Sir Roger Penrose: Are Animals Conscious Like We Are?

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  • @christopherroberts7722
    @christopherroberts7722 6 років тому +3755

    Joe: "that's heavy"
    SRP: "indeed"
    I like this interaction

    • @TheUltimateRage
      @TheUltimateRage 5 років тому +79

      The new Back to the Future series with Marty all growed up haha

    • @WishMount
      @WishMount 5 років тому +2

      The Ultimate Rage grown* (;

    • @TheUltimateRage
      @TheUltimateRage 5 років тому +4

      @@WishMount It's a reference to Rugrats but nice try tho. 😏😎✌🏿

    • @bradmcmahon3905
      @bradmcmahon3905 5 років тому +126

      Joe: “Holy shit! No fuckin’ waaayy”
      SRP: “mmm, Yes. ....Quite.”
      Joe: .....”blows my goddamn mind, man!”
      SRP: “Indubidably”

    • @hardanalljr.3138
      @hardanalljr.3138 5 років тому +20

      5:35

  • @menty6633
    @menty6633 6 років тому +2061

    Sir Roger looks absolutley fantastic for his age. He's 87. Was born in 1931. We should all be so lucky to be so salient and spry at that age.

    • @mv2e19
      @mv2e19 4 роки тому +79

      He's 87? That's incredible. I thought he was 70-ish

    • @ibby2056
      @ibby2056 4 роки тому +62

      Weird to think He was 14 when ww2 ended, damn

    • @thefluffyneko4450
      @thefluffyneko4450 4 роки тому +42

      Damn, you could convince me he was in his mid to late 60's

    • @PM_____
      @PM_____ 4 роки тому +1

      @@thefluffyneko4450 lol sthu

    • @thefluffyneko4450
      @thefluffyneko4450 4 роки тому +29

      @@PM_____ why do you have to be an absolute twat about me trying to complememt someone? Like jesus fucking christ.

  • @KnowThyself619
    @KnowThyself619 4 роки тому +4007

    All of a sudden, getting old doesn't look so bad. Look at this man, all curious and excited with the world.

    • @BigRajBeats
      @BigRajBeats 4 роки тому +13

      Getting old does look bad. Especially on him. Smart tho

    • @justiceiria869
      @justiceiria869 4 роки тому +20

      I am pretty sure it is because he is having fun that he is living longer.

    • @peaceandlove1255
      @peaceandlove1255 4 роки тому +10

      territorial piss many philosophers talk of the beauty in old age, life is what you make it.

    • @lazyserpent7105
      @lazyserpent7105 4 роки тому +15

      I think part of it is always finding something new to discover that you don't know. The search for knowledge never ends if you realize that there is a world full of things that you don't know yet!😁

    • @southernapeman8737
      @southernapeman8737 4 роки тому +9

      @Sheldon Julius
      important too is the health of one's cardiovascular system. The brain needs a healthy heart and blood vessels.

  • @danzoil
    @danzoil 6 років тому +6475

    More guests like this. I'm sick to death of toxic American politics.

    • @malcolmbaldwin5735
      @malcolmbaldwin5735 6 років тому +100

      and Bert , he has the IQ of a lab rat

    • @BaconNCereal
      @BaconNCereal 6 років тому +19

      Agreed

    • @granddukeofmecklenburg
      @granddukeofmecklenburg 6 років тому +123

      Canadian politics is equally bad...European politics is worse...

    • @granddukeofmecklenburg
      @granddukeofmecklenburg 6 років тому +104

      America is just more open, and honest about its political issues...And puts an entertainment spin on it

    • @blaze556922
      @blaze556922 6 років тому +16

      Then help do away with the republican party and get this country on the right track :)

  • @raycharlestothebs
    @raycharlestothebs 4 роки тому +2720

    This man recieved a nobel prize today. He deserved it.

    • @raycharlestothebs
      @raycharlestothebs 4 роки тому +234

      @@LoSTRaMaiR How is €1.1 million meaningless? Honestly? And how is the nobel prize not the ultimate gesture of being scientifically dedicated with great results? And how is that meaningless? Tell me?

    • @Unholyspirit
      @Unholyspirit 4 роки тому +74

      Both are correct. It's meaningless, because, nothing matters. Your ego says it matters, but your ego doesn't exist. There is no you.

    • @raycharlestothebs
      @raycharlestothebs 4 роки тому +155

      @@Unholyspirit if nothing matters, everything matters.

    • @raycharlestothebs
      @raycharlestothebs 4 роки тому +2

      @@LoSTRaMaiR can you send me info about it? Who recieved it? And why?

    • @Unholyspirit
      @Unholyspirit 4 роки тому

      @@LoSTRaMaiR yea, who's this?

  • @Dankdalorde
    @Dankdalorde 4 роки тому +2098

    He looks like how he speaks

    • @jacksonwayneputnam1599
      @jacksonwayneputnam1599 4 роки тому +56

      Lord Vader accurate and underrated comment, my lord.

    • @Dankdalorde
      @Dankdalorde 4 роки тому +31

      Jackson Putnam I live for comments like these. Indeed you are powerful.

    • @MrJfonso777
      @MrJfonso777 4 роки тому +14

      He speaks just like he looks

    • @maceomillions2192
      @maceomillions2192 4 роки тому +2

      @@Dankdalorde Can you beat Lord Frieza in 1 on 1 combat sir?

    • @Dankdalorde
      @Dankdalorde 4 роки тому +5

      MaCeo Millions “All I am surrounded by is fear, and dead men.”

  • @krypteia2
    @krypteia2 5 років тому +1840

    It's amazing that we're now rediscovering the fact that wild animals have emotions, thoughts and personalities, a fact that was clear to ancient people who interacted with them on a daily basis.

    • @Noutelus
      @Noutelus 5 років тому +153

      Religious indoctrination has told us for 1000s of years we are the pinacle of "creation" , the favorite of a god and much better then mere animals.

    • @EBiz-tv9jq
      @EBiz-tv9jq 4 роки тому +13

      why do you think we are rediscovering it? its a weird statement and begs the question what did you mean

    • @AleaRandomAm
      @AleaRandomAm 4 роки тому +46

      Daniel Djadan You can thank the thousands of years of Semitic mythology indoctrination that tells us animals were created FOR us and that we are at the image of God (whatever that is).

    • @LetsGoGetThem
      @LetsGoGetThem 4 роки тому +54

      Err, "ancient people" is a bit generic. Ancient people were generally more cruel to animals because they had to a) survive or b) didn't have a clear understanding or empathy for the animal. Remember, ancient people are also the same people (pagans is usually the connotation) who mass sacrificed horses and other life stock to "gods" for boons.

    • @mathildaflower2388
      @mathildaflower2388 4 роки тому +8

      That's the down side of SCIENCE , humans need for evidence, even if something is clear subjectively

  • @Rhyds86
    @Rhyds86 6 років тому +2412

    Animal intelligence has been underestimated across the board. Especially reptiles.

