Asking Ultimate Questions | Episode 513 | Closer To Truth 

It’s very humbling to listen to smart people speak to the very nature of our existence. I so appreciate your internal struggles with attempting to make sense of all that confronts us. These are simply terrific videos. I suspect that what will happen to the us, human race was... inevitable. Think bigger. Start with consciousness.

What a great episode. This channel is truly a gem.

Thank you Robert for your high quality documentaries.

Me. kuhn, I hope You do not stop providing the human race, with information about life and the universe. Blessings on to You. Thanks

Dr Krause and Dr Tegmark are such a pleasure to listen to. Just brilliant.

Your work and chennal is great service for humanity 🙏

The curious nature is an innate and integral part of Humans. I have reached a state where humility has superceded the need to know all. I remain Humble therefore I cannot be humiliated. But I still ponder many questions..and this program helps me understand the WHY QUESTIONS.

I like truth! Truth should be fundemental for all of us.

It’s so amazing just to think that if we as humans never came to be and the universe was still existing nothing could be observed so nothing would exist mine blowing. The cat in the box.

Mr Lawrence Kuhn. Let’s see an updated episode that explores simulation theory. With all the recent scientific and technological discoveries I think this outlook on potential ‘reality’ is seriously thought provoking and worth a deeper dive.

This is such a wonderful series and I am so gratfeful for it...I wen to university to understand one thing..what is "science"....this episode touched on the question of the necessity of replication. I watch videos on quantum mechanics, math (Roger Penrose is a favorite) and other areas of science...but, then I watch and read such teachers of Neville Goddard, Joseph Murphy, Louise Hay, Carl Jung, Alan Watts and many other "new thoughters"....how does the concept "thought are things" and the power of imagination fit into your quest...Theologians, who you have on tend to lean toward "religion" rather than a study of a power beyond math...beyond time and space. I would like to see those thinkers included more in your interviews...In the meantime, thank you so much for your work and your producers for the excellent production!

You are a good soul Robert . Hope you find most of your quest one day

While I certainly disagree with some points / perspectives here, I really enjoyed this episode. Though I am sometimes critical of Mr. Krauss, I also think that computers will someday achieve consciousness, because i'm a subscriber to the "the mind is what the brain does" perspective. I do find it more than a bit odd that Mr. Leslie, who is introduced as a thinker whose canvas of thought is larger than science, seems to limit himself to the just-one-universe-and-god-did-it perspective, itself a _smaller_ canvas than currently contemplated science. I also think the assertion that there are questions about cosmology which science cannot answer gives short shrift to science, because our understanding and resultant science continually improve. Theology doesn't interest me much, but I can appreciate some of his other perspectives, though, especially the validity of pursuing questions which go beyond what our current science can tell us, and how they can contribute to a more meaningful life. Regarding Mr. Tegmark's and Mr.Davies' thoughts, I admit that they are the ones which fascinate me the most, easily. The idea that reality bubbles up from math is just _so_ interesting to consider, though I have to entertain the premise that it might just be a very bright & shiny object that has captivated my individual, and quite limited, mind, so I can also appreciate the simulation-hypothesis and others related to Mr. Davies perspectives. Regarding the answers to these questions, i'm not getting any closer, either (though I definitely have my preferred avenues). They sure are _quite_ enjoyable to ponder, though :-)

Consciousness is everything.

Interesting questions and speculations. One must take care not to turn possibility into probability, and probability into actuality without justification.

Thank you so much! Best episode of Closer to truth!

After going through any of these video, I get more bewildered, trying to make sense out of this "business of life". One thing though; after my search, "trying to discern my existence", I go back to what I know is closer to the truth. That God is the "Supreme Intelligent Energy" there is. The universe or multiverse lives inside of God and distribute that energy to all entities accordingly.

For me the whole concept of life is based on the immortality of what I call "true life" of which our universe and beyond is full of. Everything I can think of indicates that existence. The universe as we can perceive, is just a part of a gigantic area, with much more objects and interferences that we can imagine, in a flow to somewhere. In all these great rush of a mudslide we might be lucky not to be on the front line, to be rolled over. The events happening have their own influencing engines accordingly the flow, creating electromagnetic fields, gravitation, frictions. The extent of all existence including our universe in our imagination, could only be possible with some kind of experience made by "true life" and transformed as a conscious sign that has been misunderstood for hundreds of years. Since we took ourselves as prime beings, we never thought we could be led by something else, although we are, through our external influenced informations. Although there is an infinite number, we are tackling the first hundred.

