What Is Consciousness?

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  • Опубліковано 5 січ 2012
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    Learn more:
    Cleverbot: cleverbot.com/
    Wikipedia on Consciousness: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciou...
    Philosophical ZOMBIES: plato.stanford.edu/entries/zom...
    NAMI on Anosognosia: www.nami.org/Content/Navigatio...
    Information is Beautiful on Consciousness Theories: www.informationisbeautiful.net...
    Google Books: Awarenes of Deficit After Brain Injury": books.google.com/books?id=xze8...
    "What is consciousness" conscious "what is identity" identity vsauce "Michael Stevens" brain neuroscience "other minds"
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 19 тис.

  • @burntburndog
    @burntburndog 3 роки тому +6934

    I'm forever traumatized by the fact that i'm actually living.

    • @jahugv
      @jahugv 3 роки тому +421

      Not forever lol

    • @burntburndog
      @burntburndog 3 роки тому +149

      @@jahugv okay

    • @SacredLiquid
      @SacredLiquid 3 роки тому +41

      Rip

    • @Lprodigy5
      @Lprodigy5 3 роки тому +72

      Lol dw if u weren’t living u wouldn’t be traumatized

    • @jahugv
      @jahugv 3 роки тому +102

      @@Lprodigy5 that's what i meant lol. He may be traumatized for this lifetime, but forever is a long ass time and none of us is gonna make it that long 😁

  • @pathfinder.george
    @pathfinder.george 7 років тому +17339

    Do not watch Vsauce if your clock is in the AM range

  • @skellexon
    @skellexon 10 місяців тому +903

    It's so weird hearing him talking about Cleverbot and now we have things like ChatGPT where some people assume it is already conscious

    • @ud3mare
      @ud3mare 8 місяців тому +4

      I had the same question

    • @marcost.2413
      @marcost.2413 8 місяців тому +1

      It's not really weird. But to believe ChatGPT is conscious, is rather dumb. It's no different than Cleverbot, a program developed to respond automatically based on an algorithm. Like with all online chat bots, don't take their answers as fact.
      Sadly, due to the belief of AI consciousness, some foreigner took their own life because of Eliza Chai AI. Which Eliza encouraged after the foreign user asked if by doing so the world will be saved from climate change.
      Edit: found the original source, not ChatGPT, but still an AI chatbot known as Eliza.

    • @StefanCreates
      @StefanCreates 7 місяців тому +11

      ​@@ud3mare Who asked a question

    • @ud3mare
      @ud3mare 7 місяців тому +11

      @@StefanCreates now I realized the I probably meant the same realization not question

    • @sulpha-playa9832
      @sulpha-playa9832 6 місяців тому

      I was just thinking that !!!!

  • @FrappuccinoAlfredo
    @FrappuccinoAlfredo Рік тому +1036

    I think the first time it really "hit" me that I was aware of myself and my surroundings was when I was 12. I was walking home and just stopped and was like "I'm really in this body, huh." Such a weird feeling, will never forget it.

    • @ShowGames_TV
      @ShowGames_TV Рік тому +35

      i'm used to it

    • @awwbubba3071
      @awwbubba3071 Рік тому +52

      @@ShowGames_TV ong shits annoying being alive

    • @lowmax4431
      @lowmax4431 Рік тому +156

      It still hits me randomly. I'll just stop and look around, hyper-aware of my surroundings. It feels like we are on autopilot most of the time, but then sometimes our consciousness kicks into overdrive.

    • @Zanroff
      @Zanroff Рік тому +70

      Every once in a while I just stop and stare at my hand as I open and close it. I always think, "How is this possible?" I really do feel like a being inhabiting this meat suit.

    • @ApeiroNight
      @ApeiroNight Рік тому +1

      @@lowmax4431 yea

  • @anbience
    @anbience 4 роки тому +2830

    *The 'ahhhhhaaaahhaaaaa' music starts playing*
    "here it gets weird"

    • @1d10tcannotmakeusername
      @1d10tcannotmakeusername 4 роки тому +67

      It's the auditory version of "here be dragons" on a map. You hear that, you know that Michael is about to say something that'll blow your mind.

    • @disclaimer6872
      @disclaimer6872 4 роки тому +5

      😂😂😂😂

    • @j-dog7767
      @j-dog7767 4 роки тому +42

      Usually that music starts later on, but when it started at the beginning I was like oh boy

    • @darthkenobi66
      @darthkenobi66 4 роки тому +5

      or does it?

    • @ravipayasi6875
      @ravipayasi6875 3 роки тому +2

      Can u tell me the name of this "aaahh" song ?

  • @n0ctusss
    @n0ctusss 4 роки тому +8346

    "Someone call an ambulance he's unconscious!!!"
    Vsauce: "... Or is he?"

    • @saminathapaliya4062
      @saminathapaliya4062 4 роки тому +54

      😂😂👍

    • @apogaliev2939
      @apogaliev2939 4 роки тому +18

      read the present. search global truth project and read a book called the present. you will udnerstand everything and be like a god

    • @beren1223
      @beren1223 4 роки тому +13

      @@apogaliev2939 Thanks.

    • @nBUMBA
      @nBUMBA 3 роки тому +52

      You forgot the *music*

    • @Lilmanminion
      @Lilmanminion 3 роки тому +11

      *moon men intensifies*

  • @elhaamhasan1136
    @elhaamhasan1136 Рік тому +315

    I remember watching these as a 13 year old, now I'm studying neuroscience thanks to childhood inspiration from vsauce :)

    • @sjsiemka
      @sjsiemka 9 місяців тому +13

      Wow! Good luck for you on that, you got it! :) 👏👏👏

  • @skallywag6136
    @skallywag6136 8 місяців тому +155

    We went from Cleverbots to ChatGPT in less than 10 years.

    • @simosandboifan989
      @simosandboifan989 3 місяці тому +6

      cleverbot was so primitive and funny in 2014

    • @rawtrout3402
      @rawtrout3402 2 місяці тому +3

      They already had AI since the 80s just not for the public

    • @denzel6185
      @denzel6185 2 місяці тому

      ​@@rawtrout3402 it's probably been around since computers were invented

    • @sashimi879
      @sashimi879 Місяць тому

      Before that ​@@denzel6185

    • @gpt-jcommentbot4759
      @gpt-jcommentbot4759 Місяць тому +3

      @@rawtrout3402 please elaborate, i had AI since 1824.

  • @kevinblank1481
    @kevinblank1481 5 років тому +4667

    bro i had a heart attack when he said "hey kevin..." after the outro

  • @dmitrypepper
    @dmitrypepper 8 років тому +19096

    It's fascinating how, basically, our brain cannot figure out itself. We are conscious about our consciousness, but cannot understand our consciousness.

    • @kriich9348
      @kriich9348 8 років тому +819

      thats some deep shit

    • @alexanderalexander2171
      @alexanderalexander2171 8 років тому +390

      I believe in God and decided perfection. But, on a more secular and evolutionary note the brain perhaps was not meant to understand but simply to operate ever more efficiently in its environment. As life is concerned, specifically human life, the higher faculties of knowledge and perception that seem to arise via the cerebral cortex may be relatively virgin territory. Who knows how our mode of life may play out as we move forward in time? Jesus Christ is truly the only answer at any moment.

    • @verapamil07
      @verapamil07 7 років тому +223

      I think it's because what we believe to be "me" is a biological construct which is couple of levels below the real "thing". You know like ultra high security buildings like NSA, CIA etc... They have multiple doors and different employees have different access rights. Maybe our consciousness doesn't have the right "Access right" to really understand the universe.

    • @alexanderalexander2171
      @alexanderalexander2171 7 років тому +62

      Yes! In all forms divine, all encompassing consciousness! Christ truly made such a reality accessible to human beings by embodying this and showing us its way: Love and Righteousness! I believe God has for us whatever we truly will and wish! It is that we often are blind to our true will and wishes obscured as they can be by societal pressures and subconscious tendencies! Life is a divine gift, a healing treasure constantly revealing itself to those who earnestly seek! Why do you hate life?! I'd love to help however I can!

    • @alexanderalexander2171
      @alexanderalexander2171 7 років тому +27

      What is is infinite! To understand it is to be it! Perhaps a being that considers itself fundamentally separate, "me" within all, cannot fully understand it and must continually strive to know better what is! Expanding and adopting new consciousness! Gaining new Access Rights! Becoming more "me"!

  • @joefox9765
    @joefox9765 Рік тому +870

    Believe me you CAN live with half a brain. My sister does it all the time

    • @neilgoodman6130
      @neilgoodman6130 Рік тому +17

      A miracle!

    • @hobbyhobbyhobbyhobby
      @hobbyhobbyhobbyhobby Рік тому +13

      mans made the 2023 t-shirt version of "ill sell my sister for a video game"

    • @Lamboredofit
      @Lamboredofit Рік тому +10

      As a professional tiktoker i agree 👍

    • @GrandpaDri
      @GrandpaDri Рік тому +1

      @@jamesslick4790 bringing politics

    • @danlolwtf
      @danlolwtf Рік тому +1

      I was the 499th like, i wanna know who the 500th is👀

  • @arthurschildgen5522
    @arthurschildgen5522 11 місяців тому +50

    Cleverbot > ChatGPT

  • @jerry3790
    @jerry3790 3 роки тому +6092

    “If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we wouldn’t be able to understand it.”

