the topics he covers. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZybf2WGoNZ2etU - Trans-humanism and Immortality. If you are interested, since this is the topic of this video.

[@johnstibal2131]

This was a very creative and light hearted way to talk about some major issues.

[@Ilkanar]

Good good. Glad to see people making vids about the matter

[@atomatopia1]

My take on the whole death thing: I feel like death isn’t a good thing in itself for those who die, but it is a good thing for those of us who are left. If nobody died, or only rich people never died, then we may come to a point where power may never recycle. People will never be replaced by new humans with new perspectives and ideas. I can see clearly the errors of my parents. Errors that they don’t find any issue with. While I can hope they will eventually work on their issues and improve themselves, I don’t think that will happen fast enough to be of value to those harmed by them. I feel we may slow down as a species. That we will never make room for the new generations and those with power have the option to hold onto their power and traditional beliefs for much longer. And while I’d love to live forever, if nothing more than an observer to the universe, I understand that the ability for anyone to live forever would be catastrophic to our species.

[@LKRaider]

Imagine a criminal that committed heinous crimes, a psychopath, that was immortal. How would society deal with that? I agree with you, it is not a good thing, even if it were possible.

[@reasonablewalk4982]

And I think it would be so sad to never have kids on the planet again; if immortality was widespread we’d have to stop reproducing. Kids are adorable and entertaining. And are we gonna make our dogs live forever too? No more puppies? 😨

[@michaelcasper4727]

@@LKRaider Easy, turn off their arms and legs. If the technology allows immortality (teleporter) then it also allows control over life. Of course, no one would make a criminal immortal. One can get a new body but it won't be unbreakable. In fact one can "turn off" arms and legs by clipping the nerves of the spinal cord.

[@peterw1534]

@@reasonablewalk4982 Lol I would so trade kids and puppies for immortality in a heartbeat and consider it a cheap price!

[@fuzzytabletopfellow7249]

@@michaelcasper4727 then the monster can arise that uses that power to clip off the limbs of other future humans they deem as criminal, or a monster which imposes a form of control on all others. Sure it is just how i see things, but as good we think of a thing... i rather try not to forget that new monsters arise we can not forsee.

[@rxscience9214]

I disagree. There are no new categories of value. Things we value have simply been repackaged and reconstructed using modern technology. A good movie for example would definitely be of value to our ancient pre historic ancestors because a movie is a story, and they told stories. The reason we have movies is because they told each other stories. You make an interesting point about math, sure, it would be unlikely that a great number of ancients would be able to find the beauty in mathematics the way their descendants do, plus the math was and is unfinished so they could never, but in the modern world almost no one save for those who study mathematics find beauty in it at all. No one cares about prime numbers and complex math problems outside of a very small circle. I believe the amount people who have the intelligence and patience to learn and appreciate advanced mathematics would be in proportion in the past the same amount as in the modern day.

[@zeehero7280]

OMG you used THAT image... Subbed. interesting topics AND good taste (Remember us, remember that we once lived)

[@The_Akaito]

I think the problem is not death itself but the fact that you don't chose when you die

[@MrTurtulzz]

This is high quality content for such a small channel.

[@defeatSpace]

It is one of my dreams not to die, hopefully I wasn't born too early.

[@xymaryai8283]

i hope i at least get the choice to try even the prototypes, because even if i only get to live a few more years, i will have contributed that much to helping others live longer. but i do wish to experience even a smidge of what our species could become.

[@defeatSpace]

Yeah, hopefully technology progresses enough so I can at least settle with uploading myself to a modular, self-repairing space station equip with a few ways to maneuver, bays for remote vessels or limpets, research labs, material refineries, production lines, and of course hot androids to exist with me until some random disaster or until the end of existence if it turns out there is such a thing.

[@xymaryai8283]

@@defeatSpace oh heck, going full upload would be so fun, being a tiny drone or a star hopping fusion spacecraft, man humans have so much potential if we figure that stuff out. imagine all the things we could be

[@angrydragon4574]

Well, if you believe in Jesus just wait til he comes back.

[@defeatSpace]

@@angrydragon4574 I'll be happy to let The Trinity transfer my consciousness to their archive in extradimensional Bulk space after I've had my fill of living in our familiar cosmos.

[@HaloWolf102]

I remember when a blind person got his sight. And he wanted to go back to being blind.

[@whowhatwhen3145]

Fantastic channel. I love your art style.

[@patrickalarcon9758]

3:33 thats literally the plot of evangelion lmfao

[@Omenvreer]

I feel like caveman would enjoy Bach or Beethoven. Classical beautiful music like that is universal. But i might have modern human bias

[@suburbanturnip2426]

I have limitless hyperphantasia, and I've only encountered 3 people like me in 32 years. 1 being my dad.

