How Many People Did It Take For You To Exist?
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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How many people did it take for you doing this? Could there be more to such a question? And what kind of discussions does such a question raise?
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Hello everyone. I'll be graduating from university this December, and I plan on making a lot of videos. I've been gone for quite a long time. There are a lot of reasons as to why, and one major one is that I've had to put my education first. That being said, I hope this "remaking" of an old video that I really wanted to redo is enjoyable. Take care, and feel free to leave comments. I'll be getting back to as many people as I can over the course of the weekend.
Think Fact your videos are so useful!
Congrats on your graduation
Congratulations!
Will we see the return of Minute Fact Monday? I really liked that show. It was fun and informative.
Think Fact is the perfect example of quality over quantity: they don't upload that often, but when they do it's almost certainly awesome!
I really appreciate that, thank you very much. Making videos to me is just as much of an art as it is an act of teaching. This is part of the reason why I used to put my video thumbnails in little picture frames. :) Thank you for sticking around!
3:17 10 generations back would be 2046, not 1046
Good gravy... You are right. I must have made a typo on my script and never caught onto it... Thank you for letting me know.
Your videos are awesome, keep it up dude
Thank you very much, and I appreciate it. Also, thanks for sticking around!
Think Fact Of course! Been watching since 2014
Dang, that's a long time. Thank you for your commitment, it means a lot to me!
Think Fact Didn't you do a collab with vsauce a long time ago? I think that's how I found your channel
Good to see you back in the saddle. You have a lot of fans. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes.
Hopefully this is the start of a successful come back. If things go according to plan, I hope to have another video out for November, one out for December, and then by the time January rolls around, start trying to tackle UA-cam full-time. We will see. Thank you very much for sticking around! Take care.
“A Number so ridiculously big that it sounds like making up words😂”
welcome back Dale
Thank you very much.
Love your videos and that you cite your sources. Looking forward to seeing more.
I am suprised you didn't mention the "mitochondrial Eve"
I debated it, but the video was already getting quite long and I didn't want to a start bringing up too many other concepts. Thanks for the comment!
Every person in history affects me because of the Chaos Theory.
I mean, especially if you go further back in time. It's extremely believable.
I must ask, are you still running on burritos?
Good to see you back!
I have a burrito probably every other day that moment. So, I would definitely say yes! Haha
Thank you for the comment, and take care!
And if we consider that "you" is not only your body, but also your character (habits, mentality, etc.), then the answer is: All of them. The world you live in was formed by and is a product of all of the people that have come to pass, leaving (or taking) their own pebble on the mound of civilization. Thus, "you" are in some sense, a child of everyone that shaped your world, not just the ones that gave birth to you.
An interesting question was raised! Good luck!
Your videos are always so interesting! Good job
I am a hard determinist so the factors to take into consideration are all of them but at the same time, only one of them: what the history of the universe has been up to that point.
It's a good point, and something I was struggling with while I made the video. Because almost every line we drive is always going to be arbitrary. You either take in the entire context, or you don't. And are those "don't" going to give you a satisfying answer? Interesting stuff, thank you for the comment!
ohmagod a new video!
Thanks for being one of the first people to see it!
no problem!
Yay you are back! :D Great to see ya!
Hey there, nice to hear from you again! Hope you have been well. :)
Really good video!
Thank you very much, I appreciate it!
Welcome back
Just enough of it. :P And thank you.
Think Fact Yw
Hey you're back! I love your vids.
Thank you for sticking around! And I appreciate that, hopefully I can keep producing more. And if so, I hope to see you around. Take care.
So I'm part of a massive unbroken chain of people. All I have to do is not have children and it'll ruin everything then, sweet.
finally
waited so long
It's been far too long. But, hopefully this is the start of a big comeback! Thank you for sticking around! Take care.
Think Fact big fan of your "10 facts nobody knows" videos
plz make more of them
Aye, Dayzles back
Amazing vid. I dont know why but i didnt really consider my life like this, i always considered my blood line as nan and grandad.....great nan and grandad....and so on. I never took into consideration how many people had to make them......and them before that.
Thank you, I appreciate it! That's one of my favorite things to do, to get people thinking about things in a manner they never did before. I always find interesting is when does the family simply stop talking about a family member from the past. I'm sure your grandparents heard a lot about their grandparents. How much about your great great grandparents do you personally ever hear? And is information about all of them going to be passed down to your grandchildren? It's complicated. Thank you for the comment, and take care!
