The more we learn of quantum physics, the more we will understand that there is a limit to our understanding. Unless we can predict more than probabilities and account for more than our physical dimensions, the hand of God will become more apparent as time goes on. (or does it?)
2) There are occasions where a scientific approach clearly contradicts "common sense" or when common sense turns out to yield conclusions that science would reject. (Def: Common sense consists of what people in common would agree on : that which they "sense" as their common natural understanding.)
It was a common sense approach (for example) when humans commonly agreed that the sun moves around the earth, yet the idea turned out to be unscientific.
@MrWinniedepooh well dare i say its not about the conclusion, its about the process of getting to it,if the process of getting to a conclusion is step by step building on using the bricks of common sense, its a scientific conclusion. now if majority believes something because they like the idea does not make it common sense.
@MrWinniedepooh I agree with you that your definition of common sense and his are different. His definition is that common sense is a process by which most people would go about to complete a task (e.g., a process to gain information). Your definition seems to be simply a belief about something that the majority of people may share.
Excellent video, but I would argue with two points.
1) Science does not "tell us" that we humans are some sort of mechanical devices. Only some people (fiction writers, philosophers, scientists, etc) try to tell us something like that through their philosophical speculations, which they claim to derive from certain scientific or pseudo-scientific theories.
Making the jump to saying Physics is going to that kind of extreme is just as big a leap as the movie What the Bleep is making. These physicists who believe in determinism have absolutely no proof of determinism, but are so quick to point out when there's not absolute proof about something else. In my opinion, the idea that there's no free will, goes out the window when you start thinking about the brain's frontal lobe. There's just a lot more research to be done. So just be patient.
if the universe is all matter then surely, when we die we are broken down to particles of matter or antimatter. Therefore, our psychical parts never die, we only become part of the whole psychical universe. I know that religion is man made and not an answer for this but I can not see how our psychical state is a reason to disregard conscience energy,
if the universe is all matter then surely, when we die we are broken down to particles of matter or antimatter. Therefore, our psychical parts never die, we only become part of the whole psychical universe. I know that religion is man made and not an answer for this but I can not see how our psychical state is a reason to disregard conscience energy,
If there is ever a complete physical/mechanical explanation for everything we think or believe, then it seems to me that is going to call our rationality into question. And once it calls our rationality into question, then it's going to call the physical/mechanical explanation into question as well. In other words, any such explanation is going to be self-refuting.
When is about explaining the universe, creation or our metaphysical structure physics can only explain a millimeter of the wholly meter of what reality is
Another man responds, "If everything is meaningless, then what you just said is meaningless."
So if everything we experience in consciousness is really meaningless and needs no explanation, then coming to this conclusion becomes a self-contradiction because clearly the statement should mean something if it is true.
David just comes to prove that wisdom and knowledge are two totally different things. We're here listening to a Ph.D who talks of common sense and lacks it completely.
He's a narrow minded mechanicist and materialist... Totally out of fashion to say the least.
He's unable to project a view of what science will be like in tomorrow, without keeping a fanatic grip on the concepts of his science of yesterday.
If he was Neils Bohr he would have considered Schrodinger, a New Age freak.
Reading some of your comments, mikungfu, tells me that you are very mad at science. It seems to me like you are grievous because science doesn't incorporate your dear Easter mystic philosophies. This smells of severe hypocrisy.
What do you actually believe in? In chakras, astrology, nirvana and such? That we are reborn into animals? Come on!! You are making yourself a fool.
@Cidr0n: Please don't asume that about me because you couldn't be farther from the facts. I have a degree in Forestry and am a Zoology fanatic. I just don't think that cognitive work through science is incompatible with cognitive work through meditation or traditional eastern epistemology in general.
To think that science and eastern mysticism are unrelated and that anything other than science is less valid than science as epystemological methods, well that is indeed a blind fundamentalism.
@Cidr0n: Please don't asume that about me because you couldn't be farther from the facts. I have a dgree in Forestry and am Zoology fanatic. I just don't think that cognitive work through science is incompatible with cognitive work through meditation or traditional eastern epistemology in general.
To think that science and eastern mysticism are unrelated and that anything other than science is less valid than science as epystemological methods, well that is indeed a blind fundamentalism.
Also, It's not science that is fundamentalist, but rather those that believe blindly in it as the only valid form of cognition. And that indeed is treating science like a religion, even though it is really not.
@Cidr0n "What do you actually believe in? In chakras, astrology, nirvana and such? That we are reborn into animals? Come on!! You are making yourself a fool."
.....You have a very unclear idea of what the people in What the Bleep are actually talking about. It has nothing to do with what you're talking about.
