So happy we've still got the assimov debates! It seems like its been forever, we need multiple assimov debates per year, please Neil!

@bootstrapperwilson7687

3 жыл бұрын

Asimov. One s. Asimov. One s. Asimov. One s. Asimov. One s. Asimov. One s. Get it?

@vikranttyagiRN

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. You spoke what I was thinking

@MartinJohnZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@bootstrapperwilson7687 Of course you're right, but please, don't be an as about it.

This is the best side of youtube. Great minds drawing from their vast experience to wrestle with the biggest questions we as humans have.

@Peterwhitlock

3 жыл бұрын

????????????????

@PimpDaddyDisco

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you aren't referring to DeGrasse Tyson. He thinks he figured everything out decades ago and ignores any contradictory facts. He's a smug, close minded, asshole

@triplez7313

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. These intellectual panel discussions are by far the best content KZread has to offer. The polar opposite of KZread shorts.

This forum gives me a new appreciation for Mr. Tyson. He really handles the moderating well while contributing to the discussion. I'll be looking at all of these. Thanks all.

@isidoreaerys8745

3 жыл бұрын

Isn’t he great? Shows a side of him I never appreciated during his tv appearances.

@drewg4323

3 жыл бұрын

They are all worth looking at

@douglasraddi1428

2 жыл бұрын

He interrupts way too much. He doesn't know when to stop talking

@triplez7313

Жыл бұрын

I really can't stand Neil but I am very interested in a lot of the topics he discusses so I tolerate him. He's not an idiot by any means. The best way I can describe it is I don't like his persona. Seems very egotistical at times like he has to be the smartest person in the room. Constantly interrupts often right when someone is concluding their point to ask a question that prevents us from getting a full understanding

I have been patiently waiting for the new panel debate!

Nice, I was watching these months ago and was hoping these would continue. I think these types of discussions/debates should be far more widespread

These kind of discussion really make me miss my science college and highschool classes....and yes Star Trek.

@ufotv-viral

3 жыл бұрын

👏🏻👽

@gyozakeynsianism

3 жыл бұрын

There's more Star Trek than ever!

@coreaccount4376

3 жыл бұрын

Star Trek TNG.

@erikwislinsky5961

4 ай бұрын

Plenty of online courses on KZread these days!

Always one of the best things on KZread! Each year is just so entertaining and enlightening.

This was fascinating! I've already watched it 3 times. Please make more of this!

@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory

3 жыл бұрын

If you haven't seen our previous Asimov debates, there's a whole playlist to dig into! kzread.info/head/PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ

Have patiently been waiting years for this! I would just like to thank you all for your time and providing us all an opportunity to expand our horizons

You know a topic like this will be owsome.These types of topics/ debates are always the best.

Loved every second of it. We need more of debates like this one. Standing 👏👏👏👏👏

And we're back!

@ufotv-viral

3 жыл бұрын

👽👍,.

I love these "debates". Thank you for doing it over the years.

Why a video with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Isaac Asimov at the same time has only 500 likes. Unacceptable!!!

@gobstoppa1633

3 жыл бұрын

its because its crap.

@MarkSeibold

3 жыл бұрын

I just added my 'like', and it looks like another 1.4K thumbs up clicks have been tapped since you wrote your message originally above. I found this accidentally, while watching Isaac Asimov give about a half hour talk on his early days of science fiction writing, [which was recorded in the 1970s.] That video brought me then to this video. I now have just learned to see that they have these yearly talks on Asimov, as a dozen or so years now streamed down the page, and listed them year by year, so I picked the most recent one here and I'll work my way back over the years.

These debates are always the best.

@ufotv-viral

3 жыл бұрын

👏🏻👽

These types of discussions make me excited for the future. Amazing job everyone here, intellectual endeavors seem to take a backseat these days to political rambling. These are so refreshing.

If it wasn't because Seth is so funny, I wouldn't be watching my 768th Is There Life in the Universe? video. But here we are.

@zapfanzapfan

3 жыл бұрын

Yepp, he's the reason to watch.

@MysticHeather

3 жыл бұрын

He really is funny

@SoundwaveSurfing

3 жыл бұрын

He looks like Richard Dawkins lite.

A year later and I'm still watching!

This conversation is just delightful!

The long wait is finally nearly over! 8D>

I Always look forward to these talks Thank for sharing your time .

This was absolutely fascinating and wonderful!

s. d. ​finally a new episode after so many months 🙂

@robertronning7016

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@robertronning7016

3 жыл бұрын

You're in a simulation right now buddy Bob the Creator.

a fantastic place as a young man living on long island we took field trips to the planetarium it very inspiring place . WE ARE NOT ALONE

@raphaelklaussen1951

3 жыл бұрын

In all probability, we are totally alone, at least in our galaxy. The barriers to the emergence of life are incredibly difficult to overcome.

