Do Chairs Exist?
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BOOKS:
Metametaphysics (Eds. David Chalmers, David Manley, Ryan Wasserman)
An Introduction to Metametaphysics (Tahko)
Material Beings (Peter Van Inwagen)
Objects and Persons (Trenton Merricks)
Ordinary Objects (Amie Thomasson)
Ontology Made Easy (Amie Thomasson)
Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference (Michael Jubien)
Objects: Nothing our of the Ordinary (Daniel Z. Korman)
Composition as Identity (eds. Cotnoir, Baxter)
Truth and Ontology (Trenton Merricks)
Austere Realism (Horgan and Potrc)
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Alan Watts)
PAPERS:
Thinking about Things (Jubien): www.jstor.org/stable/2676165
There are no Ordinary Things (Unger): www.jstor.org/stable/20115446
Against Parthood (Sider): www.tedsider.org/papers/nihili...
A Sweater Unraveled (Sidelle): www.jstor.org/stable/2671870
On What There Is (Quine): www.jstor.org/stable/20123117
Two Dogmas of Empiricism (Quine): www.theologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:...
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology (Carnap): www.jstor.org/stable/23932367
Many-One Identity (Baxter): philpapers.org/rec/DONMI-2
Oneness, Aspects, and the Neo-Confucians (Baxter): www.academia.edu/39736289/One...
Why the debate about composition is factually empty (Balaguer): philpapers.org/rec/BALWTD
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@georgecarter6978 2 жыл бұрын
No officer I didnt kill him, I just arranged his simples dead-wise.
@nixietubes 2 жыл бұрын
a bit of the old ultra voilence
@ThePrufessa 2 жыл бұрын
@@nixietubes based on what we learned in this video how would a bit of the old in and out be categorized?
@nixietubes 2 жыл бұрын
@@ThePrufessa matter
@thePWNmaster5 2 жыл бұрын
I simply killed this matter while it was humaning
@ThePrufessa 2 жыл бұрын
@@nixietubes sex is matter?
@gyrotwist6335 2 жыл бұрын
Other mammals: “Must get food to survive.” Humans: “Do chairs exist?”
@mother722 2 жыл бұрын
*michael
@garyt6931 2 жыл бұрын
Our species has successfully survived all that is left is to explore what life really is
@Ryan-xh7pe 2 жыл бұрын
@@garyt6931 that’s a cool way to see it
@muircat13 2 жыл бұрын
@@garyt6931 there's always the next great barrier enjoy the viewpoint tho
@MrJeekz 2 жыл бұрын
Not sure what you're trying to imply but the fact that we can ask such profound questions is much more important than basic survival. Survival is the most primitive form of existence.
@BrutalJambon 4 ай бұрын
"I am Death and I am the scattering" is really not how I thought a video about chairs existence would end but I'm here for it
@DeinoKoto 2 ай бұрын
Gives Heisenberg vibes
@chair32 Ай бұрын
Ye
@CastHydra497 19 күн бұрын
666
@epicfailur01 16 күн бұрын
@@DeinoKoto Oppenheimer quote esque vibes
@pandabro4235 3 ай бұрын
The line “I am not a thing that dies and then scatters; I am death and I am the scattering” is now one of my favorite quotes and it comes from a video debating the existence of chairs
@fish4716 9 ай бұрын
Michael in 2017: Fewer than 3 days in isolation can cause brain damage. I will be staying in this room for 3 days. Michael in 2022: Do chairs exist?
@xxxkratosxxx9232 9 ай бұрын
if u take it as a joke,just a 37min video. if you try to understand deep, you'll question your life, concusiness, etc
@AltiumYT 8 ай бұрын
Sounds like 2017's theory was correct, proven by himself
@salaxim6027 8 ай бұрын
@@xxxkratosxxx9232 ahh yes concusiness
@carlos-zy7vx 8 ай бұрын
@@salaxim6027concussy
@XFGHL78E 8 ай бұрын
I mean, that kind of proves what he said in 2017...it just takes 5 years for the damage to be shown
@pugalugs9128 2 жыл бұрын
I love how the chair is just sitting there not debating it's existence
@josieposiec268 2 жыл бұрын
how do u know, maybe we just cant hear it
@examname9477 2 жыл бұрын
🪑
@Sweezi 2 жыл бұрын
or is it?
@A_combustible_lemon 2 жыл бұрын
I mean what’s it gonna do about it? Have an identity crisis? Exactly.
@adityashandilya2789 2 жыл бұрын
It wanted to but John cena wouldn't get up from it!
@WhiteNucklin 3 ай бұрын
“I am death and I AM the scattering.” Metal lyrics
@yourboy_Vox 2 ай бұрын
I need to write a metal song based on that 😭
@iwannagohoooooomeeeah Ай бұрын
@@yourboy_VoxVox?
@CoffeeAddict-nv7qb 10 күн бұрын
@@yourboy_Vox VOX?! (sorry its almost 2AM and i have an unhealthy obsession with him)
@SpartanMJO12 3 ай бұрын
The answer I took from this is "it is what it is if it's useful". A random scattering of pipes doesn't have a name because it's not useful to give it a name, but together it's scaffolding
@balbs100 27 күн бұрын
This is my view on it. Simples are the only thing that exist. Chairs dont exist. But its useful to pretend theres no vagueness and that chairs do exist.
@wigginx 15 күн бұрын
I think you mean plumbing.
@SoCloseToToast 2 жыл бұрын
Intro was the best psychological horror thriller I've seen in years. Thanks Mike
@vxtalityone8131 2 жыл бұрын
More scary than most modern horror movies tbh.
@fearkubrick5511 2 жыл бұрын
beatbox for me pls :*
@bbdoook 2 жыл бұрын
Who's Mike?
@idk_what_to_say_. 2 жыл бұрын
@@bbdoook coxlong
@nanan_hello 2 жыл бұрын
bbk bbk bbk
@momofcjmt4 2 жыл бұрын
“I am death, and I am the scattering” Nice to see Michael’s slow evolution into an Eldritch God is proceeding apace.
