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I mistook Cedric Villani for Grigori Perelman, the man who solved the Poincare Conjecture and refused the Fields Medal and the Clay Institute Price. To me they look a bit alike (I guess the beard)
@AndreeaCeКүн бұрын
It's a big misconception psychopaths are not social. In fact they are one of the most sociable humans out there. Without society they would not have a supplies. Social skills are another thing, it varies from culture to culture, even an introvert is sociable in a way or another. I wonder, James, being such a fine line between psychopaths and autism spectrum, if in fact you're autistic and not a psychopath...
@elizabethporter63982 күн бұрын
This didn't age well.
@muhammadhammad-se5pe5 күн бұрын
God is outside the space and time, thats why u can not judge him by time
@xiaolidan17 күн бұрын
Another point missed or not explained by the data. At more prestigious universities your peers are more competitive and meaner to you, thus more likely to discourage you from finishing your degree.
@lenkavolnhals71977 күн бұрын
Can you give me a job?
@sksamim77587 күн бұрын
God created time
@user-mr5xg2nd8p2 күн бұрын
Sksmim7758 Quran and science kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZyZrKWOkbuej9o.htmlsi=Gmea2oaV8ssnzJHr
@gabrielcarlettocousseau13028 күн бұрын
Always a pleasure to be in touch with Pinker's sound reasoning and rethorical smoothness! Time to read some of his books now.
@fishfinners5058 күн бұрын
An absolute legend of not just rowing (arguably the greatest rower ever) but of sport in general. Bravo Sir Steve, you are an inspiration.
@user-gr3oo5ux9x9 күн бұрын
Is God a person?
@user-gr3oo5ux9x9 күн бұрын
There has never been a creation
@Power5050510 күн бұрын
It’s been proven that our brains do not see all of objective reality but rather the perception of it. That’s why there are many examples of visual tricks that fool our brains to see one thing when it’s something else. This alone shows us that although the brain sees a lot of objective reality it does not see all of it so who knows what the full scope of objective reality contains that our brains our not evolved enough to see. You begin to understand this by learning that our brains have evolved just enough for the survival of our species. For example, some animals do not have vision so does that mean visual reality does not exist? No, it just doesn’t exist for that animal. So in applying that same idea to humans we can acknowledge that there is very likely more to objective reality that we cannot perceive because we don’t have the sense needed to perceive it.
@user-mr5xg2nd8p2 күн бұрын
Power50505 Quran and science kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZyZrKWOkbuej9o.htmlsi=Gmea2oaV8ssnzJHr
@RodrigoRaez11 күн бұрын
Of course you're going to change the world.
@davidregen135811 күн бұрын
Our desire for community exceeds our thirst for truth. Hence the abuse of social media.
@andrewwabik512512 күн бұрын
James Fallon is a psychopath. If he is, so may I be.
@user-gr3oo5ux9x12 күн бұрын
We are not human either
@user-gr3oo5ux9x12 күн бұрын
More science fiction
@swarajdigitalmarketing12 күн бұрын
nice video.
@vinceabrassart868612 күн бұрын
Who is this idiot saying that things have gotten better? I was born in 67, and since then I’ve witnessed nothing but a steady decline in the quality of life for the average person. The last decade we have witnessed the largest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle-class to, the wealthiest in the world! When 99% of humanity is suffering more and more every day, I don’t see how anyone can call that “getting better”!
@nickgood816614 күн бұрын
I'm full on with evolution. Blanc slatism is a near ubiquitous shibboleth and plain wrong. Climate alarmism and the push for net zero, is utterly unwarrented, pernicious, dangerous tosh. It was obvious with the Wuhan flu, that a lab leak was, back in early 2020, and is still now, easily the most parsimonious explanation. There is an existential problem with woke capture of acedemia and our institutions. Together with woke authoritarianism. This and all too many powerful 'experts' that plain lie, directly and by omission to promulgate narrative.
@remasterlinux16 күн бұрын
His Foundation took in $ Millions for HATI and they build 1 house .