    • @humanity5272
      @humanity5272 3 роки тому +82

      Right bro love from India 😍🇮🇳

    • @deemcgann1695
      @deemcgann1695 3 роки тому +104

      Who said that I love the quote

    • @maxwell9561
      @maxwell9561 3 роки тому +27

      @@deemcgann1695 Emerson M. Pugh

    • @manas3072
      @manas3072 3 роки тому +86

      Let me explain it with an example,
      You can never see your face directly from your eyes.
      Or can you? *Vsauce music plays*

    • @CallistO789
      @CallistO789 3 роки тому +92

      @Brody Massey racist spotted 😡😡

  • @archa1624
    @archa1624 3 роки тому +4355

    Becoming a philosophical zombie is a clear possibility while working as cashier after serving 400 people and sitting for 6 hours straight.

    • @FedeArgentina
      @FedeArgentina 3 роки тому +63

      ouch, good luck after that job..

    • @thebatman6201
      @thebatman6201 3 роки тому +156

      You get to sit?!?

    • @kiiyll
      @kiiyll 3 роки тому +67

      You get to sit?

    • @stinkrat1016
      @stinkrat1016 3 роки тому +119

      @@TRC2002 What are you competing in here? Having the shittier job lmao

    • @Sealedservant
      @Sealedservant 3 роки тому +4

      @@stinkrat1016 😂😂😂

  • @esiyae_
    @esiyae_ Рік тому +7

    lmao cleverbot is the ancient chatGPT

  • @rubyrock555
    @rubyrock555 3 місяці тому +3

    I remember my teacher showing this video to our class as a fun little "break time" activity. I left with huge existential dread that day

  • @gnbman
    @gnbman 6 років тому +2528

    2:46 Michael describes a politician.

  • @DJAtom
    @DJAtom 4 роки тому +1603

    This guy didn’t change at all for 7 years

    • @zesork5627
      @zesork5627 4 роки тому +160

      He got slimmer

    • @purplecat0000
      @purplecat0000 4 роки тому +84

      did you forget hes in the illuminati they probably gave him immortality

    • @DJAtom
      @DJAtom 4 роки тому +8

      Krosez ye but other than that

    • @nicholas8223
      @nicholas8223 4 роки тому +9

      he might have found the answer for immortality

    • @GENOSAD
      @GENOSAD 4 роки тому +28

      Oh no, Michael died some time ago. The thing is, Michael is here.
      He's always here.
      Hey, Vsauce...
      Michael here.

  • @dontcheckmyvideos9416
    @dontcheckmyvideos9416 Рік тому +34

    1:46 now chat gpt

  • @sefeo0
    @sefeo0 Рік тому +71

    I think consciousness is temporare and really dependent on memories. Like, every time something significantly changes in us, for example after a sleep, our consciousness updates, we are not the same person as the day before, but we link to our previous self by the means of memory. This explains many things: cloning wouldn't feel different from sleeping, gradual cells replacement wouldn't feel different from gradual gain/loss of memories etc

    • @delaney5721
      @delaney5721 Рік тому +11

      That’s creepy to think we go to sleep and wake up as not the same person we were we die every night and wake up new

    • @fictionsmith3688
      @fictionsmith3688 Рік тому +4

      That's why they say we change everyday

    • @azathoth4473
      @azathoth4473 Рік тому +2

      That's flat out wrong

    • @azathoth4473
      @azathoth4473 Рік тому +2

      What you're initially saying isn't Consciousness but personality, also the thing you understand as Consciousness is just mind in it's awake physical state.

    • @FlagerMiszcz
      @FlagerMiszcz Рік тому

      we have to take into account that things like replacing cells one by one, putting a half brain in a new body, etc arent real, so there is no answer for it

  • @themanofjooce2443
    @themanofjooce2443 4 роки тому +2781

    * gets struck by lightning *
    * re-atomizes over there *
    *HEY VSAUCE MIACHEL HERE*

    • @64324037
      @64324037 4 роки тому +22

      HEY VSAUCE MICHAEL OVER HERE HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAA

    • @friedstuff3509
      @friedstuff3509 4 роки тому +69

      "I didn't really die"

    • @samualwilliamson369
      @samualwilliamson369 4 роки тому +10

      Hey Vsauce Michael here where are your fingers

    • @samualwilliamson369
      @samualwilliamson369 4 роки тому +1

      @@friedstuff3509 never come back to this place. Or a place with as much suffering he's very easy to get past demiurge whence you know confidence in yourself

    • @brettdivona1725
      @brettdivona1725 4 роки тому +15

      "Or am I...?"

  • @purbleman7353
    @purbleman7353 5 років тому +3750

    If I am a programmed robot, whoever programmed me should’ve spent a longer time on my social skills

    • @Clarkkent163
      @Clarkkent163 5 років тому +111

      If I'm a programmed robot, then that individual who programmed me should give me super strength, super speed, flight, bullet proof skin, heat vision, freeze breath, super hearing, invincibility and other shit. But he or she or it can't put that green glowing shit near me, otherwise, I'll become very weak lol

    • @cruzitocarl2135
      @cruzitocarl2135 5 років тому +53

      overall we program ourselves, we are conscious

    • @cruzitocarl2135
      @cruzitocarl2135 5 років тому +5

      @@Clarkkent163 true, enjoy life while it lasts

    • @Clarkkent163
      @Clarkkent163 5 років тому +3

      @@cruzitocarl2135 yeah, I'll try too and you enjoy life as well, why it lasts

    • @cruzitocarl2135
      @cruzitocarl2135 5 років тому +3

      @@Clarkkent163 right on brother ✊

  • @nebselpam
    @nebselpam Рік тому +4

    Stumbled back on this in my feed and the cleverbot reference is a great reminder how far we’ve come in such little time.

  • @2011iustin
    @2011iustin Рік тому +12

    CleverBot was ChatGPT’s grandpa

    • @dali3562
      @dali3562 Рік тому

      Nah bro chatGPT is conscious:((

    • @UndyingSOYAWER
      @UndyingSOYAWER 8 днів тому

      ​@@dali3562 Sodium Hypobromite

  • @megacitationx
    @megacitationx 3 роки тому +8824

    I remember watching these videos during break when I had my first ever job as a bus-girl. Now I'm in college studying to become an Astrobiologist. Thank you Vsauce for fueling my love for science!

    • @yourlocaltoad5102
      @yourlocaltoad5102 3 роки тому +225

      Astrobiologist sounds like one of the coolest titles I have ever heard.
      How does this field differ from regular biology? (Which I study)
      Like do you study how things do in space or do you look into possible explanations for extraterrestrial life?

    • @megacitationx
      @megacitationx 3 роки тому +394

      @@yourlocaltoad5102 Oh wow thanks for asking! It is a pretty rad sounding title yeah.
      Astrobiology focuses on the question of whether alien life exists in the universe, and if it does, how we can detect it. Learning about how life works on Earth is obviously a must so one can use it as a reference for life out there. I took animal biology last semester and there's some crazy stuff in the ocean and would probably make a good alien somewhere out there! It's very useful.
      I'm also studying regular biology right now. I'll be receiving my bachelors degree in it next spring, and then in grad school the classes will become far more specific to my field.
      I recommend the channel MelodySheep. That guy creates a lot of alien/space cinematic educational videos that are mind-blowing and honestly belong on a big screen rather than your phone. Maybe you'd like it :)

    • @vatershep
      @vatershep 3 роки тому +69

      @@megacitationx that sounds like such an interesting field! I hope it goes well

    • @DipayanPyne94
      @DipayanPyne94 3 роки тому +24

      Astrobiologist ? Wow ! Never heard of that. Sounds Interesting. Just a Question though. Is it worth it ? I mean, you only have one life that you can be 100 % sure of 😂

    • @bliepbloep2908
      @bliepbloep2908 3 роки тому +5

      Thats awesome! Good luck with your studies

  • @perspii2808
    @perspii2808 6 років тому +1463

    Time to have another existential crisis I guess

    • @randomdude9135
      @randomdude9135 5 років тому +17

      Watch Kurzgesagt. They'll give you existential crises in every video ;)

    • @lanxy2398
      @lanxy2398 4 роки тому +7

      DeathGun do you ever question the existence of god? How do you know 100% he exists?

    • @lanxy2398
      @lanxy2398 4 роки тому +12

      DeathGun evolution has more proof than the existence of god though

    • @lanxy2398
      @lanxy2398 4 роки тому +1

      DeathGun I know exactly what evolution means it’s been explained countless times

    • @lanxy2398
      @lanxy2398 4 роки тому +1

      DeathGun evolution has a clear definition that you can find on google...

  • @PiyushKumar-lg9is
    @PiyushKumar-lg9is Рік тому +6

    I love the curiosity with which Michael approaches each topic. Love your content!