How did i miss this?!?!?!??
How many did it take?
All of them.
Until next year again!
2 for me 4 for parents then double from there and so one. Even if someone caused my parents to meet they weren't needed for... U know
I am a member of the Jones family. I must say, it seems, we have loved everybody. Hell, distant cousin, is not only, my namesake, but, the founder of the American Navy. 🤯😉👍
Awesome video
Yay you uploaded lol
Thanks for taking the time to watch the video!
I think your estimates of unique individuals could be high... way high? I didn't see where you factored in the every decreasing population pool as you plodded backwards thru time. You mentioned that x generations back we normally have 32 unique ancestors for example. This "normal" would actually decline significantly as you move backwards in time and there was simply less people in your village to select for a spouse. Isolated villages/tribes for example would have had MUCH more common ancestors and in fact in those times it was kind of a big deal to actually find and trade "people" with other friendly tribes just so you could have diversity in your gene pool. So it would be more interesting to do similar math but factoring in the ever dwindling population and isolation of tribes into the equation. The number of total generations wouldn't really vary but the gross factor (yuck im related to myself) would exponentially increase as you moved back thru time. Sigh... it's nice to have such a diverse and accessible pool to keep things moving in the right direction as we have today :)
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Thank you for watching!
Welcome Back! : )
I had to cover up his side of the screen, all his wiggling around when he talked was driving me insane.
More more love your videos
Who is here Feb. 19 2018 or later
How many people does it take for you to exist? Simple one, yourself.
Unless your talking about series of gens of nature, history and biology, that makes you, then your asking a complicated question, since your existence is shown to series of events and actions that would be difficult to nail known, specifically how advance human populations and different paths one take. Best to know how many is simply start with your family and look back to its history.
May I asked what philosophy your influence the most?
Holy fuck I remember last time I commented I was 11 now I'm 16
First time*
It's crazy how fast time flies by.
According 2 Bible humans have only been on Earth 6,000 yrs. or so. Many who believe in evolution will disagree. That said, thank u 4 the ending that it IS amazing that we exist at all. Luv ur videos! 👍
Thank you very much for the comment! I am happy to hear you liked the video. :)
two plus two is four minus one is three quick maths Big Shaq
I like your presentations, but your technique is a cookie cutter technique. DEVELOP YOUR STYLE AND MAKE IT YOUR OWN. OOPS, TO LATE , YOU ARE ALREADY STUCK IN PEOPLE'S MINDS THIS WAY.
YOU FORGOT TO MENTION GOD.
We are all related to Adam and Eve.
I assume you are a troll because if you knew the Bible you would know that Adam and Eve is just a metaphor. They never existed as you or I for that matter.
phuk offndy
You said: "YOU FORFOT TO MENTION GOD."
He didn't mention Peter Pan, Princess Tickle Feather, or any other fictional characters either!
But Peter Pan may have been real, he has not been conclusively disproven as a God of "Creation" by the fact of Evolution!
BTW: What is "FORFOT"?
And why are you yelling?
Is that how people who are stupid enough to believe in a disproven God spell "forgot"?
Do you think that yelling will make your delusion real?
And they all had to survive through many unique events,famine, genocide, war,violence in General, disease, natural disasters, and overall bad luck im assuming
Just thinking about it makes it easy to realize just how much of a borderline statistical anomaly we all are.
Think Fact. Ironically i just saw a video of a man in Iraq, dying suddenly at a gas station when a bullet fell from the sky and killed him .Celebratory gunfire from who knows where. ;/
Think Fact 1 in 400 trillion to one,the guesstimated odds of even being born as "you".
The odds are just mindbending.
When I was about 14 I read a book by Jostein Gaarder called "Kabalmysteriet" (English: "The Solitaire Mystery"). There was a minor part in it where the dad tells his son about how about half of the Norwegian population (I've seen estimates that varies from a third to 60%, but Gaarder wrote "about half", so let's just go with that) was wiped out by the Black Death from 1349 to 1353 (more or less, the exact years are still debated), many of which were young children. He then went on with the whole "you have two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents and so on", and tells his son to imagine just how many of his ancestors that would've been kids during the Black Death. He then points out (to his son's bewilderment) that of all these ancestors, not a single one of them died from the plague as a child. What bothered 14 year old me a bit (and honestly five/six-years-later me a little too) was that he didn't do the math, so I decided to figure it out myself (insert image of smug fourteen year old here)! After doing some math -- wich was basically just powers of two with an estimate of four generations per century -- I figured out that the youngest generation alone of my ancestors from 1349(ish) should consist of 67,108,864 people. Should I mention that the whole Norwegian population around the turn of the 14th century was around 400,000 people? I did realize that any contact with other nations would greatly increase the number of actually possible ancestors, but this was still the day I truly learned not only how unbelievably many great*n grandparents I have, but also the importance of inbreeding.