@kiera8836 2 жыл бұрын
bet it's the ayahuasca he did
@daelinblack6681 2 жыл бұрын
Dude I swear he is the ideal psychonaut. A real intellectual that is experimenting, not using. I only wish we could get another Golden age of more natural psychopharmacology, more Hoffmans and Mckennas that educate rather than simply encourage.
@kultw1837 2 жыл бұрын
it was really comforting ending tho
@aansedar3020 2 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for this stuff to get out of context.
@Thatonedude917 2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Coheed lyrics
@elmo2706 4 ай бұрын
How can this man taste a chair, pull a spoon out of his shirt, and pull a slice of cheese out of his shirt, and yet teach us things others struggle to.
@wasp795 Ай бұрын
because he is michael and he can just do that
@Soap208 13 күн бұрын
because he is michael and he can just do that
@St0rm_da_c4lico 11 күн бұрын
Because He is michael and he can just do that
@TazJustTaz 8 күн бұрын
because he is michael and he can just do that
@pleasequack5431 2 күн бұрын
because he is michael and he can just do that
@enoughofyourkoicarp Ай бұрын
It feels so much better when this conversation is happening outside of my head for a change. Also, "thank you for watching?" Did you just call me a watch? I don't have time for that kind of confusion.
@hassassinator8858 9 күн бұрын
Hey. Stop watching.
@timondimare1976 Жыл бұрын
Michael: do chairs exist? Michael 30 minutes later: I am death
@pihu2358 Жыл бұрын
YES
@schqrr Жыл бұрын
Ok
@Gardengap Жыл бұрын
36:54
@ennardthefuntimepuppet6456 Жыл бұрын
As a Goth, I love that statement
@pentacopter9909 Жыл бұрын
straight up
@gamerparker123 2 жыл бұрын
Alternate Title: Michael bullies a chair by questioning it’s existence for 37 minutes and 53 seconds
@RogerBarraud 2 жыл бұрын
Sequel: Chair confesses and submits to ree-education.
@gamerparker123 2 жыл бұрын
@@RogerBarraud lol 😂
@gehenidjiddi6547 2 жыл бұрын
This comment made me realise how long the video is. I wasn't ready for this lol.
@johnsherfey3675 2 жыл бұрын
@@RogerBarraud I'm dying from laughter!
@iiomqfaderz 2 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@numptaloid Ай бұрын
"alleged chair" is going on my gravestone
@megacuck5970 4 ай бұрын
What an awesome way to start 2024, studying human thought and existentialism watching Vsauce at 1am.
@Xetarine 4 ай бұрын
same
@2msvalkyrie529 2 ай бұрын
Watching The Simpsons would probably be more beneficial .?
@yourboy_Vox 2 ай бұрын
It's 1am for me rn 💀
@80llo Ай бұрын
@@2msvalkyrie529probably not,but benificial is not objective
@MartinPoulter 2 жыл бұрын
I spent a total of eleven years as a philosophy student and got two degrees. This is by far the best explanation of ontology I've ever seen.
@Mentox2 2 жыл бұрын
I dont think so, its biased (towards naturalism and physicalism) and overly simplistic. And his attempt at a solution to the issues raised by composition are unsatisfactory.
@MTETELEVISION 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mentox2 no
@TKOfromJohn 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mentox2 Shhhh let people enjoy things
@MartinPoulter 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mentox2 It's literally an introduction to the subject for a general audience. Show me an explanation which isn't "overly simplistic" and which is similarly accessible.
@tchaffman 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mentox2 Accessibility doesn't make your ideas overly simplistic. Striving for complexity to be seen as profound doesn't make you a brighter or deeper thinker, it just makes you a moron. Being able to translate your abstract ideas in a rich and interesting way that resonates with everyday people shows a higher level of mastery and understanding.
@FlyingKitty900 2 жыл бұрын
Another certified hood classic
@lolololoeko-gkspiorgko-wk 2 жыл бұрын
lmao def
@GregoriousApartment 2 жыл бұрын
Lmao😂😂
@peace2017 2 жыл бұрын
lmaoo
@gokublackgaming5944 2 жыл бұрын
Wha
@BaIlZack 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks shrek
@bugbbear 28 күн бұрын
i never thought “i am death” would be a comforting statement
@JeremyRight-zi4yp 3 ай бұрын
I'm surprised you never mentioned Plato's ontology. Throughout the whole video my brain was crying for it, this would solve so many of the posed questions! Plato would probably say a chair is a piece of furniture for one person to sit and lean back on. What happens if you remove some atoms from it? If you can sit on it, it's still a chair. When does it stop being a chair? When you can no longer sit on it.
@safrockparticles527 22 күн бұрын
I agree he did not talk about the purpose.
@royalninja2823 8 күн бұрын
That's extremely easily refuted, though. For any definition, you can find an object that clearly SHOULD be included in the definition but isn't, or something that SHOULDN'T but is. By your definition a bar stool isn't a chair and an examination table is. Hell, there's a famous example of this in popular consciousness; Plato's definition for a man was a featherless biped, so Diogenes came out with a plucked chicken yelling "BEHOLD, A MAN!" You may as well not even entertain the idea of existence through definition unless you go to the extreme he brings up in this video.