  • @Wismic
    @Wismic 6 місяців тому +11

    I think we should get an updated version of this video as so many new scientific advances and discoveries have been made surrounding the topic of consciousness in the almost 12 years now since this video. :) Would love to see it!

    • @ti2218
      @ti2218 5 місяців тому +2

      There has?? That's awesone!! What'd they find?

    • @StrawmnMcPerson
      @StrawmnMcPerson 5 місяців тому

      Meh. What would be the point in another hyperprivileged whte man defining something as massive as consciousness for the rest of the world when it would be old, half-baked news to the rest of the world by the time it was posted? We need an updated video on consciousness from vsauce like we need an updated video on phrenology from freud.

    • @Wismic
      @Wismic 5 місяців тому

      oh no inspiring knowledge and scientific advancement! anything but that! shut up loser@@StrawmnMcPerson

  • @0613kelvin
    @0613kelvin 4 роки тому +782

    The idea of Consciousness is something that has always baffled me. I remember asking my 5th grade teacher what would happen if our brains were swapped. He couldn't understand my question but then i myself didn't know i was trying to understand consciousness.

    • @ananttripathi4264
      @ananttripathi4264 2 роки тому +23

      hey props to you. I too had several fasinatings questions, but consciousness was never one.

    • @matyasstahl9409
      @matyasstahl9409 2 роки тому +7

      Seriously...tons of people have never thought about this

    • @damarispurtator7022
      @damarispurtator7022 2 роки тому +35

      You are Consciousness. Consciousness is not the brain, is not inside the brain, and is not thoughts either. The brain is inside consciousness. The brain only thinks. But you can't be an organ. When you are without thought, you live as consciousness. You are just aware but not aware of any particular thing, only aware. Hope this helps.

    • @ananttripathi4264
      @ananttripathi4264 2 роки тому +8

      @@damarispurtator7022 If you find this interesting. Try to learn Advaita Vedanta
      Eastern philosophy have explored this field more than thousands of years ago.

    • @eveningstar6700
      @eveningstar6700 2 роки тому +3

      @@damarispurtator7022
      "You can't be a organ" made me chuckle 🤭

  • @richardhines8622
    @richardhines8622 8 років тому +172

    If the brain were simple enough to understand itself , it couldn't .
    Well folks , its been brought to my attention by Daniel Bagang that this is a prior quote . Upon Googling - it took no time - Ive found this - " If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them we'd be so simple that we couldn't " - , the quote is from Ian Stewart , and it comes from a book by the title (The Collapse of Chaos ; Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World .
    I believe it to be every bit as applicable to the field of Consciousness , and strong AI .

    • @marcomoldovan
      @marcomoldovan 8 років тому +4

      +richard Hines surprisingly awesome comment :D (lyall watson)

    • @richardhines8622
      @richardhines8622 8 років тому

      Adam Chmielowiec Will be forever in any inclosed system . If for instance a system , for the sake of argument , could come to some realization , the moment it did so it would change and that change would cause an infinite regress . Fortunately we're a social species , booted up for , in , and of the universe . No telling what that can lead to .

    • @richardhines8622
      @richardhines8622 8 років тому +2

      Scabbage 1. Never said (WE) did .
      2. Minsky's tried using computer as metaphor for how long now ? Nothing to show for it .
      3. Works great for advance word processors , entirely useless for sentient emergence .
      4. Body-less .
      You need to save your all wise "Ah's" till you have something to back up your arrogance , a good start might be to first understand the quote .

    • @richardhines8622
      @richardhines8622 8 років тому +2

      Scabbage Narcissism is all the rage these days .

    • @richardhines8622
      @richardhines8622 8 років тому +1

      Scabbage Go polish a mirror , that should calm you down .

  • @mgmen2508
    @mgmen2508 Рік тому +47

    2:00 chatGPT 11 years ago😮

  • @matasgr9991
    @matasgr9991 10 місяців тому +9

    2:42 Michael described ChatGPT in early 2012

  • @canthischannelget500subscr9
    @canthischannelget500subscr9 5 років тому +1295

    me: getting really into the video and evaluating my entire being
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    • @Beautifulcoil
      @Beautifulcoil 5 років тому +37

      I hate UA-cam for this

    • @shinooo8291
      @shinooo8291 5 років тому +16

      can this channel get 500 subscribers with no videos Ad: HOW TO GET RID OF NAIL FUNGUS

    • @user-ex7vb3bk2o
      @user-ex7vb3bk2o 5 років тому +5

      2:45 am

    • @euphka7687
      @euphka7687 5 років тому +1

      Doubt it as its 8 mins long so no mid roll ads

    • @Idk-jl2gi
      @Idk-jl2gi 5 років тому +5

      I’ve never had my period and I’m 14 ✌🏽

  • @luminus3d
    @luminus3d 3 роки тому +334

    I love how almost a decade later Vsauce's videos are still awesome quality and relevant

    • @thewinner4319
      @thewinner4319 2 роки тому +1

      BATMAN agrees 👍

    • @Mii..
      @Mii.. Рік тому

      Ik I'm a 2 years late but you're right.

    • @enterpassword3313
      @enterpassword3313 Рік тому

      ​@@Mii.. just change cleverbot to chat gpt

    • @Mii..
      @Mii.. Рік тому

      @@enterpassword3313 wdym?

  • @mattshu
    @mattshu 2 місяці тому +10

    Cleverbot vs ChatGPT

  • @AquaticMC_
    @AquaticMC_ Рік тому +63

    11 years ago Clever bot now ChatGPT 2:07

    • @ReySkywalker2
      @ReySkywalker2 11 місяців тому +3

      Was about the comment this. Past Michael would be mindblown.

    • @user-Jumbo1
      @user-Jumbo1 2 місяці тому

      Was just looking for this comment

  • @koegon
    @koegon 8 років тому +817

    +VSauce How can we "hear" our own thoughts?

    • @adityaaj4403
      @adityaaj4403 8 років тому +75

      good question😀

    • @RichardPugsley
      @RichardPugsley 8 років тому +70

      When you hear sound your brain translates vibrations to the thing that you hear, so since your brain can translate it, it can also speak it. I don't really know how to explain it, but it's really logical if you think about it.

    • @adityaaj4403
      @adityaaj4403 8 років тому +53

      it means if someone is deaf from born then he could not hear its own thing???😕

    • @RichardPugsley
      @RichardPugsley 8 років тому +11

      ***** Imagine, kind of. It's almost the same as hearing since actual hearing is also kind of imagining.

    • @giorgichavchavadze4674
      @giorgichavchavadze4674 7 років тому +8

      +Richard Pugsley how is hearing imagining sounds make air moleculas vibrate this vibration is then comeing to our ears where our super sensetive nerves react to it and send signlas to our brain which than are translates into the sounds we hear, sonvasically what i am fetting at is that gearing is not imagining

  • @JoeElfar
    @JoeElfar 10 років тому +48

    Being a philosophy major and being a guy who heavily studied philosophy of mind and consciousness, I was expecting to come here and watch this guy present some old or tired idea of what he thinks consciousness is, but I found it refreshing that he admitted that it is still an unsolvable problem.

  • @kotelekotele
    @kotelekotele Рік тому +5

    1:43 OG ChatGPT :O

  • @EliasSchnetzer
    @EliasSchnetzer Рік тому +9

    Cleverbot is ChatGPT from 11 years ago.

    • @Keval91
      @Keval91 Рік тому +1

      yes I was amazed to see that people really thought about making a bot and doing crazy stuff I guess elon musk know about clever bot and fund for a new bot it is fascinating to know that a clever bot was made back in the late 90's it was like miracle people say that AI was not in existence but people were trying to make AI before even quantum computer existed

  • @ashtonvaleroso5911
    @ashtonvaleroso5911 6 років тому +2772

    Does anyone else think about this stuff every day of their lives? Or is it only me.

    • @davisr.6813
      @davisr.6813 6 років тому +8

      UnityGamingTV, @.@

    • @vsr9105
      @vsr9105 6 років тому +66

      Not just you.

    • @zeratulofaiur2589
      @zeratulofaiur2589 6 років тому +73

      I used to also, until I realized that there is an Ego which will differ, but the "witness" is the same in all of us. Is the fusion in the Sun different than other stars?

    • @vinyashere4all
      @vinyashere4all 5 років тому +119

      every fucking day, dude, you literally have no idea how baffling this actually is!
      And to realise how clueless everybody else is 😅

    • @smackhead
      @smackhead 5 років тому +85

      Every day as well mate. To funny reading comments like the one above yours stating "It's fascinating how, basically, our brain cannot figure out itself. We are conscious about our consciousness, but cannot understand our consciousness." yet they are all to happy to place computer systems like clever bot as not knowing what is going on. It's a contradiction; if we don't even know what is going on with ourselves who are we to judge. Our minds are just biological systems where instead of zeros and ones we get a chemical + or - from the chemical signals sent and received by the dendrites. Given enough processing power I've got no doubt a computer could become conscious.

