These 4 Simple Questions Will Change How You Think About Everything
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In this video, we explore 4 questions that no one has and (most likely) no one ever will be able to answer. What's most unsettling is that these unanswerable questions live inside our head, in our every experience of the world. In exploring and recognizing these questions, however, perhaps we can form a new framework through which we can consider the world.
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The egg theory is one of the most intriguing hypotheses out there, and because you are the expert in this field, I would want to see you discuss it on your KZhead channel.
I’ve asked myself all 4 of these questions and that is why I know you are to be respected
My name is Seth, Jewish name. :3 I sometimes say Set/Seth and Horus, Egyptian style. Hehe.
Reported.
I have already asked these questions before, but having a mindset like this kept me from living with joy because I kept on asking things I could never answer. So what I did, is to follow my intuition and conscience. To follow what I believe is right and for the good of the people around me. We can just live with all these questions but at the end of the day, these questions don't matter at all. We just have to live and try our best each day not just for ourselves but for the ones we love.
thank you
The purpose of a seemingly meaningless life is creating a meaningful good will so that other people may never experience life’s true hollow nature. In simple terms your existence is to enhance the experience of life to others, while you experience the understanding of your own suffering. That’s why Jesus taught that the perfect law was to love everyone just as you love yourself. Arguably it’s equally important to protect others the way you would want to be protected.
In the end - after asking ourselves these philosophical questions - we know we can live without the answers to these questions and enjoy life as it is. Furthermore we must realise that if we want to enjoy life, we must give the same right to all other living creatures in our environment. For what is our right and wish, is the right and wish of anyone else.
This is because you can't live on doubt. That's all the first three questions rely upon: exchanging a reasonable certitude for and unreasonable doubt. Intuition is a valid intellectual endeavor. I recommend "St. Thomas Aquinas" by G.K. Chesterton as a good read touching on some of these things.
The trick is to question but not become the question. Its good to ask these questions, its what being human is and most humans do not have the perception to begin to question. But if you become the question then you will miss the beauty of life. Not an easy balance and it takes being consumed by these questions, and then 360 to completely ignoring them to then find the balance.
Sigh... Every time Pursuit of Wonder uploads a new video, it gets rid of my anxiety, but it will give you an even bigger existential crisis... :')
Weird comment seeing that the purpose of the videos are the explain in a roundabout way that in life and death there is nothing to be anxious about and that the meaning of life is the one we give it.
That’s so cringe
bigger than your own mortality and the fact that its finite?
The Existential crises are relaxing
@@tempgangster4952 we have existed since the beginning, now, and will always exist - in one form or another
I like your sincerity, sometimes I feel as though I'm the only one that thinks this way, always doubting, always blinking, always questioning what if and what not.
I have the same thoughts but some how im happier than most people
The video is 16 minutes and 32 seconds but took me 3 full hours to watch it... Made a bunch of theories along the way. This video is really amazing.😃👌
Could you share your theories?
yeah, share the theories. We need more takes.
You've helped more people than you'll ever know, Pursuit of Wonder. Thank you
Nah they've got analytics.
on god
Too true, Pursuit of Wonder had been the best inspiration and even motivation to do better and be better for the longest time in my life, thank you🙏🏽
True!!
@@Euryale-817 that is very strange to me. Would you care to elaborate how?
Your videos always remind me of how amazing, incredible and absurd our reality is.
I'd prefer to use the term Abstract
Thank you Deon! 🤗❤️
Damn, “the how do we know” portion is exactly what I was trying to get my family understand when I was little but my explaining skills weren’t very good so they thought I sounded crazy
I laughed maniacally at the existentialism. To me its humorous to ask such questions with such unintelligible answers. Life truly is beautiful. I had a moment when I was appreciating a fruit I was eating this morning. How does such a thing come to be? It's so simple yet so meaningful to ask these deep thinking questions. It's the little things.
As someone who has had a really bizarre trip with psychoactive drug experiencing space, time and reality in a completely different way, a way that is verbally indescribable. I can say that last statement makes a lot of sense to me. I felt like I was connected to a flow, something like a source of everything. I felt like I was all there is and nothing simultaneously.
I really want to experience that too :( so far only tried lsd twice and didn't feel anything of that sort
@@thurman-merman Mushrooms in silent darkness, you'll get there
@@EuropesNinja I was wondering what might happen if I took psychedelics in a sensory deprivation chamber but I never took psychedelics before and I'm scared of what it might reveal lol
I have also done mushrooms but if you want to describe this mystical experience taoism for me is the one that can picture or explain what I have felt and yeah it is like a flow also tao meaning is flow and many other more and the more you cling to words numbers reality or the unseen will make no sense. The more chatter you do or logical calculation you will not know the one or the flow and does not also take understanding it just what it is. We're all part God I guess, in a mystical separate ways we are one.
i know exactly what you mean @Lorz, like ego death?
