This is a meaningful video, and the debate is worth appreciating. This is definitely one step forward in the right direction. May be a long way to go but ultimately, we will find the truth.

To the great lights of reason. May they shine on in the memories of we who carry the torch further 🤍

To cyberdactyl: Why, what do you have? Not a clue? Trying to consider this constructively, I would suggest that if there was ever going to be anything, by definition it has to be everything, and if an entire universe were to begin, go through its entire existence and eventually end without ever producing minds capable of investigating what existence actually was, then its entire existence would have no significance whatsoever; so we can at least infer that minds such as ours and, I hope, millions of others, are what gives any significance to our universe... against vast odds our Universe has produced minds like ours, so I am inclined to suggest that whether we exist in a multiverse with our universe being the only one that has minds, or not, we are at least one little component of its reason for existing... and that gives us the responsibility to aspire to becoming as worthy and knowledgeable as we can, otherwise, we ourselves will amount to nothing, so let us celebrate by our actions being worthy of this magnificent almost infinite miracle of existence itself, and prove ourselves worthy of the gift it has given us.

I think the question is problematic, not the answer. The question is nonsense. There can only be something. There cannot be nothing. I'm sorry this has haunted you for so long. I can't help feeling this could have been solved within an hour. 😕

Christianity has never made any "only true claim " .it is the WAY ,THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE .

Possibly the opposites thing which is yes no, black white, male female, heaven hell, in out and things like that. So nothing existed for zero amount of time and the opposite of that is everything forever which is reality. The aim of reality then with this idea is to make everything go to heaven forever.

Enough with the hand gestures already FFS!

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Almost certainly a few. A lot of issues at the heart of reality are easier to comprehend if there are some extra dimensions. However, very hard to prove anything.

Why would there necessarily have ever been nothing?

Ask Dr Hugh Ross.

If truth is the focus, it would be interesting that "Closer to Truth" addresses the Four Noble Truths which are central teachings in Buddhism. These truths are to be found looking inward not outward. In Buddhism, the goal is the liberation not the exploration of the reality like in science or philosophy. Therefore the focus is on the understanding of the nature of suffering, its causes, and the path towards liberation. The teaching about impermanence is to remind us that as everything changes, attachment to any temporary state or object is a source of suffering (the First Noble Truth). Dependent Origination shows how suffering arises from a series of interconnected causes and conditions, primarily ignorance (avidyā) of the nature of reality leads to desire and attachment (the Second Noble Truth). Cessation (Nirodha) of suffering can be achieved through breaking the chain of dependencies, particularly by removing ignorance and thus stopping the arising of attachment and desire (the Third Noble Truth). The Eightfold Path addresses the cycle of dependent origination by fostering right understanding and mindfulness, which help in perceiving the true nature of phenomena as impermanent and interdependent, thus leading to the cessation of attachments and ultimately suffering (the Fourth Noble Truth).

If you read over this kind of information, about specific "modules" that go wrong in the light of Sapolsky' book Determined, society becomes a marvelous and fantastic absurdity. Suddenly Cipher's decision to betray the group for a chance to go back to The Matrix without the burden of (edit: the knowledge of) it's inner workings seems so reasonable.

I'm confused by the difference between the reticular formation and the amygdala. They both seem to be involved with the importance of the information.

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I wonder why the great apes have not detected more advanced life forms here on earth. Perhaps this means there is no more intelligent species. Or perhaps the technology of the apes is so primitive that they have no way of detecting more advanced life forms.

The sci-fi author says if there are silver guys coming down and disemboweling cattle and kidnapping farmers then they are not intelligent life. OK, then are we intelligent life? Because I eat burgers every week and hear of kidnapping and murder every day in the news. Human arrogance is so profound even our most acclaimed thinkers can’t think clearly.

The burden isn't on the Atheist to prove the nonexistence of God, the burden is the on the theologian to prove the existence of something they can't prove exists.

I don’t think it’s trivial at all to worry about whether an AI can be conscious, and to want some type of confirmation. We’re not too bothered by not knowing with 100% certainty that other human beings are conscious, because we didn’t create them. But with AI, if we were to take at face value that they are conscious, then we’d have to accept that we are the creators of life (or a form of life). That’s a very tough pill to swallow.

No

I am not one iota closer to understanding "what are observers?" than when I started this muddled mess of a video. Remember your audience for Christ sake and focus on explaining and interpreting these outlandish concept rather than just getting into a nodding contest with the interviewee. Fucking horrible waste of time.

Idiots..

And yet, people are not convinced that consciousness is what the brain does.

What does it mean to say that people are in an abstract object that doesn't take up space? Dr. Tegmark seems confused. The wod "in" has more than one sense. It can stand for a spatial relation, set membership, club membership, and maybe more. A mathematical set is not a material object. So if there are abstract objects, physicalism, also called "scientific materialism," is false. If there are real abstract objects, that materialism is false. But if it is false, God may or may not exist.

