Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the realest.

I don't remember who said this, but I think it gets at the core of the problem: "I'm a materialist, but we don't know what the material is."

I swear to god if I find out I'm not real Im gonna freak out

I just want to thank you Robert for all your work over the years. You are an enlightened thinker of the highest caliber!

I think that the ultimate reality is consciousness. Without it, nothing exists. Even if something exists, how would you know that without consciousness.

This content is a true treasure for us all. Thank you!

With all this professionally produced content, this channel should have millions of subscribers. Though sadly the masses aren't able to comprehend such deep subject matter.

one of the best channels of the web

What a fabulous series . . . I keep in mind the immense amount we have yet to explore , to discover , to learn . What we understand now as energy and fields will eventually further reveal their elements and structure. A deeper understanding and meaning to all we know now will eventually be obtained , unified , Understood. Bringing us closer to the ultimate truth :) keep up the brilliant investigation.

Love this guy..👍🏼

Thank you for another video asking yet another of the fundamental questions - this one on what is “real”? My view briefly is this. What is “real”? What is “ultimate reality”? What is “truth”? The answers to these and many other related type questions (which were the subject of other of your videos, by the way) in my view depend on: A. Definition: How the word or category is defined by us; B. Subjectivity: Our subjective consciousness-filtered experience; and C. Philosophy: The philosophical base or predicate from where we start. A few quotes (real and extrapolated) to ponder on the question of what is “real”: 1. “Row, row, row your boat . . . Life is but a dream.” Children’s song 2. “The world is Maya (illusion or delusion).” Hindu philosophy 3. “The three-dimensional world of ordinary experience-the universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, houses, boulders, and people-is a hologram, an image of reality coded on a distant two-dimensional surface.” Leonard Susskind on the Holographic Principle. 4. “Are we living in a computer simulation?” Nick Bostrum on The Simulation Hypothesis 5. “Philosophy is dead!” Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design “That, sir, is itself a philosophy!”, George Ellis

I heard Mr. Kuhn more than once say he wants to explore different thoughts and he stays in the Western Thought process. Mr. Kuhn if you are reading these comments explore Eastern thought and a lot will change if you are capable of letting go. Example read Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel. I like Closer To Truth, I am a little tried of going in circles.

Please interview Bernardo Kastrup. He unites the physical and the mental within a fundamentally mental reality.

Unfortunate that categorizing reality is given such priority when the act of categorization destroys our connection with reality, our perception of reality.

The purely scientific answer would be, “Something is real if it is measurable or observable”. But is that enough?

Anyone who questions reality is thinking too much. Foremost, the one self is the most fundamental reality, like Descartes said, “I think therefore I am.” The world around us, from quantum particles to galaxies, are quite real because for every action or inaction there are consequences- it’s a fundamental principle as gravity, energy, and time.

this discussion did not start as I had anticipated ... I had imagined it was imperative to establish the difference ( categorize ) between what 'is' and what 'I perceive' ... IE how to differentiate between the two ...thereafter one can discuss what each category contains ....ultimately this all falls under the heading "what can happen (exist) will happen"...

We need the Kuhn take on Wolfram's Physics.

Your vids are brilliant!

What a great production, your a great writer too!

I think it's more accurate to ask: What can exist independent of other "things"?

Everyone always uses "a table" as an example of "something made of molecules".

What is Real is dependent on one's world view. One's world view is under one's theology or philosophy. One must first choose which world view he stands upon.✌

people who speak very loudly, are affraid what they have to say, might be very irrelevant.

I lost all my money Gambling on the slot machines... So now I'm here driven to find why I give meaning to meaningless things... Need to wake up and focus on what is real

Thanks

7:42 "there's so many objects you wouldn't even believe it, and we just notice a few of them" I'd say this is especially accurate with quantum entanglement & non-locality; sounds like potentially infinite categories. I'm guessing that the 'amount' we don't "see" is immense. lots and lots of patterns out there and lots and lots of patterns in here. I wonder which came first, the 'blueprint' or the 'object;' or maybe Alfred North Whitehead was right, and there's a lot of co-creation of actual occasions. so many "ideas" so much "time"...and if it's block time with infinite permanent actual entities, would they have hard or fuzzy edges? I think I'm an adder, and probably wouldn't make a very good Buddhist. I like the idea of believing there is a real spoon out there which my finite perspective can prehend at least one of many real 'ways' that it actually is; it leaves open the possibility of endless exploration even though there's less certainty about the thing in itself....*queue the theme song from the original Star trek here*

Robert Lawrence Kuhn probably knows what is real without having to ask so many experts. His is a "good show" and I tip my hat to Robert Lawrence Kuhn for his endeavors but his spoonful of reality from the RIVER OF EVERYTHING...is IT.

