This is actually better then what Netflix Documentaries produce lately and the price isn't going up, As this is a content creator rather then a company.
I recommend caution when making machines that respond to the user's subconcious. The Krell of Altair IV learned the hard way how dangerous that can be.
Monsters of the ID --- but then, haven't we been seeing prime examples of this same thing lately? By the way, Forbidden Planet still stands up today as a worthy movie, including the effects. And even today, I still LOVE the "electronic tonalities" music. They didn't just throw different notes together. They made it awesome musically!
I've always considered the idea of synthetic life being the complete design of a biological lifeform from the cellular level tailor-made for its environment by humans. I've always considered androids and such to be machine life. I see a clear difference between the two since one would be machine based and the other biologically based. I never considered a human that was altered by either surgical means or by way of genetic manipulation to be synthetic life but this video shows that a person altered by either method can be considered as such. This was a very interesting video.
Natural biology is just wild self-replicating nanotechnology. We are already machines, just machines created by a fumbling iterative process guided by and optimised for nothing but it's ability to perpetuate itself within the limits of it's environment and evolutionary processes. It is fantastically advanced in many respects, and we're not used to many of the engineering principals involved, but fundamentally and very literally machines.
@@WulfgarOpenthroat very true, but in this situation I am referring to machines being a construct that is manufactured via non biological means such as modern robotics technology which is not really comparable to biological processes.
@@robertlane6431 They're really only not compatible insofar as modern robotics technology doesn't have a way to manufacture, much less mass produce, the kind of nanostructures that nanotech like biology is based on, much like how a machine shop isn't able to manufacture computer processors or plastic components(the later of which were made with liquid chemistry); your android will already be assembled by integrating components from radically different and specialised manufacturing processes. Theoretically you don't even need biological systems to manufacture biological systems(or biologically-derived inorganic or hybrid nanotech, etc), but once you have advanced bioengineering it's probably just the - by far - most practical method.
@@WulfgarOpenthroat I agree. My concept of synthetic life would indeed involve everything from artificial DNA to basically all structures being made of materials not typically found in biological organisms. For example I could conceive of synthetic cellular structures that incorporate metals or glass to better enable them to survive in extremely harsh environments. While metals are already in our biology I think they could be utilized in different ways such as creating a creature with glass incorporated into its outer skin to allow it to more easily live in an acidic environment that most traditional lifeforms can't endure.
Read an article a while back about a research effort to figure out the minimum DNA necessary for a bacteria to function. They removed the existing DNA ring and put in one they built from scratch. Until got one that allow the bacterium cell to function. That would qualify as a synthetic life form.
Fascinating discussion. But I say tooth fillings and prosthetic limbs are every bit as natural as beaver dams and bee hives. We haven't lost our instincts. Invention, language, passing knowledge down, manipulating our habitat, and fulfilling our curiosity are all large parts of human nature. We are critters too, just really smart ones with hands.
I heard about a pseudoscientific theory about biological transmutation were elements are transformed into different elements by enzymes in certain animals. I was an engineered version of this in synthetic biology going so far as to produce antimatter like in assassination classroom.
Great episode. I like that what we consider 'synthetic'/(or 'cybernetic') is this moving goalpost as new things become old and normal. I can just imagine folks decades from now insisting on only using "all-natural" mind implants and/or prosthetics. I.e. eyes that perfectly emulate those of a natural animal ("Of course they could shoot lasers out of their eyes" "Oh? Then how'd they go extinct?")
These concepts were systematically explored in the Ghost I n the Shell anime series (the movie missed the point) It demonstrated the sliding scale from minor augmentation, to human brain in full android body, to actual AI. It shows a world where physical form is as transient as the clothes you may be wearing today. What remained key was the 'ghost' or the consciousness. The 'shell' or body comes down to what is convenient at that moment in time.
Wow, I got to be one of the first! I read 'the Imitation Factor' by Dr. Dugatkin a few years ago. Makes a strong case for the strong bootstrapping role of culture in animal behaviour. He worked with fish, but later studies indicate that insect minds may have this aspect as well. Culture is a big thing for us super-primates, but culture should not be casually counted as 'artificial'. Opportunity for me to say thank you, Mr. Arthur, for, as always, an inspirational video! cheers db
Wow, insects having a culture is something I never even considered! On reexamination, the behaviors needed to maintain eusocial insect hives may indeed need bigger feedback loops than provided by simple biological/chemical communications! Imagine bee colonies having different "accents" to their wiggle dance! Or the pheromone trails left by ants having some form of slang to them! Thanks for broadening my perspective mate 👍
I always thought destroy was the nominal option. Because there's worry that if you choose control you actually get controlled, and if you destroy yeah it sucks initially but the reapers are actually gone gone.
Personally I like the non-canon "Indoctrination Theory" but yeah I tended to view red as the better option in terms of what I wanted to do but blue seemed the one the plot implies as better.
I usually go with Destroy or shoot the Catalyst. Control leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth, and synthesis is just poorly written to me... Also, with destroy, I typically live
@@isaacarthurSFIA Yeah I remember watching like a 2 or 3 hour presentation of the theory from I think it was Clevernoob and I was certainly convinced, I never had anything to do with blue after that xD I still wish the devs would have used the post-implemented DLC that they tried to use as a band-aid to just enhance that theory, would have been much more worth it imho.
I personally find Destroy horrendous. After the entire trilogy wiping out what was fairly supported as a sentient and sovereign race of beings just to "kill the baddies" seems so short-sighted and awful. Also if there's any reason to doubt the Intelligence's control option wouldn't there be equal (if not more) of a reason to doubt the destroy option? Synthesis also feels a bit like forcing a choice on all sentient beings that they didn't choose...kinda violating tbh.
When talking about body modifications I noticed you mention wings but then went on to talk about additional limbs as if they were separate things. Except animals with wings also only have 4 limbs like us, their wings are their arms. Thus having a pair of wings on your back would be the same as having 4 arms.
@@Sara3346 Insects are completely separate branch of the evolutionary tree than other animals like Mammals, Lizards, and etc which follow the 4 limb structure. Also Insect nerve system aren't structured the same as ours.
@@PyroMancer2k true, I don't think I denied this? I just think it's silly to pretend that all animals have four limbs, some of them have even more, I think millipedes hold the record unless I'm mistaken?
