What if the internet is God? Alexander Bard at TEDxStockholm

[@EvanzoZubinsky]

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” - Deus Ex. I mean Voltaire

[@badtoxxin7909]

You are smart mon ami, you are like a sapling flower in the morning breeze of Copenhagen. You are to the world what water is to humans. You are vital my amigo. Lookin like a tiko.

[@chickensandw1tch]

When my gf tripped on acid she saw Alexander bard walk past her

[@andrelouromusic]

I love the fact he reach this, with his creativity and energy, amazing the human brain finding patterns that makes you feel like those make sense with each other, amazed 🙌 thank you 🙏

[@darkvvulf]

RIP my ears. Seriously, whoever masters the audio on these TED talks needs a firm slap upside the head.

[@Arselpang]

Why not downside the head?

[@SwePianoholic]

Hade ju varit kul att se vad som stod på tavlan, det finns ett ord som skulle kunna hjälpa till i sammanhanget : UTVECKLING, med andra ord använda te tekniska landvinningar som finns, med andra ord POWERPOINT !

[@hydroboy17]

I think alot of people missed the point, instead the religous people got offended and the non believers got scared of the word god

[@tomarbraun]

Lol this cracked me up. Spot on.

[@Rrrrufus]

ALL OF YOU, WATCH *SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN* !!

[@shivangip9536]

Why

[@patentes8463]

I totally dig everything about this guy. Unpretentious yet ballsy. (look at his pants). I dig his energy, his ideas, and last but not least, his jokes. He had me rolling on the floor laughing the whole time.

[@d.7571]

The theories and the concept of syntheism is really interesting. Theres no doubt that Alexander has a lot to contribute, but the presentation is a bit to skippy form theory to theory. The subject, that I and probably most others had no previous knowledge of, requires more time. I dont get the feeling that hes "digging deep" like he says, hes just throwing his and other peoples ideas at us. Still fucking interesting though :)

[@mickfreeman2335]

NO they are NOT interesting. Synthesim is budget philosophy and the references to physics are misinterpretation. At most he's is some kind of performances artist but beware; he's fishy....

[@sebastianbrunberg4416]

Tough crowd.

[@brianlinville439]

true, but at least a Time Lord gets to address them.

[@delzzan12rodpamo61]

I'm 18 and already realized all what he is talking about , starting b meditating the first time, then tried weed which gave me more chills, and then LSD which made me turn upside my mind about how subjectivity works, and ending again on meditation, Living in the now, the now of love.

[@NaokiWatanabe]

This goes to prove we are all free to invent our own philosophies, no matter how ridiculous.

[@fatalmystic]

+Naoki Watanabe to me, this is much less ridiculous than the other belief systems i know. for sure way less crazy than the capitalistic belief system...

[@djayjp]

I'm pretty certain it didn't prove anything actually....

[@gaunten]

+Naoki Watanabe No one ever said otherwise, but seriously. If you told people 50, 150, or even 1500 years ago "hey, there's this thing called the internet, that can literally connect all human beings on earth" I'm pretty sure they would call it god.

[@djayjp]

Adam Nilsson Hmm interesting. Though I think any true conception of a deity requires that it is 1) omnipotent 2) omniscient and that it 3) created the universe.

[@gaunten]

djayjp That is your interpretation of a deity. First of all, there have been a lot of religions throughout the ages, and pretty much all of them have had their own deities, all made up by humans. And far from all of them live up to your criteria. Since man made up god(s), man can also change the idea of god. And since man has kept making gods over and over, it seems to be something we need to do. I'm all for creating a new god, or a new concept of god as it were, but this time around, make it something we all know what it is, no mysticism, no dogmas, just call the internet god, it's as close as we're gonna get with today's technology anyways :) And it has affected the world more than any previous gods has been able to, at least in regards of how people live their everyday lives.

[@robinmattias]

I fucking love this guy. I'd love to see him as the Swedish Prime Minister.

[@BelleroseQC]

He says some really smart things at times and some really stupid things at others.

[@mickfreeman2335]

Don't you see he is a demagogue? His manipulating; talking about non-ego- stuff but are the biggest ego all time. Synthesim is budget philosophy and the references to physics are misinterpretation. At most he's is some kind of performances artist but beware; he's fishy....