Great presentation

Happy holidays

This is one of my favorite 'Closer To Truth' episodes

"It took a while to scramble out of the mud. Then, in a flash of galactic time, we've built magnificent cities and civilizations, flown to the moon and back, and landed robots on Mars. Are such feats the pinnacle of humanity, the very best that we can hope to achieve? Or can we imagine even more astonishing futures? Is it possible that the superpowers described in ancient legends, science fiction, and comic books are patiently waiting for us behind the scenes, poised for an evolutionary twitch to pull the trigger?" ~Dean Radin, Supernormal

Thank you someone needs to ask the questions we want to know

Truth is. Then questions arise out of confusion.

Series worth watching ...it seems the more you go closer to truth more strange it becomes..

I have never seen Krauss as humble as he is in this video. Wow, the guy admits he does not know it all and that science does not have all the answers.

What is the role of consciousness in universe?

You are going round in circles

There is just something = everything: Nothing is also something = a notion about nothing. This notion have existence, but the notion is not realized out of the notion domain.

“computer will become conscious”- from security’s perspective I tend to disagree due to the fact that computer is run on hardware, which is susceptible to vulnerabilities, so essentially the conscious computer can be compromised. In other words, the conscious computer is as good the input of information it receives.

Great video.

The ultimate question: Are we meant to know the truth.???

Devolution if thought!

Nice to see every person in this show, even Krause who once thought he knew how everything came from nothing and allied with shallowness and anger of Dawkins et al., confessing the limits of our present knowledge and keeping away from arrogance of scientism and organized religions. One of the best shows of CTT. Thank you.

So there are two of us! There's not a single day I wouldn't asking the same ultimate questions and I wouldn't looking for the answers. I love to do it. I don't want to believe, I want to know. We have so little time. I don't want to waste a second. I don't want to die without an answer.

Excellent video!

Conscious computers will have to much fun with truth

Stuff of reality: "World of Mathematics - World of Matter - World of Mind"...sounds platonic inspired and nice. It is nice to think that sentient beings with consciousness (the world of mind) are significant in any way. But if you consider how vast the Universe really is, that our planet, no, our whole Milky Way galaxy is just a tiny speck among the billions of other galaxies and that homo sapiens contemplating all this only appeared in the last few seconds on the cosmic time scale, can we really hope to understand any of it, to figure out "why is there something instead of just nothing"?...

Before universe begin with bang from small hot dense state, did it inflate from gravity singularity and was gravity singularity from a black hole that dissipated?

Hi there just to make a point, complex things can be done whith no matematics, ex. people build complex boat just by eye, so matematics maybe its not so fundamental. All the best.

Do different sized black holes form gravity singularities with various string configurations that can develop into universes with different constants?

If there is a multiverse, there would be a lot of scientific inquiry to pursue, including how to measure and obtain data of multiverse.

How is the universe the way it is? How is the universe? It is existing, in time and space, in the form of matter where things are slowed down to where life can be concatenated. The most common elements are ESSENTIAL for life, some twenty of them and and equal amount of elements are beneficial. That is how the universe is. It is programmable and programmed inside of you allowing for your existence. It is the result of infinite wisdom, infinite understanding and infinite power.

In some sense Robert Kuhn is the ideal philosopher, the ideal mindset of a theoretical scientist.

Does mathematics fine tune quantum field through information processing and gravity strings?

this is like a modern debate between Plato and Democritus. on one hand we can materially do a lot more philosophically we are still debating the same subjects with the same theories.

Good

I love Jung's statement that the soul is everywhere scholarly knowledge is not.

