Do Chairs Exist?
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Metametaphysics (Eds. David Chalmers, David Manley, Ryan Wasserman)
An Introduction to Metametaphysics (Tahko)
Material Beings (Peter Van Inwagen)
Objects and Persons (Trenton Merricks)
Ordinary Objects (Amie Thomasson)
Ontology Made Easy (Amie Thomasson)
Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference (Michael Jubien)
Objects: Nothing our of the Ordinary (Daniel Z. Korman)
Composition as Identity (eds. Cotnoir, Baxter)
Truth and Ontology (Trenton Merricks)
Austere Realism (Horgan and Potrc)
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Alan Watts)
PAPERS:
Thinking about Things (Jubien): www.jstor.org/stable/2676165
There are no Ordinary Things (Unger): www.jstor.org/stable/20115446
Against Parthood (Sider): www.tedsider.org/papers/nihili...
A Sweater Unraveled (Sidelle): www.jstor.org/stable/2671870
On What There Is (Quine): www.jstor.org/stable/20123117
Two Dogmas of Empiricism (Quine): www.theologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:...
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology (Carnap): www.jstor.org/stable/23932367
Many-One Identity (Baxter): philpapers.org/rec/DONMI-2
Oneness, Aspects, and the Neo-Confucians (Baxter): www.academia.edu/39736289/One...
Why the debate about composition is factually empty (Balaguer): philpapers.org/rec/BALWTD
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No officer I didnt kill him, I just arranged his simples dead-wise.
a bit of the old ultra voilence
@@nixietubes based on what we learned in this video how would a bit of the old in and out be categorized?
@@ThePrufessa matter
I simply killed this matter while it was humaning
@@nixietubes sex is matter?
Other mammals: “Must get food to survive.”
Humans: “Do chairs exist?”
*michael
Our species has successfully survived all that is left is to explore what life really is
@@garyt6931 that’s a cool way to see it
@@garyt6931 there's always the next great barrier
enjoy the viewpoint tho
Not sure what you're trying to imply but the fact that we can ask such profound questions is much more important than basic survival. Survival is the most primitive form of existence.
"I am Death and I am the scattering" is really not how I thought a video about chairs existence would end but I'm here for it
Gives Heisenberg vibes
Ye
666
@@DeinoKoto Oppenheimer quote esque vibes
“I am death and I AM the scattering.”
Metal lyrics
I need to write a metal song based on that 😭
@@yourboy_VoxVox?
@@yourboy_Vox VOX?! (sorry its almost 2AM and i have an unhealthy obsession with him)
* sees title *
* Sees 37 minute runtime *
Whoo boy, here we go again
True I feel that
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@@LightningSquad no one cares
I love how the chair is just sitting there not debating it's existence
how do u know, maybe we just cant hear it
🪑
or is it?
I mean what’s it gonna do about it?
Have an identity crisis? Exactly.
It wanted to but John cena wouldn't get up from it!
The line “I am not a thing that dies and then scatters; I am death and I am the scattering” is now one of my favorite quotes and it comes from a video debating the existence of chairs
The answer I took from this is "it is what it is if it's useful". A random scattering of pipes doesn't have a name because it's not useful to give it a name, but together it's scaffolding
This is my view on it. Simples are the only thing that exist. Chairs dont exist. But its useful to pretend theres no vagueness and that chairs do exist.
I think you mean plumbing.
“Do chairs exist.”
37 minutes
Yeah why not
Was it worth it?
@@drprocrastinate4719 totally
Who knows if they truly exist. We think they do but they actually exist?
I thought the answer was no, its just a bunch of matter chairing
yea
I spent a total of eleven years as a philosophy student and got two degrees. This is by far the best explanation of ontology I've ever seen.
I dont think so, its biased (towards naturalism and physicalism) and overly simplistic.
And his attempt at a solution to the issues raised by composition are unsatisfactory.
