Who Am I? - The Mysterious Thing You Always Are
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A short fiction story about a man's journey through continual, massive changes of his body and mind, undergoing bionic augmentations and brain-machine implants throughout the mid 2100s. At what point, Jack wonders, will he no longer be him?
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imagine laughing and someone says "honey that laugh is so last year, you should get the latest update"
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I imagined !! then i felt sorry for who believe that something need to be-change in me.
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I am neither this body nor this mind. These are just tools. I am who is experiencing this world by these tools.
Then, who are you? 😀
@@felixxs24 I am batman 😂
Niggas ain gon innerstand det bru
Follower of sadhguru?
@@felixxs24 It may be a question of what, not who, we are. In an evolutionary sense, I am "vehicle" for our genetics. Often we feel we are unique, but many of our habits, tendencies, and probabilities of certain behaviours are very likely hardwired into our genetics, passed down from our parents; "Wow, your just like your father," isn't a shrewd jab, it is in essence a portal into the realm of sociobiology, to the very core of what connects us all. And the one thing that truly persists throughout the death of organisms, populations, and even entire species, is the gene. Life is a form of battle royale for genes, where each one has physical effects that may allow its organism to survive and reproduce, or it dies with its host; Each gene is competing with others like itself for a place in its specific location in the genome, competing for its survival. Therefore, I am but a vehicle for my genes. But what truly separates humans from other animals is Culture. The ability to pass down information and contribute to one giant collective of knowledge truly separates us from other animals, and even the awareness to be able to be plagued by the existential mystery of life, highlights the human existence as utterly abnormal. So in a sense, I am a semi-aware "vehicle" of my masters, that are my own genetics.
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@@remymilleon1650 always a bigger fish
@@mrrambalssirwee5881 Exactly
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John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
Any proof of that?
@@5tyyu any proof we're not? Isn't that kinda the whole "point" of life? We don't know what lies beyond the veil. (Didn't wanna sound rude but there isn't proof that we do actually "exist"
@@mariotime1329 there isnt even proof that you have your own conciousness but then again, oneself does know that one is concious! Then again, how do you want to proof that? Subjective experience has so many unproveable things which are nonetheless true for oneself, but there is no way of having "objective" proof
Kudos to you, you got it miles. Its about experiencing
@@5tyyu it's everywhere, if you can't see it - that's your limitation.
@@5tyyu This is a very good question. Sadly, you won't get an answer to it, just look at the comments here...
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde
What an irony !
I wonder if there is anything to do after all people have given an identical biological mask where people can be identified only with their secret code. There won’t be any discrimination among people. There won’t be anything for anybody to prove or impress anybody. There won’t be any wars. Love will not be physical. Sex will be only used as a means for reproduction. People will become more compassionate and empathetic. People will be more focused on doing than claiming fame. People get more time in producing works they love. People may contribute and love selflessly. Men will have less time chasing girls. Everybody have one DP. Discrimination in caste, religion, demographics, culture, race, names will go into thin air. There won’t be any crimes, there won’t be any discrimination in coulour. Psychologically we will be “one and the same”. No matter how many policies you impose as long as people realise this they won’t change.
The reasons of majority of fame is associated with ones ego or self. They be like “See I did it”. This “I” vanishes when we have identical biological mask. When those people try to prove others, they need more money, more power which makes that person to grab other people necessities. Other people necessities become that persons luxury. Hence we can never achieve equality. An egalitarian society will be only in dreams.
On the other side of it. People will find no meaning in their existence. As they would be bored of people and relationships. It’ll make them more rational than emotional. If we take fame out of the equation most of the things we do are empty and has no serious implications. As we tie every goals to our “self”, losing self will make goals meaningless. If there is no “self”, “identity” and “difference” among people, they can’t survive as every relationship and goals survive only when they have “self”. That’s why god has programmed us to have different faces I think.
But once again, are we really the owners of identity to whom we are now? Your nationality, religion, caste, language, physical appearance, character, habits and everything was shaped in you and not by you. Keep yourself humble.
@@manojkiran4796 I think like we are all made up of billions of billions cells a supreme consciousness will be take place Which will actually made up of billions of billions human brains and then there will be no conversation in dining table because we will all have become one.
i'd say that applies to all to a certain extent.
Prashant Sharma the prevalence of recycled ideas make intellectual honesty a rare commodity. Most don't even see the nuance in their own "woke" ideals. It's sad, but a fundamental part of the human condition. Monkey see monkey do, the best survial strategy mother nature ever allowed.
And thats kids how you enter an existential crisis every time someone says “be yourself” ! :D
I once told a fish it was swimming, had the same effect.
@@slyfox8631 imagine that same fish became bionic
Be yourself
Give your free will a chance
You've got to want to succeed
@Bella needs A break you don't have to be a jew to be a zionist
You’re dumb
Creepy. So throughout the entirety of Jack's augmented life the only thing that remained the same was the e-paper trail of consent forms that basically remind him to input his name.
No, what most essentially remained the same was Jack's consciousness. That which perceives Jack's existence.
It's the ship of Theseus paradox
@@Protector0ne no, at the end he traded out his conscious experiences for new ones and was left only with a sense of endurance.
