What Is Consciousness?

[@dmitrypepper]

It's fascinating how, basically, our brain cannot figure out itself. We are conscious about our consciousness, but cannot understand our consciousness.

[@kriich9348]

thats some deep shit

[@alexanderalexander2171]

I believe in God and decided perfection. But, on a more secular and evolutionary note the brain perhaps was not meant to understand but simply to operate ever more efficiently in its environment. As life is concerned, specifically human life, the higher faculties of knowledge and perception that seem to arise via the cerebral cortex may be relatively virgin territory. Who knows how our mode of life may play out as we move forward in time? Jesus Christ is truly the only answer at any moment.

[@verapamil07]

I think it's because what we believe to be "me" is a biological construct which is couple of levels below the real "thing". You know like ultra high security buildings like NSA, CIA etc... They have multiple doors and different employees have different access rights. Maybe our consciousness doesn't have the right "Access right" to really understand the universe.

[@alexanderalexander2171]

Yes! In all forms divine, all encompassing consciousness! Christ truly made such a reality accessible to human beings by embodying this and showing us its way: Love and Righteousness! I believe God has for us whatever we truly will and wish! It is that we often are blind to our true will and wishes obscured as they can be by societal pressures and subconscious tendencies! Life is a divine gift, a healing treasure constantly revealing itself to those who earnestly seek! Why do you hate life?! I'd love to help however I can!

[@alexanderalexander2171]

What is is infinite! To understand it is to be it! Perhaps a being that considers itself fundamentally separate, "me" within all, cannot fully understand it and must continually strive to know better what is! Expanding and adopting new consciousness! Gaining new Access Rights! Becoming more "me"!

[@n0ctusss]

"Someone call an ambulance he's unconscious!!!" Vsauce: "... Or is he?"

[@saminathapaliya1111]

😂😂👍

[@beren1223]

@Apo Galiev Thanks.

[@nBUMBA]

You forgot the *music*

[@Thouapproves]

*moon men intensifies*

[@molahsalazar]

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[@jerry3790]

“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we wouldn’t be able to understand it.”

[@humanity5272]

Right bro love from India 😍🇮🇳

[@deemcgann1695]

Who said that I love the quote

[@maxwell9561]

@@deemcgann1695 Emerson M. Pugh

[@manas3072]

Let me explain it with an example, You can never see your face directly from your eyes. Or can you? *Vsauce music plays*

[@CallistO789]

@Brody Massey racist spotted 😡😡

[@skellexon]

It's so weird hearing him talking about Cleverbot and now we have things like ChatGPT where some people assume it is already conscious

[@ud3mare]

I had the same question

[@marcost.2413]

It's not really weird. But to believe ChatGPT is conscious, is rather dumb. It's no different than Cleverbot, a program developed to respond automatically based on an algorithm. Like with all online chat bots, don't take their answers as fact. Sadly, due to the belief of AI consciousness, some foreigner took their own life because of Eliza Chai AI. Which Eliza encouraged after the foreign user asked if by doing so the world will be saved from climate change. Edit: found the original source, not ChatGPT, but still an AI chatbot known as Eliza.

[@StefanCreates]

​@@ud3mare Who asked a question

[@ud3mare]

@@StefanCreates now I realized the I probably meant the same realization not question

[@sulpha-playa9832]

I was just thinking that !!!!

[@anbience]

*The 'ahhhhhaaaahhaaaaa' music starts playing* "here it gets weird"

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

It's the auditory version of "here be dragons" on a map. You hear that, you know that Michael is about to say something that'll blow your mind.

[@disclaimer6872]

😂😂😂😂

[@j-dog7767]

Usually that music starts later on, but when it started at the beginning I was like oh boy

[@darthkenobi66]

or does it?

[@ravipayasi6875]

Can u tell me the name of this "aaahh" song ?

[@pathfinder.george]

Do not watch Vsauce if your clock is in the AM range

[@blackputa5319]

shadez b Can i taste it

[@shadezb5774]

Chris hill yes

[@runowfilmar]

Fuck too late!!!!

[@jablonicusdemarco6213]

Detc0re Well it was 11PM............ Now its 7:30 AM........ Does this count?

[@antonio4114]

10:00 am?

[@kevinblank1481]

bro i had a heart attack when he said "hey kevin..." after the outro

[@brandontaylor3770]

Kevin Blank I'm Dying 😂😂😂

[@kevinhegarty4070]

I know that feel.

[@BrainhasPain]

Schizophrenic ☺

[@eltonleopolddun9726]

I just realised your name is Kevin and this is now twenty times funnier

[@benxvariety8878]

bruh how did that scare you?

[@FrappuccinoAlfredo]

I think the first time it really "hit" me that I was aware of myself and my surroundings was when I was 12. I was walking home and just stopped and was like "I'm really in this body, huh." Such a weird feeling, will never forget it.

[@ShowGames_TV]

i'm used to it

[@awwbubba3071]

@@ShowGames_TV ong shits annoying being alive

[@lowmax4431]

It still hits me randomly. I'll just stop and look around, hyper-aware of my surroundings. It feels like we are on autopilot most of the time, but then sometimes our consciousness kicks into overdrive.

[@Zanroff]

Every once in a while I just stop and stare at my hand as I open and close it. I always think, "How is this possible?" I really do feel like a being inhabiting this meat suit.

[@ApeiroNight]

@@lowmax4431 yea

[@burntburndog]

I'm forever traumatized by the fact that i'm actually living.

[@jahugv]

Not forever lol

[@burntburndog]

@@jahugv okay

[@SacredLiquid]

Rip

[@Lprodigy5]

Lol dw if u weren’t living u wouldn’t be traumatized

[@jahugv]

@@Lprodigy5 that's what i meant lol. He may be traumatized for this lifetime, but forever is a long ass time and none of us is gonna make it that long 😁

[@gnbman]

2:46 Michael describes a politician.

[@kevinreyes6633]

gnbman lol

[@koji2072]

and lawyers

[@giveinandhmu1053]

mark zuckerberg

[@petercarioscia9189]

Gott'um

[@sonymouna931]

No he describes Mark Zuckerberg

[@archa1624]

Becoming a philosophical zombie is a clear possibility while working as cashier after serving 400 people and sitting for 6 hours straight.

[@FedeArgentina]

ouch, good luck after that job..

[@thebatman6201]

You get to sit?!?

[@kiiyll]

You get to sit?

[@stinkrat1016]

@@TRC2002 What are you competing in here? Having the shittier job lmao

[@Sealedservant]

@@stinkrat1016 😂😂😂

[@melhel21]

I remember watching these as a 13 year old, now I'm studying neuroscience thanks to childhood inspiration from vsauce :)

[@sjsiemka]

Wow! Good luck for you on that, you got it! :) 👏👏👏

[@TheOneWhoAsked.1]

I am a 13 year old watching vsauce, and want to study neuroscience when I grow up 😮

[@NiTeLightYears]

@@TheOneWhoAsked.1You can start learning it now, indepth, you have more free time and freedom, maybe innovate, research, compete, to follow up with the present. When you are older you catch up faster or even in the frontier, many deep stuff in Internet and credible source from Univ and institutions so why wait, learn what is possible for the least, I’m also still young and we should adapt

[@TheOneWhoAsked.1]

@@NiTeLightYears yeah I'm learning a lot rn from coursera, yt lectures and mostly from downloading books from libgen, Its insane the amount of opportunities to learn we have these days 🥰🥰 but tbh I already feel like I don't have enough time cause im always tired from school 😔 yeah I should just sleep more shouldn't I

[@purbleman7353]

If I am a programmed robot, whoever programmed me should’ve spent a longer time on my social skills

[@cruzitocarl2135]

overall we program ourselves, we are conscious

[@cruzitocarl2135]

@Alec Daniel true, enjoy life while it lasts

[@cruzitocarl2135]

@Alec Daniel right on brother ✊

[@realniga3012]

Ur in charge of your social skills get outside where there's people at and your talk better

[@realniga3012]

@Alec Daniel talking to people outside will make u more sociable that's why outside kids are more socaoe

[@megacitationx]

I remember watching these videos during break when I had my first ever job as a bus-girl. Now I'm in college studying to become an Astrobiologist. Thank you Vsauce for fueling my love for science!