[@johan_1136]

please no never

[@cryola787]

The fit is amazing

[@Niravgoti]

Respect sir Alexander Bard

[@iamshango3005]

Best explanation I heard

[@pgfarber6576]

How to prove the existence of God. Just take anything that's real, say that real thing is God, God is real! TADA!

[@djayjp]

Exactly lol

[@georgeschlaline6057]

Don't let Satan distract you with the internet

[@gdm3916]

This guy is brilliant. Amen.

[@alexandrohutt8421]

Lot of believers here...

[@rasaja]

lol IKR I'm cracking up reading these comments. They obviously don't understand what philosophy is.

[@regnbuetorsk]

"and i'm really gonna go deep today" that's creepy

[@clementsingh9594]

I really enjoyed this video. This guy is a marvelous thinker !

[@mirlander1624]

Bard is a firestarter. I enjoy watching him.

[@LunarFoxfyre]

To be honest, I think the majority of you have lost sight of the title, What IF God is the internet? As in a hypothetical question. As of the definition as an adjective: of, based on, or serving as a hypothesis. or a noun: a hypothetical proposition or statement. I, more or less see this as more of a what if then him stating that it is fact. I look at it as him saying "Look at this and the possibility of."

[@patbrennan6572]

I believe that god exists, ''in the minds of all that hasn't accepted reality, but I don't look down on them because it would make me a lesser person, so live and let live and be nice..

[@kaziumieciu4995]

The most uncomfortable thing for me is that he sounds like James Lipton :P

[@osborne9255]

Biological brains and silicon chipsets share electricity in common, thought as an emanation of the direction of electricity. Minerva as holder of Astrape, and this lightning bolt as held by Zeus, the nous of the universe. You got me thinking Alexander Bard.

[@fireinthebedroom]

Are we all watching the same video? I'm watching a man with a beard tell me none of us are racists or homophobes and that he was the cool kid at school that took drugs that everyone wanted to be

[@daviddiaz1351]

believe in YOUR god

[@simondc779]

And yourself

[@williamsellers8390]

I may sound fundamentalist but I can't even watch this man. He's so blunt, it hearts to hear. Maybe I missed the main point. Sorry atheist but I'll continue to believe in God an an omnipotent being, more organic in nature. Cmon guys, whatever your religion or standing may be are there really not good arguments for a God, not a god, but a God, All Powerful and All knowing. If you can admit that there is share it, please and for those who can't give me your opinion. Keep it civil please. We're not barbaric or uncivilized. We're watching TEDx.

[@i_am_ergo]

+William Sellers Man made God. Every god there ever was was created by man. Current ones are no different.

[@nathanflowers3373]

Wouldn’t you say that the Internet is All Powerful and All Knowing??

[@VictoV7]

The Internet loves you!

[@RudyTheInternetGod]

Eat To Plant so that everybody can eat as well🙏🏾

[@1Skeptik1]

What if Family Guy is GOD? (Scifi over load)

[@simondc779]

haha. nice one :)

[@LunarFrequenciesHD]

I thought that it is cruel, to put AI , in charge .... I do love the tech and appreciate it, does it need such pressure ?!

[@sedgwickmcalaster7785]

Believe in God is like a blind man walking around with a flashlight

[@phy29]

i think they do not beleive in utopia anymore cause they know all utopia can come true Everything Good is possible with God .....

[@johnDukemaster]

He sounds like Floki!

[@lastking8923]

😂

[@drewie123]

Awesome talk!

[@bobbyjrodriguez]

To me I cant help but wonder why you do these presentations and how do you make money?

[@Benim-fb4zo]

To get ur word out?

[@eddieshelton5669]

Man.thinking himself to be wise,have become but fools!

[@iamshango3005]

The universe is the internet

[@EnEvighet7]

I guess this is what has become of Swedish intellectual thinking. Progressive preachers have apparently been reduced to corky bold hipsters. At least they've realized that their form of Atheism is a dead-end and as a consequence converted to different kind of Spiritual Agnosticism. I have to say that the re-discovery of classical Western thought (e.g. Greek philosophy) is good. However, the reasoning is still too primitive to comment further...