@@Mentox2 no
@@Mentox2 Shhhh let people enjoy things
@@Mentox2 It's literally an introduction to the subject for a general audience. Show me an explanation which isn't "overly simplistic" and which is similarly accessible.
@@Mentox2 Accessibility doesn't make your ideas overly simplistic. Striving for complexity to be seen as profound doesn't make you a brighter or deeper thinker, it just makes you a moron. Being able to translate your abstract ideas in a rich and interesting way that resonates with everyday people shows a higher level of mastery and understanding.
How can this man taste a chair, pull a spoon out of his shirt, and pull a slice of cheese out of his shirt, and yet teach us things others struggle to.
because he is michael and he can just do that
because he is michael and he can just do that
Because He is michael and he can just do that
because he is michael and he can just do that
because he is michael and he can just do that
It feels so much better when this conversation is happening outside of my head for a change. Also, "thank you for watching?" Did you just call me a watch? I don't have time for that kind of confusion.
Hey. Stop watching.
Two ontological antirealists walk into a bunch of atoms arranged bar-wise.
Good one lol.
A few atoms ontologically humaning move to another bunch of atoms bar-ing.
Where, atoms = simples atoming
A mereological universalist then walks in, and forms a group of the universalist, the simples arranged ontological antirealist-wise, and my front door. Then the bartender asks them to stop arguing and order their damn drinks.
Oh my god😭 these guys
@@anuj8825 I think you mean. Ontologically speaking a few simples humaning inbar a bunch of simples bar-ing.
Some random guy: "Do chairs exist?"
Me: "Yeah of course. What are you, stupid?"
Michael: "Do chairs exist?"
Me: "I have no idea"
Yesn't 🤔
remember this is the same guy who thought the universe was created last Thursday. Bullshit.
420th like. Nice.
@@AdamThoba2 It's just a theorem, no need to be so upset.
@@AdamThoba2 you're gonna wanna watch that video again bud
What an awesome way to start 2024, studying human thought and existentialism watching Vsauce at 1am.
same
Watching The Simpsons would
probably be more beneficial .?
It's 1am for me rn 💀
@@2msvalkyrie529probably not,but benificial is not objective
i never thought “i am death” would be a comforting statement
Vsauce: "Do chairs exist?"
2 million people sitting on a chair: "Hmm interesting"
Lol..very under rated comment
But are those 2 million people actually "people" or atoms people-ing
@@miguelbenavides9160 are those atoms atoms or are they atoms atom-ing
That's a big chair
*laughs in bed*
"Michael, take a seat, we need to talk"
"Do chairs exists?"
"MICHAEL"
I want some kind of series where Michael is in an insane asylum and constantly does stuff just like that
@@theredghost9368 literally the vsauce CZcams channel
Then he pulls a slice of cheese from his shirt
Reminds me of the "what its like to be married to Neil degrasse tyson" sketch done by Key and Peele
@@thatgreenguyplayer2 so true
"alleged chair" is going on my gravestone
I'm surprised you never mentioned Plato's ontology. Throughout the whole video my brain was crying for it, this would solve so many of the posed questions!
Plato would probably say a chair is a piece of furniture for one person to sit and lean back on. What happens if you remove some atoms from it? If you can sit on it, it's still a chair. When does it stop being a chair? When you can no longer sit on it.
I agree he did not talk about the purpose.
That's extremely easily refuted, though. For any definition, you can find an object that clearly SHOULD be included in the definition but isn't, or something that SHOULDN'T but is. By your definition a bar stool isn't a chair and an examination table is.
Hell, there's a famous example of this in popular consciousness; Plato's definition for a man was a featherless biped, so Diogenes came out with a plucked chicken yelling "BEHOLD, A MAN!" You may as well not even entertain the idea of existence through definition unless you go to the extreme he brings up in this video.
If we're gonna follow what you say, that would make me think that a wall is a chair because I can lean my back on it and be in a sitting position - oh, same goes for the floor or the ground. Wait, so the whole surface of the Earth is a Chair??? A PERSON is a chair because you **can** sit on them! Does that mean horses, camels, and elephants are ALL chairs as well because we actually sit on them, on purpose, for travel? Are cars and bicycles just... "moving chairs"?