    • @Blue-gl7hw
      @Blue-gl7hw 6 років тому +137

      Rhyds86 Domesticated animals are dumb af tho

    • @LxGWolverine
      @LxGWolverine 6 років тому +68

      BokuNoFateXero well for one they act purely on reflex and have amazing brains for calculating distance and time. On top of that they have a visible third eye.

    • @mr.w.146
      @mr.w.146 6 років тому +113

      @@Blue-gl7hw Don't talk about minorities like that!

    • @ladabe4979
      @ladabe4979 6 років тому +14

      @@LxGWolverine they have a visible third eye?

    • @bigbysnow6306
      @bigbysnow6306 6 років тому +9

      Eric Alonzo alligators don't have 3 eyes

  • @RadFingerz
    @RadFingerz 5 років тому +1058

    Joes best guest are the least anticipated ones

    • @DP-cd5wr
      @DP-cd5wr 5 років тому +160

      Because we as a society have lifted the wrong people onto pedestals

    • @RadFingerz
      @RadFingerz 5 років тому +2

      Overthinking u need to look into it quit trying to talk like jre

    • @Poopmyjorts
      @Poopmyjorts 5 років тому +36

      RadFingerz please delete your reply lol

    • @dontwaste111
      @dontwaste111 5 років тому +19

      Elon Musk and Alex Jones were definitely a couple of the best guests

    • @Unclebarry94
      @Unclebarry94 5 років тому +8

      I'd say the three exceptions were Alex Jones, Elon musk and tyson fury

  • @Jadesbrother
    @Jadesbrother 5 років тому +2366

    Why does it seem like everyone has forgotten that we ourselves are animals.

    • @harshshirodkar1574
      @harshshirodkar1574 5 років тому +111

      That’s actually very true

    • @stonwall9065
      @stonwall9065 5 років тому +266

      Because we're peerless in our ability to create ideas at will and then make them reality.
      We are actually masters of our own lives. Like little gods, almost as if we are made in god's likeness or something.

    • @kiliabgonzalez9977
      @kiliabgonzalez9977 5 років тому +131

      There’s a number of things that separates us from animals. One example is our ability to philosophize or to contemplate the meaning / purpose of life. The very fact humans have this ability and to understand the concept of “God” or of a higher being is proof of our spiritual capacity, which animals simply don’t have.

    • @drlax15m
      @drlax15m 5 років тому +49

      We are a higher order. No other animals philosophize about the nature of our existence, let alone their own.

    • @jamespoff8632
      @jamespoff8632 5 років тому +185

      @@kiliabgonzalez9977 your thoughts are thery because you don't KNOW this about the other animals on Earth. You have an assumption that's all

  • @Postpost90s
    @Postpost90s 6 років тому +1121

    What a cool old man 10/10

    • @getterbucked6495
      @getterbucked6495 6 років тому +1

      He ain’t dead yet so we don’t know if he a kiddy type of old dude or if he cool

    • @dominic1722
      @dominic1722 6 років тому +2

      No he’s white

    • @iron-farmer
      @iron-farmer 6 років тому +7

      Wow actual spoken knowledge carries a big stock these days lol

    • @Postpost90s
      @Postpost90s 6 років тому

      @John Smith I would bang hahah

    • @jaradrichardsC137
      @jaradrichardsC137 6 років тому +2

      Disliked for wholesomeness

  • @luissantana3996
    @luissantana3996 4 роки тому +378

    I’m going to tell my kids one day that there was a 50 yr old podcaster who I loved to watch in my early 20’s .

    • @pierreo33
      @pierreo33 4 роки тому +98

      Your kids are gonna look at you and say "did we ask?"

    • @ApeGank
      @ApeGank 4 роки тому +5

      Ok

    • @billbosagginz740
      @billbosagginz740 4 роки тому +4

      I watched him since I was 14, jeez I feel old

    • @ansksksla
      @ansksksla 4 роки тому

      @@billbosagginz740 how old r u now

    • @vectorv4285
      @vectorv4285 4 роки тому

      @@billbosagginz740 how old r u now

  • @jopo7996
    @jopo7996 6 років тому +2753

    Imagine Brendan Schaub doing this podcast. "Foresure octopusses have more legs than peoples, and live in the wet place."

    • @bravonana10
      @bravonana10 6 років тому +101

      Wow that genuinely made me laugh out loud

    • @ImOutdoorzManTv
      @ImOutdoorzManTv 6 років тому +13

      Whahhahahahahahhahaha

    • @JEMA333
      @JEMA333 6 років тому +2

      Jo Po i dont get it whos brendan

    • @jordenvega6134
      @jordenvega6134 6 років тому +1

      @@JEMA333 google his name next to Joe Rogan

    • @MrTjordan22
      @MrTjordan22 6 років тому +27

      that was the best youtube comment I have read in a while !

  • @M.-.D
    @M.-.D 4 роки тому +158

    So incredible to see Professor Penrose win the Nobel Prize.
    One of the greatest minds.

    • @taja1976
      @taja1976 4 роки тому +4

      Well deserved. People like Roger push us forward, away from all the crass distractions of primitive trappings.

    • @dudepool7530
      @dudepool7530 3 роки тому +1

      Here here! *Starts singing "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow"*

  • @StephNuggs
    @StephNuggs 4 роки тому +496

    Joe on a date:
    - "So how much have you studdied octopi?"

    • @MadOrange644
      @MadOrange644 4 роки тому +33

      Date: "I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going"

    • @buktownx
      @buktownx 4 роки тому +3

      Do you know what I can do to you with 8 tentacles baby...ya imagine that

    • @feralcyborggaming1531
      @feralcyborggaming1531 4 роки тому

      *NANI DA?!*

    • @fxdedblue
      @fxdedblue 4 роки тому

      What up steph nuggs

    • @sayno2lolzisback
      @sayno2lolzisback 3 роки тому +1

      Who's gonna tell him octopi is wrong

  • @evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879
    @evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879 6 років тому +216

    I love when Joe has guests that teach him and his audience something, instead of just echo chamber type conversations that sometimes happen on here.

  • @dorffinbat
    @dorffinbat 4 роки тому +64

    It’s so refreshing to see such an intelligent person saying “I don’t know completely”, to watch someone embrace uncertainty and not state everything they believe as fact. The world would be a far better place if people presented their ideas like this more often

    • @fastquick4266
      @fastquick4266 4 роки тому +2

      I’ve been thinking the same thing! Very true

    • @douglassun8456
      @douglassun8456 11 місяців тому +2

      I think this is a problem with popular science, or 'science communication.' Scientists who want to engage with the general public think they have to keep things simple, and so they drive ideas home rather than admit when that there are opposing theories.

  • @btbarr16
    @btbarr16 4 роки тому +147

    I saw a video on line about a diver that became friends with a small octopus. One day the octopus pulled this diver's hand to this log. He held her fingers on the log. Then the diver pushed on the log a bit to where it rolled over a bit. The octopus quickly let go of her fingers swam underneath the log and pulled off some clam like creatures to eat. I was blown away by it. This octopus knew he couldn't get to the food, remembered his friend that visits, assumed his big friend was strong enough to hold up the log, and and was able to communicate that he needed her help to move the log. So, he either thought up his plan ahead of her showing up or quickly came up with that plan once he saw here again.

