Me: How many fingers am I holding up? Vsauce: You might say, well, I know where my fingers are. I'm looking right at them. Or, I can touch them, I can feel them, they're right here and that's good. Your senses are a great way to learn things. In fact, we have way more than the usual five senses we talk about. For instance, your kinesthetic sense, proprioception. This is what the police evaluate during a field sobriety test. It allows you to tell where your fingers and arms and head and legs in your body is all in relation to each other without having to look or touch other things. We have way more than five senses, we have at least twice as many and then some. But they're not perfect. There are optical illusions, audio illusions, temperature sensation illusions, even tactile illusions. Can you turn your tongue upside down? If so, perfect. Try this. Run your finger along the outer edge of the tip of your upside down tongue. Your tongue will be able to feel your finger, but in the wrong place. Our brains never needed to develop an understanding of upside down tongue touch. So, when you touch the right side of your tongue when it's flipped over to your left side you perceive a sensation on the opposite side, where your tongue usually is but isn't when it's upside down. It's pretty freaky and cool and a little humbling, because it shows the limits of the accuracy of our senses, the only tools we have to get what's out there in here. The philosophy of knowledge, the study of knowing, is called epistemology. Plato famously said that the things we know are things that are true, that we believe and that we have justification for believing. those justifications might be irrational or they might be rational, they might be based on proof, but don't get too confident because proven is not a synonym for true. Luckily, there are things that we can know without needing proof, without needing to even leave the house, things that we can know as true by reason alone. These are things that we know a priori. An example would be the statement "all bachelors are unmarried." I don't have to go survey every bachelor on earth to know that that is true. All bachelors are unmarried because that's how we define the word bachelor. Of course, you have to know what the words bachelor and unmarried mean in the first place. Oh, you do? Okay. Perfect. That's great. But how do you know? This time I mean functionally, how do you know? Where is knowledge biologically in the brain? What are memories made out of? We are a long way from being able to answer that question completely but research has shown that memories don't exist in the brain in single locations. Instead, what we call a memory is likely made up of many different complex relationships all over the brain between lots of brain cells, neurons. A major cellular mechanism thought to underlie the formation of memories is long-term potentiation or LTP. When one neuron stimulates another neuron repeatedly that signal can be enhanced overtime LTP, wiring them more strongly together and that connection can last a long time, even an entire lifetime. A collection of different brain cells, neurons that fire together in a particular order over and over again frequently and repeatedly can achieve long-term potentiation, becoming more sensitive to each other and more ready to fire in the exact same way later on in the future. They're a physical thing in your brain, firing together more easily because you strengthen that pattern of firing. You memorized. This branching forest of firing friends looks messy, but look closer. It could be the memory of your first kiss. A living souvenir of the event. If I were to go into your brain and cut out those cells, could I make you forget your first kiss or could I make you forget where your fingers are? Only if I cut out a lot of your brain. Because memories aren't just stored in one relationship, they're stored all over the brain. The events leading up to your first kiss are stored in one network, the way it felt to the way it smelled in different networks, all added up together making what you call the memory of your first kiss. How many memories can you fit inside your head? What is the storage capacity of the human brain? The best we can do is a rough estimate, but given the number of neurons in the brain involved with memory and the number of different connections a single neuron can make Paul Reber at Northwestern University estimated that we can store the digital equivalent of about 2.5 petabytes of information. That's the equivalent of recording a TV channel continuously for 300 years. That's a lot of information. That is a lot of information about skills you can do and facts and people you've met, things in the real world. The world is real, right? How do you know? It's a difficult question, but it's not rocket science. Instead, it is asking whether or not rocket scientists even exist in the first place. The theory that the Sun moved around the earth worked great. It predicted that the Sun would rise every morning and it did. It wasn't until later that we realized what we thought was true might not be. So, do we or will we ever know true reality or are we stuck in a world where the best we can do is be approximately true? Discovering more and more useful theories every day but never actually reaching true objective actual reality. Can science or reason ever prove convincingly that your friends and UA-cam videos and your fingers actually exist beyond your mind? That you don't just live in the matrix? No. Your mind is all that you have, even if you use instruments, like a telescope or particle accelerators. The final stop for all of that information is ultimately you. You are alone in your own brain, which technically makes it impossible to prove that anything else exists. It's called the egocentric predicament. Everything you know about the world out there depends on and is created inside your brain. This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Peirce that he drew a line between reality, the way the universe truly is, and what he called the phaneron, the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get. If you want to speak with certainty you live in, that is you react to and remember and experience your phaneron, not reality. The belief that only you exist and everything else, food, the universe, your friends are all figments of your mind is called solipsism. There is no way to convince a solipsist that the outside world is real. And there is no way to convince someone who doubts that the universe wasn't created just three seconds ago along with all of our memories. It's a frightening realization that we don't always know how to deal with. There's even The Matrix defense. In 2002 Tonda Lynn Ansley shot and killed her landlady. She argued that she believed she was in the matrix, that her crimes weren't real. By using the matrix defense, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity, because the opposite view is just way healthier and common. It's called realism. Realism is the belief that the outside world exists independently of your own phaneron. Rocks and stars and Thora Birch would continue to exist even if you weren't around to experience them. But you cannot know realism is true. All you can do is believe. Martin Gardner, a great source for math magic tricks, explained that he is not a solipsist because realism is just way more convenient and healthy and it works. As to whether it bothered him that he could never know realism was true, he wrote, "If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron, my answer is how should I know? I'm not dismayed by ultimate mysteries, I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph." Humble stuff. What strikes me is the cat. Cats do not understand keyboards, but they know the keyboards are a fun place to be. It's a great way to get the attention of a human, they're warm and exciting, surrounded by noises and flashing lights plus cats love to get their scent on whatever they can, a mark of their existence. We aren't that much different, except instead of keyboards we have the mysteries of the universe. We will never be able to understand all of them.
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Imagine if you were his son and you needed help with your 3rd grade math homework but he can’t learn what a division is until he learn quantum physics.
"... On a related note, a recent survey shows that 14% of AfroEurAsianAmericanAustralisn say that their favourite colour is blue. Back to the topic..."
Andrew N what makes my 10-year sentence 10 years? What defines a year? Why do we call it 10? Why do we consider this series of squiggles to be a number? *bum.... psh*
@@Prime4867 What is time? Let's start with the human body. In a googol years, in ten to the exponent one hundred years, the universe will die. Just a ten year sentence is tiny. Like the planck length. What is length? Long? How long until we move to Mars? The observable universe is only 62 000 000 000 light years. We are all going to die. What is die? How will we be remembered? Maybe you want to go with a bang. Build a bomb at home. Or, be like David Hahn and build a nuclear reactor. What if the moon was a disco ball? Who owns the moon? What is a moon? How many things are there? How much time does each thing have? What is time?
At least that's better than if you were to ask CGP Grey. He would probably go on a condescending rant about the benefits of the Metric System and how Celsius is better than Fahrenheit and so on and so forth.
Dope fiend. Do you think that by getting high you'll get smarter? Get out of here. I do drugs, but I'm 100% aware that it doesn't give me any superpowers. It's just a drug.
10 years ago from now, this video (and almost all of the Vsaus’s videos) is still really good, well made, interesting and different in its way from the rest of UA-cam. Really REALLY good job, probably the best facecam Chanel on the platform.
Hey, let's not get a "Head" of ourselves, But now i'm a little light "headed after putting 2 much thought into that last pun... Sorry just wanted to join into this little Pun fest,
Everything summarised in this video is mind blowing, You can literally study all of his videos like lectures with the video discriptions as extra references.