@@Nobddy He augmented his body on the physical level. He took away body parts and was still Jack. Then he augmented his brain on the physical level. He took away memories, interests, etc. and likewise gave himself some new ones. But, he was still Jack. The point of this video is that we can't point anywhere and say "that's me. there I am" because it can't be found. Even after removing and adding so many parts to himself, he was still "Jack."
My lsd broken mind would freak out on the idea of who the people who sent the consent forms are & why do they do what they do
Some day this guy is gonna perfectly predict the future
He did.
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Every dream of a future time creates a potential for it to exist.
He's doing it now, we just can't tell
@@Ben-hu9wh sadly😞
yeah predicting future is new update of jack
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the quality of the videos that this channel provides.
Agree .nice quality video
And his voice reading styles is perfect
My only want on life is to invent teleportation pad If I didn't I will suiced.
I will rip my whole body cut it in a 2 if I didn't invent it.
Yes its amazing 👏
It's funny because 'Outis' actually means "no one" or "nobody" and this pseudonym is often used to hide someone's identity...
I think that might have been intentional
@@madeleinedacey8489 it is Ancient Greek, you can look it up (Wikipedia)
Kaniel Outis was Michael Schofield in Prison Break when he wanted nobody to discover his identity. Mind blown.
Really. Thanks for sharing.
Captain Nemo
Sitting alone in a dark room, watching this video, I feel like I am the only human being in the world. This is so freaking
The video's aesthetic and narration is pretty freaky
While I don't feel "Alone", I do feel fear of the dark all of a sudden.
Actually, you are. We were all implanted into this thread to give you the feeling of fraternity, which is necessary to maintain your sanity. The loss of which would end the project early. Just a minute, have an incoming message... wassat? ixnay on the loneay...? Er, OK, I'm back. So yeah, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you.
That is solipsism
Im in your walls
"The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master."
-Robin Sharma
Wow that’s true
The scary part is that it seems like a realistic progression of events too
Another scary thing is that we do all the things showed in this video in our normal lives without noticing it. The only differences are that it happens gradually and we can't control it.
Body:
We certainly aren't babys anymore.
Cells die and are renewed. The only cells that really stay with you your whole live are your neurons.
Mind:
You change your personality many times in your live time. Memories are forgotten and sometimes filled in with false memories.
WE HAVE CHANGED MANY TIMES
Only the timeline is false. It will be much much sooner.
@@Sekir80 hopefully Not .
@@denyraw Ship of Theseus
@@denyraw actually there are some discordant research related to the neurones reproduction, so it seems we are not sure about that either.
In nature it wouldn't be new, there are evidence of other animals that continue to produce neurones as long as they live (mice for example)
If it also apply to us then you couldn't even identify your consciousness as a bunch of neurones you carry for your whole life, so even the physical support of your memory, of your "I", continue to change.
Does anyone else feel a sense of dread when they think of such a future where you inborn talents abilities and your identity are just temporary and anyone can steal the person you are. Despite all the advantages of an artificial body and self, I feel sort of lucky to be in a time where everything is still mostly natural.
Yeah dude it makes me sad just thinking about it.
100%, this video made me super uncomfortable. This isn't the future I want to live to see.
I feel dread too, but that's normal I think. The video kinda shows how our identity is temporary to begin with.
dont worry, we wont see it. We are a few generations too early anyways
It's a good thing to feel lucky btw love that for u
I'm surprised by Jack being able to dodge "Username taken" so many times
Great take on the classic philosophical though experiment “Ship of Theseus”
I feel like this can be used as a metaphor for growing up. Our memories fade and change, so do our interests, skills and desires. Even our entire body. But something remains.
@@cUCH1337NPC VERY FEW
@@cUCH1337NPC I think the video is meant to be interpreted not understood. Very few people thought about it the way you did, sure, but that doesn't mean they weren't capable of deriving their own understanding of the video.
And I desperately cling onto that something. I love your comment
@@hrinionuwut8637 agreed
I agree. You can view this video as a person being mature and so on.. I dunno.. There are other meanings too.
Now my head hurts.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings, having a human experience”
Love this quote. Seems appropriate here 🙂
What is a spiritual experience?
@@siryoucandothat9271 the energy inside the body: spirit
Food?: Meditation
Experience: spiritual
If religion is the devil, spirituality is the Anti Christ to wisdom.
@@golubvolodemerovich7512 lol? Spirit is wisdom
Golub Volodemerovich oh nooo false sir
"if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
-George Harrison
Sounds like a definition of functional insanity.
I was drawing while listening to this, and had to take a moment to feel if my hands were made of skin.
My name is Jack, and I'm 29. This was surreal.
my name's jeff
My names also Jack, and my birthday is June 3rd 🤣
Hello all jacks. Welcome to the future!
Jack Vlogs My birthday is June 3rd.
Hi jack
So we'll have robot arms but we're still using pencils?
What a cruel world.
Ikr?
Robot penis.
@@swirling5418 Q: Can it grow?
A: Does it even need to?
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I've always felt since I was little, that I am sitting in "my" eyeball controlling a flesh robot. I've been blind in one eye since birth. The maintenance on this thing is insane.