Think about if theres higher dimensionl beings and what theyd be capable of. Faster than light travel. Time travel. Creating something from what we perceive as nothing laws of physics dont apply to them probably could create an entire 3 dimensional universe sounds like God to me

I loved Dr. Daniel Dennett, very sad to hear about his passing, I've would have loved to meet him, he was my absolute favorite, an intellectual giant, a legend, true sage, heard he was also very kind gentle person, huge loss to civilization, I will watch tons of his lectures in the next few days in his memory

Big bang bullshit...science knows almost nothing..just eat drink and laugh..dont worry about Tesla photons fig newton's and morons..

I would absolutely love to believe in the existence of a 'soul' as an entity that exists beyond our brain. I have never seen any evidence of that. I have seen situations of dementia where parents no longer have any recognition of their children or anyone else in their life. I feel that if a soul beyond our brain and body existed, it would not, and could not, be touched or altered by a brain deficit. We certainly imprint our personalities and compassion on other people and they/we retain that after a person passes away. So, the memory of people we love exists in our brains. Even to say that such an entity as a soul or spirit exists, we would say that fully knowing that there is no known plane of existence that such entities would dwell. There is the idea of 'heaven', but it is a theoretical place that whose existence is admittedly taken on faith, not fact.

I would have thought that the responses I get from the likes of ChatGPT and Claude require consciousness, yet it seams clear that they are not conscious. I suspect we are getting close to answering the question of whether machines can be conscious with a “no.”

You have all of these life forms on earth that require mating to take place for a new life to be created. It is not a trivial question to ask where/how did the first mating pair come to be? The 'chicken or the egg' if you will. With the universe, you can say it all started the point of singularity (big bang) and here we are. The question then becomes: where did the point of singularity come from? Why? Is our universe the only one? Are there many more that are much too far away for us to detect?

Why not entertain the notion that consciousness has already reached Teilhard de Chardin's "Omega Point" in an alternate universe sometime in the infinite depths of past eternity, wherein a singular consciousness had evolved into such an advanced state of being that not only did it no longer need a physical body to continue living, but also figured out how to create another universe out of the living mental fabric of its own personal mind. It then figured out how to replicate itself by conceiving its own offspring (in its own image) within itself. In which case, we, and the Creator of our universe, may simply be the latest generations of the "highest species of being" in all of reality, carrying out a natural and organic process that began as far back as eternity itself.

Why do these fools twist science to justify a mindless god claim?

What scares me is being dead forever but on the other hand I wont have no concept of time when I'm dead.

Given how much possibilities there exist in the natural world, it's good that this Channel is moving closer to truth by also trying to understand the eastern religions, philosophies and thinking. This is the least this channel should do given how much we don't know which is equivalent to everything. Reality is clearly not just the western view

Are they the same? More they’re completely wrapped up together.

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I think fine tuning numbers is simply the universe expressing the experiences and knowledge of an near infinite amount of time and change to get here.. I think. As time is a balance between peristance and change, the adjustments between the notion of a multi verse and a fine tuned universe found the same balance to make what we see and nothing more. Kinda had to be kinda fact.

As my brother said one night as we all camped out under the starts one summer night as kids when we all contemplated what caused the stars and what was here before all of it. Someone said, nothing. He said, there couldn’t be nothing be cause nothing is something.

The Big bang is not the beginning. May be is another stage for the beginning. May be we have unlimited stages for the bignning... This leads us as the multi universes theory to neglect the fine tuning theory or conclusion.

It’s a meaningless question.

Is Page a Calvinist ? I can’t imagine anyone else saying this is the maximally best universe, with a straight face. And Calvinists only do so, because they’re insane.

Fields to fields with ground state energy to quantized fields with energy to fundamental structures. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdhyptSaqpbad2g.htmlsi=waT8lY2iX-wJdjO3 Thanks for your well produced video. Your viewers might enjoy seeing my personal amateur science project in the visual aid linked below. It uses a sheet of spring-like material buckled from the ends to form a Gaussian curve. This is to represents a two dimensional field with the ends bounded. Seeing the mechanical effect may also takes some of the mystery of what the math is showing. See the load verse deflection graph in the white paper on my KZfaq channel.

Where does the simulation argument fit into this present scenario.

A friend of mine who's right side of the brain was damaged, paralyzing the left side of his body, said after waking from the coma that "there is a dead man next to me".

Thank you so much for this episode and the whole series, Closer To Truth!

This is amazing. After my stroke, I could write normally, but I couldn’t read. The letters were perfectly clear, but I couldn’t form the word. I had no problems with either speaking or understanding what I heard. Fortunately, most of my ability to read came back.

He didnt address the question

If you believe in God......then that question does not come to the mind.

It reminds me of a short story by Isaac Asimov called the final question. It's been so long since I've read it that I've forgotten the details, but basically It's about how each era introduces new A.I. technology to help in figuring out how to reduce entropy in the universe, from quantum supercomputers to hyperdimensional computing merged with human brains. And when this ultimate computer becomes so large, it's the size of a galaxy, and as the last black holes begin to die out in the final heat death of the universe, the computer calculates the answer. And it says: "Let there be light".

A question about patients with alien hand syndrome who experience pain but do not associate themselves with the pain. The question is whether their proprioception system is is working correctly ? For example can they accurately localize the source of the pain caused by the pin to the point on their skin where they are pricked ?