Adam and Eve was never written in paleontology context... And Geocentrism was a result of science mistakes... Created by the same Aristotelian-Ptolemaic views which still are the basis of western thought structuring and science these days... The church only used it to their power agenda strategies.
So Galileu and Copernicus merely exposed the errors of science itself, not the errors of religion.
Religion doesn't even aim to make science. It is (or should be) about spirituality.
Making a caricature of how Galileu (copernicus) exposed religious pseudo-science, is an utmost vulgar display of historic ignorance about the symbolic language of the Bible and how the church (institution of men) has interpreted it literally as a book of science, to serve their agenda for power, in past centuries.
Discomfortable as it may seem for David Albert, he lacks the understanding that Easter Mystic traditions have absolutely nothing to do with Western Judaic-Christian religions. He insists on putting both in a common bag apart from science. To his desilusion, there is much more common ground between Easter Ways and Science than with Religion. Eastern Ways are direct experience based and deeply phylosophical. Phylosophy is something without which scientific thought wouldn't even exist.
this guy is hilarious! he should explain how creativity arises out of pure matter or simply how is possible that a muscle, the brain produces such a thing like consciousness.
Take electron symbol- e Take proton - symbol - p They are absolute different particles And interaction between electron and proton is not the same than interaction between proton and electron : ep ≠ pe - Heisenberg Uncertainty principle Another example: A thing called shoe and a thing called sock along with the operator and which combines shoe and sock things. If you play around with it, you will find that the order is fairly important
I said nothing about my beliefs. If knowledge is scary to you i understand. You have chosen your beliefs and don't want that shaken. Don't worry. The article does nothing to try and "prove" there is a God. Just finds the benefits for those who do believe in a forgiving God, and those who meditate. Those who believe in a hateful God get negative effects. These are measurable grey matter counts in the brain that are affected. Go learn...
It's not a hypothesis. The study was done. Those who meditate or believe in a loving forgiving god have more grey matter. Those we believe in an angry hateful God loose out with less grey matter.
The skeptic can be a skeptic and still keep a positive mind set in which they forgive people and love without prejudice. They can meditate after all it is ultimately about focusing the mind on topic. Prayer is also a form of meditation.
The angry hateful skeptics get the results with less grey matter.
on a bio-molecular level love can be translated using the word compatibility. a positive reaction - attraction- to an appropriate stimulus engage the cells in the construction of an intricate, more complex pattern. is this the missing point? are we confusing complexity for design?
the water droplets experiment conducted by dc. massato yoshimoto empirically certifies the theory of beauty induced by positive energy output.
If you couldn't see, hear, feel, taste, or smell then would you be considered conscious? Consciousness is simply the word we use for all of these senses in one combination or another. I'm not sure if it is the control of these senses that is the issue at hand here but I don't think you can be conscious and brain dead (no reaction to those senses). I would suggest understanding physics as a beginning point for everyone. It's by far the best "tool" for sifting out all the fallacies.
I think science is a great tool. But just that, a tool.
Even scientific "fact" is still only an assumption created out of our level of understanding. Science will often ignore the odd paranormal things that happen from time to time simply because they don't like to accept things that don't fit into their theories of reality. Science is great. But still... absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Plus, what do you define as "evidence"?
What I mean by it is anything that happens from time to time that science cant explain. There are various cases where scientist have had the opportunity to observe certain things i.e a yogi who claimed he no longer needs to eat or drink, was taken under rigorous scientific observation in an isolated room for 10 days without food or water , etc. They found no changes in his health (which was perfect to begin with, and he's 85 ) This is just one 'paranormal' case, and there are many I can speak of
10 days is not that long to go without food or water. lets see him do a month then we can start calling it "paranormal." for now we'll just say that he's an old, healthy guy who proved that human biological functions can be pushed to reasonable extremes.
Do you understand the difference between something you've read in a magazine, and actual peer reviewed science? A little tip for you, search his name(or any other "paranormal" case name) in google, but put "site:edu" in the search box, see what comes out (if any) , and read it, you might be surprised.
I bet most of you are here because you saw "Quantum" in the title, and thought that the video expands on your little delusion of a soul. That's why youtube is RIPE with all these horrible videos about quantum mechanics, yet very little about any other scientific field. Idiots can't pretend the world is 5000 years old anymore. They need a new lie to cling to, and someone with an authoritative voice telling them that science is consistent with their delusions, so they can sleep soundly at night.
What about consciousness? This isn't 'physical' in that it has no attributes whatsoever, nor is it proveable or testable in any way. And yet, if it wasn't for consciousness, there would be no scientific study. Really, no-one knows what the hell we are or what hell we're doing here.
