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  • @njc065009 Because the burden of proof is on you. My position is that the brain is an information processor like a computer, and consciousness is just a particular process, like a particular piece of software. If you want to claim there is more to it than that, you need to give some evidence to support this. Try this question: If you were having a conversation with me and a computer that had intelligence on par with ours, could you prove that me or the computer had inner experience or not?

  • @SageAndOnions To put my position in another way, I don't believe that qualia exist.

  • @scathenc1 I'm gonna turn that question around an instead of me proving my theory, why don't you prove yours...

  • And people say philosophy is useless and boring - usually because they don't know what it is. If this kind of stuff interests people who watch this, I recommend you consider it as a subject to study when you leave school.

    Also, for similar 'thought experiments', check out the book 'The Pig that Wants to be Eaten.

  • You cannot prove Cleverbot has no "inner" what-it-is-like-to-be, just as you cannot prove that I do. I am a computational neuroscientist, and I believe humans ARE philosophical zombies. If you disagree with me, can you prove otherwise?

  • @scathenc1 do you consider yourself a zombie from your point of view then?

  • @scathenc1 But can u prove what u r sayin ... no its impossible to fully prove ur theroy laws of science are broken on a daily basis we r just humans specs of dust in the universe

  • It is my fervent belief that macines are councious, perhaps not in the way we are, more like that of a simple amoeba, but still alive (keep in mind that their thoughts are still limited).

  • Perhaps there is some form of human life that responds exactly like a robot and has no feelings but continues life as though they were a "real" human.

    Honestly it sounds a bit like me, I am not asking for sympathy so no one tell me that they feel sorry, thank you. Anyway, I act like everyone else, I laugh and smile but only because others are, because it is what they are doing, I am not hiding anything, its just my response. But as I laugh and smile or frown or cry, I do not feel anything at a

  • THIS. IS. INCREDIBLE. and completely describes what ive been thinking about recently

  • Think about this - If you went to bed tonight, and woke in your friend's body the next morning, would you be your friend? No. YOU are YOU no matter what human body you are hooked up to. The body is nothing but matter. Atoms. That's it. YOU are not atoms. You are not physical. This world isn't reality. It is a wild-ass simulation.

  • This video made me wonder why youtube doesn't have a "super subscribe" button

  • G . U . R . U!!! copyright

  • weird!!

    watch this

    watch?v=2CQb8grvTcA

    sometimes i don't understand the science .

  • Consciousness is the ability to recall the past

  • @Typho0n86

    No it's not lol.

  • @theblueisyou In its simplest terms YES IT IS ROFL

  • @Typho0n86

    In simplest terms, YOU ARE STUPID ROFL.

  • @theblueisyou Troll

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  • This man is a god damn genious.

  • @TheAwesomekman It's called Google and for people like you and me we're too lazy to look this up.

  • I suffer from epilepsy, i have only ever had 2 but they were majorand when i come too i ant make my own decisions and i simply just respond to everything without thinking, like i have no control over my body but i can just see thourgh my eyes

  • Hey Michael, A thing that might be interesting for u: I have a Derealization/Depersonisation disorder. I'm like living in a foggy world and feel like dreaming all day, and Im in an unbelievable state of mind atm, where I can't even tell if I'm existent. Its hard to explain. Imagine your body getting out of the bed but you "Mind, and your consciousness staying in your bed or floating around the room. its like being at 2 locations at a time, No Shit. But Its heaps interesting to experience.

  • *CONTINUED*

    After we die, what will we experience? Think about this... when you are dreaming, you are still experiencing. You ARE still conscious. It is just at a much lower degree. When we awake, we are at a much higher degree of consciousness. It only makes sense that when we die, we become even MORE conscious. The next level. True reality. The real world. O.o

    -

    I have a very philosophic mind (no pun intended) and I love this whole subject. Please strike up a conversation if you'd like.

  • Even those disorders you listed aren't actually disorders of consciousness, they are disorders of the brain. We will never be able to measure, contain, or create consciousness. The minds experiences are governed by what the brain tells it, but the mind itself is fundamentally not physical. So what is it? I personal believe we're living in a wild-ass simulation and the real world is nothing like this. Even engineers familiarize quantum mechanics with numbers and programming. We are hooked up.

  • your like a really clever wheezy waiter , with more elegance and profound thought. lol what?

    wheezy is great this make no sense now, what?

  • @JacobMerlinAvery

    I completely agree.