@weeFred17 күн бұрын
Watching in 2024. How did it all pan out? Ah yes, it’s now completely controlled by gangs of genocidal cannibals and a failed state. Anyone ever notice that when the Hollywood do gooders get involved in a country’s political system it usually becomes a failed state? Same with Venezuela. Maybe actors are thick and should stick to pretending.
@ALavin-en1kr18 күн бұрын
Mr Pinker is wrong. We are rational (thinking) and also (feeling} beings. The feeling part is often described as non-rational but imagine a person without feelings. Society labels such persons as sociopaths. A person without feeling, operating from reason alone, can behave as a Frankenstein, something society definitely does not want. What Mr. Pinker should address is not the supremacy of reason but the necessity of a balance between reason and feeling in all our actions. We have lived through the Age of Reason, the environment is almost destroyed and our continued existence is even in question. When are those who give talks going to get this, instead of continuing to perpetuate a point of view which is unbalanced and unhelpful in our current predicament and instead educate people on the full use of the faculties we have been given rather than emphasis on one faculty alone, which is both limiting and dangerous in our present situation.
@danielbairey441116 күн бұрын
Imagine a world with nothing but feelings - overcome by bouts of anger, spite, jealousy or needless hurt, evolution probably weeded such out. Wisdom suggest listening critically to both voices and updating fallacies in the Bayesian manner as Pinker suggests.
@ALavin-en1kr16 күн бұрын
There should not be an emphasis on reason alone or on feelings alone but on a balance between both in our actions. Either one left out of the equation in our actions is not good and outcomes lack balance.
@ThuUyenPhamThi-iy2cz22 күн бұрын
14:45
@bingeable324 күн бұрын
I played games, but it is waste of life, life is precies for each one. Resillent to what? Triaining for mass killing of everything.
@worldview73025 күн бұрын
Thank you, Katie, for giving so much attention to this issue you are a great compassionate person.
@worldview73025 күн бұрын
7:30, forgive Trumps IQ issues
@GingerPeacenik26 күн бұрын
I was fortunate enough to be one of Glen's assistants back in the 1990s. Love this man; I owe an eternal debt of gratitude to him.
@UnholyRaven_27 күн бұрын
Science Can Neither Prove Nor Disprove God, As God is Beyond What We Can Perceive or Prove. Science In My Opinion Was Created By God And Therefore When Science Discovers Something God Knew We'd Find Out Whatever It'd Be. Personally I Do Believe in a Creator But I Do Also Believe They Do Not Personally Care What We Do As On a Cosmic Scale, Humanity is But a Spec of Sand In a Infinte Cosmos. Those Who Will Say My Words are heresy let me ask You a Question Do You Know what God Is Thinking Right Now? or Are You Gonna Use Scripture Which Isn't a Reliable Source As it's Thousands of Years Old And Authored By Man And There's Others That Share the Same Concept as The Current God You Worship (aka the Christian God)
@ytjoemoore9427 күн бұрын
Much of this seems to be inspired by Not born yesterday
@wendyfrance5767Ай бұрын
Why doesn’t the video show the slides he is clicking through???
@kesavatadipatri9078Ай бұрын
With all due respect, I completely disagree with this argument. There is documented evidence to counter it. One by name Sri Vadiraja tirtha, who lived 120 years, with impeccable memory power and he actually chose to end his life in unique "sajiva brindavana" (a religious process, that the person knows when he has to end his life and voluntirily gives up asking his devotees/followers to make special arrangement at a point of time indicated by him). He had a lifestyle, where there is no scope to have long sleep. This is not just one exceptional event. Many sages of India have lead a rigorous life with very little sleep. I was highly impressed by an American, who was in IT and had everyday average of one to two hour sleep and some nights no sleep and yet was super healthy and super memory even at the age of retirement and continued like that much longer even. I myself have reduced sleep like that only and have healthy life with memory power not diminished at all. Yes sleep is needed, but one can train himself to have very deep sleep and for short time and thus making best of life.