    • @joruss443
      @joruss443 2 роки тому +11

      That’s so cool thanks for sharing that

    • @btbarr16
      @btbarr16 2 роки тому +10

      @@bring-out I don't think a lot of people really understand how much intelligence is involved with a seemingly simple act. It involves figuring out how to get the food item, planning how to do it, planning how to communicate to another species what he needs his friend to do, as well as conceptualizing on some level the properties of weight, force, and strength i.e., my big friend is probably strong enough to move this thing.

    • @naegleriafowleri2230
      @naegleriafowleri2230 2 роки тому +1

      Doesnt mean it has consciousness like humans, has intelligence 😂 even insects have intelligence ants for example are highly intelligent

    • @jraeflowers8300
      @jraeflowers8300 2 роки тому +1

      ❤️

    • @btbarr16
      @btbarr16 2 роки тому

      @Naegleria Fowleri an ant is not intelligent. Ants as a collective appear intelligent, but each individual any is basically genetically coded to follow a few simple rules. However, when thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of individual ants are governed by the same set of rules, it appears like intelligence is involved. However, an individual octopus problem having an idea to solve a problem via a method extremely uncommon to the species is a higher level of intelligence. Also, we humans still don't even know where consciousness comes from. We don't know how electrochemical signals between neurons in our brain turn into consciousness. So, assuming other animals don't have a thing that we don't understand is pretty stupid. Ants behavior is basically governed by if-this-then-that. For instance, if an ant comes to a gap, it can't cross it stops and reaches out as far as it can. The next ant that comes along does the same thing until they create a bridge. Then, the rule they follow is to hold on until no more ants are walking over them. There's no "if food under log ask human to hold up log" rules that an octopus follows without having a thought process of some kind.

  • @interlake2043
    @interlake2043 6 років тому +1107

    Watch Blue Planet 2 on Netflix and prepare to have your mind blown by animal intelligence.

    • @Chiefthepup
      @Chiefthepup 6 років тому +32

      Where can one watch this.

    • @interlake2043
      @interlake2043 6 років тому +88

      @@Chiefthepup on Netflix.

    • @gruaim
      @gruaim 6 років тому +85

      @@interlake2043 where

    • @jamais412
      @jamais412 6 років тому +59

      Where can I watch it?

    • @htx7139
      @htx7139 6 років тому +10

      Planet 2 or is it called Planet earth 2?

  • @extremelegend46736
    @extremelegend46736 6 років тому +1449

    Joe"I've been studying them for a few years now" Rogan

    • @maskedmerker1
      @maskedmerker1 6 років тому +104

      More like skimmed articles every now and then on the subject for a few years

    • @antwan867
      @antwan867 6 років тому +25

      @@maskedmerker1 I read this as soon as he said it lmao

    • @isaacj8751
      @isaacj8751 5 років тому +2

      With his tongue

    • @foxontherun4754
      @foxontherun4754 5 років тому +49

      He said: i’ve been paying attention to them for a few years now. Big difference.

    • @bilbowbaggins7298
      @bilbowbaggins7298 5 років тому +20

      @@foxontherun4754 I always see people distorting quotes from him to make these jokes and getting a lot of likes, I can never understand it

  • @sosig8332
    @sosig8332 5 років тому +276

    Elephants are very intelligent, they’ve even figured out how to use the order panels at McDonalds

  • @AlexM-wq7in
    @AlexM-wq7in 6 років тому +221

    As far as animals go, humans and octopi are very distantly related. Octopi are far closer to snails than to apes such as ourselves. The fact that they display a high-degree of deliberative conscious thought suggests that consciousness is a general phenomenon can arise using completely alien brain architectures.

  • @mr.wizard9785
    @mr.wizard9785 6 років тому +89

    Outstanding interview. I've always been a fan of Rogan. His podcasts are more interesting and/ or entertaining than 90% of stuff on television.

    • @ylst8874
      @ylst8874 Рік тому +1

      Thanks to youtube , man. I'm 41 years old , I said that when I watched videos like this. Tv was so limited.

  • @pommiebears
    @pommiebears Рік тому +5

    My old grandad was working class Londoner, a cockney. But, he was bright as a shining button, and I’d spend hours listening to his wisdom, and what he’d learned. This man is obviously much more educated than my grandad was, but the way he speaks about what he’s observed, is familiar. My grandad passed on nearly 26 years ago, and I swear, I miss him every single day! 🌹

  • @smor517
    @smor517 6 років тому +423

    I personally think it is pretty obvious that every living creature is conscious but to a different degree than humans.

    • @jessegimenez8175
      @jessegimenez8175 6 років тому +34

      Sean M I feel like thinking of it in degrees is wrong as well more like just totally different ways, some things like language sure it’s to a different degree but when we compare animals to a 3 old in intelligence It doesn’t sit well with me, the intelligence as a whole is specialized in different areas, animals are masters in certain areas pertaining to their survival just as we are, I think we can be fairly certain animals are just as conscious as us but in a different way so to speak. It’s just that same old wisdom but on a grand evolutionary scale that whatever you spend time doing means you spending time doing that instead of something else. You can’t be an expert at everything.

    • @benedicitesol4429
      @benedicitesol4429 6 років тому +17

      I agree, but I think consciousness ends somewhere before you get down to bacteria, viruses and what not.

    • @GL-ys8je
      @GL-ys8je 6 років тому

      We always knew when certain birds came ashore that a hurricane was coming.

    • @thabesttheris
      @thabesttheris 6 років тому

      Exactly

    • @YaBoiDREX
      @YaBoiDREX 6 років тому +6

      Chase Jordan Actually dogs can be racist although they may not know why. I once read a book about how slave masters kept their slaves in check and one of the methods was training dogs to hate black skin tones.

  • @coltjohnson4753
    @coltjohnson4753 6 років тому +731

    Meanwhile I just saw the neighbors dog eat his turd..

    • @cvoghel
      @cvoghel 6 років тому +108

      Colt Johnson And I see people vote like idiots. I see people killing each other over bullshit, driving cars into trees, and sticking their dicks into electrical sockets. What’s your point?

    • @frontcrevis2
      @frontcrevis2 6 років тому +59

      Went on PornHub and watched a chick eat her own shit...

    • @malcolmbaldwin5735
      @malcolmbaldwin5735 6 років тому +29

      @@frontcrevis2 you need professional help

    • @mactwyver
      @mactwyver 6 років тому +27

      Dogs are intelligent -> dog eats turd -> eating turds is smart -> you should eat turds

    • @Herb_Robert
      @Herb_Robert 6 років тому +8

      I've seen a human make sculptures out of turds. Some humans piss & shit on each other for kinks.

  • @johnmelendez4655
    @johnmelendez4655 4 роки тому +20

    There is a city in Brazil where Amazon river dolphins show up at a city park every day to play with the human kids. It's amazing.