This probably is the best video on this channel so far, and I'm pretty sure I've watched them all! Thank you for creating content for people to question both the world and themselves. We need such deep content to contemplate in order to evolve individually and collectively, as awoken humans reshaping our world!
I don't feel awoken. Honestly I feel like for the last three years I was making a lot of things to be disappointed of. Can hou tell me how to be awake?
@@user-ku9xx1gw3v Hi I will suggest you to read the translation of Quran just open any verse and read it without thinking of another thing... Like just put aside what you have been learning and taught for years... just tried it YOu will feel relaxed. Do text me back if you need help.😊
Actually all these questions are just the problems of our darkened minds seeking answers from itself which is never going to yield any fruit. How can we know the truth by relying on our minds?? It's absurd. The truth comes from God and God alone and you will never know it until you descend from your Ivory tower and humble yourself before God.
This video is so to the point of explaining my own existential crisis. I need to read the books it was based on.
There's no existential crisis about you friend. You were created by God. Know this and have peace 😌😌
You have no existential crisis. You think deeply, and about other things than "normal" people. Therefore people think you are "weird" and you have an "existential crisis", and you're still in the habit of also thinking this because you are "different than the normal".
Love the thought provoking topics. Not something you find in everyday conversation.
Here comes my weekly subscription of existential dread 😇
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that was absolutely amazing! I was cheering near the end! I've been saying this and believing this for just over a few months now and its changed my whole way of seeing the world!! thank you for this and every single other video you have made for minds like ours!
Your narration and voice is always calming and enjoyable to listen to. The community appreciates your continued work.
As a colour deficient person (I hate the term colour blind because I see colour), I know that others see colour differently to me. Over the years, I've actually abandoned using names like "green" or "red" or "blue" because they are meaningless to me. Usually, when I've used such words, they have caused confusion, not clarity. Your "green" is so limiting, but I stop myself asking "do you mean evergreen, or lawn green, or tree green? ". None of those look green to me, but I know others see green, though in a limited way. To me, they are three different colours, and two of them are what you might call red if you could look through my eyes. I only realised this because people find it endlessly fascinating to test my colour sense, and delight in telling me that I am wrong. Consequently, I've often wondered about other differences that might exist between my mind and someone else's, especially as I am also on the autistic spectrum. I remember my surprise when I discovered that people do not see numbers as I do. I love sudoku, but when I look at the numbers, I see characteristics, I do not see 5 but feel that it is lazy, whereas 7 is excitable, 1 is stubborn, and so on. Unfortunately, this also means that I have issues with numbers, for example, I struggle to tell the time. This video has got me asking more questions than it answered, a sign of a truly excellent video.
Individual perception is often ignored or obscured by collective perception. In other words, if 1200 people say that the White House wasn't in jeopardy over early 2021, but 12 people say it was, then the dozen minority were "wrong". End of story. Humanity rules itself by obeying the majority's perceptions and mocks or discredits those of the minority's. Facts are irrelevant. Logic is meaningless. Truth is all a matter of the majority's perspective. Humans are only allowed to believe what is commonly acceptable, else, they are incorrect, labeled as pariahs, and made to be sociologically invisible. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
colour samples , you know from a paint shop you can do experiments, and like anything we come toghetter somewhere
"I do not see 5 but feel that it is lazy, whereas 7 is excitqble, 1 is stubborn" bro, that enneagram like... 2 is kind, 4 is emotional, 8 is dominant and challenging, 9 is peace
@@HJ-io5ch whats an enneagram?
Hey there. I recently read a book about the brain and came across this phenomenon you just mentioned with numbers. Apparently it’s called synesthesia. I suppose you already know. How very interesting though!
Don’t know if you intended this, but you really touched on some core Buddhist philosophies. It’s really amazing how buddhism and western science aligns.
Which ones?
@@arpitkumar4525 For starters, you being the whole universe within you (at the end of the video)
Same with Hinduism
@@bhaveshtochabbra6853 Are there not millions of Gods in Hinduism?