[@BehruzbekOtayev]

This is a gold mine. Thank you.

[@gandradd698]

What a gem of a Channel i just found! :D Amazing work!

[@CringineerGaming]

Ayeeeee I have aphantasia! Its very strange not being able to "imagine" something. It baffles me that other humans can imagine an object and rotate it mentally. All I see is black lol

[@xymaryai8283]

r o t a t é b a n a n a can you remember seeing something and describe what it looked like? like, can you remember characteristics?

[@CringineerGaming]

@@xymaryai8283 It's quite easy for me to forget what people look like if I haven't seen them for awhile, but I could remember things like voice and smell. If that helps you any :)

[@GivingWhatWeCanCommunity]

Nice work!

[@thed1taumaruvegas]

I dont understand why people are so afraid of death. Are they not curious to see what’s on the other side of the veil? Not saying I want to die, but one day.

[@clementlumumba4824]

2:52 Everything in life is a JOJO reference.

[@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766]

Personally I think death would be a pretty good monster since, I prefer to die over being immortal, at some point life might not be worth it, at some point I may just not want to live anymore.

[@UNSCPILOT]

Remember that in this case, Immortality is not a solo deal, and I think a lot of people dramatically overestimate how fast they will run out of interesting things to do. Immortality is far better than people think when *everyone* has access to it, not just a select few who suffer alone

[@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766]

@@UNSCPILOT well that is true, different people will still experience it differently, the generation that gets immortality wouldn’t have been born with immortality and so they would have different opinions on it, they generation born during it would find immortality much more normal, and probably wouldn’t have many different opinions on it, I would probably lose interest in up to about 1000 years, the main things keeping me interested in life at all would be video games, if I made a social connection, them, youtubers would be Immortal and therefore I have an infinite flow content from whatever youtubers. I think a way the world will change, in prisons, some prisoners wouldn’t get life sentences like the would’ve for their crime, they would sit in prison for however long their sentence is, and then be executed, or they do get life sentences and suffer in prison for days. Maybe there would be a company that will let you kill yourself if your over a certain age, i wonder if phobias would still exist, could you still be afraid of spiders, I wonder how the immortality thing would work, could you become immortal when your young, or only at a certain age.

[@eshaansarkar2017]

Amazing video!

[@Aniaas1]

The values part went by a little fast, but does raise an interesting point - values are of a time just as technology is, the difference is we can measure technologies against criteria to measure improvement. There isn't an absolute scale of values that we can use to tell us if we have created better values, we can only state that we prefer our value system to another, and it's entirely possible that our ancestors would react with horror to the values of today, and we might also disapprove of the ethics of 500 years from now. No one era can claim to have the "right" values, and we can't even really debate the issue because of that pesky timeline thing blocking two-way communication.

[@DeusExNihilo]

We also don't necessarily have a clear perspective into the past on how people actually thought. Even with the amount of historical data we have, it's basically immeasurable how much we don't know. So much of our operating system isn't hardwired that it seems foolish to me that we can think we understand anything about people in the past.

[@Bossmodegoat]

Interestingly The is-ought problem highlights how absolute moral values cant’t be derived from scientific truths. There is no scientific approach we can take to morality that doesn’t include at least one axiomatic assumption. Basically morality can only exist relative to un-provable assumptions. Like how math requires assumed axioms to have any meaning.

[@stephaniemroin]

The comparison between death and slavery does NOT work. Slavery was experienced during many years with a lot of suffering. Death is NOT experienced, this is by definition the end of senses and consciousness. Therefore the conclusion of "death is bad" is irrelevant at least with this "argument" because of the faulty premise.

[@Nostripe361]

I always thought the best idea for immortality is voluntary immortality. Basically allowing those who want it to get it but if they choose they can die. I mean most immortality bad stuff I see, other than losing loved ones is the idea of stagnation or boredom

[@Merilirem]

Most of that "stagnation" stuff comes from people with no imagination. Sometimes you end up resting but unless something is preventing you from recovering and having fun you will go back to living life happily in time. People feel hopeless already and assume more life would mean more of what they have which is flawed for other reasons.

[@SmileyEmoji42]

A key question for me is how fast we forget stuff. Our memories are limited. It is unclear whether our boredom would overtake our capacity to remember causing us to commit suicide or whether we would eventually settle into a stable level of boredom whereby after N years an experience would be old enough to feel like something new. The idea of enjoyong actual new experiences forever clearly cannot work.

[@MaskOfZer0]

I'm so glad I found this channel. Let's send your subscriber count to the moon!

[@jaceybenton]

This is a good point. But it brings to mind what experience have we lost. The moment is all we have. Thanks for making this video.

