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  • Does anyone know what Carl means by "what it's put in to our brains" at 10:36. Is he referring to control over the sub cortical brain structures?

  • @KeMoniito better than the Republicans, who only use the "throw money at companies", "teach the Bible in schools", and "gays are lesser people" neurons.

  • REPTILIAN ANCESTORS??? WTFFF????did i miss something in class or sumthing???.........WAS I SLEEPING IN CLASS WHEN MY TEACHERS SAID WE HAD REPTILIAN ANCESTORS??

  • @HarryPNus You don't get how evolution works, do you?

  • Sadly, the reptile brain rules our society. To understand psychopathy, you must understand the reptilian brain. Google the work of Skip Largent and David Icke.

  • @pmsan29 lolololololololololol

  • @LukeHolder1 olololololololololololol

  • This is not what Jesus tells me in the Bible....

  • Democrats only use to neurons to go on in life, out of the trillions of brain cells: the whining and complaining neurons.

  • I love this man.... anyone else notice his tie is cut off at the bottom?

  • fuck

  • Isn't he an astronomer?

  • @claton95 He is some other things too.Even still he may be able to give lectures on that stuff from studies he has read from other scientist.

  • @claton95 nope, he's a cosmologist, at least he was... :'-(

  • its esentially like hes saying i need to defrag my brain so i have more room

  • Dig Bick

  • our reptilian ancestors? interesting

  • Carl Sagan is dressed like Mr. Bean

  • @ARecordMachine He is a genious and it is scientificaly proven that geniouses are incabable of dressing nice :p

  • Hey Carl, can you talk about the part of the brain that controls the total mancrush I have on you?

  • @JonasAlbrecht Werd. 

  • I like how our brains willingly wants to learn stuff about itself, so it might understand how it works. Yet, it works automaticly and knows the answer because It's doing what it does all the time. But it won't tell itself, so the brain researches itself.

  • @notilhenger lol pretty circular. I never thought of the quest for knowledge that way. Interesting way to look at it. The brain researching itself.

  • amazing that people believe all this evolved by mutations.

  • 21 people have brain damage :(

  • @Ikkepop you mean drain bamage

  • "Our passion for learning is the tool for our survival".

  • I cant remember what the song is at 4:54 >.<

  • According to bible experts that part of man evolving from reptile to primate and man is something man made up.

  • @stretch4859 The bible is false, faggot.

  • @suckinspongebobs now why would you call me a faggot? Have I done anything to make you want to make a derogatory comment like that. And do you have any proof that the bible is false. And there are some famous scientists that do believe what the bible saids.

  • @stretch4859 According to science experts (esp. historians) Bible is something man made up, more precisely, it's a bunch of old Jewish myths, collected over multiple centuries. We have let go of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Viking mythology, how about letting go the rest of them and starting acting like the responsible, reasonable, logical creatures we are?

  • @carneyfex if you look up your history on science in books and on the internet you will find that there are some scientists, physcists included that believe that there is a God and believe what the bible has to say.

  • @stretch4859 Which is impressively irrelevant. Belief or disbelief of certain physicists or other people, for that matter, in itself does neither validate nor disprove anything concerning the existence of God, Jehovah, Allah, Vishnu, Zeus, Odin or any other particular deity you fancy. The only thing that is important is objective evidence, and it points at Bible being nothing more than a book of Jewish mythology, no different from any other ancient mythology, long discarded by humanity.

  • @carneyfex science has never disproven the bible or explain how and why the events in the bible actually happen, oh they had their theories but as unable to convincingly prove their theory. don't get me wrong science is good if not for the understanding of electromagnetism they wouldn't have invented the radio, television or computer, if not for the understanding of thermodynamics the automobile wouldn't have been invented. but everyone has their beliefs so will leave it at that just beliefs.

  • @stretch4859 "science has never disproven the bible or explain how and why the events in the bible actually happen" Then, evidently, you have been living under a rock, because most of the book has been proven to be markedly unhistorical, inconsistent with other sources, archaeological evidence and even inconsistent with itself. There are some reflections of actual events in it, just like there is some historicity to Greek myths, but mostly Bible is but a work of human imagination.

  • @carneyfex archaeology has revealed that the cities in the bible actually existed and some during Jesus time, don't know where you got your information from, but I follow these documentaries on the bible and science and the documentaries that talk about the cities as well. so like I said science has never disproven the bible. and if you do some digging you will find that king david and king solomon of the bible were historical figures

  • @MrSmartass933 Why would anyone in their right mind listen to a person on YouTube who has the grammatical skills of a 4th grader? Why would anyone in their right mind listen to a person on YouTube anyways?

  • @recurveninja

    maybe he's dyslexic, who knows

  • I want Carl Sagan as my Neuroscience teacher.