@@Sara3346 Yeah but the discussion was focused on modifying Humans and not insect, which seems to be your go to examples. There are other creatures as well such as squid and octipus but like insects they have a different nervous system structure than us. What your saying it a bit like saying an 18 Wheeler has more wheels than a pickup truck and they are both vehicles so we can just attach more wheels on the pickup. Except the Engine to power those where is a bit stronger than the one in the truck and the axel layout to transfer that power is setup differently. It's not a simply attach wheels and get more power/function. My original post had two main points. 1) The video references Wings and Arms as being different from a biological point of view when really the mechanics of adding them would be very similar. 2) The ours and other animals like us have a nervous system which is built in a curtain way to handle the limbs we have. Simply grafting on more limbs and connecting them to the nervous system is probably not that simple. There are all sorts of fine motor skills built into your limbs like legs which react on instinct to keep you balanced and tie into your inner ear. Adding wings and flight would likely require similar connections to ensure people could fly safely if wings were added. Additional arms probably wouldn't require as much work it would be more up to how much fine motor skill you wanted.
@@PyroMancer2k Mate if we get to a point where we can just casually grow wings large enough to lift a human, I have confidence that we'll figure out hox genes and artificial nerves too.
Categories tend to be "brittle". Wherever there are parameters (qualia) there will be edge cases. For example, the oft-cited qualia is "able to reproduce" would mean that a virus is life. It would also mean that a software program that can copy itself is life. If you don't like those results, you may want to add filters. Feel free to do so. This is why proper philosophy discussions start out by defining what they intend various words to mean.
Why do people complain about how Starfleet learns to cope with the Borg over the course of various appearances spanning years, when they have no problem with the Borg magically adapting to whatever weapon you throw at them in a matter of moments?
I loathe the 'Synthesis' ending in ME because you're doing it to everyone in that Galaxy, asking no consent, giving no consideration to their way of life, but changing them on a fundamental level - you are, effectively, raping the entire Galaxy and it disgusts me that anyone takes this as the best ending. I went up there to destroy the Reapers, countless people died to give me that chance, so that's what I'm going to do, every time.
You're pretty much making a decision for everyone with either 3 paths though, but yeah I tend to think there's more of a moral imperative to picking the big boom option
Not to mention that every single person is now no different from a Husk. (plus imagine the mental trauma of the millions that got converted and now have their original mind back in a body that is an abomination) The second someone like Harbinger pokes its head back into the galaxy the entire population will be under control without any chance of resistance. Destroy is the only logical choice, that's the only path to victory against the Reapers, the other two is handing organic life over to them.
@@Mate397 i assumed they were more like cyborgs than a husk as well as having the option to connect to people rather than constantly being logged into a hivemind.
@@69Kazeshini Well those who weren't the victims of the conversion spikes perhaps, but remember that this also affected those who already got altered by the spikes and experiments of the Collectors and Reapers.
I discovered your channel through Luxin's video on the feasibility of the World Tree from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and I've been bingeing your videos since. Your content is a great source of learning and inspiration that has greatly broadened my understanding!
The problem with villain decay is it's often the result of an Author explaining something that doesn't need explaining. Mass Effect is a great example of this as the Reapers were suppose to be some Lovecraftian creatures. And as anyone who knows Lovecraft can tell you the whole point of those stories is the unknowable. Strange mind bending/reality warping things happen often driving people insane and there is no explanation or reason give other than Ancient beings are doing something, but what that something is or WHY is never covered. Now this may sound controversial but the way I see it Mass Effect was never about the Reapers and as such they never needed explaining. The story is about your companions and their struggles, along with the struggles of the galaxy and the people in it to survive. Thus viewing the Reapers in the same way as a disaster film where the earthquake, volcano, storm, and etc you don't really need much explanation as they are just the premise for why everything is going pear shaped. The second controversial opinion i have on Mass Effect is that in true Lovecraft fashion the Reapers should have been so far beyond us that just like disaster films there is NO "DEFEATING" them. Even the end of the first one which had you destroying Sovereign was but a small victory, you didn't defeat the Reapers you just prevented the gate from opening which would have allowed them to return. Sure you could still do the third game with a big battle against a bunch of Reapers but you have a reveal at the end that suggest it's just a small force to watch over this one galaxy and the reapers are doing this across multiple galaxies but also that given the distance it won't for several generations. This makes a lot of sense because really given their age there is no reason they shouldn't have expanded to other galaxies. It's even worst given their explanation on the Reapers motives as organic life must also be evolving in other galaxies so why not expand to them to stop the AI uprisings there? Basically ME:A should have found yet another galaxy filled with Reapers or perhaps something worst that is fighting the Reapers.
I once tried to incorporate a lot of Isaac's ideas about digital life into a mass effect post control ending romance fanfic. When I lost interest in it, Miranda and Jack and Tali and Garrus were trying to figure out how to use cloning and a reaper supercomputer to create hybrid children. Miranda has been heartbroken throughout the two games she appears in because she herself was a clone and it may have resulted in her being sterile. In my story Kaiden's mind was uploaded into a virtual server Shepard made while the ship's doctor, ship's AI, and Miranda healed his body with nanites. Shepard meanwhile had used accelerated consciousness to finish three or four doctorates and tried to build a system that would allow people the reapers uploaded to return as cyborgs, and the Normandy science officers, all veterans of the Reaper war, struggle to make sense of it. And although the obligatory rule 34 is satisfied, I tried to explore what that would mean using dialog between Kaiden and Shepard, Shepard as the guide from the proverbial Underworld and Kaiden as the young warrior seeking wisdom and perspective while he deals with the prospect of possibly losing his original body and having to take a clone. Shepard meanwhile is seriously regretting his life choices. And if you're writing for Mass Effect and you want a truly frightening combination, try a Geth Hunter with a Krogan shotgun (not a watered down adaptation) and a Geth pyro. You're welcome for the nightmare fuel.
Actually a really good point. Even if the specific formulation is new the basic concept has been around for ages & believed to be true by many. Isaac has made roughly the same case for other technologies like genetic manipulation(selective breeding) or brainwashing(love potions).
Hey, kind of a long shot, but could you possibly cover some fictional scifi/fantasy worlds and how their mechanics relate to normal physics, or what it would take for our world to turn into theirs? I'm thinking some series that have very well fleshed-out magic systems like the Mistborn or Stormlight series' by Brandon Sanderson, or as a personal curiosity the world of Xenoblade Chronicles 1 & 2.
I could do Sanderson's Cosmere, he's my favorite fantasy author and largely because of how intricate his systems are, but sort of like a dedicated 40k or expanse episode, I'd need some justification or main topic that was in science, even for a scifi sunday.
If you haven't, I suggest you look into a pen and paper game called "Eclipse Phase". I think you may be very interested in the setting and the science fiction behind it.
i feel like Batman Beyond's concept of Splicing is the perfect example of how something like human/other animal fusion would be like but to a lesser extent like if you used cells from a jellyfish or lizard to regrow a limb
In one of the Peter Hamilton (long and drawn-out ) books they had a 'multiple person'. This was not so much a hive mind as a single mind and personality spread over 30 human bodies of different ages. A peculiar concept.