  • @thedumbprogrammer123
    @thedumbprogrammer123 6 років тому +456

    Deep down we know they are... but that's awfully inconvenient for us. So no they are don't.

    • @ghost123g3
      @ghost123g3 6 років тому +23

      So true

    • @nawman2033
      @nawman2033 6 років тому +206

      You were doing so well till the end ❤

    • @thedumbprogrammer123
      @thedumbprogrammer123 6 років тому +56

      @@nawman2033 OMG that made my day. I literally LOLed at your comment. You're so right. I remember as I was writing it I felt so profound... then like an hour later on the bog I wanted to read my comment again to mentally masturbate and check out if I had any likes when I saw the blunder... Oh well... A for effort :)

    • @nawman2033
      @nawman2033 6 років тому +6

      @@thedumbprogrammer123 Yep the idea was still conveyed poetically even with the mistake 😁 glad to bring ya some laughs

    • @dighyfveirfuveifbuv4420
      @dighyfveirfuveifbuv4420 6 років тому +22

      It's so obvious ! People try to make it mean something else but it still just means, aware of ones self . They try to say it's a deeper awareness , reflection and contemplation of ones self . Well that definition excludes about 90% of humans .We need to stop treating animals like they aren't conscious, can't feel pain or have emotions when it is so obvious that they do . After seeing what I was paying for in factory farms , I stopped eating them three years ago . It turns out that there are tons of other delicious things to eat and I feel healthier than ever, to boot.
      Lets end the animal holocaust , go vegan .

  • @konanoobiemaster
    @konanoobiemaster 6 років тому +1373

    Joe "hey doc let me explain to you how wolves work" Rogan

    • @jnava121
      @jnava121 6 років тому +41

      konanoobiemaster Joe: if u look at a wolf he knows your pissed even if you dont say it

    • @deehoo40
      @deehoo40 6 років тому +2

      Hehehe

    • @philopoemen6659
      @philopoemen6659 5 років тому +1

      konanoobiemaster You nailed it..

    • @stevenmyers1090
      @stevenmyers1090 5 років тому

      Thanks for the laugh!

    • @thewildbros1044
      @thewildbros1044 5 років тому

      Wtf

  • @Kjærli_Lyst-hår
    @Kjærli_Lyst-hår 3 роки тому +15

    I love when physicists get philosophical. Physics and Philosophy are beautifully intertwined and each continues to contribute to developments in the other.

  • @janiemendoza6685
    @janiemendoza6685 5 років тому +35

    Sir Penrose is someone to try to emulate. He is very intelligent and well posed.

  • @Bodhi594
    @Bodhi594 6 років тому +352

    I was doing this broad from behind and her dog started growling at me from the corner of the room. That dude was very self aware of what I was doing.

    • @anthonyolvera5916
      @anthonyolvera5916 6 років тому +24

      Must of been going hard he probably thought you were hurting her

    • @tehjamerz
      @tehjamerz 6 років тому +19

      nothing like asserting your dominance during an occular pat-down

    • @joshmcgechaen3003
      @joshmcgechaen3003 6 років тому +7

      Fried in oil. Boiled in water

    • @Bodhi594
      @Bodhi594 6 років тому +8

      @@anthonyolvera5916 I had a good rhythm going so yeah I think he thought I was roughing his mom up. It made me slow down real quick. 😂

    • @jeremiaha5167
      @jeremiaha5167 6 років тому +7

      My girlfriend has 2 badgies (small birds. Less interactive that parrots). And they act different when we have sex. They get quiet. They're never quiet otherwise.

  • @Crystaleakins
    @Crystaleakins 5 років тому +71

    Animals experience pain happiness fear depression I think it the same stream of consciousness they just can't express in the detail of a human being

    • @GatherYeRosebudsWhileYeMay
      @GatherYeRosebudsWhileYeMay 4 роки тому +6

      Well put

    • @KrikZ32
      @KrikZ32 3 роки тому +2

      Makes you think what it would be like to be a human with no language. All of my thoughts, inner or outer, are in english. Would we even be able to comprehend complicated abstract ideas without the words we have?

    • @mkmllrc
      @mkmllrc 3 роки тому

      @@KrikZ32 I guess we cant have inner thoughts without words. We would only view the world as it is.

    • @BigBodyBiggolo
      @BigBodyBiggolo 3 роки тому

      We know those things from eachother because we have physical behavior and other characteristics that show someone is any of those emotional mindstates.
      Dogs have the same facial characteristics which is why we connect to them so much.
      Cats also have these facial characteristics but they are different from humans and dogs which is why we have a much harder time understanding them.
      And the list goes on

  • @roberthofmann8403
    @roberthofmann8403 6 років тому +146

    Sir Roger Penrose! OMG! The man's a living legend!

    • @dr.zahalka8873
      @dr.zahalka8873 6 років тому +3

      .....right.

    • @hilbertsinn6886
      @hilbertsinn6886 6 років тому +6

      I honestly didn't know he was still alive. He seems quite cognitively healthy for a man who must be over ninety.

    • @hilbertsinn6886
      @hilbertsinn6886 6 років тому +1

      @Mike Jones He's alive, doofus.

    • @dr.zahalka8873
      @dr.zahalka8873 6 років тому

      @Mike Jones you're quick.

    • @antonimartinez9961
      @antonimartinez9961 5 років тому +1

      @@hilbertsinn6886 He's 87

  • @Chris-ti3gq
    @Chris-ti3gq 4 роки тому +74

    When I see my dog I definitely believe that they’re conscious

    • @Chris-ti3gq
      @Chris-ti3gq 4 роки тому +31

      YouMake MeReal maybe it’s too advanced for a dumbass like you to realize 😂. When idiots think they are smart this conversation might be well above your 85 IQ level. You probably don’t even know what that means

    • @cesar-lf1jw
      @cesar-lf1jw 4 роки тому +27

      @YouMake MeReal shut up bitch

    • @mattforrest1749
      @mattforrest1749 4 роки тому +1

      You mean conciouness? I feel the same yet science does not agree.. When the mirror test has been performed with dogs, unlike elephants they unfortunately fail..

    • @Chris-ti3gq
      @Chris-ti3gq 4 роки тому +4

      Matt Forrest no maybe I used the wrong word not that they know they are a dog but that they are aware. Like some dogs are smart. They know when they’re in trouble, when somethings wrong etc different emotions and just kinda smart. Not in the same way as a human. No animal is like a human just that they are aware of certain things

    • @evelyn9273
      @evelyn9273 4 роки тому +15

      Matt Forrest that is a limited understanding of the issue. That is true, dogs aren’t self aware in terms of sight (being able to recognise what they look like, as an individual). But, there is speculation that dogs might be self aware, in respect to what they smell like. We simply cannot use the human experience and apply it to all other animals.

