Robert Lawrance Kuhn deserves far more number of views, likes and subscriptions than he's getting.

@mattcorregan4760

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, but most people are too busy trying to entertain themselves to even ask themselves the larger questions such as the meaning of our existence.

@tevellealexander8086

Жыл бұрын

I like him, he's a "thinker".

@deepaktripathi4417

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@Buzz_Kill71

Жыл бұрын

It's still early....😂

@katherinecarlson4762

2 ай бұрын

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RLK is the Carl Sagan of scientific spirituality. Well-reasoned, challenging, and insightful, Dr Kuhn inspires a journey to get Closer To Truth.

The people he interviews on his quest always seem like such nice people. Way smart, but balanced and humble.

Best channel on KZread. You da man, Dr. Kuhn. I wish we could meet.

Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the real deal and blows out of the water pretty much every other science yt channel hands down

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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Does consciousness have a reason ? This question should come first. I love this channel. Thanks for having Dr. Michio Kaku, I adore him.

@benitoacasiete9503

2 жыл бұрын

I think that "Does reason have a reason" should come first 🤯

@continentalgin

2 жыл бұрын

See Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Toss in some Beckett.

@arthurwieczorek4894

Жыл бұрын

Consciousness is a property-function of DNA possessing organisms. It is a device, one of many, for conserving that DNA.

@nova8091

3 ай бұрын

@@arthurwieczorek4894great assertion can’t wait till you get an argument or any scientific evidence for that claim other than “the brain reflects the mind therefore the brain is the mind”

so if you watch enough of these terrific shows, you may conclude as i have that among all these brilliant philosophers and scientists, the best and brightest of them all is the guy who's asking the questions.

Can’t get enough of this Chanel. Thank you for making these educational videos.

I always enjoy watching these videos because they address the questions we should be asking.

Thank you !! I discovered this channel a week ago but it's already my favorite !

@Thuglife-uw4wx

4 жыл бұрын

So did I but for how long?😄

@SpittinSquirell

3 жыл бұрын

I did too! Weird!

@colinjava8447

3 жыл бұрын

It's good, but you don't really learn anything, it's just possibilities of how and why things are.

@SpittinSquirell

3 жыл бұрын

That's really all this show is about. He doesn't give you hard facts just highlights different theories and thoughts. Closer to the Truth not Here is the Truth.

fully agreed as to the value and outstanding quality of this show. thank you Doc.

Wonderful series of videos by Robert Lawrance Kuhn.. Show his vast knowledge, logical mind and massive effort.. Big thanks..

Why this channel has so little subscribers..hands down the best channel on utube

Michio Kaku does a great job of explaining things.

@memaimu

2 жыл бұрын

@Blue Gh Yes.

One purpose of the universe seems to be evolution thru trial and error. We see this throughout nature. The universe is evolving towards super intelligence or the creation of a God in our current understanding. This channel is amazing.

Love this channel and all that Robert Kuhn investigates

Excellent content!

Thanks for your work and for this channel!

Great segment, engineer why and how the truck works , driver hopes it works, Robert articulates excellent questions, guests often answer eloquently, mentally I absorb the conversation , myself I couldn’t verbalize like the guests , I’m a big fan of “Closer to Truth “ 🤔👌

I appreciated that you shared your thoughts in a documentary way...

I love how honest You are

Always informative about big questions.

A wonderful episode of this fascinating series! Cosmic!

It's rather satisfying to find that all these very clever people struggle with the same basic concepts as I do myself. What was also rather satisfying was that I actually understood this one, whereas more typically I watch and listen in awe but do not fully comprehend. Perhaps it's rather arrogant of us to assume that there must be meaning for our existence, perhaps we should accept that our existence is purely a byproduct of the Big Bang, thereby eliminating the need for humanity to have any greater significance than that.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

If you will forgive me, if they are "basic" concepts, wherein lies the struggle? Do you struggle with bread or water or air? - They too are basic concepts of a not? Your problem may be that you have not the faintest idea what you mean by "the cosmos". As it happens the word cosmos is simply an old Greek cognate or synonym for universe and the truth of the matter is you have not the faintest idea what you mean by the universe either is it not? My left pocket now bets my right pockets that you are about to demonstrate that you have not the faintest idea what you mean by either the universe or cosmos and are about to demonstrate that by signally failing to set out what you mean by either the universe or cosmos without reference to cognates and synonyms or other forms of psychological algebra.

Elsewhere I have heard the idea that our existence is the universe itself becoming self aware. I'd like to hear more on that idea.

@pinkyrng7104

4 жыл бұрын

Basically the idea is that everything is the universe since it all came from a single point, so in essence we are the universe experiencing itself.

@BILLY-px3hw

4 жыл бұрын

The answer is the question, the question is the answer. If there was no reason there would be no question, if there was no question there would be no reason.

