Several of my crafty friends call glitter "craft herpes" and having worked with it before in school projects (decades ago by now), I see why. Once it's introduced into a space, it never leaves!
Zoe, this character you've created seems like someone who's on the brink of Lovecraftian Madness. I can't wait for her to start a cult of existential "Nothingness"
@@naehalmulazim It's funny because Chaos was the first Titan in greek mythology, who represented void and emptiness. The word originally meaning "the yawning" or abyss.
Very interesting video. I've always been comforted by the idea of the void as well. To me I always pictured it as empty blackness that stretches on in all directions. The faint sound of wind blowing but never feeling a breeze. No smells or tastes. Not even the feeling of anything beneath your feet yet not feeling the sensation of falling. For some reason that idea always has helped me fall asleep at night wondering if such a thing could every truly exist.
I have a few friends who have been comforted, but mostly I think people manage to not dwell on it at all - meanwhile, I've been terrified of the void since I was a very small child. I remember being, I don't know, five or eight or whatever and hugging a stuffed animal while I tried to sleep, not afraid of monsters so much as afraid that I'll stop existing if I die (and then also guilty because I was raised Catholic and you're not supposed to question that sort of thing). I love all of the imagery of the black velvet blanket and the smell of lilac and old books, and even the sensory deprivation tank and the reprieve from everything being too bright and loud and exhausting. But those are all *things* too, and they require our existence, to be perceived and comforted by. The most unfair thing about death is that we don't have even one minute, even one second to know it, to know what happened and sit only with ourselves and nothing else, or to expect some other thing to happen to become of us. Though I suppose the fairest thing about death is that we're no longer around to be annoyed by how unfair it is. :/
"How did you get here? It doesn't matter." I knew this video would be _some-thing_ special from the title alone, but those words really got to me. Trying to imagine _no-thing_ is like trying to picture infinity: an exercise in futility. And yet, we try. What does that say about us?
The whole deal is about not picturing, isn't it? Be aware of the concept but not binding it to a representation because that framing destroys the concept
@@hugofontes5708 I agree entirely with what you are saying. My only problem is that trying to tell my brain not to picture anything is like telling snow not to melt in the warm spring sun: it just isn't going to happen. Still, what you are saying makes complete sense. Unfortunately, my mind isn't always the most sensible of things...
Have you heard the line “Everything is nothing with a twist???” Take a zero and give it a little twist and it becomes infinity. They are equally fascinating concepts.
Awesome video, ZB. As someone who grew up religious and now has basically no faith, I think a lot about what's on the other side and struggle a lot with how to feel about death and nonexistence. If it's God out there, whoops, sorry duder. But if it's the Void, I hope it's the one you've envisioned here.
@@skunko1871 Would it be kinder though? Having to exist for all eternity sounds like a chore, eventually you'll have done everything so much that nothing will be able to excite you anymore. Besides do you ever fear a dreamless sleep? Were you uncomfortable before you were born? If the answer to both was no, then there is no reason to fear a lack of consciousness. Live life to the fullest, and then embrace the peaceful oblivion.
@@WolforNuva I don't get bored easily and I can sleep confidant that I will be able to continue with life in just a few hours. how I felt, or didn't feel, before birth doesn't help relieve the stress of a wonderful existence being ripped away one day. Oblivion isn't peaceful, it's nothing and I hate it.
@@WolforNuva it's not that you fear a lack of consciousness, you fear the end. People weren't uncomfortable before they were born, but ask anyone (who isn't in a bad mental state) and I think they'd agree that they were happy that they were born and now exist. We cherish our existence here and fear the time when it must end.
@@Ender-vx8zq I understand that it's natural to fear the end, certainly I think that most people in a healthy state of mind would. The point of asking how you felt before you were born is more to highlight that there's nothing actually bad about non-existence itself. Having a healthy level of life preservation is certainly a good thing, but actual fear of the end is in my opinion less healthy than acceptance. After all, you never actually experience "the end", so why waste time you're alive worrying about something you'll never experience? Isn't that just wasting the time you have alive?
“when we're not dreaming while asleep, where do we go? It's just black. It's just oblivion. Every night. Over and over. Because Sleep is Just Death Being Shy.” - exurb1a
Sorry to be a massive killjoy but I feel I need to say that exurbia has had some serious and legal allegations of abuse of his former girlfriend, he has tried to keep her quiet by harassing her and trying to get her accounts banned so I don’t blame you for not knowing
What @@definitelynotcharlie4001 says is true. As much as I did once adore his work... maybe think twice before sharing it, in the future? (I know you didn't know, it's okay
@@iiiiitsmagreta1240 Someone doing shitty things doesn't devalue the meaningfull things they bring to the world. Pretending it does is lazy and dishonest towards the complexities of reality. Sorry, I have very strong opinions on this topic.
I think the problem with "nothing" is that its truly unimaginable. Because when you start to imagine things, well, you imagine things. But by definition "nothing" is the lack of things, all things in fact. The lack of thing-ness itself. That's its thing and that is just the thing, isn't it?
