Same, I never thought I'd prefer listening to a Minecrafter over some philosopher when Reguarding philosophy, and it's not because the philosophers are stupid or I disagree with them, it's more like I can relate to xisuma so much in the way that he talks, that even if I disagree with him I can listen to him for hours, I wish he had more content to listen to though, but that's aski g for too much
Laplace’s demon follows this: If a being has infinite computing power, and knew the position and velocity of each and every particle in existence, then it can predict the future perfectly
@kashimacoated that would only be possible if the theoretical demon knows how to make infinitesimally small plots, but as the saying goes "once you allow infinity, the answer is yes"
@@jasperelsley4919/videos That's what xisuma was talking about. Maybe there's some stuff we just haven't figured out yet that's prohibiting us from getting it. For example, in order to accept quantum physics as it stands today, you have to assume that adding all of the infinite numbers together will equal -1/12. I don't buy that for a second, that's just a bodge job that we've put in place that kind of works if you fudge things about a little. I have almost no knowledge about all this stuff, but I don't think the brightest minds in the field have any real clue about the scope of it all. There might be some kind of fundamental thingy that, when we figure it out, it'll have a knock-on effect that makes our understanding of everything just that little bit clearer. Though, to be fair, if we could overcome that, then we could potentially end up with limitless power which I don't think will ever happen.
4:21 I'm studying physics, but i didn't get to quantum mechanics yet, so this is only an (maybe erroneus) opinion, based only on some stuff i've been reading: As far as i understand, the "probability nature" of QM arises from the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg principle). It's not the capability of prediction what fails, but the capability of perfect measurement... If you'd know ,perfectly, the initial state of a system you'd (maybe) be capable of computing the future states of the system, but acording to the UP, knowing the initial state of a system with perfect accuracy is (in principle) impossible. If this also aplies to the Laplace's demon, then the demon shouldn't have the capability of perfect prediction. Now, i don't know what happens down there at those scales, but the fact that we can't predict exactly the behavior of a system, doesn't mean its not deterministic, it means that the capability of exact prediction is forbidden to us. (again, if i understand it correctly) So maybe, free will can exist, maybe it can't... idk. The next quote is taken from the book i've been reading: QUANTUM PHYSICS of Atoms, Molecules, Solids,Nuclei, and Particles. by Eisberg, Resnick. (2nd ed, page 78) "The uncertainty principle also makes it clear that the mechanics of quantum systems must necessarily be expressed in terms of probabilities. In classical mechanics, if at any instant we know exactly the position and momentum of each particle in an isolated system, then we can predict the exact behavior of the particles of the system for all future time. In quantum mechanics, however, the uncertainty principle shows us that it is impossible to do this for systems involving small distances and momenta because it is impossible to know, with the required accuracy, the instantaneous positions and momenta of the particles. As a result, we shall be able to make predictions only of the probable behavior of these particles." thanks for reading, sorry if this is nonsense.
You are correct. The HUS makes it so that we have to express wave functions as superpositions of its possible functions. This means we can get expected values that aren't actually possible values to obtain, for example. When observed, these superpostions collapse into the single state it exists in.
While I have finished my degree in physics it’s been a while since I touched quantum mechanics. But yes I agree the uncertainty principle basically states you cannot precisely measure the position and momentum of a particle. You can narrow down the range the particle is in but that reduces the probability the particle exists within that range. Of course you can find a range the particle is likely within and find a range of momentum the particle is experiencing. However once you isolate the location of a particle perfectly, the wave function describing the particle’s position and momentum collapses into a delta function leaving only the position of the particle and an infinite range of momentum.
This makes me think of not only time travel but also the Replay mod. It captures everything and it's position and it's instance in an animation. It captures everything that happens in the loaded chunks and can recite it perfectly and, bc it's recorded, can be predicted perfectly bc it has already recorded what's going to happen. What if life was a recital of some vast replay mod?
