Why does the universe exist? | Jim Holt | TED

Why is there something instead of nothing? In other words: Why does the universe exist (and why are we in it)? Philosopher and writer Jim Holt follows this question toward three possible answers. Or four. Or none.
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[@michaeld2519]

He could have just said: "Hello everyone. We don't know why the universe exists, and we probably never will. Thank you".

[@guleidhasan816]

I guess we were given this answer but some of us are refusing to accept it

[@johnbarry8553]

Why does he assume Jesus is not perfect?

[@theawakening2946]

GOD

[@michaeld2519]

@@theawakening2946 Even if an Almighty God created the universe, the question remains as to 'why' it exists and why such a being created it. The question is 'why', not 'who' or 'what' created it.

[@punisher6387]

@@johnbarry8553 he doesn't exist in the first place

[@DF-og1gz]

I remember being 7 years old, sitting on the steps of my front door, and blowing my mind trying to imagine nothingness.

[@hshf.6292]

It happened to me when I was about 7 as well, but i grew up and read the holy Qoran and it cleared up the mystery.

[@Jovito_Britto]

@@hshf.6292 brain washed is another word for it I guess

[@johnhough7738]

@@hshf.6292 I read the Holy Donald Duck, but it was The Prophet Scrooge McDuck than answered all my questions.

[@hshf.6292]

@@johnhough7738 good for you.

[@tomgroover1839]

I remember doing the same thing at about the same age. What is a mystery is why a young kid would try to do this, it maybe seemed like an interesting diversion at the time maybe, or maybe it says something about our nature that a 7 year old would delve into it sort of like a temptation brought own by existence itself.

[@yingle6027]

I tried explaining this to my dog, she just looked at me like 'yeah, are we going to the park or not?'

[@iadatoroboto8427]

Dogs are lucky in that they don't have the capacity to care why they exist.

[@lukeebduck647]

The only solution I have come about is just that, as we go about in a dream accepting logic that does not make any sense, we are blocked by some sort of mechanism now, that our logical structures are not built to answer this question, and maybe if the afterlife exists we will understand it later it will all make sense, and will be simple to us.

[@blackcommando5264]

i think the same

[@blackcommando5264]

i think our minds aren’t made to understand

[@stevedawson9191]

You are living your millionth afterlife right now

[@user-ol8tr5lr3h]

what about lucid dreams?

[@yummy8074]

To all people who are spamming in comments "spoiler, he doesn't say the answer": you didn't think you'd find the answer to this in the video on YT, did you?

[@sarans96]

Exactly.. people want easy answers... . That's the reason that non sense like religion has taken over the world..

[@lc1777]

@@sarans96 yes they are pure idiots. See religion could actually be true. But the type of religion we have is purely stupid. God might exist but Jesus, Hindu gods, Allah all this is pure idiot.Maybe reality doesn't exist at all.

[@littlewhitebutterflies4586]

@@lc1777 Reality does exist. "I think therefore I am." That's the only thing we know. We know that we exist, and that is our reality. As to the fundamental reality of the universe, that's a different story... Also, what do you mean when you say "religion could actually be true?"

[@lc1777]

@@littlewhitebutterflies4586 see I am a atheist myself. And to me physics has given better explanation of our existence instead of any religion.But what if God really exist? Or maybe we are created by a advanced civilization?. But I still doubt that we are living in an reality. Because we just are to timid to understand it. Our theory is That time started with big bang. But I ask then what was between big bang. Big bang wouldn't just happen by itself it needs a push . It needs a force to happen. And why can't time be before big bang. It would still be there but meaningless. Just like our end of universe will be like that. Its so fascinating

[@littlewhitebutterflies4586]

@@lc1777 I assume you mean traditional religion, because using physics to draw conclusions about metaphysical phenomena is also in a way a religion. Ultimately some questions can never be answered by science, and we must make our own choices based on personal belief. Well ultimately, what is reality? What is our universe made of? It' not made of molecules, atoms, quantum fields, or even spacetime... It's made of information. And it turns out that it doesn't matter what stores that information, whether it's stored in some supercomputer, the relative distances between molecules in a gas cloud, or imprinted on the surface of a blackhole, as long as that information exists, so do we and our reality. So maybe there is another reality imposed ON TOP of our reality, but our reality exists nonetheless...our reality is our subjective experience, which we know to exist. Also yes, physics is cool ^^

[@rahulsharma2402]

When you are watching these types of videos, its really the time to sleep

[@Mustis91]

i watch them to get sleepy :D

[@andymoore9892]

You're probably right. I've been scaring myself looking up asteroids hitting Earth all night.

[@Mustis91]

@@andymoore9892 haha don't worry. if one is heading towards earth we will see it months before and we could probably do something..well there's a chance we miss it but i don't think so. and if so..who cares? wouldn't be the worst thing for planet earth if it got rid of us :D

[@Difop]

thank you

[@benbaby100]

Andy Moore That just means you were watching JRE before this.

[@raya4801]

Yes, this question has haunted me a lot. Why something instead of nothing? And after extensively thinking about it, I realised it's a futile cause. Yes, we are humans and our brain is constantly thinking. But not always all thoughts are fruitful. We know very little about consciousness, we don't even know what we are trying to find. So asking why and how is just a search of needle in a haystack. And moreover the needle might not be even there. People have thought their entire lives and got no answer. If we take scientific and atheist view we do not have a plausible explanation. I beg to differ from the speaker in here. Buddhism doesn't advocate that nothingness is world. It is rather that it says the world is an illusion, a maya, root of all our suffering. To ease the suffering, Buddhism asks us to go beyond the worldly afflictions. But one who is living can very well choose to live in Maya. Eternal peace or Nirvana is a joyful feeling that if discovered is even better than life. Not death. Peaceful existence. Now coming to the ontological argument. The speaker said it is a bad argument but I beg to differ. Why? Ontological argument says that the supreme being exists because one of us has to be supreme. I mean why not? If there are all pencils, one will be bigger than others, even if it's all same, patterns do break. Okay maybe not the best arguments. The cosmological argument comes into picture. If something happens it always has a cause. Meaningless life is not what we live. It's cause and effect. If there is a watch there is a watchmaker, and if questions arise who made the watchmaker? Well nothingness would have been better? Then we would not have had this conversation in the first place. In Hinduism it is said actually we all are one not different. One soul. One being. One universe. Then it broke (scientifically big bang) and other atoms and participles were created. God is never bored or has questions where he came from. Because primeval energy or universe always existed. We are conscious of reality is the proof in itself. The universe is aware that it exists. And hence it does not question why and how because existence in itself is beautiful. If you say why god broke into so many participles, because he wanted to play. All of it is a game. He is aware also unaware. He is concerned also unconcerned. So yes we exist because he exists, he exists because nothingness is not the truth. Supreme reality is meant to exist. And non existence is a lie. When we die we return as matter of energy. After all we are bundles of energy and we return back to the universe where we came from who knows the greater scheme of things? God doesn't have be even called god or doesn't even have to be human form it's an infinite source of energy which could create anything and everything out of nothing. Even himself. Because he willed so. And when you yourself are the universe manifestation is very much possible. And this beautiful world is not mediocre. It's elegant. Every creation has its scars. Death, decay, imperfection, struggle, pain all of it is a part which makes life up. Reality is a very small box and we are confined to it. The supreme reality is far hidden from our eyes. But whatever we can see, hear, sense, feel, think is enough. Because I do agree with the speaker on some points- even if there was nothing we wouldn't have been satisfied, we exist that's all that matters not why not how, we have actually won the cosmic lottery and we get to think live and perceive the world because we have won. Yes everything exists in our mind in our consciousness it's nothing but a trickery, actual simple truth is hidden in plain sight. Yes I am a believer so I gave my point of view. Felt like sharing also to calm my intrusive thoughts. If it helps anyone great. If you stick to atheist or science it's fine. But it is undeniable that science explains little, and it couldn't prove the non existence of God either, there is no harm in believing if the thoughts comfort you. I know how troublesome these thoughts can get. So reining our mind not letting it run wild is the main motto. And my explanations I hope is not just religion but also scientific. The question is futile but our existence is not. We should focus on living. Nihilism and other factors are always going to be there. Whenever we feel what is the point of it all we can remind us how miraculous it is to exist and how lucky we are to win this genetic lottery

[@ferrishadaway1322]

jesus christ you are pretentious

[@male20yearsold]

help me.. this science thing.. theory of everything, quantum mechanic... wolfram Boltzmann brain, nihilism, well nearly everything.. im drowned in it and existential crisis are consuming me, do you know or at least have some thought on how to gain back all the meaning and purpose that we lost because of..these science truth seeking?