All i want is just to switch between bodies, as in simply change between bodies in 2 different places like a boy specifically stationed in the workplace and the real one is at home Imagine the money i'd save from commuting
Please accept this as a compliment .. I listen to you so often I say worlds the way you do I know that you have apologized for your difference in speech many times for years I can't imagine how it had affected your life but as a transhumanist know I find you exceptional as a specimen
Natural biology is just wild self-replicating nanotechnology. We are already machines, just machines created by a fumbling iterative process guided by and optimised for nothing but it's ability to perpetuate itself within the limits of it's environment and evolutionary processes. It is fantastically advanced in many respects, and we're not used to many of the engineering principals involved, but fundamentally and very literally machines. No reason not to marry biological and "conventional" engineering principals in the same body/device and take advantage of both. Your body already manufactures, integrates, and maintains inorganic structures, like teeth and bones, and biology excels at precision nanofabrication. The main difference is that biology started small and got big while our technology started big and got small(in addition to biology being a lot more mature in it's development albeit, as mentioned, through a design process with a lot of inherent limitations, but that's nothing that can't be addressed with a little - heh - intelligent design ).
IDK if I'd still want shoes at all if I had thick enough hooves, maybe still leg warmers and and custom socks. I could was between those hooves toes much more easily than a horse could too anyway. I prefer being able to feel the ground when it's not in a state to give me burns lacerations or frostburns.
Meta mind. A mind above the mind presented to the player. This mind knows it's an AI and knows each of the sub minds it controls are itself as an actor playing a role. Ta da, no robot uprising because you mistreat your npcs.
The title had me expecting this one was going to be about making microorganisms from scratch, like the Venter Institute is working on. Still interesting, as always.
My definition of a synthetic lifeform are rather narrow. Once we learned how no longer only poke around in genetic codes making alterations but can build an entire genetic code from ground up, piece by peace to build something new THEN we have synthetic life forms. The difference is like the comparing an entirely new computer program to a modified version of an old one.
Potentially, we could even use entirely different genetic code! There is no reason that only nucleotides should be able to code information in biological systems. On another planet, their genetic code may not even be made of DNA, but some foreign xenomolecule we don't even know about!
Thank you.....A genuine excitement collapsing into deep thoughts.....The channel is thick and sticks with me gazing the stars. I dominate Walmart with you in my ear buds. Internally indelibly as brother in arms I thank you. Semper Fi bro.love light open roads. I apologize for punctuation.
The biggest impact we might end up making is crafting a new Clade of beings that have features which allow them to evolve complex forms to thrive in areas where they once would it would have been impossible for anything complex to survive. Like if a biological means of nuclear power/atomic synthesis in the form of an organelle comes to integrate with even the simplest of current biology the ability to assimilate almost any material for energy, and eventually synthesize any element within an organisms own body becomes the single greatest boon to Life spreading across all accessible areas of a solar system possible. And it would also be utterly terrifying too, because such life would no longer be bound by some of the constraints that keep it from eating us alive. This is kinda an extreme example but its one that I think of... because on the one hand as living beings I can't help feel that it would be our duty to give life as a whole such an ability to spread and expand... but as a Human being I know that allowing such to even exist creates an existential threat for the species as we are. A fun thought experiment. And frankly While I side with the carefulness of humanity working things out and becoming greater... I also am on the side of the New-Life going where we cannot, and being given the lease to inhabit that which we cannot.
I love your videos! They help put me to sleep without fail! But are really interesting when I listen in the day too 😁 I probably “watch” each video twice
Please consider making a video on Black Hole Economics one day and maybe "Inter-Universal Travel" one day (if the universe is truly one of many universes in a multiverse I.e. if the multiverse theory is true)
it is unfortunate that scifi writers use such stupid reasons for the dark enemies when there are great legit reasons humanity per say could have darker factions emerge with very good reasons for their existence.
i acctually am curious if indistinguisable human androids or blade runner replicants will be possible in our lifetime, i know the later probably won't since they would acctually be alive.
@@ColdHawk no, no it doesn't. Possible is a definitive state. It's either possible or impossible. It can *change* from being impossible to possible as tech advances, but it's still either/or.
@@UpperDarbyDetailing a self aware living breathing creature, that eats and drinks to survive and has to procreate to continue the species, i would hardly consider ai inside an android any of those, heck id consider a human mind upload into an android to just be a copy, unless it's their actual brain plopped onto a new body. due to damage, age etc, their brain (the person) is alive and it would need nutrients to live, thus i would still consider that person to be alive and the original even though their body is not. id rather have biological imortality not die from aging and remain young, than take a bet that mindupload would be me or not and i just still die and join the eternal darkness and just have some copy of me live on, whats the point if it's not acctualy me? im dead, every inch of me and my consciousness.
@@UpperDarbyDetailing Yep stuff is possible or not, full immersion bci vr might not be possible now, but it might be in 20 or 40 years, same for most tech or advancement, immortality, cure for insert disease, fusion energy etc.
What about the Replicants from Blade Runner or the Synths from Fallout 4? How do you go from synthetic machine life to synthetic biological human-like life? Do you genetically engineer and clone them? How do you make the leap from androids and cyborgs to growing biological genetically engineered clones in vats?
I prefer the career of Stock Footage EEG Technician because it has better opportunities for advancement. I mean, just look 1:06 at the working environment, and the quality of that monitor shows the cutting edge technology you are trained to use! I dream that someday I will have such a job…..
There are a lot of people who are fanatically opposed to these ideas. If you ever feel like you aren't getting enough abuse, tell a "GMO activist" that ALL of our food is genetically modified.
