CIRUS MEDIA yes

Or maybe they were just not thirsty 😂

+Nikola Danaylov Thanks man, please keep up the awesome work, much appreciated. Your channel is addicting, i'll watch all of the videos in next few days.

Commander Shepard from, not out of. 😉

Commander Shepard agreed, it's likely one of the most important things any of us could possibly do. Awareness is beneficial for biological survival.

***** True that. Hey, I have been following you since your first interviews and Wow! You are the most successful independent interviewer, by far, I have ever come across. Several of these luminaries: Noam Chomsky, Michio Kaku, Ray Kurzweil, Jacques Fresco, etcetera- when I first watched them I thought "I cannot believe he got this interview to happen!" (no offense, I was just trying to compliment)

***** I'm not sure what motivates you, if interviewing is your career or just a temporary hobby. If it is your career, then I hope you get much more success and viewers than you have already. If it is a temporary hobby, then dang, you've been more successful doing it on the side than most interviewers who have made it a career.

***** More like a second career, except you pay to work :P

***** I like the idea and would buy it. Maybe a personal best of?

***** Yea, I thought about that problem too. The only thing that comes to my mind is a crowd funding campaign (aka preorder). I know the last one was only a mediocre success, but that was 2 years ago after all. And this time people would have something physical in the end, maybe that is a motivator to pay for some people too. At least you would know if there are enough interested people this way. And if not only the time for creating the campaign is wasted (if you say that you only produce it if at least 200 people preorder one or something like that).

I truly respect your opinion on this and I'd like to propose a counterpoint if such a thing is possible on the internet without starting some foolish verbal warfare. Here goes... In respect to "companion animal" I'm assuming you're talking about dogs, cats, birds, small marsupials etc. and I'd like to raise the point that these animals truly do live in the moment, it's what makes them such great companions. You will not see my dog Oscar prepare for his upcoming bath by hiding even though he is fully aware of the connection between him and bath time. In the same vein, bears prepare for winter by stocking up on resources and hibernating which would seem like thought to the future but this is still the reaction to external change, colder climate means more food is needed the bear understands this because of instinct much the same as instinct tells you that you are cold and should eat more. Bears prepare for hibernation in the same way they were taught as a cub, you go to the toilet the same way as you were taught as a child and I think the relationship between these two situation is close. This doesn't mean Oscar, for example, is unable to display the signs of individual intelligence only that he is unable to formulate the future consequences to his actions or possible actions. The ability to learn... obviously animals around the world have this ability or you would not be reading this and our ancestors would have died from the 100th time of ingesting the poison berry in the cave however it seems that only humans thus far has the intention to learn. You have watched this video because the experience of it has added to your collective experience and you knew it would as you clicked on the video but there are no cases of animals trying to increase their knowledge[to my knowledge]. If you wish to disagree still with the extra level of intelligence being thought to the future then perhaps thought to learn, even though the two are inextricably linked, then perhaps you will agree that this event is what shows us having an extra level of intelligence. As a side note, Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton suggests in his book "Punk Science" that even basic cells display their own level of "conciousness" which affects the reality around it. In my personal opinion he makes a few rather large jumps to get there but the ideas there might be something you'd be interested in. Peace