[@Novachrono3]

@@male20yearsold ben de tam olarak bu durumdayım. Hayatın hiçbir anlamı olmayacağını düşünüyorum ve bu beni korkutuyor. Albert Camus hayatın anlamsız olduğunu söylüyor. Hayatın anlamsız olmasıyla yaşamaya değer olması arasında farklar olduğunu da belirtiyor.

[@seephor]

I believe what we see as the "universe" is just the ceiling of our understanding just as an ant seeing headlights will never understand what headlights are but they can observe it. We observe something that is beyond our intelligence and no amount of studying will ever reveal what it is just like a million years from now an ant will never know what those headlights are and dogs will never know why we bathe them. They experience it but can never understanding the reason behind it. We can never understand the reason behind the universe.

[@ianodonoghue3786]

@@male20yearsold I was going through something similar. What helped me was the buddhist view on non-attachment. Which would also mean Non-attachment to our thoughts and our world views. If we are consumed by our thoughts and we run around looking for answers, we will just drive ourselves crazy. The point for me now is just to observe and experience, rather than to constant question. I am not in the most articulate mood today. But, in essence: Non-Attachment

[@Rydonittelo]

We are not in the universe, we are the universe. We are the universes ability to understand and express itself. Divinity or no divinity, both are possibilities are astonishing in their own way .

[@tracesprite6078]

Yes, I agree ... we are one of the brains of the universe. It may have other thinking centres, too, but we haven't come across them yet.

[@trueuniv4333]

Yes, we are part of universe. Universe is created by nothing/blank. So it proved God is nothing/blank. We should pray from blank that we don't know. That is why mysterious exist in the universe.

[@dheera8889]

Shankaracharya?

[@limitededition1053]

@@tracesprite6078 Another way to put it, the universe only exists because of us.

[@tracesprite6078]

@@trueuniv4333 We haven't proven that the universe is creating by nothing. We suppose that it might be so. On the other hand, there may be other possibilities that we haven't been able to imagine yet.

[@nerdsuper1514]

No one: Universe: exists.

[@benflood1077]

Me in the future but also in the present at the time of my death: *am I a joke to you?*

[@harryferrett9420]

None of you 11 year olds are funny

[@benflood1077]

@@harryferrett9420 you must be very humourous then :)

[@blackmamba5133]

This is the perfect use of this joke.

[@ianburns6218]

@@harryferrett9420 you're 12 year old, that's pretty good for a duck

[@reptilev8625]

This 17 minute video is the longest "I don't know" I've ever seen

[@jimtruscott5670]

There is no necessity to ask the question,” Why does anything exist?”

[@BrettBtv]

Intellectuals...

[@devonlarrnt4041]

Ah i found right comment to describe what i feel

[@antiquarian1773]

Did you expect him to solve the meaning of the universe? lol

[@SKT3109]

Welcome to Philosophy

[@petejames1326]

17min of my precious life i will never get back

[@nikitabhagat5716]

His elegance in accepting the fact, after going through a rollercoaster of different possibilities, we still can't come to a conclusion and pulling out the cell phone joke😂>>>>>>>>>>>>

[@Boris194786]

If we are part of the universe, thinking about how it works it's like the universe studying itself.

[@grocket6561]

Your statement is so altering in terms of way of thinking... Thanks..

[@someshwartripathi8446]

You studying biology is a group of cells trying to understand itself

[@flxckos]

you are the universe experiencing itself

[@kevinp4092]

You are Creator experiencing Your Own Creation

[@ankitSharma-uo6zf]

exactly you got this...... we are the universe experiencing itself through human form,

[@MarkJones-gt2qd]

"Even if there was nothing, you still wouldn't be satisfied.." .. I'm happy this guy exists!

[@cbastnagel]

I didn’t agree with a lot of what he said but I loved how he said it and it was really thought-provoking

[@b.w.1386]

@@cbastnagel agree. have you seen anything else he spoke at? he has a good energy and repertoire.

[@TeaParty1776]

As Heidegger asked, "What kind of nothing?" Of course, he talked to elves in the Black Forest.

[@shj03ye9eej9]

Certainly even today, what percent of the oceans have been discovered? In fact, the pyramids turned out to be 12500 years old, they are all over the world, and states are preventing some of them from being discovered for some reason 🤔🤔

[@mikeharper3784]

The value of “nothing” can only be appreciated when we look and see and realize what you learned from listening to this talk.

[@arep1030]

Truly fascinating. How can he live without owning a cell phone?

[@stoneysdead689]

It should be isolated and studied, immediately- shaved a sterilized until we understand.

[@billfarley9015]

In the same way that humans lived without them for almost all of human history.

[@march8482]

Yeah, all the things you can do with a cell phone nowadays. You make it pretty hard on yourself, but I respect the willpower.

[@YouTuber-mc2el]

A millennial, living a "mediocre" life, I would argue has experienced as much positivity as negativity from a cell phone.

[@Ballistixwear]

This guy is talking exactly what I think when I’m stoned.

[@kushlandtooclean1539]

Me too homie

[@ketchup5344]

Pass that blunt over here dude

[@blanco7726]

I swear I’ve tried explaining nothingness to my homies at least a dozen times when we’re high, not sure if its too complex, if my stoned self is just incomprehensible or maybe both

[@blanco7726]

Shaun Bishop in Germany you are considered an Ehrenmann, google it. Safe bro

[@Astral_Wave]

@Shaun Bishop most people do this when high on weed and hallucinogens

[@boringproductions]

Universe: *exists* Humans: "Why you gotta do us like that!?"

[@BradWatsonMiami]

This Universe exists because it's our playground. == The Conglomerate - Universe Creation Theory (combining GOD/Nature, Ancient Religions, Physics, Cosmology, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory, Chemistry, Biology & Mysticism)== "Energy can't be created or destroyed in an isolated system. 'The BIG Bang-Bit Bang' inflation/ expansion of energy and information into the void 13.8 billion years ago was a supermassive white hole spawned by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in our 'parent universe'. This duality combines general relativity’s singularities of infinite density in a ‘Cosmic Egg’ birth of this and all baby universes within 'The Conglomerate': multiverse without random bubble universes and parallel worlds. 'In the beginning', the Planck density of the core of a SBH acts as a birth canal. 'Quantum bubble SBH-SWH seed transitions' are 'quantum tunneling umbilical wormholes' with energy-matter and data transformed/transferred, albeit scrambled and encoded. Our Universe is 1-in-2 trillion 'self-similar offspring' each with the same inherited physical laws (‘DNA’). The ubiquitous cause-and-effect 'circle of life cycle': birth-life-death-transformation-rebirth explains infinite space and eternity - a requirement. Reproduction is GOD/Nature’s simple plan to greatly spread life for everything from cells to universes." - Seal #1a of the "7 Seals" revealed as 'Beyond Einstein Theories'; see 7seals.blogspot.com . This has triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation.

[@explicitreverberation9826]

@@BradWatsonMiami why do I understand this.......thats absolutely absolutely astonishingly familiar to be correct.. but how do we get to the next level

[@The431047]

😂 😂 😂

[@seethelight657]

(God’s Signs 🪧) God said it first in the “Quran” before 1400 years for disbelievers. { And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.} “This verse talking about Space expansion” Also, another one… { Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe? } “This verse talking about the Big Bang” { So are you a Thinker ? }

[@mikeharrison4846]

No way we can know what existed before nothing ..