[@NecrochildK]

Covert Ascian

[@pumpSHO]

5:08 my math professor loved that and taught us why it's amazing, I still didn't get it but I can appreciate the passion

[@TheMemesofDestruction]

If we can Level Up, there is not much we can not accomplish!

[@johannpaullundgrenzoz4100]

beautiful video, thank you very much

[@inthso362]

"They died in their twenties..." If you made it through childhood, and didn't live in a particularly violent culture, you could expect to live as long as we do today. And without cavities or cancer. Made it 43 second, had to pass. Summer is coming. This one will be long...

[@varrantgreen4259]

Ya, people don't understand life expectancy and it's even dumber when they explain that it's because babies die... Like bro really? A baby died so you're not going to live past 20s? Just so dumb.

[@science3632]

Same thought. Speaker is talking BS. Actually makes me angry when I hear people put ancient man down lol. Once humans began cultivating grains they were able to harvest all the food they needed for the year in two weeks, rent free presumably. So I’m guessing they partied a lot too.

[@inthso362]

@@science3632 Kalahari bushmen work an average of 15 hours a week for their sustenance, which leaves plenty of time for jewelry, art, music dancing... of course they're protected, an unfortunate necessity. It will be much harder for us with the 2040 societal collapse. May you live in interesting times!

[@ThighErda]

not as long as today, you'd likely die in your 50-60s of a lung infection

[@inthso362]

@@ThighErda Sounds like pure guesswork. Given the toxins we deal with we're probably worse off.

[@jadimatic1096]

Death is a natural part of the universe though, its part of a cycle, old things must die for new things to come, we dont have infinite resources. We can delay death for sure, but I dont think anyone really ever wants to live forever, eventual death is a blessing, it stops us from suffering in far greater ways that we would if we were immortal. An immortal person would live long enough to see everything around them crumble, then new things rise, and would in time come to completely forget people why knew. Imagine the level of grief it would cause for someone to forget who even gave birth to them or forget their own childhood, or their young adult years, in time everything would be forgotten.

[@adamnevraumont4027]

Every cell line - every cell in your body - is more than a billion years long. There is plenty of death, but also immortality.

[@spencerheath5085]

The real monster is not recognizing that there are only three real professions farming building and healing, these are the most valuable professions yet often others gain more wealth for no reason

[@yung_wise5861]

Anti aging medicine, neuralink, and space colonization are being studied currently. Who knows what's even possible in the next decades!

[@boombox2492]

I love this shit wooooh

[@thomasandriessen1046]

Me toooo

[@EASYANSWERS]

Love this video. I have a few examples to offer of how it is indeed happening all around us. First, part of what you describe in the latter part of the video is exactly what is happening right now in the movement for neurodiversity: that is, the movement to treat varied cognitive experiences and "disabilities" as valid perspectives and sources of *differences* in ability that can help advance communities and the species as a whole. Indeed, there is much research suggesting that in fact the need for diversity of tactics in early, pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer society is likely why neurotypes such as ADHD and Autism emerged. For some of us with neurotypes like ADHD and Autism, our experience provides us with unique insights and abilities that we cherish; in fact, for many of us, the only thing that makes these feel like "disabilities" at all is the circumstance of living in a society that is *actively hostile* to the way our brains and bodies work. (This is why, for example, Autistic activists regard "cure"-centric orgs like Autism Speaks to be genocidal hate groups.) Of course, it goes without saying that much of the above also applies to pretty much anyone of any marginalized life experience: because we know that people of color, Transgender people, Queer people, Intersex people, etc etc are excluded from so many rights and resources in society today, we can safely assume that by definition, *most* of the untapped potential in society is probably bound up in those groups-first by virtue of the fact that they're living minority/outsider perspectives, and then by virtue of the fact that *those are the people society listens to the least.* And lastly, the overall premise of this video is exactly what the Left has been saying about the horrors of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and other such dominant societal power hierarchies. The brilliant thinker Mark Fisher coined the term "capitalist realism," for example, to describe the collective state of mind wherein we as a society seem to lack the will or imagination to picture alternatives to capitalism. Examples of this include arguments, biases, and knee-jerk assertions like "Of course everyone should have to work to survive"; "No one desrves anything they don't earn"; "Poverty is an individual failure"; or worst of all, and most provably false, "This is always how it's been" and "This is how it has to be."

[@dantv23]

Great job!

[@greyknighthyuga4946]

Jesus Christ I can already tell I’m going to love this channel.!!

[@julelemaitre]

I personnaly feel that fearing death and wanting to end it/get rid of it actually is the real monster, as it is the continuation of our primal and animal fears. Acceptance, resilience, living with it peacefully is in my opinion way more wiser and "evolved" than what I just mentioned. Respectfully, I would be glad to read another point of view.