@ayumuchorizo4486 6 күн бұрын
If we're gonna follow what you say, that would make me think that a wall is a chair because I can lean my back on it and be in a sitting position - oh, same goes for the floor or the ground. Wait, so the whole surface of the Earth is a Chair??? A PERSON is a chair because you **can** sit on them! Does that mean horses, camels, and elephants are ALL chairs as well because we actually sit on them, on purpose, for travel? Are cars and bicycles just... "moving chairs"? We can go on and on, but at this point, almost everything can be called a chair. Then does **it** really exist? Because by that logic a "chair" becomes a concept we apply to things but not a thing itself. So the object in the thumbnail and what is beside Micheal is not 'a' chair but an assembled wooden frame that can function as the chair. I can also conclude then that the same wooden frame is a table because I can use the square surface to place my dinner so I can eat. Oh look, now it's actually just a Table which we happen to sit on. Doesn't seem like that line of thought sufficiently answers the question imo! 😂
@pyramidteam9961 5 күн бұрын
_sits on a chicken_ behold plato’s chair
@AsaWRLD47 2 жыл бұрын
Everyone else when they see a chair: Sit Michael when he sees a chair: "hmm yes, salty"
@anidiotthathasexistence364 2 жыл бұрын
Micheal: what is salty am I real is chair real is wood real is trees real are my pants real
@zakx_ 2 жыл бұрын
mmmm salt
@nasuegaming1255 2 жыл бұрын
If that's a oversimplified reference, there's gonna be a tax for that.
@ht87y 2 жыл бұрын
Normal people when they see a donut in a toilet: ew Michael when he sees a donut in a toilet: Hmm yes food (begins consumption)
@LupeSunglass 2 жыл бұрын
Hm yes, ass flavour
@soulslvr9562 2 жыл бұрын
I love how Michael is just welcoming the horror aspect the internet has given him over the years
@soulslvr9562 2 жыл бұрын
@@JoeyIsGlowey TLDR the internet has made Michael seem to be an eldrich scp that cannot be contained. And hes playing along to it
@pattherick6875 2 жыл бұрын
@@soulslvr9562 haha your tldr is as long as your original 😂
@soulslvr9562 2 жыл бұрын
@@pattherick6875 ah ha! You are wrong! ITS EVEN LONGER!!! MUHAHAHA
@tinovelez6601 5 ай бұрын
at 31:39 Michael says “some” at the exact same pitch as the beginning of all star by smash mouth
@Taffles-hh9cu Ай бұрын
“how can i know if someone has perfect pitch?”
@sevenayashinedown1283 Ай бұрын
I scrolled through the comments and am now relieved that a person four months ago came to the same realization I had five minutes ago. "Some..." Of course if we ever shared an atom at some point, then I came to the realization four months ago before I realized I ever watched this video...I really need to go back to bed.
@v0id_d3m0n 17 күн бұрын
Need an edit of this
@manfroze 7 күн бұрын
I swear that’s intentional
@dmboiler6333 2 ай бұрын
i cant wait for vinesauce to become a dad and explain every question his son asks him like this
@arkanys3401 2 жыл бұрын
"Do chairs exist?" _36 minutes later:_ "I AM DEATH"
@navizh6113 2 жыл бұрын
the best comment ever
@brandonspike 2 жыл бұрын
monkaW
@ONE.Music. 2 жыл бұрын
36:54
@Violet._.PhoeniX 2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@ThatMellon 2 жыл бұрын
Damn 😂
@jonahwoodward3623 2 жыл бұрын
Michael: This slice of cheese. is f l o p p y. Also Michael: *I am death. I am the scattering.*
@DJSlimeball 2 жыл бұрын
@@humanbean9370 Does it with spoon too.
@soraelkiasking2790 8 күн бұрын
I've seen this video more than 5 times, it hunts my nights since the day it was uploaded...
@tehangrybird345 5 ай бұрын
Sir this is a Wendy’s
@PopcornAstronautOfficail Ай бұрын
Why is this the top comment with 7 likes
@jaakkolehto1487 29 күн бұрын
@@PopcornAstronautOfficailweird…
@TheBestcommentor 7 күн бұрын
No, it's just some simples Wendy's-ing.
@AldrichNaiborhu 2 жыл бұрын
Michael is like that one friend who you don't hear from much, but at 3 AM, he'll start sending you links to the secrets of the universe before he disappears into the night again.
@tsepollewellyn8631 2 жыл бұрын
That person sounds amazing!
@monkey6028 2 жыл бұрын
I want a friend like that
@jensvanbockstal429 2 жыл бұрын
I am that friend the difference is I use it to make my friend mire awake and up for the school day as we are sriving in the bus
@thesteambreaker9449 2 жыл бұрын
I want friends at all
@bulbasaur5190 2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like me Yea i am this weird kid
@steventhehistorian 2 жыл бұрын
'I AM death and I AM the scattering' - Michael Stevens That is a badass quote.
@professorfukyu744 2 жыл бұрын
The concept of "I" is a video in itself.
@Finkster5 2 жыл бұрын
Those, along with "we are the seeing" would make for some sick-ass metal lyrics.
@Garreousbear 2 жыл бұрын
Vsauce is Vishnu-Ing
@ydxx 2 жыл бұрын
Walter white vibes
@TheCalicove 2 жыл бұрын
I read this as soon as he said that in the video. Never thought I’d be saying that in a reply section!
@Pizzaroll669 4 ай бұрын
I like how he would talk about the most random thing that nobody would think of to talk about for halve an hour. Now that’s what I call, “Creativity.”
@jaxxinator5999 6 ай бұрын
Wonderful video Michael. One thing I would say is that to me a composite object 'exists' as long as it is more that the sum of it's parts. Okay, you might ask, but what do I mean by this? It means that it has some property for which the simples it contains are more important than the simples it doesn't contain. E.g. the atoms that make up a chair are important in allowing you to rest your butt on it. Existence is therefore a state of being in relation to an intelligence e.g. us. Stuff enters our horizon of understanding and things come into existence. I would not consider the 'incar' to exist because it does have any unique properties that cannot be understood be considering the garage and car separately.
@A-Classic-Blunder Жыл бұрын
I love how the more complicated things get, the more informal their names are
@AbraxasTheSecond Жыл бұрын
that's contemporary philosophy for ya. I love it.
