The compilation of this and your subsequent continuation video linked to this one, both of which are inexplicably fascinating and completely riveting from conception to finish, deserve an Oscar!
Even light from the stars larger than the sun, distances away from the earth that the mind struggles to completely comprehend shines in straight path directly to our eyes.
Lets look (it is impossible for anything to exist) Thought is only space time in relative cause and effect.
There is no point of origin or end, death of consciousness can not be obtained its all holographic. Leading edge of light its self is expansive relative to function of vibrational frequency. All points are relative to none, to not preserve the point.
Finally someone on youtube who combines scientific knowledge with creative awareness. I've gotta go look up that bit on the RNA, tho. I knew it happened in plants and bacteria but I didn't know it occured with us.
It's one of the primary mechanisms of viral propagation. Any organism that can be virally "infected", i.e. in which virii can reproduce, participates in this RNA dialogue (though "received" genetic information almost invariably "ends" with the infected cell in question). Still, bizarre and fun to think about.
Its hard to do internet research on these topics, bc/ alot of the articles can only be found on pay4 sites, but I did find some interesting facts about fungi. In them, parasitic viruses are vanishingly rare. Fungi have open cytoplasms and often connect bodily with other fungi. The fact that they have such a disproportionate number of beneficial viruses implies you are right bc/ it correlates with increased degree of contact btwn/ organisms. Interesting stuff.
I wish I could think about things, contemplate things, in a way more similar to your obvious talent in that regard. You and several other YouTube Atheists are so inspiring to me; yet I have failed to follow your example. Whenever I think of a video topic I think "so-and-so would do this so much better than I" unless it is something requiring little actual thought or deliberation - just willy-nilly opinion, in which case I'm all over it - give me a silly, lame notion and I can't stop myself.
Awesome video. I agree completely. Materialism/empiricism has attempted to destroy the idea of the human experience. Specifically, the phenomenon where the faculties, instruments, and/or objects that an individual possesses are employed to satisfy the complex preferences and/or wants of that individual. Studying the atomic structure of thing is no more important than the importance attached to it by the individual concerned.
Does a snowflake have value because it is different from all the other snowflakes? No. Even if our planet is the only planet that has intelligent life in this galaxy, and that is the norm, then there are billions of planets with countless civilizations and sentient beings. We have no value to the universe, or to others. Our stories have no meaning or purpose or value. Stop kidding yourself.
"We have no value to the universe, or to others." - Then telling you to go kill yourself is logical in your worldview, yet most would find that ethically absurd. This paradox that emerges is exactly what the OP is resolving, yet you continue to bask in your close-mindedness; you have anointed Science as your God and are never turning back.
This is a whole new look at the how the universe is "empty," The universe isn't empty because everything interacts with everything. There is no lonely atom. Simply brilliant
when you say "fraction of a unit of measure" do you also include Planck lengths and smaller units of measure?
I think all scales can be divided and there is no atom or elementary particles.
I don't agree scientists are mostly spiritual and would dogmatically argue, no it does not make sense to go smaller than the Planck length at current understanding.
I like you but think that science does belittle the universe in some sense.
The world/universe around us is brimming with meaning and wonder.
The Hubble Deep Field is (a part of) "God."
Much of what you are saying is wh at I got from the scene in the Watchmen, when Dr. Manhattan has his epiphany on Mars about the miracle of our existence.
I had several issues with the first half of this video (in particular, your used of the phrase "science says"), but I suspected that you would redeem yourself later on, and you did so in spades. :-)
What would you say are the implications of this complex network of events on human agency (i.e. to what extent should one be praised/criticized for the things they have done in their lives?)
On objective meaning. Meaning doesn't exist outside the perception of a vigour subject or community. Meaninglessness doesn't exist outside the perception of a broken subject or community. There is no void of meaning in a perspective where imagining there being meaning in that perspective is impossible to begin with. To even try and puzzle those incompatible pieces together is in itself an activity from flawed thinking, and so thinking there is a void of meaning there becomes flawed as well.
...perpetually unfolding (resonating) atomic narrative..I love this! W. Boroughs & G. Deleuze would have put something very similar..rhizomatic offshoots expanding/interlinking multiplicities indefinitely..just a thought. great video!
I had this link forwarded to me and ....I'm SO grateful...I'm SO HAPPY to see you again, and to see that you are as brilliant as ever.
I won't be around for a while. I'll think about this thought provoking video while I'm doing other things and I'll try to post a response when I get back...
and sorry for any grammar mistakes in my comment below, im a high school dropout >.>
randomuseronthenet 7 months ago
The compilation of this and your subsequent continuation video linked to this one, both of which are inexplicably fascinating and completely riveting from conception to finish, deserve an Oscar!
randomuseronthenet 7 months ago
I don't know what it means to be barely evolved. Not well adapted to the environment?