We can go on and on, but at this point, almost everything can be called a chair. Then does **it** really exist? Because by that logic a "chair" becomes a concept we apply to things but not a thing itself. So the object in the thumbnail and what is beside Micheal is not 'a' chair but an assembled wooden frame that can function as the chair. I can also conclude then that the same wooden frame is a table because I can use the square surface to place my dinner so I can eat. Oh look, now it's actually just a Table which we happen to sit on.
Doesn't seem like that line of thought sufficiently answers the question imo! 😂
_sits on a chicken_
behold
plato’s chair
Can't believe this man is powerful enough to unironically say "sus" and not be seen as cringe.
Time stamp pls?
1:14
Oh ty
I cringed. and this man down here didnt pay attention to the first minute and half apparently
@@Dringer did, did you just thank yourself?
Michael in 2017: Fewer than 3 days in isolation can cause brain damage. I will be staying in this room for 3 days.
Michael in 2022: Do chairs exist?
if u take it as a joke,just a 37min video.
if you try to understand deep, you'll question your life, concusiness, etc
Sounds like 2017's theory was correct, proven by himself
@@xxxkratosxxx9232 ahh yes concusiness
@@salaxim6027concussy
I mean, that kind of proves what he said in 2017...it just takes 5 years for the damage to be shown
i cant wait for vinesauce to become a dad and explain every question his son asks him like this
at 31:39 Michael says “some” at the exact same pitch as the beginning of all star by smash mouth
“how can i know if someone has perfect pitch?”
I scrolled through the comments and am now relieved that a person four months ago came to the same realization I had five minutes ago. "Some..." Of course if we ever shared an atom at some point, then I came to the realization four months ago before I realized I ever watched this video...I really need to go back to bed.
Need an edit of this
I swear that’s intentional
Another certified hood classic
lmao def
Lmao😂😂
lmaoo
Wha
Thanks shrek
his sense of humor is still as good as always
I remember the old days when he dressed as a bearded nun in Lady Gaga parodies. The old Michael was indeed always this bizarre.
Edit: I wrote this BEFORE watching the part when he mentioned this video! I always thought he was hiding from his past, but I guess not.
sus out
@@admrfq41
Sus in?
Sussin?
I think it's getting better with every plank second
@@admrfq41 The more sus they become
NO HE DIDN'T OH MY GOD I DO NOT PARTAKE IN THIS
Sir this is a Wendy’s
Why is this the top comment with 7 likes
@@PopcornAstronautOfficailweird…
No, it's just some simples Wendy's-ing.
I like how he would talk about the most random thing that nobody would think of to talk about for halve an hour. Now that’s what I call, “Creativity.”
Michael: do chairs exist?
Michael 30 minutes later: I am death
YES
Ok
36:54
As a Goth, I love that statement
straight up
"Do chairs exist?"
_36 minutes later:_
"I AM DEATH"
the best comment ever
monkaW
36:54
Yes
Damn 😂
I've seen this video more than 5 times, it hunts my nights since the day it was uploaded...
Thank you for making this video. I will need to watch it many more times to hopefully try to grasp all points. But, just from watching once I have to say, it is the best and most important video you've ever made. Cheers to you!
Michael at the beginning: "Do chairs exist?"
Michael at the end: "I am death"
Basically everyone at the end of philosophy undergrad.
Underrated comment
Sounds like the Baghavad Gita to me
That's what I call a quality anthagonist arc.
Oppenheimer type beat
I spent 37 minutes questioning what I'm sitting on.
I think the as you are!
Good thing im on a toilet and not a chair
@@tehboi2433 which one? A sitting version or a Cultch version?
Hey, wait i know the answer to this, you gotta give it to me.
..... ....Guys, i have just discovered that Chairs do exist!?!?! Whoaaaahhh
How were you surviving before my discovery!?!? Geez, yaall dumb😅 hihi
@@tehboi2433 Is a toilet not just a chair with a hole that goes into a pipe?