@powerstation0872 Жыл бұрын
Spaghettification is one of my favorite words
@tonylee1667 Жыл бұрын
We're out of names, it's a crisis
@noob_techie2475 Жыл бұрын
When your mind is already messed up you dont wanna add names like mitochondric thermal universe
@austin-multicellular Жыл бұрын
that's cool and all but now I'm scared because the boomer remover sounds like an extremely complex machine created for the sole purpose of mass genocide
@MrsSiwik 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this video. I will need to watch it many more times to hopefully try to grasp all points. But, just from watching once I have to say, it is the best and most important video you've ever made. Cheers to you!
@goldenowl6778 5 ай бұрын
bros legs are 100% asleep
@astrorobinson3716 18 күн бұрын
😂
@UltimateKyuubiFox 2 жыл бұрын
“I am Death, and I am the scattering.” ~Vsauce Michael That’s a metal af quote.
@scoobysnax 2 жыл бұрын
Honestly, Oppenheimer doesn't have shit on Mr. Vsauce after that quote.
@xXPamelaXalemaPXx 2 жыл бұрын
It reminded me of "I am the danger" from Breaking Bad
@yes6650 2 жыл бұрын
It sounds like what a villain in a marvel movie would say
@era_s 2 жыл бұрын
I think the preceding line is necessary to get across the quote's essence: "We are not the universe seeing itself. We are the seeing. I am not a thing that dies and becomes scattered. I am death, and I am the scattering."
@jalenshi8399 2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the famous Nietzsche quote, “I am not a man, I am dynamite”
@Saronite 2 жыл бұрын
Two ontological antirealists walk into a bunch of atoms arranged bar-wise.
@Andrew-jj6er 2 жыл бұрын
Good one lol.
@anuj8825 2 жыл бұрын
A few atoms ontologically humaning move to another bunch of atoms bar-ing. Where, atoms = simples atoming
@r3ked272 2 жыл бұрын
A mereological universalist then walks in, and forms a group of the universalist, the simples arranged ontological antirealist-wise, and my front door. Then the bartender asks them to stop arguing and order their damn drinks.
@yvanstevenaclan1579 2 жыл бұрын
Oh my god😭 these guys
@SuperAzeton 2 жыл бұрын
@@anuj8825 I think you mean. Ontologically speaking a few simples humaning inbar a bunch of simples bar-ing.
@plewis9 3 ай бұрын
Watching this video as Amie Thomasson’s daughter was so surreal! Not only was my mom cited as an expert, Whenever he cited another expert, I was like “oh, yeah, he came to our house for dinner; I baked a cake for him…” and so on. Plus all of the books in the video are literally in my house right now. Also, my mom loves that you put her in a video, and says she’s now a KZfaq star!
@user-iu1ft6xi1i 5 ай бұрын
I truly believe that it is your choice/definition of things defined by what you have experienced and your personality.
@mattawan1000 2 жыл бұрын
Some random guy: "Do chairs exist?" Me: "Yeah of course. What are you, stupid?" Michael: "Do chairs exist?" Me: "I have no idea"
@unicorn7171 2 жыл бұрын
Yesn't 🤔
@AdamThoba2 2 жыл бұрын
remember this is the same guy who thought the universe was created last Thursday. Bullshit.
@_P0tat07_ 2 жыл бұрын
420th like. Nice.
@limesandlemons1367 2 жыл бұрын
@@AdamThoba2 It's just a theorem, no need to be so upset.
@jonbowman7686 2 жыл бұрын
@@AdamThoba2 you're gonna wanna watch that video again bud
@josephweimer2859 2 жыл бұрын
I’m relieved to know I’m not the only one who has been skeptical of chairs my entire life.
@esphyxia 2 жыл бұрын
Yes. I think they are decoys. There are just too many chairs in the world. I feel a rebellion amidst
@MrCockburger1212 2 жыл бұрын
ever have that feeling your chairs in your house are watching you?
@dametocosita4994 2 жыл бұрын
But what are you skeptical of? I mean do chairs even exist? Do you exist? Do I exist? Am I having an existential crisis? Or is it just simples arranged me-wise having existential crisis? 🤔
@Darkenssf7436 2 жыл бұрын
The comments are so serious lol
@t-827 2 жыл бұрын
Bueno
@13lood13ath 6 ай бұрын
The paper is the material. The crane is the shape. The unfolded paper is now in the shape of a rectangle and while both the rectangle and crane are made of the same material, the shapes are different.
@Ai_Unkown 26 күн бұрын
I love how you bring us along for the ride of figuring it out.
2 жыл бұрын
Me: trying to find out if chairs exist. Michael: "I am death"
@KindredBrujah 2 жыл бұрын
"I am the Scattering."
@kysssssss 2 жыл бұрын
🪑
@devirtues8596 2 жыл бұрын
Michael: Chair: *sweats nervously*
@Lefurmage104 2 жыл бұрын
CAN RELATE
@kysssssss 2 жыл бұрын
🪑
@kreeepyk0 2 жыл бұрын
🪑 💧
@Michael-kp4bd 2 жыл бұрын
There’s always these KZfaq meme copy/pasted jokes that I find annoying and unoriginal… until someone actually applies it well. Even though it’s the same template joke, it really actually cracked me up. Props to that
@DJSlimeball 2 жыл бұрын
Especially since he keeps threatening and caressing chair with knife.
@guilhermesviech4610 2 ай бұрын
i love that note that plays when the chair appears so much
@mbsfilms7749 Күн бұрын
Only Vsauce would drop a 40 minute documentary on whether chairs exist or not.
@whitedinosaur45 2 жыл бұрын
Michael at the beginning: "Do chairs exist?" Michael at the end: "I am death"
@cultistsash 2 жыл бұрын
Basically everyone at the end of philosophy undergrad.
@TTTTCJGKS 2 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@bryanrhodes369 2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the Baghavad Gita to me
@flaviolepri5539 2 жыл бұрын
That's what I call a quality anthagonist arc.