@takemotofourАй бұрын
It could be that people who have resources find life easier and longer since they don't have to struggle.
@TheOfficialKingdomContentАй бұрын
If that means there can be no god it means there could be nothing period 😂. Some scientists are foolish
@calligrafilaАй бұрын
I was brought here from the "foundation of SEO" course on Coursera! I loved the parallelism with "Star Trek" series common interaction "Computer...". I remember looking at Star Trek episodes with my dad when I was a little kid. Back then I didn't realise how powerful that command given to the computer was! Nowadays is something much more common and this is a great privilege! I would never stress enough the importance of recognising privileges when we have them.
@betterdigitalbusiness639017 күн бұрын
Same here.
@RS-jp5wgАй бұрын
He is positive, not by philosophical theory, but by the numerical theory of physics.
@ExileLBLАй бұрын
Question: Ok, and who designed or what is the cause of the moment, when it starts - who designed time will shape to this, who designed that in very very exact moment (if you zoom time, it have to be very exact moment) where cosnciousness appears. Who designed it will follow the Darwin's pattern, who designed immune system, that is doing perfect strategic moves to fight viruses. This reality clearly have a designer. Everything that begins to exist have a cause.
@bradsillasen1972Ай бұрын
If I were to introduce someone to Pinker's wisdom, this is the lecture I'd choose. It should be mandatory viewing for everyone on the planet. The modern complement to The Sermon on the Mount.
@darkomadjanovic7538Ай бұрын
😂
@georgeperson5822Ай бұрын
If science can prove God's existence, then alien science might be able to prove humans have a soul.... something an insect brain bug alien may be looking for !
@user-lq9oi5jq3nАй бұрын
Please.
@Noobmaster_026Ай бұрын
anything is god for us which creates us or our surrounding but one thing i don't understand as why do we even think that god(entity) would be singular i mean our simple bubble(universe) is so complex, then there could be a possibility of groups of these entities working on simple bubble like ours. so may be the god is a collection of higher or may be advanced entities which creates us , also is if it is not a collection it's a single entity then i don't think it will look like a human as we perceive them it (could) be a universe tree as it basically created our universe so, don't stick to the fact that a god (which has physical forms as our religious text says created us and universe. i hope anyone who reads it will also share their take on it and we could learn together.
@Generation0880Ай бұрын
The Harvard kids are not dropping out or non- finishing....they are switching majors and completing in another discipline...incl at another campus like BU.
@Generation0880Ай бұрын
Needs deeper data.
@davidwalker5054Ай бұрын
im an Atheist its just my view and i could be wrong. But no human no matter how intelligent is Qualified or capable of proving god does not exist. They are out of their depth and attempting to answer this question comes across as arrogant
@The_creative_chirstian33A.DАй бұрын
Well of course God who is literally love would want humans to feel special
@majmageАй бұрын
Are you trying to redefine god into existence? Imagine Gary says leprechauns exist, mischievous sprites with pots of gold who are also love. Well we've confirmed love (many scientific papers prove it). Does that prove leprechauns exist? To me it's clear Gary needs evidence of the full definition of leprechauns to prove they exist. In fact just by tacking on love at the end, he's made his idea a bit _less_ believable as he really doesn't have evidence they're involved with love at all (or that they are love, given those same papers rather convincingly show us exactly how love works and it's just processes in our brain). Well google "god definition". Now do you have evidence that a being matching one of those definitions shares reality with us? I really don't think you do, and tacking 'love" onto the list of attributes of a god makes things _less believable,_ not more. If that doesn't make sense after Gary's leprechaun argument, imagine he also claimed leprechauns caused the big bang, the grand canyon, and gravity. Well that's even more real things, but Gary's not just claiming each of those things exists in isolation, right? He's claiming one type of being (leprechauns) did _all of it,_ and the more claims he adds, the more ridiculous his idea sounds.
@rosaliaoliver-qv3grАй бұрын
❤❤Beautiful,Intelligent,❤❤and I see why MR Clooney is so much in love.