He does put forward very good points, however if there is something like afterlife and this life is just some kind of experience we have to understand that we will never be able to reach the understanding of what happens after death, science understand what controls this world but it doesnt explain anything else. Look how confused the world is. Instead of working out "why and how" perhaps spend money on making this world or, this experience a better one. I see no beauty in humanity.
@agalloch666 We can pretty much tell what happens to the body after it dies, ofc you can always deny the end out of fear of losing your consciousness. Also you say that you see no beauty in humanity, just look at where we were a few generations ago. Life expectancy was half of what it is now, death lurked around every corner and life was miserable. Guess what brought us out of that? Yes, scientific naturalism and a better understanding of the physical world and less superstition and witch burnin
also understanding the world is necessary for knowing how to make our lives better and our existance more meaningful. There is meaning in achievement, scientific breakthroughs carry much more meaning to me than any bronze age literature. I agree that we need to care more for one another in this huge, almost headless machinery that drives the modern economy, but science is what gave us modern comforts in the first place.
@junka22 Im not here to make bad comments about science, im obsessed with quantum physics. But they way government is spending money on science and war is at the moment beyond my comprehension. Leave it out for few years, fix the world and we could focus only on science in the future, when every human being is at peace.
I would have to say, the ultimate disclaimer for any approach in explaining the universe is that any theory we come up with doesn't describe the universe really.... it only describes the process in which we need to put ourselves in understanding the universe.....Dang!
He gave his motives away. he agreed not all science believes the same. and he seems to have an atheists interpretation of the science. he sees what he wants to see. the atheist MUST find a naturalistic excuse for everything
Oh dear, what a scientist! I agree with echosidei56301 - this is a very unhappy man. just look at him. Work, physics, proof, what is spirit for? Oh well...on with the search.............
it seems David is still stuck in the notion that the questions are being answered fasther than they are mounting. The questions are actually getting bigger and more basic for science and more difficult to aswere rather than that we are narrowing down on the asweres.
A few years ago, two parents went out for dinner. A few hours later, the babysitter was calling to ask if she could cover up the clown statue in the kids' room, the father said,"Take the kids and get out of the house. We'll call the police, we don't have a clown statue." The "clown statue" is really a killer that escaped from jail. If you don't post this letter on to 10 videos tonight, the clown will be in your bed at 3:00 am with a chainsaw in his hand;sorry i didnt want that happening to
The questions he asks at the end like "This other stuff you believe in, soul or spirit or whatever it is; what's it do? What's it for? What work is it doing in the world?" are very important questions we need to answer I think.
I believe that we are all connected and that we have a soul and spirit and all that, but I will concede to David Albert and say that if I cannot answer those questions... then why believe in it? Why am I believing in something that I don't have an answer for?
That's the paradox of faith. For my part, I reject mysticism because of that paradox. But for a lot of "true believers," it's only more encouragement to believe.
I think he has missed a very vital point. what is this soul or self? if you remove all that superstitious bagages, what is it. ? It is simply the pure consciousness can we have physics and science w/o it ? Scientist is a conscious being and I dont know why he wants to seperate both ? There is no science w/o consciousness. He should have used the word "God "rather than using the word "soul" (self).
did he really say that he's the Center of the Universe!!!? crazy man!!, I NEVER knew that this man believed that, Thank you, for enlightening me. I want YOU to be in charge of the Physics Department....Sweet man!! I Love Aliens!!! ahhhhhhhhhhh!
wait, they don't exist, because space goes on forever, that means that Aliens absolutely cannot exist, now if space ended, then you could have millions of civilizations, but it goes on forever, so it can't be
The man does like the sound of his own voice as it resonates throughout the universe - or - maybe, multiverse.
As for loving aliens, it depends on what type we are discussing, illegals or aliens with visas and work permits? Are they after my minimum wage job. Will the bring the value of the neighborhood down? What category would interstellar aliens fall into? That is if their is any.
yeah I was being random when I said that, lol, but I do believe in aliens, space goes on forever, this means there could be an infinite amount of planets with beings on it like us, there are Billions of planets, and there only needs to be ONE other planet with life on it, to make the alien idea true. I think the odds are good, I mean were here aren't we? and even if the other civilization are retarded, that's still a civilization, lol
Actually everything we know about the universe says that it is finite in size, if unbounded. But yeah, there still may be other civilizations out there, maybe tons of them. Too bad we're probably thousands or millions of light years away...