This is my favorite channel. Thank you for sharing your insights. You bring life to some of my grandest oddities in life. Keep it up Michael. Your a genius.
there was one like that done already.... well, at least the topic was breached. like when the first second you experience after you glance at the second hand of a clock somehow feels longer than all the seconds after it.... cant remember the videos name though
Trufin97 yup he explains that people that travel, experience slower time because they are seeying and experiencing things they have never done before, other times when you are doing the same thing repeatedly like your job or just sitting in the pc, time seems to pass by, this is also why for the first 20(correct me if im wrong) we experience life at a slower rate, because we are experiencing new things, from the moment we are born to the moment we go to college, once we get use to those things, time seems to fly by.
Im not sure, but I believe he once explained it is because when you're youn you experience more 'first experiences' which you remember. The older you get, the fewer 'first experiences' and thus the fewer memorable moments. The less we remember, the shorter life seems.
Well he argued with the for us observable universe as border. If it is really infinite the amount of thoughts or matter is infinite as well.He also argued with time borders
I'm not sure but i think that this number only represents the particles that make up the baryonic matter. And baryonic matter makes up only 5% of the universe.
+ryan bresnahan I think that's because 10 and 80 are such comprehensible numbers. Now if you look at 100.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000, now that's something different.
That is not small at all, put the number into perspective and remember how many zeros there are in that number, multiplying it one time each zero, it is a really massive amount
Yeah but it doesn't get disgusting until you reach the wedding part, it's actually quite funny up until that part, go ahead and watch until you see a wedding :')
There are an infinite amount of things. Something like a number is also a thing, so we can imagine and write down over 1.458 • 10^227 different numbers and there would still be all the other things left in the universe to count and even more numbers, other things etc
Can I say it's the bigger infinity or not. It seems we can count them but real n numbers are things right? Therefore it is uncountable from the beginning?
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. If you threw every single human alive today into the Grand Canyon, 0:07 we would not fill it up. 0:11 We could make a pile about this big 0:15 That's it. That's all of us. All 7.159 billion of us 0:20 in one place. A species 0:24 portrait. It kinda puts humanity into perspective 0:27 and you. So does this. Everyday you produce about one to two litres 0:32 of spit, which means, in your entire lifetime 0:36 altogether, you will not produce enough spit 0:40 to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool. 0:44 So far, 560 billion Lego parts 0:48 have been manufactured and the total number of grains 0:51 of sand on Earth is estimated to be 7.5 times 10 0:56 to the 18th. But here's the thing: 1:00 how many things are there... total? 1:06 Well, how do you define a thing? Well, let's say it's a thing 1:10 if you can think about it or talk about it. If you can call it a thing, 1:14 it's a thing. This is going to be a lot of things. 1:18 Things can be real, imaginary, 1:21 impossible, ideas are things, things can be looked forward to and things can be in the past 1:27 or yellow or concrete or abstract things can 1:31 happen and some thing's probably won't. 1:34 Making a video about how many things there are. 1:38 That's a thing... that I'm doing right now. 1:41 Let's count everything. 1:44 Right away, the answer seems obvious. The word 1:47 'thing' is so vague, the answer is clearly infinite... 1:52 possibly... not. 1:55 All we have to do is take the maximum number of physical things, 1:59 things out there in the real world, beyond our minds we could 2:02 in theory measure and add to that the total number of things we 2:07 could imagine. The total number of thoughts possible. 2:11 For the purposes of this video let's assume that numbers and math 2:15 and the laws of physics exist as part of the way 2:18 our universe is. But the names and representations they've been given 2:23 are the products of thinking minds and those things 2:27 are, well, things that we can count. 2:30 And there's no reason to double count. All of the indivisible 2:34 pieces that make up me, particles or strings or whatever 2:38 are the same as the thing that has been named me. 2:42 Abraham Lincoln has a great quote about this. 2:45 "How many legs does a sheep have if you call 2:48 its tail a leg?" 2:51 Four. 2:52 Because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one. 2:55 Okay, let's begin. When counting the number of 2:59 physical things in the universe we hit an unknown. 3:03 How big is the universe? 3:06 The entire universe could be infinite 3:09 or it could be finite, but edgeless for a variety of reasons. There could also be 3:13 other universes. But it's unclear whether we'll ever be able to actually see all these 3:19 things. Instead, what we are stuck with, and what we usually mean when we say 3:24 'the universe', is the observable universe 3:28 whose future visibility limit has been estimated to be only 62 3:32 billion light-years in any direction. 3:36 That's it. This is likely the only inventoryable space we'll ever need 3:42 to worry about. And it contains roughly, 3:45 on average, ten to the eighty elementary particles. Particles with no 3:49 further internal parts as far as we currently now. 3:52 So that's our answer, right? There are ten to the eighty 3:56 physical things that exist out there, beyond our own minds. 3:59 Any other physical thing - water, dogs, planets, 4:03 saxophones - are just names given to particular arrangements of those same 4:08 ten to the eighty particles. But wait, what if, 4:11 in the future, we discover that what we call elementary particles today 4:16 are actually just made out of smaller things we should have counted 4:19 instead? Well, to cover ourselves let's count 4:23 the maximum possible number of the smallest measurable thing. 4:28 Something the size of a Planck volume. 4:31 10 to the power of 183 4:34 things that small could fit within our observable universe. 4:38 I like this number, 10 to the power of 183. 4:44 You couldn't easily argue there were more things than that 4:47 in the physical, real-world. But you could imagine. 4:51 A Planck length, a Planck volume. That's just 4:54 the smallest measurable amount of space, not the smallest 4:58 possible. You could imagine a 5:02 half Planck volume, a 10,000th of a Planck volume. 5:05 But, that would just be a thought and only ever 5:09 a thought. So, how many possible thoughts 5:12 are there? It's probably safe to say that the number of possible 5:17 thoughts is, indeed, infinite. For example, 5:20 numbers. You can't say there's a limit to the biggest number we can imagine. 5:24 But, unlike physical things that exist whether or not we have 5:29 discovered them, do unthought thoughts 5:32 already exist? It seems more like the pool of possible 5:38 thoughts is really just one thing an actual elements from that set don't 5:43 become things by themselves until we thing them 5:47 that is we or some other mind thinks about them 5:50 or talks about them and there's a limit to how many things 5:53 we or anything else could ever thing 5:57 our observable universe is only so big and it will contain usable energy 6:01 for only so long. After about 1 trillion to a hundred trillion years 6:07 the supply of gas needed to form new stars will be 6:11 exhausted and the lights will start going out 6:14 one-star at a time. After a 6:17 Google years the amount of usable energy left in the universe will be 6:22 0 and nothing will be able to happen 6:27 to calculate the maximum number up thoughts that could be 6:30 thought inside our observable universe let's take 6:33 all of its mass and turn it into human brains 6:37 that just think new and random thoughts from the beginning of time 6:41 until the universe runs out of usable energy, a Google years 6:44 of thinking. But wait, what if there are 6:48 alien brains or for all we know Earthling brains that 6:51 think faster than we can okay well to be safe 6:54 let's not turn all of that mass into human brains let's use it to build a 6:58 giant hypothetical machine that computes at the fastest speed possible given the 7:03 speed of light 7:04 in the uncertainty principle; Bremermann's Limit 7:07 its 1.36 times ten to the fifty bits per second per kilogram 7:12 of material, now a high-end estimate for the total mass of the observable universe 7:17 is 3.4 times ten to the the 60 kilograms 7:21 which used exclusively for the best possible computing machine could altogether process 4.624 times ten to the 110 7:30 bits per second. Now with 3.154 times 10 to the 116 7:36 seconds available from the beginning of time to the heat death of the universe 7:40 and an assumption that the average thought takes about a sentance worth 7:44 of information to describe 7:45 say about 800 bits we get a total 7:49 of 1.458 times 7:52 ten to the 227 things that could 7:55 ever be thought or imagined. That number 7:59 is huge. In the observable universe 8:04 the universe as we will ever know it the number of thoughts that can be thought 8:08 is so much larger than the number of physical things there can be with out 8:12 imagination and if you were to combine the two totals 8:16 the number of physical things would barely 8:19 make a difference. So, funny enough 8:23 when it comes to every thing in the universe 8:26 it really is the thought that counts. 8:29 And as always, 8:31 thanks for watching. 7:26
It's more than that number without the assumption that a thought has to take up a sentence; in reality it would be around 10^229. That's a googol squared, multiplied by avogadro's number (the # of atoms in 18 g of H20) multiplied by a million.