@joekey8464

3 жыл бұрын

Extraterrestrials also began from the primordial soup ? and from the billions of specie that had evolve, from their world, one or more alien species attained consciousness.

@abetterroad6169

3 жыл бұрын

@@raphaelklaussen1951 I'm curious not confronting...if we are alone who or what is zipping around our battleships which they have on radar and video of sorts

@micheadam3795

3 жыл бұрын

Of course we are not alone. One question that must be asked is why the huge of amount of distance to discourage of from visiting other stars? If we alone, there would not be any need for such humongous distance. There is actually a planet on the southern sky where there are humans but that planet is obscured by the inter planetary dust and gas . We are unable to se it even with our telescope and radio astronomer instrument. . I said in our back yard.

So glad to find out they decided to do this online!! Such a legendary tradition

omg ive been looking for this for the last year or two...woopee!

Another great debate. Many thanks.

I can't get enough of you guys!!!!💖💖💖🧬🧬🧬

Wonderful just far to short... More plz

I AM SO EXCITED

@kimfigueroa2914

3 жыл бұрын

Very enlightening! I learn a lot of new things about life. Thank you!

Thanks everybody for this.

Many thanks for putting subtitles on!

Amazing discussion.Intelect of those people is outstanding.I would love to meet those people in person.Those Asimov Memorial debates are all S klasse.HUGE THUMBS UP,keep up the good work !

This is the best Asimov debate to dare. I can say this because you just made me binge all the deabtes so thank you for that :)

I am fascinated by this conversation while watching this on my new galaxy Z Fold 2 phone in tablet mode.

Anyone else still patiently waiting for this year's assimov debate? 😇🙏😬

So excited about this!!!!

@ufotv-viral

3 жыл бұрын

👋👽

Thank you guys! :)

@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

This was a great panel and great topic. I hope to be able to attend in person one day!

@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory

3 жыл бұрын

We hope so, too! So glad you enjoyed.

It is nice to see scientists addressing the existence of other intelligent life in the universe and enjoy each other's company in the process.

What a wait, after 30yrs the #memorialdebate returns!

I can't believe I'm 10 months late to see this considering I've binge watched the entire series back in 2019

Thanks for doing this again ... This is always a fun interesting conversation ... SO COOL YOU GUYS !! Never stop doing it !!

So thrilled to see this happening this year! An intellectual light in the darkness. Wonderful as always. Thank you for providing this platform!

Best definition I have yet heard to define life as we observe it in all its states 'Life is chemistry with memory'.

thank you thank you thank you! Since my community college & university days, it's difficult to get my fix for intelligent discussion! My major in philosophy instructs me that a definition of life isn't a reasonable beginning, after only investigating the life on one planet, and my computer science minor instructs me that the first important step from "pre-life" chemistry to life is "encapsulation" to create the principle of homeostasis, and my minor in mathematics tells me that life on different planets could simply be similar to mathematical fields - completely dependent on available chemistry.

Thank you to the host and panel

Please don't send carol on the first contact mission lmao.

Thank you for posting this, I missed it very much last year. I could listen to those kind of discussions for hours

@EpicKillstreak

3 жыл бұрын

@Joe M. "2020 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Alien Life"

I think we need to appreciate the question that we ask when we ask if there's life. Because I think what everyone wants to know is if there's intelligent life and that's a whole different question. This an awesome debate 👏

Wonderful! Thank you

They should have taken questions from viewers like they usually do in the Q&A half of the debate

سلام به خدمت همه استادان به خدمت شما برنامه گدار محترم

What a treat! So much fun.

Very interesting! They should definitely happen more than once a year ;)

We really appreciate the IAM Debates, and the technology of video conferencing. But, hey, nothing beats live sessions, with all Neil's humour!!!!! Damn Covid!!!!

When will the 2021 debate be ? will it be live ?

Intersting and very diverse panel. Thanks Neil in bringing these folks together. What really caught my interest was Max Tagmark who started to talk about artificial intelligence as an extension of life. Unfortunately, after Carols reaction to Mr. Tagman's thoughts, Neil took the discussion in another direction before Max could fully respond. Oh well. I would have love to hear. Then at the end, when favorite movies were on the table, interesting films were mentioned. However, I'm surprised that no one thought of the Spielberg/Kubrick film "A.I." which took the idea and implication of artificial intelligence a step further. The film challenged me to think... "What is (intelligent) life, actually?"