I think, honestly, that this guy has closed himself upon the theory that Quantum Physics and any other new evolutionary theory of reality, is not a new approach, rather just a continuation of the classical physics: "the Earth is at the center". I think, like Fred Alan Wolf states as well, that this is the wrong way to go. "What is it good for", he says, while he doesn't have any complete description or answer to why our goal of life seems to be to enjoy; to be happy.
I like what Fred Wolf says: "the trick is not to live in the Know, but to live in the Mystery" it should not frighten us to not know, it is beautiful to be able to marvel at the mysteries of the universe and of our selves without the demanding need to understand them, it is a wonderful way to live and we are blessed to live in times where science is finding out that we can not rationally explain ourselves. It is great to know that we are the only ones responsible for the meaning of our lives.
Profound hypothetical perspective really. Assuming everything is physical is as biased and limiting as assuming nothing is. The way science has been twisted for the new agers is ridiculous, I agree, but I can't imagine how you could be happy living a life convinced that it has no meaning. Something like meditation might not necessarily be meaningful, but it is quite an odd thing to try to explain without spirit, especially if you have ever actually practiced.
@dreaminginnoother i see this so commonly... people confuse meaning with spirituality. there is no more meaning in physics than spirituality, religiousity, etc. BOTH provide a basis for meaning. What' HE'S saying, is that once physics has DEFINED meaning in physical terms, it will SEEM to make the others obsolete. Once meaning is definable in physical terms, why worry about anything else? what good would it do? what would be it's purpose?
@dreaminginnoother Just because you cant explain something with science doesn't mean a scientist can't. You my friend have what is called "faith"... For which you do not require proof, so keep on dreaming. I do believe that the in all likelihood the world is physical only, and that gives me the meaning that you should live life to the full because there is only one shot at it.
@alecsharratt I guess you could call it faith. I don't really pretend to know what else there is. I haven't made it out of body yet, but am getting closer:). I guess I just have some strong intuitions. There is a physicist who tries to explain metaphysics scientifically and does a pretty good job. His name is Tom Campbell and you can find his lectures on youtube. I have read his book too and I must say I'm a pretty big fan of his work.
This is the best bit, 2:30 in to the video when he says"What's this spiritual stuff all for? whats the point of it"
neilmcintosh5150 6 days ago
The more we learn of quantum physics, the more we will understand that there is a limit to our understanding. Unless we can predict more than probabilities and account for more than our physical dimensions, the hand of God will become more apparent as time goes on. (or does it?)
HafwayHolmes 10 months ago
He is very cleverly avoiding a core issue being presented here. Cunning intellect can quite easily sidestep an obvious truth.
JonMcIntyre68 11 months ago
@JonMcIntyre68 What is the obvious truth that he is side stepping?
paulcarrola 4 months ago
2) There are occasions where a scientific approach clearly contradicts "common sense" or when common sense turns out to yield conclusions that science would reject. (Def: Common sense consists of what people in common would agree on : that which they "sense" as their common natural understanding.)
It was a common sense approach (for example) when humans commonly agreed that the sun moves around the earth, yet the idea turned out to be unscientific.
MrWinniedepooh 1 year ago
@MrWinniedepooh well dare i say its not about the conclusion, its about the process of getting to it,if the process of getting to a conclusion is step by step building on using the bricks of common sense, its a scientific conclusion. now if majority believes something because they like the idea does not make it common sense.
whassan84 11 months ago
@MrWinniedepooh I agree with you that your definition of common sense and his are different. His definition is that common sense is a process by which most people would go about to complete a task (e.g., a process to gain information). Your definition seems to be simply a belief about something that the majority of people may share.
paulcarrola 4 months ago
Excellent video, but I would argue with two points.
1) Science does not "tell us" that we humans are some sort of mechanical devices. Only some people (fiction writers, philosophers, scientists, etc) try to tell us something like that through their philosophical speculations, which they claim to derive from certain scientific or pseudo-scientific theories.
MrWinniedepooh 1 year ago
Making the jump to saying Physics is going to that kind of extreme is just as big a leap as the movie What the Bleep is making. These physicists who believe in determinism have absolutely no proof of determinism, but are so quick to point out when there's not absolute proof about something else. In my opinion, the idea that there's no free will, goes out the window when you start thinking about the brain's frontal lobe. There's just a lot more research to be done. So just be patient.
AndyO1987 1 year ago
Is David Albert suggesting we may predict the future based on progress of studies in Quantum Physics?