Michael McAdams Greetings, Michael. Your comments clearly indicate that you are a person of intelligence, and have come into this discussion with some very thoughtful observations. The fundamental issue at hand, namely, whether we as a species uniquely possess the ability to project our intelligence into the future via (to use Dr Kaku's terminology) "Level 3 Intelligence," is of profound importance. Before focusing on that specific issue, however, it might be useful for me to share just a tiny snapshot of myself. I hasten to say that, in sharing this information, it in no way "proves" that YOUR perspective is WRONG while MY perspective is RIGHT. I share this information only to demonstrate that, like you, I have attempted to bring both intelligence and thoughtfulness into this conversation. I chose psychology as my major in college. My interest in the cognitive experience of TIME grew to the point that I elected to write my doctoral dissertation on the subject. This work led to a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UCLA, and this in turn led to my being licensed (PSY 9501) by the State of California to do private practice as a psychologist. Okay, enough said about that. You made the seminal point that, "animals truly do live in the moment." I completely agree with you. Animals DO live in the moment. You used the example of actions taken by bears in preparation for hibernating in winter. There are, however, certain consequences of this truth which most often fall below the radar. For example, unless you dispute the scientific validity of Darwinian evolution, you would have to agree that WE, Homo sapiens, are ALSO animals. You made another critically important observation: "the extra level of intelligence [of humans] being thought to the future then perhaps thought to learn..." While tempting, this widespread assumption cannot stand on its own merit without deeper scrutiny. My dispositive claim is this: ALL animals, including the HUMAN animal, live entirely IN THE MOMENT. You can establish the veracity of this existential concept with a simple thought experiment. As you are reading this sentence, try to STEP OUT OF THE MOMENT. STEP OUT OF THE NOW. Memories of your PAST can only materialize in the NOW. Projections into your FUTURE can only take place in the NOW. You, me, all animals are permanently "confined" in the HERE and NOW. This simple thought experiment leads, inevitably, unavoidably to one fundamental conclusion: It's IMPOSSIBLE to step out of THE MOMENT, step OUT OF THE NOW, even for humans. One might even go so far as to hypothesize that the very existential definition of "CONSCIOUSNESS" is the ability to experience the NOW. With regard to the "superiority" of human intelligence, if humans design the test criteria, if humans administer the testing, and if humans grade the test scores, then it's hardly surprising that humans come out on top! As I said previously, if the definition of INTELLIGENCE is HUMAN intelligence, then obviously the game is zoologically-rigged and purely self-serving in the first place. This traditional manner of defining intelligence is entirely consistent with other presumptuous human claims of uniqueness, centrality, and superiority: e.g., our planet being at the center of the universe; our species being disconnected from Darwinian evolution; our species being the only one which can navigate long distances, but the truth being that migratory birds can navigate thousands of miles with pinpoint accuracy by orienting themselves to the Earth's magnetic field, etc., etc. One area where human intelligence is indisputably unrivaled, namely, technological development, cannot be seen entirely as positive. Just think about nuclear weapons and climate change. None of the above is inconsistent with my belief that Dr. Michio Kaku is one of the most brilliant people on the planet. One could rationally postulate that an alternative -- and arguably better -- definition of "INTELLIGENCE" would be the ability of a species to control its own POPULATION, its ability to thrive IN HARMONY with other species, and its ability to prosper in an ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE manner. Using those criteria for "intelligence," then we humans, most unfortunately, have never even graduated from Elementary School. Wishing you (and Oscar) peace as well, Michael Giannelli

Michael A. Giannelli hii. i dont think your right in saying "the human animal" humans are humans and animals are animals Because they dont have the ability to predict and think rationaly like humans does. the homo-sapien has what so called a "super intelligent" - humans nature and the natural world are a completely different things - for example - when you take antibiotics you interfering with natural selection /when you put glasses /when take medicine / when you put your shoes on. humans and nature are Different- so please dont call us "the human animal" it is very offensive and untrue. there is a big reason why we walked on the moon and other species remain -inferior to us (intelligently speaking) . and you say that we also live in the NOW like every animal..this isnt true at all - have you every saw a dog kill himself..have you have saw a dolphin with a "nervous breakdown"...have you ever saw an animal so Stressed out about the "TOMMOROW" that it had to go to a psychotherapist... i dont belive you did.. so that it for now. have a nice day.

i Believe so ...yes i am a human.... i dont get you .. (:

Oners82 There is evidence that nonhumans can plan for the future. eg. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309121931.htm

Manoel Guilherme Cavalcanti Mello Filho I agree. I look forward to how Michio kaku's perspectives increase in specificity in regards to these levels of consciousness... I will study it and compare it to the processes of which I also arrived at and even more detailed assessment that is just like what Michio kaku's talking about here.

Manoel Guilherme Cavalcanti Mello Filho I think that you are not alone in the belief that Michio Kaku is one of the smartest people alive... I'm totally fine with the world believing that because that means I'm one of the smartest people alive. There's a lot of us that get ignored because we aren't diplomatic enough for society to recognize.

Truthseeker182 well then, if you watch all of my content your head's going to explode. Enjoy.