[@manhcuong9185]

That's just mind-blowing. Different laws create different realities and they all exist beside each other. So now, I'm happy to live in a regular reality

[@petejames1326]

the odds that our universe exists i have seen a doco that showed it was like 0.00000001% chance that our universe exists, now that prove god? of course not? its like playing the lotto, if you play every week eventually in 100,000yrs, you will win, even though you will be long dead, its like mother nature kept trying and trying trillions of times to create a universe, and finally it happened after trillions of yrs, and here we are, so it wasent god, if it was god he would have done it on the first go wouldnt he, lol, the 0.0000001% chance our universe exists proves that god dosent exist because we are told god i perfect right? well, why would a perfect god need trillions of goes in creating our universe, lol, get it, wouldnt he get it right on the first go? it just shows its all about maths and numbers

[@mauriannamorcom2213]

I was in this!

[@chetsenior7253]

All reality is regular, as it just the name we give our experience.

[@ThePremel]

You just said thé Magic word.... Éducation and religion créat belief systèmes...

[@serulu3490]

For me this question is really simple, it's the same question as "why do humans exist?" The answer is natural selection, humans exist because being like humans survive the best. Universe exists because when things don't exist, it will not survive and not exist. But when it exists, it will survive and exist

[@zombineutral]

I've had an out of body experience trying to contemplate how something came from nothing and how we are here because of it

[@mahlohonololebuso741]

Bruh. And how that nothing came about in the first place 🤔

[@douglasrowland3722]

Too much synchronicity...too much co-ordination....too much Human Life for it to be a Big-Bang co-incident. How is it that our Ecosystem is JUST PERFECT for the sustaining of ''life''.....BY COINCIDENCE??????

[@gastonemoschin4337]

@@douglasrowland3722 it isn't perfect. but in the everexistence of the universe, all chance must be fulfilled. We are chance, and we are beautiful m8

[@echoe4806]

@@douglasrowland3722 It could be .Yes.

[@Humanbeering]

Nice mushrooms 😊

[@salamaltamimi]

"Never in my life have i had a cell phone", totally more astonishing than the answer to the universe.

[@letmesee359]

@@BradWatsonMiami 😳😳😳

[@jefrodad]

Not necessarily, you can use an iPad to do pretty much anything a cell phone does.

[@V1V2v]

Some foolish men declare that Creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill-advised, and should be rejected. If god created the world, where was he before creation? If you say he was transcendent then, and needed no support, where is he now? No single being had the skill to make the world - for how can an immaterial god create that which is material? How could god have made the world without any raw material? If you say he made this first, and then the world, you are face with an endless regression. If you declare that the raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy, for the whole universe might thus have been its own creator, and have risen equally naturally. If god created the world by an act of will, without any raw material, then it is just his will and nothing else and who will believe this silly stuff? If he is ever perfect, and complete, how could the will to create have arisen in him? If, on the other hand, he is not perfect, he could no more create the universe than a potter could. If he is formless, actionless, and all-embracing, how could he have created the world? Such a soul, devoid of all modality, would have no desire to create anything. If you say that he created to no purpose, because it was his nature to do so then god is pointless. If he created in some kind of sport, it was the sport of a foolish child, leading to trouble. If he created out of love for living things and need of them he made the world; why did he not make creation wholly blissful, free from misfortune? Thus the doctrine that the world was created by god makes no sense at all.

[@jefrodad]

@@V1V2v We are stuck in the time domain, and therefore none of this makes any sense to us. Suffice to say that with how little we understand of the universe, it would be arrogant to assume that there is no God.

[@Meowbay]

It does explain how he still doesn't know why we exist. ;)

[@frankthebeing]

A major flaw in this presentation: Everything he says hinges on the belief that the human brain is capable of understanding truths about reality beyond the individual brain's subjective experience. This is a dubious belief for anyone who believes the human mind evolved for the sole task of survival which has no necessary connection to understanding objective reality.

[@matthewmullin9673]

Frank Canepa Well if the human mind evolved to exist in an objective reality then wouldn't it be a harmful trait for human's to have not developed to logically interpret reality?

[@frankthebeing]

I suppose you would have to argue that our minds evolved to be a part of objectivity. But considering the sole reason for evolution in a naturalist model is adaptability it's hard for me to see why objectivity is a likely outcome.

[@frankthebeing]

Edit: adaptability in terms of survival and reproductive I mean.

[@frankthebeing]

***** My knowledge of the source of this argument is from Alvin Plantinga, a philosophy professor. Here is a link to a summary of this argument that he did, you may find it more compelling (or not) than my two sentence version: www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_alvin/an_evolutionary_argument_against_naturalism.pdf

[@matthewmullin9673]

Frank Canepa Oh, I'm not arguing that humans have perfectly developed to understand the objective world. I was talking about humans' ability to reason relatively well, and how their subjective experience should reflect objective reality because it would probably be helpful for survival : www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1yp2k0/how_do_we_know_that_our_logic_is_true/

[@jerometaperman7102]

I have always thought that science doesn't usually concern itself with why. It's more about how.

[@creativitycell]

Understanding Creativity and Consciousness is the key, as it seems to me these two elements of human behaviour are not really needed for pure biological evolution and pro creation, they seem added special extras; and if we are a part and reflection of the Universe then unlocking these two mysteries could unlock greater answers. I find it fascinating that their is no real complete understanding of either, just generalized explanations.🙏

[@midianpoet]

Exactly.Yes.There is definitely something.

[@march8482]

They were needed, otherwise we wouldn't have had them.

[@krisanctil794]

This was generally about Quantum Fluctuations, not about creativity or humans in general. Check out some Brian Greene videos on Quantum Physics, it'll blow your mind.

[@raya4801]

Absolutely. Absolutely. Beautiful ❤️

[@DaveTAM]

Einstein opined, “it would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning-as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

[@drop0112]

Well said. Reality is primary in relation to its understanding. This applies to both God and man. God does not know everything, but he can know everything that he wants. If he knew everything, then there would be no place for his creative work, but he is a creative person. Moreover, God cannot do absolutely everything, but he can do everything that he wants, because he is blessed God.

[@iamasmodai]

Got any proof your god exists outside of your skull?

[@henryrobinson3820]

iasmasmodai --The proof for God is in the depth of artistry in addition to the functionality of symbiosis systems of energy, life, and chemical reactions. These could not exist together harmoniously without a 3 dimensional designer.

[@iamasmodai]

Uh, no.

[@technolus5742]

Henry Robinson So far no evidence of god (much less "proof") in any such functionality. Those assertions invariably amount to nothing more than an argument from ignorance, which is why similar claims were made in the past were eventually shown to be misguided.

[@whytho9350]

The universe: **exists** Philosophers: *hmm..*

[@whytho9350]

@@joshualaird6167 it's okay for two people to have the same name on KZbin There is a relatively big channel named Jesus Christ

[@igoraraujo7451]

@@whytho9350 those are not the real nicknames, the names that shows up on the comments are like a "mask"

[@BradWatsonMiami]

This Universe exists because it's our playground. == The Conglomerate - Universe Creation Theory (combining GOD/Nature, Ancient Religions, Physics, Cosmology, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory, Chemistry, Biology & Mysticism)== "Energy can't be created or destroyed in an isolated system. 'The BIG Bang-Bit Bang' inflation/ expansion of energy and information into the void 13.8 billion years ago was a supermassive white hole spawned by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in our 'parent universe'. This duality combines general relativity’s singularities of infinite density in a ‘Cosmic Egg’ birth of this and all baby universes within 'The Conglomerate': multiverse without random bubble universes and parallel worlds. 'In the beginning', the Planck density of the core of a SBH acts as a birth canal. 'Quantum bubble SBH-SWH seed transitions' are 'quantum tunneling umbilical wormholes' with energy-matter and data transformed/transferred, albeit scrambled and encoded. Our Universe is 1-in-2 trillion 'self-similar offspring' each with the same inherited physical laws (‘DNA’). The ubiquitous cause-and-effect 'circle of life cycle': birth-life-death-transformation-rebirth explains infinite space and eternity - a requirement. Reproduction is GOD/Nature’s simple plan to greatly spread life for everything from cells to universes." - Seal #1a of the "7 Seals" revealed as 'Beyond Einstein Theories'; see 7seals.blogspot.com . This has triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation.

