Let's Find Out - books, dogs, philosophy, and upcoming videos | ASMR

Episode Date: December 21, 2019

Let's find out what I am currently reading, why, and where the channel is going. Thanks for the love, comments, feedback and encouragement. Channels mentioned (or general inspirations): what i learned https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqYPhGiB9tkShZorfgcL2lA smarter every day https://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2 veritasium https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium fire of learning https://www.youtube.com/user/Fireoflearning knowing better https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8XjmAEDVZSCQjI150cb4QA dan carlin's hardcore history https://www.youtube.com/user/dancarlinpodcaster TREY the explainer https://www.youtube.com/user/GamerCreator12345 Meme Analysis https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4pvsyqNrmBIGJFQxEukUA Crash Course https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse space: David Butler https://www.youtube.com/user/howfarawayisit John Michael Godier's Event Horizon https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz3qvETKooktNgCvvheuQDw SpaceRip https://www.youtube.com/user/SpaceRip Isaac Arthur https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g philosophy: rick roderick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA wes cecil https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ff15w4ufviWfv9UfIuByA jordan peterson https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos sam harris https://www.youtube.com/user/samharrisorg brett weinstein https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi5N_uAqApEUIlg32QzkPlg eric weinstein https://www.youtube.com/user/nobani88 other: joe rogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSTk1083VY #books #philosophy #ASMR

Get this in the focus. Right here. Let's see. Let's get this going. And start the video right after this motorcycle. How's everybody? Today's going to be more of a meta video. Maybe some ASMR might occur within it.

It's all subjective, though. Asimar is an entirely subjective phenomenon. It's not like dropping this extremely sweet gift that I got. Gravity takes over and we can mathematically determine. the laws. Asm.R is a sense of the opposite of anxiety. What do you want to call that? Safety, security, relief, relaxation, calming auras, just a friendly personality. Mr. Rogers is one I don't often talk about. Looking forward to that, Tom Hanks movie. That's going to be cool. Today, I'm going to be diving into all the things that I haven't done in the past

It's kind of an impromptu video like a lot of my stuff is And a lot of the things in the pipeline to be done in the future Brought my computer up I got a lot going on see if I can Organize and keep a coherent train of thought As we essentially going to be All the topics about the channel I'm going to be doing soon

sooner or later. First and foremost is one that I've been waiting over a year. Zander with an axeman, Zander, not Sander. I know you probably gave up a while ago on me. It was back like a year and a half ago. I was doing little video requests for like 10, 20 bucks. And he was the last one I never actually got to yet. I don't want to say I'm not going to. It was about dystopia and utopia. I started writing an essay, I emailed it to him and I thought it was really cool. It was such a fascinating topic about what would have to be the environment to define a dystopia or hell, a living hell. And to me, that was cool.

It's a little heavy to start this video with, but it got me into religion and psychology and social and political theories and history. And that's kind of where I'm out right now. I'm just learning as much history as I can. Because as I wrote the essay, in a nutshell, I, uh, it was kind of cramp while I was writing in there. It was so interesting to me that I couldn't finish it, knowing how ignorant I was about history and philosophy and all this. So that is first and foremost, I just want to get that out of the way.

That is going to be definitely occurring in 2020, appropriately, I guess. having the vision to avoid dystopia. Okay, so Xander, apology for having a request over a year late. Surfboard in the background, Aden, if you're watching this, that's another one I'd like to get to.

That wasn't a paid request. And I'm not, just to clarify, I'm not taking those anymore. Because I find that when it's obligatory, I just lose interest. I want to do it from the heart and I'm fortunate enough to have enough of you guys watching me ramble throughout my journey of finding out that's the theory of the channel at

least as much as i can about topics i'm personally interested in elena first of all i guess i'm saying that because it's no longer the first elena uh i wanted to respond too quickly uh made a point in one of my older videos, which one was it, about me rambling and essentially is going to get meta real quick, because it was about how I tend to go off the cuff and, you know, I'm not articulate enough, I talk about things I don't have a deep understanding about,

and so I tend to get lost in my own lack of mastery of terminology, and I'm a jack of many trades in training and a master of very few. My name is because YouTube studio automatically filters your comments by the ones you haven't got to yet. Yeah, she says, what's funny is philosophy and astronomy and also love ASMR. It was on my basics of astronomy video. And I tend to, when I'm talking about subjects like that I'm interested in, I tend to, try to take all, you know, the history, religion, philosophy, psychology, science, physics, astronomy. And I, in my mind, I can't help, and I got to get better at this.