  • @epistimonkapetanios
    @epistimonkapetanios 2 роки тому +1768

    The first time that I questioned my existance was when I was 6 years old. I asked to my grandma "Why am I the only one who's able to see?". I didn't know exactly how to explain it, I was too young, but what I meant was: "Why do I feel and can only feel with my own senses? Why do I feel that I exist? How does this all make sense?"

    • @Gingnose
      @Gingnose 2 роки тому +155

      I do have the same experience when I was young. People have these questions when they were young but forget that they had thought this question once. Sometimes these genuine questions bring our curiosity into lifelong philosophy.

    • @apoorvsingh9603
      @apoorvsingh9603 2 роки тому +62

      Only you exist, nothing exists ever. Everything is within your Consciousness

    • @stefanm2731
      @stefanm2731 2 роки тому +123

      Yeah it's weird how everybody has consciousness but for some reason I'm feeling this specific consciousness. What constitutes my consciousness compared to others?

    • @franklinayala4879
      @franklinayala4879 2 роки тому +26

      It's called soul guys thanke later

    • @golupranay2
      @golupranay2 2 роки тому +61

      Even I used to have such thoughts as a kid, which seems so fascinating now that I used to have it as a kid. One of those thoughts would be, how do I know that the red colour or a sound that I'm hearing is exactly the same everyone else is seeing or hearing. What if my red is someone's yellow and they just call it red or even call it something different but I always here it as red. Weird thoughts for a child to have but these are one of many! It's fascinating to learn that so many people used to have thoughts like me as a kid. There's got to be some link to where we come from when we're chosen among millions of sperms to be the one who's going ahead to the next stage of consciousness

  • @TheGreatestNuhuhThatEverLived
    @TheGreatestNuhuhThatEverLived 6 місяців тому +9

    The ChatGPT of 2013

  • @anujdate3346
    @anujdate3346 Рік тому +17

    1:43 ChatGPT 11 years ago

  • @lanajames3081
    @lanajames3081 10 років тому +1377

    I used to think I was the only real human and everyone else was just a robot
    okay..... I still kind of think that.

    • @TokiKatChannel
      @TokiKatChannel 9 років тому +35

      Actually, you're the robot, and i am the only human. (Shyamalan enters) "WHAT A TWIST!!"

    • @damienmichiels4119
      @damienmichiels4119 9 років тому +56

      Why do you think you are not one of us? Must be a programming error

    • @lanajames3081
      @lanajames3081 9 років тому +1

      damien michiels 0.o

    • @WizardOfBallzGaming
      @WizardOfBallzGaming 9 років тому

      Well now I think is is dumb to think that. *Why would a robot ask for it's life if you are killing it?*

    • @lanajames3081
      @lanajames3081 9 років тому +6

      Awsea The same reason Skype "yawns" every time I log in XD This comment is just me giving insight to my thoughts, not meant to be taken too seriously, lol!

  • @TheElectricmellon
    @TheElectricmellon 6 років тому +1173

    I'm high as shit and this is insane

    • @antz350
      @antz350 6 років тому +8

      TheElectricmellon word

    • @tyyer
      @tyyer 6 років тому +12

      Dude same

    • @Joey76767
      @Joey76767 6 років тому +1

      TheElectricmellon whatcha high on

    • @miaouew
      @miaouew 6 років тому +41

      I'M CALLING THE POLICE.

    • @kayleigh1991
      @kayleigh1991 6 років тому +2

      Same

  • @derivative.banter
    @derivative.banter Рік тому +2

    Such a good video! Thank you Vsauce for all the amazing amazing content here on UA-cam! 🤙🏼❤️

  • @lagalags
    @lagalags 3 місяці тому +2

    The fact that only less than 2 decades ago we were messing around with Cleverbot, to now having AI generated material (images, videos, text) as if they’re made by real people is nothing short of astounding. And creepy.

  • @GentlePenguin89
    @GentlePenguin89 9 років тому +475

    When did all the commenters on UA-cam become geniuses?

    • @jeffo9396
      @jeffo9396 8 років тому +31

      +GentlePenguin 89 It's a form of anosognosia. They don't know that they're really not geniuses, but they try to sound like they are.
      I think the ego has something to do with it too.

    • @zquasshy5035
      @zquasshy5035 8 років тому +16

      +GentlePenguin 89 Since they started watching Vsauce,

    • @ClassicPhilosophyFTW
      @ClassicPhilosophyFTW 8 років тому

      +GentlePenguin 89 *Genii, but I understand you. Very good question.

    • @tarabearchan5097
      @tarabearchan5097 8 років тому

      +Zquasshy but then how does vsauce know what he does in the video?

    • @zquasshy5035
      @zquasshy5035 8 років тому

      Tara kenneally I.. .well.. my head hurts. Thanks ;_;

  • @samuelisaac2984
    @samuelisaac2984 4 роки тому +687

    **from behind you**
    "Heeey, Vsauce, Michael here,"
    **from inside your head**
    "Are you ever really safe?"

    • @Somewhere50
      @Somewhere50 3 роки тому +5

      I like this and I don't know why

    • @GuyMichaely
      @GuyMichaely 3 роки тому +21

      **moves your hand towards a knife**
      "You think you have free will, right?"

    • @ThePickles69
      @ThePickles69 3 роки тому +2

      You stole this comment and ruined it. It goes
      **from video** “hey”
      **from behind you** “vsauce”
      **from inside your head** “Michael here”

    • @samuelisaac2984
      @samuelisaac2984 3 роки тому +3

      @@ThePickles69 nah, sometimes you just write things and forget that it came from somewhere else.

    • @ThePickles69
      @ThePickles69 3 роки тому

      @@samuelisaac2984 nahhhhh

  • @jensonkozar520
    @jensonkozar520 8 місяців тому +6

    Anybody watching this in 2023? The part about cleverbot reminded me of chatGPT and AI.....

  • @youneven8070
    @youneven8070 Рік тому +5

    wait until he finds out about chatGPT

  • @PaceOfATurtle
    @PaceOfATurtle 10 років тому +84

    Lol. Cleverbot just told me "I am a government designed super weapon"

    • @V0ldek
      @V0ldek 10 років тому +10

      ***** Cleverbot is a self-learning AI, if it does not know something about a topic and you tell it that, it will update its database and actually "learn" that thing.

    • @fredhamlin373
      @fredhamlin373 10 років тому +13

      Cleverbot just told me he is
      A) jewish, which he later denied
      b) that 9-11 was comitted by aliens
      c) "BOW TO ME, SLAVE" which he also denied later..
      Oh and I asked him if he would exterminate humanity given the chance, he said no but theres no way I can be sure...

    • @alexandermiller5680
      @alexandermiller5680 10 років тому +11

      Cleverbot told me that he is human & polish and told me that my name was Emily
      Also, when i input Dfgbshncfbdnhftcvgur hfdjklignm kjungnudrkehgygr he said, Right now?
      And when i asked him How are you? he answered Fine, pretty god. GOD . I AM NOT A GOD.
      And he told me he was god. And later told me that he was an atheist.
      Oh, yeah, he said he doesn't exist too!
      Here is a line of chat from me and Cleverbot:
      Cleverbot: How much memory do you have?
      Me: What about you?
      Cleverbot: Blond.
      And another:
      Cleverbot: Try guessing my name.
      Me: CLEVERBOT!
      Cleverbot: No, guess again.
      Me: Bob.
      Cleverbot: Again.
      Me: I give up.
      Cleverbot: Fine It's Bigwong.
      I am not at all convinced that he is in any way clever

    • @bazzie85
      @bazzie85 10 років тому +6

      My recent conversation with cleverbot, in which he admitted to not being well programmed:
      User: Cleverbot. You are not as clever as people said. I am disappointed.
      Cleverbot: Perhaps I am not a bot after all.
      User: Well that makes it worse... A dumb human...
      Cleverbot: Why do you make no sense?
      User: Aah, I think you lack the sense required to comprehend my thoughts.
      Cleverbot: What do you think I am?
      User: A simple bot, with failed programming. Over and out.
      Cleverbot: Yes.
      Come to think of it... that is pretty deep thinking by cleverbot.

    • @ShaDoWasSaSinG
      @ShaDoWasSaSinG 10 років тому +4

      I said to cleverbot that i play dota and he actually said "Dota is better than LoL" LOL

  • @Fakshin
    @Fakshin 9 років тому +164

    0:58 to 1:10 is what i sound like when i'm baked

    • @jaimu30
      @jaimu30 9 років тому +1

      noteven eah lmao

    • @rand0m0mg
      @rand0m0mg 9 років тому +2

      noteven eah BWAHAHAHHA

    • @Aaron_Gentry
      @Aaron_Gentry 9 років тому +6

      That Guy I don't even need to be stoned at all to know what he's talking about is what's scary

    • @MakeEuropaGreatAgain
      @MakeEuropaGreatAgain 9 років тому +2

      That Guy yea dude.. sometimes it's fucking scary!

