He is the first person who sounded so optimistic about the future. Pretty great actually, gives a purpose to our suffering and a direction.

few things are inspiring to a depression-prone atheist logician, so I bookmarked this.

When David Deutsch speaks I listen intently and learn. I thank you sir

He turns up like that and gets a round of applause, I turn up for work like that and get fired, a world of no justice.

This is some of the most inspiring and enlightening stuff I’ve heard recently... This guy is amazing.

Dr. David Deutch is truly one of the great minds of our time.

I’m going to admit I have never heard of David Deutsch before but I like him already. I’ve got some reading to do, something tells me it won’t be ‘light’.

Way to break the monotony of a person speaking by replacing it with a tablet and a broom stick...

WITH THOSE TICKET PRICES THEY COULDN'T AFFORD A BIG SCREEN?

He's such a great chatacter! I love him. Thank you TED!

It'll be great if we don't annihilate ourselves in the quest for novelty.

I think of the human condition as a pretty paradoxical. One is either bored to death or challenged to death and neither prospect is very appealing.

Yes- Novelty!!! I’ve always thought about life as an ‘Emergent Property’ of the physical universe- Life eventually begets communal knowledge that will affect the physical universe, unknowingly & knowingly- “We are star-stuff”- Carl Sagan

How could he give such an inspiring speech about novelty without addressing the probable fatality of the same novelty? I do hope we survive our cleverness long enough to become wise and compassionate.

The intro to all TED videos are actually live streamed footage of the universe waking up.

“Human life without novelty is life without creativity, without progress.”

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

Variety is the spice of life

The more we give meaning to our experiences, the more we open up to feel our feelings and express what's inside, the more we're connected to the magic of life.

Finally, you can do a TED talk in your sweatpants. The future is bright :D

One of the most inspiring people

Damn, for David Deutsch I had to dial back YT speed to 1.25x Particularly remarkable that David Deutsch can deliver this magnificent insightful speech while balancing the broom stick.

his word is remarkable .. you could apply his speech on your daily basis and create something, and not being monotony.

This is Terence Mckenna’s ‘novelty theory’ basically to a T. Search up his ‘what science forgot’ talk. Mckenna - peace be upon him - was obsessed with this idea of novelty and its acceleration through time.

Wow! It's so abstract and profound...

Agree, no matter who (and why) we are..., We have to move on: progress and transform the Universe into the comfortable environment for us-humans, for our being, existence and development. F.e., humans were using fire thousands of years before they understood the nature of this phenomena, humans invented wheels, agriculture and built cities, thereby creating the basis for our modern civilization. The same way, the future generations should benefit from our present activity and creations.

Absolutely fascinating! What an interesting concept.

he explains the biggest picture and paints the humanity's ultimate goal that should be

I was so confused in the beginning, like who tf was talking? Then I saw the tablet or whatever tf that is, and im still confused wat

I was really hoping he would address recent developments of Quantum computing and AI...and how it has the potential for both our prosperity and our doom.

The thunderbolt project has interesting information on the effect of cosmic forces on the mythological stories of our ancestors

Classrooms in 10 years:

One of the most interesting speeches I've ever heard

After waking up from my coma, I was worried that I may have missed years of my life . To my relief, I logged onto KZfaq and discovered that it is still 2005.

Because of novelty it is almost impossible to predict the future. My parents were born at the beginning of the 20th century when the streets of New York were made of mud and horses pulled carriages. There were no cars or airplanes to speak of and Poe wrote about going to the moon in a balloon. They had no clear ideas about what was soon to come, including rockets, computers, atom bombs and the discovery of plate tectonics and human DNA. So how can we predict what the new century will provide, or not. All the numbers show that things are not getting better in all our "systems" of government, industry, economics, environment, justice, equality, health and social and international relationships. The rosy picture predicted by this brilliant talk leaves out the rapidly increasing and accelerating dangers of pollution, diseases, global heating, starvation and extinction. There is the possibility that humans and other creatures tend to destroy themselves when population or technology reaches a certain point. Are we now at a suicidal point in our wonderful yet horrible evolution? Many climate scientists feel we have reached a tipping point of no return and that social, environmental. economic and governmental collapse is unavoidable regardless of creativity, attempts at rapid change and "novelty". Perhaps the only thing novel about our future is the massive size of the impacts of climate wars, droughts, famines, heatwaves, wildfires, storms and floods. If you doubt this, maybe you have been living in a bubble or in a tablet.