[@wetstinkysocks490]

KZbin: *exists* Commenters: hmmm

[@seethelight657]

Seek the truth with a mind that thinks in 3 minutes and don’t be ignorant cause if you think a little bit, everything have a purpose except us and why we’re here?? just to have fun and grow old drinking beer common!! * There must be a stronger entity and it is not a coincidence. Look what god said and you will know the truth, he said * (( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) See by your self :- God said: 1- ( And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me ) 2- ( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.") 3- ( Indeed, these [disbelievers] love the immediate [ life ] and leave behind them a grave Day.) 4- And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming. 5- (We had certainly brought you the truth, but most of you, to the truth, were averse.) If you reached here and you didn’t believe that’s for you, god said: ( Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah? Then will you not be reminded? ) God may guide you that’s Quran....

[@Zar_Art]

I was just thinking these thoughts this morning. Strange that this video showed up in the search engine because I didn't type it in or look for it.

[@lopiklop]

7:10 I gain immediate respect. I have been waiting so long for someone to shout this from a stage! It feels like I live in a land blind. Keep asking why until you can no longer ask why.

[@nytemaire4561]

I feel like watching speeches improves your vocabulary and overall your speaking

[@lowlowseesee]

only if you go speak and fail and speak and fail and so on. lot of success in that

[@opst1704]

They also have subs in many different languages!

[@FallenLight0]

Here the new words I learned in this TED Talk: Purported, Thrall, Variegated, Clout, Ontic, Encompasses, Pious, Coupling, Crummy, Deity, Frothing, Wag.

[@dras227]

@@FallenLight0 nice

[@retro2vr]

me not

[@nightrider6136]

With all the open questions left, this talk was deeply satisfying.

[@rosiesaikaly1178]

I wanna hear him talk more

[@scammbledeggs2707]

Odly satisfying to think about while also filling me with extreme amounts of existential dread all at the same time

[@jlwolfe2112]

Excellent presentation. Hilarious and entertaining 🤣 I can't get enough.

[@lukemcguire6363]

Some people are satisfied to ask questions and to wonder. It's all we can do with questions like these. If you think you know the answers it just proves you're stupid lol

[@BradWatsonMiami]

This Universe exists because it's our playground. == The Conglomerate - Universe Creation Theory (combining GOD/Nature, Ancient Religions, Physics, Cosmology, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory, Chemistry, Biology & Mysticism)== "Energy can't be created or destroyed in an isolated system. 'The BIG Bang-Bit Bang' inflation/ expansion of energy and information into the void 13.8 billion years ago was a supermassive white hole spawned by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in our 'parent universe'. This duality combines general relativity’s singularities of infinite density in a ‘Cosmic Egg’ birth of this and all baby universes within 'The Conglomerate': multiverse without random bubble universes and parallel worlds. 'In the beginning', the Planck density of the core of a SBH acts as a birth canal. 'Quantum bubble SBH-SWH seed transitions' are 'quantum tunneling umbilical wormholes' with energy-matter and data transformed/transferred, albeit scrambled and encoded. Our Universe is 1-in-2 trillion 'self-similar offspring' each with the same inherited physical laws (‘DNA’). The ubiquitous cause-and-effect 'circle of life cycle': birth-life-death-transformation-rebirth explains infinite space and eternity - a requirement. Reproduction is GOD/Nature’s simple plan to greatly spread life for everything from cells to universes." - Seal #1a of the "7 Seals" revealed as 'Beyond Einstein Theories'; see 7seals.blogspot.com . This has triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation.

[@WaterproofSoap]

It is equally as easy to answer the question of why we continue to ask why in light of bounded rationality, as it is to answer why the universe exists. I wonder now, 7 years since this talk was posted on KZbin, what the newly active James Webb Space Telescope will reveal that tempers this question, or draws new previously imponderable aspects.

[@DrUdaiSSingh]

I read his book on this subject and at the end it has the same answer, " We don't know'. Well, thanks Jim from a former NYUMC faculty. I expected more.

[@kawachadinkdong5139]

Thinking about this stuff gives me the same feeling as death, activates fight or flight and makes my chest and body seize up.

[@michaelyu2744]

when the essay has a word limit so you stretch 'we don't know' to over 17 minutes

[@moonaa4495]

✌🏼

[@chandrashekharvk5765]

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[@ChrisZybeZ]

If you're smart enough you will realize that you are not smart enough to comprehend, it's like asking a bacteria why it's in a human body, it just doesn't know.

[@BradWatsonMiami]

This Universe exists because it's our playground. == The Conglomerate - Universe Creation Theory (combining GOD/Nature, Ancient Religions, Physics, Cosmology, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory, Chemistry, Biology & Mysticism)== "Energy can't be created or destroyed in an isolated system. 'The BIG Bang-Bit Bang' inflation/ expansion of energy and information into the void 13.8 billion years ago was a supermassive white hole spawned by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in our 'parent universe'. This duality combines general relativity’s singularities of infinite density in a ‘Cosmic Egg’ birth of this and all baby universes within 'The Conglomerate': multiverse without random bubble universes and parallel worlds. 'In the beginning', the Planck density of the core of a SBH acts as a birth canal. 'Quantum bubble SBH-SWH seed transitions' are 'quantum tunneling umbilical wormholes' with energy-matter and data transformed/transferred, albeit scrambled and encoded. Our Universe is 1-in-2 trillion 'self-similar offspring' each with the same inherited physical laws (‘DNA’). The ubiquitous cause-and-effect 'circle of life cycle': birth-life-death-transformation-rebirth explains infinite space and eternity - a requirement. Reproduction is GOD/Nature’s simple plan to greatly spread life for everything from cells to universes." - Seal #1a of the "7 Seals" revealed as 'Beyond Einstein Theories'; see 7seals.blogspot.com . This has triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation.

[@thiagodossantos2884]

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[@thekkl]

Spoiler alert: He never says anything about why things exist.

[@mastertheillusion]

***** There is no requirement of a why for existence. There is clearly a how.

[@thekkl]

mastertheillusion First off that's the same thing. Second, the title of this video says why.

[@ClaudiaShifferLA]

***** He doesn't has the answer, just loose talk.

[@myAutoGen]

***** Actually it's worse. After explaining the shortcomings of previous attempts to answer the great mystery, he then props up the multiverse theory, which has all of the same problems. The multiverse theory provides an answer to 'why is it this specific way?', but it does nothing to explain why anything exists in the first place.

[@AndyRosebrookHuman]

myAutoGen It's uncomfortably possible that humans will never be able to know the answer to that, it's also possible that logic and reason has no utility at that point, and there is no answer. Think about how humans discovered the big bang. If human civilization had come about 10+ billion years in the future, the cosmic background radiation not only wouldn't be detectable(makes you happy to live in a time and civilization where we can at least learn THAT much), but the exponential expansion of the universe would have made it impossible to even see other stars and galaxies. That civilization might grow up thinking they had the only star in existence, oblivious to all of the wonders of our current universe or it's origins.

[@andyyygane4713]

Cool guy! I liked his "definition" of purpose: making the nice bits larger

[@marlieeasley830]

😂 the reason he writes off in the beginning is it. The ontological argument is a good one! God would never ask "where" time and space are illusory!

[@martinsrozenbergs9692]

Knowledge about the lack of knowledge is still useful to know.