You gotta appreciate the incredible world building on this channel
"As the modern world moved further into the digital mental realm..."
Jack : Ah shit, here we go again.
LMAO 😂😂
its crazy to think that even after all of those body modifications, he was able to recognize himself as himself. however, i occasionally go through a "is this really my face" and "is this me" phase every few weeks so i dont think i would last in this very futuristic yet cool yet terrifying world
I do this too!!! Or I start thinking, what if every day you wake up, you are a completely different person, living a completely different life. And all the memories you think you have are just implanted into your brain to make them seem like they're your own and have always been there....I get that one a lot too, lol.
@@thebestusername5852 this is the trick of the ego. Through waking state, dream state, and sleep state you remain as I AM. Your existence (I AM) is the one and only subjectively objective truth that you can truly be sure of. This I AM is your true nature. The ego is a function that creates this sense of identification that says i am this and i am that. I am this body, i am this personality or person, i am this finite self. The ego essentially hijacks this sense of I AM and applies it to the finite, relatively, experienced world. And because this sense of I AM is so true to you, you never even doubt it. Ask yourself, Who Am I?
Yeah, me too...
Sometimes I think What if Im not the original me what if I was just a personality that take over the original personality
@@tobiasdontmatter1868 I can easily program a voice that says ''i am''. Does that mean that it is?
Ah yes, The Ship of Theseus. What I find most troubling though, is that they had all the technology necessary to provide for every human need, but people still needed jobs. Thanks capitalism.
@@kleofette
Nothing for nothing.
They could even delete your memory of having paid for it. 😂
Biden’s Razor, capitalism is the worst system...except for all the others.
Thats because productive acitivity aka work is a human need
@@Grancigul it’s not a human need. Working isn’t a human need.
Is work anathema to you? Someone has to create wealth or else wed starve/run out of power. Commies do seem to be lazy.
God I love and am terrified by all your videos because of how realistic this could be.
"A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills."- Arthur Schopenhauer
I remember this quote from dark series.
We can choose what we want but our wants are chosen for us.
And therein lies the crisis of middle-life.
@@mgal6234 oh but its Easy as a 1-2-3 !!! hitting 36, life under control, MY AIM IS PERFECT,,, Red Corvette a Three Window Coupe and a , Nice Big House in Drag City,...
What does this quite mean ?
I just want to be a human, lead a human life, and die a human. The world has gotten too complicated. Sooner or later I am going to have an existential breakdown. I don't know what life is anymore.
You are human, the world being complicated is a human thing, as humans are just as complicated. Every bullet you dodge, every punch life throws you, and every experience, is just your human self experiencing the chaotic, beautifully random world. You are the only one that can be you. You matter in life. I hope you find peace in life. 💙
Islam explains everything
@@ferasf.shareefi1813 Yea but for a fact I also know that's also a delusion.. Sometimes I get really envious of people who believe there's a magical god sitting up in the sky and the whole world works according to him..
@@ferasf.shareefi1813 You're only following someone else's belief system, because you can't think for yourself.
Read industrial society and it's future by FC it's a great book I think you'll like it
This is essentially the Ship of Theseus but as a person instead of a ship
I found this channel yesterday and im almost obsessed. Its amazing and the imagination even more so. The only thing the bums me out the most about science fiction is the idea humans can live for another 100 plus years without destroying itself as a species, and thats not even fiction 😥
Could make a Black Mirror episode out of this.
I swear to god I thought the same thing
Frfr
I am gonna leave your like at 69
Holy shit they need definitely need to do this, it would be one of the best episodes if they did right
Black Mirror is cringe.
We are not the body, mind or emotions. We are conscious of them. We must be consciousness itself.
My question has always bee, does the brain develop consciousness, or does consciousness simply inhabit our brain? At what point to we consider to be conscious? In the womb? Just after birth?
wolfVital I can’t remember my birth I have no answer.. but no I don’t think consciousness is developed in the brain.
@@paarkour83 no one has the answer, sadly.
wolfVital I believe everyone has or is the answer. Try listening to Rupert Spira, and you might find another way to look at it. And very simple. I can’t explain with words
@@EvasGamingASMRits the other way around, consciousness develops the brain. the brain doesnt create consciousness, thats like saying the door is creating the people walking through it.
consciousness is fundemental
It's staggering how brilliant and insightful this video is - simply genius. Thank you!
Self, ego, consciousness, awareness, sentience, being, all refer to the same thing, that one-dimensional thing that is your experience itself. That's who You are, and to a lesser extent, the stories you tell yourself about how You fit into your world, your body, and the beings around you who affect your goals or whom you care about.
If Jack changed his name, and changed his memories to match said name, he would genuinely feel his new identity was always who he is.
Then the system called "universal unique identity" comes out, then jack name is whoever
He would still be him with a different name, you could change your name now but you wouldn't seize to be yourself. you could suffer from amnesia and you'd still be you. there's an intangible part of this "me" that I cant quite comprehend.
Or he comes to the conclusion, as Buddhists did centuries ago and modern neurology is beginning to confirm, that the self is an illusion, or it is at least in as far as we have intuitively identified it.