That's why I'm trying to write scripts to stay more on topic. But I tend to, you know, ramble like I'm doing now and connect ideas very much off the cuff. if I'm reading about something in an idea about its connection philosophically, I'll oftentimes take the risk of just throw in my opinion, my uncurated opinion out there. What's funny is I love philosophy astronomy, astronomy, so I hate to be a nag, but sure, I'm repeating it because it's oppression. I don't love negative criticism, but this was actually pretty polite.

So I would hate to become a person that can't withstand criticism because then I would stop growing as a person. So for me, that's, it's like an ongoing challenge because it stinks to hear how much work, much growth you have yet to do, have yet to achieve, especially when I try to sound like an intellectual. But she says your vocabulary is strangely soothing. It's like a backhanded compliment here. Strangely, soothingly, annoying. I know it's annoying to say that. But it sounds like you read and dictionary. I'm assuming English isn't her first language,

so read a dictionary, then regurgitate all the words in a random sentence. In a random sentence. I love you, though. I love you, though. Thanks. It just sounds like quotations or parentheses. just sounds like try hard intelligence. I'm sorry, ignore this if you're offended. Yeah, I responded to you, but essentially, yeah, that's what I said. So, Elena, I appreciate the criticism. I wanted to use

you as an example as, uh, Ernie, what's up, buddy? As, uh, just encouragement for further criticism. Erne, what's you eating? He's eating the rest of his, uh, coconut husk. I think. What's this bite? What's this? See if we can get them up here. And yeah, so anyways, I encourage criticism and this is kind of a, it's gonna be a vlog-style video about the channel itself. This heads up.

Got Susan right there. A.K.A. Susan, aka. Thrice baked potato. Susan Kringlemyer. So many other names. I can't. I don't know where to begin. Betsy. Betty poop.

Come here, bud. I'm gonna forget our newest edition. Robo boost to me and Molly. We feel like we're doing something good, but really she's saved us. We saved. Gracie, what's that big girl? Molly's cousin Amber

has made a career out of rescuing animals in disaster zones. Ernie, what's your doing, my boy? Come here. What do you got? They replace it with a bone. What you got? Come here. Up here. Come here. Come here. Say hi, everybody.

Say hi. No, Ernie, you just had yours like a little bit shy. And her tail? Her tail's about half the size of her body, so it hits everything. Can you pick the girl? See, great. Look at this princess. Promptu puppy ASMR.

Oh, I'll call it you. Penny, anything except her meals because she throws up. Her saved crazy from the bomb as Hurricane Dorian. She was a junkyard pup, and she was kind enough to let me and Molly take her in. And Jesus is Gracie the sweetest dog, like easiest, sweetest, kindest, most affectionate, yet plays with Ernie. It's like, we lucked out with Gracie. It's named after Harbor Grace in Newfoundland where my distant family is from. To update, I hope they don't update right in the middle of this.

That would not be cool. So, okay. Man, I'm going to have to edit this down unless you guys enjoy the ramble. but enjoy criticism I have videos on the way I wanted to get out of the way to show you guys um

this cover it up I covered it up with sticky notes but you can still see it through thanks jade jade um just drop me my first standalone envelope usually

you know I'll get notes if there's a book or a gift or something in the PO box but um uh I was overwhelmed with, with, uh, gratitude for this. She sent me, hey, she sent me, um, what you doing? What are you doing? Penny, you bear, you bear a police then.

They're having too much fun, Penny. You better police then. All right, you guys ready to go outside again? Anyways, Jade, puppies are out. A little bit slightly quieter. Jade sent me a postcard. And let's zoom in on this. We got the fish eye lens.

It's just really very cool for... See how ridiculous my hair looks. Seeing, capturing... Just capturing, you know, a bigger field of view. It actually resembles, I think I already said this. The human-like vision. It's cool. it seems more realistic for if uh you know if i did more traditional asmr where i was

role playing looking at the camera this is regular and then the fish eyes like you could kind of see it looks more like point of view boyer but this postcard from j t all the way in california all the way across the country. It's a picture of tofu pudding. Dau Fufa. Dau Fufa. Which I've never actually had. So, to me, that was pretty cool.