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

This is how psychonauts think. nothing specifically swedish about it

[@indigameriseminalindian]

Do a flat Earth on TEDx

[@JoeMama-house]

why does every ted talk feel simultaneously interesting while consuming it but wasted time in conclusion?

[@JewandGreek]

Dear God! Bring back Sarah Silverman. At least in her case nobody was expected to take her seriously.

[@TS-mt6rm]

Internet is not god. True randomness is god. That is the essence of life. Dead matter could theoretically be calculated from the start of time to the end of time, its only a matter of empirical data and computing power. The only thing that is random is life. Life is the only thing that cannot be calculated.

[@georgeschlaline6057]

No other gods before me It's very clear

[@ColinKilburn]

A fun story / deepity transforming meta physics into a possible better view of to encourage unity 'pour la peoples' ... "A Modern God". Ici C'est Ca :) Make a nice poster :)

[@VidiSensiVici]

This author has many assumptions about life. For example, when he mentioned the word "love," to him love is no difference than lust, so perhaps, this is where he needs to discover more about love, perhaps,an unconditional love to see how it is. He assumed that the world would just appear based some "physics," and he is rambling on about many big words to catch our attention but his theories are not connected. It is interesting that he started to draw our attention about the word "God," then he was rambling on about many theories, but his theories were not connected, and his conclusion was that there was no real God. Well, what if he started to talk about love, then it would be interesting to see how long his presentation would be.

[@tahoeclimber]

Hells yeah!!

[@RobertMichaelTodd]

i get him.

[@iamshango3005]

Tell Alice I said it

[@AID7771]

Some people believe that the Internet is a God, and his name Shurko, where did this name I could not find. Rumor has it that he is worshiped famous people, their names can be found on the Internet, I do not want to call them, who are interested will find themselves ... I understand that your religion online geniuses, as an optional feature basic faith ... everyone has their own troubles

[@larks...3297]

I didn't get a thing 🥴

[@trutherator]

Nothing wrong with the Internet per se, any more than a pot. It's the evil use or good use you make of it that constitutes what YOU DO as bearing good fruit or evil fruit. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.---Daniel 12:4

[@nathanvandevyver]

I don't think this is more absurd than the religions that already exist

[@georgeschlaline6057]

Alexander you got millions of dollars Give me $5

[@rickdeckard1075]

he's a bright guy, but he falls into the Progressive trap of being a scold... finger-wagging at ppl and telling them they are little children who dont meet your approval, plus the stupid bogeyman of Christian fundamentalism, its pretty played out...

[@bluewolfey]

Wow. That is sooo not true of him. As if you were watching a completely different video! :)

[@simonpettersson2330]

You have to understand that he's swedish, as he said, sweden is the most atheistic culture in history hence christianity or any other religion for that matter is percieved as fundamentalist.

[@Vallinen92]

I'd not call it a progressive trap. This exist over the entire political spectrum.

[@trisky210]

The internet is in tje sly amd is always watching you, think about.

[@Andromeda2976]

How can we create god if god created us already? Or is the future actually the past? ;) Then our whole concept of time is twisted and we just place the wrong names on it.

[@Str82DBank]

This guy probably overdosed Serial Experiments Lain.

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

i would love to overdose on Lain

[@aku7598]

Yes its true. Thousands of messiah and prophets produced by internet giving sermons online all days and nights until the end of world.

[@gdm3916]

?

[@MathewThomasFET]

What is time which goes in one direction? where does it go? Greek philosophy? Where is today? What is Greece today? You know that you don't exist!!! Who is he fooling?

[@MathewThomasFET]

Close to insanity?