@@csabo1725 Brahman alone is real; the world is the appearance. brahma satyam jagan mithyā - (Shankara, Vivekachudamani) Brahman is one, without a second. ekam evadvitiyam brahma - (Chāndogya Upaniṣad) He am I. So 'ham - (Isha Upanishad) All this is Brahman. Sarvam khalvidam brahma. - (Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1) Shankara used the example of the rope. Walking down a darkened road, a man sees a snake and he is very frightened. On closer inspection he acquires knowledge and realizes that the “snake” was just a piece of coiled rope. Once the illusion (Maya) breaks, the snake vanishes forever. Similarly, ignorant man thinks he suffers and is in bondage. On 'closer inspection' and study he acquires new knowledge and realizes he is Brahman.
Props to both the storyteller and mostly the editor!! This video is just beautiful!
Much of the video’s ideas seem linked to Thomas Aquinas’s first three arguments, but the fourth disproves his third cosmological argument. Fascinating. Kudos to you, Pursuit of Wonder.
Your video shall be studied for 100 years to come and I haven't seen any content on KZhead even close to this. Your presentation is impeccable and the animation that goes along with your smooth crisp narration is the icing on the cake. Thank you!
Dont make me laugh 😅
Erm its not that crazy tho
Always some critics.
@@mider-spanman5577 In all honesty, you have a long way to explore KZhead for other "thinkers" (granted you won't find it in Lego Star Wars) but, more importantly don't forget the books, there is vast literature on this topic. And let's not pretend this 16 minutes video is not inspired from other's probably lifetime work on theorizing.
I remember having these thoughts in the 3rd grade and I, like everyone else, still have no answers. I no longer spend much time wondering about this because I also realized the answers are truly unknowable. The only honest answer about god is I don’t know and neither does anyone else. I don’t play the game any longer.
thats why im agnostic as well
If I could understand and fit the God i worship into my three pound brain then He would not be worthy to be God. Pursuit of wonder, let me say that I love your work but that question number 5 has been answered by me because I know my God and He is my creator, I experience Him every day and this isn't a question of belief, or religion or philosophy, it about relationship. How do I know that God is real? Because I experience Him everyday. Jesus came to this earth to show case His love (He literally split History) so it is not a matter of whether He came or not but do you know why? To you who's reading this, don't harden your heart, the whole earth sings about the existence of my God. God loves you and He wants you to Know Him. Deep in your heart you would know that life doesn't end here, Heaven is real, and so is hell I love you all
The difference between “knowing” and “believing”. Faith is the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
I will suggest you to read the translation of Quran just open any verse and read it without thinking of another thing... Like just put aside what you have been learning and taught for years... just tried it YOu will feel relaxed. Do text me back if you need help.
I might sound insane, but I've come to a realization that there is a God and a Devil inside of us, our very soul dictates which path we take.
I could swear this was written by me! There was some more food for thought, so I'll watch it again. I concur with the last idea in this video. But, these questions only prove that there is a limit to the mind, and we cannot find these answers with words and numbers invented by us. I think eastern spirituality presents another way of looking at it. The only thing I can be sure of is that I exist and I am restless. Everything I do is to find peace. And the way to find peace is look inside and see that I as an ego do not exist. That it's all a process, there is no creator, no inherent purpose. Everything just exists and is transforming non-stop. It's a play and it's good to take it seriously like a sport, but useless to think we can figure it out and win. And even though we can see that the ego is an illusion, we cannot get rid of it. That we have no free will and complete free will at the same time (refer Bhagavad Gita 4:18). This is the great paradox.
Imadaddin Nasimi: Both worlds can fit within me, but in this world I cannot fit I am the place less essence, but into existence I cannot fit.
@@JN-wr9heI read your post 6 times and still can't begin to understand what you said.
This was amazing. I have read and wondered about these topics a lot, and came to some conclusions. I am in awe of how you brought all the topics discussed into one whole thing and collapsed it all to show the gem underlying beneath Thanks for the vid
I will suggest you to read the translation of Quran just open any verse and read it without thinking of another thing... Like just put aside what you have been learning and taught for years... just tried it YOu will feel relaxed. Do text me back if you need help.
Wow. I never comment on videos but this deserves an award. Finally a video that sums up what I’ve been contemplating my entire life
Thanks for another great video - my favorite in months! One thing I’ve been pondering lately is if “good” can exist at all without free will and the power to commit evil. In other words, is a morally gray Universe a seemingly sick and twisted gift that we simply can’t wrap our minds around? Fascinating stuff.
well yeah. Dow would one know good without the bad. or beauty without ugliness. all of life is a ying and yang.
I don't think one needs free will to believe in "good" or "bad." A hurricane has no free will, yet we can still call its effects bad. Likewise, even though Hitler or Gandhi may not have had free will, their effects can be called good or bad (perhaps not objectively due to the is/ought problem, but subjectively none the less). We don't need blameworthiness and praiseworthiness for morality to hold up.