The answers are already present in the deep philosophy of Vedanta and UPANISHADIC truths of the Ancient Indian Sages... The points of view presented by Robert in these series of videos are ALL partial , reflecting one aspect or the other of Vedantic Wisdom... The point where Robert and the people he interviews get it wrong, is he talks to the "WRONG PEOPLE" and "WRONG RELIGION (a 2000 year old religion trying to explain 14 billion year old Universe)" and makes conclusions that are at best partial... So, the 3 Ms presented here are all aspects of ONE ENTITY, the PARABRAHMAN, who is present All over the UNIVERSE, as BOTH TRANSCENDENT and IMMANENT reality.. And then it does not stop, once the Universe ends, as in, it dissipates back into that ParaBrahman, because the PULSE that made all abstractions/projections from Strings/ Quarks to Universe/MultiVerse possible is arrested by that very ParaBrahman. Why would that entity create it in first place? The guess here is KARMA, which drives that PULSE; WHAT drives KARMA? Well it's been going on forever...and there's ALWAYS enough KARMIC AGENTS with the residual karmic foot print to drive that original pulse... But then how can one say, PARABRAHMAN is free of Karmic effects and hence TRANSCENDENT ? The answer lies in three sub entities - VEDA (KNOWELDGE - God is not the author of these but only "breathes in and breathes out all of them into existence"), NATURE (a progenitor of Mass/Energy, Space/Time) and the Para Brahaman or GOD as PURE BLISS of into which the other two merge at the end of the UNIVERSAL drama.

I don't like that expression "Reality is a brute fact". Just because we can't explain something doesn't mean it has no meaning. The bottom line is that these are just concepts limited by our language and the capacity of our minds. I agree with the last speaker - everything needs to be explained as a whole. Science is great for building planes that fly but is useless in giving any meaningful explanation to the reality. Only through personal experience (which is the antithesis of scientific approach) can you get... Closer... To Truth.

what are the Ultimate questions????? and how many are there?????

Perhaps multiverse is composed of quantum field, in which case scientific study of quantum field will learn about universe.

You are misunderstanding & misquoting R Penrose 🙂

I think consciousness could be related to dark matter / Energy in the universe

The Ultimate Question - Lord Kelvin was at least 120 years too early to announce "the End of Physics" Before 1900, there were only very few unsolved puzzles, two of them were: particle-wave duality from Thomas Young and the ultraviolet catastrophe. Then Lord Kelvin formerly announced “the end of physics”. But after 1900, these unsolved puzzles increased almost 10 folds: some examples are quantum mechanics and its interpretations, what is behind Hilbert space, quantum gravity, supersymmetry, extra dimensions, branes, parallel universes, hologram, holographic principle, simulated hypothesis, anthropic principle, cosmological constant catastrophe, dark energy, dark matter, nature of spacetime - fundamental or emergent, nature of causation, freewill, and roles of consciousness. The real ultimate question that truly pushes the boundary would be: "will all these unsolved puzzles be unified into one?" The anwer is YES and this time round is truly "the end of physics" as all these unsolved puzzles will be unified into the Law of Consciosness - not law of physics. Consciousness is most fundamental and we are all living in a "simulation" through all accessing the same hologram where we each is a universe of multiverse of infinite universes. In this, the law of physics is only self simulated, just like in a game, where each of us generate our gravitons and photons and creating our images for experiences. Quantum mechanics is about co-creation of infinitely many beings and each particle is co-creation of these infinitely many beings. This will see the unification of "physics" into consciousness in string theory. This is the Ultimate Question and Answer.

There is no way to ask that questions. The best you can think is to disconnect from the space time and consciousness. Our mind is designed to process and interact with matter from the same origin.

A chef has a science, so does an actor, plumber, lawyer, farmer. They all ask questions seeking answers. The ultimate question is this: what makes the questions of physics or chemistry or biology applicable to these other questions? Are they fundamentally compatible or is the gap between their perspectives an organizational reality that must be taken into account? In other words is there a principle of organization common to all perspectives, or is there a principle of organization that sorts al perspectives according to its rules: makes each perspective necessarily separate? Can everything in linguistic understanding be reduced to math and vice versa? Or are their perspectives the result of something else, something, as yet,unintelligible?

With the sound turned down, Arthur C. Clarke makes an appearance. 06:28

David David makes sense to me...