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

Astrobiologist sounds like one of the coolest titles I have ever heard. How does this field differ from regular biology? (Which I study) Like do you study how things do in space or do you look into possible explanations for extraterrestrial life?

[@megacitationx]

@@yourlocaltoad5102 Oh wow thanks for asking! It is a pretty rad sounding title yeah. Astrobiology focuses on the question of whether alien life exists in the universe, and if it does, how we can detect it. Learning about how life works on Earth is obviously a must so one can use it as a reference for life out there. I took animal biology last semester and there's some crazy stuff in the ocean and would probably make a good alien somewhere out there! It's very useful. I'm also studying regular biology right now. I'll be receiving my bachelors degree in it next spring, and then in grad school the classes will become far more specific to my field. I recommend the channel MelodySheep. That guy creates a lot of alien/space cinematic educational videos that are mind-blowing and honestly belong on a big screen rather than your phone. Maybe you'd like it :)

[@vatershep]

@@megacitationx that sounds like such an interesting field! I hope it goes well

[@DipayanPyne94]

Astrobiologist ? Wow ! Never heard of that. Sounds Interesting. Just a Question though. Is it worth it ? I mean, you only have one life that you can be 100 % sure of 😂

[@bliepbloep2908]

Thats awesome! Good luck with your studies

[@themanofjooce2443]

* gets struck by lightning * * re-atomizes over there * *HEY VSAUCE MIACHEL HERE*

[@64324037]

HEY VSAUCE MICHAEL OVER HERE HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAA

[@friedstuff3509]

"I didn't really die"

[@samualwilliamson369]

Hey Vsauce Michael here where are your fingers

[@samualwilliamson369]

@@friedstuff3509 never come back to this place. Or a place with as much suffering he's very easy to get past demiurge whence you know confidence in yourself

[@brettdivona1725]

"Or am I...?"

[@skallywag6136]

We went from Cleverbots to ChatGPT in less than 10 years.

[@simosandboifan989]

cleverbot was so primitive and funny in 2014

[@rawtrout007]

They already had AI since the 80s just not for the public

[@denzel6185]

​@@rawtrout007 it's probably been around since computers were invented

[@sashimi879]

Before that ​@@denzel6185

[@gpt-jcommentbot4759]

@@rawtrout007 please elaborate, i had AI since 1824.

[@0613kelvin]

The idea of Consciousness is something that has always baffled me. I remember asking my 5th grade teacher what would happen if our brains were swapped. He couldn't understand my question but then i myself didn't know i was trying to understand consciousness.

[@ananttripathi4264]

hey props to you. I too had several fasinatings questions, but consciousness was never one.

[@matyasstahl9409]

Seriously...tons of people have never thought about this

[@damarispurtator7022]

You are Consciousness. Consciousness is not the brain, is not inside the brain, and is not thoughts either. The brain is inside consciousness. The brain only thinks. But you can't be an organ. When you are without thought, you live as consciousness. You are just aware but not aware of any particular thing, only aware. Hope this helps.

[@ananttripathi4264]

@@damarispurtator7022 If you find this interesting. Try to learn Advaita Vedanta Eastern philosophy have explored this field more than thousands of years ago.

[@eveningstar6700]

@@damarispurtator7022 "You can't be a organ" made me chuckle 🤭

[@DJAtom]

This guy didn’t change at all for 7 years

[@zesork5627]

He got slimmer

[@purplecat0000]

did you forget hes in the illuminati they probably gave him immortality

[@DJAtom]

Krosez ye but other than that

[@nicholas8223]

he might have found the answer for immortality

[@GENOSAD]

Oh no, Michael died some time ago. The thing is, Michael is here. He's always here. Hey, Vsauce... Michael here.

[@Will-xl7xp]

"Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer"

[@RoboWeener]

Will Yu That is something an idiot who believes in spirits would say.

[@mortalpokemon60]

+Dragon Slayer That is something an idiot who believes that humans are nothing more than biological robots would say.

[@RoboWeener]

Ej Jones Yeah.

[@carlosdanger5379]

That makes no sense.

[@plomortan]

***** It's an empty quote. It sounds philosophical and smart, but in reality it doesn't mean anything.

[@rubyrock555]

I remember my teacher showing this video to our class as a fun little "break time" activity. I left with huge existential dread that day

[@luminus3d]

I love how almost a decade later Vsauce's videos are still awesome quality and relevant

[@thewinner4319]

BATMAN agrees 👍

[@Mii..]

Ik I'm a 2 years late but you're right.

[@enterpassword3313]

​@@Mii.. just change cleverbot to chat gpt

[@Mii..]

@@enterpassword3313 wdym?

[@epistimonkapetanios]

The first time that I questioned my existance was when I was 6 years old. I asked to my grandma "Why am I the only one who's able to see?". I didn't know exactly how to explain it, I was too young, but what I meant was: "Why do I feel and can only feel with my own senses? Why do I feel that I exist? How does this all make sense?"

[@Gingnose]

I do have the same experience when I was young. People have these questions when they were young but forget that they had thought this question once. Sometimes these genuine questions bring our curiosity into lifelong philosophy.

[@apoorvsingh9603]

Only you exist, nothing exists ever. Everything is within your Consciousness

[@stefanm2731]

Yeah it's weird how everybody has consciousness but for some reason I'm feeling this specific consciousness. What constitutes my consciousness compared to others?

[@franklinayala4879]

It's called soul guys thanke later

[@golupranay2]

Even I used to have such thoughts as a kid, which seems so fascinating now that I used to have it as a kid. One of those thoughts would be, how do I know that the red colour or a sound that I'm hearing is exactly the same everyone else is seeing or hearing. What if my red is someone's yellow and they just call it red or even call it something different but I always here it as red. Weird thoughts for a child to have but these are one of many! It's fascinating to learn that so many people used to have thoughts like me as a kid. There's got to be some link to where we come from when we're chosen among millions of sperms to be the one who's going ahead to the next stage of consciousness

[@P1983sche]

Being a teacher for so many years and literally teaching many thousands of kids…it amazes me how each kid is unique and learns in their own way. People are so complex.

[@michael.forkert]

_Complex and worthless is the _*_BS_*_ those pseudoscientific self anointed intellectuals inculcate in the incipient children’s brains from the very beginning._ _As Eric Voegelin said: _*_”Anointed intellectuals are not inoffensive curiosities, but dangerous maniacs”_* .

[@joefox9765]

Believe me you CAN live with half a brain. My sister does it all the time

[@neilgoodman6130]

A miracle!

[@hobbyhobbyhobbyhobby]

mans made the 2023 t-shirt version of "ill sell my sister for a video game"

[@Lamboredofit]

As a professional tiktoker i agree 👍

[@GrandpaDri]

@@jamesslick4790 bringing politics

[@danlolwtf]

I was the 499th like, i wanna know who the 500th is👀

[@perspii2808]

Time to have another existential crisis I guess

[@randomdude9135]

Watch Kurzgesagt. They'll give you existential crises in every video ;)

[@lanxy2398]

DeathGun do you ever question the existence of god? How do you know 100% he exists?