If you want to imagine nothing, don't try to imagine things. Instead, you should imagine lack of things. :) Among all the things you can imagine a lack of, two are of especial importance. Lack of space, and lack of time. If you don't have those, nothing else can be there, because anything you could describe as a thing would need one or other. So can you imagine something without space and time? That's also easy. Look anywhere, focus on any single point and zoom into it infinitely (at least past Planck length). Nothing is exactly what you'll see, it's all around us in every direction.
@@rlidwka Okay, two things. One, my comment only meant to be a little play on words. This is a literature channel after all, not a philosophy one. But... Two, I stumbled upon this phrasing at the end of a minute long rant I subjected my monitor (and perhaps couple of my neighbors) to. To keep it short, our brains just not equipped to handle non-things. It's evolved to interact with physical objects like trees, berries and saber-tooth tigers. So when it needs to interact with abstract concepts it thing-efies/objectifies them. And when it comes to the very abstract concept of nothing I, and assume most people, go about it by starting with something that's barely a thing and remove features until no one is left. And that's when the magic happens, our brain in order to be capable to work with concept further takes this lack-of-features and assings it to this newly created thing called "nothing" as a feature/attribute. In my mind it works similarly how set theory worked before Russel came and ruined it for everybody. If you really look at it it's contradictory but just so damn intuitive that it's very easy to miss the contradiction. P.S.: A Planck length is still some space, just so tiny than no physical object can be smaller than that. (As far as we know.)
@@ondnagy1991 I said "infinitely zoom in", by which I meant limit of 4d sphere with radius x (cx for time), where x approaches 0. I'm pretty sure that limit would contain nothing, because probability of any particle being confined in it is exactly zero. Yes, I started with a thing (finite space) and removed it until I could prove that there could not be anything in it. That is "nothing" by definition, and I've just successfully imagined it (i think?). This is not a physics channel, so you can ignore following nonsense: _Planck's length was put in as an illustration of possible scale if you don't want to deal with limits. From physics point of view, there's may exist some nonzero amount of spacetime in which you can't confine any particle with finite energy due to uncertainty principle, but I don't know if it can be distinguished from zero due to space being quantized somehow. I may be mistaken here._
@@rlidwka But that finite space is still there to contain the "nothing", and that's something. What I was trying to say that humans only can imagine things, because that's how the human brain works. If I were to imagine what you described, and for me imagining is visualizing, I would end up with a black void. Don't get me wrong a black void is possibly the best visual representation of nothing, but it's still something.
I'm sorry but I'm the exact opposite of you. I want all my deeds and all my words to be attached to myself and my name. I want to physically see and love myself and others in the flesh. I live to inspire others through my own person. But above all else I fear not seeing my loved ones again in the way I always have- through my five senses. I live for the light of the world and the change to the void won't be a welcome one. I can only hope my time here is enough. Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers!!! I just witnessed it!
Well you only fear not seeing your loved ones Because you Exist to have those fears once you no longer exists you will no longer have those fears Because if you Don't exist neither does your fear
@@leebennett1821 Even if I won't exist in the future and I won't know I exist so I will feel no fear I'm still not okay with the concept and loathe the moment it is to come
When I saw the video title, I expected the video to be about meaning. Since the universe, as you point out, has no real gaps in it - there is a measurable amount of energy in any definable unit of space - 'nothing' never exists in physical reality. But meaning... that appears to be absent. I discern no evidence of meaning or purpose, so when you asked how the idea of nothingness made me feel, my first answer was 'opportunity'. In the only sense that nothingness is sensical, the sense of meaninglessness, nothingness offers freedom.
I also find nothingness to be comforting. It makes all the silly, human problems we have seem unimportant. And that's easing my anxiety about a lot of things. We're just here for a while before we turn into nothing. So I try not to stress out and be kind to others while I'm around. Lovely poem, Zoe 🖤
What a gorgeous video! Yes! I too am comforted by the void and find joy in liminal spaces. I love the Buddhist/Vedic connections to our western experience. Brava!
Sister Bee, I am enjoying this from your past's future. You pulled me into the void, and I did not want to re-emerge from it. Brilliant, breathtaking...thank you.
You look like a mermaid -no sexual inappropriate tone i just mean really really beautiful. Captivating like a sirine (σειρήνα in greek) those creatures that sung and sailors couldn't resist and crashed in the rocks and/or got eaten (only Odysseus got to listen to them and lived to tell the story)
Nothing doesn't exist; that's what makes it nothing. What a video! A subject beyond close to my heart and dealt with beautifully. 5 black holes and a sub 👍
At first I didn’t think I was going to comprehend what you were saying, but after the final part of the video, when you described a place, but you couldn’t remember certain details, I realized that the space in between our memories is nothing. Bravo.