I have mixed feelings about said Mass Effect endings. To start with, I suspect that mentally Commander Shepard is exhausted. He's probably not thinking straight, and if that reaper overmind doesn't come up with a form that's going to be sympathetic, Shepard will probably be irrationally pissed off when he arrives. But there's also absolutely no reason for the so called "Starchild" to be telling the truth, lying either by omission or outright lies. The starchild's calm, almost trancelike demeanor shows that it doesn't care one iota about consent, free will, or emotion. And when we complain that it killed people and stuck them in a simulation, it doesn't seem to understand why we embrace such a contradictory view and corrects us. And as near as I can tell, that's what the reapers are doing. They are preserving us for the end of the universe as digital beings. And this war, if we choose the control or synthesis endings will allow them to essentially get off scott free for this insanity. Not when the galaxy is full of the remains of the Reapers' past victims. What makes the Reapers truly stupid in this regard are the ways they implement this. The husks they create are absolutely horrifying to behold, so nobody is going to want to become one of those. If they had simply used cloned bodies and cybernetics from the start instead of being heavy handed, if they had made it a matter of personal choice to join them when someone is close to death for example, or offer to back up the organics minds via brain scanning, they might not have had a fight on their hands like they did. Instead we get pretty colored lights and 20 minutes of narrative, half of which is probably the entity lying through its teeth in an effort to get us to spare them. It might not have been very interesting as a game, but I liked the premise of the Dark Energy ending a lot better, with this idea of using biotic species as a throttle to control the universe's expansion. That said, what we got was better than an ending they cut, where we have to choose between an explosion that will destroy the Earth and uploading Shepard.exe into a reaper to replace the current head of the hive mind. One concept from a video game I wish had been more fleshed out was the Synths from Fallout 4. I LOVED the implication that the Sole Survivor may be some kind of super synth turned ancestor simulation of the Institute Director's mother. The synths are all made from the DNA of the institute's director. We see them assembled in the game, but not fleshed out into more sympathetic people like the synths you meet while playing the game. The implications for this process are even more intriguing as far as what we DON'T see. We get a synth named Nick Valentine, who's personality was created by scanning the brain of a prewar cop who was grieving the death of their fiance to a mob boss. The implication of Nick's existence, and the fact that he expresses gratitude for being a cop rather than some ex con but wonders why they didn't upload a biologist or a physicist, is that the Institute has a giant computer full of scanned minds. It's entirely likely that they use brain scanning technology to replace someone with a synth. And their power draw is partly because of this, because the Institute uses a MASSIVE fucking amount of electricity. So much so that they end up in direct competition and conflict with the Brotherhood of Steel over a widget able to improve the power output of their fusion plant. The other reasons for their power draw are that they have a teleporter that, with the right components and amplifiers, could reach long distances. And this more than the synths I think is the reason why the Brotherhood ACTUALLY went to war with the Institute, they didn't want the Institute replacing people in their command structure out west and effectively taking over, or replacing the President and Senate of their neighbors the NCR. The other thing that probably draws so much power are the super computers necessary to extrapolate human genetic codes that are all different from each other from one unmutated DNA signature. The Director's DNA was likely a reference sample, needed to take all the different genes they find in people on the surface and compare them to the prewar baseline. We are, however, never told or clued into any of this. It took listening to Isaac Arthur's channel for me to understand what was actually going on behind the main storyline. In the meantime the Brotherhood's leader becomes more and more a rabid zealot and your own son reveals himself as an incurable sociopath. And in the end you just wish that they'd destroy each other so you can have some peace and quiet.
I have a literal plug in my heart. A little device that keeps me from throwing blood clots. Bizarre that I lived with the hole in my heart for several decades before it caused problems. Glad I've got that titanium gizmo there, one stroke was enough for me.
Sorry Isaac, I had to stop this because of the foray into Mass Effect. It's totally fair to spoil a series from a decade ago, but I'm at the end of my first ever play through of 2 and about to start 3 and I can't have you spoiling it for me just now.
Hey Issac, been a long while since I've commented. Just wanted to say it's nice to hear someone I respect talking so casually about transgender stuff, even tangentially. Speaking of which, if you remember me at all it would have been as Christian. How things change... 😅
Issac is the optimistic voice in my conscious. Like a hard science Jimmeney Cricket.
First time anyone's called me that, but I like that cricket :)
Haha, wow.
He is the constant voice in my head of, we need to think bigger. BIGGER!
He's the voice in my head that says if brute force isn't working then u need more brute force
The first rule of voices in your head:
If it's Isaac Arthur, then it's fine. Everyone else can go count paperclips.
This is actually better then what Netflix Documentaries produce lately and the price isn't going up, As this is a content creator rather then a company.
I discovered your channel almost by accident while watching Anton Petrov.
Your ideas and the science behind them are gripping.
Thank you.
You have discovered the new Science Pantheon. Good for you!
@@a_Minion_of_Soros I've always been fascinated by the boundaries between science and science fiction and Isaac hits my curiosity dead center.
Hello there wonderful person ♡
@@neil_mch Welcome to the fold, friend! Drinks and snacks are in the back, and always remember Rule #1 of Warfare.
@@gaiusjuliuspleaser Thank you, Sacha, I have all the drinks and snacks I need while my mind open and understanding.
I recommend caution when making machines that respond to the user's subconcious. The Krell of Altair IV learned the hard way how dangerous that can be.
Monsters of the ID --- but then, haven't we been seeing prime examples of this same thing lately? By the way, Forbidden Planet still stands up today as a worthy movie, including the effects. And even today, I still LOVE the "electronic tonalities" music. They didn't just throw different notes together. They made it awesome musically!
this channel needs to be huge. I'm trying to spread the word on it so great.
This episode really makes me want to read whatever Dennis E Taylor is cooking up for the Bobiverse book. Can't wait. My favorite sci-fi series.
Wait. HE TALKED ABOUT THE BOBIVERSE SERIES!
Absolutely read them all maybe my favorite series !!!!
@@charadremur333 yes he's actually mentioned him a few times throughout the years
I've always considered the idea of synthetic life being the complete design of a biological lifeform from the cellular level tailor-made for its environment by humans. I've always considered androids and such to be machine life. I see a clear difference between the two since one would be machine based and the other biologically based.
I never considered a human that was altered by either surgical means or by way of genetic manipulation to be synthetic life but this video shows that a person altered by either method can be considered as such. This was a very interesting video.
Natural biology is just wild self-replicating nanotechnology.
We are already machines, just machines created by a fumbling iterative process guided by and optimised for nothing but it's ability to perpetuate itself within the limits of it's environment and evolutionary processes.
It is fantastically advanced in many respects, and we're not used to many of the engineering principals involved, but fundamentally and very literally machines.
@@WulfgarOpenthroat very true, but in this situation I am referring to machines being a construct that is manufactured via non biological means such as modern robotics technology which is not really comparable to biological processes.
@@robertlane6431 They're really only not compatible insofar as modern robotics technology doesn't have a way to manufacture, much less mass produce, the kind of nanostructures that nanotech like biology is based on, much like how a machine shop isn't able to manufacture computer processors or plastic components(the later of which were made with liquid chemistry); your android will already be assembled by integrating components from radically different and specialised manufacturing processes. Theoretically you don't even need biological systems to manufacture biological systems(or biologically-derived inorganic or hybrid nanotech, etc), but once you have advanced bioengineering it's probably just the - by far - most practical method.