@Ndo01

4 жыл бұрын

Check out the Godel Escher Bach lecture series or book

@carduchi5881

4 жыл бұрын

Check out allan watts

@bobs182

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps human self awareness is just another aspect of what is and is significant only to us.

A very good chanell. I love those kinds of videos. Dr. Kuhn, you are a very smart man. Greetings from austria. Jonathan

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

If asking futile and answerless question is is being well-dressed or smart, then I think you will find there are good many well-dressed or smart beings on this planet.

Superb.....Thanks..Just...Thanks for This Episode......

What about the Billions of people who live in poverty or as refugees or in the middle of war, etc...? What is their purpose? Or what is the purpose for their suffering? I have trouble finding purpose because I don't just consider my privileged position in life.

@djmarioc

4 жыл бұрын

Is God to do everything? Then what's our purpose? Maybe we human beings should do the caring on his behalf. The evidence points to consciousness being fundamental and that alone is evidence for God's existence or at the very least the Universe is itself intelligent. Those that disagree with evidence probably lacks the capacity to understand albeit no fault of theirs; some genetic mental errency.

@Ndo01

4 жыл бұрын

That's why the question itself is misguided. Things don't have meaning or purpose in and of themselves. It is a relational concept predicated on consciousness. Life is literally the conduit and fundamental constituent for all meaning.

@djmarioc

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ndo01 I agree. But we must not ignore the fact that we live in a closed system. Consciousness isn't some alien phenomenon but that which comes from the unknown just like the other laws. It is the system itself that is conscious and intelligent that manifests itself as human beings among all the other elements and laws.

@Ndo01

4 жыл бұрын

@@djmarioc I too hold this view.

@dare-er7sw

4 жыл бұрын

Simon Sozzi Check out Advaita Vedanta it has a better answer. Search does god allow suffering Sarvapriyananda. Vedanta explains that this entire universe has risen in consciousness and depends on consciousness for its existence. It has no reality of its own. It appears like a dream. It even goes on to say that no one was born and no one ever dies. Look up sarvapriyananda. He teaches from the wisdom teachings of the Upanishads and other sages like Adi Shankacharya

Your videos are exceptionally well done.

Being and becoming. The Eternal is, the Infinite becomes.

Beautiful video!

I would suggest that a vast array of different possibilities of living experiences is the purpose of the cosmos. To explore those possibilities, to live within them, to know what it is to be them. Naturally this assumes that materialism is incorrect...but I have no difficulty assuming that.

@patmoran5339

4 жыл бұрын

I am unfamiliar with materialism being incorrect. Is the current thinking that we are made of something other than atoms?

@bryanguilford5807

4 жыл бұрын

@@patmoran5339 He is probably taking the stance that consciousness is fundamental. I believe everything is made of consciousness.

@marineboyecosse

4 жыл бұрын

@@patmoran5339 I don't know about people's current thinking in general, as I don't go by such trends. I know that the only thing I can say about myself with any certainty is that I embody the experience that is consciousness.

@patmoran5339

4 жыл бұрын

Bryan Guilford so are atoms made of consciousness?

@marineboyecosse

4 жыл бұрын

@@patmoran5339 Is there a good reason why they should not be?

The question of why the universe exists and what its purpose is, may forever be within the sphere of philosophy and speculation, therefore subjective; but this video made me realise that in the process of asking the question and looking for answers, we can discover profound ways and perspectives to study the universe and come up with visions to progress as a species, advance and evolve further. If nothing else, "it is a humbling experience", to paraphrase Carl Sagan and maybe for this reason alone, a worthwhile cause.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

If you will forgive me, "why the universe exists" will bear any number of different interpretations which could embrace causes reasons and motives, none of which could conceivably be attached to non-experiencing phenomena or things or collections of things. You will not get very far with the question "why does the universe exist" unless you set out fairly clearly and accurately precisely what you seek to convey or mean when you use the words "the universe, and unless you can do that the question is otiose futile or pointless.

Thank you for the channel profound information! :)

Perhaps the meaning question is best addressed through a science like psychology rather than cosmology. Maslow came close when he described a hierarchy of needs , culminating in self actualisation. This is fully developing our individual potential, our abilities, our talents, our interests. We can take this up then through levels such as family, community, nation, up to the whole world. The continuing development of civilisation, extending from the progress that Stephen Pinker describes in his book 'Enlightenment Now' is a way to create meaning. SETI remains an opportunity for a staggering insight whether it turns out that there are many instances of intelligent civilisations or that we are the only one.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