My "mind" can easily imagine "beans on toast", but the reality is very different. Having conceived of the thing I desire, I now have to act on the world around me. I need a recipe that tells me what to do and with what to do it. My mind alone could never get me closer to truth.

Well, so far science has won every battle with faith. Religion is a rock. Science is the ocean eroding the rock away.

One thing.."An object not observed might not exist"..like Bohr's quantum ideas? How many times in your life have you been hit from behind? tackled- cars and buses? Something that exists just ran you over and it hurts like hell!

I love this ❤…a thing is a collection of properties and space doesn’t exist. Thank you. Surprising that colour was not addressed. Xx

I suggest that anything that resides on the opposite side of absolute nothingness is “real” in some context or another (be it objective, subjective, phenomenal, noumenal, transcendent or any other imaginable [or unimaginable] state of being).

All is energy, vibrating in different friquinces.

Trees for the forest. Forest for the Trees. We cannot just say what is fundamental because it ignores the complicated. And similarly vice-versa. For instance 'love' is fundamentally made up of quantum particles, of quarks, or superstrings and so on. But it is also the inter-play between those units creating a very complex whole! I think it ultimately boils down to..."What was the question again?". Perhaps it isn't reality that requires enquiry, it should really be the enquirer!?

Being that our hallucinations lead us to so many different ways of believing ... even if one set reality existed, we wouldn't be able to depend on our hallucinations to lead us to that reality.

reality = limitless 🙃🙂

The Birds & The Bees? Sincerely, Knees 19

This Kuhn dude is such a cool person.

Your questions will be answered in upanishad if you can stop pampering your ego. Truth is out there

