This dude blows my mind every time, he's like a philosophical genius. Everything he says is so simplistic if you actually think about, but so intricate and deep.
Charismatic, Influential, are just a couple of words to describe Dr. Michio Kakus oratorical skills. I like listening to him talk, no matter the subject. He seems to have that natural ability to communicate well with others, in laymen terms, at all levels when necessary.
The size of the frontal cortex is one of the only differences between us and all life on earth. The ability to plan is crucial to long term survival of any species. I would love to talk neuroscience and quantum physics with you one day, Dr. Kaku. It would be a true honor.
***** It's very arrogant to say something like that, I do not want to offend you or anything but he/she wants to meet Kaku because of his personality, his words and his books. I also made alot of scientific research papers, I'm studying AstroPhysics and I even outsmarted my own professors.But i never go around internet and tell people who want to meet popular scientist to rather meet me. I've never seen Carl Sagan, NDT, Richard Feynman etc. Go around and tell their accomplishments, the core of being smart is not to be arrogant in your success. Please do not take this as attack. Tho i would really like to meet similiar minds like mine. If you want to talk just send me message
Jerry G. : Yes he is, of course very smart. But he still made at least one stupid comment. At 2:48 he says "if aliens are smarter than us....." Of course aliens will be much, much smarter than us. DUH ! How would aliens travel many light years to study/visit us if they weren't much, much smarter than us ?
@@dancahill9122 your forgetting microorganisms from other planets. But let's say it was just highly advanced technological species. One other possibility is that perhaps the reason they are so advanced isn't that they are smarter than, but that their civilization is older than us. Longer the time that sapient beings with a civilization exists = higher the chance of inventing high tech. Higher intellect and building these things means that they would have less time needed to do the task, but if there IQ is the same as ours and they build these things. It could mean that either their civilization is longer than ours or they didn't lose as much knowledge as much as we did back than. For an example go search up the "The Library of Alexandria" you'll find that this library was the most important place for knowledge 2000 years ago. Their was so much knowledge that once it burned down we lost hundreds of years of knowledge. Books that could have helped us later are gone into the ash's. That's not to say there isn't aliens smarter than us. Their probably is, but don't just jump into conclusions on their intellect.
It's also funny that the alien technology, as reported by the abductee, is always what was top modern human technology at the time. Aliens mirror human technology or was it simply humans that dressed up as aliens?
i was abducted back in April of this yr... i was trying to Astral Project. i couldnt do it so i asked for help in my thoughts... not even 10 min past and i felt this intense presense. so intense that i instanly looked to see what it was (i was laying in my bed meditating) just as i looked up i saw it near the foot of my bed. i could see the General figure of it but could not see what it looked Like cause it had some sort of Camoflouge on... as i looked at it it moved a little closer to my bed and then all of a sudden i felt intense vibrations and my consciousness left my body. i did not have any control over my body. i went through my window and went higher into the Sky. then everything just went blank and i cant remember what happened after that. Take it from me, be careful what u think bc they are listening...
I wish I was this aware of how awesome science is back in elementary. Could totally see myself as a theoretical physicist. Speed of light, black holes, double-slit experiment, even time itself is so interesting.
Wow for the first time my mind actually feels blown. I never thought of it like that. Thats actually super interesting to think about, alien races feeling things we cannot, them being driven by 'emotions' that we cannot feel..its really scary yet just as exciting if not more so. We could learn so much.
And he needs to know the difference between *"looking"* and *"seeing."* To _see_ is with intent and will: but to _look_ is automaton, an instinct. So a cat doesn't *see* the universe with intent: it only *looks* at the universe automatically. ;-)
Sabiazoth Alonso Are you a Biology Expert? Animal Expert? Chances are this guy probably knows more than you. He is spot on. When we have more intelligence, we'll begin to see massive advancements. This is basically what he's saying.
Roger Hoyt, when you have studied about *"The-Self"* (the-Ego/the "I") so extensively as has my being, you can notice that a person, no matter how smart or ignorant he/she may be, you can easily detect when the ego is *self-reflecting* him/her-self with the criteria he/she is talking about. The reason that you're not able to detect it is because you, your-self, are also mentally disposed of positing your ego in solipsism, just as he does, and perhaps, that's why you can relate. You and Kaku have *"The-Self"* in common, in whereas my being, there is no self, no ego, and no "I." It doesn't take a professor to be devoid of the mental disposition of *"The-Self"* (the "I"); and perhaps, there isn't any: My being may be the only one in the entire world(s). ;-)
I love Michio Kaku... I wish I knew someone like that in my life, that every time I had a conversation with, I would learn something new, or just have a really entertaining conversation with... :)
The translation of an alien language would be extremely difficult...We have never encountered another advanced species with its own language. It would be a language with a completely different ontology at its root. The translation would not just be of one word for another, but of one way of existing into another way of existing. It would be an even more extreme version of the Wittgenstein quote, " If a lion could speak, we could not understand him." (PI, p.223)
That's why I like Mass Effect's aliens so much. The diversity. Elcor are slow but steady because they evolved on a high gravity world and their society is really stable while the volus like to switch things up frequently and treat each other like trading cards, their society is always changing. Also I don't really see the problem with aliens speaking english. It's a movie/game made for earth people by earth people who happen to speak english natively, well not all of them but you get my point. For the sake of immersion you can say they use automatic translators or something
Eduardo Moreira firstly, Mass Effect is awesome, but secondly with teh alien movies remark. What's the other option really? We can go the way of rebooting ET, The day the earth stood still or close encouters, OR make an action movie that will make serious $$$.
Kurt Vonnegut did a really good job of creating a fictional alien race in the form of his Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five. They are non-anthropomorphic, don't share the same moral code or sense of good and evil as humans, and most pertinent to what Kaku is saying, the Tralfamadorians know the future. However, this is isn't because they are adept at predicting the future; they actually know what is going to happen in the future because, unlike us, they operate in four dimensions and so exist in all times simultaneously. If you haven't read it, do so - it's a cracking read.
Love your comment! However, all things can be manipulated. Even Aliens themselves. By still more advanced races the mind can't fathom, but the heart does. Humanity created the aliens. Believe me. We as a race used tech to go so far into the future then turned around sort of speak to manipulate the now
I'm actually interested in what extraterrestrial beings biological minds may be like...could they have more than one? running multiple thoughts all controlled by one major brain much like a multicore computer? Do they think linearly/parallel or collectively?... what kind of memory recall could they have....much of this is also based on their perceptions...what visual(if vision is based on light like ours)spectrums could they perceive...same with audio, telepathy, scent, taste...hell maybe they can "feel" color etc etc...there are no limits aside what we, as humans, can fathom...and even that is not a limit...just a limit of what we can foresee and or imagine....interesting stuff.
Yes, they very likely are not carbon based life forms but have evolved from our primitive silicon "life" forms we call computers. They will be interconnected and "live" forever, as there is no death of the whole although a node (single entity) might be pinched off. It (they) will in essence last collectively for billions of years. For It, the time it takes for their craft to drift to the nearest stars, will be like a blink of our eyes. And the facts they gather from a half-billion years of such explorations will be enough for them to gather enough data to create a simulation of the universe to such minute detail that at that point they will not need to travel anywhere. We will all end on Reservations where we will be kept as pets.
A thought I had a few days ago was that the only reason humans can sense astronomical objects, with the exception of the Sun and possibly the Moon, without advanced technology is as an evolutionary side effect of evolving high quality vision for observing this planet. If we relied mainly on smell or echolocation for navigation and had no, or very poor, vision we would have had no idea the stars were there until very recently; we might just be discovering them now.
I feel like District 9 did a fairly good job of portraying an alien race, though they are obviously an extension of a specific Human condition (segregation under apartheid).