@user-yy6sx6ew7qАй бұрын
Yes, Stephen, we know you wrote A Brief History of Time. You remind us again and agin. Philosphy is above Science. Meaning its reflections guide the coarse in which Philosophy goes. Hell, Einstein read and certainly familar of Kat. Hume inspired Newton and Leibniz. And you wre brilliant a genius, Stephen. No one will ever, ever deny that fact. But is not a little arrogant to think where Physics has gone and will eventually goes is know owed even in some little degree to Philosophy.
@paulstuart551Ай бұрын
Mutual attraction does not require impractical notions of idealised romanticism, it requires enthusiastic loyalty & discussion about feelings & misunderstandings. Without mutual attraction there is only a contract of convenience.
@IlonicusАй бұрын
Chinkomanila
@dannykirby7425Ай бұрын
People, because of our sin nature, tries to melt things together to compromise. It makes sense that he wants to melt budism with Christianity because of his upbringing, but where does he get the idea of many big bangs? There’s only 1 big bang and God created it. Jesus created all that is created and He sustains it all. For Himself. We’re created to reflect Gods glory and holiness and to love and worship God. The bang proves with scientific data that there has to be a creator.
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I mistook Cedric Villani for Grigori Perelman, the man who solved the Poincare Conjecture and refused the Fields Medal and the Clay Institute Price. To me they look a bit alike (I guess the beard)
It's a big misconception psychopaths are not social. In fact they are one of the most sociable humans out there. Without society they would not have a supplies. Social skills are another thing, it varies from culture to culture, even an introvert is sociable in a way or another. I wonder, James, being such a fine line between psychopaths and autism spectrum, if in fact you're autistic and not a psychopath...
This didn't age well.
God is outside the space and time, thats why u can not judge him by time
Another point missed or not explained by the data. At more prestigious universities your peers are more competitive and meaner to you, thus more likely to discourage you from finishing your degree.
Can you give me a job?
God created time
Sksmim7758 Quran and science kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZyZrKWOkbuej9o.htmlsi=Gmea2oaV8ssnzJHr
Always a pleasure to be in touch with Pinker's sound reasoning and rethorical smoothness! Time to read some of his books now.
An absolute legend of not just rowing (arguably the greatest rower ever) but of sport in general. Bravo Sir Steve, you are an inspiration.
Is God a person?
There has never been a creation
It’s been proven that our brains do not see all of objective reality but rather the perception of it. That’s why there are many examples of visual tricks that fool our brains to see one thing when it’s something else. This alone shows us that although the brain sees a lot of objective reality it does not see all of it so who knows what the full scope of objective reality contains that our brains our not evolved enough to see. You begin to understand this by learning that our brains have evolved just enough for the survival of our species. For example, some animals do not have vision so does that mean visual reality does not exist? No, it just doesn’t exist for that animal. So in applying that same idea to humans we can acknowledge that there is very likely more to objective reality that we cannot perceive because we don’t have the sense needed to perceive it.
Power50505 Quran and science kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZyZrKWOkbuej9o.htmlsi=Gmea2oaV8ssnzJHr
Of course you're going to change the world.
Our desire for community exceeds our thirst for truth. Hence the abuse of social media.
James Fallon is a psychopath. If he is, so may I be.
We are not human either
More science fiction
nice video.
Who is this idiot saying that things have gotten better? I was born in 67, and since then I’ve witnessed nothing but a steady decline in the quality of life for the average person. The last decade we have witnessed the largest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle-class to, the wealthiest in the world! When 99% of humanity is suffering more and more every day, I don’t see how anyone can call that “getting better”!
I'm full on with evolution. Blanc slatism is a near ubiquitous shibboleth and plain wrong. Climate alarmism and the push for net zero, is utterly unwarrented, pernicious, dangerous tosh. It was obvious with the Wuhan flu, that a lab leak was, back in early 2020, and is still now, easily the most parsimonious explanation. There is an existential problem with woke capture of acedemia and our institutions. Together with woke authoritarianism. This and all too many powerful 'experts' that plain lie, directly and by omission to promulgate narrative.
