Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?

[zirbat16]

haha awesome guy

[yedoslav]

I bet Ricky was in the backstage going: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wal..."

[itsthearistocrat]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ROBIN!

[pestudkaru]

TRIPLE LIKE!

[GeorgeStone21]

Terrible audience. 

[kgdsmile]

this guy is wonderful. thank you robin ince:)

[pixiefan101]

Science doesn't ruin wonder, it ruins imagination. I find it very difficult to imagine things nowadays than I did 10 years ago.

[DrunkGuitarist]

@pixiefan101 that makes no sense, please expand on what you mean

[Musphaq]

@pixiefan101 That's age, not science.

[Zolbat]

i once was Napoleons knee... but then i took an arrow to the face

[jeZza710]

@Zolbat wrong place for that shit...old

[Zolbat]

@jeZza710 sorry I found that quite amusing

[mcgolfland]

I am the universe, and im typing this comment.

[Arghira]

Why nobody laughs at that joke ( 5:01 ) ? I find it pretty funny!

[givemericht]

In another universe, I just hit myself over the head with a cucumber. In this one, I'm sitting on it!

[Jimmie95Dean]

Seems like he is the only scientist in the world with a GOOD sense of humor.

[jaymarkdelarosa]

@Jimmie95Dean nope

[Jimmie95Dean]

@jaymarkdelarosa Just nope? You're not even going to tell me why my statement is invalid, in your opinion I might add.

[DeconversionCentral]

@Jimmie95Dean

Try

Neil deGrasse Tyson DESTROYS

Richard Feynman 

[Jimmie95Dean]

@DeconversionCentral What does he have to do with this?

[DeconversionCentral]

@Jimmie95Dean

You made a comment about scientist with good humor, and I shared a couple I thought of? Sorry I didn't make myself clear.

[Jimmie95Dean]

@DeconversionCentral Oh ok. I saw him on The Daily Show. He's pretty funny.

[christendumb]

In another universe i am typing a dick joke

[seethroughskin]

Aww, look at his little thumbs!

[MM28MGI]

This seems a bit mixed on what people thought of the conversation "terrible" or "great". It does seem mixed because he had a certain opinion, but what I believe what people should take away is to keep your conscious and spirits high, as the mighty universe we live in is wonderful to the perception of life.

[nothersheep]

This was a terrible talk, on a very cool topic. I totally agree with his argument, but his points are terrible. One gets the sense he doesn't really know what he's talking about, and his leaps of logic are just sad.

[valdisxp1]

Spirits have bean lifted. :)

[NobodysOffTheHook]

That was great.

[popout886]

This monologue is more like a philosophical talk than really explaining anything.

[VoiceOfAleppo]

BAM !!! funniest talk in a while ....quite amusing !!

[twistedbass15]

GENIUS !! Reminded me of Richard Feynman !!

[MyFudginBrother]

Dad, for gods sake, go on YOUR account and like YOUR favourite videos.

[thedarkroadtoheaven]

@MyFudginBrother Your dad has great taste in videos though....

[cronnyberg]

@BrokenBjartur the point of the video is that 'he' finds these things comforting, and he doesn't feel the need to rely on anything else for comfort. True, you may find these ideas scary, but that doesn't mean he, or indeed I, have to feel the same way! I must say the idea that the universe is pointless makes me feel liberated to live life as a choose! Saying these things aren't wonderful is pointless, because wonder is a point of view.

[SlothmanJr]

His voice reminds me a bit of Simon from The Yogscast. :D

[BrokenBjartur]

Sorry, but this was retarded. None of the things he mentioned are "wonderful" or comforting... More like scary and/or unbelievable. If this was merely comedy material, this would be fine, but if he is serious about the point of the video, I find this video retarded.

[Zeuts85]

@BrokenBjartur I find them wonderful and comforting. These sorts of ideas take time to settle after you've really thought about them. It's like a new pair of shoes. They feel like shit at first, but after you've made the effort to break them in they feel better than anything. It takes strength of character to face life's uncertainties and find the good in them, but everything changes with your perspective.

[BrokenBjartur]

@Zeuts85

That's not good enough. If you need "strength of character" and "time to settle in" it's not inherently wonderful or comforting.

[Zeuts85]

@BrokenBjartur Nothing is inherently wonderful or comforting. It all depends on your perspective. It's scary at first to accept the idea that we are on our own in this universe, but once you do you'll find it gives you a certain sense of liberation. It's a bit like a child leaving home for the first time.

[BrokenBjartur]

@Zeuts85

I suppose... I still would not agree with what Robin Ince mentioned as wonderful and comforting... Especially not comforting, if perhaps "wonderful", in a sense. I cannot picture myself ever agreeing with him.