The one who is changing the existing desires and adding new one is jack, not the one with the name.
We are controlled by our desires
The heart wants what it wants we cannot change whats deep inside us.
But if somehow we are able to change that then we will no longer be controlled.
We will be something but not human.
@@Oscarthuli I think the question is: What is it that has to change so that you are not you anymore?
"Users can now plant false memories in their long term memory bank, altering the way they remember the quality of their life"
The brain already does this, the longer time passes the more the way you remember certain things will change. The brain changes how we remember certain memories and how we felt at the time, if it was filled with high levels of physcial pain. The body does already does a remarkable job helping us cope with pain.
Moreover there is possibility when other person can alter your memory even with conversation.
Not my brain I remember almost all of my traumatic memories almost perfect maybe in 20 years no but my brain keeps a note of my traumatic injuries probably because I am not scared of pain but maybe that’s the scariest thing
@@ijikegaming4202 fear of pain has nothing to do with if you remember them or not. I said it changes the way you recall the memories. I remember the time I had pain, I remember wanting to die while in the hospital bed because the pain was so bad.
Can you replicate the way you felt when you remember those times or just recall the memory? There is a difference between remembering them and feeling them. Memories feel so much more vivid if you not only remember them but feel them aswell.
true but we cant get rid of them completely. Old interests, desires or traumas will always be somewhat there and be a part of your formed personality. With the technology in this video, we could however delete certain memories and parts completely, which would also alter our personalities
To be fair, many of the things in this video already happen through natural processes. Your body at this point is almost completely different than the one you had ten years ago, all original cells dying off and being replaced. Your memories change over time, as do your interests, skills, even to some extent your personality traits etc. The only thing that stays consistent through your life, is being a point of awareness and consciousness in a specific location in space-time, that continuously moves through it until it stops existing.
Hats off! One of the best videos I have watched in my entire life. Thought provoking and mind boggling 🤯
this is by far one of your best works, amazing.
Humanity is not ready to accept that the "self identity" Is the creation of thinking. Your name is an idea you believe in. Let go of that, you don't know anything.
This comment made me think
Unfortunately, humanity is all too ready to accept the opinions of others and wear them like masks.
Let go of them, they don’t know anything.
What you know is but a handful of leaves. What I know is a forest. Let’s talk about me not knowing anything at a later point.
everything is made up truly
God save me from fools with a little philosophy-no one is more difficult to reach.
I am you. I am everyone . We are one. Strip away thoughts feelings and memories and at the very base of our consciousness we are just existing.
Then why am I in this body experiencing this?
@@gen1sis0 what are you asking?
@@gen1sis0 no one knows for certain
You sound like you’ve peaked on an acid trip
Jammy 251 Sounds like the plot of Evangelion
Your videos are truly some of the best works of fiction that I have read/watched. And these videos gave me some of the best insight and thoughtful ideas of my life they really had a great impact on me. Thank you for everything, Lots of love.
Pursuit of Wonder ❤️❤️❤️
Everything from the choice of narrative words and research behind it is just wow 🤩
Jack now agrees to his gf saying “you’ve changed”
Who knows how many software updates gf had?!
He just deleted this memory
Jack: “what gf?”
The girlfriend still won't agree he was right on "that" argument though.
r/whooooosh
ah yes time for my weekly existential crisis
Sry I'm late, I had an anxiety attack on the way over here
ah yes a mamamoo stan, a (wo)man of culture
Here we go again
Very true
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This is a great idea to ponder! I think this is a scenario everyone should think about. It's neither wrong or right, and is totally dependent on the individual's own goals or morals.
i would love to hear this channel's interpretation of Dissociative Identity Disorder
He's a CZcamsr not a Dr
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*Jacks breathing intensifies*
jack doesn't have lungs
@@s12830 I think he could have lungs inside his bionical body, some replacement devise to proses oxigen or he might just not need them at this point
This comment should have at least a thousand likes
@@snorgisborg2 thank youuu!! I think the same that was a good joke
@@s12830 oh he doesnt have lungs, okayy, so, *Jacks temperature rises*
“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson
www.islam-guide.com
But what is it to be “yourself”? What is it that you are really expressing? It it just an extension of articles of self or is it an intrinsic body of oneself?
I don’t think expression is as important as introspection and your inner voice whereas one can find inner peace through the exclusion of our outer body and voice; but they do need a certain harmonization, they both work interchangeably especially with mindset and outlook. A yin and yang.
In the darkest of times hope is something you must give to yourself just as your identity, ego, ID and superego must as well. I think that is the meaning of inner strength which provides a balance of inner peace. I think once we come to terms with that the outer reflection becomes less important to a degree, although it is still important to continue doing the things that support your character and inner self - creativity for example - otherwise we lose sight of our inner self.
Anyway, just food for thought.
@@user-vr5zk9ox8d I swear I didn't understand anything , or probably I didn't try to , sometimes I feel like this abstract explanations don't describe the situation or reality , we have to simplify our understanding so it describes what we are really talking about ( I don't know if this is a biased thinking or not as humans our brains are little bit lazy always looking for the easy and simplest solution or sometimes we tend to make it more complicated because we don't understand it well or because we don't know how it works ) .