[@lordcirth]

All our feelings and values are derived from primal instincts. Resigning oneself to death was perhaps wise in a world where there was no hope of curing death in one's lifetime, but we are no longer in that world. Humans have spent thousands of years inventing ideas and stories to convince themselves that death isn't really death, or that death is somehow good, because we knew we couldn't avoid it. It is hard to comprehend the nonexistence of ourselves, but we can understand how horrible it is for our loved ones to be destroyed forever. Shaking off these old stories, about death and many other matters, is the next great step in our cultural development. "And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won't tell their children about the history of Ancient Earth until they're old enough to bear it; and when they learn they'll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!" - HPMOR

[@DeKnight95]

Imagine this temporary life shaping you for an eternal one...

[@lordcirth]

@@DeKnight95 Imagine that you are strong enough to live without needing that belief.

[@baneofbanes]

@@lordcirth We’re no closer to ending death now than we where 10 thousand years ago. We might be able to stave it off for longer, but so long as entropy is the rule of the universe death is an eventuality.

[@lordcirth]

@@baneofbanes That's just nitpicking. The heat death of the universe is probably unavoidable. That doesn't mean we should give up and allow death to happen before then.

[@leivajoe80]

His voice makes it sound harmless and fun...but I only see abuse and power taken to extreme until self annihilation...

[@zingorideslegocreations3729]

Care to elaborate?

[@leivajoe80]

@@zingorideslegocreations3729 I example is being Connect to computers....yes it could make us smarter but also make us more susceptible to hacks...and technically we wouldn't be human if we attach machines to ourselves or manipulate our DNA...once we redesign the original 'blueprint' of our dna we will be less than human but that s only my opinion...

[@ThingsStuffington]

@@leivajoe80 What does it mean to be 'human', though? Why would it be preferable to be 'human', as opposed to something else?

[@leivajoe80]

@@ThingsStuffington good question...I don't know...this is only my opinion...but wanting to change or 'upgrade' seems to imply that something is missing in the human being...a belief that we are sub-par...but we can upgrade our physical body and all its attributes as much as we like but the problem with the Human condition isn't the physical external it's our internal state that needs to be worked on...and no genetical upgrade or mechanical prosthesis will help to Fix our internal nature... these ideas are just like when in past they would sell us cars or clothes or anything else external to try to make us feel like we can be better...but materialism is empty happiness...now it's (example):hey would you like to have night vision or robotic arm to lift heavier weights....yes it might add to your life but won't satisfy our internal space , that doesn't 'fill' from outer attachments...

[@zenithmentrada2231]

@@leivajoe80 i don't really get your point from your perspective but considering it from an individualistic point of view, someone, out of their free will would definitely want such "upgrades" for their experiences, to explore, to know more, to do more. and chances are that if someone does, someone else would too. fulfilling selfish desires and becoming a better version of them as they them self imagine it, is very much human. at this perspective, "small" (as seen by people with this point of view) changes such as having nonhuman arms as opposed to natural ones would seem very superficial compared to the results it would get them. this is even a, similar. line of logic to why people pay for plastic surgeries or wear artificial eyes.

[@lordtrees4050]

I love this channel

[@KetanSingh]

Loved it 👍

[@kitfair4830]

This is AMAZING! I totally resonate with the transparent monsters idea! I conceptualized my understanding of the world in a similar way! There is so much beauty in the way you explain this. Thank you for sharing your vision of a better world! it's really amazing.

[@fishjohn014]

I'm still not convinced that death isn't a integral part of our humanity. Everything requires context. Happiness requires pain. I'm not sure that you can have life without death. Seems like a bold assumption

[@domi6369]

Well if we're wrong we can just, uh, y'know.

[@mrpedrobraga]

If you consider life as a very organized system which is aware... then you can have life without death, the same way there are already age-immortal beings in Earth

[@DingHang04]

Nice video!

[@yarrowflower]

Thank you!

[@stephenwaldron2748]

When I was younger and didn't have access to the internet, I honestly believed that our species was far more advanced than we are, and boy, when I first beheld the beautiful entirety of our human existence, culture-shock would be an understatement 😩. To this day, everything still feels slightly backward and archaic.

[@DeusExNihilo]

Maybe it feels archaic because we're actually in a simulation of life in the past. It's something like a historical fiction movie that we do for entertainment in the future

[@LKRaider]

Many things have gone backwards in society, specially during the last 200 years. Progress is an illusion, we are trapping ourselves with expensive toys and stunting our growth as free beings.

[@lexibyday9504]

I think homogenizing thought like you unintentionally sugested in the seccond half of your video is very very very immoral.

[@durere]

Great video, very good fun.

[@reaper96789]

Absolutely beautiful stuff