His Foundation took in $ Millions for HATI and they build 1 house .
Watching in 2024. How did it all pan out? Ah yes, it’s now completely controlled by gangs of genocidal cannibals and a failed state. Anyone ever notice that when the Hollywood do gooders get involved in a country’s political system it usually becomes a failed state? Same with Venezuela. Maybe actors are thick and should stick to pretending.
Mr Pinker is wrong. We are rational (thinking) and also (feeling} beings. The feeling part is often described as non-rational but imagine a person without feelings. Society labels such persons as sociopaths. A person without feeling, operating from reason alone, can behave as a Frankenstein, something society definitely does not want. What Mr. Pinker should address is not the supremacy of reason but the necessity of a balance between reason and feeling in all our actions. We have lived through the Age of Reason, the environment is almost destroyed and our continued existence is even in question. When are those who give talks going to get this, instead of continuing to perpetuate a point of view which is unbalanced and unhelpful in our current predicament and instead educate people on the full use of the faculties we have been given rather than emphasis on one faculty alone, which is both limiting and dangerous in our present situation.
Imagine a world with nothing but feelings - overcome by bouts of anger, spite, jealousy or needless hurt, evolution probably weeded such out. Wisdom suggest listening critically to both voices and updating fallacies in the Bayesian manner as Pinker suggests.
There should not be an emphasis on reason alone or on feelings alone but on a balance between both in our actions. Either one left out of the equation in our actions is not good and outcomes lack balance.
14:45
I played games, but it is waste of life, life is precies for each one. Resillent to what? Triaining for mass killing of everything.
Thank you, Katie, for giving so much attention to this issue you are a great compassionate person.
7:30, forgive Trumps IQ issues
I was fortunate enough to be one of Glen's assistants back in the 1990s. Love this man; I owe an eternal debt of gratitude to him.
Science Can Neither Prove Nor Disprove God, As God is Beyond What We Can Perceive or Prove. Science In My Opinion Was Created By God And Therefore When Science Discovers Something God Knew We'd Find Out Whatever It'd Be. Personally I Do Believe in a Creator But I Do Also Believe They Do Not Personally Care What We Do As On a Cosmic Scale, Humanity is But a Spec of Sand In a Infinte Cosmos. Those Who Will Say My Words are heresy let me ask You a Question Do You Know what God Is Thinking Right Now? or Are You Gonna Use Scripture Which Isn't a Reliable Source As it's Thousands of Years Old And Authored By Man And There's Others That Share the Same Concept as The Current God You Worship (aka the Christian God)
Much of this seems to be inspired by Not born yesterday
Why doesn’t the video show the slides he is clicking through???
With all due respect, I completely disagree with this argument. There is documented evidence to counter it. One by name Sri Vadiraja tirtha, who lived 120 years, with impeccable memory power and he actually chose to end his life in unique "sajiva brindavana" (a religious process, that the person knows when he has to end his life and voluntirily gives up asking his devotees/followers to make special arrangement at a point of time indicated by him). He had a lifestyle, where there is no scope to have long sleep. This is not just one exceptional event. Many sages of India have lead a rigorous life with very little sleep. I was highly impressed by an American, who was in IT and had everyday average of one to two hour sleep and some nights no sleep and yet was super healthy and super memory even at the age of retirement and continued like that much longer even. I myself have reduced sleep like that only and have healthy life with memory power not diminished at all. Yes sleep is needed, but one can train himself to have very deep sleep and for short time and thus making best of life.
It could be that people who have resources find life easier and longer since they don't have to struggle.
If that means there can be no god it means there could be nothing period 😂. Some scientists are foolish
I was brought here from the "foundation of SEO" course on Coursera! I loved the parallelism with "Star Trek" series common interaction "Computer...". I remember looking at Star Trek episodes with my dad when I was a little kid. Back then I didn't realise how powerful that command given to the computer was! Nowadays is something much more common and this is a great privilege! I would never stress enough the importance of recognising privileges when we have them.