@@WulfgarOpenthroat I agree. My concept of synthetic life would indeed involve everything from artificial DNA to basically all structures being made of materials not typically found in biological organisms. For example I could conceive of synthetic cellular structures that incorporate metals or glass to better enable them to survive in extremely harsh environments.
While metals are already in our biology I think they could be utilized in different ways such as creating a creature with glass incorporated into its outer skin to allow it to more easily live in an acidic environment that most traditional lifeforms can't endure.
Does SI count 🤔🤔
Read an article a while back about a research effort to figure out the minimum DNA necessary for a bacteria to function. They removed the existing DNA ring and put in one they built from scratch. Until got one that allow the bacterium cell to function. That would qualify as a synthetic life form.
Fascinating discussion. But I say tooth fillings and prosthetic limbs are every bit as natural as beaver dams and bee hives. We haven't lost our instincts. Invention, language, passing knowledge down, manipulating our habitat, and fulfilling our curiosity are all large parts of human nature. We are critters too, just really smart ones with hands.
I heard about a pseudoscientific theory about biological transmutation were elements are transformed into different elements by enzymes in certain animals. I was an engineered version of this in synthetic biology going so far as to produce antimatter like in assassination classroom.
Great episode, great way to unwind at the end of the week and get ready for the week ahead...And as always thanks for all your hard work.
Great episode. I like that what we consider 'synthetic'/(or 'cybernetic') is this moving goalpost as new things become old and normal. I can just imagine folks decades from now insisting on only using "all-natural" mind implants and/or prosthetics. I.e. eyes that perfectly emulate those of a natural animal ("Of course they could shoot lasers out of their eyes" "Oh? Then how'd they go extinct?")
These concepts were systematically explored in the Ghost I n the Shell anime series (the movie missed the point) It demonstrated the sliding scale from minor augmentation, to human brain in full android body, to actual AI. It shows a world where physical form is as transient as the clothes you may be wearing today. What remained key was the 'ghost' or the consciousness. The 'shell' or body comes down to what is convenient at that moment in time.
Thanks as always for all this awesome content !
Wow, I got to be one of the first!
I read 'the Imitation Factor' by Dr. Dugatkin a few years ago. Makes a strong case for the strong bootstrapping role of culture in animal behaviour. He worked with fish, but later studies indicate that insect minds may have this aspect as well. Culture is a big thing for us super-primates, but culture should not be casually counted as 'artificial'.
Opportunity for me to say thank you, Mr. Arthur, for, as always, an inspirational video!
cheers
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You're welcome Doug :)
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Wow, insects having a culture is something I never even considered! On reexamination, the behaviors needed to maintain eusocial insect hives may indeed need bigger feedback loops than provided by simple biological/chemical communications! Imagine bee colonies having different "accents" to their wiggle dance! Or the pheromone trails left by ants having some form of slang to them!
Thanks for broadening my perspective mate 👍
Looking forward to "self-grown space habitats" and hopefully some discussion of the Peter F. Hamilton Commonwealth Saga books.
I always thought destroy was the nominal option. Because there's worry that if you choose control you actually get controlled, and if you destroy yeah it sucks initially but the reapers are actually gone gone.
Personally I like the non-canon "Indoctrination Theory" but yeah I tended to view red as the better option in terms of what I wanted to do but blue seemed the one the plot implies as better.
I usually go with Destroy or shoot the Catalyst. Control leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth, and synthesis is just poorly written to me... Also, with destroy, I typically live
@@isaacarthurSFIA Yeah I remember watching like a 2 or 3 hour presentation of the theory from I think it was Clevernoob and I was certainly convinced, I never had anything to do with blue after that xD I still wish the devs would have used the post-implemented DLC that they tried to use as a band-aid to just enhance that theory, would have been much more worth it imho.
I personally find Destroy horrendous. After the entire trilogy wiping out what was fairly supported as a sentient and sovereign race of beings just to "kill the baddies" seems so short-sighted and awful. Also if there's any reason to doubt the Intelligence's control option wouldn't there be equal (if not more) of a reason to doubt the destroy option? Synthesis also feels a bit like forcing a choice on all sentient beings that they didn't choose...kinda violating tbh.
@@Deridus ...you mean the hologram? Doesn't that immediately lead to the reapers winning?
When talking about body modifications I noticed you mention wings but then went on to talk about additional limbs as if they were separate things. Except animals with wings also only have 4 limbs like us, their wings are their arms. Thus having a pair of wings on your back would be the same as having 4 arms.
Insects have wings that are possibly not evolved limbs at all and have more than four limbs generally.
@@Sara3346 Insects are completely separate branch of the evolutionary tree than other animals like Mammals, Lizards, and etc which follow the 4 limb structure. Also Insect nerve system aren't structured the same as ours.
@@PyroMancer2k true, I don't think I denied this?
I just think it's silly to pretend that all animals have four limbs, some of them have even more, I think millipedes hold the record unless I'm mistaken?
@@Sara3346 Yeah but the discussion was focused on modifying Humans and not insect, which seems to be your go to examples.
There are other creatures as well such as squid and octipus but like insects they have a different nervous system structure than us.
What your saying it a bit like saying an 18 Wheeler has more wheels than a pickup truck and they are both vehicles so we can just attach more wheels on the pickup. Except the Engine to power those where is a bit stronger than the one in the truck and the axel layout to transfer that power is setup differently. It's not a simply attach wheels and get more power/function.
My original post had two main points.
1) The video references Wings and Arms as being different from a biological point of view when really the mechanics of adding them would be very similar.
2) The ours and other animals like us have a nervous system which is built in a curtain way to handle the limbs we have. Simply grafting on more limbs and connecting them to the nervous system is probably not that simple.
There are all sorts of fine motor skills built into your limbs like legs which react on instinct to keep you balanced and tie into your inner ear. Adding wings and flight would likely require similar connections to ensure people could fly safely if wings were added. Additional arms probably wouldn't require as much work it would be more up to how much fine motor skill you wanted.
@@PyroMancer2k Mate if we get to a point where we can just casually grow wings large enough to lift a human, I have confidence that we'll figure out hox genes and artificial nerves too.
I LOVE Arthursday on a Sunday!!! Thank you for all you do Mr. Isaac!
Ah yes, the time when you pick the green option in mass effect
Did you say... Space Magic?
Hey if it gets Joker a cybernetic hat it is worth it
Categories tend to be "brittle". Wherever there are parameters (qualia) there will be edge cases. For example, the oft-cited qualia is "able to reproduce" would mean that a virus is life. It would also mean that a software program that can copy itself is life. If you don't like those results, you may want to add filters. Feel free to do so. This is why proper philosophy discussions start out by defining what they intend various words to mean.