***** for what ive watch the ship they have has been damaged and they are drifting into space and run out of food, but eventually they found earth then lost its ships main bridge, that's why when they open the ship they found survivors and the insides of the ship looks like it hasn't been clean for years, rescued by humans and became refugees then had to adapt on human society but they are far more civilized and smarter than you think.
"Only in Hollywood can an alien armada cross the vastness of interstellar space, in ships the size of mountains, yet be dumb enough not to install anti-virus software." Isaac Arthur.
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us"~Calvin(from Calvin and Hobbes)
That quote is one of the only things that makes me think "that's some stupid hippy shit right there". Imagine we found a planet with the least intelligent life form imaginable, doing 'stupid' stuff all day long, would we not be ecstatic? I know I'm doing exactly what the video described but either way, if an alien race skips over life on Earth, it will be for a reason other than humanities silly antics.
you do know this is a joke right? those things people make from time to time that really aren't meant to be interpreted as serious? you must be the life of any party
The way this man describes the world is so impressive. So simple, I wish I could think so simple as this man can. Think incredibly tough material and simplify it, even joke about it!
Well said. As a X Police Officer i studied the area i was assigned to Patrol. I had time to plan out different scenario's. And on calls to Alarm Drops @ certain businesses, i had a pretty good idea of the direction of travel a robber would favor on taking if he was on foot or in a vehicle. Weather & Time of day also played a huge role in how i approached & what direction i was to take, even if that meant i had to circle around the area. Especially if he heard sirens coming from the opposite direction i was coming. So i trained my brain to take in a number of factors to catch the bad guy.
We do the same with artificial intelligence in movies. We put all the bad human traits in the AI characters and fear the wrath of super-intelligent yet humanly flawed beings which are definitely coming for us, because that's what we would do and they can predict what we will try to do to stop them.
a couple of months ago a group of british scientists proved that in a cat's eyes, human are "giant, rather stupid but non-hostile ones of their own kind". well i do feel kinda stupid when i talk to my cat now...
Dr. Kaku made a very good and clear analogy. So people with that level of intelligence could avoid bullets being shot at them just by looking at the direction of the gun (their attacker is pointing at them) and they could perform a counter attack that would finish off their would-be assassin.
not true, there could be aliens out there with a lesser intellegence that are just starting to develop as a civilization. Or aliens that are type 0.7's like us. we just don't know yet because we have not found them.
Denis Thornhill You clearly did not read what I posted. Thus your comment on it being not true is a complete fallacy. I said, a type *3* to a 0.7 (us). I specifically put the two set types to each other.
Wouldn't successful apex predators that eventually develop intelligence need a territorial mindset in evolutionary development? I don't get why some scientists think intelligent aliens would be so much different than humans. I feel like there are universal evolutionary necessities and pressures across all possible ways intelligent life could develop.
the german tribes and the indians in america didn't have much of a territorial mindset. almost communist if you think about it (as long as romans didn't try to take there freedom away from them). if even we humans can be less territorial and some earth animals are also not territorial, than what are the chances of aliens being territorial? out of all the possibilities that exist, why this one? because your brain thinks so? you are just a slave of your own territorial mindset. that's why you can't except something else. that being said, we better stay the fuck away from aliens just to be sure.
Tenebrae Aeterna I find it hard to imagine a scenario where a docile species becomes the dominant species on a planet, capable of large scale coordination and advancement. They would get killed off before achieving that status. All their evolutionary pressures would be to avoid predators, which doesn't bode well if they want to dominate their planet. Aggressiveness and territoriality breeds strategic thinking and planning.
***** Yeah, most likely a specie that is thousands or millions of years ahead of us in tech is mechanical, there is no real reason to keep the weak organic bodies
swunt10 Your examples prove my argument. The Native American and Germanic tribes had slower developments compared with more aggressive civilizations such as the Romans and Chinese. But besides that, Native Americans and Germans were still much more biologically aggressive than the life around them and if you think they didn't fight amongst one another over territory, you are mistaken.
***** You have a thumb real far up your ass, thinking you are so superior, even if whales aren't as smart as Homosapiens, they don't destroy eco-systems nor threaten to destroy itself. Also Lions taking down elephants, for real? Maybe the babies but not full grown males or females
My experience, they didn't talk, they were telepathic. They are using the quantum entanglement abilities in their brains at a level far ahead of what we are just now discovering. Thanks Dr. Kaku !
When I was a child, I found myself getting yelled at for every little mistake/trouble by my parents. I don't know if this is brain development/conditioning by adapting or not, but I find myself as an adult being very good/clever at figuring out ways of how to do things without being caught. I also realized, I've become really good at lying (not sure if that's a good thing). The only way to really catch me in a lie is to ask me about what happened at a later date (when I've probably already forgotten about the reason why I lied and what was the lie I came up with to get out of a situation).
lilahdog 568 and fact check, slanted eyes arent mutually inclusive of Asians, in fact an overwhelming amount of Asians have wider eyes than even blacks and vice versa, not saying it’s a a bad thing to have wide eyes though... so yeah the minorities on this planet (White people and black people) are still humans too!
SALAAM Brother Michio Kaku..you are smart yet you are humble in your speech..your speeches are captivating.You are Gifted.You are intelligent..make us think and ponder on every lectures that you impart to us.. thanks.ALLAH GOD BLESS YOU brother..MaryamFathimah.
1:00 Yes Michio, your advanced cleverness has finally unraveled fantasy TROPES. Who knew that so many fiction writers weren't trying to write hard sci-fi? lol
He's right on them not necessarily being territorial and here to conquer. I believe if there are beings out there who are smart enough to figure out how to travel at such great distances in outer space, they would be smart enough to know that killing is wrong and they would understand the importance of peace.
Ok, but what I don't understand is what kind of peaceful, presumably herbivore species would evolve intelligence in the first place? It would seem that carnivorous or mostly carnivorous species, like our ancestors, would be prime candidates to evolve more complex brains to work together to hunt. Problem solving is the hallmark of our species and it was because we needed to figure out how to forge tools, work together, hunt big animals, avoid stronger and faster predators, and kill other hominid enemies. How does such intelligence arise without these evolutionary pressures on a species? Hence any species with intelligence of our magnitude or greater would be, on a primitive level at least, very territorial, expansionist, aggressive, and probably eat some meat. After all, all of the intelligent animals he listed were meat eaters. Please tell me if I'm wrong. However, presumably they would have to evolve a neo-cortex similar to ours to control their baser impulses to be at all peaceful. And even then, why should they be peaceful? How does that advance their purpose in this universe?
If you mean some sort of human-like intelligence then no, most of the more technologically advanced societies in history have been pretty violent (the Roman Empire, Nazi Germany, etc) but if you mean a complete and total alien mind then it could go either way, they could have a different concept of good and evil, they could understand feelings, life and dead in a very different way
TWCGroup Killing was a necessary step in our evolutionary process, I agree. But now we're at a point where we don't need to be killing. Now that we have become this smart we can see the benefits to peace as well. We can thank our ancestors for doing the dirty work, I guess. It's in the past though. Kind of hard to explain but maybe you can understand what I'm saying.
TWCGroup As much as I agree with you I don't think an alien race would come here to start a war,if they will come here for war then they will probably be desperate for resources or just very agressive but it is also very likely that they will just want to explore.Your answer was correct but your question was wrong,you asked what race would evolve intellegence in the first place if its peacefull?Well they don't need to be agressive,they just need to be curious,and if that species of aliens have advanced technology then they must be curious,therefor it is most likely that they will come here to explore,its even fit to us,are we a peacefull race?No but we aren't that agressive either,but we are curious,I bet that the first time we will send a spaceship to find life in the universe,it will be for exploration purposes,not conquest and war,and i'm sure that every other advanced species would do the same(unless they are desperate for resources,in that case they can be agressive because survival is the most important thing in evolution).