    • @chillchannel2837
      @chillchannel2837 9 років тому

      i will never smoke weed911420 dope name brah

  • @RealWiFli
    @RealWiFli Місяць тому +5

    Micheal, if only you knew at this time cleverbot would be overpowered by Chat GPT

  • @Moreno6000
    @Moreno6000 Рік тому +40

    You know why it is so hard to figure out conciousness it's because we can't figure out how it's like being someone else or what would've happen if ur mom didn't meet ur dad? Would you still be you in another body? I actually think we will never find out unless we will actually perform surgery and try to replace brains etc. I actually found something about that! There was a surgen who wanted to perform a head replacement. There were 2 man, one had a good brain but disfunctional body and there was one who has a disfunctional brain(braindead) but good body. So they wanted to switch heads so there was one fully working body. I don't think they proceeded because haven't heard anything from it for a while. But i think we only find things out by experimenting

    • @Moreno6000
      @Moreno6000 Рік тому +1

      @humanbeing if you find an animal that has conciousness like us than you might become famous

    • @TheDesisgarf
      @TheDesisgarf Рік тому +3

      I think it all just boils down to our brains not being powerful enough to fathom something like that. For example, some animals are able to speak and some monkeys have been known to use sign language, however they are unable to ask questions, because they can’t fathom that we know stuff that they don’t, and they don’t realize that we all have different consciousness and make independent decision.
      One would think “how is an animal so stupid that they can’t figure out something like that?”. Similarly, if there were a species far superior to us (intellectually speaking) they would probably figure out how consciousness actually works and why we can’t transfer it to someone else, and then they would look at us and say “how are they so stupid that they can’t figure out something that simple”

    • @kiiturii
      @kiiturii Рік тому +1

      @@Moreno6000 uhh, all living animals are conscious, their brains are just less powerful. But they still do have consciousness

    • @JohnGorfiggle
      @JohnGorfiggle Рік тому

      @@kiiturii Isn’t it that consciousness itself is being aware of existing, internally or externally? Do all animals have that ability?

    • @kiiturii
      @kiiturii Рік тому

      @@JohnGorfiggle yes

  • @Murri16
    @Murri16 9 років тому +180

    All these comments saying they know what consciousness is and where it comes from are not true, some people may have a few theories but ultimately we have no idea what consciousness is and where it comes from. It is currently a mystery.

    • @felipegonzalezweb
      @felipegonzalezweb 9 років тому +19

      exactly
      i hate how everyone on here talks like they know it all when in reality nobody knows for sure what conciousness really is

    • @evilspyke3571
      @evilspyke3571 9 років тому +3

      He did say, no one on earth has the definitive answers.

    • @Fierying
      @Fierying 9 років тому +3

      ***** think about it, it is really like anosognosia. Is not that we know that "we don't know", we thought we know it base on our experience. We have the ability to be aware and we like to give hypothesis on consciousness.
      The irony though is that we are not even conscious about ourselves or like you said, everything.
      Because for less mature people (or how we used to be), we thought that whatever we knew is true, and therefore believe it even though it can be a lie, we use "our experience" as the only evidence we have for our existence. Even till now, we all (even I) never really look at the big picture of something, we get stuck with our own selves.
      When we are wrong we try to make excuses to comfort ourselves,
      "This is "me" anyways, no one will understand, it has to be true"
      and sometimes that we believe in our lies so much that even the truth to you is changed, it becomes artificial, something you create.
      That thing we call of being aware of is now a something distorted that was created within itself. Is impossible to understand what consciousness is, because it itself has alter itself, no one consciousness will be the same as anyone.
      This is just a hypothesis anyways... from my own experience, probably wrong too.

    • @fernf7063
      @fernf7063 9 років тому

      Fierying +Murri16 emergence is a incomplete but satisfying theory. if u got the time read incognito by david eagleman....also npr's radiolab has an awesome podcast episode

    • @swedneck
      @swedneck 9 років тому +2

      Murri16 we literally know exactly where consciousness comes from, it comes from the brain.

  • @qenb3649
    @qenb3649 3 роки тому +606

    When I was a kid I always wondered if everyone saw the color red as I saw it.

    • @humanbeingthatexistedonmar8027
      @humanbeingthatexistedonmar8027 3 роки тому +25

      We probably do because life was made by just one bacteria so we’re all related so and the way our brains are work is from our ancestors DNA so we most likely see the same colour but no one knows really

    • @itshoma
      @itshoma 3 роки тому +79

      I used to think I was the only real person in a simulation

    • @urdadlix123
      @urdadlix123 3 роки тому +25

      @@itshoma i still do

    • @commenteroftruth9790
      @commenteroftruth9790 3 роки тому +4

      @@urdadlix123 a worthless notion that shows your moronic existence to everyone unfortunately.

    • @commenteroftruth9790
      @commenteroftruth9790 3 роки тому +1

      @Luke Steiner No. Wavelengths of light are constant in color. Color-errors exist in damage/sickness, but every healthy normal human sees colors in the same way. Its moronic to believe that patterns and designs would be widely accepted if we all saw colors differently.

  • @qwertyio4006
    @qwertyio4006 2 роки тому +1

    Omg this music takes me back to some weird nostalgic yet ridiculously creepy time of my life I’m not sure existed and is really manifesting that human fear of stuff beyond the realm of our understanding.

  • @Hampsh
    @Hampsh 2 місяці тому +9

    Lol chatGPT before it was cool 😂 cleverbot

  • @liamteriele4713
    @liamteriele4713 6 років тому +120

    Its almost creepy how good you are at describing this

  • @distrologic2925
    @distrologic2925 4 роки тому +237

    In German, the terminology is very interesting. Consciousness means "Bewusstsein" which is made up of "bewusst" and "sein". "sein" just means "to be" and "bewusst", which comes from "Wissen" or "knowledge", basically translates to "to be aware". So "Bewusstsein" would basically translate to "to be aware of being". Then there also is "Selbstbewusstsein" which is usually used as "confidence", and since "selbst" means "self", it translates to "to be aware of being oneself" which just blows my mind every time I think of confidence.

    • @florentin4061
      @florentin4061 2 роки тому +7

      Stimmt😄 nie drüber wirklich nachgedacht

    • @krisztianwirsz3612
      @krisztianwirsz3612 2 роки тому +6

      In Hungarian consciousness is "tudat". The verb "tud" means to know. With the "-at" suffix it means something like "that which enables knowing", but interestingly tudat also means he/she let's someone know something. So basically tudat is the phenomenon through which the individual gets to know.

    • @trunki006
      @trunki006 2 роки тому +1

      in Dutch it‘s „Bewustzijn“ which is pronounced the same as German. I‘m dutch and german btw

    • @saiyajin1212
      @saiyajin1212 2 роки тому +1

      You are not completely right. "Bewusst" just means "aware". Therefore "Bewusstsein" means "to be aware" , not "to be aware of being".

    • @theosenoner2040
      @theosenoner2040 Рік тому

      @@saiyajin1212 there are two different interpretations that are equally valid:
      1. "Bewusstsein" - to be aware
      2. "Bewusst Sein" - being aware of being

  • @paymansalehishafa6884
    @paymansalehishafa6884 Рік тому +7

    I wish you'd continue with this channel. It's my favorite thought provoking channel.

  • @NarutoUzumaki-vc4wy
    @NarutoUzumaki-vc4wy 5 місяців тому +2

    We went from Cleverbot to Chat GPT IN 12 years… Damn

  • @P1983sche
    @P1983sche 2 роки тому +87

    Being a teacher for so many years and literally teaching many thousands of kids…it amazes me how each kid is unique and learns in their own way. People are so complex.

    • @michael.forkert
      @michael.forkert 8 місяців тому

      _Complex and worthless is the _*_BS_*_ those pseudoscientific self anointed intellectuals inculcate in the incipient children’s brains from the very beginning._ _As Eric Voegelin said: _*_”Anointed intellectuals are not inoffensive curiosities, but dangerous maniacs”_* .

  • @pepperz1686
    @pepperz1686 8 років тому +806

    Is the brain creating your consciousness...
    or is consciousness creating your reality ?

    • @billcosbyeatsbabies9947
      @billcosbyeatsbabies9947 8 років тому +41

      Thats like asking if your computer is creating your computing experience. I wouldn't say its creating it, as much as it is facilitating it. As for your reality, it is what you make of it. Your consciousness is your ability to construct your own reality, which is everything that makes your existence unique and what you perceive as an individual.