Excellent open discussion

Great series and fascinating topic. Most of this discussion is on the macro level which assumes a more complex definition of life. On the chemical, molecular level, it would seem that supramolecular organization that holds design information so that it can reproduce itself would be the basis for “life”. This implies that there have to be moieties or structures that can perform work at a molecular level - e.g. enzyme or protein and a chemical disequilibrium to drive chemical reactions. Colloidal dispersions are very efficient at creating these assemblies and therefore can exist on a aqueous or non-aqueous dominated planet.

Thank you

If life began as soon as the earths crust cooled down, then maybe the theory of panphysicism is a possibility. That life/consciousness exists at the very fundamental level and expresses itself and becomes more complex as soon as the right conditions arise. Who knows!

When is Mr. Tyson doing the Isaac Asimov Memorial panel in person (offline)?

@NobleNeon111

Жыл бұрын

Is it next year?

If our internal biome affects our mood, are we individual organisms that are alive or a thinking community of various lifeforms? If we cannot survive without many other life forms, what is alive? Individuals or the system? Maybe we are just part of a living planet, not actually life ourselves, in the eyes of other planets at least...

@codyramseur

3 жыл бұрын

@Joe M. It makes sense to me. I’ve had the same idea for years. You have microbes in your gut that without them you’d have a much shorter lifespan. You don’t produce the oxygen you need to survive so trees and algae are a functioning part of our collective respiratory system. Just sayin it can be a useful thought experiment to contemplate what you consider your “self.”

@mattjack3983

2 жыл бұрын

"Individuals or the system.." I'd say that we are Individuals who are apart of the system. We cannot survive without the "system", so we must be apart of it if we are to exist. But the system does not need us for its own existence. Remove us from the system, and it will continue to exist and function without interruption, almost like we were never here at all. We need it, but it does not need us. So in that sense, I say that we retain our individualism while being apart of the system. I dont know, maybe that doesn't make any sense at all lol. Thats just my own worthless opinion on it that no one asked for🤷‍♂️

Wao... ty so much for this. yall just opdatede my brain. What you seek, is also seeking you

I missed this a lot in 2019

Great, thanks!

Vera is such a legend! Loved the way she explained concepts and her arguments! Would've made a great teacher. Big kudos

Very interesting ideas, lots of fun.

This was excellent.

Entertaining! Nice.

I absolutely loved this conversation... Deep thinking without constraints.. well one.. which will go unmentioned.. 5 stars

Thank you Neil...for the journey through such diverse lenses. The blob was also my choice, because it sits outside the boundaries of our expectations, or imaginings. Which addresses my question.....how do we begin to perceive beyond our limitations? ........ humility perhaps?

600 books! A bounty of original and collaborative achievement. What a legacy. And here we are to push on. And here we go.

@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164

3 жыл бұрын

I think I've read 10 of them so far.

Thanks for this! My favorite alien is from Galaxy Quest, the Thermians. They're Cephalopods! (with advanced mimetic capabilities)

Amazing that the absence of an audience doesn't seem to crimp their discourse. In years past I recall polite chuckling from the gallery but these pros can keep slinging ideas and slipping into and through each other's fields despite not only having no crowd but also each sitting in separate locations. I miss having good conversations. Love my dog and all but she isn't much of a conversationalist.

I'm 5 minutes in and ... this is so cool! I think NDT is going to a great host/moderator.

Awesome.

will there be an alien disclosure soon?

First Asimov debate video for me. Reading Asimov's Foundation series at the moment too. Really enjoying listening to you all. Edit: Love Vera! Edit: I'm with Seth, the alien from Alien is my fav. I just wouldn't want to be on the same planet with it!

@NobleNeon111

Жыл бұрын

Same! First one for me too!

Where is the 2021 debate ?

More like this please

We’ve been requesting a computer scientist for these debates for years 😞😞😞 let’s grab one for the next debate on the universe 👍

Best avent guard book on the subject is Edgar Mitchell's "Beyond UFOs: the science of consciousness and contact with non-human intelligence volume 1" - written by scientists interviewing thousands of contactees to findvtge commonalities.

@jodyknight

3 жыл бұрын

It really bugs me that these so called scientists have sold their inquiring minds to the powers that be and just avoid the topic of the aliens that are already here as exposed by many other scientists and people who have either seen or have seen the evidence of aliens and who will not be silenced by those that wish to control what we know. Many intelligent and credible people have now come forward with their experiences with alien technology and/or alien life forms so please let's not keep pretending that they don't exist because it's insulting to our intellect and shirks our responsibility to tell the truth. We could be using all kinds of advanced technology that would help us to stop damaging this planet but because they want to sell us stuff for as long as possible so they get richer we have lies shoved down our throats and some of our smartest people are bullied into silence so they tow the BS line.