He pretty much addressed the fundamental issues of nature and how it works. The one thing that bothers me the most is that are we conscious enough to understand any messages coming from alien species. We could easily be like dogs and cats where we are unable to understand what they're saying or doing simply because our cognitive ability is not on par with their brains. That's the part that is disturbing for me. Like he said, they can run circles around us like what we can do to all the other species.
Colin Campbell He walked into a church and socked a creationist in the face. He's gotta do somethin' when he's not preaching speculation on the internet.
next time he’ll make a example about something you can’t understand so you can feel more stupid … seriously tho ? you have nothing better to come up whit ? people can’t make example about a animal ?
Emotions (and all the same ones) are common to all mammalian species. Your cat loves you. I'd be safecrackers are also a lot smarter than cops as a rule since they have an actual skill that requires a degree of cognition. Dr. Kaku is a an arrogant ass that makes baseless assumptions well-outside the field of physics where he has been properly trained. He isalso a shameless social elitist with a narcissistic compulsion to place things in definitive hierarchies, including different groups of people-especially along class lines--as he lets slip here.
Interesting from MK, as usual. I think any creature capable of space travel would need good vision, whatever other senses they may or may not have. And yes, cats do feel affection, as do all mammals that care for their young. A rub can be purely hormonal marking or it can be a mix of marking and enjoying closeness and touching.
While it is true that sentient life from other planets may not have the same thought processes as humans do, in fiction, it only makes sense to depict them of having human-like qualities because that is the closest thing we can compare them to. To completely make up a behavior, or to derive one from a less intelligent organism, would probably even be a more inaccurate portrayal of an actual alien, if they exist.
I agree with your analysis. On the one hand, we should view science fiction as just another way to tell a story with human heroes and from the perspective of human heroes. Think of it as religious stories answering the question What would Jesus do? while science fiction stories answer the question What would Captain Kirk do? The aliens are only there to present a challenge to our hero. On the other hand, it is useful for Dr. Michio Kaku to start the discussion with what we have been shown so he can make comparisons with what reality should be.
***** I agree with you, well almost.. the presumption at the very end "what reality should be". No one really at this point knows, with all the possible answers, what Should be. for all we know we are the ultra intelligent aliens that will visit another planet in some distant future. Or perhaps "Independence Day" is dead accurate... food for thought?
i think the point he is trying to make is that an alien's process of evolution would more than likely be completely different to ours, hence its qualities/behaviours, etc make no sense to be so similar to humans
+Alex Shady Nothing serioous,just some arguments between physics profesors:))) In extreme cases he pulls out the katana and the other puts down his wooden pointer and surrenders:)))
I was just wondering that! Looked through the comments to see if anyone else noticed. Maybe his human suit started cracking and he had to tape it down?
I think eye sight would be pretty important for an extraterrestrial being though. . Smell, touch, hearing, and even taste all work through interactions of molecules. But eye sight works through light, electromagnetic radiation. A being that is not focused on light, can't make out stars since there is no feasible way for them to bring wonder to these alien creatures. There might be equipment that lets creatures not focused on seeing be able to "see" and detect light very well, but their brains probably won't be hardwired for it. So I wouldn't rag on eyesight too much if it comes to aliens that would contact Earth.
I don't agree with the cat statement. If what you said is true about cats, why do they rub and purr against strangers as well ? a stranger the cat has never seen before hasn't fed the cat or trained him. So that means that the cat can't actually think, like you said in your video: *This human feeds me twice a day, i trained him* to a stranger he has never seen before. If you are talking about that certain behavior around the owner then sure, but a lot of cats behave like that with anybody, which makes your statement very relative. You are my fav physicist though =).
cats purr for many reasons, our physicist here only did this one for comedy, another example on why cats purr is that it can act as it's own exercise machine. we humans have to be active to be fit but all cats have to do is sit and purr
you are implementing the idea of affection into a cat. cats are not humans... it may seem like affection to us, but to a cat it is ownership. If a cat showed affection by scratching and biting and killing things, you would see it as an act of hate. think about it.
People should look into animal behaviour more. He stated one of many reasons a cat would do that. True, we project our own psychology onto cats, but they and many more animals that have interacted with humans for thousands of years have changed their own psychology to act socially with humans. The same can be said for our own.
It's a matter of who finds who first really. I mean, if aliens came and visited earth they would have accomplished so by technology far more advanced than we have today; a reflection of their superior intelligence. So vice versa, we are then more intelligent by demonstration of our technological achievements; which you can also observe today is a representation of human intelligence. To be honest I used to like thinking of aliens being more intelligent, but as of recent I am entertained at the thought of mankind being the first to explore the universe and have remarkable discoveries. ^_^
can we pin point extra terrestrial planet, Shade our social mediums, share one expressive and imaginative Idea to go to that said planet, to make contact with the species of that planet, not die, and control a bit of cosmos? Hmmmm?... if they come here... they know a bit more than us because we can't come to them yet... get it?
ColouringWithShadows What if the aliens are smarter but they don`t care about finding other spiecies in the universe? That wouldn`t make us smarter if we find them.
Godzilla Conspiracy Theory that's also bullshit. He's not a dog. So he will never really know what a dog thinks. Just like he doesn't know why we were born or where we go when we die. Or who created us. Mainstream scientist are entertainers.
Big Think I have a question for you michio kaku. What if particles are selfsustaining vortices emitted from the aether and therefore can move trough space and interact by emitting virtual vortices.
you have to cut Hollywood some slack, to have aliens speaking different languages would hold back the story that why they come up with universal translators and "babble fishes" to get round this problem and when it is done it is quiet a big effort for an effect that is often not the main part of the plot
We can't truly think in a different language... Let alone like a different person... Let alone a different species... Let alone something not from this planet... We can't even begin to comprehend it...
Klingon, Elvish, and dragon tongue are 3 full languages made for 3 different species of organisms that are completely different than human languages. Yes they were made by humans and are used in a way of manipulating their mouths. But really other than that they are different. So we can kind of comprehend it.
jraybozy "Yes they were made by humans and are used in a way of manipulating their mouths." I'm pretty sure that makes them the same as any other human language. I'll be honest, I laughed out loud when I read your post. I hope you were trying to be funny.
That all depends on what they do. On how they react to certain things, how they perceive other actions. Everyone is more than how they think their world should be, they're how they act and react.
If I was an alien ruler looking for a new habitable planet, the first thing that I would do upon deciding to colonize earth is curing it of the cancer that we know as humans
No, i disagree with you Mr Kaku, I had many years of thoughts about this topic. About culture, moral and evolution. Yes, in animal kingdom there's plenty of living being doesn't have the kind of aggressiveness towards resources and territories, and no, that is why we human are the supreme being on this planet so call earth. If we throw away our human moral, just look at the evolution itself on earth, look at the Natural selection, fittest always survives, because of space, resources in order for a culture to be survive or sustainable. Let me ask you, one day if you are walking into a unknown place, its like a desert of infinate space and you know within hundreds of miles the chances for you to find water are very low, even you are equiped with dark energy powered car, moving in close to the speed of light, you have weeks of water and food with you, before you depart you will need to have to kind of mental prepare of taking risk or even losing your life, so after weeks of driving you found a small pool of water with some unknown harmless animal, and you discover that the water you started with become only few days of supple, will you still think about does the water belongs to those low being, do i need their permission for the water? after i taking those water do i need to leave some for them? no, you will not, becos every decision you made will be the outcome of life or death, from the beginning you already know that, that is the situation of space expedition, 73 % plus 23 % are empty space, in order to survive and to higher your percentage of self sustain, there will never be a room for mora, there will never be (ENOUGH)l, its like people in the US when they are drinking, they will thinking about satisfaction, in the middle of desert its not about just satisfaction, its about life and death, water will never be enough for travelers in desert. So if there's an alien visit earth in future, base on the natural selection theory, every being will take what they need for survival, and they ,like us, will not think about how poor and horrible the chicken die when we decided to eat KFC or 2 bags of water for me its enough for me to start going back into the desert. I would like to have a further discussion with you Mr Kaku, if possible.