RIPxBlackHawk Movie? Argh... it was originally a radio show. Then a book. THEN a movie. And it is not the coordination of earth in the universe (what does that even mean?). It is the answer to the ultimate question, but the question was actually unknown. Earth was an organic computer created to compute the question to the answer "42", but it was destroyed 5 minutes before achieving its objective.
RIPxBlackHawk Actually, according The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the co-ordinates of Earth relative to the Universe is ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha. Just sayin'.
+Randa Dayekh I've never heard that the universe as just gonna stop until watching Vsauce, so I assumed that it wouldn't just be something everyone knows. But even if it is common knowledge, that doesn't stop it from being scary to think about
By the time the universe runs out of energy, all humans would have died off hundreds of millions of years before that, so no one will be around to witness it anyway.
I would kinda like to see a video on what Earth would be like if it was the size of Jupiter and had the same living conditions as Earth does. Like what would be different, would would be the same, the weather patterns, would we have explored it entirely by now, any new species, or have as many wars since there would be so much more living space, and so on. I would find that extremely interesting and would love to see something like that. Also, like always, great video!
That'd be pretty awesome. Though, is it actually possible for a terrestrial planet to be as big as a gas giant like that? (Not saying it'd be relative to the hypothetical in question, but just curious)
Actually life would be very different. As Professor Brian Cox (creator of many great documentaries) has sort of already touched on the subject; because gravity would be so much stronger life would have evolved to be smaller, or it would be crushed by its own bodies, and insects and beetles and ants and other such things - which have great strength to body size ratios would be larger and more dominant.
Wow, I am pretty happy with all the support this got! I was not expecting it. Maybe this gives a better chance of Michael seeing it and actually making a video on it! Thanks guys :)
Guy: Hey how big is the sun? Vsause: In order to answer that question we have to look back at the birth of the sun. It is made up of particles. Particles are smaller than you think. In the end of this period, there are ______ particles. If each particle on the earth was a grain of sand, it would not yet be the Sahara desert. Deserts are very hot. But what makes things hot?
Michael at his kid's school presentation day: "Alright kids, today I'm going to talk about crossing the road safely" **Two minutes later** "...And you are utterly insignificant in the vastness of space and time."
I'm surprised nobody made a count down timer that displays the number of possible thoughts that could exist from now to the heat death of the universe based on this video
Lmfao my FWB and I use to call eatch other Things and Stuff. That way when our mutual group friends are like tf are you doing, when we're not here at the group gatherings we can just say yea I'm doing Things/Stuff
Leif Anderson Obviously, I was joking (in part), but these videos are interesting. If we want people (especially kids) to learn something, sometimes we have to inspire them. This approach can do that for some. (At least it could set some kind of foundation for interest.) Before I began post-secondary education and really knew how to teach myself and motivate myself to learn, I responded to spontaneity, visual stimuli and face-to-face interaction. Vsauce videos have a style of communication that would have definitely motivated me to want to know more about the world I live in, had it been introduced at an earlier stage in my life. Although it's just a video, and there's no classroom, it does an interesting job still. It's not the same kind of systematic, boring, repetitive routine(s) that some people are met with day by day. The content isn't necessarily predictable, and it provides insight and perspective in an interesting manner. I think that's cool.
+DéJi Vu Since we live in a time of I m ridiculous technological accessibility, I do not need to define a concept as common as, "education", for you. However, you might have realized that yourself if you were educated.
Although there's so much information in 10 minutes, probably most of what you heard in the first video will be lost after the third one. But if you rewatch and take notes and actully learn all that, probably, yeah
Vsauce: where are your fingers School: why does the sun set? Your fingers can move so we don’t always know but we will always know why the sun sets, let the greatness of Vsauce sink in.
My idea of “how many things are there” is kind of like “how many rectangles are there in this grid” Like I feel like double counting is totally valid. There’s you, but then there’s your head, your torso, your arms, your legs, but then there’s just your eyes, ears, teeth, and that’s just your head. Or you could zoom out and argue that you’re just some wobbly protrusion from the earths surface. The only downside is that this ends up in the realm of philosophy, cause the number of things in this definition would probably be completely incalculable. Though it would probably be well expressed by the computer argument used at the end by allowing it to run forever until it exhausted all the possible arrangements of bits it had available rather than being bounded by the beginning and end of the universe
Let’s say you have a grid, n by n in 3 dimensions. Starting from the number of smallest cubes, you can see that the way that it will fill with these cubes and other shapes (I.e. arrangement) is polynomial - that is, for an n by n volume, you will have n^3 small cubes, followed by some multiple that scales similarly and so on. A finite sum of polynomials will always increase slower than a factorial expression, so we can say that even if we double count, we just need to take the factorial of physical things for all possible arrangements. Which is a big number, but finite.
Aren't those things related to thought? "Me" is the total mass in a specific arrangement of the particles in the current arrangement known as "me". The concept of "my ear" does not exist in objective reality as it is a part of me, hence when i say "me" i also say "my ear" and there is no reason that objective reality would make the distinction between "me" and "my ear" for the sole purpose of reffering to the total mass in a specific arrangement in "my ear" without also reffeting ti the total mass and the specific arrangement of everything else known as "me", if there was a reason then "me" and "my ear" would be totally separate entities that can join one another but we are the same thing. Our human minds separated things into cathegoeies giving them names, atrivutes proprieties and so on, so while the total of possible things that exist only goes as far as individual particles, the parts from the specific arrangements and the specific arrangement themselves are made by the thoughts. After all as a human being i do make the distinction between "myself" and "my ear", although depending on the circumstances i could define "myself" as something different, for instance in this exemple i define myself as "the total mass and particles arranged in the current shape known as "me"", but i could define it differently if i define it similar to "my identity". But those distinctions are made by the human brain because as beings we filter treality in such a way to highlight what is important to our survival in detriment to the objective truth, so i may never know if "me" and "my ear" are different things in real reality, but in my reality, "my ear" is a thing, just like in yours since we share the same need of highlighting "ear" as a separate part of "body" to have the same chances of survival. Now while the video answers the question "how many things are there" and "how many things could we have possibly thought" The video does not answer "how many things can there be" so this would have to be the total possible configurations given the mass and space at our disposal, wich would give us the same number as "how many other universes are there (asuming they exist and have the same ammount of space and matter to work with and that all of them are distinct in at least one unit of... thing) interestingly enough there is an entire equation (and i belive also a constant?) Related to this that i din't remember the name of that i learned watching a video about the same exact thing but with minecraft worlds.
etherraichu He's like, "Hey guys look, I have an edge at the top, BUT NOT AT THE BOTTOM!!! Up top! *No one hi fives him* FINE ILL JUST HANG OUT WITH ANOTHER UNIVERSE THEN. SEE YA LOSERS!"
I said the last line "The thought that counts" in tandem with Michael. It's little moments like that that make me love this show. Well, that and the science.
Whenever you relate an amount of time to seconds, it always feels scarily small. Like when you are told that you will only live for roughly 2.5 billion seconds or something, even though a billion is a massive amount of seconds, it still feels small.
you could ask Michael what 2+2 is and end up learning about quantum physics
Extreme Merciless Potato Chip what's 3+3 then
EXACTLY I thought I was the only one who thought that
Everyone replying to this comment including PotatoChip guy have all epic account names.
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Lol that is so true
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@@heyyall7413 I'm the 3rd
have you ever just thought:
how many thoughts have i thought that no one has ever though before?