Same here.
He is positive, not by philosophical theory, but by the numerical theory of physics.
Question: Ok, and who designed or what is the cause of the moment, when it starts - who designed time will shape to this, who designed that in very very exact moment (if you zoom time, it have to be very exact moment) where cosnciousness appears. Who designed it will follow the Darwin's pattern, who designed immune system, that is doing perfect strategic moves to fight viruses. This reality clearly have a designer. Everything that begins to exist have a cause.
If I were to introduce someone to Pinker's wisdom, this is the lecture I'd choose. It should be mandatory viewing for everyone on the planet. The modern complement to The Sermon on the Mount.
😂
If science can prove God's existence, then alien science might be able to prove humans have a soul.... something an insect brain bug alien may be looking for !
Please.
anything is god for us which creates us or our surrounding but one thing i don't understand as why do we even think that god(entity) would be singular i mean our simple bubble(universe) is so complex, then there could be a possibility of groups of these entities working on simple bubble like ours. so may be the god is a collection of higher or may be advanced entities which creates us , also is if it is not a collection it's a single entity then i don't think it will look like a human as we perceive them it (could) be a universe tree as it basically created our universe so, don't stick to the fact that a god (which has physical forms as our religious text says created us and universe. i hope anyone who reads it will also share their take on it and we could learn together.
The Harvard kids are not dropping out or non- finishing....they are switching majors and completing in another discipline...incl at another campus like BU.
Needs deeper data.
im an Atheist its just my view and i could be wrong. But no human no matter how intelligent is Qualified or capable of proving god does not exist. They are out of their depth and attempting to answer this question comes across as arrogant
Well of course God who is literally love would want humans to feel special
Are you trying to redefine god into existence? Imagine Gary says leprechauns exist, mischievous sprites with pots of gold who are also love. Well we've confirmed love (many scientific papers prove it). Does that prove leprechauns exist? To me it's clear Gary needs evidence of the full definition of leprechauns to prove they exist. In fact just by tacking on love at the end, he's made his idea a bit _less_ believable as he really doesn't have evidence they're involved with love at all (or that they are love, given those same papers rather convincingly show us exactly how love works and it's just processes in our brain). Well google "god definition". Now do you have evidence that a being matching one of those definitions shares reality with us? I really don't think you do, and tacking 'love" onto the list of attributes of a god makes things _less believable,_ not more. If that doesn't make sense after Gary's leprechaun argument, imagine he also claimed leprechauns caused the big bang, the grand canyon, and gravity. Well that's even more real things, but Gary's not just claiming each of those things exists in isolation, right? He's claiming one type of being (leprechauns) did _all of it,_ and the more claims he adds, the more ridiculous his idea sounds.
❤❤Beautiful,Intelligent,❤❤and I see why MR Clooney is so much in love.
Yes, Stephen, we know you wrote A Brief History of Time. You remind us again and agin. Philosphy is above Science. Meaning its reflections guide the coarse in which Philosophy goes. Hell, Einstein read and certainly familar of Kat. Hume inspired Newton and Leibniz. And you wre brilliant a genius, Stephen. No one will ever, ever deny that fact. But is not a little arrogant to think where Physics has gone and will eventually goes is know owed even in some little degree to Philosophy.
Mutual attraction does not require impractical notions of idealised romanticism, it requires enthusiastic loyalty & discussion about feelings & misunderstandings. Without mutual attraction there is only a contract of convenience.
Chinkomanila
People, because of our sin nature, tries to melt things together to compromise. It makes sense that he wants to melt budism with Christianity because of his upbringing, but where does he get the idea of many big bangs? There’s only 1 big bang and God created it. Jesus created all that is created and He sustains it all. For Himself. We’re created to reflect Gods glory and holiness and to love and worship God. The bang proves with scientific data that there has to be a creator.