Man it feels weird listening to a UA-camr I used to just watch for fun as a child basically now talking about topics that have peaked my interest as an adult or apply to my life.
If your personality is based on your surroundings and experiences then that does as it does and causes you to react to the predetermined event in a certain way
X I just have to say that these things are amazing! would you consider making a podcast? I think you could execute it very well. Just and idea though. Keep it up! I'll listen to anything you make. It's really inspiring and makes me want to do similar things
Lots of these ideas are things I thought of. Like me being the only proven conscious person, and the idea that we don't make any of our own decisions as they are caused by other predictable things.
I believe we could very well be living in a deterministic universe, where even if we restart it, everything will play out in the same way. However on everyday level, it actually doesn't matter if there is or isn't free will, and even if it is deterministic universe, we should live as if we have free will. ...OR I'm just in the "smart teen" phase and what I said was random mumbo jumbo
I believe in determinism in that our brains work like computers, and that anything can be predicted with enough knowledge. But at the same time, I think that we should still do our best to make good decisions because we know that they affect our futures anyways. I know that I shouldn't jump off a cliff because I would die, but because I know that I would never do it.
I also do belive on determinism. In my opinion knowning every quants properties like their position or momentum, all phisics rules and so on, makes you able to predict every future moment of time. But even the future is predictable, it doesn't mean you are not a creator
And I do not understand how it does not fit in uncertainity principle od quantum mechanics. Maybe anyone can explain it to me? Why is not possible for Laplace demon to exists?
@@marcinkrezoek3439 the uncertainty principle is a law of the universe. It isn't just difficult to figure out the position and momentum of a particle, it is impossible. One of the conditions for laplaces demon to exist is that it must know the position and velocity of every particle. Which contradicts with our understanding of quantum mechanics. So Heisenberg's uncertainty principle poses a problem for one of the most basic premises of laplaces demon.
Unique Name But cannot it be that we just have unsufficient knowledge? We as humanity learn more and more about The World, but well, until 20s or 30s (don't remember exactly) we belived that Newton was 100% right about gravity. My point is, that as our knowledge increases, some laws could be recreated as maybe Heisenberg principle. Not totally rejected, but maybe slightly "improved"
These videos really make me wish I caught the streams when they were actually happening. This is a really interesting topic! The idea of Solipsism reminds me of the ideas of like, how in children's psychology we learned as we grew up that things continue to exist even if we can't see them, we also learn over time that we are not the only conscious/real person too? I forget the actual base for it but it's like, we eventually realize that everyone else has their own internal life just as complex as our own. I think the word might be "sonder"?
Your video about racism helped me complete my English project where we had to write about the social evils depicted in the poem 'The Cold Within'. I watched it with my mother and she shared it to my friends. Thank you so much. P.S. I can now watch hermitcraft more often XD.
On the topic of physics and quantum mechanics, there is this amazing book (imo) called _The Elegant Universe_, and it discusses the conflict between classical and quantum physics, but mainly about Superstring theory which can, in theory, unite them
I used to be a determinist. It is a natural conclusion when you study Newtonian mechanics. Heisenberg Uncertainty breaks determinism. It is an elegant expression of how particles are not billiard balls. The short version is that if you measure a particle's position and momentum, there is a minimum amount of uncertainty in those measurements. It's not a practical limit to the measurement, it is that the thing you are measuring does not have a perfect measurement. "Why", is a third year undergrad class in modern physics and two years of multi-variable calculus. Regarding the Demon, it cannot perfectly know the position and movement of any particle and thus cannot make a 100% accurate prediction of future states. Thus, free will. The future is undecided and undesigned.
Quantum mechanics being probabilistic (even if that doesn't have much of an effect) combined with chaos theory would mean the universe is not deterministic. This also seems to match up with the second law of thermodynamics (entropy always increases). Even so, that doesn't necessarily mean you have free will and even if you did, probably not to the extent that you feel you do since quantum effects are tiny compared to the (mostly) determinism of chemistry that governs your brain.