[@hankigoe5389]

Ciertamente, tal como la teoría de lo incompleto de Gödel demuestra.

[@tree-huggersans-cur4371]

KnowledgeSeeker Perhaps you prefer to see it as a simulation because you don't sit well with the real one

[@ronmitchell571]

Consciousness of all consciousness is conscious

[@SirThomasJames]

Why is everone laughing all the time? This is THE philosophical question, if you go in your room for a few hours, think about meaning of life, death, existance, aynthing, and think about it long enough, you will be struck by this, as in you receive a blow, and suddenly you wonder: Why is there anything at all? It's so weird and mysterious.. And this is super interesting and entertaining on its own, not everything has to be laughed at to be good. I think the guy even added some jokes because the audience clearly wanted it, instead of just trying to understand his deep wonder...

[@Danzka354]

Yes, only a few are disturbed by those questions, I am and it's quite scary as it is a kind of obsession for me, but i've come to realize that maybe we should not question existence... Language has its limits and cannot understand this existence. Imagine if suddenly we had the answer, what will we do about it? It doesn't change anything, we'd still be humans and we'd still be mortals! We feel that we are alive, why question it? Feeling our existence should be our only truth, existential questions should be put aside, and we should just live, like we always did and always will till the end of the human race... to stop questionning our existence would probably reduce the pain of existence, no more god, no more ideals, just a plain truth, this present moment...

[@skipeveryday7282]

SirThomasJames Lately my head has been really fried by the concept that we are all one. I fear having to live all those horrifically painful lives. My fallable human mind can't take it.

[@laplacesdemon82]

SirThomasJames why shouldn't be something rather than nothing???

[@Ayelis]

Because you can say 'what created it' until the cows come home. But what are cows? And what is home? Most of the things we can see have a beginning, before which they do not exist. Why should the universe be any different? And what is the universe if not 'all that exists'? And before 'all that exists' exists, what can exist besides nothing? So how did nothingness create the first thing? And do things really 'exist' anyways, if they are 99.99~9% empty space and 0.00~1% energy? What even is energy, besides a wavelength, vacillating between +1 and -1?

[@missanorajjohnthattil8526]

Ayelis There is no such thing as an empty space and the most objects around us gains its mass by the energy in it and energy is nothing other than excitement of particles.

[@kaimys]

This talk gets better every year like a good wine?

[@altomodilwane7881]

I was in grade 4 when i have started questioning myself about this. Its so scary and stressful until today.

[@Herzankerkreuz67]

I shall call myself a fool for thinking I can find the answer on KZbin........

[@allmendoubt4784]

It's all over youtube - hang on in there...

[@Gam3B0y23r0]

you are a fool! if you think, you can find some definitive answer. humans have not evolved enough to have answers to such tings yet.

[@olliveraira6122]

+Gam3B0y The day we do we probably aren't in human form anymore...

[@MekkaMehamedi]

andree hammerschmidt Universe's expansion also mentioned in Quran 1400 years ago from a illiterate man whom grew up in a dessert name Muhammed. He is the final messenger from ☝🏾 God after Abraham, Moses (Musa), and Jesus (Isa)

[@SpanishFluency]

The Quran is the Answer! "I'm No telling you to become muslim" ... Just Read the quran and u will get it.

[@akumabito2008]

Why assume everything came from nothing? We know things exist. We do not know a thing about non-existence. We don't even know if it is at all possible to have absolute nothingness - no matter, no energy, no time, no dimensions, etc. We have absolutely no clue if such a state is even possible.

[@jbetteridge23]

Interesting thoughts

[@AQWoy]

I like this, a perpetual state of existence. If you think of time as circular as opposed to linear this makes sense. Thanks for this comment you just open opened my mind even more.

[@ihavenousernamelol2]

you mean existence don't need to have a beginning? thats a lot harder to comprehend compare to non-existence

[@AQWoy]

Of course it is, but I think that's because our minds are so wired to think that everything has a beginning that it's difficult to imagine otherwise.

[@IntricationZ]

We have not assumed anything. The big bang did bring forth the universe 13.7 billion years ago. By saying that all this is an assumption would be to discredit all the peer-reviewed studies and research done on it.

[@aaryagandre4740]

I think this is the fastest anyone has ever captured the audience's attention in an opening line

[@randyfarnsworth7825]

The key to existing is understanding death is really normal. Everything dies.. change dies to evolve and things become more interesting.

[@soybeanlegs1987]

No one: “Why does the Universe exist?” Audience: *immediately laughs*

[@gabeheartz13saravia97]

So in conclusion, The Universe: either a fragment of or what we “know” As the physical reality. The Multiverse: A Meta Reality containing multiple realities. The Omniverse: The totality of Reality

[@soybeanlegs1987]

Gabe Saravia it’s so cool tbh...

[@gabeheartz13saravia97]

I’m glad you think that way

[@anthonycallender6492]

and the universe responds: Am I a joke to you??

[@slightkek]

Can someone explain ?? I don’t understand why it makes people laugh /:

[@zenborder]

----"Why is there something rather than nothing? " ----"Oh, even if there was nothing, you still wouldn't be satisfied."

[@grattata4364]

Yes and no. I wouldn't possess the ability to feel unsatisfied in the first place, because there would be no "i". There would be no expectations on anything at all, total freedom from the burdens that comes with existing.

[@lukemcguire6363]

Still there are people that are saying he didnt say anything funny. That's funny and it's a joke. It wasnt meant to be taken literally...guy above this comment

[@grattata4364]

@@lukemcguire6363 Yeah my bad, sorry for being a thickhead

[@kodyamour6330]

@@grattata4364 You mentioned that you would not possess the ability to... (so on and so on). You are making a claim about what would be true if nothing were true. Where does that claim exist in a reality of nothing?

[@grattata4364]

@@kodyamour6330 It's purely my own assumption based on the human concept of what true nothingness would mean.

[@TheHaratashi]

Was the entire audience drunk? As soon as he asked why does the universe exist everyone started laughing.

[@oscargr_]

Very likely conditioned by what was said before the recording started.

[@doclaaudio3184]

Very good !!!!

[@student6830]

I come to this side of KZbin when I want to procrastinate but not feel like I'm procrastinating.

[@Orca_Orcinus]

Same 😂

[@markburch6253]

I try to put off procrastinating for later

[@johnbroomhead1039]

Ha ha ha I do when I want to fall asleep very effective

[@captainwill3796]

Yes, I used to be indecisive about procrastinating but now I'm just not sure.

[@johnbroomhead1039]

@@captainwill3796 ha ha ha

[@jmckinney149]

He could have just said he doesn’t know.

[@nollaf126]

He did. And he explained why he doesn't know. He answered the question, it just clearly wasn't what the majority of commenters were hoping to hear. Most people seem to have expected an answer other than, "I don't know." It's simply a dissatisfying answer. It seems obvious that people read the question and came to the video expecting some form of answer, and discount that "I don't know" is a completely valid - and I believe the only possible - answer.

[@jamesanthony5681]

@@nollaf126 Nobody really knows how the universe came into being, that is, how something came from nothing. However, a number of physicists have posited theories,. yet unproven. At least give us something.

[@wellardbr]

@@jamesanthony5681 The bigger point is that we are here, talking about this: where did this all came from? The fact that we humans exist, as part of a vast (albeit dwindling) collection of carbon-based life points back to questions like 'why are our universe's physical constants which science has been determining what they are?'. Why is carbon such a badass building block for organic strings?

[@robraider3149]

humans give cause to a universe, we have the self reflecting capabilities to bring about the universe as we see it, which ultimately is the final evolutionary stage nature, ie consciousness

[@robraider3149]

no such thing as experiencing nothing. also it should be no thing as nothing by itself can exist

[@izzydawiz7486]

What remains when we strip all possible forms of identifiableness from an object? Is existence a little less existing when that object doesn't exist any longer? Is existence itself only present in identifiable forms? Could being in it's purest form be formless?