Well said, plainly non=experiencing phenomena, or things, do not have the characteristics of experiencing phenomena such as aims, reasons or motives and you may agree with me that sometimes other experiencing phenomena such as men (human beings find it difficult to understand how any phenomena that appear unlike themselves have any corresponding experiences to those that they themselves experience. Quite what is meant by "the cosmos" I have absolutely no idea and it seems that whoever use the term cosmos has no idea either but plainly they assume it to be a non-experiencing phenomenon and thus it is unlikely to be able to experience such things as reasons or motives or aims. However in their bobtailed reason creatures similar to myself or men (human beings, sometimes project their experiences onto things incapable of experiencing those experiences or they talk about things like the cosmos or universe having "a reason", but one wonders reason for what, although it is true to say that human beings frequently confuse reason with motive or cause

I like to look at it this way, "life" gives the universe a purpose a reason and a meaning. and, vegetation is life. even if there was only vegetation throughout the universe the universe would still have a purpose a reason and a meaning. life is life, it gives purpose, reason and a meaning.

@sideswiped6874

4 жыл бұрын

thank you for the "likes" people!

@sideswiped6874

4 жыл бұрын

@Alpha Centauri as for what I said, it is just how I feel about it. like you and all I very well may be wrong, and it does not matter to existence. and I know and understand and except that. but I just like to look at it that way, I am part Native America, I believe and FEEL, yes feel that all things inside the universe are connected, yes I feel the universe is alive.. again, just like all humans, I very well may be wrong.. ""In what way? For example, purpose defined is the the reason something is done, or what something is created for"" if a plant makes a seed, and the seed grows, then the mother plant has a purpose. then with that we should believe the universe is alive. as I do believe that! you are going back before the elements and the Big Bang. if there is or was a creator of the elements and the universe or a creator of the fabric of reality. then everything does have a purpose and a meaning. at the very least in the creator's mind there is a purpose and a meaning. if the elements and the universe are truly just a true accident then the universe does not have a purpose or meaning. yet it does have a reason for being here. and that reason is that the correct elements mixed together and blew up and made a Big Bang. if there is no purpose or meaning for a "true" accident, then there is only a reason for a 'true" accident. unless the universe is alive.

@sideswiped6874

4 жыл бұрын

@Alpha Centauri , I understand that, it's very much the same as saying there is a god. again, I was only saying how I look at it. but as for truth, only a mind can produce purpose and meaning. and there is proof that reality is tuned to produce life. and life gives reality purpose and meaning. well as I see it.

“Intelligence is quite rare” He is correct.

@daithiocinnsealach3173

4 жыл бұрын

And I suppose you claim to be in the elite? Everyone I meet does.

@melmill1164

4 жыл бұрын

Vaul, Dog Warrior NOOOOOO. I don’t know much of anything at all. I am just an observer.

Great episode! The fact that intelligent life might be the “end product” of a universe could mean that intelligent civilizations interacting with the universe using physical laws as an interface is ultimately a way for the universe to become self aware at some point in time

@thomasridley8675

4 жыл бұрын

Expansion means the universe is slowly dying as we speak. Any acquired knowledge will be lost at some point. Even aliens have the same physics to deal with. Time and distance is against us getting very far from our solar system. A dying sun our only headstone.

@bajajones5093

4 жыл бұрын

@@thomasridley8675 please go away, there is no need for a headstone for youl

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

You might have to discover for yourself the question: "what is intelligence?" If you were to discover that question are you capable of remaining in front of it without killing it with answers? The moment you answer your question it ceases to be a question or you kill it. Do you simply assume that you know what intelligence is?

Looking forward to this. I personally do not think there is a reason, but I am not a theist either.

Hi Robert. So, if “as above then so below” is true, as some thought, then ❤️ is the real meaning of life, right? This would tend to be by analogy to the physical law of gravitation-I suppose it must be so much more so for us as erstwhile social animals 🦓 🦔 🦒 . Dr. Tyson, I believe, said that the meaning of life is the meaning you give it, or close to that. However, underlying, it seems to me is the foregoing. What do you think? BTW, what do you think is the significance to the 4th order term in Einstein’s GR? How does that relate to the Newtonian 2nd order one for gravity? Just curious because I saw a recent show on yours around it, and I was thinking of this question when I saw it.

The meaning of life to me is life. We are alive which means the universe is alive. The assumption should be that the rest of the universe is not dissimilar. Like neurons that communicate electric signals, perhaps what will occur when intelligent life discovers each other is to share beneficial information. Intergalactic travel may be too far away.

understanding of the environment on the observational data and using this information for better fitting into the environment for building more efficient tools for gathering and processing information about the observable universe is the main feature of life as a whole. this is how the onservable universe is observing and understanding of itself..

Whats this music at the beginning? I love it!

Robert please keep searching "TRUTH." BROTHER JAMES 🙏

Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an amazing man.