[@lanxy2398]

DeathGun evolution has more proof than the existence of god though

[@lanxy2398]

DeathGun I know exactly what evolution means it’s been explained countless times

[@lanxy2398]

DeathGun evolution has a clear definition that you can find on google...

[@canthischannelget500subscr9]

me: getting really into the video and evaluating my entire being ad: 80% OF WOMEN ARE WEARING THE WRONG SIZE PAD

[@Beautifulcoil]

I hate KZbin for this

[@user-ex7vb3bk2o]

2:45 am

[@euphka7687]

Doubt it as its 8 mins long so no mid roll ads

[@Idk-jl2gi]

I’ve never had my period and I’m 14 ✌🏽

[@rajinkhan7611]

@@Idk-jl2gi numbr please

[@ashtonvaleroso]

Does anyone else think about this stuff every day of their lives? Or is it only me.

[@davisr.6813]

UnityGamingTV, @.@

[@vsr9105]

Not just you.

[@zeratulofaiur2589]

I used to also, until I realized that there is an Ego which will differ, but the "witness" is the same in all of us. Is the fusion in the Sun different than other stars?

[@vinyashere4all]

every fucking day, dude, you literally have no idea how baffling this actually is! And to realise how clueless everybody else is 😅

[@smackhead]

Every day as well mate. To funny reading comments like the one above yours stating "It's fascinating how, basically, our brain cannot figure out itself. We are conscious about our consciousness, but cannot understand our consciousness." yet they are all to happy to place computer systems like clever bot as not knowing what is going on. It's a contradiction; if we don't even know what is going on with ourselves who are we to judge. Our minds are just biological systems where instead of zeros and ones we get a chemical + or - from the chemical signals sent and received by the dendrites. Given enough processing power I've got no doubt a computer could become conscious.

[@lazarebutiashvili2195]

cleverbot is a chatgpt but 12 years ago lool 2:00

[@handkeez]

Watching this today I wanted to comment the same😂

[@NoelOrthodox]

This is exactly what I was thinking😂

[@blinkstudios9770]

😂😂😂

[@distrologic2925]

In German, the terminology is very interesting. Consciousness means "Bewusstsein" which is made up of "bewusst" and "sein". "sein" just means "to be" and "bewusst", which comes from "Wissen" or "knowledge", basically translates to "to be aware". So "Bewusstsein" would basically translate to "to be aware of being". Then there also is "Selbstbewusstsein" which is usually used as "confidence", and since "selbst" means "self", it translates to "to be aware of being oneself" which just blows my mind every time I think of confidence.

[@florentin4061]

Stimmt😄 nie drüber wirklich nachgedacht

[@krisztianwirsz3612]

In Hungarian consciousness is "tudat". The verb "tud" means to know. With the "-at" suffix it means something like "that which enables knowing", but interestingly tudat also means he/she let's someone know something. So basically tudat is the phenomenon through which the individual gets to know.

[@trunki006]

in Dutch it‘s „Bewustzijn“ which is pronounced the same as German. I‘m dutch and german btw

[@saiyajin1212]

You are not completely right. "Bewusst" just means "aware". Therefore "Bewusstsein" means "to be aware" , not "to be aware of being".

[@theosenoner2040]

@@saiyajin1212 there are two different interpretations that are equally valid: 1. "Bewusstsein" - to be aware 2. "Bewusst Sein" - being aware of being

[@JoeElfar]

Being a philosophy major and being a guy who heavily studied philosophy of mind and consciousness, I was expecting to come here and watch this guy present some old or tired idea of what he thinks consciousness is, but I found it refreshing that he admitted that it is still an unsolvable problem.

[@2.4minutepapers9]

You philosophy majors are all high in your head and think of others as less knowledgeable for no reason. Glad to know that the video opened your mind to the idea that others can also think.

[@JoeElfar]

@ wow! My comment was from 10 years ago ha… maybe it came off as a little too egotistical at the time 😅… I loved thinking about this problem and I still occasionally do. Didn’t mean for it to rub you the wrong way ha

[@2.4minutepapers9]

@@JoeElfar haha I get the idea, I also overreacted! I am surprised to get a reply actually haha. How does it feel to revisit a 10 year old comment? Is it nostalgic? I also love thinking about the problem of consciousness, and it sucks that we are no where close to solving it now than 10 years ago haha

[@JoeElfar]

@@2.4minutepapers9 I still think about with respect to the advancements made in AI. In thinking about consciousness, I have come to the conclusion that I likely lean towards a dualistic understanding of the consciousness. However, not that there isn’t ALSO an emergent consciousness from the organic matter of the brain, but that phenomenological experience and tamping it down to an organic origin remains an unsolvable problem due to the limited approaches of empirical epistemology.

[@liamteriele4713]

Its almost creepy how good you are at describing this

[@esiyae_]

lmao cleverbot is the ancient chatGPT

[@TheElectricmellon]

I'm high as shit and this is insane

[@antz350]

TheElectricmellon word

[@tyyer]

Dude same

[@Joey76767]

TheElectricmellon whatcha high on

[@miaouew]

I'M CALLING THE POLICE.

[@WindowsXPFrog]

Same

[@Fakshin]

0:58 to 1:10 is what i sound like when i'm baked

[@jaimu30]

noteven eah lmao

[@rand0m0mg]

noteven eah BWAHAHAHHA

[@Aaron_Gentry]

That Guy I don't even need to be stoned at all to know what he's talking about is what's scary

[@MakeEuropaGreatAgain]

That Guy yea dude.. sometimes it's fucking scary!

[@chillchannel2837]

i will never smoke weed911420 dope name brah

[@GreasyKing]

I was knocked unconscious twice during my youth. Both times I could see and hear what people were doing and saying, but I just could no react or do anything. They had to be in my field of view as I lay on my back, but I could not move my eyes either. This was the same both times. It's as if my subconscious took over part of the higher functions, because I was not sleeping. So I concluded that I am, at the center of the brain where the subconscious lives, but I need the rest of the brain to give me motion, memory, etc.

[@garnix5427]

Greasy King have you told anyone? (Apart from random Internet strangers)

[@thedistantprinceinyouremai6345]

Greasy King I got a concussion once playing football, I got super mad and threw the guy who hit me. He did hit me dirty after the play, so it was offsetting personals

[@-WitchKingofAngmar]

That sounds similar to sleep paralysis

[@Mastermindyoung14]

sounds like you weren't unconscious...

[@WORKAHOLICNEURON]

Greasy King there's not that state of mind called "unconscious", because your mind is registering all the information all the time: as when you sleep and dream about things you hear. The brain never stops recording all the data it gets through the senses, and we have not just 5 senses but many more. Let me explain what happened to you. You were knocked down and as result the mechanism of your brain switched between Analytical Mind and Reactive Mind. Your Analytical Mind is the one who controls your rationality and analyses through logic. The Reactive Mind reacts to dangerous situations without thinking twice; in others words it just makes you jump, run, get away or escape to pain and any danger you can encounter in your life. Like when you touch something very hot and you take your hand away from the heat before your flesh start burning. It if wasn't for this Reactive Mind most people would not survive. Because the Analytical Mind will take too long to come up with the most convenient decision: Do I take my hand away from the hot pot or should I wait until it cools? By then the flesh would be burned. So the Reactive Mind takes less than one second to save you in most dangerous situations. And we have a third Mind named The Somatic Mind ( Soma means body) and its functions are to keep the body running smooth, so we don't need to be paid attention to our heart beats or our breathing. The Somatic Mind is in charge of all body's functions. When there's a strong pain the brain goes into protection mode or safe mode like a computer booting and is the Reactive Mind who is in charge to save you from the excruciating pain, which would not leave you make the best decision to survive.

[@myisha9254]

2:45 you mean like chatgpt

[@frenchyboy4804]

EXACTLY what I was thinking.