  • Agent Smith (from The Matrix) = Carl Sagan

  • Watching this video is so weird and seemingly fractal or circular. When I watch this video, my brain is thinking about itself. And when I think about how my brain is thinking about itself, my brain is thinking about how it's thinking about itself. ETC.

  • Beautiful

    

  • Carl Sagan lives on forever...

  • very good

  • 'the willingness to follow leaders blindly'

    he'd be great conspiracy theorist

  • @brod2man

    Is that your reptile brain speaking?

  • @Apjooz wut

  • @brod2man

    Seemed to me that you think that following leaders blindly is a good thing.

  • @Apjooz it is bad, and also the reason why the world is in such a fucked state atm

  • "The brain is a very large place in a very small space" love it.

  • watch?v=JB7jSFeVz1U for a video featuring carl sagan and other scientist on the brain, it's "called ode to the brain" by melodysheep

  • @youkeylaylee thanks!

  • i love getting baked and watching this stuff

  • @TheZhonGuoRen I like dropping 2 tabs of acid and doing a whippit while watching this stuff.

  • @TheZhonGuoRen That pretty much sums up what I do when schools on break.

  • @TheZhonGuoRen HAHAHAA,

  • You want to know why this stupid country is in the mess its in? Because this video only has 225k views and Justine bieber's video has nearly 1 Billion views!

  • what year was this made?

  • @hnbsniper Carl Sagan's Cosmos series were made in the early '80s

  • I wonder how much all of those binders cost.

  • I hate how he mispronounces all these words..

  • @ExotathXVIII I only caught cErebral instead of cer-ee-bral.

    Ah well, he's not a doctor / biologist after all.

  • I'd rather stay home and watch videos with Carl Sagan then go to school. I'm learning alot more and alot clearly from him than school.

  • @SimMonkey That makes me feel better about dropping out. Thanks lol.

  • @SimMonkey Do it, get homeschooled. Never let schooling get in the way of your education. That's what I started doing this year since I was so fed up with the public school system, I feel like it's one of the best decisions I've ever made!

  • We need a new Cosmos for the 21st century.

  • I like how he swallows after saying "....where matter is turned into consciosness." lol As if matter could make consciousness!!! lol Oh Carl, it is not the thoughtless that creates the thoughtful. It is the thoughtful that creates the thoughtless. So simple, but still so far away for so many. The brain is but an interface. It is like a pair of dark sunglasses for the eyes. VERY dark sunglasses.

  • its funny how similar the close ups of the prefrontal cortex look to the pictures of the cosmos...

  • Carl Sagan - The Prophet of Science.

    Damn I miss him! He's the only person who we never meet but still miss.

  • The brain scares the crap out of me, its like a sponge of fungus, the thought of it and how it makes you you gives me shivers.

  • 7:07 so true

  • And yet the social contexts of today, incline the individual to habitually entertain themselves with lies and ends up enticing their most ignoble emotions. This would lead a significant population to once more be at the mercy of the reptilian brain. I say it's a deliberate attempt by certain groups to gain greater control over the human population.

  • he sounds like someone from an old Star Trek episode. "I have come to give you advanced knowledge of the organ you call......THE BRAIN!"

  • hEY, "intelectual95" you have just won "The world s worst comment ever"! Award

    The Turkey award winner.

  • hEY, "intelectual95" you have just won "The world s worst comment ever"!

  • We should stop funding this international penis-waving we call "science". Technology should only serve one goal: to improve the quality of life for our species on the only planet we'll ever live (Earth). We are now heading in to a moral and spiritual dark ages because of the unquestionable dogmas of "science". Children are dying, people. Forget your star trek fantasies.

    Also, Carl Sagan smoked weed and encouraged other people to do so. Irresponsible and sets a bad example for children.

  • @Intelectual95 we are in a moral and spiritual dark age, because of religion, stupidity and supersticion, Carl smoked Weed, that's why i love him, and the reason i became a great fan of sagan, we smoke the same stuff, and it's great

  • @Intelectual95

    Getting "high" engages deep thought experiments we couldn't imagine if we were sober. That's the beauty of weed.

  • @Intelectual95 Could you possibly be anymore of an imbecile?

  • @Intelectual95 If Carl Sagan decided that smoking weed was good, it's a good reason for others to decide the same.

  • 7:00

    So if I have no interest in any of those basic functions have I evolved past them?

  • THE CONNECTOME

  • im waiting for him to say " well ms. anderson"...

  • Earlier I was playing Minecraft, I made simple RS NOR latches, each capable of storing one bit of data.

    With two of them I was able to create a railway station with three different destinations to choose from. You would press a button (emitting a 1 second ON signal), and the RS NOR would store it, remembering where you wanted to go.

    The RS NOR of the brain are neurons, and the buttons are our senses.