[@Cosmic_glimmer]

Watching this for communication assignment . Hope this would help. 🙏🏻

[@Ben-rz3cw]

Plot twist: This ted talk is actually a metaphor of the universe symbolizing that it exists just to exist, serving for nothing, just like this talk.

[@justsam7919]

I have a cell phone.

[@jasehonfroy5343]

That's sad asf

[@jasehonfroy5343]

@@justsam7919 is that a meme or a joke q vine cuz i dont get ur comment

[@ASTROALL]

He is trying to prove his existence .

[@chanceDdog2009]

@@ASTROALL he thinks, therefore he is

[@alexullrich5694]

I love these sorts of talks, we’ve grown so accustomed to people just saying facts instead of leaving us with more questions. And given the choice, I prefer the latter almost every time.

[@originalunoriginal4055]

If I am going to watch a content that consists of simply.... a guy talking for 15 minutes straight and by the time his speech/video comes to end..... I would then prefer my knowledge being improved and feel that ever slightly more educated in the subject matter! Of which, I spent the last 15 minutes (out of my 10 waking hours ) processing and make a decision on what to do with the particular information! But, to come away with increased knowledge of the subject matter that was being presented, it goes without saying that, the newly attained information will raise the need for additional intel... This is a natural phenomena that occurs in the human mind. For example, you see an ad on tv of a supermarket promoting it's "Special Discount Week" campaign... Subconciously, in your head you'll say to yourself: " what's on offer" " How much can I save" "Do i have any money to spend" etc etc. The point is any information we view, our minds will always respond with questions!

[@lynnfisher3037]

Name just ONE fact if matter does not exist. You can't

[@gbrowboat]

@@originalunoriginal4055 aaaaaaaaa

[@kennethbransford820]

@@lynnfisher3037 ====== Universe is a first cause event. Something had to start the universe. E=mc2 is testament to that. Since energy and mass are the same thing and interchangeable. Where did the energy for our universe come from, that latter became mass ergo here we are. Even the laws for physics and chemistry came from the big bang, a first cause event. Even the fine tuning of the universe, with its existing and specific sets of individual laws and equations of physics and chemistry, that is right now giving us our current universe with 18 different parameters for each sets of different strengths and weaknesses in particles, like how strong or how weak gravity is, if changed to a millionth of one percent in strength of weaknesses, we wouldn't be here. This is just one of the fine turned laws out of eighteen in our universe that is needed for out EXISTENCE. This is by DESIGN. Not by an accident. === Evolution = Self Assembling Atoms = Impossible =====

[@TtableWhey]

Yes, we need more questions and less answers.

[@skeptic_al]

I love it. Humorous, but as philosophically valid as every other attempt to answer this question. Too much time is wasted on unfalsifiable answers to unknowable questions.

[@jyotidubey4890]

what a brilliant talk !!!!!

[@webadage]

I can beat his last statement. I'm a 65 year old American male and "Never in my life have I EVER watched a football game." Thank you!

[@alexplastow9496]

Man of good taste, twenty two years going strong on my end

[@brian7897]

@Rich There are more people who watch sports whom also play sports, than people who don't watch sports and play sports. By your logic playing sports is how you become healthy. Therefore the people whom watch sports will be more healthier than people whom do not watch sports. Watching sports on TV has encouraged our youth to exercise for decades. Lets say you got rid of all these famous athletes our kids try to emulate. Do you think they would be running every day trying to get better at some sport, or do you think they would be playing video games?

[@winstonsmith11]

@@brian7897 Well said, Brian. Funny how people can so easily judge what they do not understand.

[@sammifruitbat]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXe8pKqsfNSUhrc

[@johnbarry8553]

I wish families would get together and play together more. Don't get me wrong teams are cool but family playing together and enjoying each other's company well just my opinion. By the way God is good.

[@SeanHaggertyTennis]

I think of this question sometimes and the more you embrace it the trippier it gets

[@jwsanders1214]

trust Jesus , call on him and he will answer

[@LaurensPP]

His book about this subject is an awesome read.

[@wampuwina]

Interesante. La cuestión es como hemos llegado a pensar y a preguntar por lo "exterior" a nosotros mismos, la pregunta fundamental es "porque hemos llegado ser seres que pensamos somo nosotros mismos"; "¿porque existimos?"; esta pregunta es previa a la existencia del universo. La humanidad en este proceso ha creado un super yo externo a si mismo: Dios, por lo cual ha sido como la "i" de los números imaginarios, soluciona uno problemas así como todos los problemas que nuestra conciencia de que existimos plantea. Una buena conferencia, pero en resumen no explica mucho, en todo caso que sabe hablar largo y desarrollar muchas ideas teóricas, que no resuelven la pregunta planteada, quizás por ser una pregunta mal formulada. ¿Por que no podemos vivir en paz, sin guerras?

[@shanay1794]

"Oh.even if there was nothing you still wouldn't be satisfied." That's me

[@earldecker7760]

Shanay- If there was nothing you would not exist so you would never know that you would not be satisified.

[@bretnetherton9273]

"Awareness is known by awareness alone," is the sole irreducible axiom of reality. To put forth a syllable to the contrary is but to concede.

[@jeffreythemeditator]

that is quite a remark bret. curious: is this a quote from someone? I think your comment is excellent.

[@mohammedmostofa1162]

Indeed... Precisely explained.

[@corycg9624]

The most honest answer anyone can give is I don’t know it’s good to have an open mind to have our beliefs and theories but the fact is nobody really knows.

[@glenndouglas8822]

Thinking this will send you mental, we are not supposed to know yet, I feel we will find out once our bodies are gone and we are one with everything.

[@lisaschuster9187]

Tiger gotta hunt, bird gotta fly. Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why? Tiger gotta rest, bird gotta land. Man gotta think that he understand. -Kurt Vonnegut

[@questioneverything8301]

simple answer. there is no universe, it doesnt excist.

[@ImmortalFabrizio]

@@questioneverything8301 If it doesn't exist you'r saying the nothing exist, and nothing by definition is nothing.

[@questioneverything8301]

@@ImmortalFabrizio above us is the sky, above that is the firmiment, the dome, above that is heaven where God is. the world is flat. there is no space. man as never been to space. nothing can go higher thn low earth orbit. nothing can break through the dome. there are waters above.

[@ImmortalFabrizio]

@@questioneverything8301 LOL trying to spread disinformation to confuse people to make them not to have real awakening like if with that you'r going to stop the rise in consciousness that's happening hahaha

[@questioneverything8301]

@@ImmortalFabrizio so you seem like one of those cia agents that get paid by you tube to shill on line and spread lies and disinformation. it is too late though the cat is out the bag. people and woken up and can see the truth with their own eyes. look up you might see the real world we live in also. it is shills, nasa, the government, and you tube that spread the lies and disinfo, not I , and they also supress the truth. but then their empire depends on it.

[@davidbaker5180]

He would make a good politician, completely dodging the question LOL

[@lrvogt1257]

Good science is always on the edge of the unknown.

[@fivish]

He had no answer.

[@lrvogt1257]

@@fivish : When discussing anything scientific one simply explains what is known. It doesn't pretend to have answers to everything like religion does. "I don't know" is a far more honest answer than making up a fairy tale.

[@q45ij54q]

@@fivish Because there is no answer to the question of "why". It simply does exist, but humans are constantly trying to assign meaning to things that have no implicit meaning.

[@beenaplumber8379]

​@@lrvogt1257 Discussing science most certainly is not a matter of explaining what is known. That's nearly the opposite of science. There is no place for science among things that are already known. (Think of the difference between a lab and a library.) Science is not knowledge, or a set of knowledge, or a collection of what is known. Science is something you do. It's a process of observation, prediction, testing, collecting data, critically evaluating it, and by doing so, generating new, robust, and shareable knowledge. Scientists are obsessed with what we don't know because science is nothing but a systematic method of learning those things we don't know, at least to a significant likelihood. Science needs the unknown - problems & questions - or it has no function.