I've always had a fascination with the void and it freaks a lot of people out when I talk about it. I think of it sort of as sensory deprivation, just vague feelings. No intrusive thoughts of the past or pressure of the future. Just floating with a feeling of warmth, comfort and a vague notion of love drifting through your body. I often experience this just as I'm about to fall asleep. I've heard others describe something similar with meditation which I've have yet to experience. The idea of nothingness and the void is where I go for comfort (thinking about it, not actual going there). Thanks for this Zoe ❤
Lovely video - I enjoyed this. When I think of the void I think of space after the heat death of the universe. To truly be *nothing* there needs to be nothing, not even a sub-atomic particle at any measurable concentration, no heat whatsoever, 0 degrees Kelvin, which means nothing to decay, no entropy, no way to measure time. In such a situation in any scientific way, time cannot be said to exist. It's a theoretical state, but that's the infinite nothing. I actually hope that's not the fate of the universe though: I prefer the cyclical model, where there's eventually a big squeeze, and eventually another big bang, the universe as the breath of Brahma, out-breath, in-breath, out-breath, forever. Endless nothingness without warmth, without light, without anything, seems pretty final. The idea that no energy or matter can ever be destroyed gives weight to the Buddhist idea of reincarnation - the matter that was my father, some of which is now in the atmosphere, some of which lies in an urn, to be scattered in Ireland at a later date, will some day become plants, microbes, animals, maybe another person or even multiple people someday - that's kinda comforting.
I just want to say thank you. I've been dealing with an existential crisis for the last bit that's making it hard to do stuff or enjoy myself, and this video really calmed my nerves. Very therapeutic. 10/10
I personally have an actual phobia of voids, but the intro is one of those ones that puts me at ease really quick. This is a safe place. :) This is a place in which the void can be endured :) I'm excited to see what's in store :3
Sometimes the social nicety center of my brain shuts down when people at work ask "how are you?" and I give an honest answer to that question to people who really don't care, but they're too polite to tell me to stop, so I keep talking until my that part of my brain turns on again so I finish my sentence, and I'm like "anyway, have a great day!" and walk away
I've watched the video several times and still can't come up with any clear thoughts on it lul. Your makeup is awesome and I hope you find all the glitter soon. Have a good weekend folks!
I don't know why but this reminds me of the finale of Death's End, the third book in Cixin Liu's sci-fi trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past(better known as the three body problem). The thought of being present at the end of time, the end of everything... and the birth of something new. Thank you for this, Zoe.
This video is absolutely beautiful. So very deep,thoughtful, and eloquent. It’s evokes very strongly in me the feelings I think it was meant to. I sat for the duration of the video thinking about nothingness and hanging on the emotions of your words. Amazingly done
Thank you for this. Your beautiful. I appreciate the time you devoted homing this. Your glitter soothes my soul drifting to sleep. Ha! I was thinking of my open door all night for my cat, when you explained the door is {always} unlocked. Co-inky-dinks are funny.
didacticism-cum-poetry: love how it begins as video-essay talking head (glittery talking head) talking bout heady stuff (the concept of nothing and nothingness and what not) and then little by little the riff becomes more and more rhapsodic and abstruse and then by the end it's pure poetry. Cool stuff!
Ive been coming back to watch this video (its in my best videos playlist! ❤) and I didnt even realize that I havent commented much on it. Keep up the great work and I hope your channel grows even more!🎉 :DD
Thanks, Zoe. 💖 Yeah, I saw your tweet about the comments... dunno why people can't just move on if it's not their jam. I'm not fond of Dali, I don't come onto videos talking about his work to say it sucks. lol
Nothing is one of those concepts we have for which there is no real referent. It can have no referent by definition. And yet by the alchemy of language we can give it life, in whatever image we so choose. I started watching this thinking that you would document the history of the concept; I expected guest appearances from Parmenides and the Lao Zi. I was delighted to find poetry and beauty instead, something created out of nothing. Thanks for this.
This video was amazing! I'll be honest, I was little worried going into this video as someone who deals with a lot of existential dread and the general anxiety, but this video was super informative but also fun to listen to. I'm excited to see how your channel evolves from this point forward, good luck Zoe!
It feels ironically fitting that I spaced out several times while listening to this. This is a problem as I don't remember most of it. ADHD sure is fun, but at least the irony of it is entertaining Guess i gotta rewatch this again later.
i just found your channel today and i must say you are so interesting and your language is beautiful. thank you for making this. still afraid of the dark
This was really interesting. I see the echoes of other philosophy here, yet the video stands as it’s own work, takling it’s turn on the philosophy of nothing. I also love how you related this to wanting to make vids that affect real people, without you standing behind the curtain. I really look forward to more of your content!
Seems very inspired by Contrapoints. In a good way. Everything is so gorgeous and thought provoking about this. With the direction this channel is taking, Zoe for sure will be able to make this her full-time job.
Ahhh, I loved this. I tend to bounce between optimistic nihilism and absurdism philosophically, so the void is definitely something that is ever present in my thoughts.
"What came through your mind when i said 'nothing'?" Me: Nothing. You cant imagine "nothing", u can only imagine "something" or lack of it. Nothing is all that we can not imagine, all that can not ever be comprehended.
The call of the void is the most alluring thing in my life...at most moments you can find me lost in my own void...I'm glad someone talked about this in wholesome terms people always make it sound so scary
We could go the other way and saying that something is just the absent of nothing. After all it seems to me that something is the exception while nothing is the standard, the basis, the outset. Nice video idea and some smart thoughts. That grandparents stuff didn't do much for me honestly, but that's fine. Mine were cold people. There wasn't much emotional connection to begin with, and they passed away a long time ago.