@@paulrogers5105 Good things make those who experience them content or happy. Bad things do the opposite.
If I could understand and fit the God i worship into my three pound brain then He would not be worthy to be God. Pursuit of wonder, let me say that I love your work but that question number 5 has been answered by me because I know my God and He is my creator, I experience Him every day and this isn't a question of belief, or religion or philosophy, it about relationship. How do I know that God is real? Because I experience Him everyday. Jesus came to this earth to show case His love (He literally split History) so it is not a matter of whether He came or not but do you know why? To you who's reading this, don't harden your heart, the whole earth sings about the existence of my God. God loves you and He wants you to Know Him. Deep in your heart you would know that life doesn't end here, Heaven is real, and so is hell I love you all
The existence of light necessitates non-light, shadow, darkness. This is sin, the shadow of the light of God. There is justice for sin, through hell. There is mercy for sin through Jesus. God is Just and morally benevolent, even when life, because of human fault, isn't. Without free will, we wouldn't ask such questions. This is part of the reason Calvinism fails so hard and has caused some of the harshest atheists alive(such as Stephen king, for instance). Of course, if God caused everything, including making man in such a way that we had no choice but to sin, then such a god would not be good. But He hasn't done this, we have souls, we are agents, and we have free will. I posit that the lack of stopping evil is not evil in and of itself. Thus, God is all good. I wouldn't say "omnibenevolent", because He isn't just sloppily loving all creation as if we are perfect (often called "sloppy agape"), many people will burn because of their refusal to accept Christ, but all have the ability to choose.
Amazingly thought-provoking as always! thank you
That video took me so deep that I am now above. Full circle, straight through. Actually, no words necessary.
Interesting video! I formulated my own version of this conundrum many years ago in the form of the question: 'Am I in the world (realism) or is the world in me (solisism)?' More recently I've started to think that the two possibilities may be, but are not necessarily, mutually exclusive. There may be an external world that exists outside of me of which I am a part, but nonetheless the entirety of my experience of that world is contained within my mind. Thus I cannot know with certainty whether I am or am not in an external world but it is certain that my perception of the world is within me (or perhaps 'is' me). The more interesting question to me is what is the nature of consciousness, and is it an emergent property of the brain? If we can figure that out, the knowledge might help us to solve the fiddle. Or perhaps the answer to the koan can never be understood but only experienced.
Imadaddin Nasimi: Both worlds can fit within me, but in this world I cannot fit. I am the place less essence, but into existence I cannot fit.
The possibility of the world inside you is ideally inclusive in the world outside. Yes your consciousness is you. The existence (Universe) of which each conscience is part of is not isolated in the inside world of everyone. The nature of all conscience will be emergent when the existence(Universe) is done experiencing itself. So the conscience which we notice as ours is the bridge between the outside and inside world, extending and narrowing from both side as we live and eventually die. I am from the school of thought that oneself is part of the universe, purely physically. Our personal consciousness is transient with our body but the state of the Universe/Existence digests it for its conscience.
Feels like the universe created inside of it (by accident or whatever) the means to "feel itself".. from the inside. So in a way it's both... we (the means of the universe) look "outside" but since we're part of the universe, then it's itself looking inwards. It's like a weird loop...
the man, the legend. Thank you for another amazing insight video. Keep up the great work.
Your channel is phenomenal. Hope to see you continue making such profound videos.
Really wonderful one. It feels like it's arranged all the dilemmas I self talk myself and at last provided a better way to think abt it!! As I can remind a line from some book : not knowledge just knowing...
Great video, as usual. And great graphics too. Imagine watching your videos in a theater (3D /IMAX). Would be such a gooseflesh inducing event
This was one of the best from your channel...good work. Animation seems to have improved too.
I knew i was going to question my life after clicking this, but damn... this is amazing
There's definitely a frame of reference beyond me and since I recently discovered this, it's been extremely unsettling. It's tough to understand how much I don't know compared to those around me. I feel blind and ignored.
You are everything and everything is you. This is one of the teachings of Hinduism. Complete selflessness is the way to true fulfillment.
The fourth and final unanswerable question is something that i'm thankful you brought up for reasons I do not wish to state. However, as a result of all the thinking i've done so far I am personally convinced of the non-reality that i'm existing inside of, and while I find it difficult to live with and especially live with other people such as my partner, i've also come to understand that while she might not be real, my feelings for her are most certainly, and that's good enough.