No
I never thought about my thoughts that way. That's an interesting thought
Ah my brain hurts no joke
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Well this one surelly not
try to think about something that u don't know
Watched this 6 years after the first time I watched it in 2014, and it still blew my mind!
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@@solar8447 who the fuck asked?
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Me:
How many fingers am I holding up?
Vsauce:
You might say, well, I know where my fingers are. I'm looking right at them. Or, I can touch them, I can feel them, they're right here and that's good. Your senses are a great way to learn things. In fact, we have way more than the usual five senses we talk about. For instance, your kinesthetic sense, proprioception. This is what the police evaluate during a field sobriety test. It allows you to tell where your fingers and arms and head and legs in your body is all in relation to each other without having to look or touch other things. We have way more than five senses, we have at least twice as many and then some. But they're not perfect.
There are optical illusions, audio illusions, temperature sensation illusions, even tactile illusions. Can you turn your tongue upside down? If so, perfect. Try this. Run your finger along the outer edge of the tip of your upside down tongue. Your tongue will be able to feel your finger, but in the wrong place. Our brains never needed to develop an understanding of upside down tongue touch. So, when you touch the right side of your tongue when it's flipped over to your left side you perceive a sensation on the opposite side, where your tongue usually is but isn't when it's upside down. It's pretty freaky and cool and a little humbling, because it shows the limits of the accuracy of our senses, the only tools we have to get what's out there in here.
The philosophy of knowledge, the study of knowing, is called epistemology. Plato famously said that the things we know are things that are true, that we believe and that we have justification for believing. those justifications might be irrational or they might be rational, they might be based on proof, but don't get too confident because proven is not a synonym for true. Luckily, there are things that we can know without needing proof, without needing to even leave the house, things that we can know as true by reason alone. These are things that we know a priori. An example would be the statement "all bachelors are unmarried." I don't have to go survey every bachelor on earth to know that that is true. All bachelors are unmarried because that's how we define the word bachelor. Of course, you have to know what the words bachelor and unmarried mean in the first place. Oh, you do? Okay. Perfect. That's great. But how do you know?
This time I mean functionally, how do you know? Where is knowledge biologically in the brain? What are memories made out of? We are a long way from being able to answer that question completely but research has shown that memories don't exist in the brain in single locations. Instead, what we call a memory is likely made up of many different complex relationships all over the brain between lots of brain cells, neurons. A major cellular mechanism thought to underlie the formation of memories is long-term potentiation or LTP. When one neuron stimulates another neuron repeatedly that signal can be enhanced overtime LTP, wiring them more strongly together and that connection can last a long time, even an entire lifetime. A collection of different brain cells, neurons that fire together in a particular order over and over again frequently and repeatedly can achieve long-term potentiation, becoming more sensitive to each other and more ready to fire in the exact same way later on in the future. They're a physical thing in your brain, firing together more easily because you strengthen that pattern of firing. You memorized. This branching forest of firing friends looks messy, but look closer. It could be the memory of your first kiss. A living souvenir of the event. If I were to go into your brain and cut out those cells, could I make you forget your first kiss or could I make you forget where your fingers are? Only if I cut out a lot of your brain. Because memories aren't just stored in one relationship, they're stored all over the brain. The events leading up to your first kiss are stored in one network, the way it felt to the way it smelled in different networks, all added up together making what you call the memory of your first kiss.
How many memories can you fit inside your head? What is the storage capacity of the human brain? The best we can do is a rough estimate, but given the number of neurons in the brain involved with memory and the number of different connections a single neuron can make Paul Reber at Northwestern University estimated that we can store the digital equivalent of about 2.5 petabytes of information. That's the equivalent of recording a TV channel continuously for 300 years. That's a lot of information. That is a lot of information about skills you can do and facts and people you've met, things in the real world. The world is real, right? How do you know?
It's a difficult question, but it's not rocket science. Instead, it is asking whether or not rocket scientists even exist in the first place. The theory that the Sun moved around the earth worked great. It predicted that the Sun would rise every morning and it did. It wasn't until later that we realized what we thought was true might not be. So, do we or will we ever know true reality or are we stuck in a world where the best we can do is be approximately true? Discovering more and more useful theories every day but never actually reaching true objective actual reality. Can science or reason ever prove convincingly that your friends and UA-cam videos and your fingers actually exist beyond your mind? That you don't just live in the matrix?
No. Your mind is all that you have, even if you use instruments, like a telescope or particle accelerators. The final stop for all of that information is ultimately you. You are alone in your own brain, which technically makes it impossible to prove that anything else exists. It's called the egocentric predicament. Everything you know about the world out there depends on and is created inside your brain. This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Peirce that he drew a line between reality, the way the universe truly is, and what he called the phaneron, the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get. If you want to speak with certainty you live in, that is you react to and remember and experience your phaneron, not reality. The belief that only you exist and everything else, food, the universe, your friends are all figments of your mind is called solipsism. There is no way to convince a solipsist that the outside world is real. And there is no way to convince someone who doubts that the universe wasn't created just three seconds ago along with all of our memories. It's a frightening realization that we don't always know how to deal with. There's even The Matrix defense.
In 2002 Tonda Lynn Ansley shot and killed her landlady. She argued that she believed she was in the matrix, that her crimes weren't real. By using the matrix defense, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity, because the opposite view is just way healthier and common. It's called realism. Realism is the belief that the outside world exists independently of your own phaneron. Rocks and stars and Thora Birch would continue to exist even if you weren't around to experience them. But you cannot know realism is true. All you can do is believe.
Martin Gardner, a great source for math magic tricks, explained that he is not a solipsist because realism is just way more convenient and healthy and it works. As to whether it bothered him that he could never know realism was true, he wrote, "If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron, my answer is how should I know? I'm not dismayed by ultimate mysteries, I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph." Humble stuff. What strikes me is the cat.
Cats do not understand keyboards, but they know the keyboards are a fun place to be. It's a great way to get the attention of a human, they're warm and exciting, surrounded by noises and flashing lights plus cats love to get their scent on whatever they can, a mark of their existence. We aren't that much different, except instead of keyboards we have the mysteries of the universe. We will never be able to understand all of them.
And as always, thanks for watching
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WTF
I cannot even begin to comprehend how much you wrote just for a laugh.
ok...
thank you for typing that.
That means if aliens were to come down and kill us and wanted to bury us, they could just dump all of our bodies in the Grand Canyon.
that is what you took away from this video?
Jakenbake 98 Among other things.
That's a thing.
don't give them ideas....
i will dump corpses there when im the first president dictator
You know shits about to go down when that ding sound happens
Hahaha, true shit.
+Lovoison it's more of a bass-y strumm lol but I feel you
+Lovoison the one at 1:05?
+Nate watson Yes.
+Lovoison It always happens when he says the name of the video. Hah. I want that sound as my ringtone, tbh.
Michael:hey what time is it?
Me:half ten
Michael:(turns to the camera) or is it?
10 minutes later.and that’s how the universe started
Best profile picture ever lol
"and as always, thanks for watching........ "
you: watafak
monke
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@@thechannelforyouandme9376 r/ihadastroke
Whoa, that's a lot of possible thoughts. We'd better hurry up on thinking them all.
I almost cried at that comment, it was so beautiful.
I think i need to sit down.
Well, that's 2 down.
:')
bigyoighbyiulkjh did you think that no no you did not
Vince Zhao You typed that comment while standing up?
"Hey Vsauce, Michael here! If you threw every single human alive today into the Grand Canyon.."
:D
"You would not fill it up."
:|
@JPLift(not sure but) r/woooosh?
@JPLift r/woooosh
@@Daniel-dq8xl
How do you know he was joking?
@@Gordon_Freeman_PhD are you trying to bait another r/whoooosh
@@Daniel-dq8xl idk if he was joking tbh
Vsauce saved UA-cam from becoming total cancer
Brendan Maller but Why Dont We All Have Cancer?
hvkvn Haha I get it
But what is a UA-cam, and how can a cancer
deAD.