I think one key thing that is important in quantum mechanics is the difference between randomness vs uncertainty. There is limits to how much we can know, but that doesn't inherently cause randomness.
Getting into quantum mechanics breaks determinism in that there won't be only way things will happen. As you say in the video, nothing is random, it's defined by probabilities, perfectly defined by probabilities. Knowing this, you can reinterpret determinism as just having multiple paths where some are more probable by others.
Stumbled across Hermitcraft earlier this year, but... during a bathroom deep-clean, my YT autoplay landed me here. Only watched "on bullying" and "personal finance" and this so far, but damn dude. Existential crises and meta-cognition are my jam. Think you might be my new favorite. :) Thanks for being a good man.
Cypher : You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? [Takes a bite of steak] Cypher : Ignorance is bliss.
5:50 another good example is entropy. Supposedly, all states of energy distribution in mass are equally probable, in other words: random. Yet there is a tendency for it to equilibrate
The best argument for free will I've heard starts with Laplace's demon as Xisuma explained with complete scientific knowledge of all the inner workings of the universe at a given time as to be able to calculate all future possible states. The difference is that you have Laplace's demon tell you what your given state at a future point will be. For example one morning it tells you exactly what you will eat at a restaurant at lunch that day. Would not most people immediately want to contradict the demon by eating something different? The issue is the self-referential nature of this thought. It's somewhat similar to the double-slit experiment where the observer effects the system.
I like thinking about this stuff! Imagine Minecraft players think that they are in the real world - when we are controlling them! And then, you control the people in the game to make the same game inside the game, then they control the people in that game.... It goes on for infinity.... And messes with my head!
I think that the example of video games is actually a very good argument against the idea that we exist in a simulation. I mean clearly we are able to create good simulations of creatures living in a naturally generated world without having to program in complex thoughts and emotions. When you create simulations the whole purpose is to simplify the system so that the simulation can be carried out quicker than it actually plays out in the real world, so why on earth would you go to the effort of programming in the massively complex, fully conscious meat sacs we carry around in our heads?
sometimes i have a feeling of simulation too. you know how in the sims, your character randomly stops dead in his tracks and starts doing push ups? well i catch myself doing that too and i have no idea my brain could go from 'i need to get from point a to point b' to 'i need to stop whatever im doing right now and do some push ups'. stuff is scary man
A thought I've had was we're all just beings created by a being similar to Azathoth(because while I think the universe is a more like Lovecraft envisioned it, I don't think it's an exact copy, and he could not have all the details) whilst it dreams. Once it wakes up, the dream ends and so do we. Now after this video, I'm thinking "What if there's something dreaming that created Azathoth?" and we can go down the line, so essentially this is the simulation theory with a Lovecraftian skin.
Randomness did help me a lot on some of my classes as you could explain some wacky results on that XD but yeah, the random side of the universe is confined by laws, and it is very possible that what we call random is just a law we haven't discovered yet :)
I was starting to type this comment but I then you started talking about this stuff, glad I waited until the end of the video. "The most significant argument against Laplace's Demon in determinism is the laws that involve probability - some certain things are truly unknown and random." Like you said, randomness isn't completely random but it's more like probability, and things that are truly up to the flip of a coin happen at very low levels.
Recently I'm studying the behaviour of materials, using quantum mechanics, and it really shows how difficult it is to define deterministically also the simplest things, so I rely on approximations. It seems like when we get older and "wiser", we get to understand that complete knowledge of nature is too complex and we can just be satisfied with things that work well enough. This may be existentially worrying, but it's good to have a place where people talk about these things
Laplace's demon would fail because peoples choices are only ever probabilistic; my body might tell me that I want a drink of water, but if I actually go and get one or not is just a probability, so the demon cannot predict my movements, nor those of any other entity that has will power and the ability to make choices.
I can say that Xisuma's streams are really worth watching / listening by just looking at the title. I mostly listen most of themm but still I am really grateful that this channel exists.