  • @cameronchambers8435
    @cameronchambers8435 2 роки тому +19

    Slightly off topic here, but have you ever wondered about the craziness of being a conscious human being. Without getting too deep into thinking about existence or reincarnation, just the fact that we are lucky enough to have an understanding and the ability to study ourselves, an animal with a profound degree of self awareness

    • @somewhataddicted7685
      @somewhataddicted7685 2 роки тому

      I wonder how rare that is in the universe. We are only getting smarter because we cab communicate with eachother easily with our throats and tongue and lips. How many intelligent lifeforms not just on earth but in the entire universe can do that?

    • @deathinhollywood
      @deathinhollywood 2 роки тому

      Al the time man, I always wonder how crazy it is we are aware of our own consciousness and existence, and if there is other life across the universe, do they have the same capacity of conciseness as us or do they just have the same consciousness as a horse or a bird for instance

  • @GamezRHard
    @GamezRHard 5 років тому +29

    Joe: "That's heavy!!!", Sir Roger: "Indeed!"

  • @liamsnowman8030
    @liamsnowman8030 6 років тому +53

    Tony Ferguson the type of guy to try and ankle pick an octopus

  • @PyrrhicPax
    @PyrrhicPax 2 роки тому +13

    This is absolutely amazing because Jordan Peterson describes consciousness as something like "awareness of the future and the past in the present".
    The dogs hunting methods show they can plan ahead, i.e. they are ware of the existence of a future, not just thinking in the moment. And the elephants visiting bones of their dead shows an awareness of the past in the present. Those aren't just bones, they're the bones of someone they used to know.
    Animal Sentience, for me anyway, raises massive ethical questions about factory animal farming.

  • @quarantees8736
    @quarantees8736 3 роки тому +15

    Anyone who’s had a dog knows they are very conscious & as much have a soul as humans do. With other animals, it’s probably that we don’t spend enough time around them (like we do with dogs) to realise they too are very conscious. We also tend to define something that’s not like us as unintelligent or not having a soul, which is more a reflection of human small mindedness than anything else.

    • @googleuser3163
      @googleuser3163 3 роки тому +1

      Dogs don't even have brains and can't feel pain. God put animals on earth for humans to use however they like. Respecting animals is dumb. They are objects like a plant or a rock

    • @jacksonraidal9917
      @jacksonraidal9917 3 роки тому +3

      @@googleuser3163 that's a morbid and dangerous way of looking at things. I don't think dogs have a soul. I don't think humans have a soul either. But animals clearly have pain receptors, they mourn, they love, they laugh, they cry. Humans are more complex, but there's nothing we have that animals dont to some degree

    • @googleuser3163
      @googleuser3163 3 роки тому

      @@jacksonraidal9917 wrong

    • @LaviniaTNMan
      @LaviniaTNMan 2 роки тому

      Some commenters are just sad lil cunts tryin to piss ppl off

    • @ciarantucker3836
      @ciarantucker3836 2 роки тому +4

      @@jacksonraidal9917 he’s just a troll probably struggling with something in his life. Pay no notice to him

  • @SmokeTemple
    @SmokeTemple 5 років тому +91

    well it seems to me that perhaps a majority of humans aren't exactly conscious...

    • @victormd1100
      @victormd1100 4 роки тому +5

      @dumb genius I believe its mostly religious indoctrination that makes them not see it. I've heard some religious people claim non-human animals dont have souls nor free will, completely delusional people.

    • @radtrashmcradical8202
      @radtrashmcradical8202 3 роки тому +1

      @@victormd1100 people who don’t think dogs and cats have souls shouldn’t be allowed to own them. Once you have one, it’s so obvious that they’re just as (if not more) alive than us. We’re smarter, of course, but they’re just little balls of life.

    • @victormd1100
      @victormd1100 3 роки тому +1

      @@radtrashmcradical8202 Honestly you dont have to limit yourself to house pets. Pigs, cows, rats, birds, fish,... they all got souls as well, yet i've seen plenty of people say either they dont or they have but they're inferior to us therefore wont go to heaven. I've even seen people claiming they got souls but we're so superior to them that any person has the right to buy an animal just to torture it... sick sick people.

    • @radtrashmcradical8202
      @radtrashmcradical8202 3 роки тому

      @@victormd1100 I mean, yes to all of those but probably fish. I don't know if I literally mean "souls", I'm not very religious. But they have life and character and feelings. Fish are pretty much little robots. Regardless, torture is wrong and we should treat all life with due respect because life is something worth respecting.
      I went with household pets because they act very differently from non-domesticated animals. Of course a feral pig feels things, but its not exactly gonna cuddle with you or feel much love. Its harder for people to understand/see that they've got soul. But I agree with you 100%

    • @victormd1100
      @victormd1100 3 роки тому

      @@radtrashmcradical8202 Sure, i have noticed that most people i've met say call souls what scientists would call consciousness, so i usually say souls first as most people will understand it. Yep, mistreat and torture are horrible to sentient beings and, unfortunatelly happen a lot, both individually and in companies, i truly hope this generation and the next ones are able to lessen the harm those animals suffer.
      Just have to disagree with you on fish, i believe fish are conscious as well, but i have no proof so idk. I've just read somewhere they have pain receptors around their mouth, so they ( if have consciousness ) must feel a huge amount of pain when their body weight is pulling down on their mouth when they're captured.

  • @basketballplayer4978
    @basketballplayer4978 4 роки тому +87

    Anyone that has a dog knows they have some sort of consciousness

    • @anameyoucantremember
      @anameyoucantremember 3 роки тому +13

      True. Anyone whose not self-absorbed in their own "superior" condition can easily see consciousness everywhere. And I don't mean it in a mystical way.

    • @sabiotiopablo5787
      @sabiotiopablo5787 3 роки тому +4

      @@anameyoucantremember Im so happy I found this video today. I thought I was the only one who saw consciousness as a spectrum, where some creatures are simply more conscious than others

    • @randomhiphop5055
      @randomhiphop5055 3 роки тому +3

      @@anameyoucantremember I did acid one time and realized that it IS everywhere in a mystical way. Lol

    • @KrikZ32
      @KrikZ32 3 роки тому +1

      ​@@sabiotiopablo5787 it's by far the most logical explanation. Our intelligence isn't something that evolved overnight, the theory that animals of lesser intelligence than dolphins or apes, are just automatons of instinct has never sat right with me.

    • @sabiotiopablo5787
      @sabiotiopablo5787 3 роки тому +1

      @@KrikZ32 But that generates another question though, is consciousness just how smart we are? Or just awareness of our own existence? What would it take to make an AI conscious?

  • @DanielVazquez-og2xu
    @DanielVazquez-og2xu 6 років тому +204

    Ok i get it.... but where does Kevin lee fit in all of this

    • @r.b.4611
      @r.b.4611 6 років тому +10

      He cleans Yaquinta's shoes.

    • @dr.zahalka8873
      @dr.zahalka8873 6 років тому +3

      The UFC fighter? Well beneath Al.