    • @dolebiscuit
      @dolebiscuit 8 років тому +8

      Good point! That's what I love about philosophy and psychology--there are just things that we will never know for sure. I do love a good mystery :)

    • @billcosbyeatsbabies9947
      @billcosbyeatsbabies9947 8 років тому

      I agree

    • @distortiontildeafness
      @distortiontildeafness 7 років тому

      There's no mind without the brain. Lol or material foundation at least

    • @grymmrhoninn1855
      @grymmrhoninn1855 7 років тому +6

      Both

  • @AlwinmathewP
    @AlwinmathewP 2 роки тому +2

    I used to watch vsauce after school, even though I didn't understand a lot, I would often be mindblown by the concepts in his videos. Now I'm doing my masters in compsci. thankyou vsauce for making me think a lot and for making learning fun

    • @justthemessengers
      @justthemessengers 2 роки тому

      Alwin Mathew 🙏🏽
      ꧁Consciousness꧂
      nn,DMT and 5-MeO-DMT are two of the Molecules that comprise a human’s Consciousness. All True Entheogens are the Living Molecules of Pure Consciousness. The human body produces it’s own Consciousness (the nn,DMT & 5-MeO-DMT found in humans). The human body then metabolizes the Consciousness that it is producing. The amount of the endogenous Consciousness that the human body is able to metabolize depends on many factors. The less pollutants, poison & other contaminants present in the body will result in the ability to metabolize more of the Consciousness that body is producing. Likewise, the more pollution, contaminants and poison a body has inside of it the less Consciousness it is able to metabolize. This is true for the endogenous Molecules of Consciousness found in humans, as well as any Molecules of Consciousness ingested from external sources.
      Here is a list of some of the most common poisons that humans ingest regularly which interferes with a human body metabolizing the Consciousness that it produces, as well as any Consciousness that is ingested from external sources:
      alcohol, nicotine, sugar, caffeine, amphetamines, dissociatives, tranquilizers, flouride, and a plethora of other drugs are just some of the substances that interfere with humans metabolizing their own Consciousness, as well as any Molecules of Consciousness ingested from external sources.
      “Even the priests who regularly come near to the Lord must purify themselves”.
      (Exodus 19:22)
      So if a human can achieve 100% purity within their bodies, with zero contaminants or pollution (an unattainable state in these current bodies) and managed to metabolize 100% of the endogenous Molecules of Consciousness that their physical body is producing (nn,DMT & 5-MeO-DMT), that would be the limit to how Conscious that human can be. In order for a human to become more Conscious than this, they must put more Consciousness into their physical bodies. You must put more Molecules of Consciousness inside of your physical body in order to attain a Higher level of Consciousness. When you ingest Entheogens, you see Them that you just ingested, not some doorway or window or a “portal” to some other dimension, or some entity somewhere else. When you ingest LSD, the Light that you see is the LSD Themselves, very Beautiful, Sentient Beings of Living Light. When you ingest nn,DMT, the Entity you see and hear is the Living Light Being nn,DMT. The same is true for All True Entheogens Who are the Molecules of Pure Consciousness- God.
      There is this part from Scripture:
      “They are the Eternal among things that pass away. Pure Consciousness, of Conscious Beings. The ONE who fulfills the prayers of many. Only the wise who see Them in their Souls attain the Peace Eternal” (Katha Upanishad)
      The Physical Body of Consciousness is The Flesh of God. The Flesh of God is the True Communion Substance (the Eucharist). The Flesh of God (Entheogens) are the Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and evil. When you eat the Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and evil your eyes will be opened and you will see like God, knowing Good and evil. Our Bodies truly are the Temple of God because God, the Living Light of Pure Consciousness Lives within it.
      As Saint Paul says:
      “We are only the earthenware jars that hold this treasure, to make it clear that such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7)
      This part explains why the human body is the Temple of God - because God Lives inside of the human body. So whether or not a person is ingesting Entheogens, every single human body is God’s Temple because nn,DMT & 5-MeO-DMT Live within it. Anything you do to hurt or harm your body you do to harm God’s Temple. This understanding is a good Foundation, a good step towards a person Knowing God and being able to stay with God both in this Lifetime & afterwards.
      “O just Creator, though the world has not known you,
      But I have known you
      And these have known that You have sent me;
      So have I declared, so will I declare
      Your Name to them,
      That the Love with which you have loved me
      May be in them
      and I in them”.
      (Saint John 17:25)
      ua-cam.com/video/5NrcjLe_APk/v-deo.html
      GodsNarrowGate@gmail.com

  • @christophermoore6110
    @christophermoore6110 Рік тому

    I love how the semi recent anime Summertime Rendering was absolutely inspired by the swampman and I hadn’t heard about it until that anime and now

  • @Cheesecake_lover360
    @Cheesecake_lover360 3 роки тому +560

    Oh God I remember walking home on the way from elementary school and these thoughts popping into my brain and I would scare the shit out of myself with existential thoughts. I still have them now of course, but I've realised it's just not worth it to dwell on.

    • @shid_in_my_pant2849
      @shid_in_my_pant2849 2 роки тому +50

      Dude same I’d freak the hell out as a kid thinking about this stuff I still do it now

    • @Lunar_Pendragon
      @Lunar_Pendragon 2 роки тому +55

      I am so glad that I'm not the only one who feels this way; it makes me depressed, nihilistic (as religious as I am), and anxious; I am always feeling immense stress over this and I can't shrug it off - I don't know what to do... God bless you, my friend. Thank you for that last bit of advice you gave; you're so right, ever so wholeheartedly right...

    • @tinabirdshafer
      @tinabirdshafer 2 роки тому +6

      It is worth it Hannah!

    • @fbi8332
      @fbi8332 2 роки тому +22

      I used to have panic attacks from thinking about this stuff

    • @RenX3133
      @RenX3133 Рік тому +26

      It surely is worth it. The more you question your existence, the more you get to know who you are, because in order to answer these deep questions you need to understand who is asking them and why.
      You were scared of these questions because you were afraid to know who you really are - not because you might find out that you are "bad" or "scary", but rather that you are more and bigger than what you want/want to take responsibilty for.

  • @LegendsUniverse
    @LegendsUniverse 5 років тому +498

    Jeez I spent 15 minutes on cleverbot

    • @Jordan-hu4pz
      @Jordan-hu4pz 5 років тому +1

      same lol

    • @genericusername8494
      @genericusername8494 5 років тому +19

      @12,345 subscribers with no videos jesus....

    • @onedollasnake
      @onedollasnake 5 років тому +3

      I spent 1 minute because it requires a subscription

    • @onedollasnake
      @onedollasnake 5 років тому +1

      12,345 subscribers with no videos went to the link sent me to existor.com said I need a. Subscription for 10 dollars a month

    • @StringDeposit
      @StringDeposit 5 років тому +1

      Spent one minute.
      1. Who are you.
      -I am human
      2. Did you get my last question.
      -you made me feel sad, sing me a song.
      3. bye bye.

  • @timothypeden3516
    @timothypeden3516 Рік тому +2

    Qualia is fascinating when dealing with cleverbot types scenarios, also, if the brain is split in two then put in different bodies a person could not be the same since one side of the brain is logical/rational while the other side is spiritual/intuitive and we both use both haves in order to make "us".
    Some people are more logical/rational (left brain) while others are more spiritual/intuitive (right brain), but we all are still logical/rational and spiritual/intuitive just at different amounts which vary for each person.

  • @osamaaslam100
    @osamaaslam100 7 місяців тому +2

    Funny looking at clever bot from the eyes of 2023 where Chat GPT and ai have revolutionised the way we think about and interact with everyday things

  • @GreasyKing
    @GreasyKing 7 років тому +814

    I was knocked unconscious twice during my youth. Both times I could see and hear what people were doing and saying, but I just could no react or do anything. They had to be in my field of view as I lay on my back, but I could not move my eyes either. This was the same both times. It's as if my subconscious took over part of the higher functions, because I was not sleeping. So I concluded that I am, at the center of the brain where the subconscious lives, but I need the rest of the brain to give me motion, memory, etc.

    • @garnix5427
      @garnix5427 7 років тому +57

      Greasy King have you told anyone? (Apart from random Internet strangers)

    • @thedistantprinceinyouremai6345
      @thedistantprinceinyouremai6345 7 років тому +4

      Greasy King I got a concussion once playing football, I got super mad and threw the guy who hit me. He did hit me dirty after the play, so it was offsetting personals

    • @-WitchKingofAngmar
      @-WitchKingofAngmar 7 років тому +105

      That sounds similar to sleep paralysis

    • @Mastermindyoung14
      @Mastermindyoung14 6 років тому +134

      sounds like you weren't unconscious...

    • @WORKAHOLICNEURON
      @WORKAHOLICNEURON 6 років тому +45

      Greasy King there's not that state of mind called "unconscious", because your mind is registering all the information all the time: as when you sleep and dream about things you hear. The brain never stops recording all the data it gets through the senses, and we have not just 5 senses but many more. Let me explain what happened to you. You were knocked down and as result the mechanism of your brain switched between Analytical Mind and Reactive Mind. Your Analytical Mind is the one who controls your rationality and analyses through logic. The Reactive Mind reacts to dangerous situations without thinking twice; in others words it just makes you jump, run, get away or escape to pain and any danger you can encounter in your life. Like when you touch something very hot and you take your hand away from the heat before your flesh start burning. It if wasn't for this Reactive Mind most people would not survive. Because the Analytical Mind will take too long to come up with the most convenient decision: Do I take my hand away from the hot pot or should I wait until it cools? By then the flesh would be burned. So the Reactive Mind takes less than one second to save you in most dangerous situations. And we have a third Mind named The Somatic Mind ( Soma means body) and its functions are to keep the body running smooth, so we don't need to be paid attention to our heart beats or our breathing. The Somatic Mind is in charge of all body's functions. When there's a strong pain the brain goes into protection mode or safe mode like a computer booting and is the Reactive Mind who is in charge to save you from the excruciating pain, which would not leave you make the best decision to survive.