Wonderful video Michael. One thing I would say is that to me a composite object 'exists' as long as it is more that the sum of it's parts. Okay, you might ask, but what do I mean by this? It means that it has some property for which the simples it contains are more important than the simples it doesn't contain. E.g. the atoms that make up a chair are important in allowing you to rest your butt on it. Existence is therefore a state of being in relation to an intelligence e.g. us. Stuff enters our horizon of understanding and things come into existence. I would not consider the 'incar' to exist because it does have any unique properties that cannot be understood be considering the garage and car separately.
Watching this video as Amie Thomasson’s daughter was so surreal! Not only was my mom cited as an expert, Whenever he cited another expert, I was like “oh, yeah, he came to our house for dinner; I baked a cake for him…” and so on. Plus all of the books in the video are literally in my house right now. Also, my mom loves that you put her in a video, and says she’s now a CZcams star!
Michael:
Chair: *sweats nervously*
CAN RELATE
🪑
🪑 💧
There’s always these CZcams meme copy/pasted jokes that I find annoying and unoriginal… until someone actually applies it well. Even though it’s the same template joke, it really actually cracked me up. Props to that
Especially since he keeps threatening and caressing chair with knife.
Michael saying "sus" is one of the best and the worst thing I have ran into this year.
pretty sus
1:16 thanks for the time stamp
0:09 "Hey vSUS"
@@FinxdMC DAMN beat me to it
Shitposters are gonna have a field day with this audio
I truly believe that it is your choice/definition of things defined by what you have experienced and your personality.
I love how you bring us along for the ride of figuring it out.
Alternate Title: Michael bullies a chair by questioning it’s existence for 37 minutes and 53 seconds
Sequel: Chair confesses and submits to ree-education.
@@RogerBarraud lol 😂
This comment made me realise how long the video is. I wasn't ready for this lol.
@@RogerBarraud I'm dying from laughter!
Lmao
i love that note that plays when the chair appears so much
I feel like this is just the argument between Plato and Aristotle on Plato's idea of the forms but refined with thousands of years of thinking from a lot of different people.
I’m relieved to know I’m not the only one who has been skeptical of chairs my entire life.
Yes. I think they are decoys. There are just too many chairs in the world. I feel a rebellion amidst
ever have that feeling your chairs in your house are watching you?
But what are you skeptical of? I mean do chairs even exist? Do you exist? Do I exist? Am I having an existential crisis? Or is it just simples arranged me-wise having existential crisis? 🤔
The comments are so serious lol
Bueno
Michael is like that one friend who you don't hear from much, but at 3 AM, he'll start sending you links to the secrets of the universe before he disappears into the night again.
That person sounds amazing!
I want a friend like that
I am that friend the difference is I use it to make my friend mire awake and up for the school day as we are sriving in the bus
I want friends at all
Sounds like me
Yea i am this weird kid
bros legs are 100% asleep
😂
Only Vsauce would drop a 40 minute documentary on whether chairs exist or not.
Be honest Mike- there was LSD on that chair, wasn’t there?
No the chair IS the LSD!
@@ShaniAce or is the LSD the chair?
@@chummysomething9828 is the lsd a chair, or is the lsd chair-ri?
I was on ls d and saw this and I was like is this guy even serious right now
Nothing like sitting with Lucy
the fact Vsauce has just accepted his meme status as an insane internet genius yet still manages to be so informative is just *Chefs kiss*
@@truthview7261 no
one
asked
lMaoo
|-O-|
No, he just still hasn't recovered from his time in the room
k boomar
Man thanks for making these videos. I had only one science teacher who would actually make full lessons on the questions I had in an interesting way. He was my favorite teacher and you are very similar. Keep questioning everything and sharing your thoughts we value them a lot. Have a good day vsauce.
