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Date of upload: Jan 16, 2022 ^^
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As mostly, a brilliant video, thanks!
Humans as cancer is not false for everyone, hence narcissistic hyperegoists are surely acting as cancers, though, abusing the whole for only their own benefit. Seeing the human species as a whole, it is the party of the better adapted suppressing the others, since there is no potent adversary in sight, a finally suicidal act, if reason and wisdom are not taking over to overcome the self-destructing greed, filling an emptiness with no limits. Not having a strong opponent, leads to decadent, unhumble and self glorifying action, an unhealthy constant in nature.
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Hey man, I recently stumbled upon your channel and just want to thank you for your videos. You have very good arguments and present complex topics clearly and succintly, which is a great value indeed. I think your channel is perfect for someone who wants to get into philosophy and get to know various ways of thinking, and you do all this without forceful and cringy form. So great work, I will stick around here!
About the video itself, it is really curious how humanity, even with the exclusive perk of wisdom and culture, can have the same problems as all the other organisms on Earth, sometimes even worse because of the scale of our population. We tend to forget that we are still animals, and even if we kinda cheated the game of biological evolution, the cultural evolution and the limits of the Earth (e.g. resources) can still get us pretty badly. Long way ahead of us.
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Very very unique episode. I really liked how you brought the graphs and took us in a little scientific view. I really like it when intellectuals, and I consider you one of them, integrate art and science, or the holistic view and the details, or the Dionysian and Apollonian views, just different terms for the same experience we are trying to express. I think synchronizing them is very important. My whole work of philosophy is dedicated to this concept, and I call it Metametric (meaning what is beyond-- what's holistic and flow upon us without an explicit feeling) and Geometric (what's dedicated to the details, what considers boundaries, and what flashes explicit thoughts in us). Do make more videos of this sort, they are intellectually beneficial.
Other than that, I'd like to have a few observations and adores.
I would like to genuinely thank you for your work. I have been in a very downtrend in terms of my intellectual commitment. And I realized that the only solution available to me now is to have an external help that comes naturally. And I found your thoughts refreshing and made me think to put myself on track again.
And this might seem irrelevant, but I think t not only humans are related to their animal brothers, but I think everything else as well. I like how we might try to make ourselves stand out, but at the end of the day, we are only, not a part, but a "fluid" in the dynamic of the universe. We are integrated, not like LEGOS, but as a solution/mixture infused in it just like every other part. And we also try to think that life is equivalent to our individual lives, or if we tried to be holistic, to our Earth life. And at the end of the day we are just as equivalent to a rock floating on the surface of mars, but just more complex. We are what we are, the vines and muscles define us, and they are constrained enough in the skull to make the rest of our body moveable and illusioned as a free-will creature. And that's why the recent AI researchers started to realize that to create a very well AI, we need an embodiment (Jordan Peterson also briefly talked about it I believe).
I really see the universe very well synchronized, whether it's how we are naturally acting upon our genes, or how the stock market which is a reflection of our nature has similar patterns to the Elks' population, because, in the end, it's a fluidic part, for the lack of a better term, of the universe.
What interests me the most is that the solution might lie in our productions themselves. We do realize that the solution is in our hands, and it will happen naturally. We need another species to stop us from this, we may not like it but it's the universe's way of balancing the ecosystem. And I think it is time for the "aliens" to interfere. And I mean ""aliens" in the definition of something "new", not the aliens that we think of. And I find it interesting that the term alien has been used excessively in the recent century as if we as humans are "feeling the earthquake before it happens."
And it makes me wonder even more that many religions have concepts such as the Anti-Christ to express their thoughts. While others have the rounded head creatures theory, and others believe that the new AI systems will re-balance the system. Whatever that "alien" might be, I find it genuinely interesting that people of different backgrounds and perspectives are trying to express the same thing --a balancing phase due to our current position on the graph.
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I have always found the "humans are cancer" crowd disturbing. I'm never sure if I am dealing with misanthropy or self-hatred; could be both I suppose. Is the human race just supposed to throw in the towel and commit mass suicide? I like my species more than they do that's for sure and I have confidence that we will make it through this conundrum. Anyway, another great vid. It puts thing into a provocative new context at least for some people. I hope it gets shared widely.
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Thanks so much for this essay, it really speaks to me because I always find myself on this side of the debate, and disappointingly few others.
This is the argument that I always make: for all we know, life on Earth is unique in the cosmos. Even if it isn't, we're in no position to bet otherwise.
Life on Earth is going to end. It has about a billion years of habitability remaining, tops, so it's roughly 80% of the way through its habitable lifespan.
In all of that time, in 4 billion years, humans are the sole species with the potential to escape the end of life on Earth. One might speculate that another such species could arise, but we can't assume that our existence is anything more than an evolutionary accident.
Therefore, the only tenable position is this: we are, so far as we can presently know, Spaceship Earth's moonshot. Without humans, life on Earth is guaranteed to end. If we off ourselves, yeah, macroscopic life will take a huge blow, but life will survive and adapt and be fine in several million years' time. The real loss would be the one ticket to cheat the eventual heat death of all life on Earth.
We should see ourselves as stewards, not because of any pretensions about our status among Earth's creatures, but because our heredity gifts confer us with the singular ability to be.
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Well you’ve done it again! Brilliant discussion of a big issue that’s rarely laid out and discussed only shouted about with a ton of finger pointing! Refreshing content and a really relevant topic. Taoism came to my mind in terms of living with/within & alongside nature. Everyone waits for everyone else to do something regarding nature. Many shout at others what to do whilst not doing anything more than talking/promising.
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the lower birthrate of modern populations is not because of resource limits though, so the analogy is faulty.
It is precisely the most rich nations, with most access to any given resources, that are not having kids, whereas in many impoverished nations birthrates are still high. Even in our nations, those more well off are having less kids compared to poorer people
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