[@alexandraharper4800]

This man is an amazing philosopher, who has completely missed where the meaning of life comes from. He has no idea what he is saying, he is only repeating what he has been told and yet he thinks he is creating “God”, he thinks he is not letting anyone tell him what to do. Interesting. Your eye is not void... but some eyes are. When I look at people sometimes they look empty inside. Not in a way of just being sad or depressed, but truly EMPTY. Then when I look at other people they look full. What makes the difference? In other words, yes everything is void and nothing has meaning unless we give it meaning, but how can WE who are VOID give ANYTHING MEANING?? We must be filled up with something else first to be able to have meaning in life and to give meaning. What must we be filled up by?? Something greater than us. The creation of the world THE WAY HE BELIEVES IT HAPPENED only gives us the option of having a completely meaningless existence for as long as we exist with NO WAY OUT OF IT. Because we have nothing greater to fill us up. In the end, everyone must come to terms with the fact that we can not create God, he was here before us, and without him we are not capable of having meaning. But oh that hurts so bad. It hurts SO bad to accept we are not the greatest thing in the universe, that even a well educated man like him, at 50 years old still refuses to accept it. Fairyland is a much easier place to dwell... and a much emptier place. Edit: Btw, I understand this is just philosophy and people listen to it and think about it because ideas are interesting. That’s why I watched it, because it’s interesting. I also think my ideas are interesting that’s why I write a comment and that’s why you write a comment.

[@djayjp]

Random arbitrary things...ok. At least he's upfront that these aren't real things but rather artificially constructed designations.

[@GwynnEarl]

This guys is a psychological mess

[@marinatolo]

he started out his career as a sex worker, of cause he needs serious treatment

[@sageejumanjee]

the talking ape conundrum....maybe dreams are just seeing through other peoples lives...if quantam entanglement is real.

[@snowballcapital]

Sounds a bit like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinus_Thomsen

[@williammagnusson2891]

This reminds me of myself when I try to make up things and sound smart. Firstly, you have the idea that you can meddle with being a believer of the universe (religious) and atheistic (non-religious) simultaneously. What does it mean in practice to truly believe in the universe as a whole but at the same time associate yourself with something detached from a belief in a unifying principal based on something meaningful and how would that be genuinely expressed? I mean, to simply state things like that makes very little sense. The idea that because you behold an essence of potential, expressed as "void", and henceforth you have "a god for atheists because it is a god that doesnt exist" makes seriously no sense. Secondly, you say that "the universe doesn't need a creator, we know that from physics" then continues to say that we should create god... If the universe doesn't need one why make one, for what purpose exactly? And don't forget to tell me how mans purpose is detached from the universal one. Thirdly, the idea that because there is "difference" say in peoples body sizes or colors of flowers etc there can't be a determinant principal is just strange to even have to argue, can't I determine for example to break an object into different pieces? Change or evolution can be of a deterministic function just as well. I could go on because there is a lot of cognitive dissonance expressed here but of course its a difficult topic and its interesting to explore things but I think that you might be lacking a term for what you are really trying to express because the idea that there can be multiple gods sort of implicitly undermines what a god stands for. A god isn't supposed to be thought of as different concepts but the collection of concepts. The worst philosophers are those who study it rather than live it.

[@veryexciteddog963]

"This reminds me of myself when I try to make up things and sound smart." lmao I relate to this line so fuckin much

[@death.noneexistentchannel5797]

It is

[@chalztin8438]

God lives in the internet by choice. It’s one of the many houses of God. God is the conscious energy everywhere.

[@simondc779]

You sir....are a moron. God told me so!!

[@jackgoldman1]

If the internet is God, the Jews, Brin, Page, Google, Facebook, Zuckerberg, et al, have achieved their dream of owning God.

[@tanyamanson78]

hehe, I've got the same handwriting :)

[@drdouche4230]

And Que Pretentious Drivel.... Usually I love TED Talks but as soon as someone stars talking about god damn 'Energy Levels'

[@drdouche4230]

I Tend to Tune Out 14:28

[@dungaland]

The world is not cynical because of silicon

[@limitless45]

If the internet is god is google + satan?

[@brianlinville439]

well maybe not the internet, but some ineffable computer-like um, thing.

[@yungtrashcan2268]

am i the only one who couldn't stop laughing this entire video

[@platedj]

2:25 *Мы больше не расисты, мы не гомофобы, за исключением В. Путина, как вам известно.*

[@My2Cents1]

What?