Some people don't take this concept seriously ! All play n no work!! 👍👍

Russell Stannard says "I am never alone" and that he experiences a deep sense of the presence of God. Ive never felt alone either but i have never thought of giving it that reason. Interesting. I am physically alone as much as possible because i love learning about everything, how things work, the human condition, whats beyond it, the nature of substance and awareness of it etc etc. I describe my solitude as no less connected than relating to other human beings. I'm always relating to existence in some vast way. So loneliness doesnt make sense to me, there is simply an underlying sense that all existence is connected, of course. And a constant wonderment at the creativity of it all no matter what is happening.

completey agree with Prof. Guth. 10:05

Many thanks for the video. Cosmic meaning or purpose? Well, one thing we seem to know for sure. We and all humanity are literally part and parcel of the universe itself; we are conscious intelligent sentient beings who are an evolutionary and biological byproduct of star stuff. Thus, we can say this: through us, the universe is actually contemplating its own meaning and purpose.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

Help me with this please: when you use the word cosmic or cosmos", what exactly are you trying to convey when you use those words or rather what associations are evoked in your associative apparatus by those words? If you look up the etymology of cosmic or cosmos all you will discover is that it is merely an old Greek cognate or synonym of universe, and it will avail you a little if you embark upon psychological algebra and simply substitute one unknown for another or say X = Y = Xwhere both X and Y have no value.There is little point in discovering anything about what you call cosmos or universe unless you are capable of saying what you mean to convey when you use the words universe or cosmos. If you tell me that you have no clear notion whatsoever what associations are evoked in your associative apparatus by the words cosmos or universe, I have to tell you that it will come as no surprise to me because it plain to me that when people use the words cosmic cosmos or universe - or any universal for that matter, they have no corresponding associations evoked in the associative apparatuses which is to say they have no idea what they mean or seek to convey when they use them and it is highly likely that you will be for to tell me that you have no clear notion whatsoever of what you mean by cosmos or universe. To make that simpler, if I ask you what you mean by cosmos or universe you will have to tell me that you have no idea whatsoever and are about to do so by signally failing to set out what you mean by cosmos or universe, for the simple reason that you have no idea, and thus cannot, as you are about to demonstrate, Moreover were I to forbid you from employing cognates or synonyms that would make your task even more difficult because it is very difficult if not impossible for human beings to set out exactly what they mean by cosmos or universe without using cognates or synonyms or resorting to psychological algebra or X = Y = X.

The Quaker "inner voice" is a sort of email from heaven.

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All these folks talk a lot but just dont know :-) Thanks for your excellent videos Robert!

I would guess that the Universe has every reason possible, every purpose possible.

Cosmos, what is your reason for, well for anything? Answer me Cosmos!

The purpose of life can be seen as to experience your life and self-expression. Each of these experiences can be interrupted, so a major goal is not to be interrupted on these fundamental components/options in living. Self-discovery of Kaku ... yes.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

With respect the words meaning and life do not appear in the question as posed and its exact words are does the cosmos have a reason. the meaning of life is gibberish, not unlike where's the where the where?Particularly when you will struggle to find a single being that can define either meaning or life, as you are about to demonstrate or my left pocket is going to pay my right pocket a certain amount of pounds. Even biologists aren't all agreed on the meaning of of the word or term life. What people do is hear words and say to themselves Ah yes I know what that means, but you actually ask them what it means they invariably can't tell you or resort to psychological algebra or substituting one undefined term for another which in algebraic terms would look like x=y=x where neither x nor y has a value or specificity. My back pocket bets my left pocket that you have absolutely no idea what you mean by "meaning" and cannot define it without resort to psychological algebra or cognates and synonyms or simply replacing one one undefined term with another undefined term such as significance or some waffle like that.I can define leading, but you can't

@e-t-y237

2 жыл бұрын

Meaning comes from fulfilling and satisfying our nature and potentials ... this the primary spiritual task of human life ... human consciousness entailing an option which others don't, which is, the possibility of escaping our very experience and being leaving one in an empty and alienated state. Horses and dogs don't do that. If you want to bet on my definition of spiritual, don't bother betting your other pocket, bet yours against mine for 100K.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

@@e-t-y237 That is a description not a definition - it is like saying that meaning is blue. What actually is meaning or rather what does meaning mean? Try to address that if you can without resort to psychological algebra or simply replacing one undefined term with another as for example swapping meaning for some other word like significance which is not defining it just as no resort to cognates and synonyms is is a definition

@e-t-y237

2 жыл бұрын

@@vhawk1951kl What do you mean then when you say "What does meaning MEAN?" Obviously you have a working usage of "mean/meaning," or you yourself are gibberish with a circular self-denying, self-negating argument. Of course we can drill down to ultimate definitions and no one has any ... this does not mean words have no usages and communication. First purpose of our life is to experience our life (rather than escaping it with denial, dissociation, addiction, repression, etc.) ... this isn't much more controversial than first purpose of lungs is to breathe.