@@user-vr5zk9ox8d if you can please explain it in a simple way 😄
ramy Ramy For sure. All I meant is that sometimes you have to look inward (to process information in the context of what you believe, how you think, how you feel, or what your intuitive senses are telling you) to answer the bigger, and more important questions like what do You want from this life, what gives you fulfillment, etc.
As for inner strength what I mean is that during your darkest times (depression or loss of your definition of what makes you who you are, for example) you must never give into despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.
Yin and yang is just a simple balance. In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
Edit: hopefully that helps break things down a bit more. If not then perhaps you can ask what concept exactly that you don’t understand, and we can converse more about that :)
I love this channel. Especially when im at work, gives me something great to listen to while stimulating me mentally
I can’t tell u how much I enjoy this channel!!
I listen at bed time .. it’s cut into my guided meditation time but well worth it
Perfect! That's just the question I was asking myself this morning.
When you're on lunch break at work, but some guy on the internet makes you have an existential crisis
@@lxverdant1837 Have a nice day!
Question I've been asking myself for years 😔
That's just the question I ask myself every morning
@@fruit_coketail3652 You're rap4wrap. Cheers-glad I could help.
You are an awesome man! I love the narration.. It's so poker yet so attractive so much intense and extremely engaging. I am glad I came across this channel. We exist in a beautiful digital era to sit back home at our own comfort and experience this stunning creative content you make.
You are doing such a great job! I really appreciate the content. It stays in the mind for a long long time and makes a difference in our life's. All the best!
What a trip!! Excellent work!!
So deep... Just got you thinking!!
I love how he constantly modified his excuses to distance himself from the idea of actually becoming a different person. The excuses were defensive and almost possessive over his “soul” or “existence” and in denial of the changes, but once you accept the first update, there’s no going back. It chills my bones.
Then a solar CME hit the earth and sent an EMP throughout the world shutting everyone and everything off forever. Womp womp
And only babies and young child left alive
Yeah.Now that's why nobody takes this idea in general sense.
CMEs can already be predicted and dealt with easily today. Why do you think we won't be able to just adapt these future systems to it or have emergency shutdowns to avoid damages?
Except we already have faraday cages. You know how many EMPs it would take occurring simultaneously to shut something like a Google center down?
There is no stopping augmentation besides global war (which would have to be pretty _final_ otherwise it'd only accelerate the technology). This stuff is coming.
Robert w oh sure, leave us hanging.
This video is just as incredible and thought provoking every time I watch it!
GENIUS! this is one of if not the only, truly intelligent & artistic channels on CZcams.
Imagine people living till 200 years and when someone turns 80 they be like"You're only a Boomer you have so much time ahead of you, do whatever you want".
That's so cool. I'd love to live so much longer. Anxiety makes me feel I'm running out of time and I feel my life is over since I'm not successful by the age of 25
@@amblyn8254 I believe in you! I know that you can do it!
You'd have to hope you didn't get dementia, Parkinson's etc.
I know a lady who turns 103 this year.
She's tired of living and is happy to cash in her chips, she says.
Two husbands gone, all of her contempories, too, her own children entering old age...I can see where it might not be all fun.
Her mind is still as sharp as a razor, although her body is failing her, worn out, basically.
I doubt she'd opt for physical augmentation, somehow, more on the principle of wanting to find the exit door, rather than objection to technology.
@@billyandrew yeah, if we could live forever , after a while. We would want to die.
@@johna5484 "The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable." From 1984
Sit down for an hour, close your eyes and ask “what am I”. Pay attention to anything your mind clings to then notice how since you can observe that “thing” it can’t be you. Continue for a decade or so until you realize what you are.
What am I. Seriously, what the fuck am I. What AM I. My truest most fundamental self. Nothingness. You don’t know what “nothingness” is.
"What am I?"...I Am...
If you could actually do this then think about how long can you think, what's the limit of your thinking? How much information can your brain hold without forgetting anything? What's the point in continuesly thinking when you can't even remember what you were thinking?! Who knows if this is even possible to find out who you are actually!
I did mindfulness meditation, yoga nidra, and other similiar practices on and off for 8 years until I had an epiphany. I was an atheist at the time and my immediate thought afterwards was "well I'm never telling anyone about this because they will think I am insane"
@@Meta-Drew what is an epiphany ?
I love this depiction of exploring the non self. This is also discussed in bhuddism as the 5 aggregates. We are not our thoughts, our desires, our body, emotions, our consciousness. We are merely the orb of enerygy (as i like to picture it) that experiences them.
In this story he explores this idea via removing all the parts we believe to be us but as they are stripped away, we realize we still feel like ourselves. Hence these parts are not you.
Beautiful depiction of this complex concept
Your voice and reading style is perfect for this kind of videos
"I AM" is the most profound sentence ever uttered in the entire history of the Universe.
I AM THAT.
The most profound ‘I Am’ is a sound carried on the breath spontaneously. It has nothing to do with words used to describe the ideological idea that is not actually experienced. It isn’t something that can be forced or contrived, it happens when the body is ready and not before and the idea is very different to the reality.