And I love Chinese handwriting or the letters. Pictograms, I don't know what they're, what they really. He says, sir, tofu pudding itself is serve. hot or cold with brown sugar or syrup. Tofu pudding is soft and creamy. Buy some tofu pudding. Hi Rich. I really appreciate the work that you do and am glad and grateful for the community you've fostered. Keep being curious and open. Thank you. Best regards. Jade. It was really, really sweet of you jade and um she hooked us up with most likely this is far enough into the video mollie won't see this so most likely i'll uh maybe i'll give molly one for christmas don't you

jade i really sincerely appreciate that that's just uh so kind you none of you guys have to you know give me gifts it's just such a um a gesture of so So I take it seriously and I really appreciate it and an apple. So I'm definitely gonna buy some cool shit with this. Really, I just wanna make this video so I could show you that because I thought that was really sweet of Jade. So actually, you know what I'm gonna use this? A place to put all my Amazon, all my other thank you letters I get. That would actually be Trevor from John L.

I recently got this one. These I already showed you guys in my book unboxing video. Yeah, for the remainder of the video, see if you guys want to click away. Really, I just wanted to give you guys a run through of where I envision, you know, not only episodes, but where I envision the channel as a whole going. And, yeah, Trevor, John. And yeah, it's going to be a little bit of a ramble, I guess. But in beachball mania, that's right.

Thanks. Asus, they're terrible. I'm so disappointed in this one. I had a tier of items. I was just going to use for little videos, but I'm getting into more... I think I want to just pursue, you know, less ASMR. Hopefully I still invoke the essence of ASMR,

but in more like... would have focused on in a lecture format or um sort of like a less in your face less uh dramatic version of channels like knowing better um or the tube of veritasium and uh what's the other guy who works with linus tech tips the uh the engineer dude but anyways there's a ton of channels about fire of learning and there's so many so many educational YouTube channels out there but not so many of them you know most of them try to fit into the standard very dramatic very loud energetic YouTube niche or I guess I'm in the niche looking out and yeah I just I really appreciate when scripts are written curated information's delivered very efficiently unlike this

video of course. Uh, so yeah, like, for example, here on a list, many episodes I intend to do. Yeah, I've been working on this as auto focus seems the Hokosai. So I drew the way of maybe three months ago. It took me like two hours, so maybe the video will be about an hour, hour and a half. And like I brought new books in here, but I've been researching a lot about this guy Hokosai. He was a late 17th century, 18th century. early 19th century, a famous landscape painter in Japan, in societal, cultural. He was a figure towards the end of his life. He was well known.

And he was obviously, I don't want to make this video about that. But I guess the point is that the more I looked into it, the more interesting this guy's life was. And then I tried to put his life in the context of, Japan and its culture, particularly in that time as a whole. And then, of course, I try to put Japan, my brain just wants to make connections, you know, into a global historical setting. And see what part they're playing on the global stage at that point. And then the history of Japan itself just got really fascinating.

I mean, I drive a Toyota. Many very quality products are come out of Japan. And that's just, you know, just one of many facets of their culture that makes them remarkable. They have a unique yet. I think Dan Carlin, he's another one that I aspire to, you know, to model. He summed it up best from what I read about Japan. is that they're very good at adapting in assimilating the best

characteristics and qualities and culture and knowledge and everything from other cultures. And in a way that makes them appear to be simply copiers and nothing original comes out of Japan, but in a way it's a huge compliment to say that they're,

they're just like everybody else, except that they're more so. So, you know, with the bad side, when they do get militaristically bent and determined in tunnel visions, they take it to the extreme almost more so than any other nation has gone before, in a very, you know, very sad and very tragic sense. But on the flip side of that coin, they're capable. of the most, their culture has produced the most beautiful art, the most elegant poetry. Their culture in general is the embodiment of simplicity and elegance. You know, a lot of their dress and mannerisms and, you know, foods and their social

cohesion, you know, it's not like this North Korean dystopia of obeisance, but it is a very patriarchal, communal, familial, I think the word is, uh, it means like family, filial, filial, I guess, that's the word, where, um, you know, they're united in reverence for the emperor, who is, in a very literal sense, um, much less so now that. that, you know, since World War II and the West intervened institutionally over there, the cohesive nature of the people was fostered by the sense that their emperor was actually of divine lineage. So their emperor was the heavenly sovereign, I think it translated too. But anyways, it goes into so much rich depth that I wanted to do it justice.