*casually having an existential crisis while playing Minecraft*
Yep
This comment made me laugh have a nice day
Pretty much
Whoever is supposed to control me is AFK.
They are AFK when we sleep
I'm pretty sure the guy controlling me is just messing around
The guy controlling me is really going for joke run at this point.
Mine is a speedrunne
Hey Eddie!
"you being the only atual real person and everyone being false"
then what about false?
it's big brain time
Uhhh
She stays the same
YES
@RSGJ - she's a cam account, not a real person
everyone else is just falsesymmetry in disguise
It’s concepts like this that make me go mad. And it’s terrifyingly exhilarating
yeah id love to hear him talk about roko's basilisk
obamer what’s that?
Michael Stevens made a video on this topic in his mind field series, I would REALLY recommend it.
Random Videos / RV do you mean Vsauce?
Don’t worry bout it
1:15 "Solipsism is the idea of you being the only real person and everybody else being false."
False: **confused screaming**
Guys, he knows too much! Time to reset the game! Better luck next time
Darnit I just leveled up my character, Grian!
@@theunluckypotato1484 Yeah, my Iskall85 character was trying to finish his omega tree of doom! (Idk the exact thing he calls it -w-")
@@tai1ynn471 Hate when that happens. But who was playing X?
@@jdgfshdjfkakahdkshfhdjdh Someone who thinks that he/she is controlling X while in reality they are being controlled themselves
ok good ive been experiencing glitches everywhere. NPCs arent loading when i go outside
I love how deeper X's talks are becoming.
Same, I never thought I'd prefer listening to a Minecrafter over some philosopher when Reguarding philosophy, and it's not because the philosophers are stupid or I disagree with them, it's more like I can relate to xisuma so much in the way that he talks, that even if I disagree with him I can listen to him for hours, I wish he had more content to listen to though, but that's aski g for too much
Imagine there being a humancraft server with 7 bilion players
I wish I could customize my body lol
then who are the admins?
Actually 8 billion. Were gonna have to get used to saying that number instrad of 7 billion from now on. Wow the population is growing fast
Ezijo . God
no yes no we are still on 7.5 billion lol
Laplace’s demon follows this:
If a being has infinite computing power, and knew the position and velocity of each and every particle in existence, then it can predict the future perfectly
Yup you are correct.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle disallows that
And yet it is impossible to know both the position and velocity of a particle.
@kashimacoated that would only be possible if the theoretical demon knows how to make infinitesimally small plots, but as the saying goes "once you allow infinity, the answer is yes"
@@jasperelsley4919/videos That's what xisuma was talking about. Maybe there's some stuff we just haven't figured out yet that's prohibiting us from getting it.
For example, in order to accept quantum physics as it stands today, you have to assume that adding all of the infinite numbers together will equal -1/12.
I don't buy that for a second, that's just a bodge job that we've put in place that kind of works if you fudge things about a little.
I have almost no knowledge about all this stuff, but I don't think the brightest minds in the field have any real clue about the scope of it all. There might be some kind of fundamental thingy that, when we figure it out, it'll have a knock-on effect that makes our understanding of everything just that little bit clearer.
Though, to be fair, if we could overcome that, then we could potentially end up with limitless power which I don't think will ever happen.
I love this channel because sometimes it's like "fitness! fun things!" and other times it's like "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE TOMORROW"
I love xisumasays, X seems like such an amazing and smart person!
X *is* a smart and amazing person
Mainly wise.
X is amazing and mysterious at the same time
He's relatable, I don't agree with him on some things, I agree on others, but he's coming at these ideas from the same perspective as me so it's great
He is your step dad
the wise man-bee has blown my mind ... xD
First time?
All praise the almighty bee
“Yeah man look at all the sheepeople “ I literally burst out laughing 😂
Imagine just discovering Xisuma says and the first video you see is about your favourite Minecraft UA-camr questioning if they have free will.