HappyThoughtsYu-Gi-Oh! I liked that a well. Great interview.

Lemuel Uhuru That kind of fear goes both ways... Some people are afraid to be questioned while sometimes, some people are afraid to confront CERTAIN other people particular questions... I will rip motherfuckers to pieces for saying dumb shit... Strong negative feedback to stop positive feedback loops, of which become the corruptive status quo driven distractions of the day... The items of division and shill mongering.... The weapons of mass distraction. Because of this I've become a Serial mind rapist... a mother fucking red pill machine gun... Usually people are afraid of confronting me with opposing views... Muhahaha

Lemuel Uhuru really what's happening is an addiction to confrontation, Sports driven mentality brainwashing and it's mixed with a little bit of honeydicking manipulation in the form of giving the viewing public what they're looking for... The majority of people that get on social media are addicted to high school debate team bullshit... The entire time they watch anybody display their thoughts they have these high school debate team bullshit points they keep on inserting into the field of information... The majority treat philosophy as if it's a game for them to win at. Then they get on the internet and argue over there dumb shit opinions... Psychological Association to winning with a dopamine release. Being right in regards to your beliefs is a form of winning and it feels good to pretend that you know what you're talking about... Very addicting indeed. This is even more applicable when the statements being made are likely true because that's the worst thing you can tell anybody. The truth disproves everybody's logically flawed, cognitively biased diarrhea of the mouth opinions... That's when people will play the game of high school debate team bullshit, Bill O'Reilly, self-deluding mentality more than any other instances of communication. The majority of social media personalities are just as much Junkies as they are salesman of this particular drug. I find all of it fucking disgusting, primitive and a waste of fucking time... Regardless of the quality of the people being interviewed at this podcast, this factor of manipulation is still an aspect of its popularity. The Jerry Springer effect if you will... nothing like some good old chair chucking drama to put people in the seats.

Thank you very much Michael. I really appreciate your kind words of support and I am very happy you enjoyed my questions so much. I always do my best though I have to admit my performace and/or my connection with my interviewees does fluctuate and doesn't works out as well as it did with here. Plus, different people like or dislike different things so somone's favorte interview is someone else's worst one ;-)

Ram Blake I'm glad that you appreciate intelligence... it's rare that people do these days.

***** Thank you very much for replying; because I lost the link. I have been searching for this video on and on to watch it again. I respect your effort especially you come from a different background than kaku. Peace, from Oman

Our method only needs a distributed network of low cost sensors and an ordinary cloud system for data analysis.

Yes that was amazing

Should watch eo Wilson eusocial Wilson

Phillip Jones well prepare to have your mind blown because my taxonomy, the tiers of awareness and emergent Consciousness is far more detailed. This is my speciality. It's my life's work. Michio kaku's just getting started. There is no comparison. I've spent my entire adult life studying emergent phenomena and how it affects our perception of reality of which in turn affects our psychological state of which in turn affects our sociological state... I had to reinvent the wheel for all of psychology because it was not sufficient to understand the level of Consciousness that currently exist... the tools of which to describe it did not exist. The current tools were archaic and ambiguous. Don't presume that Michio Kaku has all the answers or that he's the smartest person alive.

+lacrymal1 You mean to say that animals ARE conscious of the future, right? Otherwise what you say make little sense.

+lacrymal1 I do agree that some animals to a limited degree are conscious of the future, on the level that they can think "I have to find food for the winter", etc., but they can't think of the far future many years ahead, in the way we can and do. I think we have developed this ability (and it's not developed enough!) because we have developed the ability to change our future when we evolved into more intelligent beings. An example: Suppose a bunch of people live on an island. One day, the water level starts to rise, slowly, but steadily. We humans can predict when it's going to flood the entire island and escape on a boat, well before the island sinks under water. The animals can't. Even if they have the chance to escape, if they take the desicion in advance, they don't. They stay and drown.

+lacrymal1 The is a difference between instinct and consciousness of the future.

MrAstrojensen They can think into the future, but they are not material beings like us. They don't care about money or possessions. They live to be comfortable and enjoy the now. We are the only creatures that stress about what things we will own or how we picture our life being right before we die.