I thought one of the most commonly self-said qualia for life was able to reproduce on its own?
These are my favorite vids to fall asleep to. Not because they are boring (they are great) but your tone is calming.
Great video. "Perilous Waif" is an interesting sci-fi novel with these points front and center.
Why do people complain about how Starfleet learns to cope with the Borg over the course of various appearances spanning years, when they have no problem with the Borg magically adapting to whatever weapon you throw at them in a matter of moments?
I loathe the 'Synthesis' ending in ME because you're doing it to everyone in that Galaxy, asking no consent, giving no consideration to their way of life, but changing them on a fundamental level - you are, effectively, raping the entire Galaxy and it disgusts me that anyone takes this as the best ending. I went up there to destroy the Reapers, countless people died to give me that chance, so that's what I'm going to do, every time.
You're pretty much making a decision for everyone with either 3 paths though, but yeah I tend to think there's more of a moral imperative to picking the big boom option
Not to mention that every single person is now no different from a Husk. (plus imagine the mental trauma of the millions that got converted and now have their original mind back in a body that is an abomination) The second someone like Harbinger pokes its head back into the galaxy the entire population will be under control without any chance of resistance.
Destroy is the only logical choice, that's the only path to victory against the Reapers, the other two is handing organic life over to them.
@@Mate397 i assumed they were more like cyborgs than a husk as well as having the option to connect to people rather than constantly being logged into a hivemind.
@@69Kazeshini Well those who weren't the victims of the conversion spikes perhaps, but remember that this also affected those who already got altered by the spikes and experiments of the Collectors and Reapers.
"most of us have artificial parts, some external such as clothing"
Im glad he used "most", recognizing that not everyone wears clothing
Been looking forward to this episode
You said it sister
*iFat™*
Smart fat that would allow you to adjust your appearance, texture and insulation, without additional weight, would be badass.
Dude that put the hat on the cow definitely ate some wild mushrooms from that field 😂
I discovered your channel through Luxin's video on the feasibility of the World Tree from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and I've been bingeing your videos since. Your content is a great source of learning and inspiration that has greatly broadened my understanding!
Thank you Isaac. Another awesome video!
The problem with villain decay is it's often the result of an Author explaining something that doesn't need explaining. Mass Effect is a great example of this as the Reapers were suppose to be some Lovecraftian creatures. And as anyone who knows Lovecraft can tell you the whole point of those stories is the unknowable. Strange mind bending/reality warping things happen often driving people insane and there is no explanation or reason give other than Ancient beings are doing something, but what that something is or WHY is never covered.
Now this may sound controversial but the way I see it Mass Effect was never about the Reapers and as such they never needed explaining. The story is about your companions and their struggles, along with the struggles of the galaxy and the people in it to survive. Thus viewing the Reapers in the same way as a disaster film where the earthquake, volcano, storm, and etc you don't really need much explanation as they are just the premise for why everything is going pear shaped. The second controversial opinion i have on Mass Effect is that in true Lovecraft fashion the Reapers should have been so far beyond us that just like disaster films there is NO "DEFEATING" them. Even the end of the first one which had you destroying Sovereign was but a small victory, you didn't defeat the Reapers you just prevented the gate from opening which would have allowed them to return.
Sure you could still do the third game with a big battle against a bunch of Reapers but you have a reveal at the end that suggest it's just a small force to watch over this one galaxy and the reapers are doing this across multiple galaxies but also that given the distance it won't for several generations. This makes a lot of sense because really given their age there is no reason they shouldn't have expanded to other galaxies. It's even worst given their explanation on the Reapers motives as organic life must also be evolving in other galaxies so why not expand to them to stop the AI uprisings there? Basically ME:A should have found yet another galaxy filled with Reapers or perhaps something worst that is fighting the Reapers.
Like Alice said to Dorothy, "I've seen some weird shit."
Bonus Sunday episode! Thanks Isaac!
I knew I shouldn't have researched Sapient Combat AI....
love your videos for the past 5 or 6 years now i think
I once tried to incorporate a lot of Isaac's ideas about digital life into a mass effect post control ending romance fanfic. When I lost interest in it, Miranda and Jack and Tali and Garrus were trying to figure out how to use cloning and a reaper supercomputer to create hybrid children. Miranda has been heartbroken throughout the two games she appears in because she herself was a clone and it may have resulted in her being sterile.
In my story Kaiden's mind was uploaded into a virtual server Shepard made while the ship's doctor, ship's AI, and Miranda healed his body with nanites. Shepard meanwhile had used accelerated consciousness to finish three or four doctorates and tried to build a system that would allow people the reapers uploaded to return as cyborgs, and the Normandy science officers, all veterans of the Reaper war, struggle to make sense of it. And although the obligatory rule 34 is satisfied, I tried to explore what that would mean using dialog between Kaiden and Shepard, Shepard as the guide from the proverbial Underworld and Kaiden as the young warrior seeking wisdom and perspective while he deals with the prospect of possibly losing his original body and having to take a clone. Shepard meanwhile is seriously regretting his life choices.
And if you're writing for Mass Effect and you want a truly frightening combination, try a Geth Hunter with a Krogan shotgun (not a watered down adaptation) and a Geth pyro. You're welcome for the nightmare fuel.
Have you considered doing a video on diamondoids, or other possible super strong materials?
Well this was about supermaterials in general, not just the super strong ones but:
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1:00 "Overwhelming, am I not?"
Sorry -- I just couldn't help that. That scene brings back old memories.
from the viewpoint of Creationists, isn't perhaps all lifes are synthetically grown by more advanced entities.
Actually a really good point. Even if the specific formulation is new the basic concept has been around for ages & believed to be true by many. Isaac has made roughly the same case for other technologies like genetic manipulation(selective breeding) or brainwashing(love potions).
Hey, kind of a long shot, but could you possibly cover some fictional scifi/fantasy worlds and how their mechanics relate to normal physics, or what it would take for our world to turn into theirs? I'm thinking some series that have very well fleshed-out magic systems like the Mistborn or Stormlight series' by Brandon Sanderson, or as a personal curiosity the world of Xenoblade Chronicles 1 & 2.
Lindybeige did a really interesting video on this
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I could do Sanderson's Cosmere, he's my favorite fantasy author and largely because of how intricate his systems are, but sort of like a dedicated 40k or expanse episode, I'd need some justification or main topic that was in science, even for a scifi sunday.
All I can think of is "danger, will robinson"
If you haven't, I suggest you look into a pen and paper game called "Eclipse Phase". I think you may be very interested in the setting and the science fiction behind it.