4:21
I'm studying physics, but i didn't get to quantum mechanics yet, so this is only an (maybe erroneus) opinion, based only on some stuff i've been reading:
As far as i understand, the "probability nature" of QM arises from the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg principle). It's not the capability of prediction what fails, but the capability of perfect measurement... If you'd know ,perfectly, the initial state of a system you'd (maybe) be capable of computing the future states of the system, but acording to the UP, knowing the initial state of a system with perfect accuracy is (in principle) impossible.
If this also aplies to the Laplace's demon, then the demon shouldn't have the capability of perfect prediction.
Now, i don't know what happens down there at those scales, but the fact that we can't predict exactly the behavior of a system, doesn't mean its not deterministic, it means that the capability of exact prediction is forbidden to us. (again, if i understand it correctly)
So maybe, free will can exist, maybe it can't...
idk.
The next quote is taken from the book i've been reading: QUANTUM PHYSICS of Atoms, Molecules, Solids,Nuclei, and Particles. by Eisberg, Resnick. (2nd ed, page 78)
"The uncertainty principle also makes it clear that the mechanics of quantum systems must necessarily be expressed in terms of probabilities. In classical mechanics, if at any instant we know exactly the position and momentum of each particle in an isolated system, then we can predict the exact behavior of the particles of the system for all future time. In quantum mechanics, however, the uncertainty principle shows us that it is impossible to do this for systems involving small distances and momenta because it is impossible to know, with the required accuracy, the instantaneous positions and momenta of the particles. As a result, we shall be able to make predictions only of the probable behavior of these particles."
thanks for reading, sorry if this is nonsense.
From I what get, if you have perfect knowledge you will be able to predict something,but it is impossible to have perfect knowledge
You are correct. The HUS makes it so that we have to express wave functions as superpositions of its possible functions. This means we can get expected values that aren't actually possible values to obtain, for example. When observed, these superpostions collapse into the single state it exists in.
@@keithgarner2759 i think the same!
@@britishtf2 Sick! I'm really looking forward to learn QM!
While I have finished my degree in physics it’s been a while since I touched quantum mechanics. But yes I agree the uncertainty principle basically states you cannot precisely measure the position and momentum of a particle. You can narrow down the range the particle is in but that reduces the probability the particle exists within that range. Of course you can find a range the particle is likely within and find a range of momentum the particle is experiencing. However once you isolate the location of a particle perfectly, the wave function describing the particle’s position and momentum collapses into a delta function leaving only the position of the particle and an infinite range of momentum.
This makes me think of not only time travel but also the Replay mod. It captures everything and it's position and it's instance in an animation.
It captures everything that happens in the loaded chunks and can recite it perfectly and, bc it's recorded, can be predicted perfectly bc it has already recorded what's going to happen.
What if life was a recital of some vast replay mod?
**puts on tinfoil hat**
When I subscribed I did not expect to discuss this.(then again i didn’t think X would talk about being radical or racist but here we are)
Me too. But I'm very glad he did.
Man it feels weird listening to a UA-camr I used to just watch for fun as a child basically now talking about topics that have peaked my interest as an adult or apply to my life.
Now X feels old
this channel had certainly grown too hasn't it
Yes me too
Cool, isn't it?
@@NStripleseven yeah certainly is in a way to see the growth, I'm in a place I'd never thought I'd be, but also terrifying at the same time.
Tbh if someone was controlling my life then they must be bored af
Same tbh
I mean you are watching X so im sure God is ammused lol
@@gingerrik1422 lol well the person controlling me (and me) would be not bored then lol (this is confusing lol)
Excited to listen to this one :D
Be quiet, Stan.
@@_Pike LAARRRYYYYYY!!!!!
Bananas
If your personality is based on your surroundings and experiences then that does as it does and causes you to react to the predetermined event in a certain way
thanks, xisuma, i'm probably not gonna sleep tonight
Me either
I was probably not gonna sleep annyway
I do like the concept of Determinism. Undertale delved into that pretty well!