Because I find that, A, I want to be personally knowledgeable about it. I want to have a passion. I don't want to just be, you know, reading from a script. And so I do want to write a script ahead of time. So I stay on track and keep it interesting and can really systematize my thoughts. But at the same time, I also want to be knowledgeable and speak from, you know, here. If you write a script, you don't have to be knowledgeable. you don't have to speak from here.

And is that what that guy is supposed to sound like? Oh yeah, meme analysis. That's another YouTube channel, very small, but very, I just found them, I think, through Reddit, on the Carl Young subreddit, but he's this very knowledgeable, very insightful, who, looking, taking, um, archaic look at a modern phenomenon known as, you know, meme, just memes, meme culture, whatever

you want to say, he looks at the most trending underground memes, at least underground, to someone like me who's not really in touch with the zeitgeist of the internet culture as much as especially as given my current career choice as I should be. And so in a way, it's for me it's a way to tap into that culture in a very interesting fascinating way he connects memes to what they might mean for the collective unconscious you know in the sense of what it means and what it says about culture in general um especially in an increasingly global culture you know, even though it's dominated by, you know, what we watch. If it's in English, it's going to be centered around America in a lot of ways, not necessarily always, but it still is a very insightful look, I think, into the collective psyche.

So there's that. I just want to give him a shout out, because I might be doing a collaboration on top of, you know, philosophy. And this guy borders the line between philosophy and psychology. I, uh, this I just found for free. It was in the discard bin. It's the inspiration for the TV series, I guess Netflix. I haven't watched it yet. My cousin, my sister-in-law recommended it, recommended it to me.

And I'm actually just giving her this for Christmas. Don't tell her. Leave him a lot of secrets with you guys today. Yeah, those are on the topics. What else do we have? Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings. I, most of you know, I had a poll about what topics I should cover soon. Ernie, Ernie, sorry, I had to go tell Ernie to pipe down. Where I forget where it was. Lord of the Rings, my poll, I guess. Set up on YouTube, Lord of the Rings by far won the poll. and the reason I put it on there is because I found I planned on doing like a drawing sort of like with the Hokosine where I draw something

and then talk about the historical context of it I was going to draw Middle Earth I got maybe get the fish eye going for this one so first two I don't know why I never bought the third return of the Kings but I think this is the British version

right here the Silmarillion and the unfinished tales which interestingly ironically maybe I never finished reading I read The Hobbit I think is part of the AR

program in school if any of you guys remember what that is where you read a book and take a little test on it and like a multiple choice online test and you get points and then they incentivize you with maybe prizes or something

if you have enough points at the end of the year and then that got me to the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings I started reading early in high school and it'd actually be a hunting with my dad in the Everglades unsuccessfully mind you

not surprisingly enough I was in the tree stand just reading instead of looking for deer but I've pretty much read most of these out there, and it was cool to be able to... It definitely made it easy to let my imagination take rain out there because I was out in the middle of nowhere, miles away from civilization reading about a...

you know, this fantasy land, written by a very knowledgeable historian and philologist, column he was a scholar of ancient texts and myths and works and so it connected me to mythology in a really deep way you know and so again that's another one where I wanted to really do my homework and pay proper homage to to mr. Tolkien right here so J.R. Tolkien, interestingly enough, ties in with this guy, Nietzsche, who was a sort of student, sort of, in the sense of his mentor was, one of his mentors, was the famous composer, Ricard Wagner, or Richard Wagner in English. This is a biography on Nietzsche's life. One chapter here is called redemption through art,

and he thought that in a serious way he liked Wagner. His plays, one of his most famous, what would you call him? Plays, operas, something like that, you know. They're more revolved around the music, and then I think they are about dialogue. it was called the ring and it was I think a huge influence for this book because or these series of books in a big way it was about you know power being wielded and consolidated in a physical ring and it was tied into this huge mythology and about you know the passing of earthly realm from