I love your KZread videos. God created time and with it, The Big Bang.

Have we looked into Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden work it is pretty amazing how our body controls more than we think!!!

Mikio always sounds like a motivational speaker, although I agree with ME ME ME - I need a reason for ME (my life, my existence) Not irrelevant - because it shows the way from POINTLESS LIFE to CREATIVE LIFE. But again: the question is wrong The cosmos exists and only its parts can have reasons (as we define reasons). It did not begin, will not end and has no reason. I have a feeling, Robert, you are looking for something that does not exist. But your episodes may give yourself reason! Someone wrote: If you find the answers your series would be over. I think he was right. But you won't find them.

It doesn't need a reason and neither do we. It exists by the nature of itself. And so do we. It lives in us as much as we in it. The right question would be how, not why.

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4 жыл бұрын

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I believe Allan Watts once said (mutatis mutandis) "We are the realm of the cosmos where the cosmos begins to become aware of itself!"

Humanity, is the question. Love, is the path, the narrow gate, and the reason. God, above all else is the answer. #TrueStory

Whoa ... Jill Tarter: "What is the universe best at" as its purpose. Cool.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

First tell me what you mean by "universe". You have not the faintest idea? - No surprises there. Moreover I am certain that you cannot set out what you mean by "universe" without reference to cognates and synonyms for psychological algebra such as X = Y = X, where both X and Y have no value or meaning or definition. Consider the following if you will: "Owing to the loss of the capacity to ponder and reflect, whenever the contemporary average man hears or employs in conversation any word with which he is familiar only by its consonance, he does not pause to think, nor does there even arise in him any question as to what exactly is meant by this word, he having already decided once and for all, both that he knows it and that others know it too. A question, perhaps, does sometimes arise in him when he hears an entirely unfamiliar word the first time; but in this case he is content merely to substitute for the unfamiliar word another suitable word of familiar consonance and then to imagine that he has understood it. To bring home what has just been said, an excellent example is provided by the words so often used by every contemporary man-”the universe.” If people knew how to grasp for themselves what passes in their thoughts when they hear or use the words ”the universe,” then most of them would have to admit-if of course they intended to be sincere-that the word carries no exact notion whatever for them. Catching by ear simply the accustomed consonance, the meaning of which they *assume* that they know, it is as if they say to themselves “Ah, the universe, I know what this is,” and serenely go on thinking. Should one deliberately arrest their attention on this word and know how to probe them to find just what they understand by it, they will at first be plainly as is said “embarrassed,” but quickly pulling themselves together, that is to say, quickly deceiving themselves, and recalling the first definition of the word that comes to mind, they will then offer it as their own, although, in fact, they had not thought of it before. If one has the requisite power and could compel a group of contemporary people, even from among those who have received so to say “a good education,” to state exactly how they each understand the word “the universe,” they would all so “beat about the bush” that involuntarily one would recall even having one's finger nails pulled out with pliers with a certain tenderness." The words in quotation marks do not need to be "the universe" but could as easily be world, intelligence, or consciousness, it would all have equal application.

He also needs more objectivity and less ego-obsessed. Is clear in history the presence of highly intelligent life and also the fact that we are spiritual souls leaving a human experience to evolve in our consciousness

For knowing meaning or purpose of life " sickness unto death " written by Soren kierkegaard is very relevant.

Many people wish to live ' for ever ' .....normally they are the same people who get bored on a wet Sunday afternoon if there's nothing on television....but they want " eternal life ' ! ?

I would say the cosmos does have a reason, to experience itself. We are all the universe and it is infinite, the universe doesn't really have a choice, it just IS. Being born and dying creates this cycle of endless experiences that can never get boring for the universe. So the core reason would be: to simply experience and explore itself as infinite creatures. We all may have been an ant, cow, bird, ancient Egyptian, a dinosaur in previous lives. Almost like getting to participate in the ultimate videogame. It's just to BE alive, to experience, to have fun, to FEEL pleasure and pain, spirituality, wonder, mystery, to EXPLORE mother nature, the cosmos, and planet earth (parts of US). I think it's quite a simple reason, not some kind of mystical reason we could never grasp as humans, but again the mystery of it all is part of the excitement, the awe, the beauty, the adventure... the REASON. It could quite simply be down to the universe wanting to taste coffee.

Well my purpose is to understand his reality this all of cosmos ! Why it is or hown i is

No reason, just particles and processes 💫

No telling, everything is a guess, but mine is it's something along the lines of, experience. I say this because I believe that mind is the reason for reality. And the reason for mind is to experience. Not to experience one or two or any number of particular things, but just to experience. Perhaps there is another reason for that, like to produce some aspect that experience provides. On earth life in general strives to evolve, to expand, maybe it's the same for mind, to expand, through experience, and everything else in this reality is there to provide the opportunity. The river wouldn't be a river without an environment to navigate through.