Int deasn't equal to 100% you know about everything, because the space is infinitely big, no matter how smart a being is, they cannot 100% guaranty survival or 100% sure of their civilization will continuously survival. for example no matter how good and smart your car,how good is the car condition or how good manner you are driving, there will always be a possibility that you endup in a car accident, because you will never smart enough to calculate the infinite amount of random possibility in a short amount of time which effect the outcome, because in order to see into the future u have to know everything, see everything instantly and calculate the outcome almost instantly base on the infinite amount of info like road condition, humidity, tempreture etc. The only thing a being can do no matter how smart you are is to do whatever decision base on preperation , gather information and forecast(( NOT FORESEE, cause the law of our universe doesnt allow us to do that, cause logically thing doesn't happen which mean decision haven been execute and therefore will never be a 100% known outcome, like quantum, when you are not looking for them they are everywhere like random possibility, when you decided and execute looking for one , the quantum will always be there) ), do what ever it takes to higher you survival and the rest is just random possibility. there will never be 100% foresee of future because of infinite changing of the universe.unless the brain processing power of an alien are infinity, they would become GOD itself. So for me the percentage of an alien traveled blillion of lightyears of empty space and showing up on my door step with flowers is extremely low, death ray gun in their hand is what i choose to believe.
Maximus Neo. Good thought. But (by) you sharing the abstract here may have already sealed that outcome for us in case aliens show up. (Think about it!) Hyper evolution may render an interstellar entity beyond a point where it requires input in such a design that focuses on a particular set of “resources”. In other words, INTERSTELLAR001 from trillion light years away will not likely want our “uranium”, however, they may utilize the most abundant of universal/inter-universal elements (maybe Hydrogen) for manipulating space-time, in that case - preservation of earth like nascence intelligent specimens is likely to make a better asset for INTERSTELLAR001 than the case of consuming earth in any form. Earth life sure seems more unique than Hydrogen (at least from where I am writing from;)
Michio is extremely smart. I am so thankful that such extremely smart People also can be very good at talking and explaining complex Things to us "normal" People. (Sorry my English)
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This dude blows my mind every time, he's like a philosophical genius. Everything he says is so simplistic if you actually think about, but so intricate and deep.
Yes, his objectivity is contagious. He knows how to think outside of the box.
You're pretty good
*He’s a troll and engages in bad theatre (just like the rest of you).*
he appears as an agent to debunk aliens.
How does he blow your mind? He says nothing
Big Think videos always make me realise how filthy my computer screen really is.
Thanks Mihajlo. Of the hundreds of thousands of comments posted on our videos, this might be our favorite.
Best comment ever
r u trying to say that black people r dirty
+the kid YOU just did...
the kid I'll let you figure that out
We depict aliens as conquerors because it's what we would do, if we were them.
+David Harrison mind blown
+David Harrison Total agreement.
Sad but true; and that is how I envision our days in the final frontier will be like unfortunately.
+Clutch7, We is wombats working on weaponry to start war on the whole wide world willingly, would you like me to go into detail willy?
Or there needs to be a villain else we don't have a thrilling story.
best explanation about cats i've ever heard!
@Sarah Smith
*2019.. Very Cool!*
Finally someone that knows what they’re talking about
The cat is one of the Real truth of our cosmos.. lol
Ha haaa
Michio means Cat
Charismatic, Influential, are just a couple of words to describe Dr. Michio Kakus oratorical skills.
I like listening to him talk, no matter the subject. He seems to have that natural ability to communicate well with others, in laymen terms, at all levels when necessary.
charismatic, influential, the perfect traits for an agent of lies and debunking of facts.
The size of the frontal cortex is one of the only differences between us and all life on earth. The ability to plan is crucial to long term survival of any species. I would love to talk neuroscience and quantum physics with you one day, Dr. Kaku. It would be a true honor.
***** It's very arrogant to say something like that, I do not want to offend you or anything but he/she wants to meet Kaku because of his personality, his words and his books. I also made alot of scientific research papers, I'm studying AstroPhysics and I even outsmarted my own professors.But i never go around internet and tell people who want to meet popular scientist to rather meet me. I've never seen Carl Sagan, NDT, Richard Feynman etc. Go around and tell their accomplishments, the core of being smart is not to be arrogant in your success. Please do not take this as attack. Tho i would really like to meet similiar minds like mine. If you want to talk just send me message
ya all want to meet me.I drink beer.
Dude, it was clearly a joke.
+asdfasdf qewrqwer You don't even know what comment we were reffering to. HarkHLee's comment is no longer there.
Yes, and messing around with that in the human brain is nothing but bad news.
This scientist is terrific. I have a strong physics and engineering education. He makes total sense in everything he says.
Jerry G. :
Yes he is, of course very smart. But he still made at least one stupid comment. At 2:48 he says "if aliens are smarter than us....." Of course aliens will be much, much smarter than us. DUH ! How would aliens travel many light years to study/visit us if they weren't much, much smarter than us ?
@@dancahill9122 fucking imbecile
@@dancahill9122being an alien are not necessary have to visit Earth.
@@dancahill9122 microbes that exist in other planet, which maybe have different life structure that us Terran, can also be called aliens.
@@dancahill9122 your forgetting microorganisms from other planets.
But let's say it was just highly advanced technological species.
One other possibility is that perhaps the reason they are so advanced isn't that they are smarter than, but that their civilization is older than us.
Longer the time that sapient beings with a civilization exists = higher the chance of inventing high tech.
Higher intellect and building these things means that they would have less time needed to do the task, but if there IQ is the same as ours and they build these things. It could mean that either their civilization is longer than ours or they didn't lose as much knowledge as much as we did back than.
For an example go search up the "The Library of Alexandria" you'll find that this library was the most important place for knowledge 2000 years ago. Their was so much knowledge that once it burned down we lost hundreds of years of knowledge. Books that could have helped us later are gone into the ash's.
That's not to say there isn't aliens smarter than us. Their probably is, but don't just jump into conclusions on their intellect.
It's also funny that people who report being abducted by aliens describe them so similar to human
It's also funny that the alien technology, as reported by the abductee, is always what was top modern human technology at the time. Aliens mirror human technology or was it simply humans that dressed up as aliens?
i was abducted back in April of this yr... i was trying to Astral Project. i couldnt do it so i asked for help in my thoughts... not even 10 min past and i felt this intense presense. so intense that i instanly looked to see what it was (i was laying in my bed meditating) just as i looked up i saw it near the foot of my bed. i could see the General figure of it but could not see what it looked Like cause it had some sort of Camoflouge on... as i looked at it it moved a little closer to my bed and then all of a sudden i felt intense vibrations and my consciousness left my body. i did not have any control over my body. i went through my window and went higher into the Sky. then everything just went blank and i cant remember what happened after that. Take it from me, be careful what u think bc they are listening...
***** no. I think u have me confused with someone else
***** oh and fyi i was referring to an entity or an Alien that i saw at the ft of my bed
Sadly, because most of them were abducted by humans, masqueraded as aliens
One of the most intelligent man alive talking about serious things and you people commenting about cats .... so sad
next time he’ll make a example about something only a scientist could understand lol to make those people feel stupid
Did somebody say cats?!?😜
Uh . . . He brought it up dude . . .
@Victor Gibson take your medicine bruuuuhhh
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3 Michio Kaku videos in a week? Big Think is on a roll.