[superflyy1216]

This audience sucks...

[nirvgorilla]

Too much annoying arm flailing. 

[defect530]

@nirvgorilla

he works at the wacky waving flailing arm emporium.

[skyblazer7]

Brilliant presentation. Everett's 'many worlds interpretation' is mind blowing (at every decision or outcome point, the universe branches off to accommodate every possible result).

[ndekeluka]

Actually, in science there is at least one miracle - the Big Bang.

[RoccoDaOne]

Awesome guy.

[justgivemethetruth]

This pompous scruffy looking clown gives science a bad name.

[lovingboarding]

0:15

[paulo101]

OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW ROBINNNN

[Crazee108]

This video makes me happy... =)

[jopie3434]

That guy is really really funny :D

[e51269]

TED, not sure if you read the comments but just for the record not everyone hates your video intro.  Nice vid!

[Atanar89]

That video...is A WONDERFUL THING!

[OCUBOX]

2:00 BANAL = baynal not BARNAL, yes one is not pleased with ones pronunciation of the word.

[benmols]

Shit audience.... Wouldn't get a joke if it smacked them in the face!

[codexdelux]

@benmols remember that you have been spoiled by the "laugh box" on TV shows, there aren't many microphones in the audience section. so you wont hear most of the laughter;)

[jaylias]

Good work Ince!!

[drche420]

Who thinks magic is real? Not scientists. Anything an idiot would claim as magic, a scientist knows has a natural explanation.

[cybercobra2]

@drche420 i think magic is more a term for undiscovered science.

i mean if we showed a plane to a middleages farmer they would say that its magic and witchcraft.

[drche420]

@cybercobra2

Bronze age goat herders didn't bother to discover the true nature of things. When they saw a phenomenon, they immediately attributed that to a supernatural cause.

Information age scientists take the time to discover the true nature of things. When they see a phenomenon, they immediately attempt to find a natural explanation.

[cybercobra2]

@drche420 yea i ment more of thats how i see it, as in what is magic to one is science to the other.

[drche420]

@cybercobra2

Isn't that exactly what I just said?

[cybercobra2]

@drche420 euhm.. yes.. yes it is... i should stop posting at 2:00 in the night.

[jpayne68177]

awesome talk, loved it.

[nothingnesswithouten]

Great point about pointlessness. It is ultimately impossible to waste your life. 

[mellamosean]

@nothingnesswithouten

Well if you continuously make yourself and everyone else around you miserable... I think people might say you're "wasting you're life."

[nothingnesswithouten]

@mellamosean Yes. Very good point. That's why I sneakily stuck the word ultimately into that sentence. :) But in the real world what you say is the more sensible view!

[armjan]

rubbish

[foldoun]

Robin Ince just became my hero.

[faithhahn33]

I've been watiting for this talk for a long time. Thank you. <3

[EATshitanddrinkbleac]

in another universe i am not typing this comment

[mellamosean]

@EATshitanddrinkbleac

In a another universe I just called you a douche... but not in this one ;)

[EATshitanddrinkbleac]

@mellamosean

in *another universe i am not a douche

[EATshitanddrinkbleac]

@EATshitanddrinkbleac

what a terrible reality

[Orbitaizm]

@EATshitanddrinkbleac

yes... naravno !

[niekvdbogert]

@EATshitanddrinkbleac in another universe i typed your comment

[suse8138]

This is my favourite talk so far :-)

[kingjohn219]

I actually get that quantum joke haha. Im such a nerd :(

[zombiesmasher]

Brilliant!

[dookiecheez]

People who think science and rationalism deprive the world of meaning, are the one's who are holding onto falsity as a source of personal meaning.

[StrikerSniper77]

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." - Stanley Kubrick

[mattmoore111]

infinite monkeys with infinite resources couldnt make a worse fitting shirt

[mattmoore111]

that guys being arrested after being set up by preists in several other dimensions as you read this

[MastermindX]

Science > Harry Potter > Jesus

[tdreamgmail]

This video is pointless, if people think Science removes the magic let them continue to think that.

[MrMonkeyThumbsticks]

@tdreamgmail Your comment is far more pointless than the video, yet for some reason you still decided to post it.

[tdreamgmail]

@MrMonkeyThumbsticks I disagree, I guess that's what comments are for.  Duh...

[LazyOtaku]

@MrMonkeyThumbsticks This video pointless? Ironic given your screen name.

[MrMonkeyThumbsticks]

@LazyOtaku I never said the video was pointless, I actually quite enjoyed it. What the hell is wrong with my screen name?

[adityagokhale]

Time and Health are the only two things one has really got between this interval of life and death.