    • @nickblaze420
      @nickblaze420 6 років тому +6

      Hes p4p best fighter ever at 165

    • @captainkiwi77
      @captainkiwi77 6 років тому +5

      Daniel Vazquez he fits in the prelims from whence he crawled

    • @jojojohnson8056
      @jojojohnson8056 5 років тому

      He makes animals look dumb

  • @claireglory
    @claireglory 5 років тому +36

    dogs are one of the things that really makes me think if animals are conscious.
    because out of all the animals out there, dogs seems to understand us on a different level.

    • @RijuChatterjee
      @RijuChatterjee 5 років тому +16

      The animal we literally created with the sole purpose of being able to understand us and coexist with us understands and coexists best with us... lol no shit

    • @zacklance7798
      @zacklance7798 4 роки тому +9

      Dana Chapin dogs have been so selectively bred for so long now we might as well have created them.

    • @onebilliontacos3405
      @onebilliontacos3405 4 роки тому +1

      I mean dogs are smart, but chickens are smarter.

    • @aarongonzalez4458
      @aarongonzalez4458 3 роки тому

      @@onebilliontacos3405 Crows are smarter

  • @belliott6042
    @belliott6042 5 років тому +69

    I once spoke to a baboon. I may have been on a controlled substance, but we had a real conversation at the zoo ...

    • @fender12336
      @fender12336 4 роки тому +4

      Define controlled

    • @g.c.t.v6669
      @g.c.t.v6669 4 роки тому +2

      Not funny sorry

    • @caretakerrr123
      @caretakerrr123 4 роки тому +1

      i want to be on a controlled substance 😳

    • @TSOL2023
      @TSOL2023 4 роки тому +1

      ...said Sir Roger Penrose when he got back to the UK..

  • @krisguntner4805
    @krisguntner4805 6 років тому +54

    Yes OF COURSE they are.
    They fear death don't they?
    They mourn others deaths don't they?
    It's simply the LEVEL of intelligence that's different.
    The very fact they can be taught sympathy for OTHER SPECIES by us shows they are conscious of other creatures emotions if not suffering.

    • @kingkoopa157
      @kingkoopa157 6 років тому +4

      and how do you think they are taught anything? by giving them treats... they dont give a fuck about anything but doing what they need to do to get the treats...

    • @Narrowcros
      @Narrowcros 6 років тому

      Thats basically what he said kid, have you seen the video.

    • @Yujin4757
      @Yujin4757 6 років тому

      i had 2 dogs when i was younger and one of them passed away so the other dog refused to eat and we had to put him down as well....

    • @friedrichschopenhauer2900
      @friedrichschopenhauer2900 6 років тому +4

      People keep talking about intelligence; that's not the same thing as consciousness though. It could be purely mechanical (which seems absurd) ... but consciousness means the feeling of inner experience. Which is still unexplainable.

    • @krisguntner4805
      @krisguntner4805 6 років тому

      @@Narrowcros I'm 46 so keep your attempt at belittling comments to yourself.....little man.

  • @NoNTr1v1aL
    @NoNTr1v1aL 6 років тому +12

    Holy crap! You actually got Penrose to be on your podcast?!
    Absolute madlad!

  • @Mr4twenty.357
    @Mr4twenty.357 Рік тому

    Wow 87 my grandma was 67 when she passed so young I hope to live a long prosperous life like this young man

  • @harrytinsley4569
    @harrytinsley4569 3 роки тому +3

    Joe is such a great interviewer. He asks really good questions of his guests, getting to the heart of the matter.

  • @titmusspaultpaul5
    @titmusspaultpaul5 5 років тому +4

    Such an INTERESTING video as always. Joe, I'm always amazed at your breadth of knowledge and intelligence. You can talk to anyone about anything and you still give important instites. Well done and cheers from Australia mate.

  • @gevu
    @gevu 2 роки тому

    "Man that's heavy!"
    "Indeed."
    I love these two together

  • @chaosreigns7386
    @chaosreigns7386 5 років тому +13

    Of course...they feel love, anger, fear, happiness, sadness, anxiety, etc...
    And a good majority of them are much much much smarter and even talented then us humans...
    Elephants that can paint pictures from memory or from dreams...

  • @Xpistos510
    @Xpistos510 3 роки тому +9

    Being a meat-eater, this is the very reason that I respect vegetarian arguments as ethically superior despite the possibility that it *may* be less advantageous to us.

    • @harambe8372
      @harambe8372 2 роки тому +1

      The question is, why do we seperate from them and deem them justifiable to kill for our benefit?

    • @genekendrick679
      @genekendrick679 2 роки тому

      @@harambe8372 because our ancestors did that 🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @harambe8372
      @harambe8372 2 роки тому

      @@genekendrick679 would you say that because our ancestors did it, it is then justified?

    • @genekendrick679
      @genekendrick679 2 роки тому

      @@harambe8372 I believe it's justified because it's healthy for us.

    • @harambe8372
      @harambe8372 2 роки тому

      @@genekendrick679 is the health it provides unattainable without it? Is it essential?

  • @thepuppetmagician
    @thepuppetmagician Рік тому

    I love when I have a certain thought and find out JR has a clip about it.

  • @EirikHolan
    @EirikHolan 6 років тому +15

    Imagine David Attenborough on Joe Rogan 😍

    • @ArthurKnight1899
      @ArthurKnight1899 5 років тому +1

      He would very much like to record the podcast on a near dying Lake or forest just to send a message and information over the issue to take it seriously and that's why I like him the most!

  • @avinashjagdeo
    @avinashjagdeo 6 років тому +4

    "There's no clean dividing line, the differences are sort of continuous."

  • @ioanasilviag
    @ioanasilviag 2 роки тому +1

    I had an amazing experience in Serengetti, i felt the most intense soul connection when we met a family of wild african elephants, while lookimg into their eyes

  • @RayanKhan
    @RayanKhan 4 роки тому +5

    Joe: That's heavy!
    Sir Roger Penrose: Indeed.
    5:37

  • @archiehickox6518
    @archiehickox6518 4 роки тому +6

    Nice to see some JRE without toxic American politics being brought up.

  • @ghoulunathics
    @ghoulunathics 5 років тому +1

    "it's not like a baseball flying in the air, spinning and such, it's something different" i love this analogy.

  • @toby8814
    @toby8814 3 роки тому +3

    This man is a pioneer, recently heard him speak of microtubules in understanding how consciousness can exist outside the organism

  • @alexbvevo2028
    @alexbvevo2028 5 років тому +36

    Did you notice how Sir Roger doesn't wear headphones and so doesn't Joe

    • @Woolley_like_sheep
      @Woolley_like_sheep 5 років тому +2

      Aleks Boikov vevo oh shit I didn’t even notice. Probs the first time I’ve seen joe’s ears

    • @fakegynaecologist7465
      @fakegynaecologist7465 5 років тому +2

      Maybe as Jamie wouldnt be pulling anything up as the man is on there to teach joe not to learn

  • @charliedallachie3539
    @charliedallachie3539 3 роки тому

    It’s so cool interviewing old scientists. They have so much to learn from.

  • @yaboykris2118
    @yaboykris2118 4 роки тому +4

    Absolutely animals have a conscious and feelings. I see it in my dogs every day. When I come home how excited they are to see me. How excited they get on walks. When I lay down they like to make sure I’m okay. Just to name a few.