I wish I was this aware of how awesome science is back in elementary. Could totally see myself as a theoretical physicist. Speed of light, black holes, double-slit experiment, even time itself is so interesting.
Wow for the first time my mind actually feels blown.
I never thought of it like that. Thats actually super interesting to think about, alien races feeling things we cannot, them being driven by 'emotions' that we cannot feel..its really scary yet just as exciting if not more so. We could learn so much.
Michio Kaku is such a breath of fresh air in my world, thank you.
If this does not push people to gain more intelligence and actually learn something, then I don't know what will.
The alien that he is explaining about sounds like a reflection of him-self.
And he needs to know the difference between *"looking"* and *"seeing."* To _see_ is with intent and will: but to _look_ is automaton, an instinct. So a cat doesn't *see* the universe with intent: it only *looks* at the universe automatically. ;-)
Sabiazoth Alonso Are you a Biology Expert? Animal Expert? Chances are this guy probably knows more than you. He is spot on. When we have more intelligence, we'll begin to see massive advancements. This is basically what he's saying.
Roger Hoyt, when you have studied about *"The-Self"* (the-Ego/the "I") so extensively as has my being, you can notice that a person, no matter how smart or ignorant he/she may be, you can easily detect when the ego is *self-reflecting* him/her-self with the criteria he/she is talking about. The reason that you're not able to detect it is because you, your-self, are also mentally disposed of positing your ego in solipsism, just as he does, and perhaps, that's why you can relate. You and Kaku have *"The-Self"* in common, in whereas my being, there is no self, no ego, and no "I." It doesn't take a professor to be devoid of the mental disposition of *"The-Self"* (the "I"); and perhaps, there isn't any: My being may be the only one in the entire world(s). ;-)
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I love Michio Kaku... I wish I knew someone like that in my life, that every time I had a conversation with, I would learn something new, or just have a really entertaining conversation with... :)
The translation of an alien language would be extremely difficult...We have never encountered another advanced species with its own language. It would be a language with a completely different ontology at its root. The translation would not just be of one word for another, but of one way of existing into another way of existing. It would be an even more extreme version of the Wittgenstein quote, " If a lion could speak, we could not understand him." (PI, p.223)
but maybe they would be able to translate all our languages lol
It's not difficult to believe aliens would have evolved emotion though. Many basic words are just describing emotion. I think we could handle it.
What about math, isn't math suppose to be the universal languages?
I don't think it would take more than a month to get a handle on any form of intelligent communiation.
I speak English, French, and Spanish. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Bring them aliens on, I'll have a chat with them about elements. Water?
That's why I like Mass Effect's aliens so much. The diversity. Elcor are slow but steady because they evolved on a high gravity world and their society is really stable while the volus like to switch things up frequently and treat each other like trading cards, their society is always changing. Also I don't really see the problem with aliens speaking english. It's a movie/game made for earth people by earth people who happen to speak english natively, well not all of them but you get my point. For the sake of immersion you can say they use automatic translators or something
Eduardo Moreira firstly, Mass Effect is awesome, but secondly with teh alien movies remark. What's the other option really? We can go the way of rebooting ET, The day the earth stood still or close encouters, OR make an action movie that will make serious $$$.
Kurt Vonnegut did a really good job of creating a fictional alien race in the form of his Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five. They are non-anthropomorphic, don't share the same moral code or sense of good and evil as humans, and most pertinent to what Kaku is saying, the Tralfamadorians know the future. However, this is isn't because they are adept at predicting the future; they actually know what is going to happen in the future because, unlike us, they operate in four dimensions and so exist in all times simultaneously. If you haven't read it, do so - it's a cracking read.
Love your comment! However, all things can be manipulated. Even Aliens themselves. By still more advanced races the mind can't fathom, but the heart does. Humanity created the aliens. Believe me. We as a race used tech to go so far into the future then turned around sort of speak to manipulate the now
I'm actually interested in what extraterrestrial beings biological minds may be like...could they have more than one? running multiple thoughts all controlled by one major brain much like a multicore computer? Do they think linearly/parallel or collectively?... what kind of memory recall could they have....much of this is also based on their perceptions...what visual(if vision is based on light like ours)spectrums could they perceive...same with audio, telepathy, scent, taste...hell maybe they can "feel" color etc etc...there are no limits aside what we, as humans, can fathom...and even that is not a limit...just a limit of what we can foresee and or imagine....interesting stuff.
Yes, they very likely are not carbon based life forms but have evolved from our primitive silicon "life" forms we call computers. They will be interconnected and "live" forever, as there is no death of the whole although a node (single entity) might be pinched off. It (they) will in essence last collectively for billions of years. For It, the time it takes for their craft to drift to the nearest stars, will be like a blink of our eyes. And the facts they gather from a half-billion years of such explorations will be enough for them to gather enough data to create a simulation of the universe to such minute detail that at that point they will not need to travel anywhere. We will all end on Reservations where we will be kept as pets.
we'd make great pets :)
Id like to know what kind of mind can survive in an age in which everyone has a home made nuke or bio weapon.
we live in that age now. a person with the internet and slightly better than moderate intellect can do those things now.
+justin barrett fortunately enough the radical ignorant folks arent quit there yet but its only a matter of time...
Michios been to fight club... But we better not talk about it
what happen,can u tell me?
NJ Taro His right hand fingers.
NJ Taro
He punched an alien.
Careful you might get your nuts cut off
BMTroubleU 😅fight club doesn't talk about what happens in LA
A thought I had a few days ago was that the only reason humans can sense astronomical objects, with the exception of the Sun and possibly the Moon, without advanced technology is as an evolutionary side effect of evolving high quality vision for observing this planet. If we relied mainly on smell or echolocation for navigation and had no, or very poor, vision we would have had no idea the stars were there until very recently; we might just be discovering them now.
I always cheer a little inside when i see Michio Kaku is on the show.
1:42 great example of imposing our thinking on others 👏👏👏
You, Michio Kaku, blows my mind. Boy would I like to meet you =) Thank you Big Think for producing these videoes.
I feel like District 9 did a fairly good job of portraying an alien race, though they are obviously an extension of a specific Human condition (segregation under apartheid).
Buzzkill...
***** Not really... they were pretty smart.
***** for what ive watch the ship they have has been damaged and they are drifting into space and run out of food, but eventually they found earth then lost its ships main bridge, that's why when they open the ship they found survivors and the insides of the ship looks like it hasn't been clean for years, rescued by humans and became refugees then had to adapt on human society but they are far more civilized and smarter than you think.
"Only in Hollywood can an alien armada cross the vastness of interstellar space, in ships the size of mountains, yet be dumb enough not to install anti-virus software."
Isaac Arthur.
Isaac Arthur's voice is the soundtrack to my tired evenings as I lull myself into a coma
Orville Season 2 Episode 2
True
😂🤣🤣. Good one
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us"~Calvin(from Calvin and Hobbes)
That quote is one of the only things that makes me think "that's some stupid hippy shit right there".
Imagine we found a planet with the least intelligent life form imaginable, doing 'stupid' stuff all day long, would we not be ecstatic?
I know I'm doing exactly what the video described but either way, if an alien race skips over life on Earth, it will be for a reason other than humanities silly antics.
you do know this is a joke right? those things people make from time to time that really aren't meant to be interpreted as serious?
you must be the life of any party
Merick Oh no, tons of people on UA-cam definitely say it in a literal manner.
Out of interest, what was you trying to do with that comment?
The way this man describes the world is so impressive. So simple, I wish I could think so simple as this man can. Think incredibly tough material and simplify it, even joke about it!