Mjhavok 8 months ago
Even light from the stars larger than the sun, distances away from the earth that the mind struggles to completely comprehend shines in straight path directly to our eyes.
RandlesBear 1 year ago
I shared this on facebook.
FireMynx 1 year ago
Very intresting. btw, Carl Sagan will always be my hero. :)
FireMynx 1 year ago
I am the legacy of a million lives lived.
MrBranboom 1 year ago
Well done.
zarkoff45 1 year ago
my 9th grade mind is fucking blown.
wewilleaty0u 1 year ago
easily one of my favourite YT videos liek, evah n stuff.
imma send it to a friend who has recently subbed you, just to make sure he doesnt miss this one. : )
oojamaflipper 1 year ago
Your over analyzing your position in it.
Lets look (it is impossible for anything to exist) Thought is only space time in relative cause and effect.
There is no point of origin or end, death of consciousness can not be obtained its all holographic. Leading edge of light its self is expansive relative to function of vibrational frequency. All points are relative to none, to not preserve the point.
freepress666 1 year ago
beautiful choice of words!
pdanlee 2 years ago
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cobaltdan9 2 years ago
Finally someone on youtube who combines scientific knowledge with creative awareness. I've gotta go look up that bit on the RNA, tho. I knew it happened in plants and bacteria but I didn't know it occured with us.
madscirat 2 years ago
It's one of the primary mechanisms of viral propagation. Any organism that can be virally "infected", i.e. in which virii can reproduce, participates in this RNA dialogue (though "received" genetic information almost invariably "ends" with the infected cell in question). Still, bizarre and fun to think about.
TheCarruths 2 years ago
Its hard to do internet research on these topics, bc/ alot of the articles can only be found on pay4 sites, but I did find some interesting facts about fungi. In them, parasitic viruses are vanishingly rare. Fungi have open cytoplasms and often connect bodily with other fungi. The fact that they have such a disproportionate number of beneficial viruses implies you are right bc/ it correlates with increased degree of contact btwn/ organisms. Interesting stuff.
madscirat 2 years ago
I wish I could think about things, contemplate things, in a way more similar to your obvious talent in that regard. You and several other YouTube Atheists are so inspiring to me; yet I have failed to follow your example. Whenever I think of a video topic I think "so-and-so would do this so much better than I" unless it is something requiring little actual thought or deliberation - just willy-nilly opinion, in which case I'm all over it - give me a silly, lame notion and I can't stop myself.
Elaina43 2 years ago
************* (round of applause)
Drastam 2 years ago
"a perpetually unfolding atomic narrative"
eloquently elegant.
thanks for this video.
atthetopofmyvoice 2 years ago
your a loser plain and simple your soul is gone...you have no redemer...
yikeswood 2 years ago
Delightfully said.
dominictemple 2 years ago
brilliantly put
killja77 2 years ago
This excites me! like Neil DeGrasse Tyson so passionately says: ''That makes me want to grab people on the streets, and say: have you heard this?"'
Well done!
nutsinthecoco 2 years ago
Awesome video. I agree completely. Materialism/empiricism has attempted to destroy the idea of the human experience. Specifically, the phenomenon where the faculties, instruments, and/or objects that an individual possesses are employed to satisfy the complex preferences and/or wants of that individual. Studying the atomic structure of thing is no more important than the importance attached to it by the individual concerned.
PraxeoIogy 2 years ago
I've never thought of myself as "A perpetually unfolding, atomic, narrative." Thanks, Nice video!
spawnfan101 2 years ago
this was bloody amazing!
oojamaflipper 2 years ago
wow...i feel very special now : )
onemanband1963 2 years ago
Does a snowflake have value because it is different from all the other snowflakes? No. Even if our planet is the only planet that has intelligent life in this galaxy, and that is the norm, then there are billions of planets with countless civilizations and sentient beings. We have no value to the universe, or to others. Our stories have no meaning or purpose or value. Stop kidding yourself.
Fizzly21 2 years ago
"We have no value to the universe, or to others." - Then telling you to go kill yourself is logical in your worldview, yet most would find that ethically absurd. This paradox that emerges is exactly what the OP is resolving, yet you continue to bask in your close-mindedness; you have anointed Science as your God and are never turning back.
So go kill yourself.
UCIBME 2 years ago
This is a whole new look at the how the universe is "empty," The universe isn't empty because everything interacts with everything. There is no lonely atom. Simply brilliant
GKCanman 2 years ago
Very cool vid
Jadabh3 2 years ago
"Ta Tvam Asi" painted white for westerners..
unrelated; did you put on weight bro?
peanarchist 2 years ago
Really liking this stuff!
JasperAvi 2 years ago
This is brilliant. You really knocked this one out of the park bro. Great work (^_^)
crazycat1984 2 years ago
when you say "fraction of a unit of measure" do you also include Planck lengths and smaller units of measure?
I think all scales can be divided and there is no atom or elementary particles.