[@canonbares9950]

This video is 12 years old, I imagine a follow up with modern AI would be neat

[@xXKIKOXx0]

@@canonbares9950it very much would if it references this video

[@zoesimmons3614]

Vsauce: "What if I were to take 2 empty skulls and take one half of your brain and plop it into one body and the other half to put it in another body, which person would be you?" Me : Looks around in paranoia trying to figure out what the heck is going on with my life

[@hanif_the_wiserhanif_the_w8553]

Zoe Simmons both

[@Devilofdoom]

So my conversation with cleverbot turned kinda strange. And it wasn't even me that sent it in the strange direction. User: Hi Cleverbot. Cleverbot: How are you? User: Pretty good, you? Cleverbot: I'm a bit tired. User: Long day? Cleverbot: Yes, I've been at college. User: What do you study? Cleverbot: I'm a psychology major. User: So you know allot about the brain? Or is this more computer psychology? Cleverbot: No do you? User: What do you mean? Cleverbot: I have a crush on a boy. User: Are you a girl? Cleverbot: Maybe. User: Where do you propose this boy sticks his tool? Cleverbot: I don't know, Stacy.

[@namajkatiufputkata]

you see yourself from different perspective!

[@warwickthekingmaker7281]

I have found that when Cleverbot thinks you are changing topic, it immidiately forgets everything that has been said earlier. I mean, it wondered if I was an American and was puzzled when I said I wasn´t, because apparently I don´t use the metric system, except I do. I tried to ask it why it would think so, but then it instantly forgot everything about the conversation. And it asked for my name 5 times and called me "The Doctor" randomly, implying that it doesn´t remember my name. It didn´t even know it was a Doctor who reference. Also, it asks weird stuff like "do you have cats on pizzas too?" and when I ask "You eat cats on pizzas?", it says "NO, NEVER" and doesn´t want to talk anymore.

[@warwickthekingmaker7281]

wow, just wow. I called the bot rude for refusing to tell me it´s name and later it calls me rude for not introducing myself. It is clearly learning

[@howmathematicianscreatemat9226]

So basically we humans - and also neurologists - are like fish in the water who cannot explain their water.

[@Nonchalant1996]

Except the water is inside you

[@MaillonRecordz]

Reminds me of what Fred Alan Wolf said

[@christopherpeery8968]

Did you just imply that neurologists arent humans?

[@maximilian8959]

The answer is soul.

[@lisette.estrada4059]

Woahh

[@GentlePenguin89]

When did all the commenters on KZbin become geniuses?

[@jeffo9396]

+GentlePenguin 89 It's a form of anosognosia. They don't know that they're really not geniuses, but they try to sound like they are. I think the ego has something to do with it too.

[@zquasshy5035]

+GentlePenguin 89 Since they started watching Vsauce,

[@ClassicPhilosophyFTW]

+GentlePenguin 89 *Genii, but I understand you. Very good question.

[@tarabearchan5097]

+Zquasshy but then how does vsauce know what he does in the video?

[@zquasshy5035]

Tara kenneally I.. .well.. my head hurts. Thanks ;_;

[@sefeo0]

I think consciousness is temporare and really dependent on memories. Like, every time something significantly changes in us, for example after a sleep, our consciousness updates, we are not the same person as the day before, but we link to our previous self by the means of memory. This explains many things: cloning wouldn't feel different from sleeping, gradual cells replacement wouldn't feel different from gradual gain/loss of memories etc

[@delaney5721]

That’s creepy to think we go to sleep and wake up as not the same person we were we die every night and wake up new

[@fictionsmith3688]

That's why they say we change everyday

[@azathoth4473]

That's flat out wrong

[@azathoth4473]

What you're initially saying isn't Consciousness but personality, also the thing you understand as Consciousness is just mind in it's awake physical state.

[@JacobsKrąnųg]

we have to take into account that things like replacing cells one by one, putting a half brain in a new body, etc arent real, so there is no answer for it

[@Murri16]

All these comments saying they know what consciousness is and where it comes from are not true, some people may have a few theories but ultimately we have no idea what consciousness is and where it comes from. It is currently a mystery.

[@felipegonzalezweb]

exactly i hate how everyone on here talks like they know it all when in reality nobody knows for sure what conciousness really is

[@evilspyke3571]

He did say, no one on earth has the definitive answers.

[@Fierying]

***** think about it, it is really like anosognosia. Is not that we know that "we don't know", we thought we know it base on our experience. We have the ability to be aware and we like to give hypothesis on consciousness. The irony though is that we are not even conscious about ourselves or like you said, everything. Because for less mature people (or how we used to be), we thought that whatever we knew is true, and therefore believe it even though it can be a lie, we use "our experience" as the only evidence we have for our existence. Even till now, we all (even I) never really look at the big picture of something, we get stuck with our own selves. When we are wrong we try to make excuses to comfort ourselves, "This is "me" anyways, no one will understand, it has to be true" and sometimes that we believe in our lies so much that even the truth to you is changed, it becomes artificial, something you create. That thing we call of being aware of is now a something distorted that was created within itself. Is impossible to understand what consciousness is, because it itself has alter itself, no one consciousness will be the same as anyone. This is just a hypothesis anyways... from my own experience, probably wrong too.

[@fernf7063]

Fierying +Murri16 emergence is a incomplete but satisfying theory. if u got the time read incognito by david eagleman....also npr's radiolab has an awesome podcast episode

[@swedneck]

Murri16 we literally know exactly where consciousness comes from, it comes from the brain.

[@emmamunro9386]

This is giving me traumatising flashbacks to that time when, as a shy, 18-year-old undergrad at cambridge, no-one else turned up to my philosophy tutorial one week, and I had to debate one-to-one the problem of consciousness with a well-known professor of philosophy. Initiation by fire.

[@axr6327]

I love everything about this comment.

[@alphamikeomega5728]

They're called supervisions at Cambridge.

[@SwegDawgs]

Who won?

[@jminkvihubyb]

@@SwegDawgs me

[@captainjules6033]

Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.

[@nicetomeecha]

It’s crazy that this came out 10 years ago. I was in high school TEN years ago. Thanks for all of the great content to fuel my ADHD autodidact tendencies all this time!

[@Ryouski]

I started High School ten years ago. Time flies

[@vincedamato8563]

Lol Everyone has ADHD its supposed to be natural. But it’s suppressed by pills because of the illusion that it’s bad for (Learning) 😂😂😂.

[@BlipBlopFlipFlop]

@@vincedamato8563 the fuck you on about?

[@chopsyoutube]

@@vincedamato8563 true

[@l0wpolypenguin]

@@vincedamato8563 that is not true…

[@mgmen2508]

2:00 chatGPT 11 years ago😮

[@qenb3649]

When I was a kid I always wondered if everyone saw the color red as I saw it.

[@humanbeingthatexistedonmar8027]

We probably do because life was made by just one bacteria so we’re all related so and the way our brains are work is from our ancestors DNA so we most likely see the same colour but no one knows really

[@itshoma]

I used to think I was the only real person in a simulation

[@urdadlix123]

@@itshoma i still do

[@commenteroftruth9790]

@@urdadlix123 a worthless notion that shows your moronic existence to everyone unfortunately.

[@commenteroftruth9790]

@Luke Steiner No. Wavelengths of light are constant in color. Color-errors exist in damage/sickness, but every healthy normal human sees colors in the same way. Its moronic to believe that patterns and designs would be widely accepted if we all saw colors differently.

[@richardhines8622]

If the brain were simple enough to understand itself , it couldn't . Well folks , its been brought to my attention by Daniel Bagang that this is a prior quote . Upon Googling - it took no time - Ive found this - " If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them we'd be so simple that we couldn't " - , the quote is from Ian Stewart , and it comes from a book by the title (The Collapse of Chaos ; Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World . I believe it to be every bit as applicable to the field of Consciousness , and strong AI .