[RustyRazor2010]

We are born into an infinite realm that is created by and entity greater than us all...have nice trip.

[mellamosean]

@RustyRazor2010

thanks for sharing your opinion. I think I've heard it once before...

[formula1fan07]

Science is unbelievably more interesting than magic

[PhilTheRapist]

I share this point of view; great speech!

[amorphusensanity]

If you go to the safari reserves on saturn or neptune [to see creatures] you would be sadly disappointed.

[soulinthewall77]

This guy's armpit sweat is rather distracting. j/k. Great presentation, as is almost all TED talk presentations.

[TheCheese9]

"you can do everything" - well yeah i think he just played some Skyrim to come to this conclusion.

[PixelSlayer247]

Haha, I love this!

[TheDeupdu]

@3:30 I like how scientist think they've somehow "disproved" all religious ideas.

[daneimp]

@TheDeupdu do they think that?

[infideluxe]

@TheDeupdu

That's quite a generalization you've made, and really has nothing at all to do with what Ince says at 3:30. I think maybe you've got a bone to pick and aren't sure where to begin.

[SonOfNye]

@TheDeupdu I watched the video twice and I don't see where such a claim was made.

[6006133]

Not everything is recyclable - negentropy decreases

[lowerlowerhk]

He sounds ridiculously like Wheatley from Portal 2!

[BlazzingSaber]

Sorry, but I have to say "EPIC FAIL" on the bottom right corner guy with white sleeves at 8:28 for not finishing his standing ovation.

Good talk though.

[masonkim7]

damn wtf did this guy just ramble on about??

[Soulfree2008]

This guy should be part of the Zeitgeist Movement/Venus Project

[Tootoon2009]

What's so great about intending to create your own purpose when it's so hard and frustrating to achieve it? A lot of us are just trying to survive every day not knowing what the hell we're doing.

[jiaruikejia]

I like the stage.

[kaimialana]

Or as Richard Feynman said, "Science only enhances the beauty of the the flower".

[thebloads]

This guy is silly. He tries to mould chaos to fit the human conception. Is that not illusion as well?

[Chino747747]

it doesn't matter if the universe is pointless... you can make your own purpose

[Ko252]

@Chino747747 what if it is deterministic?

[tmafkap]

@Chino747747 The universe ain't pointless → • and there are more where that one came from! ;0)

[AsifIcarebear3]

@Chino747747 Thanks for almost directly quoting the video I just saw. I shall reward your ability to listen and type with a thumbs up.

[alphakristjan]

@Chino747747 Yes, and you can also make up gods and fairy tales. Well...good luck with that !

[narutoarya]

what a beast

[ScyL0n]

the end conclusion was fine.

you can make your own purpose because the universe is pointless.

didnt expect he would end up with a metaphysical meaning.

its about choice.

[Parasome]

Rubbish

[steampunkerella]

My child is better than this guy's child.

[Drakaneo]

@SikhiArt depends on what is to be seen as normal/standard in the future. In this day and age where are still theorising about alot of stuff but once all the answers are there there is no more mystery. Mystery just seems endless these days because new things get discovered everyday. Someday it will stop though. The universe does have its systems and so its borders

[haudace]

ted doesn't bring in exciting and fascinating speakers anymore :(

[ScyL0n]

@haudace this one is exciting. dony you think? i check ted from time to time, this one seems more interesting than regular talkzzz

[LazyOtaku]

@haudace Neither does it commentators, boring shill.. :(

[ghstar101]

Sorry this guy has no idea what he is talking about. You cant just ramble off a few theories and say there is no wonder. It is very entertaining but has no logic. He just disproves his theory the more he speaks.

[SikhiArt]

Mystery can never removed. It can only replaced by other mysteries.

[ScyL0n]

@SikhiArt is mystery ignorance ?? 

[Soulfree2008]

@SikhiArt I have always said that every answer always spawns at least 2 new questions,,, probably to infinite !

[MultiRationale]

@SikhiArt

Bullshit. The truth can be found behind all mystery.

[6006133]

@MultiRationale @SikhiArt You do realize that you are probably both wrong by making such absolute all/none statements right? I only need to find one positive and one negative example to prove you both wrong :)

[MultiRationale]

@6006133

Notice I used the word "can." What example removes the 'possibility' of finding truth?

[ukeuwatch]

@MultiRationale Suppose you believe that ksjfskl is jkalsjfd and kjsfksd every ddsfj ksiueoi. Very mysterious. Where and how can we find the truth behind it, as you assert we can with all mystery? There are points beyond which nothing is known, if anything has been asserted.

The thing is not to get stuck on old mysteries which have been resolved (e.g. EBNS), on irrelevant or inaccessible mysteries (e.g. conspiracy theories), nor to assume that any given mystery can necessarily never be resolved.