  • @chancet.3741
    @chancet.3741 6 років тому +73

    Bruh this guy is the polite Richard Dawkins

    • @kyleahmad
      @kyleahmad 5 років тому +7

      I don't why, but I laughed so hard at your comment.

    • @Her_Viscera
      @Her_Viscera 5 років тому +17

      I'd be impolite if I was treated like Dawkins...

    • @PoissonVisageStudios
      @PoissonVisageStudios 4 роки тому +13

      Have you ever actually seen Dawkins in anything? He's like the most polite person ever. Just because lots of people disagree with him, they assume he must be rude and horrible. Hate him for his views all you want, but see him in anything and he's as pleasant as can be.

    • @VonTaylan
      @VonTaylan 4 роки тому

      @@kyleahmad me 2 bro. 😂😂

    • @kichu912
      @kichu912 4 роки тому

      Dawkins is a pretty polite man. But roger penrose is just 💓

  • @jasoncarpenter2878
    @jasoncarpenter2878 5 років тому +2

    Roger Penrose elevates this show to a different level. Anyone doubting this claim should read his books. He is a physicist in the realm of Stephen Hawking. Nothing short of amazing.

  • @johnfox9370
    @johnfox9370 5 років тому +50

    I wonder if Aliens are having this same discussion about humans? 🤔

    • @hereb4theend
      @hereb4theend 4 роки тому +2

      Damn those humans are some horny mutafakas.

    • @5gasten
      @5gasten 4 роки тому +8

      Im gonna break your human bubble here but.. they do. Millions maybe even billions or trillions of other civilizations like us have and will exist in the universe. we are meaningless monkeys and most of everything we think we know about the universe or the past is wrong. the universe is so much more complex than any of us apes will understand.
      But humans will feel depressed or sad knowing that their life truly has no meaning so we come up with all these explenations like god and so on.

    • @Maxawsomeness_1995
      @Maxawsomeness_1995 4 роки тому +1

      Xagon I have seen apes they mostly throw their own shit or do some crazy shit and some people did not make up dogs we were told about it by something with a way better intelligence than us

    • @W47689
      @W47689 4 роки тому

      @@5gasten what is ur proof

    • @n.w.owhoknowstheshadowknow58
      @n.w.owhoknowstheshadowknow58 4 роки тому

      @@5gasten so why are we nothing like apes then? Our bones and muscles are weaker and fur coat is basically non existent and there are some other far more important differences I'm sure you no all about that makes us not apes. Apes are apes. Doesn't mean our lives mean jack, but where certainly not apes

  • @BeanDar
    @BeanDar 4 роки тому +7

    Wtf, when are people going to realize we are just animals. We are all from the same. If you can see that a creature can suffer, and can experience fear, then what makes you think they aren't conscious?
    Who are we to say a cicada isn't conscious? Eyes to see and sensory to feel, yes animals might be simpler than we are but I fully believe every animal is conscious. My dog communicates to me in more ways than the majority of people do towards me, and I know she experiences her own world.
    We're all just living things interacting with each other, humans just happen to be at the top for now.

  • @inside_fighting
    @inside_fighting 2 роки тому +1

    His philosophy of life and consciousness changed the way i see the world. He’s one of the smartest people of our time.

  • @Lennartin
    @Lennartin 5 років тому +9

    Sir Roger Penrose sounds like a Game of Thrones character.

  • @Anonymous9572
    @Anonymous9572 6 років тому +152

    Joe"I Got a Friend of Mine" Rogan

    • @Anonymous9572
      @Anonymous9572 6 років тому +2

      @Koba Foreversorry dude I dont get what you just said 😂

  • @sethbase6960
    @sethbase6960 4 роки тому +2

    Just that fact that the organic material that composes me allows me to experience other material in the external world is so cool to me

  • @Majinjef2099
    @Majinjef2099 6 років тому +40

    "the strength of the pack is the wolf, the strength of the wolf is the pack"

    • @eddieflores7509
      @eddieflores7509 6 років тому

      Jungle Book

    • @mrlegoman122
      @mrlegoman122 6 років тому +1

      All is one and one is all

    • @iron-farmer
      @iron-farmer 6 років тому

      The pack will git the lone wolf, but that doesn't mean he ain't tougher ;)

  • @Cosmicwave22
    @Cosmicwave22 5 років тому +6

    Consciousness is only limited by the form that houses it

    • @Swags456
      @Swags456 4 роки тому +3

      If conciousness doesn't exist reality doesn't exist. Consciousness creates reality. It's a fundamental part of the universe.
      If there is no conscious observer how does the universe exist?

  • @bertgernaat4746
    @bertgernaat4746 3 роки тому +1

    So humbling to hear this man talk.

  • @alexluke_again
    @alexluke_again 4 роки тому +6

    what a sharp man, someone mentioned he's 87. wow

  • @michaelsteffensen6844
    @michaelsteffensen6844 6 років тому +18

    I think humans ability to record knowledge is what really separates us from other primates. Without that ability you put a hard limit on how far a group of animals are able to change and become more adapted to their environment.
    Humans are also incredibly general purpose. You can name a million different species that can do this one specific thing better than any human, but no other species has the ability to adabt like we do (this generally involves the use of technology).

    • @Shane7492
      @Shane7492 2 роки тому

      You sound a bit anthropocentric. Millions of species of life adapt just as well as humans, otherwise they wouldn't still be here.

    • @Textorix
      @Textorix 2 роки тому

      @@Shane7492 He is right tho, it is almost unbelievable how superior we are compared to anything that ever lived on this planet. There were spieces that existed far longer than human kind, but they failed to evolve and went to extinct. Yet human kind achieved this insane level of knowledge and ability to survive in what? 200-300 thousands years which is nothing compared to how long other spieces exist or existed. Of course he is anthropocentric and there is a good reason most us are :DDD

    • @Shane7492
      @Shane7492 2 роки тому

      @@Textorix I think you need to rethink your definition of "superior". To me, microbes surviving for 3.7 billion years WITHOUT knowledge is FAR superior. And they will still be here long after humans go extinct.

    • @Textorix
      @Textorix 2 роки тому

      @@Shane7492 Nah, superior in intelligence. We basically rule over this planet now and can change it more than any living organism ever could. Yeah some microorganisms can live billions of years whatever, but they do nothing rly, they just exist :D What is “immortality” of microbes good for if they can’t do shit with it? Imagine what humans could achieve if they lived longer, we would conquer our galaxy and beyond.

    • @Shane7492
      @Shane7492 2 роки тому

      @@Textorix Your imagination of what life is and can be is very shallow if you think humans can change the planet more than any organism ever could. Humans are extremely limited. Think about this. Humans evolved from very primitive life forms billions of years ago (well before hominids). Imagine if those early simple life forms could think and thought to themselves, "We are superior to all other life forms and rule over this planet." Now those early forms are extinct, and humans are more complex. Well, another billion years from now, humans will be extinct one way or another, and there could very well be far more advanced life forms (possibly evolved from nonhuman animals) thinking, "Humans were very simple creatures and didn't even understand the 11 dimensions we experience now." And in another billion years, those life forms will be extinct as well. That's the nature of existence. Superiority is a relative concept. Nothing is superior objectively speaking.