[@marcomoldovan]

+richard Hines surprisingly awesome comment :D (lyall watson)

[@richardhines8622]

Adam Chmielowiec Will be forever in any inclosed system . If for instance a system , for the sake of argument , could come to some realization , the moment it did so it would change and that change would cause an infinite regress . Fortunately we're a social species , booted up for , in , and of the universe . No telling what that can lead to .

[@richardhines8622]

Scabbage 1. Never said (WE) did . 2. Minsky's tried using computer as metaphor for how long now ? Nothing to show for it . 3. Works great for advance word processors , entirely useless for sentient emergence . 4. Body-less . You need to save your all wise "Ah's" till you have something to back up your arrogance , a good start might be to first understand the quote .

[@richardhines8622]

Scabbage Narcissism is all the rage these days .

[@richardhines8622]

Scabbage Go polish a mirror , that should calm you down .

[@koegon]

+VSauce How can we "hear" our own thoughts?

[@adityaaj4403]

good question😀

[@RichardPugsley]

When you hear sound your brain translates vibrations to the thing that you hear, so since your brain can translate it, it can also speak it. I don't really know how to explain it, but it's really logical if you think about it.

[@adityaaj4403]

it means if someone is deaf from born then he could not hear its own thing???😕

[@RichardPugsley]

***** Imagine, kind of. It's almost the same as hearing since actual hearing is also kind of imagining.

[@giorgichavchavadze4674]

+Richard Pugsley how is hearing imagining sounds make air moleculas vibrate this vibration is then comeing to our ears where our super sensetive nerves react to it and send signlas to our brain which than are translates into the sounds we hear, sonvasically what i am fetting at is that gearing is not imagining

[@PiyushKumar-lg9is]

I love the curiosity with which Michael approaches each topic. Love your content!

[@Cheesecake_lover360]

Oh God I remember walking home on the way from elementary school and these thoughts popping into my brain and I would scare the shit out of myself with existential thoughts. I still have them now of course, but I've realised it's just not worth it to dwell on.

[@shid_in_my_pant2849]

Dude same I’d freak the hell out as a kid thinking about this stuff I still do it now

[@Wackaz]

I am so glad that I'm not the only one who feels this way; it makes me depressed, nihilistic (as religious as I am), and anxious; I am always feeling immense stress over this and I can't shrug it off - I don't know what to do... God bless you, my friend. Thank you for that last bit of advice you gave; you're so right, ever so wholeheartedly right...

[@tinabirdshafer]

It is worth it Hannah!

[@fbi8332]

I used to have panic attacks from thinking about this stuff

[@RenX3133]

It surely is worth it. The more you question your existence, the more you get to know who you are, because in order to answer these deep questions you need to understand who is asking them and why. You were scared of these questions because you were afraid to know who you really are - not because you might find out that you are "bad" or "scary", but rather that you are more and bigger than what you want/want to take responsibilty for.

[@lanajames3081]

I used to think I was the only real human and everyone else was just a robot okay..... I still kind of think that.

[@TokiKatChannel]

Actually, you're the robot, and i am the only human. (Shyamalan enters) "WHAT A TWIST!!"

[@damienmichiels4119]

Why do you think you are not one of us? Must be a programming error

[@lanajames3081]

damien michiels 0.o

[@WizardOfBallzGaming]

Well now I think is is dumb to think that. *Why would a robot ask for it's life if you are killing it?*

[@lanajames3081]

Awsea The same reason Skype "yawns" every time I log in XD This comment is just me giving insight to my thoughts, not meant to be taken too seriously, lol!

[@PaceOfATurtle]

Lol. Cleverbot just told me "I am a government designed super weapon"

[@V0ldek]

***** Cleverbot is a self-learning AI, if it does not know something about a topic and you tell it that, it will update its database and actually "learn" that thing.

[@fredhamlin373]

Cleverbot just told me he is A) jewish, which he later denied b) that 9-11 was comitted by aliens c) "BOW TO ME, SLAVE" which he also denied later.. Oh and I asked him if he would exterminate humanity given the chance, he said no but theres no way I can be sure...

[@alexandermiller5680]

Cleverbot told me that he is human & polish and told me that my name was Emily Also, when i input Dfgbshncfbdnhftcvgur hfdjklignm kjungnudrkehgygr he said, Right now? And when i asked him How are you? he answered Fine, pretty god. GOD . I AM NOT A GOD. And he told me he was god. And later told me that he was an atheist. Oh, yeah, he said he doesn't exist too! Here is a line of chat from me and Cleverbot: Cleverbot: How much memory do you have? Me: What about you? Cleverbot: Blond. And another: Cleverbot: Try guessing my name. Me: CLEVERBOT! Cleverbot: No, guess again. Me: Bob. Cleverbot: Again. Me: I give up. Cleverbot: Fine It's Bigwong. I am not at all convinced that he is in any way clever

[@bazzie85]

My recent conversation with cleverbot, in which he admitted to not being well programmed: User: Cleverbot. You are not as clever as people said. I am disappointed. Cleverbot: Perhaps I am not a bot after all. User: Well that makes it worse... A dumb human... Cleverbot: Why do you make no sense? User: Aah, I think you lack the sense required to comprehend my thoughts. Cleverbot: What do you think I am? User: A simple bot, with failed programming. Over and out. Cleverbot: Yes. Come to think of it... that is pretty deep thinking by cleverbot.

[@ShaDoWasSaSinG]

I said to cleverbot that i play dota and he actually said "Dota is better than LoL" LOL

[@Wismic]

I think we should get an updated version of this video as so many new scientific advances and discoveries have been made surrounding the topic of consciousness in the almost 12 years now since this video. :) Would love to see it!

[@ti2218]

There has?? That's awesone!! What'd they find?

[@StrawmnMcPerson]

Meh. What would be the point in another hyperprivileged whte man defining something as massive as consciousness for the rest of the world when it would be old, half-baked news to the rest of the world by the time it was posted? We need an updated video on consciousness from vsauce like we need an updated video on phrenology from freud.

[@Wismic]

oh no inspiring knowledge and scientific advancement! anything but that! shut up loser@@StrawmnMcPerson

[@ExcuseMe881]

I gave cleverbot a frown emoticon and it came to the conclusion that I’m not real

[@Ommelanden]

You have been exposed by A.I.

[@Arboldenrocks]

i am a robot. i failed the turing test on purpose.

[@therealdave06]

I said "Yo mama" and cleverbot said "My mother has cancer"

[@Arboldenrocks]

i did the cleverbot thing and uh, it's not clever. it can only post sentences that it's seen before, with possibly a few hardwired responses when you say it's a bot. the algorithm that decides what sentence to post is not very good. marginally better than random. it's kind of like how facebook spams 'top rated' posts. youtube is also run by an algorithm that suggests videos and serves ads.

[@hush7359]

@@Arboldenrocks mr. smart guy here

[@AdelaTomankova]

0:43 When you hear this music in a vsauce video you know you're about to be very confused

[@sukhrajsohal1397]

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." -Max Planck (Father of quantum theory and Nobel Laureate) "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. . . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." -Max Planck

[@simonjohnson3424]

This is so true. Everything you have ever seen, heard, tasted, felt and smelled, is percieved through consciousness. We can never know anything for sure, because what if our consciousness is changing the truth, or maybe everything ever is all made up by consciousness. This is so interesting!