And Deltarune did the exact opposite
Hahaha that's why I love the game so much but at the same time I also love Deltarune
Both are wonderful games :3
Actually I think it is the opposite. Deltarune is more deterministic, because your decisions don't affect the consequences.
so if you're codecrafted and made minecraft in minecraft and if life is minecraft you have minecraft in minecraft in minecraft
w u t
‘hokey-pokey woo-de-woo stuff’ -xisuma
UA-cam's compression hit this video pretty hard. My eyes turtled into my skull. Lol
Did anyone else, for a moment, think this said 'Lapdancing Demon'?
"So these particles, you know all their positions and understand their momentum, so then..."
Wait. What have you done, X?
so Im not the only madman...
Tons of existential crisis-es
Da Slica but are they yours?
Did you also think of all of these without knowing the names?
jingyu byun i think of tons of things and then eventually find out what it’s called
Love how the chat makes you start a conversation in a stream. Awesome vid!
This the 'you make a joke and your mom turns it into a lecture' in a nutshell
I loved this one and this is still a question running in my head
Short answer, we have free will.
Your save points are the fridge when you walk up to it, stare blankly, and then leave
I love Xisuma just casually talking about Philosophy in his streams.
That topic has been nagging my mind since childhood
"Are you a solopist too? I''m a solopist"
LOL, that is just too funny!
woah man I just watched the Matrix, and now I'm a philosophy major. :'D
Wise Xisuma vs young Xisuma sharing thoughts: 6:01-6:49 vs 7:01-7:10
X I just have to say that these things are amazing! would you consider making a podcast? I think you could execute it very well. Just and idea though. Keep it up! I'll listen to anything you make. It's really inspiring and makes me want to do similar things
I was there in the stream, and it amazes me too say that this isn't the deepest thing we've gone into
this is the plot of the matrix
Lots of these ideas are things I thought of. Like me being the only proven conscious person, and the idea that we don't make any of our own decisions as they are caused by other predictable things.
When u use f3,I realize I am learning about quantum machanices from a bee.
5:22
i just love how xisuma's livestream are so calm and i listen to them while working
This is the topics that I want to talk about... that's why I love this channel
I believe we could very well be living in a deterministic universe, where even if we restart it, everything will play out in the same way. However on everyday level, it actually doesn't matter if there is or isn't free will, and even if it is deterministic universe, we should live as if we have free will.
...OR I'm just in the "smart teen" phase and what I said was random mumbo jumbo
Thought it said "Do We Have Free Wifi"
no
I believe in determinism in that our brains work like computers, and that anything can be predicted with enough knowledge. But at the same time, I think that we should still do our best to make good decisions because we know that they affect our futures anyways.
I know that I shouldn't jump off a cliff because I would die, but because I know that I would never do it.
I also do belive on determinism. In my opinion knowning every quants properties like their position or momentum, all phisics rules and so on, makes you able to predict every future moment of time. But even the future is predictable, it doesn't mean you are not a creator
yea me too
And I do not understand how it does not fit in uncertainity principle od quantum mechanics. Maybe anyone can explain it to me? Why is not possible for Laplace demon to exists?
@@marcinkrezoek3439 the uncertainty principle is a law of the universe. It isn't just difficult to figure out the position and momentum of a particle, it is impossible.
One of the conditions for laplaces demon to exist is that it must know the position and velocity of every particle. Which contradicts with our understanding of quantum mechanics.
So Heisenberg's uncertainty principle poses a problem for one of the most basic premises of laplaces demon.
Unique Name But cannot it be that we just have unsufficient knowledge? We as humanity learn more and more about The World, but well, until 20s or 30s (don't remember exactly) we belived that Newton was 100% right about gravity. My point is, that as our knowledge increases, some laws could be recreated as maybe Heisenberg principle. Not totally rejected, but maybe slightly "improved"
If deep discussion like what I've seen on this channel is a regular part of your stream, I better start tuning in
These videos really make me wish I caught the streams when they were actually happening. This is a really interesting topic! The idea of Solipsism reminds me of the ideas of like, how in children's psychology we learned as we grew up that things continue to exist even if we can't see them, we also learn over time that we are not the only conscious/real person too? I forget the actual base for it but it's like, we eventually realize that everyone else has their own internal life just as complex as our own. I think the word might be "sonder"?