LifeinaRaindrop 1 year ago
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if the universe is all matter then surely, when we die we are broken down to particles of matter or antimatter. Therefore, our psychical parts never die, we only become part of the whole psychical universe. I know that religion is man made and not an answer for this but I can not see how our psychical state is a reason to disregard conscience energy,
69misst1 1 year ago
if the universe is all matter then surely, when we die we are broken down to particles of matter or antimatter. Therefore, our psychical parts never die, we only become part of the whole psychical universe. I know that religion is man made and not an answer for this but I can not see how our psychical state is a reason to disregard conscience energy,
69misst1 1 year ago
when a body dies it instantly loses 28grams in weight
mrbumpman 1 year ago
Evidence of the spirit world will soon become evident. science will be schooled by 11:11.....peace
toobsucker 1 year ago
If there is ever a complete physical/mechanical explanation for everything we think or believe, then it seems to me that is going to call our rationality into question. And once it calls our rationality into question, then it's going to call the physical/mechanical explanation into question as well. In other words, any such explanation is going to be self-refuting.
philochristos 1 year ago
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"Things could come to that."
Brilliant summarization. :-)
thomasmartinus 1 year ago
"Things could come to that."
Brilliant summarization :)
thomasmartinus 1 year ago
When is about explaining the universe, creation or our metaphysical structure physics can only explain a millimeter of the wholly meter of what reality is
MechaRobi 1 year ago
consider the paradox...
A man says "Everything is meaningless"
Another man responds, "If everything is meaningless, then what you just said is meaningless."
So if everything we experience in consciousness is really meaningless and needs no explanation, then coming to this conclusion becomes a self-contradiction because clearly the statement should mean something if it is true.
TheMrAlwaysRight 2 years ago
Some may claim their right to say meaningless things, (e.g.socialists, feminists)
Burdell22000 1 year ago
David just comes to prove that wisdom and knowledge are two totally different things. We're here listening to a Ph.D who talks of common sense and lacks it completely.
He's a narrow minded mechanicist and materialist... Totally out of fashion to say the least.
He's unable to project a view of what science will be like in tomorrow, without keeping a fanatic grip on the concepts of his science of yesterday.
If he was Neils Bohr he would have considered Schrodinger, a New Age freak.
mikungfu 2 years ago 2
What is it for?
AEVautomatic 2 years ago
Reading some of your comments, mikungfu, tells me that you are very mad at science. It seems to me like you are grievous because science doesn't incorporate your dear Easter mystic philosophies. This smells of severe hypocrisy.
What do you actually believe in? In chakras, astrology, nirvana and such? That we are reborn into animals? Come on!! You are making yourself a fool.
Cidr0n 1 year ago
@Cidr0n: Please don't asume that about me because you couldn't be farther from the facts. I have a degree in Forestry and am a Zoology fanatic. I just don't think that cognitive work through science is incompatible with cognitive work through meditation or traditional eastern epistemology in general.
To think that science and eastern mysticism are unrelated and that anything other than science is less valid than science as epystemological methods, well that is indeed a blind fundamentalism.
mikungfu 1 year ago
@Cidr0n: Please don't asume that about me because you couldn't be farther from the facts. I have a dgree in Forestry and am Zoology fanatic. I just don't think that cognitive work through science is incompatible with cognitive work through meditation or traditional eastern epistemology in general.
To think that science and eastern mysticism are unrelated and that anything other than science is less valid than science as epystemological methods, well that is indeed a blind fundamentalism.
mikungfu 1 year ago
Also, It's not science that is fundamentalist, but rather those that believe blindly in it as the only valid form of cognition. And that indeed is treating science like a religion, even though it is really not.
mikungfu 1 year ago
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@Cidr0n "What do you actually believe in? In chakras, astrology, nirvana and such? That we are reborn into animals? Come on!! You are making yourself a fool."
.....You have a very unclear idea of what the people in What the Bleep are actually talking about. It has nothing to do with what you're talking about.
AndyO1987 1 year ago
Adam and Eve was never written in paleontology context... And Geocentrism was a result of science mistakes... Created by the same Aristotelian-Ptolemaic views which still are the basis of western thought structuring and science these days... The church only used it to their power agenda strategies.
So Galileu and Copernicus merely exposed the errors of science itself, not the errors of religion.
Religion doesn't even aim to make science. It is (or should be) about spirituality.
mikungfu 2 years ago
Making a caricature of how Galileu (copernicus) exposed religious pseudo-science, is an utmost vulgar display of historic ignorance about the symbolic language of the Bible and how the church (institution of men) has interpreted it literally as a book of science, to serve their agenda for power, in past centuries.
mikungfu 2 years ago
Discomfortable as it may seem for David Albert, he lacks the understanding that Easter Mystic traditions have absolutely nothing to do with Western Judaic-Christian religions. He insists on putting both in a common bag apart from science. To his desilusion, there is much more common ground between Easter Ways and Science than with Religion. Eastern Ways are direct experience based and deeply phylosophical. Phylosophy is something without which scientific thought wouldn't even exist.
mikungfu 2 years ago
I subscribe completely..... god doesn't exist, is the greatest hoax of all.
mochiam 2 years ago
this guy is hilarious! he should explain how creativity arises out of pure matter or simply how is possible that a muscle, the brain produces such a thing like consciousness.
tyugh0000 2 years ago
socratus1 2 years ago
What work does our belief do?