It's been recommended to me a lot
i feel like Batman Beyond's concept of Splicing is the perfect example of how something like human/other animal fusion would be like but to a lesser extent like if you used cells from a jellyfish or lizard to regrow a limb
This is commander shepard and this is my favourite ending on the citadel
In one of the Peter Hamilton (long and drawn-out ) books they had a 'multiple person'. This was not so much a hive mind as a single mind and personality spread over 30 human bodies of different ages. A peculiar concept.
11:39 Centaur.... okay, then. I see you have Chuck Tingle contributing to your art department. :D
My favorite way to spend Sundays!!!
That's right
All i want is just to switch between bodies, as in simply change between bodies in 2 different places like a boy specifically stationed in the workplace and the real one is at home
Imagine the money i'd save from commuting
Please accept this as a compliment .. I listen to you so often I say worlds the way you do I know that you have apologized for your difference in speech many times for years I can't imagine how it had affected your life but as a transhumanist know I find you exceptional as a specimen
Natural biology is just wild self-replicating nanotechnology.
We are already machines, just machines created by a fumbling iterative process guided by and optimised for nothing but it's ability to perpetuate itself within the limits of it's environment and evolutionary processes.
It is fantastically advanced in many respects, and we're not used to many of the engineering principals involved, but fundamentally and very literally machines.
No reason not to marry biological and "conventional" engineering principals in the same body/device and take advantage of both. Your body already manufactures, integrates, and maintains inorganic structures, like teeth and bones, and biology excels at precision nanofabrication. The main difference is that biology started small and got big while our technology started big and got small(in addition to biology being a lot more mature in it's development albeit, as mentioned, through a design process with a lot of inherent limitations, but that's nothing that can't be addressed with a little - heh - intelligent design ).
Isaac Arthur is the best
IDK if I'd still want shoes at all if I had thick enough hooves, maybe still leg warmers and and custom socks.
I could was between those hooves toes much more easily than a horse could too anyway.
I prefer being able to feel the ground when it's not in a state to give me burns lacerations or frostburns.
8:55 I would submit Season 6 of Highlander on that list as well.
Spiderhumans might be hard to get acustomed to, but you could feed fashion criminals to them.
The possible benefits in the epiphenomena are just mind boggling…
Meta mind. A mind above the mind presented to the player. This mind knows it's an AI and knows each of the sub minds it controls are itself as an actor playing a role. Ta da, no robot uprising because you mistreat your npcs.
Ala Culture Minds
Meta-minds would be game central ai, so what would happen if you shove multiple with different objectives and method into the game
When giving a list of bad endings you can't leave out Falling Skies.
The title had me expecting this one was going to be about making microorganisms from scratch, like the Venter Institute is working on. Still interesting, as always.
My definition of a synthetic lifeform are rather narrow. Once we learned how no longer only poke around in genetic codes making alterations but can build an entire genetic code from ground up, piece by peace to build something new THEN we have synthetic life forms. The difference is like the comparing an entirely new computer program to a modified version of an old one.
Potentially, we could even use entirely different genetic code! There is no reason that only nucleotides should be able to code information in biological systems. On another planet, their genetic code may not even be made of DNA, but some foreign xenomolecule we don't even know about!
@@tylercriss6435 Exactly.
Thank you.....A genuine excitement collapsing into deep thoughts.....The channel is thick and sticks with me gazing the stars. I dominate Walmart with you in my ear buds. Internally indelibly as brother in arms I thank you. Semper Fi bro.love light open roads. I apologize for punctuation.
The biggest impact we might end up making is crafting a new Clade of beings that have features which allow them to evolve complex forms to thrive in areas where they once would it would have been impossible for anything complex to survive.
Like if a biological means of nuclear power/atomic synthesis in the form of an organelle comes to integrate with even the simplest of current biology the ability to assimilate almost any material for energy, and eventually synthesize any element within an organisms own body becomes the single greatest boon to Life spreading across all accessible areas of a solar system possible.
And it would also be utterly terrifying too, because such life would no longer be bound by some of the constraints that keep it from eating us alive.
This is kinda an extreme example but its one that I think of... because on the one hand as living beings I can't help feel that it would be our duty to give life as a whole such an ability to spread and expand... but as a Human being I know that allowing such to even exist creates an existential threat for the species as we are.
A fun thought experiment. And frankly While I side with the carefulness of humanity working things out and becoming greater... I also am on the side of the New-Life going where we cannot, and being given the lease to inhabit that which we cannot.
Have you ever read the Manga Blame!? I addresses several of these themes.
I love your videos! They help put me to sleep without fail!
But are really interesting when I listen in the day too 😁
I probably “watch” each video twice
Please consider making a video on Black Hole Economics one day and maybe "Inter-Universal Travel" one day (if the universe is truly one of many universes in a multiverse I.e. if the multiverse theory is true)
"Going four four four arms." Oh English...
it is unfortunate that scifi writers use such stupid reasons for the dark enemies when there are great legit reasons humanity per say could have darker factions emerge with very good reasons for their existence.
Excellent topic, keep bringing the great and thoughtful content 👍
Awesome episode, Isaac 😃 Looking forward to the multi-species galactic empire 1 coming up in April 👍🏽
i acctually am curious if indistinguisable human androids or blade runner replicants will be possible in our lifetime, i know the later probably won't since they would acctually be alive.
Depends on your definition of 'life'.
@@UpperDarbyDetailing also depends on the definition of “possible.”
@@ColdHawk no, no it doesn't. Possible is a definitive state. It's either possible or impossible. It can *change* from being impossible to possible as tech advances, but it's still either/or.
@@UpperDarbyDetailing a self aware living breathing creature, that eats and drinks to survive and has to procreate to continue the species, i would hardly consider ai inside an android any of those, heck id consider a human mind upload into an android to just be a copy, unless it's their actual brain plopped onto a new body.
due to damage, age etc, their brain (the person) is alive and it would need nutrients to live, thus i would still consider that person to be alive and the original even though their body is not.
id rather have biological imortality not die from aging and remain young, than take a bet that mindupload would be me or not and i just still die and join the eternal darkness and just have some copy of me live on, whats the point if it's not acctualy me? im dead, every inch of me and my consciousness.
@@UpperDarbyDetailing Yep stuff is possible or not, full immersion bci vr might not be possible now, but it might be in 20 or 40 years, same for most tech or advancement, immortality, cure for insert disease, fusion energy etc.
What about the Replicants from Blade Runner or the Synths from Fallout 4? How do you go from synthetic machine life to synthetic biological human-like life? Do you genetically engineer and clone them? How do you make the leap from androids and cyborgs to growing biological genetically engineered clones in vats?