  • @toreoft
    @toreoft 3 роки тому

    A budgerigar I had was very happy every time it became aware that I was coming home, and started singing even before I came inside.

  • @GoodMorningBeautiful4
    @GoodMorningBeautiful4 4 роки тому +4

    "That's heavy bro"
    "Hmmm Indeed"

  • @latenightlogic
    @latenightlogic 6 років тому +4

    All animals are undoubtedly conscious.

  • @kingtiger2.2002
    @kingtiger2.2002 2 роки тому +2

    This man deserves all the respect he's getting and even more. 🙏 🔥🔥🔥

    • @ferise1
      @ferise1 2 роки тому +1

      Enough brown-nosing

  • @samturner6061
    @samturner6061 4 роки тому +3

    I've had a dream of being an animal before, I was a deer running from a hunter in a forest at night. There were no thoughts like we know them. Senses on overload. Emotions leading the way. I was terrified like I'd never been as a human. It was a much cleaner feeling of existence. I can remember the feeling of the stamina that I had in comparison to my human body. The speed I was running and not getting tired. What is very interesting to me upon looking back to this dream is the shapes the hunter's shadow made against the trees, and bushes, against the moonlight. I did not recognise the shape as anything. My deer brain didn't know what it was. When I woke up I was like that was a dude with a gun, as I remembered the shapes of the shadows. But the deer brain didn't know. So every glimpse I got of it was horrifying to me. The way it crept over bushes and stretched up trees. Like something out of a horror movie.
    It was definitely a more bare bones, less complex version of our consciousness, but in ways it was far more pure and pronounced because of it. We think we are so much better but in lots of ways we are dull and dumb compared to them. In many ways they are far superior at living on this planet.

    • @ericdavis9914
      @ericdavis9914 4 роки тому

      I wonder had you been chased out into a highway would you have frozen in oncoming headlights ? One only knows. Just a thought.

  • @VTown1989
    @VTown1989 4 роки тому +4

    The question I have is... are their minds evolving at all?
    Is there any indication that certain animal minds are increasing in self-awareness and complexity, or is stagnation their future?

    • @ratreptile
      @ratreptile 2 роки тому

      It depends on the animal, and how it lives, what it eats and so on. If you take a magpie or corvids in general, their life styles are very centered around figuring things out in order to survive, because they are omnivores, this means their intelligence will become more and more refined for it and become smarter to a certain point. A brain can only become so smart unless it grows in size.

  • @barryobrien6483
    @barryobrien6483 5 років тому +1

    That story about the documentary with the elephants visiting the carcass of another is from "Echo the elephant". An amazing documentary...shows what a incredible animal elephants are

  • @enthusiasticgamer88
    @enthusiasticgamer88 5 років тому +6

    Psychedelic experiences have brought me to the belief that everything has consciousness, literally every piece of matter. I think there's a massive array of frequencies of consciousness but it all ties into one universal consciousness, a base consciousness if you will. So to me this question is flawed from the beginning since it's starting with the assumption that consciousness is exclusive to living organisms or exclusive to one specific definition of "consciousness".

    • @taja1976
      @taja1976 4 роки тому

      Consciousness is the canvas upon which the masterpiece resides.

    • @theliberatedplanet
      @theliberatedplanet 4 роки тому +2

      On my way to the beach one day I stepped into a little puddle of water and I could feel the life in it. In my spirit. The only way I can describe it is that it was teeming with life. What a Magnificent glimpse into life on this planet. It never happened again and I was not wise enough to linger and Ponder it at the time. But it was a connection. We are all connected I believe that I don't believe it's just an illusion of the devil. We undervalue everything and I truly hope that will change!

  • @sir404
    @sir404 5 років тому +9

    octopus are probably amazed by how we walk n communicate with each other as well

  • @JoshuaD.Howard
    @JoshuaD.Howard 4 роки тому +5

    Octopus: I’m finna walk on the ground 🤣🤣

  • @edzzha9487
    @edzzha9487 6 років тому +6

    Some people stupidity is way more impressive than animal inteligence.

  • @gerardomedina8036
    @gerardomedina8036 5 років тому +1

    This dudes voice is so soothing. Am I the only one

  • @SuperToughnut
    @SuperToughnut 4 роки тому +5

    We aren't piles of atoms falling gracefully towards the center of the Earth.

  • @ericrenquist6494
    @ericrenquist6494 4 роки тому +6

    Can you imagine how horrifying it would be to be an octopus, with a full conciousness just like humans, but have absolutely no way to communicate that.

    • @mellowxkrabb9084
      @mellowxkrabb9084 2 роки тому

      The octopus: Oh, hello human, what's that in your hand? A weapon of some sort? Wait why are pointing it at me? *splat* HUAGHAAAaarrraaaaggg!!!!!... How... how could you?... you punctured my nerves or something... I can't feel or move anything... please don't leave me like this... *splat*

  • @franciscovelasco2521
    @franciscovelasco2521 2 роки тому +1

    Elephants dolphins and dogs have feelings of emotion and friendship, lions and bears have maternal instinct of protection and companionship as mammals develop an understanding of companionship so they do experience a maternal feeling of love

  • @killbill1932
    @killbill1932 4 роки тому +3

    Can we all agree that there’s something going on

  • @justsaying9483
    @justsaying9483 4 роки тому +3

    The intelligence that creates everything is much greater than any idea we have about it

  • @user-hh2is9kg9j
    @user-hh2is9kg9j 3 роки тому +2

    God bless Sir Roger Penrose he is awesome.

  • @hoodat_
    @hoodat_ 5 років тому +6

    Consciousness runs all the way down to the Atoms that make us, in my opinion. Everything is special.

  • @Lionslycer
    @Lionslycer 5 років тому +9

    My cat knocks on my door while I’m sleeping just to screw with me

    • @illiadmcswain3956
      @illiadmcswain3956 5 років тому +1

      Cats are creepy...lol..😄👍👍

    • @briancarter3704
      @briancarter3704 4 роки тому

      Animals fuck with u more when u got a buzz, kinda like kids

  • @ACarter87
    @ACarter87 2 роки тому +1

    Rogan trying to tell Penrose things might be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

  • @pezelbuda
    @pezelbuda 5 років тому +23

    Sir Penrose ASMR

  • @b3njys235
    @b3njys235 5 років тому +9

    Why does my cat when tired choose to sleep in my bed instead of the floor isn’t that a conscious decision ?

    • @Anglisc1682
      @Anglisc1682 5 років тому +1

      Exactly lol

    • @markcoleman8236
      @markcoleman8236 4 роки тому

      Because your cat consciously cares about you and your comfy bed lol. Cats are pretty smart.

    • @mervunit
      @mervunit 4 роки тому

      Cats like elevation because they have a better view to see what they can murder