    To think that the human brain has about 100 billion neurons... It's a truly remarkable machine.

  • think how crazy the fact that your brain know a lot of thing and is such complexe thing that allow us to have though is actualy knowing nothing on is on self unlesse we learn it

  • so our brain has evovled in layers, who knows what the next layer will be!

  • @boltjet135 The next layer probably won't be evolutionary, but artificial. We may be able to fuse our technology with our brain... We already have, for example, memory cells (in circuitry), maybe we could wire them to our brain. We could add more of these artificial neutrons, enabling us to remember more than we ever have before.

  • @boltjet135 Oops! I said "neutrons" by accident :O

  • Our entire universe as we know it could be just a grain of sand in some much larger universe.

  • @myromeodude123  It most likely is : )

  • @myromeodude123 not really

  • @myromeodude123 How do we know though?!

  • @myromeodude123 I had a thought last week when reading about the LHC perhaps being able to create "mini big bangs" and I imagined out universe being in the LHC of an alien race whose universe is in an LHC etc etc. Imagine of that was true?

  • @squeezycheeseypeas So like in the book "The Science of Discworld"?

  • @FmMan33 don't know that one, I 've read a few Terry Pratchett books (currently only up to Sourcery) but will keep my eye out for it. I assume it's as funny as the rest.

  • @squeezycheeseypeas It's brilliant, definitely give it a read :)

  • @myromeodude Given what we know about space-time and our own universe, we couldn't be a part of another universe. According to physics, we cannot co-exist in another universe. However, we(our universe) may exist as a grain of sand in the infiniteness of the multi or omniverses.

  • @myromeodude123 I had the same thought... Only I thought we were an atom in somebodies sweatshirt in a larger universe, and that universe is an atom in a larger one, and that one an atom in an even larger on. And so on a so forth... I was high.

  • @MrObamaNigger dude, same thought, but i went smaller instead of larger.

  • @myromeodude123 read up on the multiverse hypothesis, it'll fuck your mind

  • I think I remember reading in Biology that life is defined as organisms that locomote to to find food and to find a mate to reproduce to carry on the species. We humans make it so complicated....

  • @myromeodude123

    Lol Carl himself would disagree with you about he being the smartest

  • @myromeodude123 If only boredom did not exist.

  • @myromeodude123 what they taught you in biology doesnt mean its true half the stuff i learnt at school aswell as half the stuff is actually taught at school is complete bull, and especially in classes like science alot of things are opinion in which they tell you is fact, same with history class alot of it we can never even know is true yet they present as 100 percent fact

  • @myromeodude123 Not all organism need to mate, like snakes that perform parthenogenesis, more then just microorganisms can be asexual, so to speak.

  • @myromeodude123 Plants don't locomote to find food and they're alive....

  • @d34thn0te they move towards and into the sun.

  • @myromeodude123 countless species or organisms do not "find" food but make it themselves like photosynthesis. life, biology, is EXTREMELY context

  • @myromeodude123 and countless species do not "find a mate" but reproduce by basically cloning themselves like an amoeba or a coral

  • 7:07 = win.

  • We are our brains. We have no free will. We are simply animals living out our lives, making actions based on our biology, genetics and past experiences.

  • Our brain dictates all thought...so when we think about our brain it is our brain thinking about itself...trippy

  • @TRUESports09

    that's what you call Self-consciousness. It's what defines intelligent organisms.

  • HE SAID SEX...... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH XD

  • God <3

  • And purpose drives this brain, Mr. Anderson.

  • Carl Sagan is possibly the smartest man of the 20th century. Or even the 2nd milennia. You cant exaggerate how intelligent and well spoken this guy is.

  • @jigglyfidda125 I agree

  • @jigglyfidda125 I don't think so, Tim. While he's pretty damn smart, he hasn't really contributed to the progression of scientific discovery. He's only produced interesting documentaries and TV shows.

  • @jigglyfidda125

    I'm not sure that he is the most intelligent, but rather the best communicator of science to the public.

    He definitely is very well spoken, which is a form of intelligence, but I would argue that he most definitely is not the smartest man of the 20th century.

  • @jigglyfidda125 i want a cut of the check he's giving you! ;)

  • @jigglyfidda125 He's smart, but smarter than Einstein? Newton? Galileo? Come on now....

  • @jigglyfidda125 I think Carl Sagan was too much of a doom-monger.

  • @manco82 Why? Because he proposed the scenario of a nuclear winter? Sagan just wanted to point out the dangers and responsibilities that come with our level of technological development. Apart from that he was an optimist who put every bit of confidence in humanitiy's ability to develop and to evolve. He was very passionate about scientific and ethical progress. I would hardly call that a typical doom monger.