@dillpickle3654 2 жыл бұрын
Oppenheimer type beat
@fireredgaming1 2 жыл бұрын
“What’s your job?” Vsauce: giving people existential crisis with chairs
@donut6789 2 жыл бұрын
FiRsT!!1!1!1!1
@MrSwag-zv3pg 2 жыл бұрын
There's no such thing as an existential crisis!
@blazer6972 2 жыл бұрын
@@MrSwag-zv3pg ... uh... mmm... that.... ok....
@LuizHRDC 2 жыл бұрын
But what IS your job?
@CathTheGinger 2 жыл бұрын
More like giving chairs an existential crisis
@Flight_of_Icarus 14 күн бұрын
I feel like this is just the argument between Plato and Aristotle on Plato's idea of the forms but refined with thousands of years of thinking from a lot of different people.
@washcode9613 3 ай бұрын
I got to take a seminar taught by Van Inwagen in college where we went over his book, and it was fascinating! Really interesting to question the limits of how we define the world around us
@venompogg4231 2 жыл бұрын
Michel is the only man who can ask the question “do chairs really exist” and explain it for 40 mins and make me believe that Chairs don’t exist
@BrazilianImperialist 2 жыл бұрын
You have to start thinking more than
@saifmohamed2967 2 жыл бұрын
He is the smartest conspiracy theorist out there
@gabrielr8430 2 жыл бұрын
@@BrazilianImperialist you are the most boring person on the planet
@eriosyce688 2 жыл бұрын
@@BrazilianImperialist than? 🤔
@BrazilianImperialist 2 жыл бұрын
@@gabrielr8430 You liked your own comment
@gokham33 2 жыл бұрын
Love the fact that a chair is most defined by "something to sit in" yet Michael sits on the floor next to the chair for the whole video.
@algee2005 2 жыл бұрын
sitting in the chair would suggest that the chair exists.
@3173_Delta 2 жыл бұрын
"Chair is a separate seat for one person, typically with a back and four legs." Therefore, 🐎
@nathanstuart2192 2 жыл бұрын
Bashurverse is burning in hell 😂😂🗑️RIP BOZO
@dr.klicheota996 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for spoiling the video
@artratengo3685 2 жыл бұрын
hahah yeah
@roydavid5761 Ай бұрын
I find this stuff fascinating, i remember i wrote an essay that delves in a similar concept, to me, it all comes down to purpose and cause, things are a specific object based on it’s relation to the environment and the human perception of it’s purpose, just like how we perceive color but it doesn’t really exist.
@Chaosthehedgehog790 2 сағат бұрын
A chair is a piece of furniture with a raised surface supported by legs, commonly used to seat a single person. Chairs are supported most often by four legs and have a back; however, a chair can have three legs or can have a different shape. Chairs are made of a wide variety of materials, ranging from wood to metal to synthetic material (e.g. plastic), and they may be padded or upholstered in various colors and fabrics, either just on the seat (as with some dining room chairs) or on the entire chair. Chairs are used in a number of rooms in homes (e.g. in living rooms, dining rooms, and dens), in schools and offices (with desks), and in various other workplaces. A chair without a back or arm rests is a stool, or when raised up, a bar stool. A chair with arms is an armchair; one with upholstery, reclining action, and a fold-out footrest is a recliner. A permanently fixed chair in a train or theater is a seat or, in an airplane, airline seat; when riding, it is a saddle or bicycle saddle; and for an automobile, a car seat or infant car seat. With wheels it is a wheelchair; or when hung from above, a swing. An upholstered, padded chair for two people is a 'loveseat', while if it is for more than two person it is a couch, sofa, or settee; or if is not upholstered, a bench. A separate footrest for a chair, usually upholstered, is known as an ottoman, hassock, or pouffe.
@mooseschimming3809 2 жыл бұрын
"I am death, and I am the scattering" most metal thing said on vSauce to date
@Endermanguy-wj3fn 2 жыл бұрын
Or is it?
@Gowther31 2 жыл бұрын
*Cue vsauce music*
@refreshedog4860 2 жыл бұрын
This tells us a lot about Michael's grudge against chairs.
@Treddian 2 жыл бұрын
*sigh* You're accusing Micheal of begrudging something he doesn't even believe in.
@rotisseriepossum 2 жыл бұрын
@Spiderman you fool, what if the office has a chaise lounge like in the cartoons? it’s practically a chair-couch-bed hybrid!
@aniksamiurrahman6365 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine learning all sort of philosophy just bcoz one doesn't like chairs.
@fr0zeNid 2 жыл бұрын
Honey wake up new Michael chair grudge lore just dropped
@alrex96 2 жыл бұрын
Says alot about society
@jakechapman3161 8 күн бұрын
Man thanks for making these videos. I had only one science teacher who would actually make full lessons on the questions I had in an interesting way. He was my favorite teacher and you are very similar. Keep questioning everything and sharing your thoughts we value them a lot. Have a good day vsauce.
@DirtyMardi 4 ай бұрын
As an information architect by trade, I think I’ll just send this video to everyone when a new project starts, so that I don’t have to explain what ontology means every time. Thanks Vsauce!
@sekoncen9559 2 жыл бұрын
I want to say “yes, chairs definitely exist.” But I’m sure he’ll find a way to convince me otherwise.
@bittern4464 2 жыл бұрын
Well, did he?
@rylandsmith8552 2 жыл бұрын
We need the update
@lapeez2277 2 жыл бұрын
pls give us an update
@SampMan87 2 жыл бұрын
After the video, I think this guy decided he didn’t exist either.
@paradiso-gt-7452 2 жыл бұрын
I KNOW RIGHT?!
@austinmiller2041 2 жыл бұрын
Vsauce: Do chairs exist? Michael: I am Death, and I am the Scattering.
@Kirarak 2 жыл бұрын
What a lovely way to end a lecture :D
@tysoncurtis2646 2 жыл бұрын
Ahahaha
@TestarossaF110 2 жыл бұрын
>:)
@ItsOnlyGenjutsu 2 жыл бұрын
It's happening!