I think I heard somewhere that if you take two random persons from where ever in the world, they will be at least 19th cousins.
(Here's an imaginary cupcake for those of you who actually read that essay of a comment)
That's really interesting. And in all reality, it reminds me of my saying that we are all the children of tragedy. All humans alive today are a result of the survivors of horrible events having kids. And those horrible events definitely shaped a magnitude of people. And in terms of being 19 cousins with everybody, it seems completely believable. Think about how much genetic information was brought to Eastern Europe by the Mongolians and subsequently transmuting throughout numerous populations there. Macedonia and its interaction with regions on the way to India. You have the Islamic caliphate send their interactions with each other throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia. Africa. European in Australia. Micronesians from southeast Asia making their way to Madagascar. Native Americans making their way over in multiple waves. Then the craziness that is the Americas in general. True isolation is hard to believe, especially if you're dealing with the fact that humans move and you take into consideration deep time. Great comment, and it's always nice to hear from you! Take care!
Love that book!
I wouldn't have existed without World War II occurring ... I find that fascinating.
All humans alive today are the children of tragedy. If there were no tragic historical events, likely nobody alive today would have ever been born. Which is also a fascinating too.
Indeed, but like all things - knowing a specific case that affects one's own existence is sometimes overwhelming to think about.
Overwhelming is putting it lightly. Haha
Think Fact
The African slave trade. Yea I probably would not be alive if that didn't happen being that I'm black american and my ancestors at one point were slaves.
Don't know if youre doing anything different or if I just miss me some thinkfact, but this is your best video. See you next decade.
Hey Jabril, long time no see. Hope you have been well! I had a lot of fun editing this one, so maybe it is better! ;P And see you around, in 2027. Or maybe again this month, who knows? Haha. Take care.
Don’t ducking ghost again, I’m a new subscriber. I saw you on Vsauce. Don’t fuck up your followers. Good channel keep it up!
Seeing this video in my inbox was almost surreal.
Been so long since I posted a UA-cam video that it took me a little while to get used to all of the new bells and whistles that they keep adding what seems like every other month. Can't even add annotations anymore if I want to have end cards.. What is?
I heard someone claim that the radicalization of Islam can be blamed on incest because the behaviors that make radicals radical match the behavior of children of incest. I think it's true, too, because I'm half Syrian and there is a normalcy of first cousin marriage in my family.
Incestuous relationships are often quite common in many fundamentalist religious groups, there's also a need for there to be a lack of a cultural taboo. Incestuous relationships are common amongst group like the Amish (Anabaptist Christians) for example. Though, many of them are trying to find ways to counteract that. Another part that often plays a role as potential he arranged marriages, having a desire to marry within one's own culture or religious group, and having a lack of insight over and genetic issues that arise within the context of medical knowledge. There is a lot to it. Thank you for the comment, I appreciate it! Take care.
just found your channel today by chance amd have been watching for hours your awesome man. the information you provide is seriously compelling stuff and i genuinly appreciate your over all presentation as a whole. subscribed for sure.
Thank you very much for taking the time to watch my content! I have some big plans in the upcoming months because I just returned to UA-cam after a break. Update on that is in my latest video. Take care and I hope you keep seeing you around!
Think Fact i know i watched that video too haha your awesome man. you werent kidding about trying to get back to everyone thats cool of you. im the odd one out where im from aswell i just draw and write i couldnt do on camera id die haha
My ancestry is not what I was raised to believe... This comment brought to you by 23 and me
Finally, another video
Hope to get one more out this month and one out next month, and then come January start trying to produce two videos a month. And I also think it will be fun to start over a little bit. It makes it easier to connect to the most loyal individuals in the community. The part I have been looking forward to the most is actually the comment section. :)
Reading this makes me laugh. I really love your videos though
The JonTron of educational videos.