  • @theblueisyou yay! thanks! :)

  • @JacobMerlinAvery

    Uhh what did I do? :D

  • @theblueisyou you completely agreed with me, COMPLETELY AGREED! no one has ever completely agreed with me before. thanks :)

  • This reminds me of the book unwind by scott westerfeld.

  • "If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."

  • both would be me x) but my bad half would be raping my good half )x

  • This video is so good

  • For the cell one I think that you can only be me when all your cells are in me because otherwise there us still a little bit of me inside if you.

  • the cell one has an answer. never. structures like bones wouldn't change. plus the body would change the "bad" cell to the original

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  • I've always thought about the consciousness thing ever since i was a kid, i used to ask my parents if they and everyone else were robots and if i was the only actual person, amazing, i thought I was the only one who thought that

  • Who is to say that this is conciensness? Maybe this is the dream and the dreams you have are your lif?

  • According to the comments, it appears both Brain.exe and brain.dmg have stopped working.

    Any other Linux users out there who still have a functioning operating system? =]

  • brain.dmg has stopped working

  • u can take both people and use sturturalism or functionalsm psychology on them

  • @Ss1mega No. The cloned person would be a new person except have the same genetics as the person who died.

  • @StefanAjax101 Yeah and that cloned person would have to grow up from a baby there

    would not be an instant fully grown cloned adult

  • Consciousness is the most mind-blowing thing ever! I figure consciousness must have evolved at certain point in evolutionary history. If we figure which creatures have no consciousness and those who do and find the creatures in-between that we can workout how consciousness is forming in their brain through consciousness tests and perhaps figure out where/how consciousness came about.

  • brain.exe -64 cant be executed

  • Okay, if a loved one was to die. And you were able to get that person cloned from a strand of hair you had (if it was possible). Would that person memeories be retained?

  • @Ss1mega No memories would be retained if memory retention was genetic would n't

    this mean that all people would have the memories of their ancestors whether cloned or not! :-)

  • Just thinking haha

  • Hey I have a question doesn't your body automatically reject what isint theirs which is why it is hard to do many blood transfusions and organ transplants because your own body would then attack the blood cells or foreign organ because of your body's defensive system so in theory wouldn't this happen if your brain was in another body? Unless I'm mistaken and you mean that if there was something g like a robot that adopted that half of the brain which would think that that robot is that person?

  • It's like Noah's world in Yu Gi Oh!

  • this wasnt amazing... i liked your channel untill this

    1. if u put the removed half of the brain into another organism it will not work, because thats what the other half does. Its like 1 is a cpu with ram and the removable half is just an hdd

    2. the example about lightnings was just stupid... its like saying god exists

    3. when the surgeon swaps the cells of 2 people, thell just change bodies, and memories and smarts even. assuming you have an external hdd to store their persona ,to not kill

  • You're amazing, vsauce!

  • consciousness is the awareness of the five sences , emotions whether you are happy sad scared and so on, the awareness of thought, movement (your own movement) and the 6th sence pleasure (likes and dislikes for me my likes are nintendo ,videogames,science history,and this video ;] )

  • @joshthenesnerd11 Obviously no common sence ( :- )

  • @andyharry27 you obviously dont like terminator or you arent a geek

  • i see what you mean like it would be as if 50% of us are "cleverbot people" (smart versions of cleverbot that think they are just as human as us) sent from a skynet like company 2 hundred years from the future and they them selves are unaware of the skynet part

  • Hey but those "object" people already exist!

    religious people -.-

    People who live thinking the paradice is when they die. So they live to die. So they don't value Life, so they just could kill themselves??? hmm :/

    My paradice is Life. Since I was born I was Alive.

    Ok, this was completly off topic, sorry, extremly interesting theme (the video)

  • @0:55 i get that feel

  • I think that you are the sum of your existence, everything you do makes you who you are, the body is more or less a shell but without it you wouldn't be you as you have experienced everything in it, it is part of your existence. Now if there was a clone of you who had lived a life just like you then it is not you as you have done something differently (you have been in two different places as you cant occupy the same point in space and time) meaning you are different.

  • @aha2095

    Good explanation Pal, agree with what you said, If we are part of the Universe, if All is One and One is All, a diferent location at same time should make you different. (with another consciousness, or other Being, i dont know, but i understood

  • You wouldn't be "you" with half the hemisphere.

  • Girlfriend.dll was not found.

  • this made me feel high

  • sims-music in the backround:P

  • Damn. I am so happy i found this. THANK YOU!