@juniusnoble6659 2 жыл бұрын
lol he said "I am Death, and I am scattering." right as I was reading that part of your comment
@TheQuantumzone 2 ай бұрын
❤ A superb piece of work. A great philosophical roller coaster that should really make you think. One of the best explanations of what Stuff really is, or isn't! Thanks Michael!
@nithinhmmm 2 ай бұрын
This has to be up there among the greatest youtube video ever, as it takes us closer to the edge of human reasoning.
@zimnylech527 2 жыл бұрын
"I am not a thing that dies and becomes scattered, I AM death, and I AM the scattering." This is such a badass quote when taken out of context.
@Corn0nTheCobb 2 жыл бұрын
Heisenberg vibes. You clearly don't know who you're talking to, Skyler. A thing dies and becomes scattered and you think that of me? No, I AM the one who SCATTERS.
@gruvalisticno 2 жыл бұрын
Blends in well with that Western movie tune at the end. It could be a quote by Clint Eastwood in a scene where he finishes his adversary or something like that...
@johnchesterfield9726 2 жыл бұрын
It does lol, sounds like something a villain would say on some Anime
@Approfondissement 2 жыл бұрын
It's badass with context as well
@theabsoluteman1486 2 жыл бұрын
"if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck then it's not a duck"
@seferd11 2 жыл бұрын
There was once 11 sides to the argument, then someone said: "Hey let's unify all the sides into one" There was then 12 sides to the argument.
@danmoore1678 2 жыл бұрын
Why does this make me think of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams?
@seferd11 2 жыл бұрын
@@danmoore1678 Good catch I love Douglas Adams, But I'm not sure if its his.
@professorfukyu744 2 жыл бұрын
Counting errors. You don't count the list on the list you're making. Its kinda redundant and allows counting as many times as you see fit into infinity. (Election?) As you add items you create a new list. Count that list and you have +2 for everything.
@Orygin9 2 жыл бұрын
@@seferd11 xkcd?
@ashleigh423 11 күн бұрын
Ok but that intro was captivating as hell
@Ultra_hazard_den 14 күн бұрын
Everything is a compound , until you reach simples. We simply give names t these compounds, like you you’d name a compound of iron and carbon steel. Compounds can then again work together to form other compounds which we give names to, like how an assortment of steel can make a bridge.
@1saac_xx 9 ай бұрын
Michael is the one youtuber who isnt questioned for making a 30 minute video contemplating a chair's existence
@Catonic348ismyGDusername 8 ай бұрын
First reply ok!
@ninleyarchival 8 ай бұрын
@@Catonic348ismyGDusernamesecond reply ok!
@Veks120 8 ай бұрын
@@ninleyarchival third reply ok!
@therealcfiddy592 8 ай бұрын
It's actually almost 38vminures, at 37 minutes , 53 seconds. Quite a bit longer than 30 minutes
@avaius 8 ай бұрын
In fact we would expect this of him
@isaacdanoob2434 2 жыл бұрын
Me: Stops paying attention for 5 seconds Michael: *GUNKY*
@badeendXII 2 жыл бұрын
Hoot
@Robo2415 2 жыл бұрын
Michael: STUFF
@TNinja0 2 жыл бұрын
"Michael, take a seat, we need to talk" "Do chairs exists?" "MICHAEL"
@theredghost9368 2 жыл бұрын
I want some kind of series where Michael is in an insane asylum and constantly does stuff just like that
@ErikUden 2 жыл бұрын
@@theredghost9368 literally the vsauce KZfaq channel
@jaykoerner 2 жыл бұрын
Then he pulls a slice of cheese from his shirt
@thatgreenguyplayer2 2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the "what its like to be married to Neil degrasse tyson" sketch done by Key and Peele
@ErikUden 2 жыл бұрын
@@thatgreenguyplayer2 so true
@theEwanGH 11 күн бұрын
Vsauce is the only person to explain why chairs exist for 37 minutes 💀
@btheboio8602 3 ай бұрын
Every now and then I cycle back to watch old VSauce. There are several videos I don't remember past 10 minutes because I undoubtedly fell asleep watching lmao
@SeLeV93 2 жыл бұрын
"I am death, and I am the scattering." I bet Michael could write the most epic, cosmic black metal.
@wrenpyle7098 2 жыл бұрын
feels like a daughters song tbh
@TheArtofKAS 2 жыл бұрын
Literally the only line I will continue to repeat in my head
@Sh1ranu1 2 жыл бұрын
36:28 or something
@justinmiller129 2 жыл бұрын
It reminds me of *_these mice_* kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jKtmgtp81Ky3cmQ.html&.vgula
@uselessduck5994 2 жыл бұрын
I am death, I am the scattering. My existence is truly flattering. Make me a chair, I guess I’m not. But I’m still there, in every thought. Chairs are things, long and wide. You can even go inside. Chairs don’t exist, that is true. But you know what? 6606.48 divided by 2.
@TimeBucks 2 жыл бұрын
his sense of humor is still as good as always
@vitaminluke5597 2 жыл бұрын
I remember the old days when he dressed as a bearded nun in Lady Gaga parodies. The old Michael was indeed always this bizarre. Edit: I wrote this BEFORE watching the part when he mentioned this video! I always thought he was hiding from his past, but I guess not.
@admrfq41 2 жыл бұрын
sus out
@Home_Rich 2 жыл бұрын
@@admrfq41 Sus in? Sussin?