___Von___ f correct he and all science channels seved youtoube from becoming a meme factory
Imagine if you were his son and you needed help with your 3rd grade math homework but he can’t learn what a division is until he learn quantum physics.
Actually he is really cool to have conversation.
I can't imagine being his son im a girl
@countryoffelines *_OR ARE YOU?_*
With this comment, I’ve added a “thing” to the universe.
With this reply I have added a 3rd thing to the universe
Microprod in the end we didn’t add anything to the universe because all that energy and pixels already exists
Aaron Of Doom thing added
Microprod jeez sorry science cop
@@hiphopkid3726 fr these dudes are annoying
This is impressive, he actually stays on the topic the entire video.
"... On a related note, a recent survey shows that 14% of AfroEurAsianAmericanAustralisn say that their favourite colour is blue. Back to the topic..."
Embodiment of "I digress"
Average Vsauce video: "How big can you get?" 20 minutes later... "and thats why you're essentially immortal."
ecks dee ..... or _are_ you?
Sonic Wizards
Let’s test that theory
isnt that video like 7 minutes long
Vsauce videos might only be single, individual things, but they are.... Infinitely rewatchable.
It needs to be studied how incredibly rewatchable these videos are
finally, some spit facts
The scary thing is that this video is 2 years before the joke even existed
Jake Tha Human Could someone explain all the "spit facts" jokes? Is it specified about VSauce or is it like a global UA-cam or Internet thing?
Noamias look up "human cake"
Jake Tha Human Yeah I found it, not a great idea to eat breakfast while watching it.
Jake Tha Human
"How Many Things Are There?" is fun.
"How Many Things Can There Be?" is terrifying.
@poop peasant @poop peasant ну это не комета, вокруг нее такого хайпа не будет
Fax
"How Many Things Could've Been?" is something that seems to be actively avoided, and I believe that to be a not very great thing
Michael in a courtroom
Judge: He is guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
Michael: Or is he?
Judge: .......Oh my god he’s right
Andrew N what makes my 10-year sentence 10 years? What defines a year? Why do we call it 10? Why do we consider this series of squiggles to be a number? *bum.... psh*
@@Prime4867 What is time? Let's start with the human body. In a googol years, in ten to the exponent one hundred years, the universe will die. Just a ten year sentence is tiny. Like the planck length. What is length? Long? How long until we move to Mars? The observable universe is only 62 000 000 000 light years. We are all going to die. What is die? How will we be remembered? Maybe you want to go with a bang. Build a bomb at home. Or, be like David Hahn and build a nuclear reactor. What if the moon was a disco ball? Who owns the moon? What is a moon? How many things are there? How much time does each thing have? What is time?
Judge: He is guilty.
Micheal: Possibly... not.
Judge: Oh my god.
Michael: What is guilty?
@Aiden Barsimantov Well, but what do we define as weigh in a way in which we could attempt to weigh it? Well, first...
I love how simple and unassuming 10^80 looks until you even start to do the math in your head
0:19 imagine being in the bottom of that pile
Sadness
How did you make it 55 years ago?
crush
RGear2938 _ bruh are you dumb? His UA-cam name is “55 years ago • updated”
why is a person who i ran over making a comment on a video
*Random person* : "How many feet in a mile ?"
*Google* : "5280 feet."
*Vsauce Michael* : "Or is it ?"
_Vsauce omnious music_
Arjun Karalkar dude I could hear the music
At least that's better than if you were to ask CGP Grey. He would probably go on a condescending rant about the benefits of the Metric System and how Celsius is better than Fahrenheit and so on and so forth.
CGP Grey seems like a wise man. :P
Knight Wing but vsause would get extremely philosophical and wind up talking about the cure for cancer
The dark lord?
You mean Voldemo-
Everyone: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
I'm not high enough for this. Brb going to fix that.
Best comment ever Lol
@@tylerjones6862 if you're a moron
Dope fiend. Do you think that by getting high you'll get smarter? Get out of here.
I do drugs, but I'm 100% aware that it doesn't give me any superpowers.
It's just a drug.
Here comes the Internet mediator, Isaak Franklin
Vsauce is great high
10 years ago from now, this video (and almost all of the Vsaus’s videos) is still really good, well made, interesting and different in its way from the rest of UA-cam. Really REALLY good job, probably the best facecam Chanel on the platform.
"It's probably safe to say that the number of possible thots is indeed infinite."
True, Micheal
Lmao
thots
@@Kim_Jong_Un-----353 Jesus Christ grow the fuck up, you act like you have never made a grammar mistake, shut the fuck up you toxic piece of shit
@@weedenjoyer78 shut up
@@Kim_Jong_Un-----353 "shut up"
words of wisdom
I had my speakers muted, still heard him say "Hey Vsauce! Michael here!"
Same
Or did you?
@@jasperlee2295dun dun dun...
Well... "as always, thanks for watching."
@@jasperlee2295 how do we know sound is real? Or that everyone hears the same thing the same way?
He put a lot of "thought" into this one!
I see what you did there ;)
😂😂
He said "thinks for watching"
Hey, let's not get a "Head" of ourselves, But now i'm a little light "headed after putting 2 much thought into that last pun... Sorry just wanted to join into this little Pun fest,
My brain... XD
Everything summarised in this video is mind blowing,
You can literally study all of his videos like lectures with the video discriptions as extra references.
*confuses things with thongs* ohh
The number of thots is far higher than the number of thongs, a favorable outcome i would say
@@pianogirl3465 "that hoe over there" or "thirsty hoes out there"
5:12 this is the moment in every vsauce video where michael starts going crazy
yes
No i think at 0:00
@@nikunjchauhan3772 i would also think that clicking on a video trying to count everything lol😂
I swear, every time i read the title on one of these videos i just think.."Damn, that's a good question.."
He has a video on that:D
It is a good question. I would like to know, but I don't want anybody to die for it.
And then he starts talking and I’m like wtf are you saying
*"WhErE aRe yOuR FiNgErS?"*
Mr Mammal Like dord, , spooky coincidences.
This is my favorite channel. Thank you for sharing your insights. You bring life to some of my grandest oddities in life. Keep it up Michael. Your a genius.
There is not a word to describe my brain's state after this video
Brainfucked?
Mindblown?
Brainfart?
AbsolutelyBananaMonkeyShitBlownUp
+OrFeAs Gr Liquid.
Do a video on why time feels slower or faster at certain times!
there was one like that done already.... well, at least the topic was breached. like when the first second you experience after you glance at the second hand of a clock somehow feels longer than all the seconds after it.... cant remember the videos name though
He means why time feels as if it's moving faster or slower depending on what you are doing.
Cody Knight In the video it did kinda of explain it
Trufin97 yup he explains that people that travel, experience slower time because they are seeying and experiencing things they have never done before, other times when you are doing the same thing repeatedly like your job or just sitting in the pc, time seems to pass by, this is also why for the first 20(correct me if im wrong) we experience life at a slower rate, because we are experiencing new things, from the moment we are born to the moment we go to college, once we get use to those things, time seems to fly by.
Im not sure, but I believe he once explained it is because when you're youn you experience more 'first experiences' which you remember. The older you get, the fewer 'first experiences' and thus the fewer memorable moments. The less we remember, the shorter life seems.
8:13 His concluding phrases of every video are so memorable.
I like how he can catch you unexpectedly with his final words. Like he's still just monologuing and then "And as always, thanks for watching."
2021, and I still love watching random Vsauce
Enjoyed this one a lot. even though its a large number, its weird to see a finite amount of thoughts and things
I agree, who's to say we cant make an infinite amount of things just by thought? I think that number is probably just theoretical though.
Well UA-cam is quite small isn't it?