I think I can bring a down-to-Earth simplified example of what the good doctor is saying. Think of H Pylori and E Coli. One causes stomach ulcers and one causes UTI's. The small and nearly unseen attacking humans who are many thousands of times larger.

I am translating this video into Arabic for TED. Once it gets finished and published, I wish it to be useful for the Arabic audience. ـــــــــــــــــــــــ Get it now. Have a nice watch!

The ending seems to propose that we could win against entropy without explaining how.

imagine in the future there will be those broomstick simulation robots but with arms, so anywhere in the world you could move around your 2nd home, you could move things around and tidy up, amazing.

That bit about the “great monotony” being a kind of temporary status quo rather than a law of nature made me wonder, is this new “novelty,” or innovation in terms of complex life, possibly widespread in the universe since the conditions of the universe reached a less volatile, stable state where these long-term micro changes can spawn and evolve organisms..

Man is not the figure in the landscape, but the shaper of the landscape...

Beautiful and Promising

We shall overcome through novelty. We live in an unprecedented age, no need for zero sum fear, there is enough for all.

Amazing!, he reminds me of the great David Tibet

Anyone else watching in anticipation as the "broomstick" inched closer and closer to the edge of the podium? :)

David Deutsch is our new Einstein.

Some ppl seem to have a problem with this "awakening" of "universe", they say, that this is human hubris. But this old idea is not about human mankind, human beings are only building bricks, like bible says. And everyone has to work for that goal, if you want it or not. And it was the idea of that "goal" that sparked of our special progress. But the critics are right with their objection. Remember the greece temple with the inscription "recognize yourself" (means in a way to "wake up" ) on the entranceway. But on the exit side there was written something like "that you are not a god". For the god of the abrahamitic tradition, "we" are allowed to become a part of god, if we want, but one term for this qualification is, that we recognize that we are not god. And there is no conflict between novelty and monotony. That there is nothing new, it means for example: whatever we find out about nature, like Kepler mentioned, we already knew that about god; it is not new, because we know god. God does not need to fear any concurrence, because everyone who is going to be a god, is going to be he himself. Some critics say that universe is like an explosion and everything is going to be more and more fragmented and atomized. Yes, but in the same time this would be a physical state of the highest energy. Furthermore empiric science can only recognize finite and determined things, they methodically substracted the lawmaker to get the laws. For science of nature it is very important to subtract out the constructor. ✌️

Awesome talk, everyone should hear it.

If only the HUMAN MINDS can be freed from all religious and cultural tenets, we shall accomplish more things than imagined, and science is really exposing us to the unimaginable.

I always think, will this one be worth watching?

This reminds me of what Sheldon Cooper did in The Big Bang Theory... HEY DAVID DID LEONARD ALSO DRIVE YOU TO THAT TALK?!

hundreds of people bothered to come to a specific location, and the speaker sent a broomstick? wtf?

How do beings with "explanatory knowledge" win in a Universe where their _actions_ are limited by the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and an accelerated expansion of the Universe?

5:48 Jednou to bude všem jasné.

Beautifull

Wow. Well said Sir..

Anyone else intrigued with his Enriched Green Eyes projecting new ideas?

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal.

Deepak Chopra brought me here. Read “Total Meditation“ - it reflects off this concept so well

You really think you're a novelty in the universe? This only proves the limits of our capabilities to understand the immense ignorance we contain. Kohelet wasn't bothered by novelty to the extent that he understood its only distraction. Insignificant

it's not true that suffering = staticity, or "just due to the way they processed ideas". look at native humans: they were well because their natural needs were met, they didn't have much technological development. search on youtube "isolated tribe touching message" and also for example you can search "eskimos". David Deutsch is referring to post-agricultural humans, who already lived as hierarchies. most people then just suffered, yes. this is not just explained by staticity or "how they processed ideas": they were slaves.

Úmyslně se zabývám tím co není na první pohled na první pohled zřejmé. Tím že znám věci které existují, můžu poznat věci, které neexistují.