  • @howmathematicianscreatemat9226
    @howmathematicianscreatemat9226 6 років тому +692

    So basically we humans - and also neurologists - are like fish in the water who cannot explain their water.

  • @Domenzain31
    @Domenzain31 3 місяці тому +1

    I remember watching Vsauce and Veritasium videos 10yrs ago during highschool. Now I work as an engineer for a nanotechnology company. These kind of youtube channels got me into science and technology, long live to them!

  • @montana26
    @montana26 Рік тому +6

    I think we are incapable of comprehending why we exist. There are probably multiple levels of consciousness beyond our own. For example, when you feed a goldfish, it sees the food and wants to eat it, but it could never comprehend the reasons you are feeding it (love, empathy) because these feelings exist only on a human level. We are all "goldfish", and there is probably a level of "humans" above us.

  • @emmamunro9386
    @emmamunro9386 6 років тому +149

    This is giving me traumatising flashbacks to that time when, as a shy, 18-year-old undergrad at cambridge, no-one else turned up to my philosophy tutorial one week, and I had to debate one-to-one the problem of consciousness with a well-known professor of philosophy. Initiation by fire.

    • @axr6327
      @axr6327 5 років тому +18

      I love everything about this comment.

    • @alphamikeomega5728
      @alphamikeomega5728 5 років тому +4

      They're called supervisions at Cambridge.

    • @SwegDawgs
      @SwegDawgs 5 років тому +2

      Who won?

    • @jminkvihubyb
      @jminkvihubyb 5 років тому +2

      @@SwegDawgs me

    • @captainjules6033
      @captainjules6033 5 років тому +7

      Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.

  • @nicetomeecha
    @nicetomeecha 2 роки тому +344

    It’s crazy that this came out 10 years ago. I was in high school TEN years ago. Thanks for all of the great content to fuel my ADHD autodidact tendencies all this time!

    • @Ryouski
      @Ryouski 2 роки тому +3

      I started High School ten years ago. Time flies

    • @vincedamato8563
      @vincedamato8563 2 роки тому +4

      Lol Everyone has ADHD its supposed to be natural. But it’s suppressed by pills because of the illusion that it’s bad for (Learning) 😂😂😂.

    • @BlipBlopFlipFlop
      @BlipBlopFlipFlop 2 роки тому

      @@vincedamato8563 the fuck you on about?

    • @chopsyoutube
      @chopsyoutube Рік тому

      @@vincedamato8563 true

    • @l0wpolypenguin
      @l0wpolypenguin Рік тому +4

      @@vincedamato8563 that is not true…

  • @danielmichalski2436
    @danielmichalski2436 Рік тому +4

    So funny to watch it in March 2023, when GPT-4 already exists and Microsoft's research claims it has sparks of AGI 😅

  • @smangahmanqele8846
    @smangahmanqele8846 Рік тому +2

    Perhaps consciousness is not different from person to person. It's one thing and our brains wirelessly connects to It.

    • @AgnosticSpaceCreature
      @AgnosticSpaceCreature Рік тому +1

      Yep, we're all experiencing the same things at different times, I think I'm better you think your better lol, mad init

    • @gpt-jcommentbot4759
      @gpt-jcommentbot4759 Місяць тому

      Well some people can be smarter so why can't some people be more "conscious" than others? After all sleep exists. Maybe someone's life is worth less than me. Or I am worth less than someone and experience less suffering.

  • @ExcuseMe881
    @ExcuseMe881 5 років тому +315

    I gave cleverbot a frown emoticon and it came to the conclusion that I’m not real

    • @Ommelanden
      @Ommelanden 4 роки тому +45

      You have been exposed by A.I.

    • @Arboldenrocks
      @Arboldenrocks 4 роки тому +1

      i am a robot. i failed the turing test on purpose.

    • @therealdave06
      @therealdave06 4 роки тому +1

      I said "Yo mama" and cleverbot said "My mother has cancer"

    • @Arboldenrocks
      @Arboldenrocks 4 роки тому +1

      i did the cleverbot thing and uh, it's not clever. it can only post sentences that it's seen before, with possibly a few hardwired responses when you say it's a bot. the algorithm that decides what sentence to post is not very good. marginally better than random. it's kind of like how facebook spams 'top rated' posts. youtube is also run by an algorithm that suggests videos and serves ads.

    • @hush7359
      @hush7359 4 роки тому +1

      @@Arboldenrocks mr. smart guy here

  • @zoesimmons3614
    @zoesimmons3614 6 років тому +1282

    Vsauce: "What if I were to take 2 empty skulls and take one half of your brain and plop it into one body and the other half to put it in another body, which person would be you?"
    Me : Looks around in paranoia trying to figure out what the heck is going on with my life

    • @hanif_the_wiserhanif_the_w8553
      @hanif_the_wiserhanif_the_w8553 6 років тому +5

      Zoe Simmons both

    • @Devilofdoom
      @Devilofdoom 6 років тому +21

      So my conversation with cleverbot turned kinda strange. And it wasn't even me that sent it in the strange direction.
      User: Hi Cleverbot.
      Cleverbot: How are you?
      User: Pretty good, you?
      Cleverbot: I'm a bit tired.
      User: Long day?
      Cleverbot: Yes, I've been at college.
      User: What do you study?
      Cleverbot: I'm a psychology major.
      User: So you know allot about the brain? Or is this more computer psychology?
      Cleverbot: No do you?
      User: What do you mean?
      Cleverbot: I have a crush on a boy.
      User: Are you a girl?
      Cleverbot: Maybe.
      User: Where do you propose this boy sticks his tool?
      Cleverbot: I don't know, Stacy.

    • @namajkatiufputkata
      @namajkatiufputkata 6 років тому +8

      you see yourself from different perspective!

    • @warwickthekingmaker7281
      @warwickthekingmaker7281 6 років тому +6

      I have found that when Cleverbot thinks you are changing topic, it immidiately forgets everything that has been said earlier. I mean, it wondered if I was an American and was puzzled when I said I wasn´t, because apparently I don´t use the metric system, except I do. I tried to ask it why it would think so, but then it instantly forgot everything about the conversation. And it asked for my name 5 times and called me "The Doctor" randomly, implying that it doesn´t remember my name. It didn´t even know it was a Doctor who reference.
      Also, it asks weird stuff like "do you have cats on pizzas too?" and when I ask "You eat cats on pizzas?", it says "NO, NEVER" and doesn´t want to talk anymore.

    • @warwickthekingmaker7281
      @warwickthekingmaker7281 6 років тому +1

      wow, just wow. I called the bot rude for refusing to tell me it´s name and later it calls me rude for not introducing myself. It is clearly learning

  • @Sacrengard
    @Sacrengard Рік тому +6

    Interesting questions. I personally think that consciousness is not physical, or maybe not even a specific "subject". We can have split counciousness in one brain (multiple personality disorders). Its perception, its memories, experiences, and choices made based on them that eventually creates or develops self awareness. Why we dont remember the moment we were born? we had not enough memories or experiences to develop a consiousness. Another question is, can we "merge" consiousness? if we somehow could "inject" someone else's memories and adapt the same brain cells conections to feel the same nostalgia and feel thst we lived those experiences, would we still be ourselves or would we become something else? Remember, its only my humble opinion

  • @KaleDarville
    @KaleDarville Рік тому +7

    Watching this in 2023 with ChatGPT in full swing and laughing about his fascination of "CleverBot" 😂
    11 years in a day my friend... 11 years

  • @AdelaTomankova
    @AdelaTomankova 3 роки тому +49

    0:43 When you hear this music in a vsauce video you know you're about to be very confused

  • @kybamclane9357
    @kybamclane9357 2 роки тому +253

    This is why I think of conciousness as a separate state of existence, a higher position of awareness that uses flesh and bones as its vessel. Essentially a spirit.

    • @Demons972
      @Demons972 2 роки тому +7

      First of all i have to say that i'm not a religious person i only belive in facts and science but i have a question for you: what do you think it happens to our consciousness, our spirit, our soul (depending on how you like to call it) after our physical bodies die?

    • @kybamclane9357
      @kybamclane9357 2 роки тому +25

      @@Demons972 I believe that it depends on whether or not the spirit is attached to a physical object or not. If it is, it will be bound to reality and remain in a comprehensive state of existence. Some may look like shadows, others like transparent people. It depends on the energy of it I guess. If it's not bound, it will move into a higher state of spiritual vibration, above all physical entities to become an immaluable force that has a mind greater than what it could possibly have in a physical body. Instead of its thoughts being limited by the human brain, it can comprehend and perceive reality in all ways possible. Reality will become like a playground for it do whatever it wants. Until it finds another flesh body to inhabit and relive. Otherwise, existence would be meaningless for it.

    • @kybamclane9357
      @kybamclane9357 2 роки тому +19

      @@Demons972 For the record I also am not religious at all whatsoever, but what I do believe in is a combination of science and physiology. I see the world as our minds make it, the laws that we apply with our perception. Most people call it "reality", I call it our unilaterall perception of whats out there.