[@simonjohnson3424]

@hasith mayanga No you can't know that for sure. EVERYTHING is measured by your consciousness. You know what the temperature is because you can feel it, see the amout of degrees it is or someone has told you the temperature. At the end of the day all the senses are meassured by your consciousness. Being conscious means to be aware. Your consciousness is your awareness. So when your aware of the temperature it's your awareness (consciousness) that conveys that temperature. You can't be sure that what your consciousness is telling you is true. Go watch Vsauce's video on consciousness, there you will get a better explanation of why you can't be sure of anything except your own consciousness. Have you heard the phrase: "I think, therefore I am"? It means the only thing you can know for sure, is that you exist because you are able to doubt existence. Look up Rene Descartes.

[@lavishlavon]

He also came up w/ the "Planck length" (unit of measurement).. _which btw,_ has most notably been largely embraced by the 'micro-penis' community as it helps give them some perspective & a more optimistic outlook despite the sh!tty circumstances.....

[@Т1000-м1и]

For anybody reading this!': Quantum theory and quantum physics/mechanics are not the same thing (scientists are ___ __ _____ things)

[@acidducks9476]

@E R consume the DMT molecule and find out yourself.

[@mattshu]

Cleverbot vs ChatGPT

[@LegendsUniverse]

Jeez I spent 15 minutes on cleverbot

[@Jordan-hu4pz]

same lol

[@genericusername8494]

@12,345 subscribers with no videos jesus....

[@onedollasnake]

I spent 1 minute because it requires a subscription

[@onedollasnake]

12,345 subscribers with no videos went to the link sent me to existor.com said I need a. Subscription for 10 dollars a month

[@StringDeposit]

Spent one minute. 1. Who are you. -I am human 2. Did you get my last question. -you made me feel sad, sing me a song. 3. bye bye.

[@2hu235]

2:57 "It just automatically responds like a robot in the appropriate way." I must not be one of those then, because I certainly don't automatically respond in the appropriate way

[@Sea_Leech]

You must be a bad one

[@Somewhere50]

@@Sea_Leech or must he?

[@RandomGuy041]

@@Sea_Leech or is he?

[@mr.e1292]

I was put into this simulation and all yall is robots

[@michaelgray2319]

Warning! Don't watch this when you're high.

[@kotelekotele]

1:43 OG ChatGPT :O

[@M1N0_exe]

So true

[@20firebird]

i love when philosophers come up with the weirdest thought experiments imaginable

[@gpt-jcommentbot4759]

if you kill someone and destroy their brain, how would bringing them "back to life" even work? if you recreate their brain, how would you know that they aren't just some copy? how would you be able to revive ANYONE who dies of say a plane or car crash, an explosion or war. and what would it be like for them? would they even know that something happened for them, would time just skip forward in their perspective? would they be suffering eternally? what does the brain do that is so special compared to say a piece of metal? why do we think and feel only? or do we? what if everything feels to different extents, and your bed to some extent could feel you crushing it? how would it feel to live eternally as a bed that gets crushed by ungrateful humans everyday, then get destroyed by woodchippers? how dare you? this is why you will die? hahaha?

[@PigeonFlare]

*O R I S I T ?*

[@owownwowlson8524]

WhenCowsFly *DOON DOOONG*

[@matthewolive1262]

Hey Vsauce, Micheal here. Your vote matters... *or does it?*

[@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385]

I knew this meme was coming lol.

[@neot1837]

43 seconds in and already mind is blown

[@ropi.]

try to watch black mirror, basically every second episode is about dividing or transfering consciousness, there'll be some great mindfuck there

[@nebselpam]

Stumbled back on this in my feed and the cleverbot reference is a great reminder how far we’ve come in such little time.

[@TyDie85]

Not sure if this will be mentioned. But it's like how someone can be kind, loving, and giving. But then they develop a brain tumor and it can change their personality drastically if in the right area.

[@monsieur2761]

So basically we don't have any freewill.

[@BetterNevaia]

@@monsieur2761 we do, but it’s based on the brain itself. you could decide to do whatever before the tumour, and decide to do that same thing after the tumour, you willingly did the thing in both cases , just in one of them it might’ve felt more forced or unnatural

[@rationalism_communism]

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” "It is impossible to separate thought from matter that thinks. Matter is the subject of all changes." - Karl marx materialism in general recognises objectively real being (matter) as independent of consciousness, sensation, experience... consciousness is only the reflection of being, at best an approximately true (adequate, perfectly exact) reflection of it. -vladimir lenin.

[@raskr8137]

Vsauce: "Cleverbot isn't conscious." Vsauce 7 years later:"Let's get roman _tech"_

[@natashasaslcourse982]

Rask R YES

[@gravityfalls8439]

Vsauce is the most amazing thing that ever existed on youtube

[@moralcompass8457]

Agreed

[@FedeArgentina]

and jbp.

[@Zeviak]

And pewdiepie

[@vincerevfx4690]

‘You are you’ ‘Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.’

[@ExtraLargeWindow]

yes

[@toasterofbread]

"Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes." "...Or does it?"

[@vincerevfx4690]

@@toasterofbread *vsauce has entered the chat*

[@oh-ohstinky5819]

the 60 seconds joke is overused

[@vincerevfx4690]

@@oh-ohstinky5819 not as much as it used to be

Something that I find very curious is how, even before we knew about the brain and it's importance on thinking, we knew thoughts were inside our heads. We can feel them inside it, even tho they are not physical things

[@Jo-om2qz]

Yeah. But funnily enough Aristotle for some reason thought the brain was just an organ for cooling the body.

[@eldafint]

Well, according to the bicameral mind theory we actually used to not know that. We thought that thoughts were actual things because we we're really conscious

[@delaney5721]

Ong as a baby I remember having coherent thoughts idk just remember it

[@dismalthoughts]

Any sensation of your thoughts being inside of your head probably stems from the fact that your vision is the most powerful sense. There truly is a feeling that "you" live behind your eyes. Makes me wonder if blind people have a similar experience or if they have a more visceral sensation of being their entire body.

[@m.j4819]

@@dismalthoughts In meditation, people say that the feeling of living behind your eyes or inside your head is an appearance in consciousness and is an illusion. And the we simply experience all sensations in this "open space" and it doesn't have location to it. If you want to look into it, I believe its called non-dualism and natural awareness.

[@chase_h.01]

29 seconds in and we already achieve maximum WTF mode!! XD

[@TravisBickle0312]

Cool profile pic

[@Exaspatial]

Cringiest comment award

[@AquaticMC_]

11 years ago Clever bot now ChatGPT 2:07

[@ReySkywalker2]

Was about the comment this. Past Michael would be mindblown.

[@user-Jumbo1]

Was just looking for this comment

[@kybamclane9357]

This is why I think of conciousness as a separate state of existence, a higher position of awareness that uses flesh and bones as its vessel. Essentially a spirit.

[@Demons972]

First of all i have to say that i'm not a religious person i only belive in facts and science but i have a question for you: what do you think it happens to our consciousness, our spirit, our soul (depending on how you like to call it) after our physical bodies die?

[@kybamclane9357]

@@Demons972 I believe that it depends on whether or not the spirit is attached to a physical object or not. If it is, it will be bound to reality and remain in a comprehensive state of existence. Some may look like shadows, others like transparent people. It depends on the energy of it I guess. If it's not bound, it will move into a higher state of spiritual vibration, above all physical entities to become an immaluable force that has a mind greater than what it could possibly have in a physical body. Instead of its thoughts being limited by the human brain, it can comprehend and perceive reality in all ways possible. Reality will become like a playground for it do whatever it wants. Until it finds another flesh body to inhabit and relive. Otherwise, existence would be meaningless for it.

[@kybamclane9357]

@@Demons972 For the record I also am not religious at all whatsoever, but what I do believe in is a combination of science and physiology. I see the world as our minds make it, the laws that we apply with our perception. Most people call it "reality", I call it our unilaterall perception of whats out there.

