Complexity, Evolution, and Intelligence
Over the past few decades, it has become quite obvious that humans are not the only living organisms with intelligence.
The story of intelligence you are about to experience goes back 13.8 billion years, back to the moment the universe was born: the Big Bang. It’s a story of time and space, matter and energy. It is a story of unfolding, It’s the story of how the very nature of the physical universe from its very inception led to the universe getting to know itself and eventually, to reflect.
Complexity, Evolution, and Intelligence is comprised of five parts, each corresponding to a movement in Dan Forrest’s “Requiem For The Living.” This composition was performed August 2, 2013 in Raleigh, NC by Bel Canto, conducted by Dr. Bill Young.
Complexity, Evolution, and Intelligence was selected as the Best Educational Film at the Cannes World Film Festival, January 11, 2024; it is an Official Selection at the 2024 Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival; a Merit Award winner at the 2023 Raw Science Film Festival; a Nominee (finalist) at the Denver Movie Awards; and an Official Selection at the Seattle Film Festival.
The Big Bang model does not postulate that the universe came from nothing.
Really interesting to put it into perspective like this
Thank you.
The difficulty in this thesis is a linguistic presupposition that we can basically reverse engineer what "intelligence" means to fit a notion that plants, bacteria or say an entire ecosystem or planet are - or that the universe itself is - intelligent. But that dissolves the specificity of how human intelligence was central to our later evolution and historical progress, e.g. rocket science and astronomy. To think that a tree is intelligent somehow "feels awesome", but that's because we subconsciously project our understanding of our own human intelligence onto the tree, which definitely does not experience reality in the same way we do. Nature, biology, chemistry and physics have a kind of "logic" to them. In a sense there is a mathematical structure to reality. Atoms of elements have certain properties that tend towards certain combinations with other atoms because ultimately entropy rules everything. Life itself is a highly organised and complex, low-entropy state of being; countless chemical combinations constantly ticking over into lower states of energy all the while fueled by energy that comes from ancient clusters of volatile compounds continuously reacting with eachother in space (e.g. the sun). They react, because on a quantum physical level they are "compelled" to react with each other, because mathematically - as oversimplified as it sounds - that's just how our universe "shakes out". But I hesitate to call that intelligence. Order, yes. Structure, yes. Predictability, yes. But intelligence means more than that. A bacterium can't solve a problem it is faced with in the sense that it makes a choice on what to do. It is either evolved to survive the problem via a chemical reaction of its cell or it isn't. Also, the operatic background music is a bit jarring after a while. I think a more softened background noise accompanies the voiceover much better.
Thanks for the detailed observations and thoughts.
science is logically and beautifully perfect
Science is clumsily and slowly learning about logic and that perfection is a false container for what matters. Science has nothing to do with beautify it is as aweful as beautiful as it is simply a process. It is not an emotion or a religion or any “thing” which can be of logic or perfection it is good but flawed process of acquiring better knowledge. Is there beauty in that sure but science is not itself the logical construct of knowledge it is the process of aquiring knowledge thru testing assumptions thru messy observation and even more messy experiments. Science as you see it is actually the opposite of any beauty or logic. It is a hell of red tape, egos and money which lead most “science in acadamia” today to be considered a cancerous and toxic imposter of what was once called science… but if you look close it was always that way.
this is an amazing video
Thank you.
This is all how it started
The experiment on me
Are you saying all the H2O came from volcanoes erupting?
PS. A plant making a decision is - again - just a very loaded choice of words. A plant cannot simply decide to not flower - even though every single parameter is optimal for flowering. Choice by definition means that other options are possible. Choice involves calculation of probability and imagination of future events. And there is just no evidence that plants do this beyond chemical communication of different parts of the plant (or of different plants) with eachother - resulting from abiotic factors. There is no evidence that bacteria do this. If a bacteria encounters food, it will very probably absorb it. Why would would it choose otherwise?
Thanks for you comment. Note: I never use the word "decide" or "decision." Consciousness and intelligence are two different subjects. This documentary is about intelligence.
@@sethdbernstein416020:25 "one of the key ways that plants display intelligence is through their ability to *make decisions* , using their molecular detecting sensors..."
Did you just go big bang through modernity in 42min? Book of Genesis cant touch that - and miighta skipped a few steps;) amazing work. Under 200 subs?! Sounds about right - never make any money being this good, but thats Art. Im in.
So, where is the info that build itself? I don't mean God but the missing biological blueprint and architect not found in DNA. PLEASE DON'T throw your science text book at me if you don't understand it yourself.