I think Russell Stannard is talking in a way like the Leibniz cosmological contingency argument.

7:15 He's trying to say "Whatever gets you through the day Michio.🙄"

@Manny_El_M1.1

3 жыл бұрын

Michio is the reason I do drugs

We may reach out to the answer of our questions if we interview humanities professional.

Our brains cannot comprehend the meaning or purpose of our and universe’s existence. The universe can’t fit in our brains but our brains fit in the universe.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

What experience have you of brains other than your own? Thus what in blue blazes is "our brains"? What evidential basis do you have for supposing all brains to be either identical or homogenous?

The purpose of being a human being: BEING. There are lots of obstructions to being, but optimizing it is in the inherent nature of anything: self-expression.

Without watching this: the answer has to be if you value your existence. If not: it wasn't designed for you.

The question is why ask philosophical and metaphysical questions to physicists and astronomers. It is clearly outside their area of expertise. You might as well ask a mailman, lawyer or an accountant. They might even give you a much less biased answer.

To get closer to truth one must needs to truly understand Plato's work, especially understanding his Socrates. Everything has a reason, from the smallest to the largest, but "God only knows", as Socrates would often exclaim. There is, indeed, an e-mail from heaven, and it's embedded in Plato's work.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

I have say that I would be mildly surprised if Socrates understood Socrates

It’s a nursery for conscious beings to learn and grow in.

If a reason which is highly doubtful would the reason come from within after existence or from without before existence,?

Yes, thought provoking. But, still, remains enigmatic. May be the answer to this question lies in this insolubility. This is the meaning of Mystery.

This shannel shoulde be as populare as Jordan Petersson youtube channel.

If it didn't have a beginning, it cant have a reason. It just is. Having said that.... Unless it was "created purposefully"........ It still cant have a reason. It has either been present always (whatever that means?.....) or, it spontainiously popped into existence from nothing for no reason. Which I personally cant rule out..........

I really like how Robert actually listens to the people he's interviewing. He's not dismissing them outright or arguing. He has a real discussion... Him and Joe Rogan haha

@BigDaddyBlais

3 жыл бұрын

Can't agree more. When he disagrees its upon a logical conflict or just with pure excitement. Pleasure to watch.

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

It's a fine example of the blind leading the blind or those is no idea asking others with no idea,moreover they are asking questions which cannot be answered,which is rather like asking where'is the where the where? Why might it cross anybody's mind that (whatever they mean by) the cosmos, might have a reason although what the meaning of reason seems to be left hanging in the air. It is a classic example of projection or assuming that something that is not you has your characteristics.

@SpittinSquirell

2 жыл бұрын

@@vhawk1951kl haha I actually stopped watching since I came to the same conclusion. I gained nothing from watching. It always ends "well that could be true.. or not. There's no way to really know".

@vhawk1951kl

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpittinSquirell Hail or health to you my brother. A ready wit is like a razorblade and it cannot cut nothing or simply fluff and the makers of the video have simply demonstrated the simple truth that if you cannot mumbo you might as well jumbo

The hardest question is "Why?", but for questions like this... I really agree with only Michio Kaku, there is no meaning, you have to create it yourself. Even if God exists, why did he create the Universe? Do multiple Universes exists? Are they running in some docker containers or some virtual machines? Is it just a simulation meaning to see some statistics? Is God the origin of everything or is God created by another God himself? Why?

@hazaraudi7488

Жыл бұрын

But I agree with Robert, "creating your own meaning" doesn't reflect reality. It's nice but not satisfying!

Universe has some ulterior motives which is very classified.

What is "the cosmos"? If you have no idea what it is what is the point of discovering whether or not it has a reason or what you mean by whether or not it has a reason? A reason can be all sorts of things: it could be a cause a motive or a desire; which one have you in mind when you ask does the (whatever you mean by cosmos) have a reason? Generally speaking it would be unlikely that a phenomenon has a desire or sim or a motive but it may well have a cause or be the effect of some other phenomenon. If experiencing being encounters something that it can experience it may well wonder why it can experience it but rarely wonders why it is capable of being experienced or whether it wishes to be experienced, because as a general rule, phenomena or that which is experienced do not evince any evidence of having aims motives desires or wishes. However since experiencing beings are phenomena themselves, and they may well wonder why it is that they alone of all other phenomena experience anything nor do they have any evidence that other phenomena are experiencing phenomena or phenomena capable of experiencing other phenomena.What is a man but a collection of small particles just as everything else is a collection of small particles, and the question arises is: do collections of particles invariably have experiences - or are they experiencing anything.However there appears to be no way of discovering whether or not other collections of particles are capable of experiencing anything

18:07 If there's a world (which there is), why does it necessarily need a god? 18:20 "If something exists, it requires explanation". Why? What the need for such requirement? Even if there's such need, who or what says that homo sapiens is the one to eventually provide that explanation?