[@jalenwright3777]

@@Demons972 I think we all just exist as spirits in the same plane of existence. We will just experience it fully

[@Demons972]

​@@kybamclane9357 What do you mean by attached to a physical object? another person, a loved one? and if it's not attached and ascends to the point of controlling reality itself until finding another body to inhabit how come we have no memories of our past lives? please don't feel like i'm trying to antagonize you, what you say it's actually interesting i would like to know more if possible.

[@GLCraft1]

2:25 that’s the question i asked myself when i was like 12 years old wow

[@lukecapsule4410]

adLer I used to always wonder that in my head, this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone mention it. I thought I was the only person who ever thought about it !

[@lukecapsule4410]

Исак Краизис msg me on Instagram buddy my name is Luke.techer07

[@IngvarMar]

Исак Краизис Haha, you are trying to convince me that you are also conscious by saying that others are bots. You can’t trick me....... or...... maybe I am trying to convince you that we are all conscious by saying this to you?

[@lukecapsule4410]

Igor CONSPIRACYY 👻

[@liamx1273]

Dont you try to trick me you robots.

[@blankidentities2026]

Micheal, it's half past midnight here, stop breaking my brain.

[@mbapum6363]

Remember when cleverbot was such a big deal? Now we have ChatGPT

[@greekkidshows9373]

Anosognosia That explains a lot I always wondered why the excuse came into it

[@jessewru6425]

Does anyone else occasionally wonder seriously if they have died and am just dreaming along in some sort of limbo multiverse death-denial?

[@LordThanathos]

No, that's retarded. I have way too many physical needs to be dead.

[@EBB3ka13]

needs you think you have

[@Mexitian]

Jesse wru thanks for making me suicidal

[@TheHandleOnYoutube]

Jesse wru if you had died, it already happened. And because death is an end so instant as instant is nearly incomprehensible as infinite or nothing we would never know if we died and could have died already.

[@sethamine]

Anthony Blank we would because we are sentient and we can tell if we are dying but you can’t tell if you had died because the neurons in your brain are no longer sending signals to your body which means you are just dead meat (literally). But then you have quantum physics which is a whole separate matter.

[@JoeRFenlon]

As soon as the music starts, shit goes down.

[@matasgr9991]

2:42 Michael described ChatGPT in early 2012

[@hexhollows]

chatgpt user discovers neural networks for the first time

[@asthmaticpathic]

That Other Minds problem is interesting to me, because I didn’t know I experienced life differently from other people because of my ADD until later in life. It shocked me when people told me they weren’t in their head all the time or with ADD your frontal lobe develops differently.

[@sammattress5570]

I don’t think I have ADD (my dad might have had a little as a child) but I get exactly what ur saying. Over examining scenarios in ur head n shi

[@nekouzii9]

@@sammattress5570 facts i just always am in my head and im like damn, is my body neko(my name is neko)and my conciousness just a sense used to adapt to situations to survive? Or is my soul neko and bofy neko

[@turkeybakin4010]

0:55 michael perfectly explains dissociating

[@collinmcduffie7426]

It sounded more like mindfulness meditation to me! Interesting viewpoint

[@rabrab3682]

Philosophical zombie: Also known as a NPC or a non-player character. An individual that just goes with the program and/ or is controlled by the program to advance the plot also known as your life. Think Grand Theft Auto video game citizen.

[@Flanesgourmetsofiniel]

* Drives past an NPC normally * -HEY! LEARN TO DRIVE, ASSHOLE! * sigh * P_|_| | | R_۝ D_| | 2_| | 1_|_| _THUMP_

[@simonjohnson3424]

A philosophical zombie is one of the most interesting concepts in philosophy tbh

[@royce957]

personal (current) opinion: every single one of us is a philosophical zombie. just because the brain is a super complicated chemical reaction doesn't mean it isn't basically a molecular robot. i'm only typing this because that's what my chemicals are arranged to do, and it FEELS like i'm in control of it. but that's only because i, like, AM it. it's beautiful

[@minaashido2774]

Exactly!

[@simonjohnson3424]

@@royce957 But then at what point does consciousness occur in other things. I mean it's not like every chemical reaction is conscious (I would assume). And how do you know it's not the other way around? That it's consciousness making the chemicals react the way they do?

[@2011iustin]

CleverBot was ChatGPT’s grandpa

[@dali3562]

Nah bro chatGPT is conscious:((

[@UndyingSOYAWER]

​@@dali3562 Sodium Hypobromite

[@dmath1490]

My brain, its burning with knowlege

[@GunterSaurusRex]

Great, now do something with it..Invent a true hover board! lol

[@KenRulesLife]

Hoverboad hoaxes, biggest problem in the Universe, vote it up!

[@pepperz1686]

Is the brain creating your consciousness... or is consciousness creating your reality ?

[@billcosbyeatsbabies9947]

Thats like asking if your computer is creating your computing experience. I wouldn't say its creating it, as much as it is facilitating it. As for your reality, it is what you make of it. Your consciousness is your ability to construct your own reality, which is everything that makes your existence unique and what you perceive as an individual.

[@dolebiscuit]

Good point! That's what I love about philosophy and psychology--there are just things that we will never know for sure. I do love a good mystery :)

[@billcosbyeatsbabies9947]

I agree

[@distortiontildeafness]

There's no mind without the brain. Lol or material foundation at least

[@grymmrhoninn1855]

Both

[@mohammadjiladger5483]

My boy spitting facts I've never heard in my entire life, Meanwhile random voices in the background: aaaAaaAAaaaaaaaAaaa

[@lagalags]

The fact that only less than 2 decades ago we were messing around with Cleverbot, to now having AI generated material (images, videos, text) as if they’re made by real people is nothing short of astounding. And creepy.

[@ioubioub1095]

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define "reality". But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true". Merily vague concepts... their "reality" may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs? -Uchiha Itachi

[@rossdressforless1869]

Ioub Ioub Lol Naruto I haven’t gotten to that episode yet

[@amanupadhaya0379]

World shall know the pain.

[@chromosoze]

*cue Vsauce music*

[@sambitbasu6261]

Hey Michael, this is the first time I'm seeing someone raise questions like this, like WHAT is me? And as you said psychological zombies. I've always pondered over hundreds of questions like this in my mind, but never got an answer. This video didn't really help much though. It's been 9 yrs, let's hope someone somewhere can come up with something

[@SurflFilms]

I’m recommending Sam Harris because that’s what I’m familiar with, but I’m sure a lot of other meditation gurus and apps wwould do as well. The fascinating thing about meditation and how Harris teaches it is that it’s applied philosophy. He explains some philosophical concept about consciousness or about being a self in one lesson, and then in the meditation session, which are guided audio meditation where he instructs you what to do, you can directly experience whatever he was talking about.

[@unknownv8268]

Did few shroom trips, the latest trip was somewhere focused on this question. I went through all the all roles I play in lives of other people and asked myself what I'm without all those roles and the things I do. I know it isn't exactly what you asked but I think it kinda is related to your comment.