The potential is the body’s full realisation of IT’s Cell-f and full physical clearing of all holding patterns, genetic and experiential.
DEEZ NUTZ is more profound
Why did i imagine that in Thanos' voice
Closely followed by "I AIN'T!"
"Bro, do you even augment?"
👌👌
I love the detail and originality of these thought experiments. Very thought-provoking
Genius video.
This channel is great
"I am Jack's disconnected sense of identity."
Nah, that's just your last implanted 'memory', which you forgot to delete.
@Exismys no you didn't
The quickest one I've heard is that, " I am the one that's aware that I am human
So your identity is an infinite loop?
I love this because it touches in a lot of ways on the "My Grandfather's Axe" paradox, a version of which was used at the start of the film John Dies at the End (and perhaps the book as well, if memory serves).
If you want to get technical about things, the body replaces all cells in it every seven to ten years, so you're not the same you as you from ten years ago, but you are still YOU.
I like to think we are the culmination of our evolving thoughts, patterns, and decisions. We are shaped by everything that we have been through. I don't think the goal is ever to preserve a moment in time, but to continue working on the trajectory, working to adapt and build off of past experience to become the person you want to be in the present.
I listen to this one a lot, it really freaks me out, it's like a campfire scary story. You are awesome Pursuit of Wonder.
It would be mental a hundred years from now in 2021 a guy named Jack Outis would see this video and read my comment.
2021 is next year...
@@RickyAmesDrumming
This is me, from the future, contacting you from 2nd Jan, 2021 to say you were correct.
Oddly, I was in an internet conversation at 1900hrs my time, New Years eve.
One person was already in 2021, the other was eight hrs behind me.
That was fun.
Hey, I'm from the future.
@@RickyAmesDrumming the future is now old man
@@RickyAmesDrumming welcome to the future
This makes me happy to live now and not to live in some other time frame. We really do live at the beginning of the point of no return
i was thinking the same thing
I believe this comment to be so true the world is becoming a very strange place I actually fear what the future holds humans are getting weird with technology
Highly appreciate this channels videos. Thank you so much. God bless you all.
Been looking for this ever since I first saw it!
I have gone through all of P.O.W videos.....& Finally found it. So toked, one of my favorites!
"Please confirm your identity"
That's something to think about..
It me!
There are moments I find myself on autopilot going about my days as usual, and somewhere along the line I'm suddenly displaced, like I've lost my sense of self and I'm just there experiencing these things now. Suddenly I'm asking myself "where am I?". It's a burning question that pulls me to force change into my life, a spontaneous or reckless reaction, then there's a moments respite because I did that.. and I'm forever different now because I chose to do that, and so are the things I met and came into contact with. But as time passes, even that begins to change itself into some abstract form of shapes and ambiguity.. where am I.. am I stuck in a loop? Are our habits and experiences enough to describe who we are? We are creatures of habit after all.. but is it enough having found something we're comfortable with, then calling it a life?
Sometimes I'll lay awake at night recalling a time when I was young, a time when I was new, experiencing the world for the first time. It mostly consisted of observation, integration, and the subsequent projection of the ever established sense of self. I found as I got older, the less this would occur. It makes me wonder about the identity, I guess. Our interpretations and expressions aren't all the same.. even if the environment were the same, we adapt depending on any number of factors. Aren't we responsible somewhere along the line? We're sewing the needle then reaping what we've sewn, I guess. Even so there's always a choice.. and it can be healthy to get out of your comfort zone every now and then. I suppose a lot of life is struggling with yourself, trying to find a balance somewhere along the line, weaning out the prospect of the otherwise vague sense of self and simply choosing just to.. be.
The hardest moments in life are being met at some kind of face value. An abstract term to describe the initial impression that person has of you, cross-referenced by their perceived reality, set of principles, beliefs.. whatever. Someones interpretation of you can almost make you feel less than.. yourself. It's a blurry line somewhere around your identity and their perceived identification of you. It's feeling all alone when you are nowhere to be found. It's wishing somehow anyone anywhere could just see you regardless of how it had to happen. It's saying I'm not just this thing!.. but they can't hear you.. noone can..
What is truly opening your heart to something, the mind or consciousness where it may be, experiencing a person or the world for what they are? I wonder about the true nature of love. I wonder about the true nature of everything, and I feel lost in myself. But I don't have to be trapped in some particular sense of reality. I can still choose to change, to perceive things, simply just to be. I've learned things, and they don't always help me. I've been faced with the so called truths of the world, or religion, or whatever it all expects you to conform to.. yet I'm still left always questioning. Does curiosity make us.. aware? There's still experiencing something for what it is. There's caring about stuff, our compassion. Even if all our light disappears, there's still hoping again. In spite of all the pain the world can throw at you, there's caring about things. There's experiencing anything at all.. and if it hurts, maybe that means it meant something. Heh.. It's pretty good to be something at least..