Well said. As a X Police Officer i studied the area i was assigned to Patrol. I had time to plan out different scenario's. And on calls to Alarm Drops @ certain businesses, i had a pretty good idea of the direction of travel a robber would favor on taking if he was on foot or in a vehicle. Weather & Time of day also played a huge role in how i approached & what direction i was to take, even if that meant i had to circle around the area. Especially if he heard sirens coming from the opposite direction i was coming. So i trained my brain to take in a number of factors to catch the bad guy.
I love to listen to this guy :)
Me to
We do the same with artificial intelligence in movies. We put all the bad human traits in the AI characters and fear the wrath of super-intelligent yet humanly flawed beings which are definitely coming for us, because that's what we would do and they can predict what we will try to do to stop them.
And because we know we gonna fuck up in the programming
My cat DOES own me. Ha!
Maybe I'll send her over to rub up against the next alien that stops by.
a couple of months ago a group of british scientists proved that in a cat's eyes, human are "giant, rather stupid but non-hostile ones of their own kind". well i do feel kinda stupid when i talk to my cat now...
ArctusCanusLupus google it
I agree with Michio Kaku. Very well said.
Dr. Kaku made a very good and clear analogy. So people with that level of intelligence could avoid bullets being shot at them just by looking at the direction of the gun (their attacker is pointing at them) and they could perform a counter attack that would finish off their would-be assassin.
Alien = Type 3 vs Human = Type 0.7
Yea they would beat us, but they would be beyond petty wars that they would fight us for being human.
not true, there could be aliens out there with a lesser intellegence that are just starting to develop as a civilization. Or aliens that are type 0.7's like us. we just don't know yet because we have not found them.
Denis Thornhill
You clearly did not read what I posted. Thus your comment on it being not true is a complete fallacy.
I said, a type *3* to a 0.7 (us). I specifically put the two set types to each other.
poop, my bad xD
Denis Thornhill
Haha, its fine. I possibly came off as an ass in that post.
all good man, on youtube alot of people try to attack others comments. i wouldve said the same. xD
Wouldn't successful apex predators that eventually develop intelligence need a territorial mindset in evolutionary development? I don't get why some scientists think intelligent aliens would be so much different than humans. I feel like there are universal evolutionary necessities and pressures across all possible ways intelligent life could develop.
the german tribes and the indians in america didn't have much of a territorial mindset. almost communist if you think about it (as long as romans didn't try to take there freedom away from them). if even we humans can be less territorial and some earth animals are also not territorial, than what are the chances of aliens being territorial? out of all the possibilities that exist, why this one? because your brain thinks so? you are just a slave of your own territorial mindset. that's why you can't except something else. that being said, we better stay the fuck away from aliens just to be sure.
Tenebrae Aeterna I find it hard to imagine a scenario where a docile species becomes the dominant species on a planet, capable of large scale coordination and advancement. They would get killed off before achieving that status. All their evolutionary pressures would be to avoid predators, which doesn't bode well if they want to dominate their planet. Aggressiveness and territoriality breeds strategic thinking and planning.
***** Yeah, most likely a specie that is thousands or millions of years ahead of us in tech is mechanical, there is no real reason to keep the weak organic bodies
swunt10 Your examples prove my argument. The Native American and Germanic tribes had slower developments compared with more aggressive civilizations such as the Romans and Chinese. But besides that, Native Americans and Germans were still much more biologically aggressive than the life around them and if you think they didn't fight amongst one another over territory, you are mistaken.
***** You have a thumb real far up your ass, thinking you are so superior, even if whales aren't as smart as Homosapiens, they don't destroy eco-systems nor threaten to destroy itself. Also Lions taking down elephants, for real? Maybe the babies but not full grown males or females
My experience, they didn't talk, they were telepathic. They are using the quantum entanglement abilities in their brains at a level far ahead of what we are just now discovering. Thanks Dr. Kaku !
When I was a child, I found myself getting yelled at for every little mistake/trouble by my parents.
I don't know if this is brain development/conditioning by adapting or not, but I find myself as an adult being very good/clever at figuring out ways of how to do things without being caught. I also realized, I've become really good at lying (not sure if that's a good thing). The only way to really catch me in a lie is to ask me about what happened at a later date (when I've probably already forgotten about the reason why I lied and what was the lie I came up with to get out of a situation).
Dr Kaku is the best science educator!
I kinda hope aliens meet this guy.
So at least the aliens could think that we are somewhat intelligent beings. Imagine if they meet one of the Kardashians we are screwed.
For every one mlk or Gandhi, there are 10 damn Genghis khan
Believe it or not Michio Kaku is an alien himself
then Donald trump will deport him XD
lilahdog 568 no one is saying Asians aren’t humans lmao. I think his point is he’s an alien because he’s intelligent.
lilahdog 568 and fact check, slanted eyes arent mutually inclusive of Asians, in fact an overwhelming amount of Asians have wider eyes than even blacks and vice versa, not saying it’s a a bad thing to have wide eyes though... so yeah the minorities on this planet (White people and black people) are still humans too!
lilahdog 568 who are white people?
Dude. What's the story with all the bandages on his fingers? OK I think he had a close encounter with his cat before making this video.
holy crap i was thinking the same thing lmao
I think he gets warts on his fingers pretty frequently.
From donkey punching the student he's sleeping with.
SALAAM Brother Michio Kaku..you are smart yet you are humble in your speech..your speeches are captivating.You are Gifted.You are intelligent..make us think and ponder on every lectures that you impart to us.. thanks.ALLAH GOD BLESS YOU brother..MaryamFathimah.
1:00 Yes Michio, your advanced cleverness has finally unraveled fantasy TROPES. Who knew that so many fiction writers weren't trying to write hard sci-fi? lol
He's right on them not necessarily being territorial and here to conquer. I believe if there are beings out there who are smart enough to figure out how to travel at such great distances in outer space, they would be smart enough to know that killing is wrong and they would understand the importance of peace.
Ok, but what I don't understand is what kind of peaceful, presumably herbivore species would evolve intelligence in the first place? It would seem that carnivorous or mostly carnivorous species, like our ancestors, would be prime candidates to evolve more complex brains to work together to hunt. Problem solving is the hallmark of our species and it was because we needed to figure out how to forge tools, work together, hunt big animals, avoid stronger and faster predators, and kill other hominid enemies.
How does such intelligence arise without these evolutionary pressures on a species? Hence any species with intelligence of our magnitude or greater would be, on a primitive level at least, very territorial, expansionist, aggressive, and probably eat some meat. After all, all of the intelligent animals he listed were meat eaters. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
However, presumably they would have to evolve a neo-cortex similar to ours to control their baser impulses to be at all peaceful. And even then, why should they be peaceful? How does that advance their purpose in this universe?
If you mean some sort of human-like intelligence then no, most of the more technologically advanced societies in history have been pretty violent (the Roman Empire, Nazi Germany, etc) but if you mean a complete and total alien mind then it could go either way, they could have a different concept of good and evil, they could understand feelings, life and dead in a very different way
TWCGroup Killing was a necessary step in our evolutionary process, I agree. But now we're at a point where we don't need to be killing. Now that we have become this smart we can see the benefits to peace as well. We can thank our ancestors for doing the dirty work, I guess. It's in the past though. Kind of hard to explain but maybe you can understand what I'm saying.
TWCGroup As much as I agree with you I don't think an alien race would come here to start a war,if they will come here for war then they will probably be desperate for resources or just very agressive but it is also very likely that they will just want to explore.Your answer was correct but your question was wrong,you asked what race would evolve intellegence in the first place if its peacefull?Well they don't need to be agressive,they just need to be curious,and if that species of aliens have advanced technology then they must be curious,therefor it is most likely that they will come here to explore,its even fit to us,are we a peacefull race?No but we aren't that agressive either,but we are curious,I bet that the first time we will send a spaceship to find life in the universe,it will be for exploration purposes,not conquest and war,and i'm sure that every other advanced species would do the same(unless they are desperate for resources,in that case they can be agressive because survival is the most important thing in evolution).