@huzaifakhurram2024 2 жыл бұрын
I think it's getting better with every plank second
@no3ironman11100 2 жыл бұрын
@@admrfq41 The more sus they become NO HE DIDN'T OH MY GOD I DO NOT PARTAKE IN THIS
@gyattrizzV 3 ай бұрын
Idk if you made up the boil-o thing but its so funny and I use it a few times a year in my notes
@xyomga 6 күн бұрын
I love this episode it put some more scientific backing to the law of one book series I suggest everybody read it at least once with an open mind
@akorn9943 2 жыл бұрын
*“I am death and I am the scattering.”* -Michael, perfectly sane human being
@JasonVoorheeTalkShow 2 жыл бұрын
Michael the eldritch god
@a.pigeon 2 жыл бұрын
Perfectly sane is a strech
@Spiggo97 2 жыл бұрын
Saint Michael of the Vesaucian Lakes
@creeperbait_42 2 жыл бұрын
Now I'll just BE DEATH and SCATTERING like a normal human person HA HA laughter laughter
@iam_funnny 2 жыл бұрын
Michael is actually the sanest person on the Earth. It's just us that are flawed and stupid and unintelligent and we should really worship the ultimate being known as the creator of the youtube channel VSauce.
@thomaslewis3170 2 жыл бұрын
vsauce be giving legit introductory course university lectures and convincing people it's just your typical social media content.
@LightIySaltedPeanuts 2 жыл бұрын
It's so goddamn digestible too
@apollo1573 2 жыл бұрын
@@LightIySaltedPeanuts just like some lightly salted peanuts, I just can’t get enough!
@yvngdxtr6166 2 жыл бұрын
@@apollo1573 thats crazy, thats that persons name! ...or is it?
@brycehammond4801 2 жыл бұрын
@@yvngdxtr6166 It's not his name, but it is arranged in a his name-like way...
@Dude-Smellmyhelmet 2 жыл бұрын
'....be giving legit...' There are probably some English learning channels also. lol
@Super_Saiyan_Ginger Ай бұрын
I'm only like 20min in, but I posit "quantum frame." Everything can be and is a simple, a composite and more all at once, and it's only by observing a specific frame of space and time that these things collapse into a state.
@LAWMECHE 5 ай бұрын
I’ve yet to watch the whole video. But my first thought is it all depends on perspective and whether things being added or removed changes the object from the perspective of the observer.
@jemmerllast8492 2 жыл бұрын
"I am death, and I am the scattering." Is such a raw line filled with power.
@user-ds4gp8dr2q 2 жыл бұрын
what does that even mean?
@ONE.Music. 2 жыл бұрын
36:54
@TheMinecraftBeast101 2 жыл бұрын
I fully got chills
@yourikhi 2 жыл бұрын
It means I am the destroyer and the creator same time...that's pretty much Hindu philosophy... Edit ..it goes much more deeper than this...
@nahometesfay1112 2 жыл бұрын
@@user-ds4gp8dr2q In the context of this video, he explained earlier that a consistent way to describe a "simple object" is an action or performance of more fundamental "stuff" so he claims that death and scattering are a continuation of the performance that is "Michael-ing" while this is plausible under his reasoning, it doesn't directly follow from it. Under his reasoning, it would also be valid to say that death is when his body stops "Michael-ing" and scattering is a process done to a body that was "Michael-ing"
@grunt2376 2 жыл бұрын
the fact Vsauce has just accepted his meme status as an insane internet genius yet still manages to be so informative is just *Chefs kiss*
@artratengo3685 2 жыл бұрын
@@truthview7261 no one asked
@stare4539 2 жыл бұрын
lMaoo
@renderproductions1032 2 жыл бұрын
|-O-|
@loreleihillard5078 2 жыл бұрын
No, he just still hasn't recovered from his time in the room
@maknyc1539 2 жыл бұрын
k boomar
@PanTrimtab 3 ай бұрын
"There is no spoon" this video is a pretty good analysis of one of the major themes of The Matrix. I feel like you could make Deleuze relatively accessible to people; the concept of the rhyzome is pretty close to this. I'd love to see you do a video on nomadology and the war machine.
@PanTrimtab 3 ай бұрын
Also, did I miss it, or did you choose to leave out Buckminster Fuller's "I seem to be a verb?" He spoke often at length on that idea.
@Wolfskullthewitch 8 күн бұрын
16:28 its like the corpse to water ratio There are plenty of corpses in the ocean, but we still swim in them, yet if you put one in a pool, no one would swim in the pool. Therefore, everyone has a specific corpse:water ratio
@startrekshitposts3502 Жыл бұрын
Jokes aside, I think we need to appreciate exactly how much work went into this video. We have just watched a meticulously researched video, for which Michael read multiple book & articles, found examples to describe every philosophical viewpoint, and presented it in an interesting and engaging way. You just watched a 37 minute video about the existence of chairs, and weren't bored at all. Praise this man.
@withnosensetv Жыл бұрын
That's VSauce for ya. I know this guy is prime meme material but his videos are legit amazing and I think that's why so many people are attracted to them. He has a really great Ted talk about this, how he invites people with a big, seemingly unanswerable question, just to "accidentally trick them into learning something along the way" (in this case an introductory course in ontology). He's hands down one of the best things the internet ever created
@FriskMeemur Жыл бұрын
That's every episode of Vsauce. He's the only man who can post every 2 years and still keep his audience happy. That's pretty big brain. But what does it mean to have... A big brain? *Vsauce theme starts*
@RafaelMunizYT Жыл бұрын
vsauce is amazing. I appreciate how much work they put into their videos. you gotta read tons and tons of articles to make a single video because you need to dive into the topic and see it from several points of view. it's kinda like a rabbit hole
@100GTAGUY Жыл бұрын
@@withnosensetv even the explanation behind his choice of channel name is quite fun, and in it knowledge is hidden. Gotta love him, he's a teacher trying to sneak knowledge into our minds lol.
@100GTAGUY Жыл бұрын
@@FriskMeemur I thought he used to upload much more frequently before he landed a contract with youtube and went to making exclusive YT Red videos?
@SuperWiiBros08 2 жыл бұрын
never seen a more questioning and cryptic video title
@urmad2873 2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to vsauce
@TheWelchProductions 2 жыл бұрын
@@urmad2873 Where are your fingers?