As someone who has experienced hallucinations and delusions - no, we will never know if we know what's real but we're always going to convinced that it is. Those of us who aren't 100% convinced, find ourselves even more trapped in uncertainty that we even exist. For you, I'm not much more than pixels on a screen
What interests me about the Molineux problem is that I agree you won’t know which is dice or marble by looking. But if you felt them I think you’d quickly learn which is which. Of course the point of the problem is will you know before touching them. Would you know which one to pick up in the first place? This really got me thinking. 🙂
This just reactivated my constant childhood curiosity. I thought about that a lot and it just hurt my brain. How do we ever know if we what we're perceiving is the same as what others perceive 😵💫
“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up-many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
I love videos like this. This channel is in the group of the best on KZhead!
7:20 Thank you for pointing that out. This is the perfect explanation. A person can realize they are dreaming and awake depending on very particular aspects. It is simple to differentiate between reality and our dreams.
Loved this video more than anything Replayed it forever. Never got tired of it.
That made me want to applause, it was so well presented.
"Pursuit of Wonder" and "Einzelgänger" are the best channels for this kind of topic.👌
juxtaposed, I prefer Einzelgänger's channel, but both are great indeed.
I am so happy, I scrolled down and discovered that channel.
And Aperture and Modern Intutionist too...
Can I please have the number to your dealer, seriously I need it lol. I always wondered what philosophy/psychology majors do in their free time thank you so much! Good stuff. :)
I finally found it!!! this literally speaks my mind. I always think like this and never knew how to express these thoughts.
You have taught me so much, brought tears to my eyes and hope to my future, genuinely thanks you
"There is just a single unified whole of everything ... eternally dancing the dance of everything to the tune of nothing", Pursuit of Wonder, 2022
beautiful video, for a while these very questions lead me into deep depression I just couldn’t accept that I didn’t know so I would constantly try to prove different things like how people would react/act, think strange things and see if it affects reality, feeling as if I was god or everyone who isn’t me was god; could really go on forever about these thoughts… recently found peace with it all and accepted that I will never know but was nice knowing someone else had thought similarly..
This video is truly amazing, the end gave me goosebumps and made me cry. I’ve felt the things that are being said in a psychedelic experience. The closest “religion” or philosophy that talks about this is Zen Buddhism. If you’re interested I recommend listening to lectures by Alan Watts on the topic. It makes sense when you listen carefully.
Keep it up, man always in for this!
As a Portuguese (and an adventure motorcycle tour guide used to deal with tourists) i can confirm everything you said. The dog problem is something so common on the countryside and something we got so used to, it was sort of an epiphany to hear your comments on that. Good job man :)
I thought it would be a positive self help video. Just crippled my anxiety even more ty.
The best 15 minutes I have ever heard summed up perfectly covering all grounds (if viewed till the end) Amazing Job!
This, in my opinion, might be your best video yet . So profound, understanding while covering most angles of opinions. It also discussed a thought I was wrestling with for a while now. 8:51 I'm partially religious and my main question was, if God is truly real as we know, how did he come to be and so forth. Because in our current timeline there always is,was and has been a cause and effect......
God exists outside of our universe, and therefore doesn't abide by the rules of this universe. He always existed and always will, which is incomprehensible to our minds (although I believe when we get to heaven we'll be able to fully understand it), but is the only explanation for how everything exists. It all needs to start somewhere, and something can't come from nothing.
@@sandygehrmann6309 no bro open yo eyes
All created things have a beginning. The amount of usable energy is being used up in our universe (Law of Entropy or Second Law of Thermodynamics) therefore, the universe cannot be eternal it must have had a beginning. Therefore our universe is finite, operating within parameters such as time, space and matter. For the universe to be "caused", "created" etc, the first "uncaused cause" needs to operate outside those parameters mentioned above. The uncaused cause that we are looking for has to fulfil the following criteria: Self-existent, timeless, non-spatial and immaterial (Since it created time, space and matter it must be outside all this). Also, is infinite. Unimaginably powerful - to create everything Supremely intelligent - Creation of the universe with such precision (see b. Design of the Universe) Personal - in order to convert a state of nothingness into a time-space-material universe. (An impersonal force has no ability to make choices) From my understanding, the God of the Bible fits this criteria the best.
@@Guest-zu2mw refer to Zachary's comment ^ It's spot on. If you want, I can go into why the Christian God is the most likely one, too.