Local segway talks about the human condition and the heat death of the universe.

15 minutes of enlightenment.

Killer backdrop

There is no "winning". Winning implies an end but what end would that be? Also the wish for unlimited development and especially its equation with always being good is one-dimensional thinking, always going "forward".

"Nothing is learned, it is only remembered." What did he say against this idea? Edit : was it the focus on explaining knowledge rather than finding it?

I’m going to draw a caricature of this brainy dude! 🤓

Agent Smith says that suffering provides meaning to human life. That boring is the human life without any suffering (including unfulfilled desire).

LOVE THIS!!!

I'm still waiting for realistic hologram communication.

All is emergent. All realities emerge from underlying emergent realities and are no less nor more real than those underlying emergent realities. The mind is as real as the brain, neither more nor less.

“Under the sun” FE reference

What could we win?

quantum fluctuation messes with the Planck scale, which then triggers the deutsch proposition. CAN WE AGREE ON THAT? Also is the the ancient one with a wig and glasses?

The only contradiction of his theory of the infinite expansion of knowledge in his book and lectures is the fact that the universe is expanding and entropy is growing, causing the disappearance of life and any changes. I wonder why he didn't take this into account when writing the book and developing the theory. If the progress would be limited only by the laws of physics, which cannot be circumvented, then automatically his book should not be created and infinity in the title is wrong. Sorry for the mistakes, Poland greets the hungry for knowledge.Feel free to discuss

Fascination perspective, but the final conclusion is incorrect; in the battle between complexity and entropy, entropy is the ultimate winner; your hierarchy principle may not be a natural law, but the laws of thermodynamics are ultimately immutable...

this is my favourite anime

Remember the moment where you first saw a man giving a speech remotely to a room full of people via a iPad on wheels. Don't ever tell me we don't live in the most exciting time in history.

beautiful

Where is David?

In the absence of intelligence the universe is deterministic. Our cognitive abilities and desire to affect change negates that determinism. We become the masters of our collective destiny. Sounds like free will to me. The most powerful gift that God has given us ... You are eloquent,but your intellectual gymnastics only proves there is nothing new under the sun....

Perfect

Dave is right; 10^40. It checks out.

@1:30 what has been is what will be and what has been done is what will be done So nothing new under the sun up to now.. This kick off should have been more authentic. This is from Linkin Park I believe: the journey is more important than the end or the start and what it meant to me will eventually be a memory of the time when i tried so hard I tried so hard and got so far but in the end it doesnt even matter i had to fall to lose it all but in the end it doesnt even matter. in the end It does not say what he tried so hard or whether it was something new or just new to him: in the end, it does not even matter. The biblical text sort of tries to offer this quantum of solace understanding how existence is a next to futile undertaking, no matter how you spend your days with this gift. This one from Alan Parsons Project: old and wise Heavy words that tossed an blew me , like autumn winds will blow right through me. Finally it is all a lot of nothing, no matter how many new things get invented? You look back and all you see is your own memories or a lot of thin air.

my horoscope disagrees

Which came first: David Deutsch or Terence McKenna?

My favorites scientific mind

CHATGPT SUMMARY - Humans have historically lived with low expectations and a pessimistic view of their world and future. This view is seen in ancient myths and even in 20th century physics. However, humans are not just victims of cosmic forces, but shapers of their environment. Novelty is created through significant changes with lasting effects. The beginning of the universe created space, time, and energy and was an era of novelty. However, at some point, novelty vanished from the universe.

Time is Relative to Perspective. It's only been a few days.

15:10,,a grain of sand can cause a big blister and effect the future

What, a genius that has to read his speech while every other Ted speaker I've ever seen recites their's from memory?

"Soon the Earth will be the only object in the Universe that deflects asteroids instead of attracting them". There's a glorious future ahead.

To sum: Consciousness is in the drivers seat!

Thats the coolest fucking idea ive ever fucking heard

Hands down, best ted talk I have ever heard

Sounds like he's at war with someone. Talking to people more often in person might ease the tensions.

Sometimes I balance a broom on my hand like that Rumba is doing

A monotonous take on a great subject.

We really know very little aboout the universe. We can only perceive a miniscule part of the universe.