Conclusion about our true identity from various internet sources, that "We are all One Consciousness" for the following reasons: 1. In this world everything must have a cause, so that something exists because of something else, so do we. 2. It would be very boring / boring if our physical form is only one in this world. 3. It would be very tedious / boring if all humans have the exact same physical form / behavior. 4. Try to imagine emptying all the physical things around us, leaving only the humans, then eliminating all the humans, leaving only the memories, then erasing all the memories, leaving only the consciousness, then connecting the consciousness, feel who we are ??. 5. Body, mind, feelings, emotions and everything else in this world is always changing, then what never changes ??, that is who we really are, namely true consciousness. If everything changes / moves who is watching, there must be someone who remains to be able to observe. 6. All humans communicate with each other is the beginning / the forerunner of humans to unite, today's electronic devices alone can unite all humans, one day the device is implanted in the human mind and in the end humans will open all access to their thoughts. 7. Our bodies are a collection / heap of accumulated memories that were carried from the beginning of the birth of the world's first human through DNA bonds continuously. 8. Twins born at close range, what if all humans were born at the same time? What would happen if the birth of all humans were not influenced by the dimensions of space and time ?? 9. Identical twins of A and B, if all of A's memories are copied to B, what is the difference ?? 10. Law of attraction (law of attraction) that our minds will attract whatever we think, because we are all like one part of the body. 11. Like several video recordings of ourselves, there are videos as vocalists, videos as violinists, as pianists, as drummers, etc. These videos are put together in one video, it will produce a more interesting orchestra, something new and more productive. our world. 12. The greatest enemy of man is himself, currently man is at war against himself. By believing we are all one, the sense of ego will fade because nothing is different between us. 13. That is why religious teachings command us to be grateful and benefit many, If you hurt others, you are actually hurting yourself, so if you are doing good to others, you are actually doing good to yourself. 14. Could it be that we are all dreaming and our dreams are meeting each other on the same frequency in parallel. Have you ever dreamed that when you sleep you switch roles as other people, it's because we are all one. 15. We are not immortal as humans so that we have time to roll through all of life. 16. "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience" ~ Stephen Covey, Have you ever felt that our lifespan is very short, is it possible that our consciousness is immortal?. 17. We are one, only the roles are different, the memory divider between lives is what makes humans feel different / separate. It is enough by brainwashing / erasing one's memory that someone will become a different person but their awareness is still the same. 18. What is fortunate for us is ... consciousness is always looking for / looking for / having the intention / desire towards good / positive / happiness even though we have experienced various wrong ways. 19. When we die, our body and memory are destroyed, how can we remember having died. 20. Why do we have to die? ", When we say dead, one day this eternal question will be asked again and we are always there." The world is a sustainable life "~ Bruce Lipton. 21. In the beginning we were one, but split through a big bang or bigbang until we became different and separated like now, but we are equipped with a sense of love for us to reunite. 22. There is only us and a mirror of ourselves in this world, but there is still another world out there. 23. We will always smile happily seeing each person as himself "How beautiful I am" see the different self. 24. If all consciousness is told now that they are all one, whether the experience gained is enough, the consciousness is designed from the beginning to be different so that there is a lot of intrigue, consciousness is created differently so that when it comes together to have an extraordinary experience of consciousness. 25. We are alone in this universe, but there are many other universes with their own natural laws. 26. Have you ever felt that you have come to a place that has never been visited but feel familiar with that place, as if we have lived in that place sometime?. 27. The world is like a story script that is being written by the author, sometimes it is changed at the beginning, sometimes it is changed in the middle, sometimes it is changed at the end, it all depends on us as writers, and every story has a lesson that can be taken as a lesson. 28. Hair grows by itself, heart beats on its own, blood flows by itself, ideas arise by itself, etc., are we involved ??. 29. Imagine that today there has been an event that causes only you to live in this world, then who were all those yesterday ??. 30. "If Quantum Mechanism cannot surprise you, then you don't understand Quantum Physics yet. Everything that we have thought to be real, is not real." ~ Niels Bohr. 31. On the scale of quantum physics we are all connected to each other, even in double-slit experiments proving that particles change when observed or in other words consciousness can change reality, this has been proven time and time again by the Nobel Prize winners in Physics. 32. Everything we experience by our senses in the end will only be electrical impulses in the brain, is everything real ??. We are beings who are aware that we are conscious. 33. We are closer than the jugular vein. He blew some of His spirit on you. Knowing oneself means knowing its God. Surely we will return to HIM. You are far away, I am far away, you are near me. I am everywhere. Before the existence of this world there was no matter other than Him. There is only One True Spirit, namely the Creator. I live up to your preconceptions. 34. Is the creator only in charge of creating, is it possible that the creator does not want to try his creation through another perspective. 35. There is no reincarnation, it is possible that our consciousness is synchronized, our consciousness is divided by the speed of light so that consciousness can move and divide rapidly through energy, and that's why we need sleep, that's why we are often not aware of something, that's why the size of the earth is reached by the speed of light so that consciousness is divided quickly and evenly, we are like some chess pieces played by a player, that's why if we move at the speed of light, then we can penetrate the dimensions of space and time, when we die we wake up and regain consciousness as long as there are humans who live in this world. 36. Have you ever had a problem and suddenly someone came to provide a solution to the problem we were experiencing, as if someone was sent by the universe to help us in overcoming the problem, which is actually our own consciousness that sends that person to us. 37. A thousand years ago, have people seen, heard and wondered about the advancement of technology today? If we all tend to sin (corruption) then there will be a world of hell, if we all tend to do good things then it will become a heavenly world. 38. Knowledge learns the object, God who created our consciousness, cannot God be the object of knowledge. 39. It is impossible for a human creation that is only in the form of words / symbols to represent true truth. 40. What is the meaning of existence without consciousness? then we are the adventurers of this existence. 41. The life of the world is just a game and a joke, what wins the world game is the one who finds his true self. 42. When the world's existence ends we will know everything. 43. My consciousness is living a very extraordinary life experience, experiencing life with different forms and different places even though my consciousness is always the same, wow .. I'm surprised !! how broad am I. 44. We are a consciousness, a concept that can answer various things. 45. Remember when you were leaving, you were worried you would lose me ??, calm down .. I was everywhere and we will always meet again, believe me. 46. ​​Without searching, what is the difference between us in this world and us in a dream during sleep which just passes by without meaning. 47. In conclusion, whatever role we play, everything is our own design, so just enjoy it. 48. God created us to be happy, so don't disappoint God. 49. Congratulations, because all of you need proof, this is the SECRET that we are one, by we can see the other person's awareness of what he is seeing, close your eyes in a quiet place, focus your awareness on that person, so that awareness is not affected by our imagination, erases all our imaginations, practice continuously until the time comes when our awareness can see the consciousness of others, preferably people we already know. 50. ==Understand and Be Shining== source of inspiration: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtqEa9OIrr-wZIU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npyWlq6Qy7i9kX0.html