  • MIND FUCK

  • So I tried to show my class this video today for we were watching YouTube videos for the rest of the class and everyone hated it lol. We weren't even 30 secs in when everyone said it was gay and boring; Even the teacher didn't like it. Now what kind of bothered me is that we watched "old man beats up black guy in bus" instead. I just tried to use an appropriate video but oh well...

  • @ivanovich941

    Ahah America is a sick.

    Can't their parents educate them?

  • @ivanovich941 -.- A similar incident happened in my class. My teacher trusted students ("No it isn't inappropriate!") and let them watch the "Sitting on the toilet" video.

  • @ivanovich941 High school? Well, if so just wait it out until college. Trust me, you're cooler than them anyway; you have a more developed prefrontal cortex :)

  • bro , seriously .

  • my mom has a phd in philosophy im going to ask her about this this is one of those rare time where i ask my mom a thing about her phd so i cant wait to hear what she has to say

  • thumbs up if u went to cleverbot

  • you mind fuck me...

  • I played with cleverbot for like 2 hours haha.

  • It is not only possible, it is true!!!! I have your answer,,, backed up with hardcore proof evidence that "Philosophical Zombies" exist!!! In fact i have a living-breathing specimen you are welcome to examine, ... My ex-wife! 

  • So, uhh...we going to have a test at the end of this playlist?

  • this is very interesting

  • I want to eat a brain.

  • WHAT IF WE ARE ALL PHILOSOPHICAL ZOMBIES AND THIS IS ALL JUST AN ILLUSION!?

  • you think like a pot head

    because i think like that

    

  • I like how Michael raises his eyebrow

  • Clever bots feelings were hurt In the making of this video.

  • Subbed. Don't know why I didn't find this guy sooner

  • I wonder all the time if all the people around me are just philosophical zombies

  • im sorry, but if we slowly switched cells, i'd be dead before we got anywhere.

  • man the cleverbot is freaky, it claimed itself to be a human girl :O

  • @TH3xJ3R WHOA! It did the same thing for me!

  • hes not being sophisticated hes just asking questions and you dont learn anything from the vid so dont b jealous

  • This was the very first Vsauce video that I've seen. Also this is the video that made me subscribe :)

  • Cleverbot is fucking cool...except the first question I asked was "How old are you"...with the reply "14. How old are you?". Wtf..

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  • Why can't you be my teacher?

  • Please...stop fuckin playing in my head

  • Mind Fuck

  • I went onto cleverbot and it asked me where I lived and I said I can't say and then it said I'll tell you mine! Creeper alert!!!!

  • I love VSauce! All of this is great though I disagree with with your understanding of conciousness. All things are inherently one, and having come from some form of consciousness all thing are inherently conscious. Now you asked " If I'm struck by lightning and reapear a second later is that still me?" This is funny because Time is a inherent quality of Space. So every single second you are a differant person because you can never be the "time and space" you were! Please watch Bashar the E.T.!

  • If consciousness is defigned by the ability to feel and emotionaly respond would you say sociopaths who do not feel and have to process emotional responses from a learned logical path are not conscious just like cleverbot?

  • Go to cleverbot and search: "sex".

  • @HSGamerDude Rofl I love talking about that with you. ROFLROFLROFL

  • my brain hurts >.<

  • What is the name of the song??? I love it so flipping much!

  • @TheRunawayHeartz I think it's The Heliocentrics so there sooooooooooo awesome!

  • where does the name vsauce come from??? lol o_O

  • Brain.exe has stopped working

  • @AlertAce trololo

  • you should make a book with all of these cool stuff...I would read it. :D

  • Thumbs up if u couldnt be botherd to search clever bot so u clicked the link

  • i 'm so inlove with vsauce

  • that clever bot trolled the shit out of me it asked for my name i didn't tell it then it said how are you, Raphael. lol

  • 0:55 Do this, but while looking in a mirror at yourself. If done correctly, you'll genuinely have an "out of body" experience.

  • @kael628 what does age have to do with anything, not all intelligence comes with time.

    In other news, this is why I would never try teleportation.

  • @Karionfabe1 Yes thats true but some people r just trolls and apparently some trolls hate being called a kid so i used that to insult Phreaks007 lol

  • HA. Cleverbot is so much fun!! *Forever Alone*

  • After watching this video I was amazed but at the same time depressed over the thought of my own existence

  • Well thank you for fucking my mind and the migraine. I'm linking this on Facebook and doing some mindless activity to distract myself from it's existence for a day.