I first read this as "Do We Have Free WiFi?"
Like a smart man i once heard say. If you think you understand qaumtum mechanics, ya dont
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know
Sean Carrol explains this really well in his podcast "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe"
Your video about racism helped me complete my English project where we had to write about the social evils depicted in the poem 'The Cold Within'. I watched it with my mother and she shared it to my friends. Thank you so much.
P.S.
I can now watch hermitcraft more often XD.
On the topic of physics and quantum mechanics, there is this amazing book (imo) called _The Elegant Universe_, and it discusses the conflict between classical and quantum physics, but mainly about Superstring theory which can, in theory, unite them
The wise teacher strikes again :)
We need to define what free will is before asking these questions
I need a LoFi beats channel with your talky videos overlayed
I used to be a determinist. It is a natural conclusion when you study Newtonian mechanics. Heisenberg Uncertainty breaks determinism. It is an elegant expression of how particles are not billiard balls. The short version is that if you measure a particle's position and momentum, there is a minimum amount of uncertainty in those measurements. It's not a practical limit to the measurement, it is that the thing you are measuring does not have a perfect measurement. "Why", is a third year undergrad class in modern physics and two years of multi-variable calculus. Regarding the Demon, it cannot perfectly know the position and movement of any particle and thus cannot make a 100% accurate prediction of future states. Thus, free will. The future is undecided and undesigned.
didnt like thinkin about this one. good video
A good movie for this concept is robo cop
X just explaining the thing i’ve been thinking for years, yeah let’s go
Thanks X u are a very wise man
Quantum mechanics being probabilistic (even if that doesn't have much of an effect) combined with chaos theory would mean the universe is not deterministic. This also seems to match up with the second law of thermodynamics (entropy always increases). Even so, that doesn't necessarily mean you have free will and even if you did, probably not to the extent that you feel you do since quantum effects are tiny compared to the (mostly) determinism of chemistry that governs your brain.
I think one key thing that is important in quantum mechanics is the difference between randomness vs uncertainty. There is limits to how much we can know, but that doesn't inherently cause randomness.
Getting into quantum mechanics breaks determinism in that there won't be only way things will happen. As you say in the video, nothing is random, it's defined by probabilities, perfectly defined by probabilities. Knowing this, you can reinterpret determinism as just having multiple paths where some are more probable by others.
if you went down to the qantom level you would be a balck hole
Stumbled across Hermitcraft earlier this year, but... during a bathroom deep-clean, my YT autoplay landed me here.
Only watched "on bullying" and "personal finance" and this so far, but damn dude. Existential crises and meta-cognition are my jam. Think you might be my new favorite. :)
Thanks for being a good man.
I think about this all the time :P
Is LiFe JuSt A sImUlAtIoN?!!!!!
Cypher : You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?
[Takes a bite of steak]
Cypher : Ignorance is bliss.
I always find it funny that some of my favorite minecraft videos are people talking about deep stuff while playing minecraft
The big bang was physics letting go of a ball at the top pf a slope. Were just germs along for the ride
It's ironic how he said of knowing both momentum and position of particles at the same time as mentioning the laws of physics
5:50 another good example is entropy. Supposedly, all states of energy distribution in mass are equally probable, in other words: random. Yet there is a tendency for it to equilibrate
The best argument for free will I've heard starts with Laplace's demon as Xisuma explained with complete scientific knowledge of all the inner workings of the universe at a given time as to be able to calculate all future possible states. The difference is that you have Laplace's demon tell you what your given state at a future point will be. For example one morning it tells you exactly what you will eat at a restaurant at lunch that day. Would not most people immediately want to contradict the demon by eating something different? The issue is the self-referential nature of this thought. It's somewhat similar to the double-slit experiment where the observer effects the system.