Google this: Toronto Star Your religious beliefs alter your brain.
Belief in a forgiving God, and meditation make the brain healthier. Proven by a neurological study.
DoctorTachyon 2 years ago
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tyugh0000 2 years ago
google the article. I have no religion.
I said nothing about my beliefs. If knowledge is scary to you i understand. You have chosen your beliefs and don't want that shaken. Don't worry. The article does nothing to try and "prove" there is a God. Just finds the benefits for those who do believe in a forgiving God, and those who meditate. Those who believe in a hateful God get negative effects. These are measurable grey matter counts in the brain that are affected. Go learn...
DoctorTachyon 2 years ago
true, beliefs can alter your genes.
tyugh0000 2 years ago
They create more or less grey matter in your brain. Positive beliefs more brain matter. Negative beliefs. Less.
See?
DoctorTachyon 2 years ago
it's only a hypothesis that idealizes neuronal reproduction and in fact a positive, partial true statement, indeed perception regulates genes.
otherwise, how does skepticism influence mental development? the greatest minds are extremely doubtful and efficient.
look at you! :)
tyugh0000 2 years ago
It's not a hypothesis. The study was done. Those who meditate or believe in a loving forgiving god have more grey matter. Those we believe in an angry hateful God loose out with less grey matter.
The skeptic can be a skeptic and still keep a positive mind set in which they forgive people and love without prejudice. They can meditate after all it is ultimately about focusing the mind on topic. Prayer is also a form of meditation.
The angry hateful skeptics get the results with less grey matter.
DoctorTachyon 2 years ago
I got it, all we need is unconditional love. it sounds stereotypical but it is the absolute truth.
tyugh0000 2 years ago
Ain't it though.
DoctorTachyon 2 years ago
on a bio-molecular level love can be translated using the word compatibility. a positive reaction - attraction- to an appropriate stimulus engage the cells in the construction of an intricate, more complex pattern. is this the missing point? are we confusing complexity for design?
the water droplets experiment conducted by dc. massato yoshimoto empirically certifies the theory of beauty induced by positive energy output.
tyugh0000 2 years ago
If you couldn't see, hear, feel, taste, or smell then would you be considered conscious? Consciousness is simply the word we use for all of these senses in one combination or another. I'm not sure if it is the control of these senses that is the issue at hand here but I don't think you can be conscious and brain dead (no reaction to those senses). I would suggest understanding physics as a beginning point for everyone. It's by far the best "tool" for sifting out all the fallacies.
AmadeusHorus 2 years ago
My last comment was aimed at everyone in general
NicolaiRM 2 years ago
I think science is a great tool. But just that, a tool.
Even scientific "fact" is still only an assumption created out of our level of understanding. Science will often ignore the odd paranormal things that happen from time to time simply because they don't like to accept things that don't fit into their theories of reality. Science is great. But still... absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Plus, what do you define as "evidence"?
NicolaiRM 2 years ago
what paranormal thing has ever happened?
davydawgdawg 2 years ago
What I mean by it is anything that happens from time to time that science cant explain. There are various cases where scientist have had the opportunity to observe certain things i.e a yogi who claimed he no longer needs to eat or drink, was taken under rigorous scientific observation in an isolated room for 10 days without food or water , etc. They found no changes in his health (which was perfect to begin with, and he's 85 ) This is just one 'paranormal' case, and there are many I can speak of
NicolaiRM 2 years ago
10 days is not that long to go without food or water. lets see him do a month then we can start calling it "paranormal." for now we'll just say that he's an old, healthy guy who proved that human biological functions can be pushed to reasonable extremes.
davydawgdawg 2 years ago
Yep I agree that thats possible.
What do you define as paranormal then?
NicolaiRM 2 years ago
honestly, anything that never has and never will happen. particularly things dealing with the laws of physics on a very large scale
davydawgdawg 2 years ago
Do you understand the difference between something you've read in a magazine, and actual peer reviewed science? A little tip for you, search his name(or any other "paranormal" case name) in google, but put "site:edu" in the search box, see what comes out (if any) , and read it, you might be surprised.
SemiDecentz 2 years ago
"absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
Profound!