Thinking about the Nothing paradox you describe tickles my brain. It's that weird feeling you get when you try to wrap your head around something a bit too big for it to handle
A bit of that sounded like the monologue from the end of Grapes of Wrath, but with a very different sort of vibe. Felt notable, considering your previous video.
I could try to conjure an essay about how great this is but to attempt to do so would do a disservice to what you have created so I’ll simply and sincerely say: This is absolutely lovely.
This video is wonderful. But on a superficial note, that glitter and make-up is the energy I would like to exude in my daily life: ethereal beautiful, and vaguely spooky.
Ex-Nihilo or "Out of nothing" is likely non-existent, there's of course no evidence of "Nothing" existing and for "Nothing" to exist would appear to be a contradiction... (Hopefully this is related to the topic, video isn't out yet)
Next time I attempt to break down Sartre's Being and Nothingness in some manner or form for someone, I'm certainly sending this video their way. While not covering the exact topics in said text, this is a lovely breakdown of the notion of "nothingness" in a very digestible way that would easily pave the way into larger texts.
I find myself coming back to this video, time and time again. It doesn't fill me with fear. Rather I get a thin, soft dread, like a blanket laid on a hard floor. And as I stare at the ceiling and listen to words, another layer encases me. Beauty, soft and warm. Its neither comfortable, nor painful. Firmly in between.
Yes, I am still finding glitter on me.
I will have 101 minutes to wonder what this comment is about.
weird
Lol, I used to be a professional dancer. Trust me, glitter is forever!
I feel bad for you
Several of my crafty friends call glitter "craft herpes" and having worked with it before in school projects (decades ago by now), I see why. Once it's introduced into a space, it never leaves!
Zoe Bee: “ I’m thinking of taking the channel in a new direction, and will be going on hiatus for a while”
Zoe Bee immediately after: *art*
I know, the video started and I was like… oh. This is different lol
Suddenly the channel became Philosophy Tube. Nice!
@@NunSuperior YES I was thinking the same thing!
@@NunSuperior I was thinking more Contra Points, but another great philosophy lady among the pantheon sounds great
@@benjaminduperreault4447 my thought was Contrapoints/Hbomberguy.
World: thank you, Mesopotamians, for inventing zero!
The Mesopotamians: oh, it was nothing.
I’m confused...........was it not Aryabhatta that invented zero?
LOL
Mayan did it too. Only other culture to do so independently.
as if vsauce isn't already accompanied by existential dread
Existential Dread: Tastes Liek Chikkin! ;}P>
or... is it?
And Kurzgesagt.
Zoe: Says she'll be on hiatus
Zoe: Posts "nothing"
Checks out
Zoe, this character you've created seems like someone who's on the brink of Lovecraftian Madness. I can't wait for her to start a cult of existential "Nothingness"
This video would be the best 15minute credit opener to a movie
@@JeremySmith-wc4lh I'm gonna play the video for my kids before they watch Pulp Fiction. Thanks for the idea
I'd join
@@frankthetank2550 awesome movie to pair it up with!
Zoe Bee is what happens when an infinite and unknowable number of eyeballs gaze into the abyss, and the abyss gazes back at all of them.
...
The abyss is an odd idea
thought slime has truly ruined the word eyeballs for me lmao
@@isabellegrimes8775 she was in the eyeball zone, so i'm pretty sure the original post was a reference to that
@@rapchee ah, is that how I got here
Attaining sunyata isn't emptying the self, it's perceiving the emptiness that was already present within all phenomena.
Oh, so that's what they meant with "eyes on the inside"
well, we of the Indian subcontinent complain about it every two minutes. You'd think we just want chaos.
JK, sunata is just a really common word now.
@@naehalmulazim It's funny because Chaos was the first Titan in greek mythology, who represented void and emptiness. The word originally meaning "the yawning" or abyss.
Very interesting video. I've always been comforted by the idea of the void as well. To me I always pictured it as empty blackness that stretches on in all directions. The faint sound of wind blowing but never feeling a breeze. No smells or tastes. Not even the feeling of anything beneath your feet yet not feeling the sensation of falling. For some reason that idea always has helped me fall asleep at night wondering if such a thing could every truly exist.
I like that a lot! Like a sort of sensory deprivation dimension.
@@zoe_bee yea its something else
I have a few friends who have been comforted, but mostly I think people manage to not dwell on it at all - meanwhile, I've been terrified of the void since I was a very small child. I remember being, I don't know, five or eight or whatever and hugging a stuffed animal while I tried to sleep, not afraid of monsters so much as afraid that I'll stop existing if I die (and then also guilty because I was raised Catholic and you're not supposed to question that sort of thing). I love all of the imagery of the black velvet blanket and the smell of lilac and old books, and even the sensory deprivation tank and the reprieve from everything being too bright and loud and exhausting. But those are all *things* too, and they require our existence, to be perceived and comforted by. The most unfair thing about death is that we don't have even one minute, even one second to know it, to know what happened and sit only with ourselves and nothing else, or to expect some other thing to happen to become of us. Though I suppose the fairest thing about death is that we're no longer around to be annoyed by how unfair it is. :/
This is really beautiful
There’s an SCP about that
We! Want! Void! We! Want! Void!
you know, i had plans for the night before the sneaky double upload of philisophical dreadness :\
What do we want? T H E V O I D
When and where do we want it? E T E R N A L L Y P R E S E N T I N T H E H O L L O W H E A R T O F A L L T H I N G S
"How did you get here? It doesn't matter."