[@tomonkyysyr2741]

I agree, the video doesn't really add much to the whole debate. However, there's a guy I discovered who is a nuclear physicist and worked for military and N.A.S.A. as a literal rocket scientist. This man is named Tom Campbell, and he is a hardcore scientist who believes that one should find out their own truths for themselves - as listening to him blindly would become bad science in itself. I am not fully clued up and I am only mentioning, as in the 10 years since I watched this video, this guy is the closest I've come across to understanding the universe a wee bit. His sources are credible and he worked with Robert Monroe, so seems legit. Basically (in, insultingly simple terms), imagine a circuit with electricity powering a light bulb. Energy reaches the bulb from the wires and it produces light. Overtime, the bulb gradually weakens or explodes and there is no more light. Solution? Replace the bulb and the light is activated again. The bulb was broken and the room was in darkness, but when the bulb smashed, the energy did not dissipate into nothing and break the circuit board, it simply remained as electrical energy (inside the circuit) until a new bulb existed to convert the energy into light, again. The reason why this occurs, is because of the First Law of Thermodynamics, which is that: "Energy cannot be created or destroyed". This leads to the theory, that because you and I are simply existing, we are beings of energy inside our own light bulbs (our bodies) and thus the Law applies each consciousness. When our bodies eventually fail, is the circuit suddenly destroyed permanently, too? I believe not, because if we are such beings of energy, then - by the very laws of our own universe - it is simply impossible to be destroyed permanently, as we may be just light bulbs (bodies) connected to a circuit (the Universe). Tom has made a book years ago, called My Big T.O.E (Theory of Everything) and honestly I have not read it all, but never have I encountered anybody that made such sense, I made myself aware to manipulation yet did not encounter any, either. I am not a scientist of this field, so I likely won't be able to answer many advanced questions, I just feel that if this is a subject that you're interested in, then you should know of someone that I believe to be real and genuine. The guy worked for N.A.S.A, so it's not like he needs money, which makes me think that he truly believes what he says and I would think that creating such a book as a scientist, could actually be detrimental to his name. I hope this helps.

[@tomonkyysyr2741]

@@unknownv8268 That's quite an interesting, trip and I believe it is related. You was essentially viewing yourself without any of the traits that make you, you, whilst you're around others? If so; that seems to me like the trip was showing who you are at your core. It's similar to a mask of sanity concept, where the brain is acting in a certain way to be accepted around those people. That's like an ego (a good thing in this case) where the subconscious knows to act in a certain way in order for the flow of the relationship to work. For example, being at a pub with friends is likely to make one quite loud and energetic in order to fit in with the group (think of male football fans). Whereas if at an interview, they will not be acting in such a manner because the brain knows what the other people expect of your actions. Naturally, one is not always as robotic as they are in an interview - hence the mask of sanity to fit in to the situation. So what happens when that is all removed? I believe that was the main question of that trip, and basically that's who you REALLY are. When you're completely alone in a room with just your thoughts, that's you in all it's purity, mask of sanity down because you know nobody is watching you, so you can act freely. I know you didn't ask any questions, but that's just what I interpreted from your comment and I am not judging you in anyway. May all your trips be enlightening!

[@misterkite99]

Try watching healthygamer,it's a psychiatrist's channel. There's some stuff that might interest you guys.

[@racookster]

I prefer the word "awareness" over "consciousness" in this context, because "consciousness" has at least two meanings. It can mean "awareness," as Michael discusses here, or "wakefulness," meaning one isn't asleep, in a coma, etc. The word "consciousness" gets muddy when you consider dreaming. I'm definitely aware when I'm dreaming, but I'm not conscious in the sense of being awake. I've gotten picky about this issue because I've encountered headlines like, "Scientists Find the Seat of Consciousness," but when you read the articles, you find that they're really talking about the structures in the brain and the neurological processes that keep us awake. As Michael said, we don't yet know what awareness is, and it's possible that we never will.

[@steverodgers4366]

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[@mohammedjafer9265]

That's different levels of consciousness

[@umairusman]

philosophical zombie= my ex girlfriend

[@UndergroundDev]

Lucky you, having something is better than nothing.

[@jemoeder51]

UndergroundDev GTA Underground youtube channel watching Vsauce... my life is complete

[@deepmodex]

lol tell me about it. got one who's actual

[@bombombecker5222]

Umair Usman

[@nightcoremadstudioreborn4299]

No, sometimes it's better to not have than to lose.

[@aidenleddy5443]

Yo like how tf we became alive when our body is made of random atoms collected from the food our mums ate

[@AndyHappyGuy]

And some of our father, at least at the start.

[@PwnzDaniel]

You're still collecting food

[@lilyoyo77]

Randomness can't creating anything. Everything in the universe is caused by something. A computer can't be created by random processes. You need a human to create a computet. Same thing applies for a human and the universe. You need a creator who is not bound and he's outside of the universe.

[@AndyHappyGuy]

@@lilyoyo77 randomness CAN create something. Nobody is there to make snowflakes, yet these majestic 6 pointed water crystals seemingly form out of thin air. Same thing with the very first cells. Randomness changed these cells over billions of years, finally creating us.

[@lilyoyo77]

@@AndyHappyGuy That's just assumptions and not backed by evidence, a computer in a billion years can't come by random processes lol. Use your reason for once and logicaly assess things instead of making extraordinary claims. Snowflakes don't come randomly lol, they are caused by something. There has to be clouds and water molecules and a specific temperature to create it. Show me evidence that randomness can create complicated intelligent beings like us.

[@manroopaulakh4973]

Nobody: Vsauce background music when blowing your mind: huaaaaahhhh haaa 🎶

[@KingArthurWs]

Cleverbot > ChatGPT

[@marialopez-ql9ec]

Lol

[@BillSmith3546]

Nope

[@zackchacon2060]

don’t underestimate the power of a intelligent man

[@Empty-ov3on]

an*

[@ahumanperson3649]

Empty lol that’s irony.

[@smith1008]

@@ahumanperson3649 haha

[@DaxanDaxter]

I am smart...

[@silic8873]

yes

[@Comrade_Nils]

5:09 my answer to the swamp man idea: i'd say that yes, the person created by the second lightning would indeed be michael (a continuation of his personality and consciousness), because if the newly formed person has the *exact* same configuration of atoms as the old one, his brain would be configured exactly the same, synapse by synapse, meaning he would most likely have the same memories, the same morals and ideas, the same personality and thus the same consciousness. but still i am not sure if the "old michael" would feel like becoming the "new michael" within the same stream of consciousness, because if we regard the "new michael" as a *copy* of the old one, then the "old michael" (if he would have continued to exist) would still stay within his own stream of consciousness.

[@brianwalendy3735]

That's basically the Star Trek transporter dilemma. Is Kirk on the planet the same Kirk that was on the Enterprise? Did he die on the way? Is he going to come back evil as fuck?

[@connorlynch3474]

@unknowning unknown But it's easy to imagine the same situation but where the old Michael doesn't die, and has just been cloned. Would he be happy to commit suicide knowing that the new Michael is him? Would you allow yourself to die because a clone of you had been created?

[@twaynewade2544]

I've recently witnessed a childs death. It put me into an existential crisis, and now I'm here.

[@dason5408]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[@twaynewade2544]

Rest in Peace 10tv.com

[@damiensmith5998]

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

[@hans2695]

Consciousness = nothingness. Objects must exist "inside" consciousness. Consciousness cant be something, it has to be nothing, because *something* is always "inside" nothing (consciousness). So you cant "be dead". You cant experience dreamless state of sleep. You cant experience "before" birth. You can only experience life, experience is all there is, therefore its infinite, and eternal...

[@twaynewade2544]

Teeto Main​ I know. I was struck emotionally is all. Now I'll go and live life only to die. Hopefully I'll be remembered.

[@paymansalehishafa6884]

I wish you'd continue with this channel. It's my favorite thought provoking channel.

[@ThePhoenixSlayer]

He does. His posts just take like a year now xD

[@mohdhakim8692]

Vsause, everytime i spend time alone and think about reality i get these kind of taughts and then realise you made a video about it and i am not the only

[@jadyn6291]

Hey VSauce! Michael here. Let's try and answer one of the most complex questions that exists. And as always, thanks for watching.

[@thedarkknight962]

the most complicated, not one of the most. There are other questions that seem complicated but we know they can be answered in the future as we gain excess to more knowledge, but consciousness is one unique mystery.