Jon is the person who inspired me to getting good at editing. So I am grateful for the comparison. Thank you!
Welcom back 😁 great video 🖒
Thanks for sticking around, and I appreciate it!
AND I STILL CAN'T COME UP WITH AN ORIGINAL JOKE!!!
Omg it’s this guy again, cheers for the many hours of procrastination you provided me in the past. Absolutely loved it
Well thanks for sticking around, and I am happy to hear! It makes all the time that goes into making them worth it. I've been quite busy with University, but hopefully I can start producing videos more regularly! See you around! :)
Oh damn you're still alive.
Great video, too, Dale! :D
Yeah, it's definitely been far too long. But thank you very much for sticking around! Makes it easier coming back. Haha. I appreciate the comment, thank you and take care!
Think about all the people in Mongolia and Northeast Asia who can trace their lineage back to Genghis Khan, due to the fact of him impregnating so many hundreds of women. It’s astronomical.
What's really interesting about Genghis Khan is that him and his armies spread out so much and genetic material. It's very likely that somebody in Ireland and somebody in Japan share a relatively common ancestor that was involved with the Mongolian invasions. And so many more people depended on that. Reminds me of the saying, that we are the children of tragedy. If it wasn't for those invasions, so many people wouldn't exist. And, many others would.
Thanks for the comments, take care!
HE'S BACK!!!!
For like the fifth time... I really got to stay back. Haha. Thank you for sticking around! :)
This had a Vsause kind of feel. Very well done. Not going to fact check, great presentation.
Haha, thank you. I am happy you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment.
Oh hey, it's Dale! Been a while. Is this upload indicative of more to come?
Hey there, it's been a really long time! Haha. Hopefully this video is the start of a successful come back. Hope to get one more out this month, hopefully one out in December, and then once I graduate start trying to tackle UA-cam full-time starting in January. Thank you for the comment and I hope to see you around.
Dale is BACK and with a video that really puts your existence into perspective.
Hey there, it's nice to hear from you!
I've been wanting to redo this video for a while, because I made one a while back with a lot of mistakes. So I took it down, and it's been down for a few years, but now with this one I hope I did the topic a bit more justice!
WELCOME BACK
Thank you very much! ;)
We have missed you, Dale. Welcome back, darlin!
Well I really appreciate you sticking around! I hope to start producing videos more regularly. Thank you for the comment, and take care!
key decision? my friends say that i was an accident.
My favorite channel on UA-cam!
Thank you very much. Comments like that are what makes the hard work worth it! Thank you for the comment! :)
Think Fact your welcome 🙏🏻 💝
Finally he's back! :D, I missed the soothing voice and those beautiful voice.
Haha, well I'm having somebody likes my voice. ;P
Thank you for sticking around!
Think Fact lol I meant beautiful eyes😂
Holy shit I forgot your channel existed.
I forgot I existed. Haha.
Going to see if I can keep posting videos and hopefully turn things around.
Thanks for the comment.
Everyone is related to everyone else, however many generations back that may be, however much time back that was. We all came from Adam and Eve. To address different regions having different skin colors.. when humans spread out to the rest of the world, they just adapted to their environments over time, producing more or less melanin, depending on where they lived.
There is an actual "mitochondria eve." It's an interesting occurrence being that whoever this woman was, her DNA lives on through everybody alive today. For whatever reason, the DNA of other women from her time simply did not make it to the present as far as we know. It's really quite interesting.
AstroLilaArt I respect your religious beliefs but we're talking about science and math not religious beliefs in this video
Just enough? All of them would be much more accurate. :)
Who is to say those are mutually exclusive? Haha, but you bring up a good point! Thank you for sticking around and have a good one!
Where have you beeeeeen?
*singing it like Rihanna* lol nice to see u're back!!
That's a complicated question. Haha. It's been a combination of being busy with school, wanting to do some other things, and being a bit overwhelmed with UA-cam. It's stressful to keep constantly raising the bar on yourself. That said, thank you for sticking around!
I saw your comment on vsauce 3. Great work, bud.
Hey, thank you for the comment. And thank you for sticking around! I feel like I have distance myself enough from my past videos, that by this point I just have to make each video to be something that stands on its own and not constantly get stressed out because it's not ultimately better than the last.
Welcome back, you great man! 😁
Thank you very much for sticking around! And I appreciate the comment, take care!