through this ring and how we have to carry the flag and, um, you know, redeem ourselves through, uh, RIF. Again, I don't want to sound too pretentious. When I was reading it, I instantly made the connection, though. There's a, there's a huge overlap. I can tell. I can definitely tell, and I'd like to include that at some point. Um, biology and science, or psychology, uh, philosophy and religion, the more I see that there's so much more to existence than what science has yet unveiled. I mean, what we've precisely attacked and been able to unveil and understand in a mathematically precise way about universe existence has been, um, has been very inanimate objects. As soon as we turn our microscope onto the human brain in all living life for that matter,

science starts to really struggle because, you know, A, we have, we're macroscopic organisms made up of successively smaller subunits and subsystems that themselves are made of atoms. And at the bottom of it, from what we can tell, and we're not there yet, you know we have string theory and all this uh these other types of theories to explain the essentially probabilistic nature of the universe and uh you know the subatomic particles um what the material the uh the essence of what the substance of what makes subatomic particles you know from quarks and um all the other what is it like

over 100 subatomic particles now or something, or at least like 60 or something. You know, these two might be the most profound thinkers I've ever come across. So, and if I put this in podcast for him, it's Carl Jung, his red book. And the next one is Einstein. He co-wrote a book with a guy who, interestingly enough, he was in a way writing it to help this guy. be able to establish a career as a refugee scientist during the Nazi era of Germany, so in the U.S. By working and collaborating with Einstein on this popularizing of science and physics in particular,

the book is called The Evolution of Physics. From early concepts to relativity and quanta, Leopold. Leopold and Feld was able to establish a, you know a reason a legitimate reason to stay over here and um avoid the persecution he otherwise would have felt in central europe of those times so these two people this guy was this guy's Einstein's attacking um the underlying

concepts of all physics you know light is pervasive throughout everything is defined You know, so many things are relative to light in physics. Light speed is the ultimate, apparently the ultimate speed limit of the universe. Nothing can go faster, as far as we can tell right now. Even the effects of gravity are limited to the speed of light. That's why you always hear if the sun were to just disappear, you know, in some thought experiment.

It would take eight minutes or however long light takes. to travel that 93 million miles to Earth, for us to feel it instead of orbit, just shoot out gravitationally unconstrained, straight line, according to the laws of momentum. This guy was tackling the deepest non-biological issues, yet at the same time Einstein was tapping into some underlying philosophical concepts of what it means to you know to what does time mean if everything's

relative you know if you know what if it takes even at light speed to get to distant corners of the universe what does it mean for things to happen simultaneously billions of year of light years apart and if you're traveling you know is his thing that that his concept is a most insightful concept about the nature of light would be that if we were to travel at or close to the speed of light time would pass so time for others not going as fast as us would pass so quickly that a quick you know a quick loop to the near star system and back or something like that you know would make hundreds or thousands of years have passed, or at least, yeah, maybe if it's just a near star, that's relatively

close. Maybe it'd be like something like a hundred years would pass or 50 years or something, but it's interesting to think about what repercussions that actually has for existence. None of us feel that, because we're all moving at the same speed relatively, you know? as far as light speed is concerned a Learjet and someone on a bike is pretty much in the same magnitude of speed so you know we we don't experience any relativistic effects in daily life

and even an astronaut's coming 17,000 miles an hour in the ISS the International Space Station orbiting near, they don't, I don't think, experience any relative, effects of relativity. And then on the other end, or maybe it's on the, you know, a circular, going back to the ring, the ends just connect like a snake eating its own tail, which is a huge mythological trope, by the way. areas of thought around Freud, who was a mentor for a certain amount of years to Carl Young, and then Young was a mentor to this guy, Eric Neumann, who wrote a book, who Young wrote a foreword for saying that this is the book that he would have liked to have written,

you know, wishes he wrote. So the origins of, in the history of human consciousness. this Ouroboros, I guess it's called is the snake eating its own tail anyways, I don't know, I'm fascinated there's so much I don't know

so I've been rambling for a while anyways guys I'm going to be so Carly Young yeah this guy just this thing he didn't even publish in his lifetime I've talked about it before but he he wrote it

this was essentially a intimate intimate a diary of an act of imagination which was waking like invoking visuals and

a dream like state in a waking conscious condition so this book is fascinating and that's kind of where I wanted to tie it in I guess with meme analysis that guy knows a lot about

alchemy and religion and psychology in particular. So it's this guy, and of course I found out about Young through Jordan Peterson. So again, I'll reiterate it for anybody who might be triggered at the sound of that guy's name. This guy is impressive.

