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The world keeps happening in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value. Sean Carroll
Music: Moby - God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
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The Meaning of Life is to have a Life with Meaning.
Oh yea! 🎉 How true is THAT!? ❤
for anyone who wishes to know this excerpt comes from a debate held by skeptic magazine called "has science refuted religion?" between Sean Carroll, Michael Shermer, Dinesh D`souza and Ian Hutchinson. its the opening argument and Sean is the first speaker.
Hattori Hanzo Thanks for posting!
Thanks
The meaning of life is the meaning you give to it yourself.
No one can write your story for you.
Love it! Sean Carrol is such a pleasure to listen to, and the visuals and music go beautifully with this great speech.
So what is left to do is to replace religious morals with scientifically explainable "ethics". The world is currently divided because of different religions (morals and lifestyle) and different political ideologies, it has to unite into a single country with scientifically arguable 'rules and regulations'. Ethical naturalism is the view that moral terms, concepts, or properties are ultimately definable in terms of facts about the natural world, including facts about human beings, human nature, and human societies.
This video helped me waking up. #gratitude Este vídeo me ajudou a acordar. #gratidão
Cadu Cassau - Se joga, cara! Cheguei neste vídeo após assistir ao seu! ! #gratidao
@@izabelafranco3680 me too!
Vim aqui depois do seu vídeo! Grata demais
The poetry of life, science and reality - and of humanism. Thank you!
WE MAKE OUR OWN MEANING AND LOVE.❤
Shining a torch in the light 🙏
I can’t thank you enough for creating this channel. Found this video at the right moment in my life. I’m planning to quit my job, start an Ed tech company, educate young students about science an reason, teach what rationality is and prepare them to be future astronomers, astronauts, neuroscientists, robotics engineers, philosophers, psychologists and anthropologists. I’m going to show this video to my friends and family. Great editing skills btw! Keep doing it! 👍
Powerful video, truly inspiring. Thanks for sharing. I am glad to have discovered Sean Carroll and his work. People like this have a unique ability to passionately express their knowledge of science and make it resonate with ordinary civilians like myself. If people ditched religion and embraced science, we would live in a very different world. Things must change but I'm afraid it will take many more generations.
I wouldn't say, it's completely understood.
awesome. gave me goose bump !!
Very powerful, beautiful, inspiring.... :-)
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brings me to tears. wow!
Naturalism has won.
Consciousness, intelligence, emotions... they are all part of the natural world, derived from stardust. Many millions of years from now we will know fully the mysteries of the universe. And when the universe is about to fizzle out, the super evolved form of us, so advanced as to be no different than god, will create a new universe, and the cycle will repeat.
_"Naturalism has won."_ ...nothing...
Won? Won what? Naturalists have managed to convince themselves that they are right, and in possession of sufficient knowledge to be able to make a definitive statement about things that they cannot even grasp. How quaint. Egomaniacs!
@@dougoverhoff7568 if naturalism in studying all matter and all energy which is literally everything...then what the fuck else is there to be that is not naturalism other than what your imagine which also comes down to actions derived from physics and chemistry...
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Good talk
Excellent - thank you! This is the beauty of science and reality!
really great speech..looks like comes from a better understanding than other religious believes where they just say it but dont have proof about it. i always used to feel like why i am doing this why is everybody doing anything how can someone has a passion and others do not. i dont know its as simple as that why dont people understand like whats said in this video.... i have always thought about these things now i got the similar things said in this video i am glad that it has some meaning. i always thought i m d different one no one around is like me but there r people who think d same way.
Awesome
If anyone care enough about this video, i would like to recommend another awe inspiring video by Phil Hellenes - Science save my soul. I would like to know what you guys think about the video. It is a truly remarkable video.
I second that motion! Easily one of my fav videos out there.
Thank you very much for recommending that video.
Wow thank you for the recommendation. If I found that a few years ago, I'd be saved from organized religion before I hit 30.
Sean is right, extraordinarily claims requires extraordinary evidence
This is what I've been thinking since I was like 12 lol
Have you also thought about the future, I think what is left to do is to replace religious morals with scientifically explainable "ethics". The world is currently divided because of different religions (morals and lifestyle) and different political ideologies, it has to unite into a single country with scientifically arguable 'rules and regulations'. Ethical naturalism is the view that moral terms, concepts, or properties are ultimately definable in terms of facts about the natural world, including facts about human beings, human nature, and human societies.