If we are in a simulation you just had one of the biggest 4th wall break
'Anyone who says they understand Quantum Mechanics doesn't actually understand Quantum Mechanics.'
I like thinking about this stuff! Imagine Minecraft players think that they are in the real world - when we are controlling them! And then, you control the people in the game to make the same game inside the game, then they control the people in that game.... It goes on for infinity....
And messes with my head!
I think that the example of video games is actually a very good argument against the idea that we exist in a simulation. I mean clearly we are able to create good simulations of creatures living in a naturally generated world without having to program in complex thoughts and emotions. When you create simulations the whole purpose is to simplify the system so that the simulation can be carried out quicker than it actually plays out in the real world, so why on earth would you go to the effort of programming in the massively complex, fully conscious meat sacs we carry around in our heads?
Then we have string theory, and that's it's own can of worms. Every single choice you have, you do.
Hi love this new chanel!!!! Just watching ur foolcraft season 2!!!
a slice of time sounds really tasty
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sometimes i have a feeling of simulation too. you know how in the sims, your character randomly stops dead in his tracks and starts doing push ups? well i catch myself doing that too and i have no idea my brain could go from 'i need to get from point a to point b' to 'i need to stop whatever im doing right now and do some push ups'. stuff is scary man
X just seems like an interesting person to talk to. I'd love to just ponder things with him.
This gave me a bigger existential crisis than I thought I was going to have and I don’t know how to feel - well done 👏👏
Hes talking about interesting people from different professions talking about interesting stuff. While doing the exact same thing
This is what I hate, not knowing things like, what happens if we die?
I love these videos because it’s like an xisuma podcast but with minecraft as a background which is as good as it could be!
A thought I've had was we're all just beings created by a being similar to Azathoth(because while I think the universe is a more like Lovecraft envisioned it, I don't think it's an exact copy, and he could not have all the details) whilst it dreams. Once it wakes up, the dream ends and so do we. Now after this video, I'm thinking "What if there's something dreaming that created Azathoth?" and we can go down the line, so essentially this is the simulation theory with a Lovecraftian skin.
Well idk but you're free will could be your first choice that defines the rest, except we have no idea what will happen far into the future
I swear these topics are getting out of hand yet they are so interesting to watch/hear
"randomness is observation that's lacking information"
Dude you're making me question my existence
Hokey Pokey wood woo stuff is the best thing Ive ever heard X say
this video proved to me that xisuma is a rather intelligent man. thanks
Randomness did help me a lot on some of my classes as you could explain some wacky results on that XD but yeah, the random side of the universe is confined by laws, and it is very possible that what we call random is just a law we haven't discovered yet :)
I have been thinking something similar to the demon thought experiment a lot lately. Thank you so much for putting words to it.
I was starting to type this comment but I then you started talking about this stuff, glad I waited until the end of the video. "The most significant argument against Laplace's Demon in determinism is the laws that involve probability - some certain things are truly unknown and random."
Like you said, randomness isn't completely random but it's more like probability, and things that are truly up to the flip of a coin happen at very low levels.
This type of concept is both terrifying and interesting
Recently I'm studying the behaviour of materials, using quantum mechanics, and it really shows how difficult it is to define deterministically also the simplest things, so I rely on approximations. It seems like when we get older and "wiser", we get to understand that complete knowledge of nature is too complex and we can just be satisfied with things that work well enough.
This may be existentially worrying, but it's good to have a place where people talk about these things
Laplace's demon would fail because peoples choices are only ever probabilistic; my body might tell me that I want a drink of water, but if I actually go and get one or not is just a probability, so the demon cannot predict my movements, nor those of any other entity that has will power and the ability to make choices.
I can say that Xisuma's streams are really worth watching / listening by just looking at the title. I mostly listen most of themm but still I am really grateful that this channel exists.