Well he argued with the for us observable universe as border. If it is really infinite the amount of thoughts or matter is infinite as well.He also argued with time borders
Verlisify fuck off furry
*H E A V Y S L A M W A I L O R D*
I know the 10^80 is a massive number, but I still am amazed that it represents every particle in the universe.
I'm not sure but i think that this number only represents the particles that make up the baryonic matter. And baryonic matter makes up only 5% of the universe.
ninad gautam I think you're right, but the number still amazes me! Just due to the mass of stars!
+ryan bresnahan I think that's because 10 and 80 are such comprehensible numbers. Now if you look at 100.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000, now that's something different.
same. it seems way too small.
That is not small at all, put the number into perspective and remember how many zeros there are in that number, multiplying it one time each zero, it is a really massive amount
SPIT FACTS
I feel like that Human Cake cameo is going to haunt him for years. lmao, it was great tho.
+cappew22 I'm new to vsauce and don't understand this reference, mind helpin me out?
Uriah Siner Yes, go youtube "Filthy Frank, Human Cake" and you'll see what we mean. Please note that it may not be suitable for children.
cappew22
welp, from just the video thumbnail, im deciding to skip this one lol
Yeah but it doesn't get disgusting until you reach the wedding part, it's actually quite funny up until that part, go ahead and watch until you see a wedding :')
There are an infinite amount of things. Something like a number is also a thing, so we can imagine and write down over 1.458 • 10^227 different numbers and there would still be all the other things left in the universe to count and even more numbers, other things etc
Can I say it's the bigger infinity or not. It seems we can count them but real n numbers are things right? Therefore it is uncountable from the beginning?
It's literally physically impossible to write down or think that many things because of Bremermann's limit
Someday he is going to figure out the meaning of life... and then reality explodes because we were never supposed to know.
42
:P
thats easy. the meaning of al llife, biological and organic, is to reproduce
+Endercraft2319 well 42 is the answer to the ultimate question, the question of life the universe and everything
+O.O what is that meaning?
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. If you threw
every single human alive today into the Grand Canyon,
0:07
we would not fill it up.
0:11
We could make a pile about this big
0:15
That's it. That's all of us. All 7.159 billion of us
0:20
in one place. A species
0:24
portrait. It kinda puts humanity into perspective
0:27
and you. So does this. Everyday you produce about one to two litres
0:32
of spit, which means, in your entire lifetime
0:36
altogether, you will not produce enough spit
0:40
to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool.
0:44
So far, 560 billion Lego parts
0:48
have been manufactured and the total number of grains
0:51
of sand on Earth is estimated to be 7.5 times 10
0:56
to the 18th. But here's the thing:
1:00
how many things are there... total?
1:06
Well, how do you define a thing? Well, let's say it's a thing
1:10
if you can think about it or talk about it. If you can call it a thing,
1:14
it's a thing. This is going to be a lot of things.
1:18
Things can be real, imaginary,
1:21
impossible, ideas are things, things can be looked forward to and things can be in the past
1:27
or yellow or concrete or abstract things can
1:31
happen and some thing's probably won't.
1:34
Making a video about how many things there are.
1:38
That's a thing... that I'm doing right now.
1:41
Let's count everything.
1:44
Right away, the answer seems obvious. The word
1:47
'thing' is so vague, the answer is clearly infinite...
1:52
possibly... not.
1:55
All we have to do is take the maximum number of physical things,
1:59
things out there in the real world, beyond our minds we could
2:02
in theory measure and add to that the total number of things we
2:07
could imagine. The total number of thoughts possible.
2:11
For the purposes of this video let's assume that numbers and math
2:15
and the laws of physics exist as part of the way
2:18
our universe is. But the names and representations they've been given
2:23
are the products of thinking minds and those things
2:27
are, well, things that we can count.
2:30
And there's no reason to double count. All of the indivisible
2:34
pieces that make up me, particles or strings or whatever
2:38
are the same as the thing that has been named me.
2:42
Abraham Lincoln has a great quote about this.
2:45
"How many legs does a sheep have if you call
2:48
its tail a leg?"
2:51
Four.
2:52
Because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
2:55
Okay, let's begin. When counting the number of
2:59
physical things in the universe we hit an unknown.
3:03
How big is the universe?
3:06
The entire universe could be infinite
3:09
or it could be finite, but edgeless for a variety of reasons. There could also be
3:13
other universes. But it's unclear whether we'll ever be able to actually see all these
3:19
things. Instead, what we are stuck with, and what we usually mean when we say
3:24
'the universe', is the observable universe
3:28
whose future visibility limit has been estimated to be only 62
3:32
billion light-years in any direction.
3:36
That's it. This is likely the only inventoryable space we'll ever need
3:42
to worry about. And it contains roughly,
3:45
on average, ten to the eighty elementary particles. Particles with no
3:49
further internal parts as far as we currently now.
3:52
So that's our answer, right? There are ten to the eighty
3:56
physical things that exist out there, beyond our own minds.
3:59
Any other physical thing - water, dogs, planets,
4:03
saxophones - are just names given to particular arrangements of those same
4:08
ten to the eighty particles. But wait, what if,
4:11
in the future, we discover that what we call elementary particles today
4:16
are actually just made out of smaller things we should have counted
4:19
instead? Well, to cover ourselves let's count
4:23
the maximum possible number of the smallest measurable thing.
4:28
Something the size of a Planck volume.
4:31
10 to the power of 183
4:34
things that small could fit within our observable universe.
4:38
I like this number, 10 to the power of 183.
4:44
You couldn't easily argue there were more things than that
4:47
in the physical, real-world. But you could imagine.
4:51
A Planck length, a Planck volume. That's just
4:54
the smallest measurable amount of space, not the smallest
4:58
possible. You could imagine a
5:02
half Planck volume, a 10,000th of a Planck volume.
5:05
But, that would just be a thought and only ever
5:09
a thought. So, how many possible thoughts
5:12
are there? It's probably safe to say that the number of possible
5:17
thoughts is, indeed, infinite. For example,
5:20
numbers. You can't say there's a limit to the biggest number we can imagine.
5:24
But, unlike physical things that exist whether or not we have
5:29
discovered them, do unthought thoughts
5:32
already exist? It seems more like the pool of possible
5:38
thoughts is really just one thing an actual elements from that set don't
5:43
become things by themselves until we thing them
5:47
that is we or some other mind thinks about them
5:50
or talks about them and there's a limit to how many things
5:53
we or anything else could ever thing
5:57
our observable universe is only so big and it will contain usable energy
6:01
for only so long. After about 1 trillion to a hundred trillion years
6:07
the supply of gas needed to form new stars will be
6:11
exhausted and the lights will start going out
6:14
one-star at a time. After a
6:17
Google years the amount of usable energy left in the universe will be
6:22
0 and nothing will be able to happen
6:27
to calculate the maximum number up thoughts that could be
6:30
thought inside our observable universe let's take
6:33
all of its mass and turn it into human brains
6:37
that just think new and random thoughts from the beginning of time
6:41
until the universe runs out of usable energy, a Google years
6:44
of thinking. But wait, what if there are
6:48
alien brains or for all we know Earthling brains that
6:51
think faster than we can okay well to be safe
6:54
let's not turn all of that mass into human brains let's use it to build a
6:58
giant hypothetical machine that computes at the fastest speed possible given the
7:03
speed of light
7:04
in the uncertainty principle; Bremermann's Limit
7:07
its 1.36 times ten to the fifty bits per second per kilogram
7:12
of material, now a high-end estimate for the total mass of the observable universe
7:17
is 3.4 times ten to the the 60 kilograms
7:21
which used exclusively for the best possible computing machine could altogether
process 4.624 times ten to the 110
7:30
bits per second. Now with 3.154 times 10 to the 116
7:36
seconds available from the beginning of time to the heat death of the universe
7:40
and an assumption that the average thought takes about a sentance worth
7:44
of information to describe
7:45
say about 800 bits we get a total
7:49
of 1.458 times
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ten to the 227 things that could
7:55
ever be thought or imagined. That number
7:59
is huge. In the observable universe
8:04
the universe as we will ever know it the number of thoughts that can be thought
8:08
is so much larger than the number of physical things there can be with out
8:12
imagination and if you were to combine the two totals
8:16
the number of physical things would barely
8:19
make a difference. So, funny enough
8:23
when it comes to every thing in the universe
8:26
it really is the thought that counts.