I knew this video would be _some-thing_ special from the title alone, but those words really got to me.
Trying to imagine _no-thing_ is like trying to picture infinity: an exercise in futility. And yet, we try. What does that say about us?
The whole deal is about not picturing, isn't it? Be aware of the concept but not binding it to a representation because that framing destroys the concept
@@hugofontes5708 I agree entirely with what you are saying. My only problem is that trying to tell my brain not to picture anything is like telling snow not to melt in the warm spring sun: it just isn't going to happen. Still, what you are saying makes complete sense. Unfortunately, my mind isn't always the most sensible of things...
Have you heard the line “Everything is nothing with a twist???”
Take a zero and give it a little twist and it becomes infinity.
They are equally fascinating concepts.
@@azlizzie I hadn't heard it until now, but I won't forget it anytime soon! Great line!
"It smells like lilac and..."
Gooseberries!
"... old books."
Oh, we're not doing a Witcher reference.
I think this entire video is the loveliest poem of yours that I've experienced to date.
I'm sure many programmers have an interesting relationship with the word null.
Wait until you hear about undefined
@@teamakesgames that's what I named my cat
we also have void
In mathematics, we also have the bottom type. And the top type...
Honestly, my relationship with null is fine. It’s null’s relationship with RunTime Error that bothers me
I feel like I’m watching the world’s calmest and sparkliest vsauce video 😅
Awesome video, ZB. As someone who grew up religious and now has basically no faith, I think a lot about what's on the other side and struggle a lot with how to feel about death and nonexistence. If it's God out there, whoops, sorry duder. But if it's the Void, I hope it's the one you've envisioned here.
@@skunko1871 Would it be kinder though? Having to exist for all eternity sounds like a chore, eventually you'll have done everything so much that nothing will be able to excite you anymore. Besides do you ever fear a dreamless sleep? Were you uncomfortable before you were born? If the answer to both was no, then there is no reason to fear a lack of consciousness. Live life to the fullest, and then embrace the peaceful oblivion.
@@WolforNuva I don't get bored easily and I can sleep confidant that I will be able to continue with life in just a few hours. how I felt, or didn't feel, before birth doesn't help relieve the stress of a wonderful existence being ripped away one day. Oblivion isn't peaceful, it's nothing and I hate it.
@@WolforNuva it's not that you fear a lack of consciousness, you fear the end. People weren't uncomfortable before they were born, but ask anyone (who isn't in a bad mental state) and I think they'd agree that they were happy that they were born and now exist. We cherish our existence here and fear the time when it must end.
@@Ender-vx8zq I understand that it's natural to fear the end, certainly I think that most people in a healthy state of mind would. The point of asking how you felt before you were born is more to highlight that there's nothing actually bad about non-existence itself.
Having a healthy level of life preservation is certainly a good thing, but actual fear of the end is in my opinion less healthy than acceptance. After all, you never actually experience "the end", so why waste time you're alive worrying about something you'll never experience? Isn't that just wasting the time you have alive?
@XeuNyx Cypher this does not help
Why are there 2 videos about the void in my feed premiering at the same time, Is everyone doing okay?
Would you be kind and point the link to the other?
@@hugofontes5708 It is that one: ua-cam.com/video/39hP8SI6vc0/v-deo.html (the link is also in the description of Zoe's video)
@@hugofontes5708 the other is by that dang dad
“when we're not dreaming while asleep, where do we go? It's just black. It's just oblivion. Every night. Over and over. Because Sleep is Just Death Being Shy.”
- exurb1a
it's not black. it's not white, either, or gray, or clear. it's... something else
@Joseph Douek I love how "depression turtle" is legitimately the one nickname anyone uses for the channel
Sorry to be a massive killjoy but I feel I need to say that exurbia has had some serious and legal allegations of abuse of his former girlfriend, he has tried to keep her quiet by harassing her and trying to get her accounts banned so I don’t blame you for not knowing
What @@definitelynotcharlie4001 says is true. As much as I did once adore his work... maybe think twice before sharing it, in the future? (I know you didn't know, it's okay
@@iiiiitsmagreta1240 Someone doing shitty things doesn't devalue the meaningfull things they bring to the world. Pretending it does is lazy and dishonest towards the complexities of reality. Sorry, I have very strong opinions on this topic.
I love the vibe of this, like a cozycore Nightvale
YES! This is exactly what I was thinking but hadn't found words for
I think the problem with "nothing" is that its truly unimaginable. Because when you start to imagine things, well, you imagine things. But by definition "nothing" is the lack of things, all things in fact. The lack of thing-ness itself. That's its thing and that is just the thing, isn't it?