@@sandygehrmann6309 so God exists without time and space but he exists.. why? Oh because he has to because duh of course cause and effect exists and something can’t just come from nothing. All I’m saying is that if you don’t see any flaws in that then I don’t see any flaws in that 😏🫠
I thought about this often when I was very young, I've always wanted an answer yet I've always known there isn't one. It makes me feel powerless despite anything contradictory that I might say. I want to be able to accept things as they are and be strong and fulfilled, but there's always this existential dread hanging over me; like why are things the way they are? And why am I so powerless in so many situations? If my subconsciousness is always pushing for me to give up on what's important due to inconvenience then why does my ego try to defend me from self harm or self-worthlessness? Why is it the things that I put the most effort into always end up being for naught? Nothing is sacred but there's so much that I wish was.
I could've said a lot more, but after a while it starts to feel inappropriate.
@@manahil558 the united states
@@manahil558 Religion I feel like is often taken over by a sense of pride that has you looking down on non-religious people, I'm hopeful for something more than nothing after we die however. I also think that everyone should try to be as supportive and kind to others so long as it doesn't negatively effect them.
@@manahil558 I guess you could say my ideals align with several different forms of religion, I just don't carry any of the prejudice or selfish behavior that comes with it.
@@manahil558 I was only saying no, because most people here such as christians are like that. I wasn't aware that you were religious, and I don't hate religious people, they can be incredibly charitable at times and you seem like a very thoughtful person. I appreciate you asking me what you did, I'm sorry that you misinterpreted my message.
Everything else is you...Applause. Such good work on this. I have chills from the Stone Paradox.
Another great video man. I agree with your description of reality at the end fully. There is only one thing.
There are a number of disparities, starting with the fact that in terms of color perception, people who rely on color standards regularly check their perception of color to uniform standards for calibrated color palates. Even the must subtle variations in hue are frequently tested. We know that variations in the wavelengths of light change perception of color. The only un-known about color perception is what the aberrations from standard are. For example, dogs probably do not see color as humans do. Similarly, humans may only be able to sense a fraction of the smells a dog can.
These are things I have often thought about through out my life. I'm not good at trying to articulate my thoughts on this. I can but I kind of too wordy. I LOVE these videos. They articulate perfectly things I wanna say. I don't understand why in this day and age with all this information at our finger and so many still ( probably though childhood indoctrination believe in a perfect all power all knowing God who is jealous angry, wrathful, I always felt that a perfect god would be above being so insecure petty and wrathful. etc I feel like in ancient times when natural disasters happened, people back than didn't know how the world worked or what caused such catastrophic events. I can see how this led to the beliefs in many gods, long before all the Abrahamic religions came along.
This is a good thing. I guess in the bigger picture, it doesn’t really matter if we can accurately perceive or not. If we have a mind and we can change the way that we perceive then we have everything we want. If perception is reality and we can change our perception based on the thoughts we think then the individual can make a perfect world for itself
From speaking with friends, yes we do experience the same things differently. Like, how when I dream, there is no sense of time, things just happen one after another and it's very chaotic. Others seem to have time similar to real life.
#2 - we perceive things differently. My red is your blue. What makes me happy, makes you sad and vise versa. So our qualia is different. But it could and probably is the same for a lot of people.
I'm super curious how brain-machine interfaces will change the perceptions of qualia. Or experience in general, whether we will be able to use brain-machine interfaces to experience other people's qualia
Knowledge, thinking, and wisdom are tools for making our way through the world and are inadequate for revealing the complete nature of everything.
I find it quite astonishing how similar these conclusions are to the realizations I got about the nature of reality during my first psychedelic trip. I've never experienced such amount of joy, peace, and love towards myself and the universe prior to _feeling_ those realizations. That time I felt like having achieved part of the fundamental Truth of reality and this video reminded me of that experience...
Psychedelics take away ego, it's beautiful where our mind can go without it :)
If I could understand and fit the God i worship into my three pound brain then He would not be worthy to be God. Pursuit of wonder, let me say that I love your work but that question number 5 has been answered by me because I know my God and He is my creator, I experience Him every day and this isn't a question of belief, or religion or philosophy, it about relationship. How do I know that God is real? Because I experience Him everyday. Jesus came to this earth to show case His love (He literally split History) so it is not a matter of whether He came or not but do you know why? To you who's reading this, don't harden your heart, the whole earth sings about the existence of my God. God loves you and He wants you to Know Him. Deep in your heart you would know that life doesn't end here, Heaven is real, and so is hell God loves you Ricardo I love you all
@@jonnnnniej sure, but ego is still very necessary for survival. You can escape to a dream state and let go of your reality; refusing to engage in the game of life (whereby will, power, motivation and emotional attuning is needed albeit for the introduction of illusion) but ultimately this will lead to death.