[@ldtech5999]

To praise its creator. Guys like this will always seek everything except the huge truth of a greater being who put the earth into existence, vastly proven throughout science and history.

[@Ellier215]

My reality- the only thing i know is true is that there is suffering. Therefore I will use empathy and try to make the place I live in better by helping others not to suffer.

[@tucowept]

Maybe a universe will spring from this talk.

[@TheShattenjager]

I love how a talk is devoted to a single question, and he does not end up even approaching somewhat sort of even touching upon any semblance of an attempted answer.

[@stacyjennings543]

Someone asked me, " what came first, the chicken or the egg " and i said," the universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe ".

[@HerculesCoronaBorealis]

Size is irrelevant due to infinity. We are infinitely small and large all at once. If you look at time a second is infinite. Which would make us infinitely in this moment.

[@ashleysmall2718]

_"...so we don't want to live in that special reality."_ What we want is irrelevant.

[@sergeantpickles4202]

I disagree, what we want is central to how we interpret and perceive our world, if it wasn't important the discussion about the existence of God could have ended long ago...

[@ashleysmall2718]

Grim Reaper Sorry, that was my own fault. What I meant was; what we want is irrelevant to what is true.

[@dynelol]

+Grim Reaper Aaaaaaall our tiiiiiimes have come!

[@BushidoEffect3]

+Ashley Small Auuuuugh my mind! ^_^

[@TheTrueReiniat]

+Ashley Small Dayum, i saw the first comment and I knew this exact comment would follow up.

[@Magicalife]

My english is not enough to explain my feelings about that subject but we will ask that ''why ?'' question forever.

[@sandeep2435]

Agreed.No body will be able to find the mystry of our universe since we , are also part of it

[@ericscaillet2232]

The only mystery is that we choose not to understand it over animalistic pleasures.

[@hudsoncarvalho5766]

The perception we have of nothing is due to the fact that we know the material world. But in the spiritual perspective, there is no space-time and energy. The big question to be answered is: Is it worth living the life that Hitler, Mao Tse Tung and Fidel lived, for example? They had everything and were served by everyone. Will they not have to account to anyone?

[@droidnick]

I'm sick, I'm ill. I'm not long for this world. I'll be leaving behind kids and I'm so sad about that. Goodbye for eternity. I use to be somebody.

[@hkc322]

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein ---we can't solve universe creation problem using universe rules

[@adrianvance556]

Sorry, but I disagree and fail to see that logic.

[@neilmcmahon]

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

[@its_just_roberto]

At least credit that quote.

[@QuantumEntangledSelf]

@@its_just_roberto www.brainyquote.com/quotes/neil_degrasse_tyson_800277

[@neilmcmahon]

@@its_just_roberto my humblest apologies. It was Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

[@wirechair]

Neil McMahon same with God.

[@robertracy6860]

Nothing is under that obligation, but through study we have figured tons of stuff out.

[@juarezcampos9779]

Por um momento, nutri a esperança de poder mudar minha opinião sobre o mundo, imaginando que talvez me deparasse pelo menos com um pequeno indício de verdade enxergável. Ao findar da palestra, depois de absorver toda síntese das mentes mais brilhantes aí disposta, ví-los ser tão perdidos quanto sou, em suas geniais incapacidades em conceber uma idéia concisa e satisfatória sobre como tudo começou. Queria muito ser como alguns que conheço, que levam a vida de maneira tão leve e despreocupada, onde essas volições desconcertantes e frustantes não povoam suas mentes. A mim, ao que parece, isso sempre será um presságio a consumir a existência.

[@droidnick]

I think k the same thing as you. I'm on my way out of this world though. I'm so sad about it.

[@viniloko0100]

Meditação ativa o poder da mente e talvez te traga algum esclarecimento. Procure SOMA breath no youtube, dark retreat tambem é uma opção mas é mais dificil de executar, porém é muito mais poderoso e eu não conheço UMA pessoa que saiu dessa experiencia insatisfeito com o esclarecimento sobre o universo que teve. Você amigo irá ver a verdade...

[@FranciscoMedrano-is9zt]

​@@droidnickDont leave me brother!

[@droidnick]

​@@FranciscoMedrano-is9ztwhere do you live? Roughly

[@FranciscoMedrano-is9zt]

@@droidnick Texas

[@8acenelson]

How can anyone NOT think about how all this got here and what it's all about? All other questions seem minor by comparison. In 2024 is the Theory of Inflation still intact? I like this conclusion, the fact of the universe's existence is the best answer we have to why it exists, like Bertrand Russell says. The mystery seems destined to endure. And LOL-- "we're all secretly mediocre"

[@kyradesj2429]

I’m so high on shrooms right now and this guy gets it

[@daroth7127]

science knows da wae

[@kodyamour6330]

Bro I'm high on weed right now and YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT. HE JUST GETS IT JUST LIKE WE DO.

[@iwonderwhathappensafteryou7881]

@@kodyamour6330 I never touched a drug or anything like that but I think like this everyday

[@ill.phill_]

Broooo..... Same boat homie......

[@seethelight657]

Seek the truth with a mind that thinks in 3 minutes and don’t be ignorant cause if you think a little bit, everything have a purpose except us and why we’re here?? just to have fun and grow old drinking beer common!! * There must be a stronger entity and it is not a coincidence. Look what god said and you will know the truth, he said * (( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) See by your self :- God said: 1- ( And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me ) 2- ( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.") 3- ( Indeed, these [disbelievers] love the immediate [ life ] and leave behind them a grave Day.) 4- And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming. 5- (We had certainly brought you the truth, but most of you, to the truth, were averse.) If you reached here and you didn’t believe that’s for you, god said: ( Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah? Then will you not be reminded? ) God may guide you that’s Quran....

[@zdmuchnelamniejesien]

The comments and the level of entitlement of some people, dear God. Did you really expect the question the most brilliant minds of this world have pondered about for literally thousands of years to be answered in one youtube video?

[@toddinthemiddle]

i haven't even made it half way through the vid. thanks for the spolier, without the alert!

[@squidproquo2241]

@Anita Walczak The answer is in the mind and the conscious of the beholder. Just like you said literally thousands of years perhaps thousands of answers and true ones were given...only if we could understand the answer.

[@zdmuchnelamniejesien]

@Rich very, very true.

[@arleenpalacios7248]

VERY FUNNY! Have you seen this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/h56slGdopLedo5o The Privileged Planet... Here is the answer to the WHY

[@americangal49]

He wasn’t so brilliant. He didn’t even conclude with his opinion! Epitome of laziness!

[@mikemorgan8646]

We were created to love Him. And each other. That’s why the last commandment was to “love each other, like I loved you.”

[@mofire5674]

Just coming here to say the thumbnail looks like a great meme format, especially with the title.

[@nex_1ne]

"Nothing" might be a concept made up by the human mind.

[@somepeep8944]

😳

[@ericscaillet2232]

@Akshay Sharma humans do not 'create' anything but merely observe , copy and transform up against something...the nothing concept is but a response to it.

[@SKT3109]

@UCXIVWlWgMEtYifoX7Y9-1_w get the f*ck outta here

[@lawrencestark4356]

@Akshay Sharma Wouldn't you say that ALL concepts are created by humans?

[@lawrencestark4356]

@@ericscaillet2232 Interesting idea. But I'll ask whether observations, copies and transformations are "created."

[@TestMeatDollSteak]

Managed to comment before the inevitable religious/atheist debate ensues! Whew!

[@dildo3129]

There will be no war if we simply like to work and help the planet heal

[@ItsFinigan]

Very clever presentation

[@FarryEntertainment]

Anyone thought of this: What makes you YOU? If you have brothers and sisters, then why are you not one of your other brothers and sisters? Why are you YOU? If your parents would have never met, would YOU still excists in a nother body? Or would you not excist at all? But if YOU would not have excisted at all, then you would have never known about the universe. So by YOU not knowing about the universe at all, then can we say that you never excisted in the universe or did the universe not excist because you never excisted? Basically, if there wouldnt be any life in the whole universe, none would notice the universe can you say that the universe excists if none is there to notice it? You can take this question even further. So there is none to notice the universe. But what about you only knowing about 10.000 people in your whole life and NOT knowing anything about the other 7 billion? Then that means that those 7 billion people dont excist?