I came here seeking for people's opinion but dude this is too much and I think I'm not comfortable knowing that this happens to me too. It is like if we all in a moment of our life changed views and thought of this in some way. It is like the things that make us different of each other just disappear and you really think of that I could be that guy who lives in the streets or I could have been some kid in África living life not knowing that there's so much in this world. At this point I'm starting to write without thinking of it and I truly believe that's the reason that makes us all equal: not knowing anything. Life is a group of hilarious coincidences and relations, life feels like it is either a simulation, a joke or either both.
Buddy i didnt read all i try to tell you my piont of view that helps me to get threw my day. In the end we still are animals living on the mistakes all generations made before us. I am just a body living in this world sure that when i die i cant remever or feel anything. So the life given to me is mine now and I try to just care about the people around me even when they are stuck in ideas of life i can not relate to. Its hard to free yourself from the idea of socialization but for me its necessary to stay healthy in my mind. I am like everybodyelse just a body walking here and I dont care what the other bodys think or do cause in the end no one can remeber. The only thing that counts for me is happiness without the thougth of money family or a job. I am sorry if you didnt get me its hard to put it in words whats in my mind but i tried for you have a good life:)
I have to say I resonate with you on a very deep level pertaining to these questions as they plague my thoughts constantly. I feel as if I am not apart of the herd and I am an onlooker peering through the looking glass asking myself why do I feel this never-ending curiosity and where is it leading? I question all facets of my life and the interactions I have with other humans and can't' help but want to dive into their psyche and understand the complexities behind how they rationalize their thoughts and who they are? Sometimes I find myself asking WHO I AM ? and whether the goal I envision of expanding the life expectancy for the human race is something that is needed when in reality we are no better than the animals we slaughter sure we may have cognition but will this help us get to the classification of a planetary civilization type 1. I apologize in advance for the rambling but i find it comforting to find their are individuals that question the metaphysics of life. I was under the presumption that I was alone in this world and the husks I see are just empty shells of humans but now I understand that some are in the process of awakening to the true reality. Thank you
I read all of this and can agree with the phenomena(s) you have described. the only information i can provide you with is that 1. everything is kinda fucked. 2. there is no such thing as sanity, it is only the illusion of sanity that we give "ourselves" to allow us to be ok with living. 3. when you get happy, you subconsciously block out all the unhappy memories (no matter how recently you were felling down)
and finally: you dont exist. no one does.
not sure how youre supposed to take that but make it mean something to you if that helps
@@knauslf thank you for this! it’s so important to remember that it really doesn’t matter who we are. everyone is the same and just trying to make due with the hand they are dealt.
I’m afraid for this channel to end one day. I enjoy this content so much!
That was really well done. Impressive.
When you lose consciousness, that's when you should ask yourself if the person that wakes up is still the same.
That would seem to be the conclusion he comes to. That your identity is only tied to a string of consciousness. Like you say every time you sleep you lose consciousness so you wake up as a new person. So instead of "New year, new you" it should be "new day, new you".
That is so fucking terrifying. I won't be able to sleep now, thanks.
@@asia7279 wanna make it worse? Everytime you go to sleep you lose consciousness breaking that string. Everytime you wake up your brain has to make a new string of conscience, you never wake up with the same train of thought as yesterday, you may not be waking up as yourself
@@shadetreephilosopher5568 true.
And people only have what are incorrect feelings or opinions about self because you wake up usually where you fell asleep and your almost entirely the same person, even down to the atoms that are currently in your body. But compare that to ten years passing. SOMA is a great game, btw.
Man even though there is no downside on paper to these “upgrades”, I still can not help but feel sick at the idea of humans being forced into this simply to not become obsolete and maintain their quality of life.
It's true. But it's because our political and cohesion systems are based on work. In fact, most of us, when we dont work have existencial crisis. Perhaps that Is something that we must put focus on.
forced? if humanity was like how it said it is in this future they couldn't be a downside since someone would have a function to help the homeless or assist the obsolete. if you care how other people live their lives that's on you. you can always pretend to be productive that's what most people do today. no downsides no one is forcing you . if all the problems were fixed on earth including having companion ai or ai pets then no one not even social pressure can force you
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
@@recarras lol my dad's Jose Miguel Contreras
Feel sick at the idea? But its happening right now, happened already too.
Mind boggling! It left me with tons of thought and prospective to think of.
Wow!!! This is the most interesting thing I have seen this year so far.
Greg Egan wrote a very interesting short story on this topic called “Learning to Be Me”. If you enjoy this video, I’d recommend giving it a read!
Just read everything Greg Egan’s written, he’s one of the few sf writers who is an actual genius.
Where can I find it?
Thanks for the recommendation. Very interesting read indeed.
infinity vision, I think a quick google search should yield many copies of the story. I would recommend ordering “Axiomatic” (a collection of short stories) from Amazon, to support Egan.
Ah perfect time to have an existential crisis and question life before going to bed
This reminds me of the broom I've had for 17 years. I've replaced the head 7 times and the handle 4 times.
the broom of thesus
@@antoniotabacu5911 huh?
You need more subscribers. This stuff is really good
YOU can't find the answer of this question " who am I " because seeker is the sought, thinker is the thought, when there is no question, no concept, no seeking, then you are present as pure awareness.
Absolutely true
Wow thats pretty awesome to think about
Even hercules can't lift the chair in which he's sitting likewise whatever you do you can't know it .