You welcome and take care of yourself as well ^^
Reminded me of the beginning to A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson. Still need to actually finish the book but I remember being really moved when he talked about the fact that we're all just a collection of atoms that are arranged in a highly specific way to make you and I. We can take apart every atom that makes us up and the collection of atoms you end up with will not be representative at all of the sum of its parts. I wondered, which atom would you need to remove for us to lose consciousness? I just thought that was so neat, sort of how we're all here due to a sequence of highly specific actions that can be extended for thousands of years back. Come to think of it, if we don't exclude ourselves to the actions of modern humans, we can keep going back to the actions of the specific early human ancestors related to you and I, and then the mammals related to them, and the amphibians crawling out of the primeval pool, and the simple organelles that were joining together to make cells, and then the matter that started conglomerating into giant masses that would eventually become planets, and the bits of matter floating around after the big bang. It all makes me feel a bit insignificant, but I can't help but be in awe of the sheer beauty of it all. Like it all just sort of happened without rhyme or reason on one lazy Sunday afternoon and bam here we are. Great video lol.
It's kind of overwhelming to think about in all actuality. Both of our existences faced such astronomical odds, yet here we are. And going back to your point, what if the very specific atoms that condition the very first lifeforms for some reason weren't there and for whatever reason life just didn't develop? What if the earth had no moon, what if the earth had not been hit by that Mars-size body that helped create the moon. It's almost like we're all a formula that ultimately required very specific things to happen to get to us. Anyway, thank you very much for the comment. Great read! Have a good one!
YAY THINK FACT IS BACK
And hopefully here to stay, thanks for sticking around!
Missed you man!
I've missed the community quite a it. The comment section is always the best part of what I do, so thanks for sticking around!
It's been so long! (T_T)
We've missed you.
It's been way too long. I hope to get another video out this month, and another one in December. And hopefully by January when I'm done with University I can start producing maybe two a month at most. But hopefully, this video is the start of a revival! Thank you for the comment and I hope to see you around!
Love 💕 the ending.. just enough! Nuf' said.
My grandparents were 5th cousins.. they found out after 30 ish year's of marriage TX is smaller than you think
mathematically i would use n^2-2 back to about the time of global human migration . From that point i would only use n^1.009 (world growth population) as most places were isolated.
You could hypothetically work it out if you took the full population into account. Hence, you then do some fancy math with projections of population growth over the years, then do some long division, some really long division haha. I think we will be able to answer this question really easy when we have advanced machine learning and AI that can simply run simulations. I recently got into your video's, you deserve so much more attention however sometimes less is better. I hope you're still making videos, I love your stuff.
Good video !! 😉
Thank you very much, I appreciate it!
OKAERINASAI
Better believe it.
yay new video
I hope you enjoy it.
u're alive!
It has been a while, that's for sure. Thanks for sticking around!
And if any one of those people had made one extra thrust during intercourse (to use but one example), the winning sperm would have been jostled from it's lead. On a planet of billions, it's easy to overlook how wildly implausible each individual's existence is.
Havnt watched you in a couple years figured id come back to a beard or some shit😂 maybe even an active channel. But i was wrong.
from 9 mins on you blew my mind, never thought that way. Always looked at it as i would be here either way, just question if i would be me. Like my skin tone, and family. But that my reality would have always happened just the settings would have changed
Well, thanks for the calculations....
Haha, I was in a part redoing an old video. Primarily because I got the calculations wrong and wanted to do more justice to the subject/concept.
I got high & asked this question of how many people it took for me to get here & came to UA-cam & now I’m here 🥴😩😮💨
For the first 3 or 5 thousand years the average lifespan was 38 .. then for a while it was 40ish.. you had a dozen kids and maybe 1 survive
Hol up since when does this channel upload content
No joke. Fully I can start producing more content more frequently now. I hope to get another video out this month, one of December, and then start trying to do two a month starting in January. Thanks for the comment!
And by not having kids, those 6,000,000 ancestors of mine all sigh in a unified sense of disappointment.
Live or die, you make the choice.
But isn't living just constantly dying?
what happened?
Hey it's this guy again! Good to see you!
There, thank you very much for the comment. And it's good to see you too!
I guess killing your own grandfather in the grandfather paradox won't happen
-Im just desperate to find your music source for your own intro-
Nice to see you back in action!
Long time no see, thanks for the comment! ;)