[@spliter88]

"You" is a construct, it's something that that computer in your head decided to call a singular entity when in reality you're a collection of cells, which themselves are a collection of molecules, which are made out of atoms, which are made out of subatomic particles (at least as far as we can tell), (and you are a "cell" of a larger living organism, the earth, even though that concept might sound odd). Your brain simply considers you a singular entity because it's easier for it to process it and distinguish from the environment (newborns don't have that yet for example). What makes you, you is simply convenience, a shortcut your brain has created in order to survive in a non-you environment. There isn't any more "you" than a collection of bricks is a house.

[@seraphimra]

Spliter So do you posit that we are simply biological machines that have learned to cognize the reality that we all share? Or are we holograms of eternal consciousness which has splayed into a myriad of forms, like light through a prism?

[@user-ez5vq9fd2t]

I stopped reading after you started misspelling "exist" continuously.

[@FarryEntertainment]

Cat the Turtle You are right, there are some words that use xc. Im Sorry, I am just a 21 year old student from the Netherlands.

[@FarryEntertainment]

Timothy Kelly I dont think that we are "eternal", because just think of things that happened in the world 2 years before your birth. Your parents experienced them. At that very moment they might or might not believed in God and were also Questioning same things as we do. But where were you? You were not in an "eternal" place. You simply were nowhere.

[@cherrycotapie]

The biggest Why is why the audience is laughing at every word he says

[@arleenpalacios7248]

Good question! lol

[@relativityify]

I think there all pissed up or something

[@marius4iasi]

he's funny.

[@lenient1438]

@StefenF ofcourse, humans can know.. It exists because........... Goodness Gracious :O

[@ahmedalhesiny5365]

to act smart, or make others think they are one of the smart ones, this Ted talk is about people pretending to be smart and other people who act like they understand, no offense but it's just a show and shows made to get money, now Adam's ruin everything that's a show i prefer to watch over these.

[@bethcheckovich6169]

đón chờ những ca khúc tiếp theo của Phúc, càng nghe càng thích giọng ca của Phúc ❤

[@jesseandjan]

Infinity, Infinite. No beginning, no ending. Now just stop and think, just how long did it take for us to get to this point in time? And if we could see the journey that brought us here. what a great surprise or wonder it might be. If after you die there is nothing. Then how could there have ever been anything to begin with? And if infinity has no end, could we appear or be born again? I remember reading something that read! For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Charity= Love; universal benevolence; good will.

[@pulkitgupta4927]

Spoiler Alert: He dont have a cellphone

[@Aliyahsarchive]

I see ur comment everywhere

[@RameshKumar-ru8uk]

@@Aliyahsarchive may be he is from India became his I'd name I am saying thia

[@panthamor]

Nobody can answer why the universe exists, science can only say HOW it has come into existence. Science only deals with how-questions, not intentionality.

[@gootmanboats3864]

Well, you've already ruled out the possibility that everything exists because you've said nobody can answer why the universe exists. If nobody knows the purpose of the universe, then there is no possible way that everything (every possible person) can exist.

[@panthamor]

i don't follow

[@gootmanboats3864]

panthamor If everything exists, then there must be at least one person who knows why the universe exists. But there is no such person, so we must be in a universe where there is at least some absence of something.

[@panthamor]

Okay I get it now :) But there's a fault in your logic, How do you know no such person exists? If everything exists, then there will be infinite worlds where such a person that knows why exists, but also, there will be infinite worlds where such a person doesn't exist. So we have no way of knowing to which kind of infinite world we belong. Pheww, this is heavy stuff.

[@gootmanboats3864]

panthamor Okay. I was misled to believe that when Mr. Holt was discussing the world in which everything exists, he was referring to one universe and not many universes.

[@JJ-mq5bl]

everytime i think about why we exist, it gets my mood worst and bad. thinkin that were living broke and full of depth. i hate life

[@mdmphd]

Fantastic speaker - some heavier concepts that keeps your attention with humor. This is the guy you Want at your next cocktail party.

[@gin36147]

Nice speech, but a bit misunderstanding of Buddhism and the "vacuity" in the Buddhist language. In fact "vacuity" is not precise translation as the concept itself is difficult to explain even in its original language. Apart from that, very inspiring speech.

[@gin36147]

Similar "vacuity" also exist in Taoism, but still not the same as the definition in western world. Has to do with some cultural gap and language difference.

[@JuuisHenrickLe]

Agree. I am about to comment the same thing. Thanks

[@kyoung21b]

Jing Ji - Good point; the view he expresses seems to be based on a misunderstanding (mistranslation...) of the Buddhist notion of emptiness, which specifically does not mean vacuity, and to whatever extent I understand it would better be described as saying that everything lacks independent existence (which is very different than saying that everything lacks existence). Which is not to say that I didn’t appreciate the rest of Holt’s presentation, and I thought his book on the subject was excellent.

[@Dances_With_Skies]

“Why does something exist rather than nothing?” is answered simply by this equation, “1+0=1.” They both exist simultaneously. You just can’t experience the nothing so it’s a mute point. Imagine a dark room then strike a match in it. The darkness vanishes but it’s still there underneath it all. “Why do we exist?” is the right question. Whether a scientist who believes in evolution or a Buddhist who believes we are one with everything or a Christian who believes we came from one God, we all believe in a same single source. There is no doubt that we all live in our own private Idaho’s. That is to say, we each experience the same Oneness from a different point of view. We are but different incarnations of the same thing. We are made of the the thing which we are experiencing. We think we are separate but we aren’t. The proof of this can be explained many different ways but I prefer the more philosophical proof - there is no way to prove that all of this isn’t just for me and me only and everyone knows this without even having considered it. One last question remains. “Who is it who knows this?” Or more properly worded, “Who are You?” The answer? You are the something. You are the nothing. You are the Everything.

[@quinopro]

Oh Neo, one day they need to wake up. To things that go beyond science. It is already happening in fact and also in all my life, the thing you gave here is the highest amongst highest realizations one can have. SEPERETENESS = AN ILLUSION. THEREFORE: does not matter what people think WE ALL COME FROM THE SAME SINGLE STREAM OF THE RIVER. It has been said that why everything exists will remain a cosmic secret for ever. Only the fact that many other ET species exist and been known for ohh a very long time. They have higher conciousness then humans, i wonder which species know the most secrets. Namaste lovyyyyy

[@quinopro]

Truth can be expressed in different ways but will never reach the full truth. Nobody is right and nobody is wrong, the full truth goes beyond words. Beyond death so to say beyond life as we know it.

[@Dances_With_Skies]

The Fandom Menace I can see where you are coming from. Calm water is everything with no discernible difference between its constituent parts until a trough pulls the crest into being, stretching the length of the surface into something more than it was. We usually see the crest and ignore the trough when we see a wave however. This is why I called it “0” but “-1” is probably more accurate. This could also be why black holes are surrounded by so much “stuff.” Calm spacetime becomes something more as it gets stretched.

[@tamarabarnett9869]

Loved it.

[@BigEarRadio]

If at any point I questioned this mans sense of amazing logic, it vanished when he said he had never owned a cell phone. Now that... is a true sign of absolute genius. Not having a cell phone is the first step to being open minded, uninfluenced by dross and entirely open to learning. If you could live without a cellphone you would have a real opportunity to determine if the world exists or not... for yourself.

[@RavenTheMagnificent]

But he must have a computer.

[@BigEarRadio]

@@RavenTheMagnificent I guess so, but anything is okay if you use it as a tool, it's when it becomes an obsession that the rot sets in.