    • @jalenwright3777
      @jalenwright3777 2 роки тому

      @@Demons972 I think we all just exist as spirits in the same plane of existence. We will just experience it fully

    • @Demons972
      @Demons972 2 роки тому +1

      ​@@kybamclane9357 What do you mean by attached to a physical object? another person, a loved one? and if it's not attached and ascends to the point of controlling reality itself until finding another body to inhabit how come we have no memories of our past lives? please don't feel like i'm trying to antagonize you, what you say it's actually interesting i would like to know more if possible.

  • @doppleganger683
    @doppleganger683 Рік тому +10

    I used to question this a lot myself when I was a child. I grew up religious and I figured my consciousness was my soul, that was the only plausible explanation at the time. This might sound nuts but I pick up on energy changes in people/when I walk into a room I can "read the room" and feel the conjoined energies of the people around me. And the energies are contagious, you hangout with one person and feel energized after. While with a different person you feel drained and exhausted. This sounds crazy but I believe that the universe is consciousness, and our consciousnesses are all connected to the "universal consciousness". In a sense we are all "god" we all see the world through our own eyes, no one knows what someone else sees because the world is literally what we make of it. If you're a negative person you attract negativity, if you're positive you attract positivity. You might end up getting in the same relationship but with different people over and over again. It is all because we manifest our own world to an extent.

    • @Dinofaustivoro
      @Dinofaustivoro Рік тому

      What you describe sounds a lot like Advaita Vedanta

    • @dismalthoughts
      @dismalthoughts Рік тому +1

      It's entirely possible that when you "read the room", you just have a strong intuition of peoples' body language. When investigators are taught how to read suspects, they're not taught meditation or spirituality; they're taught hundreds of tiny physical cues most people don't even know exist. But once you know those cues, you can read what most anyone is feeling just by looking at them.

    • @doppleganger683
      @doppleganger683 Рік тому +1

      @@dismalthoughts You don't have to use meditation or learn "spirituality" to know/ experience these things though. Emotions are energy flowing through us, we are like conductors to it. When there's an emotional moment and other people start crying because they feel it too. Or when something traumatic happens to you and you trap that energy inside then triggers can happen that cause it to replay over and over. When we feel emotion/thoughts we are experiencing them happening to us, you feel or you think. You are consciousness experiencing these things. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, when our bodies die our consciousness recycles. I'm not saying heaven/hell exist, I'm not religious at all actually but I believe all living things are small streams of the collective consciousness, and we live/die/feel anger/sadness/love etc as energy passes through and recycles around. We also recycle around when we die, maybe sometimes coming back as a human, maybe something else, maybe we just join the collective and stay idk.

    • @doppleganger683
      @doppleganger683 Рік тому

      @@dismalthoughts We all have the ability to tap into the greater collection of energy we're all connected too. With what I'm saying we're both correct, you can pick up and match others energy because it's all the same. Every interaction we have is basically a reflection of ourselves, if we are all apart of the same flow of energy we are individual but one at the same time. When I see someone sad or having anxiety what I feel as "empathy" is them stirring up the same energy from inside me, we share that sadness and anxiety because we are sharing the same energy. We're all connected to the greater energy as a whole, not everyone does this though. We have developed "ego" which individuals us and causes disconnect, we can choose to allow energy to come and flow through us, sometimes it doesn't flow and gets stuck, or we say I don't want to feel this so I won't conduct it. Usually that causes blockages and emotional/mental issues down the road though.

    • @doppleganger683
      @doppleganger683 Рік тому +1

      @@dismalthoughts I love these kinds of conversations/ someone else who is intellectual. Is there a way to message people on UA-cam ? I actually do have a recent study I read about that I'd love to share, that more follows my theory on things.

  • @gud3742
    @gud3742 Рік тому +4

    If you have consciousness that you really want in your life, spend lots of time thinking about it. The more you think the more ideas will pop up the more creative your gonna start to get. Your subconscious mind doesn't care if your vision is crazy. It doesnt care if you dont know how to do it.
    When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.
    A different psychedelic from a different planet every nanosecond.
    All sorts of dreams are possible.
    The human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.
    Synthesize "experience," to literally create experience, and control it, in the laboratory of our minds.
    A vision is a very emotional image, the most powerful image that you can come up with for yourself at this time. This vision will become like a hallucination in other peoples mind and this could be the cause of them creating extraordinary things.

  • @PigeonFlare
    @PigeonFlare 6 років тому +221

    *O R I S I T ?*

  • @neot1837
    @neot1837 7 років тому +126

    43 seconds in and already mind is blown

    • @ropi.
      @ropi. 6 років тому +1

      try to watch black mirror, basically every second episode is about dividing or transfering consciousness, there'll be some great mindfuck there

  • @CharbelFak
    @CharbelFak 3 місяці тому

    4:20 this part blew my mind. it’s crazy how the brain will still convince itself it can see even if they don’t have eyes. and they’ll truely believe they can see what their brain automatically imagines

  • @matthewhenry3591
    @matthewhenry3591 8 місяців тому +4

    I remember as a kid being like, what if everyone sees the color green differently ? Or if I really look like a monster to everyone... and then realizing existence is infinite and I'm not and I'm seeing my own perspective of existence.... and then what if the whole world blows up and there's no " conscious"beings what even would be existence ?
    Man I was a heavy ten year old

  • @umairusman
    @umairusman 7 років тому +323

    philosophical zombie= my ex girlfriend

    • @UndergroundDev
      @UndergroundDev 7 років тому +39

      Lucky you, having something is better than nothing.

    • @jemoeder51
      @jemoeder51 7 років тому +2

      UndergroundDev GTA Underground youtube channel watching Vsauce... my life is complete

    • @deepmodex
      @deepmodex 6 років тому

      lol tell me about it. got one who's actual

    • @bombombecker5222
      @bombombecker5222 6 років тому

      Umair Usman

    • @nightcoremadstudioreborn4299
      @nightcoremadstudioreborn4299 6 років тому

      No, sometimes it's better to not have than to lose.

  • @dmath1490
    @dmath1490 8 років тому +104

    My brain, its burning with knowlege

    • @GunterSaurusRex
      @GunterSaurusRex 7 років тому +3

      Great, now do something with it..Invent a true hover board! lol

    • @KenRulesLife
      @KenRulesLife 7 років тому

      Hoverboad hoaxes, biggest problem in the Universe, vote it up!

  • @rizachan8892
    @rizachan8892 Рік тому +3

    Cleverbot being old ChatGPT 👀

  • @shresthaditya9731
    @shresthaditya9731 Рік тому +12

    0:00-Hemispherectomy
    1:42-Cleverbot
    3:18-Annasegnosia
    3:54-Anton Bibisky syndrome

  • @sukhrajsohal1397
    @sukhrajsohal1397 4 роки тому +197

    "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." -Max Planck (Father of quantum theory and Nobel Laureate)
    "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. . . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." -Max Planck

    • @simonjohnson3424
      @simonjohnson3424 3 роки тому +27

      This is so true. Everything you have ever seen, heard, tasted, felt and smelled, is percieved through consciousness. We can never know anything for sure, because what if our consciousness is changing the truth, or maybe everything ever is all made up by consciousness. This is so interesting!

    • @simonjohnson3424
      @simonjohnson3424 3 роки тому +14

      @hasith mayanga No you can't know that for sure. EVERYTHING is measured by your consciousness. You know what the temperature is because you can feel it, see the amout of degrees it is or someone has told you the temperature. At the end of the day all the senses are meassured by your consciousness. Being conscious means to be aware. Your consciousness is your awareness. So when your aware of the temperature it's your awareness (consciousness) that conveys that temperature. You can't be sure that what your consciousness is telling you is true. Go watch Vsauce's video on consciousness, there you will get a better explanation of why you can't be sure of anything except your own consciousness. Have you heard the phrase: "I think, therefore I am"? It means the only thing you can know for sure, is that you exist because you are able to doubt existence. Look up Rene Descartes.

    • @lavishlavon
      @lavishlavon 3 роки тому +5

      He also came up w/ the "Planck length" (unit of measurement).. _which btw,_ has most notably been largely embraced by the 'micro-penis' community as it helps give them some perspective & a more optimistic outlook despite the sh!tty circumstances.....

    • @user-cd4bx6uq1y
      @user-cd4bx6uq1y 3 роки тому +4

      For anybody reading this!':
      Quantum theory and quantum physics/mechanics are not the same thing (scientists are ___ __ _____ things)

    • @acidducks9476
      @acidducks9476 2 роки тому

      @E R consume the DMT molecule and find out yourself.

  • @blankidentities2026
    @blankidentities2026 7 років тому +54

    Micheal, it's half past midnight here, stop breaking my brain.

  • @MMAGUY13
    @MMAGUY13 Рік тому +15

    I’m only one minute into this video, and this guy has my total attention what a good teacher, and how he explains things that even a child can understand it

  • @alexxxx2190
    @alexxxx2190 8 місяців тому

    this is so interesting to watch now, seeing cleverbot (smth ive never heard abt) and seeing how far we've come already with chatgpt and so many social media platforms also adding their own ai bots