Jordan Peterson is he's, whatever you want to say about him, he's a full intellectual. And he only wrote one book before, his recent 12 rules for life because it was a synthesis of other ideas, many of which came from Carl Jung, but is trying to synthesize, I would say that he's trying to merge. He's trying to, not merge, but rectify the differences between religion and science, which is, you know, essentially with these two figures, these towering figures of the intellectual academic world, symbolize. And yeah, there's just so much about consciousness and human experience that we have so little knowledge about.

I think there's a lot of room yet for further exploration, which I'm trying to segue all my books here. and yeah which is why I'm interested in this guy said Terrence McKenna he passed away in the late the late 90s of cancer unfortunately but I don't think this book in particular is a I started reading it it's more about um I don't know it seems a little too popularized but I give it a little more of a try but he uh this guy was a serious advocate of of non-recreational drug use he was serious about he just took the consequences and the repercussions of drug use uh specifically psychedelics seriously um as a means to explore the inner world the you know the the very thing the software the hardware that is a medium between the outside world, or I guess for you guys, the outside world and what's inside.

So one of the things he brought up is, he's a great synthesizer of other works as well. And he was also influenced by young, which I didn't realize for a long time. He might be wrong about a lot of things, but one of the things he talks about frequently is that your, or Brett Weinstein and Sam, Harris also talked about this recently on Brett Weinstein's podcast, Dark Horse, that a conversation between two people is interesting in that I'm uttering syllables, I'm thinking of thought, okay, I thought I might want to say, sending signals to my vocal cords, which are, okay, let me, let me get this right, in conjunction with me breathing out air, respiring it, and constricting the, you know, vibrating my particular muscles in my vocal cords to make particular oscillations in pitches and frequency change,

which is traveling across through the room, whoever's in listening distance, it's ultimately vibrating a membrane, which then translates more vibrations through that membrane. into a fluid-filled area with tiny, very, very tiny bones, the tiniest in your body, in fact, and a bunch of hairs that are inside the fluid that are extremely sensitive, unless your hearing's going, and that translate physical, like a transducer, almost. They translate physical movements, or mechanical movements, I guess you might say, into neurological signals that then enter your brain. So me talking right now,

in this case it's coming out of your phone's speaker, that's just the physical process of me communicating to you. Once it hits, once your ears receive it and your, what is it, cochleobones and your, I forget what the fluvia or whatever those hairs are inside your ear, that pick up the signals, the frequencies I'm spitting out at you through your speaker. Once those get translated into your brain's signals, your brain then is the mechanism. It's the system that has to reconstruct, you know, through imagery and, you know, emotions and feelings and other means of comprehending the world and thinking.

and into what you think I'm thinking. So if I say the word horse, you know, we roughly have the same animal, the same object in mind. When I say it to you, you listen to it, you hear it. It comes out of my mouth, you hear it. Your brain then translates the auditory stimuli into some sort of image

and maybe experiences, if you've, you know, ridden the horse or been around them. as well. If I say something that you've never heard of before, we're going to have incompatible, clearly incompatible images or conceptions held in our brains. But, so anyways, that's all to say that it's not a direct, hardwired connection. It's always translated, and it's an amazing phenomena that not only is it rare that two people are going to have exactly the same idea in their head even when they're talking extensively, even technically about a subject, but individual mind has to perceive the world, you know, like in a way we're trapped in

our bodies. You know, we only understand the outside world. that aren't a part of us to the extent that the world, you know, like where does my finger stop and the air molecules begin at the atomic level? Really, you know, so in a big way, that's this guy getting into, you know, symbiosis and the unity of everything and all that, but without being too radical, it's fascinating for me to try to synthesize the concepts of religion and mythology and psychology and philosophy and science and harder sciences like physics and chemistry and biology biology to a certain extent because we really if we're being honest with ourselves

what fascinates me and what motivates me to want to plan to make videos in the future about these things is uh the continual pursuit of truth of what what actually is the case in reality, you know? As the famous Brad Noel of Sublime said, reality always gets the last word. I know the real world always gets the last word, so that's why I try and kick reality, kick it, try to hang with it, try to exist with reality.

