Neuroscience is also catching up: see mirror neurons.
I'm legit about STEM (4 years as a physics major and work professionally as a software engineer) and I personally really can't disprove/see an argument against what was being said, especially when you do the "work" yourself.
I love the second video. All the crazy forces in the universe, knowing we're a part of it and all the crazy things your brain does without you knowing, but at the end of the day we think "we're" in charge of making decisions like "coke or pepsi today?" It's all done subconsciously. You're practically here just to observe.
If you can't control your thoughts because they pretty much pop out of nowhere (seriously try and sit/focus and think of something for one minute straight without your mind drifting) and you can't control the outside world, then you'll realize all the bad moods you have aren't really "your" fault. The environment is what gives you your biases and the human brain just conditions itself and reacts to stimuli.
We get into problems when we try to rationalize things. Think: "Billionaire X attributes most of his success to Y in an effort to try to play off just how much raw luck affected his life so as to feel in control." Things like this are what you call a "story" - something your mind creates to make itself feel at ease and try to make things more predictable for your own comfort. Only problem is, you can't predict shyt - hence when you feel bad after having failed expectations.
It sounds hypocritical, but we're still only human and our toolbox is very limited. You have to think of everything you've been taught, and everything you've been taught was learned from another teacher. The knowledge passes down generation to generation, but ever stop and wonder what if somebody was wrong? The most accurate thing you have are your senses, and the information exchange revolves around what was observed with these senses. We relay everything to one another based on our senses. Stop and think of some object, even if that object is abstract as shyt - like a blobs of ice and fire. Bet you did that visually maybe even gave it some noise, you made that image based on all the memories of your experiences - which are from your senses. So everything we "know" is based on a sensory level and will only ever be based on a sensory level. So what's behind the senses? What really is an object? It really isn't anything until you start categorizing it and start assigning attributes to it using your senses. Like we all do. Think of something that doesn't involve any of your senses and try to relay that to somebody. Even the "negative of a sense" is still involving a sense to describe it. Kind of like two sides to the same coin.
You create your reality and we all are doing the same thing. Fact is none of this would exist without you observing it, others observing it and creating something out of it, creating a mega playground, similar to how the universe may have got the ball rolling with the big bang, because we're apart of that process.
Category theory provides another look into this when you think of objects and their morphisms. Category theory doesn't look at intrinsic properties of objects as much as the morphisms behind them.
Great discussion here:
But maybe this is all wrong too we can never know.
We are blood and electrons. Someone can copy the patterns, but a copy isn't the original. (It's why I hate Star Trek's transporter, and how TNG fukked up Will versus Thomas Riker to keep status quo instead of radically changing viewer perceptions of that universe.)
I'm sure, to some greater intelligence out there, our individual struggles are as meaningless and irrelevant as a mouse's to a human researcher. Mice struggle individually. Only mice care.
Bees struggle, too. Human researchers only saw a hive mind.
The sunflower that moves of its own volition, no central nervous system, to always face the sun ...
ICP had a song out called 'Miracles'. For a troll group, they show heart sometimes. That song was one of them.
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