I think consciousness is central to the universe. I don't think causality forms a value system of meaning. We're conscious, and life usually has more purpose than not living.

Well, obviously our species is present in the universe, therefore it is equally obvious that our species is a part of matter expressed organically. Why duality? Why meaning? We are, however rare, a part of the function of the universe. We strive for a broader view of where we are. Are we an eye of the universe which, through evolution, is observing and analysing itself. We cannot separate ourselves from the universe, we are one of the potential manifestations of the universe. To better ourselves in relation to this responsibility, does meaning lie therein?

Sure, the reason is to make it possible for someone to ask for the reason.

It has lots of reasons-none in particular

This is as same question as Robert asked in his other program. Titled as why is there anything at al! Metaphysician philosopher

First this is a great channel discussing important topics. Thanks Robert. Cosmos does not have intrinsic reason (also note the distinction between reason and cause - which are sometimes used interchangeably), but now that it exists and we are here, we have to find the purpose in our life and do good. The question can be asked at different levels and get different answers and it is perfectly OK. To insist that the answer has to be same at each level is not the correct approach IMO. I sometimes wonder if Robert is intentionally trying to confound the question - so that he can say see scientists are saying that there is no reason for the universe and thus by extension they are saying there is no meaning to life - with negative connotation that scientists don't find meaning and purpose in our existence. Not so fast. Many scientists will not mix those questions. Most scientists in the video said the same thing i.e. we have to find our own meaning and purpose, but Robert seems to ignore it. Of course, we as humans have to find and we do find meaning and purpose in our social and emotional life. The notion of meanings and purpose is different at different levels. For example, can we ask if a water is wet or not? can we ask if a single water molecule is wet or not? And can we insist that the answer is same for both? Of course not. Of course large collection of water molecules is wet. No one will call a single water molecule wet. Also the meaning of the words - reason, meaning and purpose can be different and we do actually know that it can be different. For example why does water flow downhill - the reason (used here in the sense of "cause") is gravity. This reason is qualitatively different than the reason (used in the sense of effect) why a person is happy when they get a salary increase. It is true that we can cross these boundaries if we keep asking the question - "but why is that?" (like a kid), but the qualitative meaning of the words like reason, purpose and meaning will have to be adjusted as we cross those boundaries. To require that the universe should have a reason so that we can have meaning and purpose in human life is similar to requiring a god to be a moral person. We all know that we can be moral without need for god. Conversely, some people can be immoral with god. Many people that have been put in jail for immoral behavior, believe in god. Crusades, 9/11. As Hitch would have said, to have a need for external thing to give us meaning is not a mature stance to take. It is infantile. So in all these discussions we should start with definitions.

@MountainFisher

4 жыл бұрын

So good old atheistic nihilism is the result. Pretend it isn't true, but if there isn't any meaning then nihilism and total selfishness. Seems to have greatly affected our selfish society.

@SandipChitale

4 жыл бұрын

@@MountainFisher Looks like you did not read my comments fully. I never said anything about 'nihilism'. Please do not put up a strawman and shoot it down.

@MountainFisher

4 жыл бұрын

@@SandipChitale So you believe life has meaning? I ask because it seemed that you're making your own meaning, which is the same as what I said, pretending. I do not see that you believe life has meaning in your comments, as a matter of fact you said that if one has to find meaning external to oneself it is infantile. Sorry, but finding meaning in your own self is meaningless to everyone else unless there is an external foci that gives all human life meaning. I am not a fan of modern ethics nor trying to find true meaning within a meaningless worldview that makes humankind no different than animals. Call me infantile, but if there isn't something outside ourselves that gives meaning to even the lowest begging leper then it's all just pretend and nihilism IS the real meaning.