I got to take a seminar taught by Van Inwagen in college where we went over his book, and it was fascinating! Really interesting to question the limits of how we define the world around us
“I am death, and I am the scattering”
Nice to see Michael’s slow evolution into an Eldritch God is proceeding apace.
bet it's the ayahuasca he did
Dude I swear he is the ideal psychonaut. A real intellectual that is experimenting, not using. I only wish we could get another Golden age of more natural psychopharmacology, more Hoffmans and Mckennas that educate rather than simply encourage.
it was really comforting ending tho
Can't wait for this stuff to get out of context.
Sounds like Coheed lyrics
Michel is the only man who can ask the question “do chairs really exist” and explain it for 40 mins and make me believe that Chairs don’t exist
You have to start thinking more than
He is the smartest conspiracy theorist out there
@@BrazilianImperialist you are the most boring person on the planet
@@BrazilianImperialist than? 🤔
@@gabrielr8430 You liked your own comment
This has to be my favorite Vsauce video
A chair is a piece of furniture with a raised surface supported by legs, commonly used to seat a single person. Chairs are supported most often by four legs and have a back; however, a chair can have three legs or can have a different shape. Chairs are made of a wide variety of materials, ranging from wood to metal to synthetic material (e.g. plastic), and they may be padded or upholstered in various colors and fabrics, either just on the seat (as with some dining room chairs) or on the entire chair. Chairs are used in a number of rooms in homes (e.g. in living rooms, dining rooms, and dens), in schools and offices (with desks), and in various other workplaces.
A chair without a back or arm rests is a stool, or when raised up, a bar stool. A chair with arms is an armchair; one with upholstery, reclining action, and a fold-out footrest is a recliner. A permanently fixed chair in a train or theater is a seat or, in an airplane, airline seat; when riding, it is a saddle or bicycle saddle; and for an automobile, a car seat or infant car seat. With wheels it is a wheelchair; or when hung from above, a swing. An upholstered, padded chair for two people is a 'loveseat', while if it is for more than two person it is a couch, sofa, or settee; or if is not upholstered, a bench. A separate footrest for a chair, usually upholstered, is known as an ottoman, hassock, or pouffe.
Intro was the best psychological horror thriller I've seen in years. Thanks Mike
More scary than most modern horror movies tbh.
beatbox for me pls :*
Who's Mike?
@@bbdoook coxlong
bbk bbk bbk
This tells us a lot about Michael's grudge against chairs.
*sigh* You're accusing Micheal of begrudging something he doesn't even believe in.
@Spiderman you fool, what if the office has a chaise lounge like in the cartoons? it’s practically a chair-couch-bed hybrid!
Imagine learning all sort of philosophy just bcoz one doesn't like chairs.
Honey wake up new Michael chair grudge lore just dropped
Says alot about society
As an information architect by trade, I think I’ll just send this video to everyone when a new project starts, so that I don’t have to explain what ontology means every time. Thanks Vsauce!
❤ A superb piece of work. A great philosophical roller coaster that should really make you think. One of the best explanations of what Stuff really is, or isn't! Thanks Michael!
Love how there no context behind the title but i am ready for vsauce to convince me chairs don't exist...
titles are always the context of everything.
yes
He can convince you that up is down
Somebody needs to stop this man, he clearly holds too much power
i swear i saved this just so i can be convinced later
I love how Michael is just welcoming the horror aspect the internet has given him over the years
@@JoeyIsGlowey TLDR the internet has made Michael seem to be an eldrich scp that cannot be contained. And hes playing along to it
@@soulslvr9562 haha your tldr is as long as your original 😂
@@pattherick6875 ah ha! You are wrong! ITS EVEN LONGER!!! MUHAHAHA
Michael be like: Thats a chair. Or is it? [Vsauce music starts]
I find this stuff fascinating, i remember i wrote an essay that delves in a similar concept, to me, it all comes down to purpose and cause, things are a specific object based on it’s relation to the environment and the human perception of it’s purpose, just like how we perceive color but it doesn’t really exist.
Me: Stops paying attention for 5 seconds
Michael: *GUNKY*
Hoot
Michael: STUFF
“What’s your job?”