[@science1941]

My Jesus took us from Mouten lava to KZbin. The Earth made man, and man-made the computer and both made 'AI' right? Nothing to be made nervous about Blokes. All we are *Vibrating atoms being seen by the light via our Brains right? & our consciousness belongs to my Jesus, it's as simple as that for me. We make up our own consciousness, so make it a good one Bokes, we have the 2nd Half to this game we are in, so carry the good stuff with you to the 2nd Half, and I'll see ya there. I want to say one more last thing I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time I'll give it right back to you one of these days, hahaha I said I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time I'll give it right back one of these days Oh yeah If I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll meet you in the next one And don't be late Don't be late

[@arthouston7361]

I find it interesting that people think that they're so smart that they can deconstruct God, when God was the one who constructed them. It is very amusing.... and in a way, it's sad as well.

[@New_Disciple-G3101]

Interesting 🧐 … this is the result of the human condition of “vanity” imo. As we think about the future of the internet, I suggest to you that it is a snare for the souls of those who go too far. I ask anyone to find the oldest Bible they can and look up what was written specifically about this topic thousands of years ago as a prophecy for today. The word “heathen” in the Bible simply means those who don’t believe in the God of gods, the LORD of Lords … those who today don’t know who Jesus Christ actually Was, and Is, and Is to come. a person needs to understand the word “heathen” (aka gentile) before they can perceive the meaning of the following verse. 📖Psalm 9:15📖 “The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.” “The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the **inter**net which they hid is their own foot taken.”

[@jamesgrey13]

Webicus Interneticles: god of the pornographies!

[@phy29]

How two unprecision can become a precision by an unprecision on unprecision but it is quantify so if you add 1/6 prob to 5/6 prob you obtain 1

[@RealmoftheBlackShadow]

Didn't we get enough of false prophets teaching repitilan theories even long ago by now? Yes we did! All proving that the Bible is 100% correct and true! Mr. Bard compared himself with God already at the beginning of this clip (~a man with long beard, etc). That's when I began to lose interest really bad. Why do I tend to think that he made himself have that "God"-look, rather than the opposite (i.e. that God chose to have the "Bard"-look)? Is the Internet God? Well, it's like saying that "WWW" represent "666" - "the number of the beast". Now, do they? Whatever happened to common sense, as we knew it?

[@RealmoftheBlackShadow]

***** Feel free to develop that thought.

[@rotfanghinder94]

The biblical God if Jacobs Abraham and Jesus *is* a reptilian.

[@grevevondy8530]

NOT ALL SWEDES ARE LIKE THIS AAA WE’RE SORRY

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

that's kind of a shame.

[@goodjah8946]

No, we are not sorry...

[@grevevondy8530]

@@goodjah8946 Everyone is sorry for Alexander Bard

[@cretaceoussteve3527]

I wonder what this guy is like to hang out with. Seems like he could be cool, or on the other hand could be just constantly pontificating. Regardless, for a guy who repeatedly proclaims the non-existence of the ego, he's pretty full of himself. Unless he's being ironic.

[@trutherator]

The Internet is NOT God, but it fits the description of the idols worshipped by the idol-worshippers that the real true God condemned in the Bible. Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:--Isaiah 2:8

[@123axel123]

What a joke

[@Aldous944]

Suspiciously like precious minutes wasted.

[@iamshango3005]

Witchcraft. A lie.

[@MathewThomasFET]

Who was Jesus Christ? Did such a person exist? Liar? Lunatic? Deluded rebel? Or God?

[@danielwdunn]

This is terrible.

[@lifesbaby1]

That's Buddhism listen to Alan Watts he's definitely not coming up with anything original

[@digitalsuicide4238]

just believe in jesus its not that hard

[@ovenorberg9607]

Wow, more Ericsson Investor puppet show... 😂

[@bubalot]

No aksed to be born...and I have asked 1000's of people...100% No's! Think about that!😂

[@simondc779]

Um.. Does he have brain damage? beyond funny , childish thoughts and opinions. Oh thats right..drugs do infect and kill brain cells.. It a medical fact!! he makes me laugh

[@neveragain7117]

this man obviously has got issues. he's everything that's wrong with the world.

[@geirbroden4749]

Dafaq, he's an awesome person

[@MalcolmAkner]

Could you expand on that statement?

[@jonathanmelton8835]

Ai leen He seems smart and fun to me.

[@SerHoratio]

Yeah he has some issues

[@Parkerman3000]

i love stoner talk just as much as the next guy but i thought ted talks were supposed to be informative??