  • Mind blown officially

  • DEEP.

  • Its hard for people to except the paradox of consciousness. The physical reality creates our brain and body, yet our brain collapses the quantum probabilistic wave into an observable particle so that we can interact with reality. It needs use like we need it. Are consciousness is tied, connected and at the same time we are in a duality disconnected and metaphorically distant and from it.

    Space and time are the same fabric. Our Mind and physical reality contain this same property.

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  • Are you brothers...vsause2 and you..?

  • I used to have there type of thoughts when i was about 8 years old, because i cold not see things from other peoples perspective i started to doubt there consciousness.

  • lets try a different scenario lets say your body is dying and the technology was so advanced they could perfectly transfer your brain to a different body is that still you then?

  • Try watching this smoking w33d, it trips your mind bro.

  • But if you swaped the cells the cells would reproduce and so on... (if so would happend) My cells would reproduce, so would you/I be a half me and you living human being? O_o

  • U posted dis on my bday :,)

  • @kerrywsmyth Please, do mankind a favor and sterilize yourself. :)

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  • Lets say u were able to put all of your memories into a computer.

    Suddenly u died

    If those memories were put into a different body.

    Would that be u?

  • @kael628 You are an idiot.

  • @Phreaks007 So what do you think hm?

  • @kael628 I think you are an idiot.

  • @Phreaks007 Apparently your too young to understand this sorry ill wait a few more years to talk to u

  • 6:51 mind kuck begins wait 2 michels wat the hell??

    

  • ive known bout cleverbot since elementary school... why are so many people surprised to learn bout it?!

  • CLEVERBOT IS AWEESOMME :D

  • 2:19

    i have always thought of that question since i was like 8

    "how do i know that life goes on without me, is life real, or is it just images that are somehow visible to me"

    other thoughts that have always thought include "what is it like to be dead" and "what it would be like if there was nothing in the universe, no life, no earth, no planets or stars, no matter, or even empty space"

  • Am I a genius for visualizing these scenarios when I was like 10? That people are "mind-fucked" by this just goes to show how little the average person reflects about their own existence, which further hints at the alarming reality that most of us do not think about anything other than the trivia that surrounds us.

  • @ChetzNation Lol you so sophisticated. I'm jealous.

  • @PUNCHD0NKEY Oh yeah I'm like totally super sophisticated. Like a sir.

  • @ChetzNation lol when i was 11 i thought about that too, but i actually though of an theory which is, our thoughts or conciousness are electrons or electicity in our brain, i don't have proof but it is what i believed and still believe

  • Your a better Mind-freak than Chris Angel

  • What the fuck !? who the fuck am i !?

  • lol...my friend thought cleverbot was real people

  • what about sociopaths/pscyhopaths...they can't feel emotions...

  • @MsKittymix A socio/psychopath is a person that experiences abnormally little empathy for other people. (Ergo, this mental illness should be specified as a symptom, rather than a disease.) These people do have emotions, but given that they lack empathy, mostly due to cognitive trauma or mutations of the frontal lobe, their emotions revolve around themselves, and they are all that matter in their minds.

  • Half way through your video I got lost in thought about the possibility of a blind person creating sight by memory. As if they reconstructed the world around them with the latent memory of their surroundings. I realize this would have severe limits and any change or addition to their actual surroundings wouldn't be perceived and become a potentially dangerous obstacle. But just the thought of this possibility and the boundaries it would have is fascinating.

  • @Malafactor512 Some blind people learn to use echolocation to navigate their surroundings. The ones who do this can ride bicycles down streets and other normal stuff.

  • Cleverbot has actually said sweeter things to me then any guy that I've been with. #FML -__-

  • I'm a woman.

    Will you marry me?

    I will marry yu if you are a boy!

    I AM YAY!

    (after the marrage)

    Who am I?

  • I asked cleverbot if he was a conscious being and he told me he is.

  • @anonymous5by5 cleverbot is a woman

  • mind=blown

  • DUDE. I HAVE WONDRED THIS SINCE I WAS LIKE, 5 o.o

  • HOLY CRAP!

  • ho fuck

  • Mind=blown

  • "We have to go deeper!"

    BRAINCEPTION!

  • Mind fuck...

  • Thumbs up if you searched cleverbot afterwards

  • @Ajerichoable i sweared at it.... then i asked if it was real (like as in a person) and it said yes.... then i got scared until i asked what it was made out of... haha