8:29
And as always,
8:31
thanks for watching.
7:26
Guy9679 Gaming well you just waisted like a hour of your life...
shiwei ding yup
Guy9679 Gaming Thanks for your service
Dr. Bees your welcome
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1.458x10^227th possible thoughts, and the only one that counts . . . is Vsauce.
+Geometry Dash Guest54126 just sheep
It's more than that number without the assumption that a thought has to take up a sentence; in reality it would be around 10^229. That's a googol squared, multiplied by avogadro's number (the # of atoms in 18 g of H20) multiplied by a million.
J Cook 4.6363(44.3)x3342.6^437
wat
was the "th" necessary? :P
0:18 how ‘pile-ons’ at school felt when you were on the bottom
Finally, the question that fits the answer. 42.
Sorry mate, you had *42* likes, but you now have 43.
I am the 42nd who liked your comment :D
I think he meant that Vsauce said the word "thing" 42 times.
RIPxBlackHawk Movie? Argh... it was originally a radio show. Then a book. THEN a movie. And it is not the coordination of earth in the universe (what does that even mean?). It is the answer to the ultimate question, but the question was actually unknown. Earth was an organic computer created to compute the question to the answer "42", but it was destroyed 5 minutes before achieving its objective.
RIPxBlackHawk Actually, according The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the co-ordinates of Earth relative to the Universe is ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha. Just sayin'.
So we're just not gonna mention how Micheal quite casually just told is the universe is just going to stop one day?
+84updown Kind of common knowledge lol
+Miles Maslar It actually isn't
+84updown yeah it is
+Randa Dayekh I've never heard that the universe as just gonna stop until watching Vsauce, so I assumed that it wouldn't just be something everyone knows.
But even if it is common knowledge, that doesn't stop it from being scary to think about
By the time the universe runs out of energy, all humans would have died off hundreds of millions of years before that, so no one will be around to witness it anyway.
If you threw 7 billion people into the grand canyon then you would have a lot of blood on your hands.
No, the blood would be at the bottom of the Grand Canyon xD
Yes, and you would have lots of blood on your hands metaphorically ;)
***** A strong breeze.
deanerweiner25 slow claps
Keruji haha xD
The last thing he said really made me smile from ear to ear.
I can't be the only person to have an existential crisis after EVERY SINGLE VSAUCE VIDEO.
+Elvin Khudiyev Questioning reality, the meaning of life etc.
Richard Castanon No, not the only one... Gosh, I have to drink someTHING, my brain hurts because of all these THINGS and big numbers...
I got one from the colors one.
best comment
Me: man I think I have everything worked out
Vsauce: things
Me: well shit
I would kinda like to see a video on what Earth would be like if it was the size of Jupiter and had the same living conditions as Earth does. Like what would be different, would would be the same, the weather patterns, would we have explored it entirely by now, any new species, or have as many wars since there would be so much more living space, and so on. I would find that extremely interesting and would love to see something like that.
Also, like always, great video!
Nice, same.
That'd be pretty awesome. Though, is it actually possible for a terrestrial planet to be as big as a gas giant like that? (Not saying it'd be relative to the hypothetical in question, but just curious)
2.5 times more gravity would be the biggest difference.
Actually life would be very different. As Professor Brian Cox (creator of many great documentaries) has sort of already touched on the subject; because gravity would be so much stronger life would have evolved to be smaller, or it would be crushed by its own bodies, and insects and beetles and ants and other such things - which have great strength to body size ratios would be larger and more dominant.
Wow, I am pretty happy with all the support this got! I was not expecting it. Maybe this gives a better chance of Michael seeing it and actually making a video on it! Thanks guys :)
Guy: Hey how big is the sun?
Vsause: In order to answer that question we have to look back at the birth of the sun. It is made up of particles. Particles are smaller than you think. In the end of this period, there are ______ particles. If each particle on the earth was a grain of sand, it would not yet be the Sahara desert. Deserts are very hot. But what makes things hot?
😂😂😂 You know Vsauce
and how much does hot weigh?
Michael: How Many Things Are There?
Michael 3 mins later: How many legs does a sheep have?
Michael at his kid's school presentation day:
"Alright kids, today I'm going to talk about crossing the road safely"
**Two minutes later**
"...And you are utterly insignificant in the vastness of space and time."
This is by far my favourite video you've done. Please never stop making these.
Didn't know what to expect from the title. Pleasantly surprised as always!
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
So is intelligence
Or is it......?
@@islamboy3833 god dammit islam boy
Its my 6 binge of Vsauce Old videos
You deserve more subs. About as many subs as possible things in the absorbable universe.
Observable
lol, thanks for correcting my stupidity! :)
Lol
I like the thought of an absorbable universe.
Its the OBSERVABLE universe by the way
Throwing people into the Grand Canyon
.....why??
Population control
Nick Atropos XD
Science
Why not
This is sparta !!! 😂😂😂
Challenge:Take a shot when you hear "things"
You might as well just chug from the bottle until it's empty
screw chugging from a bottle
chug from a butt, it would be more accurate
***** good for you.... or not?
Trying this. Yolo
SUMYIU li take a shit everytime he says thot
This is arguably among the top 5 UA-cam videos of all time
I would argue that of the ~1 billion videos, you could easily find 5 better videos if you had time to watch them all
Would my thoughts still count if my mind's just been blown?
haha good one mate!
5:10 there are a lot of them on twitch
And tik tok
@@urano4810 tiktok ones are humble 🥺
Ha
Me:there is no way he's going to count everything
5:00 into the vid
Me:how the hell
literally everybody watching this channel
I’ve rewatched each one of these videos maybe 12 times over some many more
"You could arguably say that the number of 'thots' is infinite"
-Michael
yep
u are one
@@namjahs mean
im getting my assault rifles
Thoughts*
i'm gonna say it...
take a shot every time he says "thing"
I like that better
ua-cam.com/video/vg6z-QNql7U/v-deo.html
1 trillion brain cells things removed feom the list.
1 trillion brain sells things removed from the list.
TJ Quintino now that is comedy
Video idea: How long is an instant?
I'm surprised nobody made a count down timer that displays the number of possible thoughts that could exist from now to the heat death of the universe based on this video
But what about Stuff?
Well that’s a darn good question
@@OtterStudios-hp2pzbro really replied 10 years later💀
Lmfao my FWB and I use to call eatch other Things and Stuff. That way when our mutual group friends are like tf are you doing, when we're not here at the group gatherings we can just say yea I'm doing Things/Stuff
i love how all of your videos have some cool "twist" or quote that part just makes my day every time.
F%#k school , time to Vsauce
You said my words
@Hubert Jasieniecki So you don't know that school f#$ks our creativity and makes us cram useless facts ?
O rly
LB G4m3r who needs school when there’s Vsause?
sure buddy, you dont need school to flip burgers at McDicks all day while listening to Vsauce in the evening
There's at least one
at 7:59, I had to pause and clap for this man.
Vsauce, you've done it again.
Amazing, simply amazing.
Who else motions that school should simply consist of watching Vsauce (Vsauce2, and Vsauce3) videos for a couple hours a day?
With breaks, of course.
Um, OF COURSE!
+Abel First-Quao Watching a nerd gas on about theories and hypotheticals is not the same as an education.
Leif Anderson Obviously, I was joking (in part), but these videos are interesting.
If we want people (especially kids) to learn something, sometimes we have to inspire them. This approach can do that for some. (At least it could set some kind of foundation for interest.)