Where is this place at 1:04?

Kudos -- 444 Gematria -- 🗽

La mayoría de las opiniones ignoran algunas definiciones formales a las que se refieren al esbozar sus opiniones y se tornan algo ligeras, tal vez sea por el formato de las entrevistas. Claro cada uno redondea su propia idea enmarcada dentro de su teoría, pero no se contrasta contra ninguna idea ni se discuten algunas contradicciones o imprecisiones. Interesante pero confuso.

Thank you dr. Kuhn for this high quality content

Whats the music at the end? 25:26

In the post-truth age, reality is just an opinion.

Well, depends on what you meant by real

To me, so many answers to questions like this depend on the definitions involved. What is meant by the words "Things" and "Real". Things, seems really vague. A bundle of properties? Maybe. To me, things are items that may or may not be tangible and are recognizable. A thing may or may not be real. Real to me, are things that have at least some evidence that supports it's existence. Real includes things like matter, energy, patterns and thoughts.

Try to love that does not deal with human interest. When you accomplish that you find the truth what is real and what is not .

I dont think anything exists except conciousness

I know less after listening to this

Everything is elements of the Nature.

Farid ud Din Attar the conference of birds has almost same explanation for existence of 'things'.

Consciousness is in the brain ,brain dies consciousness disappears ,then matter is fundamental

13:18 Baaam! Robert got owned!

Knowledge is real.

I'm not sure if anything is material. I think how attributes connect is what's real

You decide what is real

there is mental in "fundamental".

What is Real is dependent on one's world view. One's world view is under one's theology or philosophy. One must first choose which workd view he stands upon.

Sometimes I think I am the only real thing and everything else is an illusion around my reality.

Each of us is actually all that is and I think every atom is all that is. I think consciousness came from unconsciousness and discovered that everything is everything and is one wave of probability that can and did materialize like the hear and now. The wave of oneness is what we are and we are what is real. Each one of us is the one that is real. The observer and the observed are what we are. We are the whole thing. It is our Self

@ 22:32 it really mindfucking to know that there could be some other categories in the platonic sense like mathematics , even crazier that the laws of physics could be in there , creates this platonic realm in the first place , or some other alternative.

There are two truth,conventional and ultimate truth.language can only convey conventional truth,ultimate truth can only be experience by the seeker when our mind is silence without thoughts.

2:22 John HORthAWne? Horthawne? We say Haw-Thorne.

Reality is a space that others agree is real..

...... if understanding is possible....🤔

There's no way to know for sure.

My godd@mned existential trauma. It's real.

2:20 the guy with the drink in his pocket. He knows all the answers.

My head hurts!🤕

A thing is a clump of matter that exists in space-time and has mass. Therefore, a thing exists only in the physical world. Reality is always subjective. There must necessarily be a consciousness to perceive what is real. In other words, something is real when we apprehend it with our minds using our senses. Reality is always a projection, from the immaterial realm to the material world.

Why is interviewing his doppelganger?

i really can stand when the voice become loud, almost screaming

Real is defined as something that doesn't change. In this universe everything is subject to change. So nothing in this universe is real. But consciousness is beyond space time and real.