Vsauce: giving people existential crisis with chairs
FiRsT!!1!1!1!1
There's no such thing as an existential crisis!
@@MrSwag-zv3pg ... uh... mmm... that.... ok....
But what IS your job?
More like giving chairs an existential crisis
This has to be up there among the greatest youtube video ever, as it takes us closer to the edge of human reasoning.
Everyone else when they see a chair: Sit
Michael when he sees a chair:
"hmm yes, salty"
Micheal: what is salty am I real is chair real is wood real is trees real are my pants real
mmmm salt
If that's a oversimplified reference, there's gonna be a tax for that.
Normal people when they see a donut in a toilet: ew
Michael when he sees a donut in a toilet:
Hmm yes food (begins consumption)
Hm yes, ass flavour
"The more we try to sus out where they are... The more _sus_ they become" -Michael Stevens 2021
I fucking hate how among us jokes make me laugh so hard....
I somehow laughed at that and I hate myself
Nononononoononon
AMOGUS
'Mogus
0:00 pov your trying to escape the SCP foundation but michael has breached (he stalks you and then takes your body, then starts doing an hour long documentary)
Not just that, but Michael arranges your body's simples chair-wise in order to make an example out of you.
this feels like 10 years ago
ive learned two things from this video
1. chairs don’t exist
2. michael is going insane
hahahahahahahahaahaha
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he has totally lost it
Bahahahaha
@@roo.pzz4380 No he has not. Are all philosophers crazy then?
"I am death, and I am the scattering" -- Most metal thing Michael has ever said.
Someone needs a power scale Michael off of that statement that he just made there about him being death and the scattering how powerful does this make Michael if we take what he said literally.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
that’s literally exactly what i said
@@izzymosley1970 If he is death itself than that already makes him beyond everything that is capable of dying (because in the end he’ll outlive everything). If this is true then he is at least multiversal+
out of context vsauce just got a lot more intimidating
I love this episode it put some more scientific backing to the law of one book series I suggest everybody read it at least once with an open mind
"911, what's your emergency?"
"Do chairs exist?"
Vsauce: “Do chairs exist?”
Me: “Finally, someone talking about a real issue!”
Real? Are you sure about that?
My man asking the real question
Now we asking the real questions
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Actually, we're Vsause.
I'm only like 20min in, but I posit "quantum frame." Everything can be and is a simple, a composite and more all at once, and it's only by observing a specific frame of space and time that these things collapse into a state.
Every now and then I cycle back to watch old VSauce. There are several videos I don't remember past 10 minutes because I undoubtedly fell asleep watching lmao
never seen a more questioning and cryptic video title
Welcome to vsauce
@@urmad2873 Where are your fingers?
why do most people in top comments never consider the context before commenting or just comment silly stuff. Yea its funny most of the time but still misleading and distracting from what vid is all about. I am not against your comment, but sure the context is more important than the title right?
me in tok:
tok teacher: if you sit on a table is it a chair?
@@spacebarbarian._ I feel like parts of the answer are in your comment. They know the context but the point of the joke is that their comment is misleading. That’s the joke. Maybe they’re making the joke bc of the content of the video or because, like in this case, the title of the vid is one like this one.
Can’t wait for Vsauce to debunk how gaming chairs don’t make you a better gamer in the next video
Chad
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Wait, they don't?
Haha very funny 😐
Everything is a compound , until you reach simples. We simply give names t these compounds, like you you’d name a compound of iron and carbon steel. Compounds can then again work together to form other compounds which we give names to, like how an assortment of steel can make a bridge.
"There is no spoon" this video is a pretty good analysis of one of the major themes of The Matrix. I feel like you could make Deleuze relatively accessible to people; the concept of the rhyzome is pretty close to this. I'd love to see you do a video on nomadology and the war machine.
Also, did I miss it, or did you choose to leave out Buckminster Fuller's "I seem to be a verb?" He spoke often at length on that idea.