DoctorTachyon 2 years ago
@DoctorTachyon SO true.
AndyO1987 1 year ago
@NicolaiRM Awesome. I totally agree.
AndyO1987 1 year ago
I bet most of you are here because you saw "Quantum" in the title, and thought that the video expands on your little delusion of a soul. That's why youtube is RIPE with all these horrible videos about quantum mechanics, yet very little about any other scientific field. Idiots can't pretend the world is 5000 years old anymore. They need a new lie to cling to, and someone with an authoritative voice telling them that science is consistent with their delusions, so they can sleep soundly at night.
SemiDecentz 2 years ago
Semi,
Then what is the science you proclaim? You know much about Quantum mechanics? Cause these seem to be the smart guys.
Why u here?
How do you sleep? Positive thoughts make for a healthy brain. Fact.
DoctorTachyon 2 years ago
What about consciousness? This isn't 'physical' in that it has no attributes whatsoever, nor is it proveable or testable in any way. And yet, if it wasn't for consciousness, there would be no scientific study. Really, no-one knows what the hell we are or what hell we're doing here.
brianv00 2 years ago 2
He does put forward very good points, however if there is something like afterlife and this life is just some kind of experience we have to understand that we will never be able to reach the understanding of what happens after death, science understand what controls this world but it doesnt explain anything else. Look how confused the world is. Instead of working out "why and how" perhaps spend money on making this world or, this experience a better one. I see no beauty in humanity.
agalloch666 2 years ago
@agalloch666 We can pretty much tell what happens to the body after it dies, ofc you can always deny the end out of fear of losing your consciousness. Also you say that you see no beauty in humanity, just look at where we were a few generations ago. Life expectancy was half of what it is now, death lurked around every corner and life was miserable. Guess what brought us out of that? Yes, scientific naturalism and a better understanding of the physical world and less superstition and witch burnin
junka22 1 year ago
also understanding the world is necessary for knowing how to make our lives better and our existance more meaningful. There is meaning in achievement, scientific breakthroughs carry much more meaning to me than any bronze age literature. I agree that we need to care more for one another in this huge, almost headless machinery that drives the modern economy, but science is what gave us modern comforts in the first place.
junka22 1 year ago
@junka22 Im not here to make bad comments about science, im obsessed with quantum physics. But they way government is spending money on science and war is at the moment beyond my comprehension. Leave it out for few years, fix the world and we could focus only on science in the future, when every human being is at peace.
agalloch666 1 year ago
I would have to say, the ultimate disclaimer for any approach in explaining the universe is that any theory we come up with doesn't describe the universe really.... it only describes the process in which we need to put ourselves in understanding the universe.....Dang!
36squared 2 years ago
He gave his motives away. he agreed not all science believes the same. and he seems to have an atheists interpretation of the science. he sees what he wants to see. the atheist MUST find a naturalistic excuse for everything
toobsucker 2 years ago
Oh dear, what a scientist! I agree with echosidei56301 - this is a very unhappy man. just look at him. Work, physics, proof, what is spirit for? Oh well...on with the search.............
maryswilde 2 years ago
I really love it when absolute morons comment on these videos when they can barely tie there shoes.
buchinsky1 2 years ago
I know this comment is quite old, but I had to point out the obvious irony in your statement: it's "their", not "there".
Moron!
brianv00 2 years ago
it seems David is still stuck in the notion that the questions are being answered fasther than they are mounting. The questions are actually getting bigger and more basic for science and more difficult to aswere rather than that we are narrowing down on the asweres.
zendingo 2 years ago
Excellent arguments. Very well-spoken.
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TwoBrotherProduction 2 years ago
The questions he asks at the end like "This other stuff you believe in, soul or spirit or whatever it is; what's it do? What's it for? What work is it doing in the world?" are very important questions we need to answer I think.
I believe that we are all connected and that we have a soul and spirit and all that, but I will concede to David Albert and say that if I cannot answer those questions... then why believe in it? Why am I believing in something that I don't have an answer for?
eatthatmeatball 2 years ago
That's the paradox of faith. For my part, I reject mysticism because of that paradox. But for a lot of "true believers," it's only more encouragement to believe.
conorfrog 2 years ago
I think he has missed a very vital point. what is this soul or self? if you remove all that superstitious bagages, what is it. ? It is simply the pure consciousness can we have physics and science w/o it ? Scientist is a conscious being and I dont know why he wants to seperate both ? There is no science w/o consciousness. He should have used the word "God "rather than using the word "soul" (self).
shastrayana 2 years ago
Thanks Dr. Albert. Finally, someone has provide clarity and reason to QPon YouTube.
hankaaron1961 2 years ago
This is a very smart man
ryanlamberg 2 years ago
Doctor Albert must be very unhappy.