Partly correct, right up until the end when he mentions 'choosing' a good life for example. Choice is derived from freewill, which is a fallacy, thus so too is choice.
Good luck proving that.
Even in a fully deterministic world, there are still choices. We are part of the whole chain of events ourselves, so there's no free will but choices still exist.
@@hichaelhighers yes I agree - my opinion on the matter has developed since then. Free will vs Free choice vs Linear choice
I criticised the volume of the music on your Carl Sagan video and I must commend this much improved effort, thank you very much for bringing an extra bit of sparkle to a wonderful quote!
Science. Kicks. Ass.
The beauty of Truth! Thank you for an awesome video!
Really well-done video!! Are the clips at 1:39 - 2:06 a nod to Popper's essay on Science as Falsification?
i love sean carroll and i agree with 99% of what he said here. yet, there is no free will, no choice wich you make consciously. but i agree that masses of people might need the illusion of free will for them to have a self purpose.
uhhhhhh just lovely. More videos pretty pretty please! daily therapy right here and also would love to do some work with you -- looking forward to hearing from you!
This is beauty! Thank you
Inspiring.
The solution is to replace religious morals with scientifically explainable "ethics". The world is currently divided because of different religions (morals and lifestyle) and different political ideologies, it has to unite into a single country with scientifically arguable 'rules and regulations'. Ethical naturalism is the view that moral terms, concepts, or properties are ultimately definable in terms of facts about the natural world, including facts about human beings, human nature, and human societies.
Excellent talk!
He says truth, he is honest.
This is the best of your videos in my opinion. Let me rephrase that. Sean Carroll has the best excerpt found in your videos. They are all awesome.
You are correct, in my opinion, but you are also certainly not doing your job. I think the world likes you more than you think, The Guy That makes you mad. :-P
Well said!
Really, really awesome - nice speech and nice editing :) One question, the pictures from 0:52-0:59, where are they from? :)
It's from the ski movie "Into the Mind"
I love this video
He had the ability to articulate himself extremely well, just as the fifth dimension can explain to five-year-olds what the universe formula is.
AWESOME video, excellent speech...!! I loved it.
Awesome :O
This is so wonderful. Sean Carroll is so great and human through and through!
Existential anxiety does not run in my family. Go Nature! Bring it on!
Beautifully made!
Sean is like combining Carl sagan and Richard faynman in the 21st century.
Awesome video!
This is a window into common sense in the future
absolutely brilliant
What a inspirational video with beautiful voice.
Sean is a top shelf national treasure.
So well spoken. Clear and articulate. Basically impossible to argue with anything he says
We are an amalgam of atoms and chemistry . We put meaning into what we don’t understand and displaced our insecurities to gods or deities. We are part of the evolution of natural phenomenon . We’re cerebral coupled with feelings and emotions.
amazing and inspiring thank u
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We are all condemned to be free. - J P Satre.
This was so rational explanation of everything lake equation of everything and it is so well explained. This video bursting of truth and rationality it is something I like to play with!! All compliments to Mr. Sean Carroll and to Moby for outstanding music!!
Sean, brother, you are a God!
I was to distracted by the rope walking, I missed a bit of his talk. 😅
And I wonder if he spends time being sceptical about his version of the meaning of life.From the looks of it he is perfectly comfortable with the idea that naturalism is certainly true.
I think his position and the position of good scientists is to follow the evidence
What makes everything do something?? 🤔🙄🤗
Thank you Sean. Thank you Jesus. Freedom is here!
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I believe in allstate.
Naturalism is my thing...now I know why.
I will remain stubbornly optimistic as well. Great video. Thanks for sharing this. :)
Wait, so it *isn't* 42? My whole life is a lie.
Anthony Khodanian Don't panic: use a towel :-) Douglas Adams is better than: jesus, god, allah, buddha, jahweh, krishna...
+xerox1959 You are absolutely Froody!! have a jinnantonikz on the house.
Thank you Sean for this video, I very much want too talk too you about the meaning of choices applicator Humans and our existence, peace and love, Doug.
i am here...
what is the original source of this talk?
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I didn't understand when he said the laws governing the atoms have been completely understood. We still have the dilemma on double slit experiment. Isn't it?