Vsauce: do chairs exists?
Chair companies: *nervously sweats
Sitting was invented by chair companies to sell chairs!
chair companies: *starts having a panic attack*
Hey, Vsauce, Michael here! Down here. But which way is down? And how much does down weigh? Well, down weighs about 1/100 of a g/cm3 . It is light, and airy, which makes it a great source of insulation and buoyancy for waterbirds. But if you let go of down, it falls down. So that's which way down is, it's the direction that gravity is pulling everything. Now for someone on the other side of the Earth, my down is their up, but where are falling things going? Why do things fall? Are they being pushed or pulled? Or, is it because of TIME TRAVEL.
Ikea: *nervously sweats
The demon in the corner is filled with fear as the man asks questions that harm reality.
Love the fact that a chair is most defined by "something to sit in" yet Michael sits on the floor next to the chair for the whole video.
sitting in the chair would suggest that the chair exists.
"Chair is a separate seat for one person, typically with a back and four legs."
Therefore, 🐎
Bashurverse is burning in hell 😂😂🗑️RIP BOZO
Thank you for spoiling the video
hahah yeah
We as humans have a problem of categorizing "things" into boxes.
The photon is a wave, which when observed, becomes a particle. But the word becomes is wrong, because the photon is both a wave and a particle, it is us who categorize it, bringing it's form into reality.
So too is the chair a wave, a group of simples, which when observed, is a chair.
By simply observing something we can completely change it's reality.
Watching at 4AM hits different. Like a punch in the groin.
Vsauce: Do chairs exist?
Michael: I am Death, and I am the Scattering.
What a lovely way to end a lecture :D
Ahahaha
>:)
It's happening!
lol he said "I am Death, and I am scattering." right as I was reading that part of your comment
I want to say “yes, chairs definitely exist.” But I’m sure he’ll find a way to convince me otherwise.
Well, did he?
We need the update
pls give us an update
After the video, I think this guy decided he didn’t exist either.
I KNOW RIGHT?!
I've watched this for atleast 3 times, it still goes over my smooth head.
Thank you for the very valuable information! Now I shall take this knowledge and pass it through generations of people.
'I AM death and I AM the scattering' - Michael Stevens
That is a badass quote.
The concept of "I" is a video in itself.
Those, along with "we are the seeing" would make for some sick-ass metal lyrics.
Vsauce is Vishnu-Ing
Walter white vibes
I read this as soon as he said that in the video. Never thought I’d be saying that in a reply section!
“I am Death, and I am the scattering.” ~Vsauce Michael
That’s a metal af quote.
Honestly, Oppenheimer doesn't have shit on Mr. Vsauce after that quote.
It reminded me of "I am the danger" from Breaking Bad
It sounds like what a villain in a marvel movie would say
I think the preceding line is necessary to get across the quote's essence:
"We are not the universe seeing itself. We are the seeing. I am not a thing that dies and becomes scattered. I am death, and I am the scattering."
Reminds me of the famous Nietzsche quote, “I am not a man, I am dynamite”
I want this video to play at my funeral, unironically changed my life (or at least perspective on life)
My intro to phil prof recommended this as an ancillary resource, my life is fulfilled. 🤝
"I am death, and I am the scattering" most metal thing said on vSauce to date
Or is it?
*Cue vsauce music*
I love how the more complicated things get, the more informal their names are
that's contemporary philosophy for ya. I love it.
Spaghettification is one of my favorite words
We're out of names, it's a crisis
When your mind is already messed up you dont wanna add names like mitochondric thermal universe
that's cool and all but now I'm scared because the boomer remover sounds like an extremely complex machine created for the sole purpose of mass genocide
It is my hope that philosophers will one day consider questions that pertain to normal people, and then find answers to those questions that don't presuppose state violence.
That type of philosophy definitely exists. And the ideas in this video can be used for those purposes. Do nations exist? What about groups of people? Are human rights a real thing that actually exists? Ontology can be used to probe lots of more impactful things.