ECHOSIDE56301 2 years ago
Well, I finally discovered who is at the center of the universe - David Albert, PhD or at least he thinks he is..
Gtigerclaw 3 years ago
did he really say that he's the Center of the Universe!!!? crazy man!!, I NEVER knew that this man believed that, Thank you, for enlightening me. I want YOU to be in charge of the Physics Department....Sweet man!! I Love Aliens!!! ahhhhhhhhhhh!
wait, they don't exist, because space goes on forever, that means that Aliens absolutely cannot exist, now if space ended, then you could have millions of civilizations, but it goes on forever, so it can't be
1981z28camaro 3 years ago
The man does like the sound of his own voice as it resonates throughout the universe - or - maybe, multiverse.
As for loving aliens, it depends on what type we are discussing, illegals or aliens with visas and work permits? Are they after my minimum wage job. Will the bring the value of the neighborhood down? What category would interstellar aliens fall into? That is if their is any.
Don't know if I like the idea of aliens or not.
Gtigerclaw 3 years ago
yeah I was being random when I said that, lol, but I do believe in aliens, space goes on forever, this means there could be an infinite amount of planets with beings on it like us, there are Billions of planets, and there only needs to be ONE other planet with life on it, to make the alien idea true. I think the odds are good, I mean were here aren't we? and even if the other civilization are retarded, that's still a civilization, lol
1981z28camaro 3 years ago
Actually everything we know about the universe says that it is finite in size, if unbounded. But yeah, there still may be other civilizations out there, maybe tons of them. Too bad we're probably thousands or millions of light years away...
conorfrog 2 years ago
well it is not the earth at the center of the universe anymore, but conciousness at hte center of the universe now.
vyaschady 3 years ago
I think, honestly, that this guy has closed himself upon the theory that Quantum Physics and any other new evolutionary theory of reality, is not a new approach, rather just a continuation of the classical physics: "the Earth is at the center". I think, like Fred Alan Wolf states as well, that this is the wrong way to go. "What is it good for", he says, while he doesn't have any complete description or answer to why our goal of life seems to be to enjoy; to be happy.
mads18 3 years ago
I like what Fred Wolf says: "the trick is not to live in the Know, but to live in the Mystery" it should not frighten us to not know, it is beautiful to be able to marvel at the mysteries of the universe and of our selves without the demanding need to understand them, it is a wonderful way to live and we are blessed to live in times where science is finding out that we can not rationally explain ourselves. It is great to know that we are the only ones responsible for the meaning of our lives.
santiagueri 3 years ago 4
profound philosophical perspectives..
nalcow 4 years ago 7
Profound hypothetical perspective really. Assuming everything is physical is as biased and limiting as assuming nothing is. The way science has been twisted for the new agers is ridiculous, I agree, but I can't imagine how you could be happy living a life convinced that it has no meaning. Something like meditation might not necessarily be meaningful, but it is quite an odd thing to try to explain without spirit, especially if you have ever actually practiced.
dreaminginnoother 4 years ago 7
Meaning is just a word you do not need it to be "happy". A living being does not ask how to live or why to live.
exinferiz 4 years ago 2
not every living being, but certanly human being need certaing meaning, and certanly do ask him self how and why to live, you can`t just denied that
Melmereth 3 years ago 2
@dreaminginnoother i see this so commonly... people confuse meaning with spirituality. there is no more meaning in physics than spirituality, religiousity, etc. BOTH provide a basis for meaning. What' HE'S saying, is that once physics has DEFINED meaning in physical terms, it will SEEM to make the others obsolete. Once meaning is definable in physical terms, why worry about anything else? what good would it do? what would be it's purpose?
ZRadach 1 year ago
@dreaminginnoother Just because you cant explain something with science doesn't mean a scientist can't. You my friend have what is called "faith"... For which you do not require proof, so keep on dreaming. I do believe that the in all likelihood the world is physical only, and that gives me the meaning that you should live life to the full because there is only one shot at it.
alecsharratt 10 months ago
@alecsharratt I guess you could call it faith. I don't really pretend to know what else there is. I haven't made it out of body yet, but am getting closer:). I guess I just have some strong intuitions. There is a physicist who tries to explain metaphysics scientifically and does a pretty good job. His name is Tom Campbell and you can find his lectures on youtube. I have read his book too and I must say I'm a pretty big fan of his work.
dreaminginnoother 10 months ago
@dreaminginnoother Would you mind providing a citation from his book to an experiment that proves one of his major points?
acr08807 6 months ago