Dilemma is in interpretations, not in results and laws that predict such results. Read his book - Something deeply hidden
Sure, thanks for the recommendation
On the other hand Sean, I once met Idi Amin. And I know that I have participated in the education of more people who have murdered than those whom I know have made a contribution to increased understanding. So I'm not very optimistic.
Please don't stop sharing videos this is a very motivational channel
What talk of Sean's was this taken from?
palewine I believe it’s from Death is Not Final
This is an amazing statement, and inspiring. However, I can't escape the irony in the music selection...
why?
what he has described is how wonderful science is but not even a case for naturalism.
So that would mean we're really all just animals too then...we cannot draw absolute conclusions about anything, as stated we're all biased. The only truth that exists is universal law, we make up the rest. Happiness is the truth ☺
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I understand the need to be open minded and live through experience but can't this also be quite stubborn? We live in an extremely limited sensory existence where we can only perceive so much and so we need to look beyond ourselves and understand things we can't perceive. An example of this is the fourth dimension and grasping the concept of a hypercube or tesseract. We can never fully 'see' and 'experience' the fourth dimension but we know it is possible.
That's why we developed mathematics and scientific instruments
Religion often comes across as one very long supposition. Pass...
I got curious about how he got that the Universe does not have intelligence and is not there for me? I am a primitive person and I want to die just to step into the Mystery and move on being super well taken care of better than being in womb. I imagine all these without any problems considering the amount of space, possibilities, Gods, imagination and so on.
Skycentrism: We live inside the Earth, part I - History (English subtitles, napisy ENG)
Existentialism - Alive and well today
Actually there is no real, objective "meaning" in the brutal physical world of which we are a tiny part. Yet, as humans our brains are evolved to filter out these ugly facts of the harsh reality, and created meaning & purpose to survive on this planet.
*Don't you see the contradictions?* According to Sean, atoms are making meanings about other atoms. Atoms are feeling other atoms. Atoms desire other atoms.... *In that case, what are meanings, feelings and desires made of?*
In other words, meaning is just an advanced complexity version of the same avoid/approach mechanism in an amoeba, which is itself just an advanced complexity version of electro-biology.
He can't tell you what an atom will do! Only when he solves the measurement problem can he act all knowing.
The measurement problem has much to do with far smaller particles to an atom. And to some level of sophistication, in our current technology, we can collide atoms; so I would say his statement holds up because the measurement problem is a far different issue.
How old is this video? It’s a bit dated
What is it like to be an atom?
devoid of like-ness
Personally I believe that our human bodies are like a filter for our essence. Whatever is beyond us only wants certain types of energy, I believe the energy of a good person does indeed go somewhere different than the energy of a "bad" person. Granted the concept of good and bad are man made, but from a universal point of view balance is the holy grail and I think "good" or balanced energy goes somewhere totally different than "bad" energy. I don't think it's as simple as a heaven or hell, I don't believe in gods and demons, I think the bad energy gets "reused" (similar to what some people call reincarnation). Kind of hard to explain...
All as human have predisposition and biological restrictions on our way od thinking. In our deepest thoughts have the urgency to decipher patrons, order our reality and comfort us with a meaning of the universe, the fact that the universe arises from chaos and much of the world around us are affected by probability discomfort us and most of us go to religion give us a deeper sense.
The universe doesn't arise from chaos, are you familiar with the sacred geometry of the universe? Absolutely everything has a purpose.
Lee Peffers Biological properties can arises form caos, in terms of free energy and entropic properties. Phenomena like the protein folding can occur from an increasing on entropy, thats what I mean.
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Laying aside what Christians and the bible says. What is "Tongues" all about????
Wow! So nice to know we can create our own meaning in life. I've always wanted to secretly pattern my life's meaning after dropping an atomic bomb and killing people in a genocide while pretending to mourn with the world because nobody will find me out - ever. Therefore, there'll be no one to blame and no way to catch me. According to Sean - this is therefore my meaning in life. Thanks Sean (not). God bless you
+Ernest Adewoyin He didnt say you wouldnt get caught.. He said the universe isnt going to judge you. and he didnt say your community and local law enforcement wont judge you lol Move along little fail troll
+Ernest Adewoyin That's very sociopathic of you. By this sentence, "Therefore, there'll be no one to blame and no way to catch me," one can and should infer that if it weren't for positive punishers (whether real or imagined) you would have no qualms with undertaking this type of behavior. Please make sure every law enforcement database has all your biometrics on file.