@@Aisatsana1971 what are you talking about? In general people who use psychedelics don't treat it like a drink or a party drug. It's a mind altering experience that you only have sporadically. The connection the mind makes (check a brainscan of the brain during a trip, all different part of brain that normally work on their own are connected now) will partially stay with you in a good way. I wouldn't recommend psychedelics to people with a family history of serious mental health disorders (Although microdosing has proven very helpful to people with anxiety and ptss) and I would never recommend taking psychedelics when you're not in the right headspace or with the right people. But otherwise taking a trip once in a while will in general only improve your quality of life. Let me be clear, nobody in their right mind wants that feeling all the time, but every once in a while and during the right circumstances isn't gonna hurt anyone. If you me want to play devils advocate, drinking and smoking does. But that's culturally accepted in the western world.
@@jonnnnniej i am well aware of all of that. My reply was about the inference that the mind goes to a beautiful place when the ego is removed. It’s an open ended statement.
I love these so much and they just seem to get better and better with time.
As an adept of what I call "magical solipsism", I love this.
I like it, I was going to start up Peter Pantheism and the pursuit of eternal youth. Everybody has to contend with the enemy of time.
solipsism is a mental illness
@@elinope4745 who is the enemy of time?
What is "magical solipsism"?
@@KristiContemplates everyone who isn't ready to die, everyone who wants to stay young.
"You are everything else and everything else is you" simply brilliant.. these same questions haunted me for years.. The fact the brain processes everything is simply confusing.. the colour blue for me might look green for you and even if u say its green my brain might process what i see and hear from you as blue..
"Eternally dancing the dance of everything, to the tune of nothing!" I love this!
‘No accurate or inaccurate perception, No beginning no end, No outside no inside, No separate no others, One single unified whole everything, Everything equally true, equally proportion, You are everything else, and everything else is you.’ Realised by Shakyamuni few thousand years ago.
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This my all time favorite channel every video is amazing
Next to the AwakenTheWorldFilm channel’s Samadhi, and Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds, this is my second favorite channel to watch. Thank you Pursuit of Wonder!
5:36 colors It is easy to answer whether what we see as blue is the same for the other person. All you need is a prism. The prism shows the colors in the same order for everyone. So let two people look at the blue sky at the same time. After that, individually point to the blue color of the color band shown by the prism.
Mind blowing and thought provoking. This is why "art" is so problematic for artists.
can you elaborate on your second statement?
The idea that the colors we perceive in our minds might be totally different from person to person I have always thought about since I was a kid. It's like as humans we have always had the same type of questions in our minds.
Yes I had these thought too. And it's not just the color, this is true for all other sensory organs too. This is so simple yet hardly anyone ever asks these questions.
The sameness of the questions should give you a clue - we all evolved from the same path through the millions of years of mammal evolution. There might minor errors or deviations in the perception of blue between people, but by and large, it is the same blue. We all share an awful lot of common DNA (99%+ of the genome is the same).
I came here with only 2 brain cells yet i leave with many many more as each new cell becomes 2 cells while watching your channel and that is why the future looks promising once again brimming with hope and ambition for success through continous learning while using imaginantion and thining in ways that are new and fresh , thank you so much
I got covid the past year, i fully lost my sense of taste and smell, i tried out my favorite dishes and even thought i "knew" how delicious the smell and taste was, at that exact moment they became nothing, yeah when it came to "feel" when it comes to textures and how it felt in the mouth i felt a familiar feeling, but i didn't feel anything familiar when it came to taste and smell, it just felt like nothing, didn't matter i had experienced it a lot of times before, my mind, logic and reasoning couldn't recreate, subtitute, imagine, make those two senses feel, i even forced my senses of touch and sight to build something in my brain that tasted and smelled "real", i just couldn't, or should i say, it couldn't... when i got those two senses back, oh boy, i felt over the moon and i made sure to enjou every single second of them, right now i cab say that i take it for granted once again, but i ever lose them again, even if i die or if my brain deteriorates due to age, i can say that i 100% enjoyed them,.