If you want to imagine nothing, don't try to imagine things. Instead, you should imagine lack of things. :)
Among all the things you can imagine a lack of, two are of especial importance. Lack of space, and lack of time. If you don't have those, nothing else can be there, because anything you could describe as a thing would need one or other.
So can you imagine something without space and time? That's also easy. Look anywhere, focus on any single point and zoom into it infinitely (at least past Planck length). Nothing is exactly what you'll see, it's all around us in every direction.
@@rlidwka Okay, two things.
One, my comment only meant to be a little play on words. This is a literature channel after all, not a philosophy one. But...
Two, I stumbled upon this phrasing at the end of a minute long rant I subjected my monitor (and perhaps couple of my neighbors) to. To keep it short, our brains just not equipped to handle non-things. It's evolved to interact with physical objects like trees, berries and saber-tooth tigers. So when it needs to interact with abstract concepts it thing-efies/objectifies them. And when it comes to the very abstract concept of nothing I, and assume most people, go about it by starting with something that's barely a thing and remove features until no one is left. And that's when the magic happens, our brain in order to be capable to work with concept further takes this lack-of-features and assings it to this newly created thing called "nothing" as a feature/attribute. In my mind it works similarly how set theory worked before Russel came and ruined it for everybody. If you really look at it it's contradictory but just so damn intuitive that it's very easy to miss the contradiction.
P.S.: A Planck length is still some space, just so tiny than no physical object can be smaller than that. (As far as we know.)
@@ondnagy1991 I said "infinitely zoom in", by which I meant limit of 4d sphere with radius x (cx for time), where x approaches 0.
I'm pretty sure that limit would contain nothing, because probability of any particle being confined in it is exactly zero.
Yes, I started with a thing (finite space) and removed it until I could prove that there could not be anything in it. That is "nothing" by definition, and I've just successfully imagined it (i think?).
This is not a physics channel, so you can ignore following nonsense: _Planck's length was put in as an illustration of possible scale if you don't want to deal with limits. From physics point of view, there's may exist some nonzero amount of spacetime in which you can't confine any particle with finite energy due to uncertainty principle, but I don't know if it can be distinguished from zero due to space being quantized somehow. I may be mistaken here._
I guess you can argue someone can imagine "something that contains nothing", but can't imagine "nothing" itself. Fair point.
@@rlidwka But that finite space is still there to contain the "nothing", and that's something.
What I was trying to say that humans only can imagine things, because that's how the human brain works. If I were to imagine what you described, and for me imagining is visualizing, I would end up with a black void. Don't get me wrong a black void is possibly the best visual representation of nothing, but it's still something.
I'm sorry but I'm the exact opposite of you. I want all my deeds and all my words to be attached to myself and my name. I want to physically see and love myself and others in the flesh. I live to inspire others through my own person. But above all else I fear not seeing my loved ones again in the way I always have- through my five senses. I live for the light of the world and the change to the void won't be a welcome one. I can only hope my time here is enough.
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers!!! I just witnessed it!
Well you only fear not seeing your loved ones Because you Exist to have those fears once you no longer exists you will no longer have those fears Because if you Don't exist neither does your fear
@@leebennett1821 cant fear if ya dont exist :))
@@leebennett1821 Even if I won't exist in the future and I won't know I exist so I will feel no fear I'm still not okay with the concept and loathe the moment it is to come
When I saw the video title, I expected the video to be about meaning. Since the universe, as you point out, has no real gaps in it - there is a measurable amount of energy in any definable unit of space - 'nothing' never exists in physical reality.
But meaning... that appears to be absent. I discern no evidence of meaning or purpose, so when you asked how the idea of nothingness made me feel, my first answer was 'opportunity'. In the only sense that nothingness is sensical, the sense of meaninglessness, nothingness offers freedom.
covered in glitter, dancing between Socratic questions and poetry. This is great.
I also find nothingness to be comforting. It makes all the silly, human problems we have seem unimportant. And that's easing my anxiety about a lot of things.
We're just here for a while before we turn into nothing. So I try not to stress out and be kind to others while I'm around.
Lovely poem, Zoe 🖤
The greatest musicians know that the space between the notes are as important as the notes themselves. This cannot be taught, it is a kind of genius.
What a gorgeous video! Yes! I too am comforted by the void and find joy in liminal spaces.
I love the Buddhist/Vedic connections to our western experience.
Brava!
Sister Bee, I am enjoying this from your past's future. You pulled me into the void, and I did not want to re-emerge from it. Brilliant, breathtaking...thank you.
I am six seconds into the video and I just want to say you underwent a Philosophy Tube-esque style metamorphosis in record time
Don't worry - this video was an experiment! It's not a permanent change, I promise!
@@zoe_bee no, this was really amazing
You look like a mermaid -no sexual inappropriate tone i just mean really really beautiful. Captivating like a sirine (σειρήνα in greek) those creatures that sung and sailors couldn't resist and crashed in the rocks and/or got eaten (only Odysseus got to listen to them and lived to tell the story)
Nothing doesn't exist; that's what makes it nothing.
What a video! A subject beyond close to my heart and dealt with beautifully.
5 black holes and a sub 👍
I was feeling really shitty and anxious today, and this video calmed me down. It helped so much, thank you.