  • @jigglyfidda125 he is smart and very well spoken. But I don't know about the smartest man

  • @jigglyfidda125

    Wait what? 2nd milennia, really? Do'nt wanna go too for because 'of the 20th' century is already hilarious, Einstein alone has contributed tons more than this guy with his 'perfect' haircut and suit.

  • @jigglyfidda125 20th century I'd agree with, but I can't agree with the the milenia part. Johanas Guttenburg already has that position, with the greatest invention ever. The Printing press.

  • @jigglyfidda125 Errr..He was an excellent scientist with a natural talent for explaining and enlightening..But he's no Einstein, quite literally. Many many theorists didn't have the time or the charisma to bother with us joe soaps. You simply can't claim that Sagan is comparable to life-dedicated theorists and geniuses of physics.

  • @jigglyfidda125 dont forget chomsky!

  • this is from cosmos?

  • Who else sang along w/ the words that he says in the songs?

  • @MrProximize

    I did. I couldn't help myself, those songs are imprinted into my mind.

  • I wonder if our brain was to be twice as large, would it be twice as smart? :-)

  • @sangolt88 A similar question would be, if the each connection of our neurons represented 2 bits of information, would we be twice as intelligence? I say we would be, if every other factor remained constant.

  • @Lucuskane We'll have to wait until we are able to transplant an artificial reversed engineered brain that is as you say with 2 bits, then that brain can give us the answer to that and everything else.

  • @Lucuskane Defo. Even more brilliant your response, an exponential rate of growth in intelligence would occur, would solve so manny problems in one life time.

  • Rush must be reptilian as is Boner

  • I am proud to be human

  • @nattybro92 I am too, but don't be mistaken, we can make ourselves even smarter, if we all really want to. Go beyond the years it takes to learn a few fields of sciennce.

  • This is the most interested thing Ive ever heard.

  • this is inspiring it makes you want to learn

  • who created the brain? cells did I guess, then who told the cells to create the brain and how to do it. It would take at least another 500 years for the humans to make something close to our brains, how can simple life forms be able to make our brain and our body, guess they have universities and study for years. I don't really know anything about the brain but it doesn't make any sense to me that the creator of our bodies would be tiny life forms.

  • @1800levso what little life forms?

  • no longer in the grip of the reptilian brain, we can change ourselves.

  • Carl, I miss you.

    You have always been my one true love. :)

  • There does not "have" to be a creator. However, if you feel the need of a diety surpassing human capabilities while still wishing to maintain your rational thought and not succumb to the social governing monotheisms (i.e. christianity, judeism and islam), consider this.

    One interpretation of the creational myths in norse mythology suggests that the gods evolved from cosmic matter and then in turn forced and directed the course of evolution. There's your middle ground, stand on it.

  • i love this video

  • There must be a part of human that still is at the mercy of the reptilian brain, ther seems to be some talk about reptilian humans on other u tube sites. This could be the reason for it.

  • "I BONK, THEREFORE I AM"

  • Please.. don't be so amazed about your brain as it doesn't stand by itself.. it is a perfect circuit with all the required elements or components but no body (NO BODY) can tell me it is completed an will ever be.. it is in fact the mother's board and it is all arranged in way that you most find a center sooner or later.. now that center it is not in the brain itself.. why are you so arrogant.. you will find it in Mother Nature as you accept this Truth of been part of and becomes The One for Her.

  • @hottides

    I see what you mean.

  • @1800levso

    Do tell. What are the characteristics of this 'energy'? Is it transmitted as a wave or particle? What kind of wavelength does it have? Why phenomena does it explain that isn't already observed to be explained by existing energy?

  • I don't even get why anyone would dislike this.

  • I love this episode so much

  • Everyone should look up a video on here called "I Am My Connectome" It's really good.

  • @exacerbatedtaboo I agree, everyone should spend five hours on TED and just watch the talks

  • I believe in dat baby jesus on da cross.

    Baby jesus Rocks's

    Gimme dat christian side hug , dat christian side hug.

  • Primates ftw.

  • Carl Sagan is a true hero

  • Sagan's mother is hot.

  • when was this filmed? It's amazing how much science has progressed since then that he's so outdated now.. even with stuff like epigenetics, where instead of the "musty bindings of our gene library, where hardly a word changes in a century," we have found that gene expression can change permanently in response to the environment

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  • If i saw these videos in my rebellious phase when i was a teenager. I'd probably be in med school right now.

  • I like the way he gives the brain a tender pat at 1.49.

  • 18 people only developed as far as their reptilian brain.

  • Guys, Tpstrat14 is a troll. His channel indicates this. Don't rise to his replies.

  • centillion is a number with 600 zeroes, by the way. Yep, that's right, I really do not have any belief at all that science, given enough time, will allow us to create our own universes. We will always be real fucking confused about something or another