I don't agree scientists are mostly spiritual and would dogmatically argue, no it does not make sense to go smaller than the Planck length at current understanding.
I like you but think that science does belittle the universe in some sense.
hyperseauton 2 years ago
Sounds like Dudes smoked some 80x Salvia D.
bigsly 2 years ago
The world/universe around us is brimming with meaning and wonder.
The Hubble Deep Field is (a part of) "God."
Much of what you are saying is wh at I got from the scene in the Watchmen, when Dr. Manhattan has his epiphany on Mars about the miracle of our existence.
StevenErnest 2 years ago 2
Wonderful, Ben! Beautiful! *Massive mental hugs* ; )
StevenErnest 2 years ago
Nice nose ring;)
CommonmanVideos 2 years ago
I had several issues with the first half of this video (in particular, your used of the phrase "science says"), but I suspected that you would redeem yourself later on, and you did so in spades. :-)
CousinoMacul 2 years ago
What would you say are the implications of this complex network of events on human agency (i.e. to what extent should one be praised/criticized for the things they have done in their lives?)
ximaposeur 2 years ago
On objective meaning. Meaning doesn't exist outside the perception of a vigour subject or community. Meaninglessness doesn't exist outside the perception of a broken subject or community. There is no void of meaning in a perspective where imagining there being meaning in that perspective is impossible to begin with. To even try and puzzle those incompatible pieces together is in itself an activity from flawed thinking, and so thinking there is a void of meaning there becomes flawed as well.
Censeo 2 years ago
New FAV bit:
"...you are a perpetually unfolding atomic narrative..."
VERY KEWL!!!
I want to know more about YOUR story, Ben - call me Miss Nosey.
Elaina43 2 years ago
My FAV bit so far?
"...and tiny, tiny pieces of that information are being incorporated into... you." ME? I love this!!!!
Elaina43 2 years ago
Thank you, Ben!!!!!!!!!
I yam what I yam - and I don't even like sweet potatoes.
Elaina43 2 years ago
stories wuthout covers....i reaaly liked that idea
armando3210 2 years ago
Why are religions still around when we know narratives this powerful and awe inspiring that are completely grounded in reason and logic?
tobyw87 2 years ago
If they changed the word on the lab from "Physics" to "Reality" they might get more kids interested. Thank you for YOUR attempt to do just that.
philhellenes 2 years ago 5
It's good to see you man -- It's been a while.
VeritasEtLibertas82 2 years ago
...perpetually unfolding (resonating) atomic narrative..I love this! W. Boroughs & G. Deleuze would have put something very similar..rhizomatic offshoots expanding/interlinking multiplicities indefinitely..just a thought. great video!
naumanhumayun 2 years ago
nice vid. consider yourself subbed. I've thought this for a while an wondered why I almost never hear people say it. Thanks.
verstwo2 2 years ago
LOOOVED this, missed you. Thanks for the vid
theshadowed1 2 years ago
Nice to see you are still at large, Ben. Hope you fared better than average during this last year which has seen so many evils.
randyhelzerman 2 years ago
Haven't seen a video for 8 months. Thanks for this.
brainpolice2 2 years ago
I had this link forwarded to me and ....I'm SO grateful...I'm SO HAPPY to see you again, and to see that you are as brilliant as ever.
I won't be around for a while. I'll think about this thought provoking video while I'm doing other things and I'll try to post a response when I get back...
Really interesting!
2bsirius 2 years ago 6
Well, then, hurry back, 2b! ; )
StevenErnest 2 years ago
Elegant...
snownet 2 years ago
I was waiting for the Punch-Line. ( Oh, it wasn't a joke? )
LimpLoser 2 years ago
It is what it is.
AdamHintz 2 years ago
YEAH YOUR BACK!!!!!!!
fitrep 2 years ago
Amazing, Ben. You've always had a way with words.
xMissInfidelx 2 years ago
"you are an event!"
reading badiou have we??
nice to see u again.
mahyarmohaghegh 2 years ago
We are the most meaningful thing to have happened in the universe.
vbfl920 2 years ago
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Hamandchees3 2 years ago
man, you look different since the last time i saw a vid of yours
preput 2 years ago
Wonderful.
itsbizbuz 2 years ago
You said it better than Alan Watts.
Thankyou so much. :)
MetaCraken 2 years ago
Your enthusiasm fills me with regret for having wasted so much of my own time, and, simultaneously, hope and wonder about the universe.
msa1985 2 years ago
relation precedes essence
almafarag 2 years ago
This is one of the best videos I've watched in a few weeks.
freethinkerdangerous 2 years ago
Encore.
smileykai77 2 years ago 4
Damn good video. Very well explained.
macwild1234 2 years ago
Beautiful.
brouhajoe 2 years ago
Deep
metal1dragon 2 years ago 3
5 Stars.
w0r1dpeace 2 years ago 4