At first I didn’t think I was going to comprehend what you were saying, but after the final part of the video, when you described a place, but you couldn’t remember certain details, I realized that the space in between our memories is nothing. Bravo.
Damn. Thanks for that comment. I didnt realise that till you pointed it out.
Congrats on 100k! That must feel good.
im getting some strong contrapoints vibes from this
Well this is going straight to my "I need to sleep now" playlist. This is great!!!!
The way i see it, nothing is comforting. In nothing there's no suffering, no sadness, negativity, in a way nothing is a positive.
I've always had a fascination with the void and it freaks a lot of people out when I talk about it. I think of it sort of as sensory deprivation, just vague feelings. No intrusive thoughts of the past or pressure of the future. Just floating with a feeling of warmth, comfort and a vague notion of love drifting through your body. I often experience this just as I'm about to fall asleep. I've heard others describe something similar with meditation which I've have yet to experience. The idea of nothingness and the void is where I go for comfort (thinking about it, not actual going there). Thanks for this Zoe ❤
Lovely video - I enjoyed this. When I think of the void I think of space after the heat death of the universe. To truly be *nothing* there needs to be nothing, not even a sub-atomic particle at any measurable concentration, no heat whatsoever, 0 degrees Kelvin, which means nothing to decay, no entropy, no way to measure time. In such a situation in any scientific way, time cannot be said to exist. It's a theoretical state, but that's the infinite nothing. I actually hope that's not the fate of the universe though: I prefer the cyclical model, where there's eventually a big squeeze, and eventually another big bang, the universe as the breath of Brahma, out-breath, in-breath, out-breath, forever. Endless nothingness without warmth, without light, without anything, seems pretty final. The idea that no energy or matter can ever be destroyed gives weight to the Buddhist idea of reincarnation - the matter that was my father, some of which is now in the atmosphere, some of which lies in an urn, to be scattered in Ireland at a later date, will some day become plants, microbes, animals, maybe another person or even multiple people someday - that's kinda comforting.
I just want to say thank you. I've been dealing with an existential crisis for the last bit that's making it hard to do stuff or enjoy myself, and this video really calmed my nerves. Very therapeutic. 10/10
Getting huge jacob geller vibes from this style of narration and I love it, thanks for the existential crisis, can't wait for more
I personally have an actual phobia of voids, but the intro is one of those ones that puts me at ease really quick. This is a safe place. :) This is a place in which the void can be endured :) I'm excited to see what's in store :3
As a philosopher, I was secretly hoping that this was going to be a lecture on metaphysics.
While, in a way, it sorta was...I think I like this more.
The answer everyone gives whenever they're asked what is wrong.
Sometimes the social nicety center of my brain shuts down when people at work ask "how are you?" and I give an honest answer to that question to people who really don't care, but they're too polite to tell me to stop, so I keep talking until my that part of my brain turns on again so I finish my sentence, and I'm like "anyway, have a great day!" and walk away
Oh shi, I wasn't expecting a contra points level of video. Damn it's a great video
Congrats on reaching 100k busy bees. More shall join the swarm as the hive expands.
What a lovely video. Thank you very much for making it!
Yo 100k! Congrats on it and I hope you continue to grow!
I've watched the video several times and still can't come up with any clear thoughts on it lul. Your makeup is awesome and I hope you find all the glitter soon. Have a good weekend folks!
Well, I finally found why I say "stepping into the void" when I'm overwhelmed and stressed instead of being suicidal like before
WoW 👏🏻🙌🏼
You've inspired me to write a poem about nothingness
Might post it later too
I'm getting some nice Welcome to Nightvale vibes, I'm liking what you're doing Zoe Bee, please keep going to where you want this channel to go!
I don't know why but this reminds me of the finale of Death's End, the third book in Cixin Liu's sci-fi trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past(better known as the three body problem). The thought of being present at the end of time, the end of everything... and the birth of something new. Thank you for this, Zoe.
Heavily relate to this. Love the artistic framing...Thanks for making it!
This video is absolutely beautiful. So very deep,thoughtful, and eloquent. It’s evokes very strongly in me the feelings I think it was meant to. I sat for the duration of the video thinking about nothingness and hanging on the emotions of your words.
Amazingly done
Watching this makes me want your book recommendations.
This was absolutely beautiful and lovely.
And incredibly comforting.
This is exactly what I needed to hear, thank you for this.
well that was deeply affecting, thank you you very much for posting it
First thought I had was, that you got veeery inspired by Contrapoints, If only aesthetically
This made me cry for some reason.. Great work
Thank you for this. Your beautiful. I appreciate the time you devoted homing this. Your glitter soothes my soul drifting to sleep.
Ha! I was thinking of my open door all night for my cat, when you explained the door is {always} unlocked. Co-inky-dinks are funny.
didacticism-cum-poetry: love how it begins as video-essay talking head (glittery talking head) talking bout heady stuff (the concept of nothing and nothingness and what not) and then little by little the riff becomes more and more rhapsodic and abstruse and then by the end it's pure poetry. Cool stuff!