Fred Barnard My example of a dog hiding when he's done wrong to avoid a spanking, is not instinct. It's a learned behavior which requires knowledge of the future, being that there will be a consequence for present wrong actions. Instinct would be getting in the trash to find food, but knowing it's something he's going to face a consequence for in the future, is not. If he has a bowl of food on the floor but still digs in the trash to find other food, it is his choice which he makes, knowing the future risk of a spanking.

I'm an engineer and I felt the exact opposite - I found Kaku's theory to be shallow and unoriginal. The fundamental problem is that Kaku seems to confuse consciousness with intelligence. Just because a system is capable of thinking flexibly about the future, *doesn't* make it conscious (and vice versa). For all we know, a thermostat may have the exact same subjective feelings as a human - that claim may sound absurd, but try to prove otherwise ! What's more, the idea that consciousness may have something to do with feedback loops has been around since at least the 1970s (read 'Godel Escher Bach' for a fascinating and entertaining introduction). This isn't new - there are decades of research into the field, attempting to pinpoint the specific brain circuits that correlate with conscious experience. Kaku doesn't add anything to this research. But more troubling, in this entire interview I don't think Kaku even mentions the 'hard problem' of consciousness - that of qualia and subjective experience. Why does the colour red "look" red ? Why does pain hurt ? How do we know that a person is conscious but a rock is not ? Kaku glibly proclaims that he has figured out how to bring a physicist's rigour to this field, yet he seems to be unaware of these fundamental questions. Deeply underwhelming.

Chris F Depends on what you think consciousness is. I think is just a product of intelligence and there is nothing separate. Thermostat reacts only to temperature is the lowest level of complexity was used as one unit for his scale that seems appropriate. I think he mentioned a plant (a flower if I remember correctly) next that reacts to more stimulus and is more complex than just a thermostat. As humans we are quite complex but maybe an even more complex thing will feel so much more conscious that us that we will seems as irrelevant as a thermostat or flower. A machine that will be at our level of understanding and reacting to what is around, predicting the future, will automatically feel as conscious as we think we are. I do not think consciousness is something separate but a byproduct of this complexity nothing more.

***** All evidence being pulled in these days is poitning exactly to this... We just have to shed this arrogance of humanity we have carried faultily throughout history imo. We continue to have those that think in the, "World is flat or the Center of the universe Mindset." Its nothing more then a virtual byproduct; all of which is necessary to exist at the higher lvl; and I'm sure out there is life that is beyond even that. As of right now I believe (this month?) 2 people have officially had their consciousness turned off.

electrodacus you're right, his description of Consciousness is very good.... Mine's better. 😉

electrodacus he specialized to do math and I'm specialized in pure logic, cause and effect analysis and abstract puzzle-solving... Then I lean to the social sciences and dip into any field necessary to answer the questions. No curriculum. Total intellectual freedom. The things being spoken of are my speciality.

+Nikola Danaylov Indeed! and I'm looking forward to doing just that!

you are most welcome my friend! ;-)

902 theories are fluctuating field of probability, not a right or wrong answer... No matter who's right in science everyone involved wins. We all celebrate the arrival of a better understanding. It's not a game. 😉

AmazingArends he doesn't say that it ends just that it's slowing down until the next paradigm has been discovered.

AmazingArends I hope you're right.

***** Yes, but we haven't come close yet to molecular-scale computing, which means each molecule performs a computing task.

u-xcesrs are not the end of this point ride. after all,where will they go? everything else is theory. watch. within days they will announce a breakthrough. you could say I'm.....processing the raw data. sorry about the pun

+AmazingArends He was referring to silicon.

Tye3001 He didn't say Kaku was born with his intelligence.

Chesley Ramos I think I must have commented on the wrong comment. My comment makes no sense to me either :(

Lol it happens

It takes decades of reading, speaking and interacting with other smart people. If you start now you could probably do it by 2046 if you really wanted to.

Hamza - Slay Your Dragon I have a disdain for Flowery language... I wonder if Michio Kaku hates plane that game also?

+Nikola Danaylov didn't he mean prof. Tesla the father of unified electrical applications??