@spacebarbarian._ 2 жыл бұрын
why do most people in top comments never consider the context before commenting or just comment silly stuff. Yea its funny most of the time but still misleading and distracting from what vid is all about. I am not against your comment, but sure the context is more important than the title right?
@Yadobler 2 жыл бұрын
me in tok: tok teacher: if you sit on a table is it a chair?
@Joy-jo7ds 2 жыл бұрын
@@spacebarbarian._ I feel like parts of the answer are in your comment. They know the context but the point of the joke is that their comment is misleading. That’s the joke. Maybe they’re making the joke bc of the content of the video or because, like in this case, the title of the vid is one like this one.
@Surya-jz6te Ай бұрын
I've watched this for atleast 3 times, it still goes over my smooth head.
@fishum6483 2 жыл бұрын
"is he talking about linguistics, philosophy or fundamentalism?" "yep"
@RogerBarraud 2 жыл бұрын
Next vid: "Splunge" :-)
@ljwester 2 жыл бұрын
ontology
@boobbbers 2 жыл бұрын
It's a review of philosophical fundamentalism within linguistics. Or a linguistic critique of fundamentalist philosophy.
@live_neck 2 жыл бұрын
"I AM Death, and I AM the scattering." Michael always knows the right words to say to make me feel better
@ArronLitebrite 2 жыл бұрын
I involuntarily shouted WOW and got goosebumps when he said that.
@evankinswood 2 жыл бұрын
Best final words!
@evankinswood 2 жыл бұрын
@Vladimir Novitski give shia labeof a run for his money
@theguywhoasked5861 2 жыл бұрын
Giving batman a run for his billions
@rajarshiroy2599 2 жыл бұрын
Breaking bad I am the danger
@ZM1306 6 ай бұрын
Maybe Michael can make a video to explain this. How does my body know where its limits are supposed to be? Example: Accidently took a decent chunk out of my leg with a chain saw. Over a long period of time with me tending to it it fills in the missing flesh, skin, and maybe the hair folicls.... and even the floppy bit that reattached shrank back down into position. It filled the missing gouge back in to the original boundry, that had no cells in it and none that were originally there.... If my body can 3d map out every cell and its proper location.... what stops it from reduilding limbs....
@yjanks 29 күн бұрын
This has to be my favorite Vsauce video
@LTDLimiTeD1995 2 жыл бұрын
"I am death, and I am the scattering" -- Most metal thing Michael has ever said.
@izzymosley1970 2 жыл бұрын
Someone needs a power scale Michael off of that statement that he just made there about him being death and the scattering how powerful does this make Michael if we take what he said literally.
@snoski 2 жыл бұрын
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
@astro_lane 2 жыл бұрын
that’s literally exactly what i said
@Paravoid 2 жыл бұрын
@@izzymosley1970 If he is death itself than that already makes him beyond everything that is capable of dying (because in the end he’ll outlive everything). If this is true then he is at least multiversal+
@The-Secret-Dragon 2 жыл бұрын
out of context vsauce just got a lot more intimidating
@imarioiv 2 жыл бұрын
Every time he says “Exceeeeppttt”, it’s like entering the next level of a game. Except, instead of a game, it’s some ever evolving convolution of madness and philosophical information.
@XeL__ 2 жыл бұрын
good one :D this is not a comment its a bunched up amount of letters bytes
@austinbaker8042 2 жыл бұрын
"But is it?"
@oreosmith2862 2 жыл бұрын
Y
@xSolitari 2 ай бұрын
Watching at 4AM hits different. Like a punch in the groin.
@skylarhowes9322 6 ай бұрын
The slice of cheese in the shirt 😂 great video though as always - very witty and entertaining yet educational and thought provoking. Premium content! 👌
@mustakaapu 2 жыл бұрын
Vsauce: "Do chairs exist?" 2 million people sitting on a chair: "Hmm interesting"
@DS-uj3bt 2 жыл бұрын
Lol..very under rated comment
@miguelbenavides9160 2 жыл бұрын
But are those 2 million people actually "people" or atoms people-ing
@undyingjin5968 2 жыл бұрын
@@miguelbenavides9160 are those atoms atoms or are they atoms atom-ing
@Pandidolod 2 жыл бұрын
That's a big chair
@scoopshort 2 жыл бұрын
*laughs in bed*
@do2xd679 3 ай бұрын
Only vsauce can end a video calling himself death while not sounding delusional
@Swift_LN 4 ай бұрын
We as humans have a problem of categorizing "things" into boxes. The photon is a wave, which when observed, becomes a particle. But the word becomes is wrong, because the photon is both a wave and a particle, it is us who categorize it, bringing it's form into reality. So too is the chair a wave, a group of simples, which when observed, is a chair. By simply observing something we can completely change it's reality.
@72nodes85 2 жыл бұрын
I love how Michael is fully aware of a memes surrounding him, and likes to play with them.
@72nodes85 2 жыл бұрын
@@DoiInthanon1897 him
@deleted-something 2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Oliverlopez2007 2 жыл бұрын
Definitely a rickroll
@tboiproject 2 жыл бұрын
@BitThoughts He -Improvises -Adapts -Overcomes
@kitma9 2 жыл бұрын
would you like to play with my toys?
@yveltheyveltal5166 2 жыл бұрын
"I am not a thing that dies and becomes scattered. I am death, and I am the scattering." holy shit michael
@skrillah6259 2 жыл бұрын
”You’re scaring me Walt”
@user-jg5qf2om5g 2 жыл бұрын
"now I've become death, destroyer of worlds"
@cirlu_bd 2 жыл бұрын
scat
@SerenityReceiver 2 жыл бұрын
After death there is no "I", therfore no ontological definitions, so "he" is not "the scattering". I say.
@lostman812 2 жыл бұрын
@@SerenityReceiver "he" is just using 'I' to make us ᴾᵉᵃˢᵃⁿᵗˢ comprehend a point which the context of was constructed or "composed" throughout the video :D