[Pasteldqueijo]

@MultiRationale not yet.. we discovered gravity, but now how or why it exists.. we discovered the atom, but are still trying to understand the even smaller parts that come together to form it and the strange physics that bind them.. every big discovery creates new mysteries.. wouldnt it be boring otherwise?

[MultiRationale]

@Pasteldqueijo

It would be boring, and there are probably an infinite number of mysteries out there. But to say that a mystery cannot be solved is something else.

[Razzfazz87]

@SikhiArt Apathy can replace mystery without creating new mysteries.

[eastendthug360]

get stewart lee on tedtalks

[xjaskix]

WHY, oh WHY does every single youtube video that has something to do with science have a comment section that is ruined by religion talk?

that's enough reason for me to hate religion. such a fucking WASTE OF TIME. STOP TAKING ABOUT IT EVERYWHERE!!!

[userwl2850]

@xjaskix because religious people are funny. idiotic but funny.

[cecinestpasunename]

This dude is really funny.

[DaddyDAJ]

He's entertaining...another Carl Sagan "want-to-be" who spouts his rhetoric as fact when there's really no evidence supporting any of it. I do agree with with his premise that science does not have to be counter to wonder. I suppose that since he's a comedian maybe he's not serious about any thing he's saying...or maybe that's the joke.

[jtai36]

why do these science discussions invariably turn into a dissection of religion? :) can we evolved mammals just call a truce now, and admit that religious belief is largely a personal preference. such as what your favorite flavor of ice cream is, or what your favorite part of earth is. all of science, with its truths and conjectures, cannot tell what does and does not exist in the whole of reality. nor can the lone experiences of one person. so in the end none of us know. all of us believe

[khatack]

@jtai36

The difference being that people don't usually kill each other due to differences of opinion regarding ice cream flavors. However I do agree that discussions about religion should be had elsewhere.

[MisterCovek]

He may not have a presentation, but he sure can wave those hands of his :)

[CPLains]

Ah, i misunderstood. Most people often refuse to admit that there is a truth, and that it may be knowable or known, when they don't care or want to know or think about it at all. I guess it's like some people prefer not to know their DNA results indicating whether they will get alzheimer and parkinson, for instance, because they would rather not know. Like that with ultimate questions, only you have honesty to say that "she is.. whatever she is" only i don't much care to know myself is great :)

[pronoob1983]

OMG people stand the fuck up!! This deserves standing ovation

[CPLains]

@Hofsteder And not only him. Nietzsche struggled his whole life to paint a positive picture of the universe after the "death of god" and famously talked about "staring into the abyss." The abyss is still there for those with eyes, and it is equally scary, cold, and stupid, as it is interesting, wonderous and awesome.

[Capeau]

TED is more more becomming dumbed down entertainment :(

[11Agamemnon235]

I really hope they didn't actually do that experiment. IF they did, then they clearly don't understand the infinite monkey theorem

[Nashy119]

@11Agamemnon235 That was the point. 

[Neylonx]

@11Agamemnon235 they did, it was just a fun experiment to see what would happen if you actually did give monkeys a typewriter.

i think they got a couple of words, nothing in order though.

[KoningStoma]

Everyone, who has read anything about any of the topics he brought up, knows he is full of shit.

[slyder25]

@KoningStoma

So what exactly do you think he is wrong/full of shit about?

[epicrandom7]

Fantastic!

And completely honest.

[theonlyartist1992]

Robin Ince for the win

[ninjovich]

It's a shame the people that need to hear (and especially understand) this won't, as with most ted talks :p

[BroBroDude]

this was pretty awful

[shrodingersman]

the youness of you, gone forever !!!!! How pointless, not exciting at all !

[That1GuyWhosNumber1]

Love this guy



[theislandmedic]

Self-evidently, the most pointless presentation I have ever heard.

[farvision]

0:15



[dominictemple]

Robin Ince is always great fun but I was surprised not to see a Richard Feynman reference, oh well if you've less than 9 mins some things get I guess.

[georgepowell]

Tough crowd

[bloodylaugh]

Funny, its like this vid was deliberately scheduled to be after the Conception of Birth video just for the comments people were making there lol

[metalsusa1]

"Jesus, please save me from those who believe in you!". ;{}

[sogghartha]

The description says grumpy, but I don't see a grumpy man. He was fun!

[WingedDrant]

Why am I watching standup?

[Lundix]

Awesome little talk, I thoroughly enjoyed that. STOP BEING SO FRIGGIN MEAN IN THE COMMENT SECTION.

[LuckyMarketGameplay]

7:59 Why we don't need religion =]