Name We are in agreement.
I own this human! LOL, love this guy.
He pretty much addressed the fundamental issues of nature and how it works. The one thing that bothers me the most is that are we conscious enough to understand any messages coming from alien species. We could easily be like dogs and cats where we are unable to understand what they're saying or doing simply because our cognitive ability is not on par with their brains. That's the part that is disturbing for me. Like he said, they can run circles around us like what we can do to all the other species.
He has done nothing
Dr. Michio Kaku you good sir are awsome. God bless ya mate.
Wonder what happened to his hand?
Colin Campbell I saw that too. Think he was in a fist fight?
Why?
Because the first rule of Fight Club...
Colin Campbell He walked into a church and socked a creationist in the face. He's gotta do somethin' when he's not preaching speculation on the internet.
Colin Campbell He is such a big scientist/physicist, but hey, not everyone can chop onions perfectly.
My gawd, stop making comments about cats... the main topic here are not cats. I may surprise you, but many people dont care about cats at all
I'm with you on that.
LMAOOOO I was thinking that too! One-track minded people hahaha
next time he’ll make a example about something you can’t understand
so you can feel more stupid …
seriously tho ? you have nothing better to come up whit ? people can’t make example about a animal ?
It's toxoplasma
they should make a new alien invasion movie where the aliens are non-territorial. Instead, they just crawl around the earth for no apparent reason.
District 9!
Erm. You mean like Justin Beiber fans ?
My cat snuggles with me and licks my face, your telling me he doesn't love me? I'm sad now
Your cat probably does love you. He probably loves you as much as a twelve year old boy loves an Xbox or Playstation.
Emotions (and all the same ones) are common to all mammalian species. Your cat loves you. I'd be safecrackers are also a lot smarter than cops as a rule since they have an actual skill that requires a degree of cognition. Dr. Kaku is a an arrogant ass that makes baseless assumptions well-outside the field of physics where he has been properly trained. He isalso a shameless social elitist with a narcissistic compulsion to place things in definitive hierarchies, including different groups of people-especially along class lines--as he lets slip here.
DocFlamingo Are you trolling or are you angry for no reason?
He will eat you if you die...
So will your family if they start starving.
Makes perfect sense.....I'm trying to make people understand this from quite sometime now ! Keep it up..My blessings r with u 😉
I have to watch more, Kaku. Thanks for your part.
But what if the cats are alien spies?!
Akash Deo Actually they are. There is a tv show called Kid vs Cat based on this. That must be true indeed.
Akash Deo there IS infact, a feline tyoe alien specie.
That's why we haven't came across aliens yet. They already predicted we will self destruct and see earth as a waste of time.
What exactly is Michios field of research ? Is he just a genius in every single field of science and philosophy ?
string theory is his daily job
Interesting from MK, as usual. I think any creature capable of space travel would need good vision, whatever other senses they may or may not have.
And yes, cats do feel affection, as do all mammals that care for their young. A rub can be purely hormonal marking or it can be a mix of marking and enjoying closeness and touching.
I love the way they have handled it in Arrival
While it is true that sentient life from other planets may not have the same thought processes as humans do, in fiction, it only makes sense to depict them of having human-like qualities because that is the closest thing we can compare them to. To completely make up a behavior, or to derive one from a less intelligent organism, would probably even be a more inaccurate portrayal of an actual alien, if they exist.
I agree with your analysis. On the one hand, we should view science fiction as just another way to tell a story with human heroes and from the perspective of human heroes. Think of it as religious stories answering the question What would Jesus do? while science fiction stories answer the question What would Captain Kirk do? The aliens are only there to present a challenge to our hero.
On the other hand, it is useful for Dr. Michio Kaku to start the discussion with what we have been shown so he can make comparisons with what reality should be.
***** I agree with you, well almost.. the presumption at the very end "what reality should be". No one really at this point knows, with all the possible answers, what Should be. for all we know we are the ultra intelligent aliens that will visit another planet in some distant future. Or perhaps "Independence Day" is dead accurate... food for thought?
Nicholas Gilbert
More agreement. My last sentence was too strong in saying we have a clue about reality of life beyond our solar system.
i think the point he is trying to make is that an alien's process of evolution would more than likely be completely different to ours, hence its qualities/behaviours, etc make no sense to be so similar to humans
Yo Michio...What's up with your hand? Did you punch someone? 0:23
+Alex Shady Nothing serioous,just some arguments between physics profesors:))) In extreme cases he pulls out the katana and the other puts down his wooden pointer and surrenders:)))
+n04n1m0u5 lmao katana ...
I was just wondering that! Looked through the comments to see if anyone else noticed. Maybe his human suit started cracking and he had to tape it down?
creatonists.
"not just British English but they speak perfect American English"---hilarious
"Perfect" and "American English" must not be in the same phrase ever...
Michio the cat example is the funniest sentence 2017... you're great 👍🏻 !
This is why Arrival is one of my favorite movies, they understood all of this.
I think eye sight would be pretty important for an extraterrestrial being though. . Smell, touch, hearing, and even taste all work through interactions of molecules. But eye sight works through light, electromagnetic radiation. A being that is not focused on light, can't make out stars since there is no feasible way for them to bring wonder to these alien creatures. There might be equipment that lets creatures not focused on seeing be able to "see" and detect light very well, but their brains probably won't be hardwired for it.
So I wouldn't rag on eyesight too much if it comes to aliens that would contact Earth.
neales198 what if they can sense dark matter or dark energy
What if they can smell or taste light rather than see it in the sense that we do?
I don't agree with the cat statement. If what you said is true about cats, why do they rub and purr against strangers as well ? a stranger the cat has never seen before hasn't fed the cat or trained him. So that means that the cat can't actually think, like you said in your video: *This human feeds me twice a day, i trained him* to a stranger he has never seen before. If you are talking about that certain behavior around the owner then sure, but a lot of cats behave like that with anybody, which makes your statement very relative. You are my fav physicist though =).
He does this to seduce new humans to also be fed by them. =)
i seee
cats purr for many reasons, our physicist here only did this one for comedy, another example on why cats purr is that it can act as it's own exercise machine. we humans have to be active to be fit but all cats have to do is sit and purr
you are implementing the idea of affection into a cat. cats are not humans... it may seem like affection to us, but to a cat it is ownership. If a cat showed affection by scratching and biting and killing things, you would see it as an act of hate. think about it.
People should look into animal behaviour more. He stated one of many reasons a cat would do that.
True, we project our own psychology onto cats, but they and many more animals that have interacted with humans for thousands of years have changed their own psychology to act socially with humans. The same can be said for our own.
So according to him, That's So Raven is the most intelligent human?
Squirrel ASMR damn right
Thank you for your advice 👍
Professor is a very curious person and that is good. He will always
Is he hinting that we are being manipulated and controlled by aliens right now?
I knew it!
+J Fraz (GuinessBookOfNoMan) No, I think he insinuated it was cats.....
Why are aliens always smarter? Maybe we are the most intelligent.
It's a matter of who finds who first really. I mean, if aliens came and visited earth they would have accomplished so by technology far more advanced than we have today; a reflection of their superior intelligence. So vice versa, we are then more intelligent by demonstration of our technological achievements; which you can also observe today is a representation of human intelligence.
To be honest I used to like thinking of aliens being more intelligent, but as of recent I am entertained at the thought of mankind being the first to explore the universe and have remarkable discoveries. ^_^
STAR TREK!!!! LET'S MAKE IT REAL :DDDD
can we pin point extra terrestrial planet, Shade our social mediums, share one expressive and imaginative Idea to go to that said planet, to make contact with the species of that planet, not die, and control a bit of cosmos?