Saw a jan misali thumbnail, got a contra points video. Very cool
Ive been coming back to watch this video (its in my best videos playlist! ❤) and I didnt even realize that I havent commented much on it.
Keep up the great work and I hope your channel grows even more!🎉 :DD
Wooo! Production value way up. Love the intro. Excited to see more of your creativity.
(Thought I was watching a contra points video for a moment)
Thanks, Zoe. 💖 Yeah, I saw your tweet about the comments... dunno why people can't just move on if it's not their jam. I'm not fond of Dali, I don't come onto videos talking about his work to say it sucks. lol
Nothing is one of those concepts we have for which there is no real referent. It can have no referent by definition. And yet by the alchemy of language we can give it life, in whatever image we so choose. I started watching this thinking that you would document the history of the concept; I expected guest appearances from Parmenides and the Lao Zi. I was delighted to find poetry and beauty instead, something created out of nothing. Thanks for this.
This video was amazing! I'll be honest, I was little worried going into this video as someone who deals with a lot of existential dread and the general anxiety, but this video was super informative but also fun to listen to. I'm excited to see how your channel evolves from this point forward, good luck Zoe!
It feels ironically fitting that I spaced out several times while listening to this.
This is a problem as I don't remember most of it. ADHD sure is fun, but at least the irony of it is entertaining
Guess i gotta rewatch this again later.
i just found your channel today and i must say you are so interesting and your language is beautiful. thank you for making this.
still afraid of the dark
can i point out that was thirteen minutes of uncut poet monologue from Zoe Bee. we have been blessed today.
This was really interesting. I see the echoes of other philosophy here, yet the video stands as it’s own work, takling it’s turn on the philosophy of nothing. I also love how you related this to wanting to make vids that affect real people, without you standing behind the curtain. I really look forward to more of your content!
Lilac and old books.... my new favorite smell!
Seems very inspired by Contrapoints. In a good way. Everything is so gorgeous and thought provoking about this. With the direction this channel is taking, Zoe for sure will be able to make this her full-time job.
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Ahhh, I loved this. I tend to bounce between optimistic nihilism and absurdism philosophically, so the void is definitely something that is ever present in my thoughts.
"What came through your mind when i said 'nothing'?"
Me: Nothing. You cant imagine "nothing", u can only imagine "something" or lack of it. Nothing is all that we can not imagine, all that can not ever be comprehended.
Just binged your vids and they're all so damn great,you're great!
The call of the void is the most alluring thing in my life...at most moments you can find me lost in my own void...I'm glad someone talked about this in wholesome terms people always make it sound so scary
This gives me a very similar emotion to the Haunting at hill house, but also different.
What a breathtaking performance!
The call of the void is loud, and unrelenting. Existing there is freedom, for me.
Was waiting for Desmond to crash through the backdrop, meowing loudly, and RUINING THE WHOLE THING
We could go the other way and saying that something is just the absent of nothing. After all it seems to me that something is the exception while nothing is the standard, the basis, the outset.
Nice video idea and some smart thoughts. That grandparents stuff didn't do much for me honestly, but that's fine. Mine were cold people. There wasn't much emotional connection to begin with, and they passed away a long time ago.
Thinking about the Nothing paradox you describe tickles my brain.
It's that weird feeling you get when you try to wrap your head around something a bit too big for it to handle
this is giving off some mighty Exurb1a vibes and I'm here for it!
A bit of that sounded like the monologue from the end of Grapes of Wrath, but with a very different sort of vibe. Felt notable, considering your previous video.
I could try to conjure an essay about how great this is but to attempt to do so would do a disservice to what you have created so I’ll simply and sincerely say: This is absolutely lovely.
Doing my dissertation on "nothing" in King Lear, so excited to see this video.
this video hypnotised me, it felt like I was waking up from a trance when it ended.
This video is wonderful.
But on a superficial note, that glitter and make-up is the energy I would like to exude in my daily life: ethereal beautiful, and vaguely spooky.
Ex-Nihilo or "Out of nothing" is likely non-existent, there's of course no evidence of "Nothing" existing and for "Nothing" to exist would appear to be a contradiction...
(Hopefully this is related to the topic, video isn't out yet)
Nothing is the empty set
Nothing is pure energy.
@@rickc2102 Energy isn't nothing
Ooh I love the direction this channel is going
Next time I attempt to break down Sartre's Being and Nothingness in some manner or form for someone, I'm certainly sending this video their way. While not covering the exact topics in said text, this is a lovely breakdown of the notion of "nothingness" in a very digestible way that would easily pave the way into larger texts.
A wonderful video by Zoe Bee, as always. I absolutely love and admire your work. ❤️
Somebody was watching contrapoints. Good. I like the esthetic and its fits.
This is Art. Well done.
I find myself coming back to this video, time and time again. It doesn't fill me with fear. Rather I get a thin, soft dread, like a blanket laid on a hard floor. And as I stare at the ceiling and listen to words, another layer encases me. Beauty, soft and warm. Its neither comfortable, nor painful.
Firmly in between.
AHHH!!!!!!!! I'm obsessed 😍 happy 100k!!!
This is absolutely beautiful!
"The big empty" sounds so funny to me and idk why xD