Before I began post-secondary education and really knew how to teach myself and motivate myself to learn, I responded to spontaneity, visual stimuli and face-to-face interaction. Vsauce videos have a style of communication that would have definitely motivated me to want to know more about the world I live in, had it been introduced at an earlier stage in my life. Although it's just a video, and there's no classroom, it does an interesting job still.
It's not the same kind of systematic, boring, repetitive routine(s) that some people are met with day by day. The content isn't necessarily predictable, and it provides insight and perspective in an interesting manner.
I think that's cool.
+Abel First-Quao
Definitely not!
...no breaks.
+DéJi Vu Since we live in a time of I m ridiculous technological accessibility, I do not need to define a concept as common as, "education", for you.
However, you might have realized that yourself if you were educated.
I can watch the same Vsauce video dozens of times without ever getting bored
around 5 things
I have a gaming PC so I have about 21 around
There are at least 6 things.
Oh I get it, here is another 20 things here, to a total of at least 26 things counting yours.
Yes, with this list of 24 things added to your list of 26 things, we can conclude that there are at least 50 things.
+Baran Hekimoglu what about that... thing?
In total, there are at least 68 things now lol including my 14 things.
George Lee Indeed there are, my friend. There are, in fact, at least 93 things, counting your 68 things plus the 25 things I have currently added.
Every time I went "Aha! ... but did you consider..." he addressed my thought. Very profound video.
One thing that wasn't brought up was the idea of everything that exists being a unit.
5:36 a quite remarkable philosophical argument that made me fall in love with this channel
I can guarantee you I've learned more from 3 Vsauce vidoes than 1 day of school in 6 subjects
Small Child that is 100% true
Although there's so much information in 10 minutes, probably most of what you heard in the first video will be lost after the third one. But if you rewatch and take notes and actully learn all that, probably, yeah
I've learned more from one Vsauce video than a year of school.
Vsauce: where are your fingers
School: why does the sun set?
Your fingers can move so we don’t always know but we will always know why the sun sets, let the greatness of Vsauce sink in.
I can learn more than watching one video than an entire semester
My idea of “how many things are there” is kind of like “how many rectangles are there in this grid”
Like I feel like double counting is totally valid. There’s you, but then there’s your head, your torso, your arms, your legs, but then there’s just your eyes, ears, teeth, and that’s just your head. Or you could zoom out and argue that you’re just some wobbly protrusion from the earths surface.
The only downside is that this ends up in the realm of philosophy, cause the number of things in this definition would probably be completely incalculable. Though it would probably be well expressed by the computer argument used at the end by allowing it to run forever until it exhausted all the possible arrangements of bits it had available rather than being bounded by the beginning and end of the universe
Let’s say you have a grid, n by n in 3 dimensions. Starting from the number of smallest cubes, you can see that the way that it will fill with these cubes and other shapes (I.e. arrangement) is polynomial - that is, for an n by n volume, you will have n^3 small cubes, followed by some multiple that scales similarly and so on. A finite sum of polynomials will always increase slower than a factorial expression, so we can say that even if we double count, we just need to take the factorial of physical things for all possible arrangements. Which is a big number, but finite.
Aren't those things related to thought?
"Me" is the total mass in a specific arrangement of the particles in the current arrangement known as "me".
The concept of "my ear" does not exist in objective reality as it is a part of me, hence when i say "me" i also say "my ear" and there is no reason that objective reality would make the distinction between "me" and "my ear" for the sole purpose of reffering to the total mass in a specific arrangement in "my ear" without also reffeting ti the total mass and the specific arrangement of everything else known as "me", if there was a reason then "me" and "my ear" would be totally separate entities that can join one another but we are the same thing.
Our human minds separated things into cathegoeies giving them names, atrivutes proprieties and so on, so while the total of possible things that exist only goes as far as individual particles, the parts from the specific arrangements and the specific arrangement themselves are made by the thoughts.
After all as a human being i do make the distinction between "myself" and "my ear", although depending on the circumstances i could define "myself" as something different, for instance in this exemple i define myself as "the total mass and particles arranged in the current shape known as "me"", but i could define it differently if i define it similar to "my identity". But those distinctions are made by the human brain because as beings we filter treality in such a way to highlight what is important to our survival in detriment to the objective truth, so i may never know if "me" and "my ear" are different things in real reality, but in my reality, "my ear" is a thing, just like in yours since we share the same need of highlighting "ear" as a separate part of "body" to have the same chances of survival.
Now while the video answers the question "how many things are there" and "how many things could we have possibly thought"
The video does not answer "how many things can there be" so this would have to be the total possible configurations given the mass and space at our disposal, wich would give us the same number as "how many other universes are there (asuming they exist and have the same ammount of space and matter to work with and that all of them are distinct in at least one unit of... thing) interestingly enough there is an entire equation (and i belive also a constant?) Related to this that i din't remember the name of that i learned watching a video about the same exact thing but with minecraft worlds.
There is 1 everything.
You’re welcome
Genius
So if there is one everything then you add a 1 to the everything making it everything so you add 1 to it and then....
But what's inside of an Everything?
(Uh i couldn't come up with anything)
@@supergooigi3354 "....and how much does an Everything weigh?"
Super Gooigi what IS an everything?
Micheal: thanks for watching.
Me teary eyed: thanks for blowing my mind again.
Anyone else really hate that cone universe? They think they're so great.
etherraichu He's like, "Hey guys look, I have an edge at the top, BUT NOT AT THE BOTTOM!!! Up top! *No one hi fives him* FINE ILL JUST HANG OUT WITH ANOTHER UNIVERSE THEN. SEE YA LOSERS!"
etherraichu That must be where the Coneheads are from.
etherraichu One of those universes looked like a sandwich... I want to live there.
etherraichu They're actually dunces.
RealLife English You never know. That might be our universe.....think about all the sandwiches you see on and have consumed, and how popular they are
It's amazing how Michael can completely change the topic without changing the topic, all done without us noticeing.
If you hadn't noticed, your thought would have gone unthought
I notice it every episode :|
You lost me at "Micheal Here".
he lost me at"hey"
good?
you lost me with your profile pic
Maybe that's because his name is Michael, not Micheal.
No it's Micoo
Bro answered every question we had as kids which our parents couldnt answer
I think he has a degree, maybe several, in physics.
yet another brilliant video
I said the last line "The thought that counts" in tandem with Michael. It's little moments like that that make me love this show.
Well, that and the science.
1:05 shit just got real
+Rikaze Edits™ ikr lol
0:01 sh*t just got real.
Skaliber Or did it? (Cue Vsauce music)
infinite
How have I been watching Michael for so long and I’m still finding new videos 😂
I've been telling myself "1 more Vsauce video" for the past 4 hours...
pelh
i mean help.
Whenever you relate an amount of time to seconds, it always feels scarily small. Like when you are told that you will only live for roughly 2.5 billion seconds or something, even though a billion is a massive amount of seconds, it still feels small.
5:11 " So, how many thoughts are there?"
*starts counting thots*
♪ I said one thot, two thot ♪
Gravy so cold bish I think I need a flu shot
@@ShipwrecccArt i was gone say that
red thot blue thot
I love how he says plunk instead of plank
"Yeah I need a place to hide seven billion bodies..."
*How Many Tings Are There?*
*S K R R A A A*
Banana Boi mitä vittua
@@Banana-Boi SUOMI PERKELE
Lynx effect
Oh, Jesus. Vsauce, you always impress me with your ability to answer ANY question in the smartest, best way possible. Thank you - I'm very awed :D
And BTW. To all those redditors out there - I'm waiting for your collaboration with u/Unidan! Don't let me down here Michael!
Angelina Li Jezus was a prophet.
GaryKildall Also he was a hobo, and a zombie.
If you threw every single person alive today into the Grand Canyon, they’d probably all die.
😂