You can't remember yourself because you've never forget yourself and whatever can be forget, can't be real. - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Imagine that everything described in this video has already happened & we've come full circle returning to biologic incarnations in order to challenge our selves with the limitations of being human...
🧠💥
I smell UFOs
200 IQ
This makes me feel some type of way
this comment makes me feel like i'm in a simulation.
somewhat but not in the way you think one of this has been done before but some of it is about to happen. neuralink next year some shit gonna go down. ofc FDA may prolong human testing of neuralink back a few year but elon musk said there starting human trial early next year
Loved this video all the way through 😍😍😍
it's interesting how art and programming were thought of as longer lasting markets, whereas they were some of the first to fall
this sounds so scary, because i can totally see this being a thing in the distant future .-.
I get that it's scary, but to some extent this already happens through nature. You are physically (cells) and mentally (interests change, memories get "colored"and distorted, even personality changes ever so slightly) a different person. But still you identify as the same person. You are an ever changing collage of physical and mental properties, held together by consciousness.
But I agree though, it does sound like a horrific future.
That future is not that distant.
@@KarlSnarks yeah ur most definitely right. I remember like reading something questioning weather we (people) are truly in control. Like our gut bacteria and all the other living shit that makes "us" up have more control over our daily decisions the we think we do. Which is y its so hard for some people to like change what they eat or the things they do daily. Its like u vs other beings lol. Shits scary.
However this is "natural" ig being able to literally buy fucking expansion packs in a way is way more scary to me lol. Like are you even human anymore? If so then what does it mean to be human then?
Also as im literally typing this ig it coulllld kinda be good in some cases. What if it could be used to treat mental illnesses (which i think he touched on in the vid) such as like depression, anxiety, pedophilia, and so on. But at the same time dont think i support those things, but i think its essential to have bad emotions and learn to live and over come those. Like it's ok to be sad uk. If u aren't sad sometimes then i think somethings wrong with u (no im not saying its ok to be a pedophile and such).
Dam i didnt know it was this long lol, i was just typing sorry m8
well we won't be around to live it so nothing to worry about
This is all fun and games until we realize he’s a time traveler
That's dark, really dark. (1)
I’m a time traveler. Fortunately things don’t get that far, this is just hyperbolic metaphor for maturation.
"Why be you, when you can be new!?"
I am Jack's bionic arm..
these videos are amazing
We're just spectators, stuck in viewing one conscious experience at a time.
True, even if you suffer from multiple personality identity.
Only if you assume we are not all one
@@Protector0ne Single electron postulate.
@@billyandrew It’s not called MPD. That’s an outdated term that’s not been used in the medical industry for decades now. Only mass media has popularized it. It’s called Disociative Identity Disorder. People who have this do not have different personality’s, but entirely different identities in them. These identities are called alters and I believe neither can remember what the other has experienced. There’s a mental barrier.
It’s pretty much like different people in the same body. Each alter has entirely different life’s they’ve “experienced” (family’s, names, childhoods, etc.). It’s all quite complicated but I recomendable watching a video on it.
Jack fell down and broke his metal head and jill didn’t care.
ok whatever but what abt the water.. fetching the water matters.. 😆
She was never Jill.
That was just an implanted 'memory'.
@@Ritziey
She had an inbuilt tank, capable of holding water sufficiet to her needs, following her last upgrade, so had no need to fetch any.
Were they siblings or boyfriend and girlfriend?
*And... Does it matter?*
The quality is incredibly impressive
I’ve been looking for this video for a year😭, great to have found it again
I'm no one. Self identity is an illusion we use because either we don't understand that it is an illusion or we are too afraid to let go of that illusion. Identity is like an onion, peel away all the layers and it has no core. There is nothing in "you" that makes you "you." From the time we are baby's we are taught to identify with what we see in the mirror and to identify with the voice in our heads that we think with. We are not our bodies, we are not our minds we just are... I know that sounds cliche but it's true.
yeah but what are you gonna do with that information.. it's kind of useless in today's world
Why should we claim to not be our bodies or minds? Just because there is no purely physical explanation to this dilemma, doesn't mean we have to conclude that "nothing" is the answer. I mean, the fact that humans can spontaneously develop thoughts and seem to be able to choose, as well as even develop a sense of personal identity in the first place is not something to be understated. Of course, there is no way to prove any of this, but it seems to make more sense to tackle these questions like we tackle any other question, rationally. Everyone seems to have a continued experience of consciousness and that is something we can go off of, instead of disregarding that fact, right? What are your thoughts?
@@katenka_ana3997you haven't experienced the truth thats why its just an INFORMATION for you??there is difference between experiencing and understanding.
And what will you do with this world as such??
@@raphaelkelly861Sadhguru says "if you use a cutting instrument to sew your cloth, all you would get is tattered cloths".Not everything can be put into the tool of logic. Because it has its own use.And when you use it for everything.You dont remain you but become a mere logic. Because you are identified with logic
There does have a core, playing word is easy, but let face the real question, what is actually there to experience the personality, emotion, desire. "There is nothing nothing in you", Really? but what is the " " which experiencing, " you ".