@SandipChitale

4 жыл бұрын

@@MountainFisher I said "... we have to find the purpose in our life and DO GOOD." and "we as humans have to find and we DO find meaning and purpose in our social and emotional life.". "We" refers to not self but the humanity as a whole, and of course we as individuals have to do our part. And most of the good people in the society do IN FACT DO that. And I am sure, at least many of them do GOOD, NOT because there is something external that gives their own life (and lives of the people they care about) meaning and purpose. And conversely, if there was nothing external they would not do GOOD and may do BAD. If that is what you think, then my friend you see things differently. I am more optimistic about humanity. I am pretty sure that is not nihilistic. You seem to be quite pessimistic about humanity. You also ignored my examples of people in jail (for example) or 9/11 etc. Statistically it is evident that there are a lot of people in jail that believe in called external mechanisms like god that give their lives meaning and yet they committed immoral acts. The humans differ from animals because we left behind the biological evolution tens of thousands of years ago and are mostly driven by our progressive cultural (ever increasingly faster) evolution. The broad scale vector of cultural evolution is towards betterment of humanity. And solutions to our problems can be found by having progressive, political, social and legal cultural evolution. The biological evolution is still ongoing but the rate of change to humanity because of it is very minuscule compared to the rate at which humanity is reshaping itself at a dramatic rate and is only going to grow exponentially. The reason why animals have less to none degree of "moral" behavior precisely because the biological evolution does not have a purpose, except for the apparent effect of survival of the lineage of organisms thru generations - in the environment they live in. In fact that apparent better and better survival of a species in a given environment, is called evolution. And in fact if the environment changes - global warming, climate change, huge volcanic eruptions, asteroid collision, then the environment changes dramatically, and then the dominant species will no longer stay dominant and some other species may dominate in the new environment. Example, Dinosaurs -> Asteroid impact -> Dinosaur extinct - Humans. So in fact the contrast you made between animals and humans you made makes a case for my proposal.

@MountainFisher

4 жыл бұрын

@@SandipChitale I didn't ignore people in jail or 9-11. I just considered them irrelevant. (9-11 was a moral act according to Islam in case you didn't know.) So Humanity is your meaning, specifically doing good humanity. Am I pessimistic about humanity, yes, I am. Let's see, how many people did the Humanist communists kill in the 20th Century? Hmm... Like 100 million people killed by Lenin, Stalin, Mao's sick societal experiments, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, I'm really acquainted with his followers, and don't forget Castro or Maduro. Heck, I forgot to add in Hitler's 16 million. I'm not even counting those killed by war. Still going strong too while thousands die from a Chinese Communist Party virus that could have easily been stopped, but for some reason the Humanists who run China just let an insidious bio-weapon loose on the world. That is the Italian medical paper's reference to how COVID-19 or CCP virus works. It doesn't attack the lungs directly, it attacks your hemoglobin and removes the 4 iron ions in your hemoglobin molecules. First you can't catch your breath as hypoxia sets in and you might get blood clots, then all that iron pools up in your lungs looking like SARS, but the Italians said it isn't, it is a bio-weapon. Our news, Left or Right has said very little about that, I wonder why? Rumor is that it was stolen from one of our labs, but it's just a rumor. You sound like the old WHIG party after the French Revolution and Enlightenment about how Humanity is just going to get better and then evolve, but I think we're devolving if you ask me. I approve of doing good, that is certain, but my meaning still comes from God and I hope He doesn't wipe us out for being so evil.

Understand energy, space and intelligence and you'll have all the answers to your fundamental questions. P.S. Our meaning is recycling energy, our reason is recycling energy I doubt there's a reason beyond that; everything is circular and remains that way.

If it has a meaning, I don't know what it is.

@ishikawa1338

Жыл бұрын

Pleasure . That’s all. Do what ever u like that make su feel good until u die That means anything goes

I think meaning, like maths, is something we discover rather than make up, but like maths, it takes many forms. Most meaningful lives seem to be about investing in some greater whole that will live on after we do - family, country, humanity, the planet, art, science, knowledge, truth, beauty, God etc. “Ars longa, vita brevis”. IMO our individual meaning isn’t discovered by studying the physical Universe, but by knowing ourselves, our values etc. and realising them in the physical universe.

There is real purpose of universe. Universe is a huge robot and it’s purpose is to execute own algorithm.

He is anthropocentric here. The cosmos does have meaning for at least us individual members of the only known animal species that can ask the question: we make it ourselves. There is no evidence of meaning in the cosmos itself.

@christopherwalsh3101

4 жыл бұрын

Some animals can wonder too.

@86645ut

4 жыл бұрын

Christopher Walsh , I’m not sure of that. While higher order animals do act with many human characteristics, how can we tell if they “wonder”? Do you have any research on this?

@christopherwalsh3101

4 жыл бұрын

@@86645ut brains make consciousness, and wondering is a behavior of consciousness. Why wouldn't animals wonder?

@86645ut

4 жыл бұрын

@@christopherwalsh3101 , by this definition (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wonder) and what is mentioned in this article (greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/animal_instincts), I would stand corrected. However, I have always understood that one big difference between humans and even higher-order other animals is the ability to reflect and ponder our existence. Even though the second article above mentions the word "wonder", I didn't see a good example of what I am talking about. This article (www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wondermonkey/2011/06/do-monkeys-wonder-1.shtml) addresses the issue. However, as you can see by the comments, the definition of wonder is not accepted unanimously. While I agree that the history of humans has minimized the traits of other animals to their demise, I think much is unknown about their ability to ponder and reflect. Perhaps there is some anthropomorphizing going on.

What is the philsophical meaning of the word "reason"