"or for four forearms" that sounded crazy.
ideal job: stock footage robot operator
I prefer the career of Stock Footage EEG Technician because it has better opportunities for advancement. I mean, just look 1:06 at the working environment, and the quality of that monitor shows the cutting edge technology you are trained to use! I dream that someday I will have such a job…..
There are a lot of people who are fanatically opposed to these ideas. If you ever feel like you aren't getting enough abuse, tell a "GMO activist" that ALL of our food is genetically modified.
I have mixed feelings about said Mass Effect endings. To start with, I suspect that mentally Commander Shepard is exhausted. He's probably not thinking straight, and if that reaper overmind doesn't come up with a form that's going to be sympathetic, Shepard will probably be irrationally pissed off when he arrives. But there's also absolutely no reason for the so called "Starchild" to be telling the truth, lying either by omission or outright lies. The starchild's calm, almost trancelike demeanor shows that it doesn't care one iota about consent, free will, or emotion. And when we complain that it killed people and stuck them in a simulation, it doesn't seem to understand why we embrace such a contradictory view and corrects us. And as near as I can tell, that's what the reapers are doing. They are preserving us for the end of the universe as digital beings. And this war, if we choose the control or synthesis endings will allow them to essentially get off scott free for this insanity. Not when the galaxy is full of the remains of the Reapers' past victims.
What makes the Reapers truly stupid in this regard are the ways they implement this. The husks they create are absolutely horrifying to behold, so nobody is going to want to become one of those. If they had simply used cloned bodies and cybernetics from the start instead of being heavy handed, if they had made it a matter of personal choice to join them when someone is close to death for example, or offer to back up the organics minds via brain scanning, they might not have had a fight on their hands like they did. Instead we get pretty colored lights and 20 minutes of narrative, half of which is probably the entity lying through its teeth in an effort to get us to spare them. It might not have been very interesting as a game, but I liked the premise of the Dark Energy ending a lot better, with this idea of using biotic species as a throttle to control the universe's expansion. That said, what we got was better than an ending they cut, where we have to choose between an explosion that will destroy the Earth and uploading Shepard.exe into a reaper to replace the current head of the hive mind.
One concept from a video game I wish had been more fleshed out was the Synths from Fallout 4. I LOVED the implication that the Sole Survivor may be some kind of super synth turned ancestor simulation of the Institute Director's mother. The synths are all made from the DNA of the institute's director. We see them assembled in the game, but not fleshed out into more sympathetic people like the synths you meet while playing the game. The implications for this process are even more intriguing as far as what we DON'T see. We get a synth named Nick Valentine, who's personality was created by scanning the brain of a prewar cop who was grieving the death of their fiance to a mob boss. The implication of Nick's existence, and the fact that he expresses gratitude for being a cop rather than some ex con but wonders why they didn't upload a biologist or a physicist, is that the Institute has a giant computer full of scanned minds.
It's entirely likely that they use brain scanning technology to replace someone with a synth. And their power draw is partly because of this, because the Institute uses a MASSIVE fucking amount of electricity. So much so that they end up in direct competition and conflict with the Brotherhood of Steel over a widget able to improve the power output of their fusion plant. The other reasons for their power draw are that they have a teleporter that, with the right components and amplifiers, could reach long distances. And this more than the synths I think is the reason why the Brotherhood ACTUALLY went to war with the Institute, they didn't want the Institute replacing people in their command structure out west and effectively taking over, or replacing the President and Senate of their neighbors the NCR. The other thing that probably draws so much power are the super computers necessary to extrapolate human genetic codes that are all different from each other from one unmutated DNA signature. The Director's DNA was likely a reference sample, needed to take all the different genes they find in people on the surface and compare them to the prewar baseline.
We are, however, never told or clued into any of this. It took listening to Isaac Arthur's channel for me to understand what was actually going on behind the main storyline. In the meantime the Brotherhood's leader becomes more and more a rabid zealot and your own son reveals himself as an incurable sociopath. And in the end you just wish that they'd destroy each other so you can have some peace and quiet.
1:47 where and when can I get one?
The extended edition is great as is the rest of the episode.
Hold the line!
🎵Love isn't always on time🎵
May I make a suggestion? Any books or other material you mention, could you please put those in the descriptions as well? Thank you
The secret fourth ending for Mass Effect is brutal.
What the red high score ending where it looks like maybe Shep survived or the fanon Indoctrination Theory? Or is there another I didn't know of?
@@isaacarthurSFIA you can actually shoot the avatar for the Crucible's AI instead of choosing red, blue, or green.
I have a literal plug in my heart. A little device that keeps me from throwing blood clots. Bizarre that I lived with the hole in my heart for several decades before it caused problems. Glad I've got that titanium gizmo there, one stroke was enough for me.
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Like cybernetics, huh? Fascinating...
Did you speed up your voice during the beginning? Like some kind of synthetic life?
Sorry Isaac, I had to stop this because of the foray into Mass Effect. It's totally fair to spoil a series from a decade ago, but I'm at the end of my first ever play through of 2 and about to start 3 and I can't have you spoiling it for me just now.
Go to 10:55 to skip mass effect discussion :-)
According to Ridley Scott we'll get synthetic life by having a bunch of robots fuck trees and snakes and shit.
13:35 This must be the coolest shirt this guy has ever seen in his life! 😆
Why are there no captions on this video?
My favorite subject! Check out the lifeforms that evolved in my simulations, "promotional particle system".
Yo, Isaac. 1:41 Seems like synthetic's life path is thicc af, sign me in.
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Hey Issac, been a long while since I've commented. Just wanted to say it's nice to hear someone I respect talking so casually about transgender stuff, even tangentially.
Speaking of which, if you remember me at all it would have been as Christian. How things change... 😅
Okay ... the notice for this said "Isaac Arthur Uploaded Synthetic Life" and my first thought was, "Well, if anybody could, it'd be him."
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4:20 Idk abt the whole "a man with a womb would be new" thing. I've been married to one for nearly 4 years
Homie I'm glad to hear you talk about mass effect
Another great Video!
Bonus episode??
Synthesis: Mikoto ⨄ Puppet master
0:42 Now you too can have Sciencephile The A. I. on a chip... 😆
*Gaze upon the singularity and despair*
2 videos within 3 days?? I feel so delightfully spoiled 😀😀🎇
What a coincidence! A good companion to Lex Fridman's most recent podcast with Lee Cronin.
An upload not on thursday??
Okay, maybe this speaks more about me than I like to admit, but was there a reason for Shepards exaggerated, um, 'display of virility'?