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Is Anything Real?



Vsauce

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS MEGA-COLLAB: http://youtu.be/UFydagCS9fg

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LINKS/SOURCES:

music by: http://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow/

song at end: “Pious Reflection” by Paul Mottram downloaded from http://www.audionetwork.com/
it’s on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kszd5IGq_k

Human senses:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/question242.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

Color illusion: http://loriputnampaints.blogspot.com.es/2010_03_01_archive.html

Audio illusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9VMfdG873E

temperature illusion: http://exs.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/hot-and-cold/

Tactile illusions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_illusion

epistemology wiki pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistomology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_justification

proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_(truth)
http://thesaurus.com/browse/proof

a priori truth [pdf]: http://consequently.org/papers/apriori.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_priori_and_a_posteriori_(philosophy)

rotating brain gif: http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~dow/Space_software/Space_animations/rotating_brain.gif

neuroscience of memory:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/309/5731/92.full
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroanatomy_of_memory
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123485-mit-discovers-the-location-of-memories-individual-neurons
http://www.brainfacts.org/sensing-thinking-behaving/learning-and-memory/articles/2012/storing-memories/

LTP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwp5sfsy-hI
http://www.expertsmind.com/topic/neuroscience/long-term-potentiation-93811.aspx

engrams: http://brainsandcognition.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/the-ever-elusive-engram/

storage of human brain: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-memory-capacity

SKYentists: https://twitter.com/nice_mustard/status/339767730230157312

philosophy of science:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology

The Matrix defense:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/11/09/the_matrix_defense/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_defense

solipsism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
http://philosophynow.org/issues/57/How_Can_I_Know_Anything_At_All
http://onlinephilosophyclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10

Martin Gardner books:

http://bit.ly/19CvvoG
http://amzn.to/Zou74W

why cats like keyboards: http://kotaku.com/5991046/why-cats-love-sitting-on-keyboards

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42 thoughts on “Is Anything Real?
  1. Ok for those who cannon roll their tong upside down roll your peanus upside down using your hand and you can get the same experience iam not even joking its the next best thing

  2. Me always finding myself coming back here off a bad trip then forgetting what started my existential crisis
    It's a time loop

  3. I know that this comment is not going to have any likes because I decide it that way. I know that everything I see and interact with are only inside my mind.

  4. If you can't turn your tongue upside down, you can do something similar with your fingers. Simply cross your index and your middle finger on both hands (like when you're saying "fingers crossed"), and now touch the tips of your crossed fingers on your left hand with the tips of your crossed fingers on the right hand, and see that it's weird. You can also rotate one of your hands when touching your fingertips, so that the index on your right hand is touching the middle finger on your left hand, and vice versa.

  5. colour vision is an interesting way to look at the whole "true reality" thing

    we literally cannot prove that everyone sees colour the same. Sure we can say "oh well everyone agrees this is blue" but what is blue? What is a darker colour? Its all based on what we've been told is darker or lighter but we can't ever prove that we see thing the same, even beyond colour

  6. 6:14 just wanted to say that everything we "know" is based on our current understanding of how stuff works. theres a non-zero probability that science and maths and everything is just completely wrong and we're fucking clueless about what reality really is – which at this point doesnt seem all too unlikely

  7. After watching several vsauce videos in a row. I have come to the conclusion that man must mechanize himself to become better suited at finding the unanswered truths of our universe.

  8. All these days when someone used to say 'This is the Truth, you should not do this, thats a false Realization' and all stuff, I used to think, 'how can they confirm that what they know is True, cuz everything we can imagine or think of is limited to our Human "Hardware" Capacity, everything is just a matter of Probabilities, either it happens or does not happen, either something exists or does not exist'
    Feels good to know that there are many others who think like that too, and I am not the only one with any such kind of a Mental Disorder ( if at all its a Mental Disorder)

  9. 8:17 Well, I was convinced by the fact of unrational numbers existing. Namely the Pi and its never ending nature. There might have be more numbers like that, but only one infinity thing is enough to convince me. There sure is not infinity space in my brain to contain so much information. Neither can this be a simulation then. I guess there is no way to store an infinity large information on any kind of alien/futuristic technology or device. This could be wrong, but its highly unlikely i think.

  10. I believe, that only science can shed light and make us the creatures, which can know that something is 100% true. We'd would be like 4D creatures, that know it all.

  11. Cats like squares. Our keyboards are made of square shaped keys, that are close to flashing lights (monitor), that is warm and radiate heat. So yeah, cats like keyboards.

  12. If cats aren't troubled by the questions of the universe and we are, would that mean even more troubling questions exist that we do not have the scope to ask? I don't know why that question puts the unknown so close IN front of me the unknow so unknown we can't even ask why we can't know.

  13. Jesus is real and we were put on this earth to Glorify him. As we were made In his image. Whoever reads this attune to the spirit 👋💫

  14. To add to that tongue sensory illusion- if you instead flip your tongue and then run the tip along your bottom teeth, it feels like your jaw has been rotated 90 degrees. It's a very strange sensation!

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