+Cawfee Dawg well are you saying that I cannot create my own meaning in life to be that? Are you contradicting the freedom that Sean Carroll gave to me?
+Animuldok same question goes for you :) God bless you guys :D
Some religious prick is mad 😂 OR was mad. Its 6 years ago maybe he is dead
The meaning of life is that everyone has to choose the answer to that question for themselves. But despite Sean being one of the few with a decent grasp of metaphysics, it's inappropriate to ask physicists philosophy questions.
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04:13 Oh yeah, Sean? Well, we'll just demolish the literacy rates among our flocks. The Dark Ages are home-field for us player.
***** It was a facetious comment to illustrate that religion 's motives are not the same as science. After hearing the intent that Carroll begins to express at 04:13 it struck me that it is likely that the only 'angels' we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only 'demons' we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, credulity and faith. However, as observed in the U.S., there has been a surge of religion fundamentalism in states where literacy rates are dropping. Hence the comment that religion does not give a fuck about what Carroll's intent is, and that they operate much more efficiently in those 'demonic' conditions of the Dark Ages where ignorance, hatred, greed, credulity and faith are not given the the critical scrutiny they would otherwise in an educated, well informed, literate society. So, I equate the Dark Ages to Home Field advantage for religion's perceived intent of putting proselytization of their particular dogmas over education, reason, honesty, love and the advancement of our species as a whole, free of supernatural beliefs.
He says the argument is finished. Then he talks about love, create, purpose, right and wrong. How are these rooted in the atom? Eh? Eh?
What he said in regards to "argument is finished" was that academics who's job it is to explain the behavior of things in the world all agree that the best explanations are naturalistic. The argument of naturalism vs. other theories is finished. His comments in love and purpose were that science cant answer those questions and that it is up to us to decide what makes life worth living, what our purpose is, and how or why to love each other.
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I could've ended this vid in a couple of seconds. None.
*Science is the study of measurement - not the study of truth* According to science, anything that can’t be measured doesn’t exist.
@Drew Mek Quite the opposite. It's the strict rationality of science that I'm talking about. You wrote, "something is only known to be true if it can be shown to be true" - How is something in science 'shown' to be true - other than, by taking a measurement of some kind? *My point is, not all truths can be measured. This should be acknowledged by scientists, rather than ignored or arrogantly dismissed*
@Drew Mek Okay, here's a very simple example to give you an idea of what I mean: *There's currently no way of proving what happens in your dreams. Does that mean you have to disregard the contents of your dreams as non-existent?* (...Until it can be measured or proved?)
@Drew Mek I think the practical application of knowing that consciousness is not made of matter, is that it affects your whole outlook on life and reality.
@Drew Mek Where in your brain can you find, say, a white cube you're thinking about? Neurones are not the thoughts but, more like shadows - sure there is a correlation between an object and its shadow, but it's obvious that they are not nearly the same thing.
@Drew Mek Perhaps, we should amicably agree to disagree.
Yeah just add some piano music and your bs ideology will become truth. Very inspirational, totally woken up rite now
Nice thoughts, too bad that they are completely mistaken. According to the famous atheist philosopher Alex Rosenberg, not only free will is an illusion - the enduring self is a fiction and human purpose is a myth. "So, individual human life is meaningless, without a purpose and without ultimate moral value".
Hey Sean, tell us something we DON'T know! Eh, I guess the noobs would love it cuz, you know, they never heard anyone TALK before. Don't get me wrong, Sean's a peach, but I don't need anyone to tell me my role in the universe. Not in 2014, anyway. Inspiring words---IF you were religious.
Why the condescending pep talk! Some of us think just like you do and communicate a positive - open-minded effort to make our points.
Sean Carroll in response to the mysticism of some of some of the founders of Quantum Mechanics derisevly states that the founders of QM are dead, they have been dead a long long time and that we now know much more about QM since they've passed on. The problem with this argument is that long after Bohrs, Planck and Heisenberg died, QM has only gotten much more wierd and much more mystical. Non-Locality is now a Given. There is the Double-Slit experiment with the added bizzarness of Delayed Choice and Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser. Sean Carroll is disingenuous.
26 people had met God. Apparently