Omg this is exactly what I’ve been asking for ages and people look at me like I’m the crazy one , How do we know if we see or feel or smell ..ect the same thing what if we all had the same word for different perceptions
philosophers have made the same questions for hundreds of years, as well as myself. I think the people who don't ask those questions are weirder, they don't care about the reasons of existence and they are very close minded
@Thanatos Yes you're right and they have different interests. I had also, since a very young age, similar experiences and thoughts. I was wondering how I can know if other people see the same colors as I did. And why a possible god is not taking action in terms of bad things. And I had very often the question/thought how could everything came into existence out of nothing? And when we die, will there again be nothing, like the nothing before we were born. I also couldn't imagine that we are the only existing life in the whole, vast universe. I noticed in my social environment (family, friends, work) most of the people just do their daily routine stuff and don't care about such things. It's for me unbelievable, how you can wake up, work, eat sleep and repeat, and don't questioning such things. Only live life like a programmed robot. It's crazy, isn't it? When the basic needs are covered, it's for me really not possible to not questioning life in it's countless facets and without wondering about the subjects mentioned in the video and about the deep ocean of consciousness. Is the world like I perceive it, or do I interpret something in it, based on experiences and beliefs? A very, very interesting topic.
As da Vinci said, some people can "see". Some can be taught to see. But many cannot ever see. That's the type of people you encountered.
Those who do not ask have a greater confidence with their believes, makes you feel silly to ask such questions
This is how my understanding of the world has always been but its hard to explain to others
“The only honest answer is we don’t know” is such a cop out. We have the capacity to choose what we believe based on the available information. Denigrating others’ beliefs as dishonest and saying you can’t make decisions about reality due to this unlikely set of unfalsifiable principles isn’t profound; it’s cowardly.
This is why i love believing God gives so much peace understanding you apart of his Divine plan.
This blew my mind.
You just broke the whole Matrix…
This is one of my favorite videos from your channel! Exceptionally done!
The problem of evil, to me, is a problem of our understanding of evil. We have a human-centruc view of evil, but we do not actually know the purpose of suffering and can't actually say that our view of evil is actually "bad"
Most questions are better posed as how rather than why.
📌 I don’t know who but someone needs to hear this,Stock is the oldest online market we have done in the past years, we employ it because of the quality of services it renders and how successful it is, today we now say crypto currency too, You’ve got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability.
Lately I’ve been thinking of buying cryptocurrency for retirement, I’ve set asides $350k to invest but along the line,I usually get cold feet, maybe because I have no idea what I’m doing, please I could really use some guidelines.
@@hervenacitas8265 In situations like this,I always recommend to people on getting guidance at least from someone that understands price action and all that while you strive on improving yourself by watching videos and learning fundamental analysis.
Investment guidance sounds like a great idea,thought about it before but never knew how to go about it.
@@pucciofabrizio7053 I used to invest on my own because of making your money work for you mentality but never made any progress until I sought the guidance of Juan Antonio Landa and she has made me understand that strategy is everything.
Wow…..Juan Antonio Landa?
You sort of make me cry, just a bit, in an odd way, in every video. Do you write your own scripts or do you source, its phenomenal and I want to thank whomever!
made me think of the day we can see past our dimension, we won’t be able to comprehend them even at all because we’ve no previous knowledge of them at all
What you said about the possibility of us being in a simulation state waiting to arrive somewhere, I had a shrooms trip and I was convinced that was the case, exactly what you described, why do different people think this exact thing?
Exactly! When we are in a dream, sometimes it does cross our mind that we could be dreaming. Still it all feels very real. If so many people think that we could be in a simulation world, there's a possibility that we actually are
Near the end of the video. I remembered a statement saying since the things we can see, taste, smell, touch, and feel is because of our 5 senses, we are basically in a void and the only reason we can not perceive this void in any way is because of our 5 senses working.
If u listen to this once a week.. u really start seeing the world differently
The video has been out 4 days now. How many weeks have you been watching it? lol
There are these that things exist called books that have even more info and wisdom than these videos…and that the vids are based on (and usually do a lackluster job communicating). IJS.
@@James4ster 🤣🤣🤣 u got me
@@pain9205 lol
@@newagain9964 what books would you recommend?
I just came across your channel and am very pleased I have. Exciting content. Thank you 😊
Deep philosophical talk, the mind n this world r things we don't truly understand, (who knows if we ever will) but to think about it all n how they interact wit one another is fascinating, it's fun.
Nothing is good, nothing is bad. The motivation behind the application is significant, and in The End who's to say which it was or how significant
I swear, no joking that back in the days i fantasized on the spaceship crew traveling to another planet theory. It was more of a delirium since i smoked weed...
heres one I thought of: Maybe the creator of this universe is in a universe almost identical to ours. The purpose of our universe it to play out this simulation, so that the creator can easily see all the successful societies, scientific discoveries, and possibilities, and use it for themselves. and their universe was created for the same reason
@@Vid_Master who created these 2 universes then?
There's no answer to the universe, it's simply illogical PERIOD
@@alecrochon3531 im not answering that far, just the universes "immediate" to us
This gave me more peace than anything I've ever listened too.