Hmmmm?...
if they come here... they know a bit more than us because we can't come to them yet... get it?
ColouringWithShadows What if the aliens are smarter but they don`t care about finding other spiecies in the universe? That wouldn`t make us smarter if we find them.
lol good job of dumbing down the subject matter for us stupid people much love Michio :)
It looks as if you created the spacing for the punctuation but forgot to add it lol.
3:47 wth is on his right hand? is he cut or what? looks like there is a bandaid on his last two fingers too...
The video ends on just his face because his monkey suit is peeling and they couldn’t have any of that on tape
out the box type thinking we need more authentic people like this
How does he know what aliens are like?
lolwut
He went to school.
Did u watch the video he just related humans to animals and how were different from them...
He's a super genious
Godzilla Conspiracy Theory that's also bullshit. He's not a dog. So he will never really know what a dog thinks. Just like he doesn't know why we were born or where we go when we die. Or who created us. Mainstream scientist are entertainers.
Kaku should watch enders game o:
omg I really want to see that it looks amazing!!
Epicnerd73 novel is good to if u want to explore how alien brain might work. novel series show about 4 diffrent kind of aliens
Vaibhav Gupta cool
a pretty narrow way of seeing it
How is it narrow?
Big Think I have a question for you michio kaku. What if particles are selfsustaining vortices emitted from the aether and therefore can move trough space and interact by emitting virtual vortices.
This guy is always cheers me up.
What is wrong? Talk to me. TALK TO ME PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF THE SWEET LORD ALL I HAVE IS UA-camR/
Mr. Kaku will you be my father? Please.
you have to cut Hollywood some slack, to have aliens speaking different languages would hold back the story that why they come up with universal translators and "babble fishes" to get round this problem and when it is done it is quiet a big effort for an effect that is often not the main part of the plot
***** really I found it some times it kinda distracting the sub titles saved it but did not particularly advance the plot
***** no not really Prometheus was just a bad movie for all type of reasons language being least issue
Inti Amaterasu movies are about story telling really some times we forget this...
What's it like to be a bat?
ask batman...
What's it like to be fire?
Matt Uebel it’s like being everything you couldn’t possibly be
Conscious-- ness.
(0:59 made me giggle, I love him)
We can't truly think in a different language... Let alone like a different person... Let alone a different species... Let alone something not from this planet... We can't even begin to comprehend it...
Klingon, Elvish, and dragon tongue are 3 full languages made for 3 different species of organisms that are completely different than human languages. Yes they were made by humans and are used in a way of manipulating their mouths. But really other than that they are different. So we can kind of comprehend it.
jraybozy
"Yes they were made by humans and are used in a way of manipulating their mouths."
I'm pretty sure that makes them the same as any other human language. I'll be honest, I laughed out loud when I read your post. I hope you were trying to be funny.
Jeremy McKinley I really thought he was just kidding...
***** It's a strange thing to imagine, because it seems that humans have evolved to make the sounds of [within reason] every animal on the planet...
Michio Kaku demonstrates hes a "dogs man", not a "cats man". Shame.
Jorge Michele
No, was a retards trap, and i just got one. :)
i dunno.. peace-loving alien race sounds kinda boring
That all depends on what they do. On how they react to certain things, how they perceive other actions. Everyone is more than how they think their world should be, they're how they act and react.
If I was an alien ruler looking for a new habitable planet, the first thing that I would do upon deciding to colonize earth is curing it of the cancer that we know as humans
Get the band back together, Jimmy Page.
Worth to listen u sir
This is absolutely true 🙏🙏🙏🙏
No, i disagree with you Mr Kaku, I had many years of thoughts about this topic. About culture, moral and evolution. Yes, in animal kingdom there's plenty of living being doesn't have the kind of aggressiveness towards resources and territories, and no, that is why we human are the supreme being on this planet so call earth. If we throw away our human moral, just look at the evolution itself on earth, look at the Natural selection, fittest always survives, because of space, resources in order for a culture to be survive or sustainable. Let me ask you, one day if you are walking into a unknown place, its like a desert of infinate space and you know within hundreds of miles the chances for you to find water are very low, even you are equiped with dark energy powered car, moving in close to the speed of light, you have weeks of water and food with you, before you depart you will need to have to kind of mental prepare of taking risk or even losing your life, so after weeks of driving you found a small pool of water with some unknown harmless animal, and you discover that the water you started with become only few days of supple, will you still think about does the water belongs to those low being, do i need their permission for the water? after i taking those water do i need to leave some for them? no, you will not, becos every decision you made will be the outcome of life or death, from the beginning you already know that, that is the situation of space expedition, 73 % plus 23 % are empty space, in order to survive and to higher your percentage of self sustain, there will never be a room for mora, there will never be (ENOUGH)l, its like people in the US when they are drinking, they will thinking about satisfaction, in the middle of desert its not about just satisfaction, its about life and death, water will never be enough for travelers in desert. So if there's an alien visit earth in future, base on the natural selection theory, every being will take what they need for survival, and they ,like us, will not think about how poor and horrible the chicken die when we decided to eat KFC or 2 bags of water for me its enough for me to start going back into the desert. I would like to have a further discussion with you Mr Kaku, if possible.
Int deasn't equal to 100% you know about everything, because the space is infinitely big, no matter how smart a being is, they cannot 100% guaranty survival or 100% sure of their civilization will continuously survival. for example no matter how good and smart your car,how good is the car condition or how good manner you are driving, there will always be a possibility that you endup in a car accident, because you will never smart enough to calculate the infinite amount of random possibility in a short amount of time which effect the outcome, because in order to see into the future u have to know everything, see everything instantly and calculate the outcome almost instantly base on the infinite amount of info like road condition, humidity, tempreture etc. The only thing a being can do no matter how smart you are is to do whatever decision base on preperation , gather information and forecast(( NOT FORESEE, cause the law of our universe doesnt allow us to do that, cause logically thing doesn't happen which mean decision haven been execute and therefore will never be a 100% known outcome, like quantum, when you are not looking for them they are everywhere like random possibility, when you decided and execute looking for one , the quantum will always be there) ), do what ever it takes to higher you survival and the rest is just random possibility. there will never be 100% foresee of future because of infinite changing of the universe.unless the brain processing power of an alien are infinity, they would become GOD itself.
So for me the percentage of an alien traveled blillion of lightyears of empty space and showing up on my door step with flowers is extremely low, death ray gun in their hand is what i choose to believe.
watching too many movies, huh?
you watch too much movies dude
Maximus Neo. Good thought. But (by) you sharing the abstract here may have already sealed that outcome for us in case aliens show up. (Think about it!)
Hyper evolution may render an interstellar entity beyond a point where it requires input in such a design that focuses on a particular set of “resources”. In other words, INTERSTELLAR001 from trillion light years away will not likely want our “uranium”, however, they may utilize the most abundant of universal/inter-universal elements (maybe Hydrogen) for manipulating space-time, in that case - preservation of earth like nascence intelligent specimens is likely to make a better asset for INTERSTELLAR001 than the case of consuming earth in any form. Earth life sure seems more unique than Hydrogen (at least from where I am writing from;)
The ET;s that visited me as a child were made of light. Beautiful colors. And they communicated
with me telepathically.
I think the film arrival is really cool and explores alien evolution and the different perspectives and communication.
smart man, because hes able to clarify difficult things into simple terms
I respect this man for being brilliant.
**squidward lying on the ground: THE FUTURE. THE FUTURE**
A good determiner of intelligence is the ability to simulate and anticipate the future, I like that.
Michio is extremely smart. I am so thankful that such extremely smart People also can be very good at talking and explaining complex Things to us "normal" People. (Sorry my English)
So refreshing thank you
Love this guy. He has a good point.