My word ! I am born 1959 and had family that worked on the lunar excursion module that went to the moon. I have always been inquisitive , often found in the library reference section (Google in the 60s and 70s when I was a lad ) if I was cutting classes. Classes bored me , the reference section ... now there were answers and questions yet to form ! These panelists and Neil are so driven , they are accomplished and still pushing ! I can only dream of that fire driven quest they have , and perhaps I too had ... once. Must visit 200 central Park West !

I’m surprised they didn’t mention K-pax near the end. Such an underrated alien movie with no real depiction of what an alien ought to look like.

we don't know what life is, we don't know what intelligence is, what we've learned in the last 500 years?

Discussion starts at 11:29.

Hello from Mongolia!!!

I wanted to just say that I just found this channel, and I am really appreciative of what you’re doing. I also appreciate women panelists who are on this panel. As a younger woman in STEM, it is so nice and encouraging to see women included in these panels. ❤️💫☄️🌎👩🏽‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬

Considering how interesting Vera is, I would definitely ask her to marry me, too. 😁 These people are wonderfully unboring, btw. 🙂

@1:21:44 the best way to explore the universe would definitely be to seed it. also an efficient way of long distance space travel.

What a company! Thank you for that debate, it was a real pleasure to watch it! A few thoughts after going through it for the first time (I have no stable knowledge of science and I am not a native speaker of English). Let me start with "The Thing". How would you think of the transition from the 1951 to the 1982? In some way it makes me think of the most powerful religion in our region, Christianity, growing out of Judaism but departing from it significantly (from the blood consumption being forbidden to the consumption of the blood of God), pinpointing which is also my suggestion concerning the ways we can think of life. When we open the Holy Bible and read The Genesis, we learn that the man and the animals were to feed on plants. From that we travel to my current question of the Last Supper with the Christ body and blood, what the event was exactly, which starts a few questions aside: What kind of body did Jesus have? Then we travel to our times. It is 31 years between the two movies. If someone has a crazy scentific imagination a bit similar to mine, they can imagine that the superb extraterrestrial intelligence can communicate to us as God can - through signs or ideas rising in our minds (I consider the advanced extarterrestrial intelligent life still under God). If we put the two together and believe that the ideas the Hollywood movie writers have might come from an extraterrestrial source, with the extraterrestrial presence being active in the history of humankind on the Planet Earth, we could read a message of transition from The Thing 1 to The Thing 2 and map it against the development of human history as written into The Holy Bible, which could give us a time relation (accelaration, i.e. how fast further changes of the qualitative quantity represented by the change from The Thing 1 to The Thing 2 will be taking place). As for the telescope, would you consider it possible that the inventions we have originated on the Planet Earth only because the ideas came as germs from the outer space, which is by no means anything ingenious to say on my part? My other point has a bit more orignality. How about a different perception, however impressed we might be by the modernity? I can imagine a human species that develops evolutionarily, so there are evolutionary leaps but no "instant jumps" - let me put it like this - by which I mean a change that marks a historical departure from what had been before. If I think of the human species developing in an environment, where culture influenced by what exists in the daily-life reality of the individuals is a part of the environment by definition, I could look at the first technological inventions as different from arriving at tools and uses, a knife would be a tool, the fire used for its warmth or a stone used for cutting things would be uses, a light bulb would be an invention. I would be ready to consider inventions - as I think of the "invention" - a result of the human brain receiving pre-information from advanced extraterrestrial civilisations and developing the invention. To continue my argument - which is obvious only at the start but not in consequence -, I would say the Industrial Revolution is the beginning. I depart from the accepted standard in saying it is the end of the human species. A similar historical process might have been taking place on Mars. I feel uncomfortable about the missing definition of intelligence, or at least an approximation of it. I love the exposition of the radio-wave base for further developments. I think the point can lead to interesting perceptions of categories of phenomena, if they are collected and reviewed again - my crazy scientific imagination I mentioned in the second paragraph. I am not sure if it was purposeful in "The Contact" but the fact that I do not see The Alien when I watch the movie is signifcant for me. Would you see their Spaceship, should they will to arrive here? How about their Planet, should you try to find it with your telescope?

My crush on Max Tegmark just grew even stronger ♥

Wahh hooo! I'm so excited 👍👍👍👍😁

@ufotv-viral

3 жыл бұрын

👽👍👍👍

"Silicone life coughing sand", ha ha, golden

Awesome bravo!!!! Still love going to the museum and the park that’s Neil for remembering Issac Asimov and his legacy 👌🏾🙏🏾

@Elwin3918

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks neil👍🏾

Dope!

Yees thank you