So in Nipsey Hustle, I got a segue into this because I purchased a marathon, his clothing brand, t-shirt in which I'm going to do a video on him because he was such an interesting figure culturally and hip-hop and then also philanthropically around his community you know he donated tons of money and invested a lot into assets and resources for the local community especially directed at children to help them out. So, yeah, these are all things that fascinate me

and just the, you know, the fact that we perceive the world through a persistent filter. You know, we are the filter in a lot of ways that we perceive the world through. So every, you know, we don't have a direct hardware connection into reality in a certain sense. In some sense, we kind of do, because we are literally stardust.

You know, we're the gold and iron in our blood. I don't know if we have golden in our blood, but the iron for sure was forged, was created out of the fusion of atoms in the center, in the cores of stars that eventually exploded and expelled their material far enough away to be collected into a part of our proto-solar system. and eventually coalesce into the stuff,

the matter that became Earth, out of which we formed. So, you know, there's so much about our own, the thing that is the medium, you know, the brain, that's the medium between what is out there and, you know,

whatever you might call the nature of our psychology, of our actual mind, inside internally so in a big way we have so much to learn and i think these guys um young peterson eric noyman steinstein um terence mcgkin had a lot to say about it all the the great you know philosophers the you know the history i guess the last thing i want to approach is history of surfing i want to get that, Aden. And I want to continue my planet drawing videos. I'd like to eventually, I've done the sun in Mercury, and I'd like to do Venus, Mars, Earth, make it one long video, that'd be cool. But, you know, history is the last big thing, I guess, to use. It's a, it's an empirical test,

or not empirical, but what you can learn through history. And this is a book about famous documents. and zoom back in there. This is a book about famous documents. Magnacarta, Independence, Diary Van Frank, Dead Sea Scrolls. I'd love to do a video about that. The Kyoto Protocol, Treaty of Versailles, the Bible. It's going to be a good, a good template, at least, for me to reference and off of. It explains so much about our human nature and not just individuals because we're so social at our core. We, you know, we're like a herring or, you know, a bird or a fish that's very group-oriented. That ripped away from its flock or school wouldn't last too long in the, you know, exposed to the raw nature. and you know one of the big things about one of the insightful things i like about maps of meaning from the little bit i've read

is that peterson makes uh really reiterates again and again the nature of humanity one of the hallmarks of us is the way we perceive the world is not objects out there just existing in floating in the void but it's in terms of how we can we can use the world or dangers that we might have to avoid so that's why imagery and and the earliest explanations of the stars and everything in mythological terms was revolved around predatory or powerful animals very significant animals in some certain way because the first pass approximately approximation of novel items, of unknown for an object we've yet to encounter, has to be formulated in terms of things that we're already familiar with.

So snakes are very relevant and they come up a lot. We still talk about them. You hear rappers talking about snakes in the grass all the time. It's a very common thing to call a deceitful individual a snake because snakes are very stealthy and silent. They don't walk and they're cold and they're poisonous and, you know, obviously has biblical undertones, Christian undertones. And, you know, it's very insightful that our environment isn't the landscape or the geological terrain

so much as it's actually the social network that we grow up. up within. And evolutionarily, what we're adapted to is the group, the social group, more so than the actual, or if not more so, in a relatively significant degree to the actual landscape. So, you know, we're evolved to be very social and then to desire and desire to give, and receive social interactions with a group because we're dependent on them, but yet we're also integral to the health of the group. And so our biology is as much adapted to social relations, because people don't do very well when they're cut off socially.

That's why one of the harshest punishments in a civil society is extreme isolation, you know. So as much as we're adapted to the geological and chemical environment, like we breathe oxygen and, you know, we're apes are good at climbing trees and stuff like that, we're also, and this is what fascinates me at least, equally or comparatively adapted to exist harmoniously or coexist. with other human beings, as are many other animals, social animals. And it just says a lot about our nature.

And that's the ongoing process I enjoy finding out about. So that's, yeah, to me, that's where I want to take the channel. All those avenues, historically, the religious, you know, truths that, you know, we can, the things we can glean off of religion, all the multi-layer truths that are embedded in religious stories, not just Christianity all over the world, you know, not the Judeo-Christian Islamic tradition, but also Buddhism and, I don't know, all the other East Asian, African, South American, you know, Native American religions as well. and there's so much yet to learn about us. I don't like learning things just for the sake of knowing a fact. You know, I like when it applies to my life. That's why I love it so much.