(1) -(4): Echoes of Heraclitus, Kant, Spinoza, Plato

"Things" aren't real, the reality of the inevitability and unpredictability of problems is what is real

Nothing is Real. Everything is Real.

True: Just finished lunch..looked down at the spoon,and how two full grains of rice and a third part grain..were perfectly aligned to look a bit like the symbol for PI. Now,if I wanted to do that just by dipping my spoon into rice? Could I ever do that again? Does that prove the Universe is not determinate? or IS determinate?. Heisenberg might have proved we can't say exactly where a quantum particle is...now. In the 21st or 22 century,,maybe we will..and that will end all religion.

Corporeal and incorporeal are 2 sides of the same coin. They sit side by side with each other but most scientists will never, ever come to that through rational, scientific enquiry. It takes more profound experiences to reach that.

Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the ultimate reality, and whatever is related to Kṛṣṇa is real. In order to count the things, it's necessary to decide what is the first thing, the second thing, etc. The computational theory (Sāṅkhya) provided in the Vedas indicates things are detailed concepts, and concepts are divisions of the chief whole, the original concept, who is Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and is appropriately counted as number one.

It got 2 b that i didn't know what he was talking about In the last interview!😩

In today’s world, there are no absolute truths. It’s an age of speculation, and also awakening.

1308 episodes? When does he run out of questions?

Unless you learn how to work with necessity and plausibility you will never know the answer to your questions..

Thank God ( don’t get hysterical), for common sense.

Constitution is identity. Temporal parts are real. Modal relationships pick out parts of other worlds. Two or more things which perfectly mutually overlap are not two or more things but are one thing.

All the information in all the brains, in all the books, in all the computers on earth; is a very tiny, insignificant portion of the information in the universe.

I think everything is just variation of energy and vibration. Because anything what came into our existence can be made out of these two alone. Be it an object, an emotion, a smell, or a sound. It's all waves of vibration spreading through space at different energy levels. And there's also consciousness which for most people complicates things even further. It is not within us, or the brain where science is looking for it. It's the other way around. The world around us, and everything we know of, and what and how we experience it, is contained within the consciousness. Strange world we live in today, heh?

All is number

Know all...

I have to admit it's frustrating to repeatedly see questions being asked from a shaky premise. Before wondering "what is a thing" or "what is reality", the more basic question to explore is how does one even perceive things and the reality. One does that through the five major senses, which are nothing but passages for electrical signals that can be bypassed. If those have been hijacked, everything that follows is a moot point. From the day you were born till today, if you've been fed data (like in the matrix movie or a digital form of the movie Truman Show) while you've been lying on a bed the whole time, then it makes no sense to seek answers in the study of electrons or the stars and galaxies because you are being toyed with and are interacting with some being on the other side, the proverbial "God". Everyone, and more importantly everything, is just audio, visual, tactile data.

Is it just me or does the dude at 14:55 sound like LIAM NEESON lol..kinda looks like him to a little bit

Reality is One. - Parmenides

What is real? I think real is the energy I see in the universe, matters will disappear in the black holl but the spirit (energy) will keep going. In this life and the next one stay in the light.

_ Playing with words and thoughts. _ Experience, once defined by words or thoughts is already NOT that experience anymore. _ The actual experience in the moment of conscious awareness is the only reality, but it cannot be described or thought of using intellect which in itself invents a conceptual world.

define real.

"What is real" is a philosophical problem. Wittgenstein taught that philosophical problems represent confusions in language. One way to detect such a confusion is to look at a philosophical question and ask for definition of the terms in the question. Often it turns out that a definition of a key term will be elusive. In that case it is already likely that we are dealing with a confusion, not a real question. Since "what is real" is the key question here, we must ask for a definition of "real" in this context. But it seems clear that no one has a definition of "real". In fact one might say that a lack of such a definition of "real" is exactly the problem under discussion. When the request for a definition comes back with the statement that the definition is actually the question, know that you are in trouble with philosophical confusion. The question, that is to say, is not meaningful. It does not ask about a substantive "thing". The question is word play disguised as a serious inquiry.

When he finally just fuckin goes nuts... 25:03