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I feel your pain 😉❤️‼️

Math is the natural science of quantity and, i think the harmony might come from how few things there were before there was a multitude of things and the multitude had to grow out of only the first few and the laws of quantity. ... ? The first few would have to be eternally coherent because with no mass there would be no time. So; first eternal coherent mind (truth?) then matter defined... constrained by math. ?

Endless speculations, Well, Q; 'Why am I here' ? A; because You have always been Here, and Now, (ultimate answer) You have Never seen your self, You are the Living, behind the Being. No one have Never seen the Living behind the Being.

What is humanity?

WHY ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY: Gravity/acceleration involves balanced inertia/inertial resistance, as ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. This is consistent WITH F=ma AND E=mc2, as gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. So, inertia/inertial resistance is proportional to (or balanced with/as) gravitational force/energy; as this balances AND unifies ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy AND gravity; as this balances gravity AND inertia. In other words, GRAVITATIONAL force/energy is proportional to (or balanced with/as) inertia/inertial resistance; as ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy IS gravity. Accordingly, gravity/acceleration involves balanced inertia/inertial resistance; as gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. It is proven. Energy has/involves gravity, AND energy has/involves inertia/inertial resistance. "Mass"/energy involves balanced inertia/inertial resistance consistent with/as what is balanced ELECTROMAGNETIC/GRAVITATIONAL force/energy, as ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. By Frank DiMeglio

Nothing is the ultimate answer to everything.

Take five rocks and number them one through five. Which came first, the rocks or the numbers? The rocks are "real" and the numbers are created in our minds. Math can be manipulated to fit any "real" construct, or "unreal" construct. Just because a theory can be described mathematically does not make it true, string theory being one example. (For those who believe in string theory I apologize.) Mathematics can explain nothing.

Possible mathematics, mind, matter.

The Universe is a physio-chemical reaction. To a chemist, reactions are all about the equilibrium. To ask "Why isn't there just nothing?", to a chemist-- is an obscene bias in the equilibrium of that physio-chemical system. In other words to a chemist: it's just as ridiculous to postulate "nothing" as it is to postulate that the Universe is just an endless "something". Further, forget about the something vs nothing debate for a moment; you may ask "Why are there quantum physical laws at all???" The same argument applies as stated above. If you wish to gleam more on this subject I would seriously consider interviewing some prominent chemists, there's at least one or two at every university.

if we would know everything.....we would lose purpose.

Math is a human language and it was created in the human mind, like all other human languages. It is 'real' the way English, Esperanto or Sign Language is 'real' and no more.

The Ultimate question goes like this: ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Why me?

If only we put half as much energy into trying to understand our own evolution here upon this Earth that created and sustains us. (The pretense gets overwhelming sometimes) As if any of us self-serving humans could know everything, yada, yada. {Sorry, guess I'd better give these CTT videos a break.} Considering the state of our society and the world, it all feels like, nothing so much as, looking through the wrong end of the microscope.

What if we are supposed to create a new universe as long as this one exists, and if we fail there will be nothing, and the loop of universes will be broken forever. And thats why our universe sucks so much, cause it was built by amateurs who had no idea whats going on either.

God' Creation-Energy transpose is Matter. Energy is the Inverse of Nothing. Nothing Inverted is Energy(work). Energy inverted is Nothing. Capiche.

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If we knew the true nature of reality we would find a way to screw it up. Better that it remain an unsolvable mystery.

Ultimate Truth... everything is LOVE and you are GOD..our little secret😉💡

The whole universe is conscious and is the source of all reality - the term 'God' is how we refer to this consciousness. The universe decides on the outcomes of every event and brings all things in to being and sustains it by the laws of chance and probability. Everyone has free will to do what they choose in life , but the universe knows everyone's motivations and intentions. The universe is fundamentally nurturing and good and is never vengeful or punishing. However, it allows everyone to lead their lives as they want and eventually either reap the fruits or suffer the consequences of their actions and desires. See: Problacism.com for further information.