So I love psychology so much, that's what I meant to say. Yeah, I want to do more physics proper because, you know, physics isn't as, in the sense of like maybe distant things like astronomy, isn't as immediately applicable as I'm talking about me enjoying learning things that are applicable and pragmatic to my existence and if I can use it, I'm more prone to learn from areas that I can apply to my life. But astronomy in particular is it's like looming us into the nature of a reality outside ourselves. So as much as I love exploring the inner world

in the psychology of that, you know, I also, science, this is a general guide to science, by the way, the Wikipedia of astronomer. Because it's, in a big way, it's clueless into the nature of the larger universe. For sure, don't believe that we're the only intelligent beings out there. I mean, we could be. We definitely could be, but the science and astronomy books. The book is cool. Again, it's another place to jump off, jumping off point.

It's a nice blueprint for the history of astronomy and what we currently know. The nucleosynthesis in stars. I wanted to do an episode on Starbirth. I will eventually do. You know, black holes. Neutron stars, black holes, all the more exotic. stellar phenomena I do want to apply want to approach oh math check out my friend decaf math math math channel math ASMR channel if you guys are interested in that math and bite-sized chunks is it's kind of a overview of all the concepts in more basic general math because I know math gets extremely esoteric.

But, you know, from algorithms to, you know, to calculus, to binary types. And I think it touches on some statistics as well and constants. That's the word I was looking for. Stuff like that. It's on the cover. Yeah, so, I mean, I started the video talking about how I'm pretty self-conscious. conscious about sticking my neck out there and talking about things i know very little about but it's just because that's a the concept of the channel in b i'm um always learning you know i'm always in the process

of learning and in open to ridicule or not ridicule i prefer not to be ridicule but i'd open the criticism so if you guys have any constructive criticism uh about the the channel or about the topics and how I convey them or what I talk about really anything. I enjoy the comments and I try to interact with as much as I can, as many as I can. And I think that's about it. I had other things I wanted to show you. Oh yeah, I had a bag of some old school video games as well. A little golden line right there, Super Mario 64. I was going to do, you know, just a show and tell of those at some point.

Yeah, use this opportunity as a kind of filler because I haven't, I'm still working on my Hokusai episode. And hopefully I will get around to putting at least one Christmas episode out. It's the 19th right now, so I'm cutting it close. I wanted to update you guys, and hopefully this could be more of a vlog. I guess, I don't know, do you have to be moving around a lot? and it deferred to be a vlog. If not, it's a ramble, we'll call it that. And just show you guys all the books and ideas floating around my head

and let you guys know that I'm not too aimless, but my interest are wide, my knowledge thin, and my goals are distant. So things are taking a little longer than I realized at first. approximation. Yeah, war. A part of history. When I got this the other day, I think this was, uh, I think I got, yeah, this was free. Discarded. Someone threw this book away. Biography, Walter Isaacson, he's a very well-known writer.

Did Steve Jobs, Ben Franklin, Einstein. Yeah, he did one on Einstein. Oh, it's right there on the cover. all you gotta do is read rich yeah yeah looking forward to this it's actually a really cool find so before i make this too awkward of an exit i'll just show my way out and uh just iterate to you guys again that the comments are the best way to you know convey your interest or dislike for the video so know, likes, I do pay attention to them. You know, I'm sure subs, comments, and likes, they help the algorithm make my videos more popular. But I pay attention to the likes, because it does indicate how you guys like it.

So if you like the ramble or if you just want to, you know, encourage the direction my channel's going, give it a like and subscribe if you haven't. If you enjoy this, or maybe I scared you off and you just unsubbed, that's fine. commenting is the best way and for me it's it's fun to interact with you guys obviously it's really the only way to interact with you guys but uh i just i look forward to the comments i love reading them and i love engaging with you guys when you have sincere criticisms or you just uh want to talk about something that you're interested in you know relevant to my video so uh it's fun and hopefully it works both ways too so i i highly encourage you guys to comment and uh let me know what

you think about the video and i'm going to be yeah got a lot a lot to explore in the coming days months years uh we're going to be talking about a lot so happy holidays if you guys are watching this within the next few days and uh if you're not i i uh wish you nothing but the best i'll leave it that take care guys see you next time bye