@@icewink7100 Thanks for your courteous reply. I appreciate what you have to say. I generally like VSauce videos, and I am aware of philosophies out there with the criteria I listed. I should have couched my words a bit more carefully. My sentiment I was trying to express is that it discourages me that most philosophy in the public eye has little relevance to the average person. At best, it is indigestible by the average Joe, and at worst it is serves to excuse or even justify totalitarianism. While oncology does have a purpose, the average guy is more concerned about how to most effectively interact and care for his family, and finds questions like "Do nations exist?" pointless to his every day life. In the every day life is where I believe philosophy should have the most impact, but unfortunately it is rarely, if ever, taught in a way in which it can be practically applied to someone's challenges.
@@j37j2 maybe you would find Marxism interesting? Marx definitely is a controversial thinker, but he’s expressed a similar sentiments to you “the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Marxist philosophy is more focused on social interactions, how companies and jobs work and how they affect people. If you think that kind of analysis sounds interesting, but disagree with Marxists’ conclusions, maybe you could look at various responses to Marxist analysis, maybe by anarchist? They definitely share your distain of totalitarianism.
This is just my advice as a person who has gone from thinking philosophy is useless and unimportant, to someone who loves learning about philosophy for fun.
@@icewink7100 Thank you again for your courteous and respectful response. You are a gem to interact with on the interwebs. I am quite familiar with Marxism. I have read his two most famous works, Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. I am currently reading a biography of his life, which includes many of his works which are less well known. After much study, my final opinion on Marxism is not at all positive. I am an anarchist myself, but I find Marxism, and the general dialectic of Haegelianism which most of his work is derived from, to be incompatible with any form of reduction in state control. If you'd like to continue our conversation, I would enjoy it, however I do not wish to offend you, as you've been so pleasant. A shorthand to my general current understanding of him and his works can be summed up in a quote of his that is repeated throughout many of his works, including Das Kapital: "Empirically, communism is only possible as the act of the dominant peoples 'all at once' and simultaneously, which presupposes the universal development of productive forces and the world intercourse bound up with communism." In reading his works and especially about his life, my personal conclusion is that his goal was to speak out of one side of his mouth in order to deceive the average person into giving up their rights to totalitarianism in order to, in his own words, "Bathe the world in rivers of fire and blood."
10:24 spelling error (subtitles)
"I am death, and I am the scattering."
I bet Michael could write the most epic, cosmic black metal.
feels like a daughters song tbh
Literally the only line I will continue to repeat in my head
36:28 or something
It reminds me of *_these mice_* czcams.com/video/VE6OwKoFSB0/video.html&.vgula
I am death, I am the scattering.
My existence is truly flattering.
Make me a chair,
I guess I’m not.
But I’m still there, in every thought.
Chairs are things, long and wide.
You can even go inside.
Chairs don’t exist,
that is true.
But you know what?
6606.48 divided by 2.
"I am death, and I am the scattering." Is such a raw line filled with power.
what does that even mean?
36:54
I fully got chills
It means I am the destroyer and the creator same time...that's pretty much Hindu philosophy...
Edit ..it goes much more deeper than this...
@@user-ds4gp8dr2q In the context of this video, he explained earlier that a consistent way to describe a "simple object" is an action or performance of more fundamental "stuff" so he claims that death and scattering are a continuation of the performance that is "Michael-ing" while this is plausible under his reasoning, it doesn't directly follow from it. Under his reasoning, it would also be valid to say that death is when his body stops "Michael-ing" and scattering is a process done to a body that was "Michael-ing"
Maybe Michael can make a video to explain this.
How does my body know where its limits are supposed to be?
Example:
Accidently took a decent chunk out of my leg with a chain saw.
Over a long period of time with me tending to it it fills in the missing flesh, skin, and maybe the hair folicls.... and even the floppy bit that reattached shrank back down into position.
It filled the missing gouge back in to the original boundry, that had no cells in it and none that were originally there....
If my body can 3d map out every cell and its proper location.... what stops it from reduilding limbs....