Yea and ima math magition 😂😂

Question: Where did Allah come from? Who created Allah ? Answer: The messenger of Allah MOHAMMAD (PBUH) said: Nothing existed but Allah existed only? (Bukhari) Almighty Allah is uncreated. Muslim ulama discussed this topic and concluded that: " Allah is Wajib ul Wojood." It means that there is no way but to believe that He existed always. He is infinite. Their understanding is quite logical and rational. This question indicates a misunderstanding of the nature of Allah. It suggests that Allah is within (or bound by) the universe and that Allah is part of the chain of effect within time -- all of which require a cause. We should be prepared to correct this misunderstanding, and point out that Allah does not require a cause. He is beyond time and and not part of the physical universe, so the second law of hermodynamics (which place a finite limit on the age of the universe) do not gapply to Him. Allah says in His book Holy Qur'an Verily, I am Allah There is no god but I And there is no like Me And what aileth you that ye believe not in Allah, when the messenger calleth you to believe in your Lord ... (Qur'an, 57:8) DR. MOHAMMAD LAEEQUE NADWIm

Laurence, the computers will be made to be 100% conscious and soon. Sooner than you think.

What if our universe is part of a large intelligent organisms single brain cell located inside of the part of their brains neocortex.

Mathematics is just a language describing nature - nothing more I like Sir Penrose and Tagmark as they dare to step out of their boundaries but to think that mathematics is fundamental is laughable. It is equivalent in thinking that mathematics could distribute groceries to every home and money to all grocers without shoppers, sellers, and the marketplace. Thinking mathematics is the most fundamental of nature is the biggest blunder of science. Mathematics is just a language describing nature - ontologically at its deepest level of mechanics. For exmple, everything in quantum mechanics arises from the wave function and the wave function is of Euler's Identity formular of e^iπ+1=0. As Euler has proven that e^iπ = cos(π) + 1 sin(π), physicists have no idea at all what these symbols mean. They are not describing physics but describing consciousness. That's why when come to string theory with many objects like strings, calabi-yau manifolds, branes, extra dimensions, and dualities, physicists are lost. These are objects of consciousness not physics.

The ultimate question today is, "How to end poverty, wars and stop global warming?” After found that, we can ask all kind of questions.

Right now I am more confused that ever. I think more the knowledge less the resolution. More pixelated head. :(

A theory is not a fact, infact many times it is a atheist delusion.

Ultimate question is why are we here?

Ah yes, lawrence kraut-one of my favorite reprobates

Allah/God is the Creator of the universe. He created with purpose and certainly know with fine-tuned mathematical precision of His creations. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 86: إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ الْخَلَّاقُ الْعَلِيمُ Surely your Lord is the Creator of all things, the Knowing." (English - Shakir) - via iQuran Also, Allah/God says in Surah alFurqan verse 2; "He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and who has not taken a son and has not had a partner in dominion and HAS CREATED EACH THING AND DETERMINED IT WITH PRECISE DETERMINATION.". Trans. Sahih International Our universe will certainly end as Allah/God says in His ultimate Book alQuran; Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 85: وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَإِنَّ السَّاعَةَ لَآتِيَةٌ فَاصْفَحِ الصَّفْحَ الْجَمِيلَ And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them two but in truth; and THE HOUR/END IS MOST SURELY COMING, so turn away with kindly forgiveness." (English - Shakir) - via iQuran. This is the certainty truth because all the energy sources of the universe, the stars, will ultimately be burned out! By then the known as universal natural laws and its mathematics will not be applicable. WHEN? ... Allahu a'lam/Only God knows!

Big noses, small hats, huge amounts of BS.

CONSCIOUSNESS AND PROGRAMMING I have a different perspective regarding consciousness. What I have discovered is that basically we are PavlovIan creatures who have been programmed from the moment of conception. All of our life experiences form our reality and view of the world. That means we operate from that position which means our choices are not truly free but predetermined and based on the past. When I made this observation, I connected the dots and changed my life dramatically. Admittedly, this is not easy to do because it means “seeing” how the past determines the present choices. This is particularly true regarding relationship choices. People keep making the same mistakes over and over again because the program is in charge of the choosing. Fortunately, I broke the code and what a difference it has made. No one does anything unless it fills a need. Once the true need is revealed, you are then in a position to make a better choice. The quality of life is achieved by the choices that we make. Then we can focus on mathematics, physics and consciousness.

🗣"even if [we’re] not getting closer", still we persist. Best wishes for persisting in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣.

Better question is "who am I?" The source of our thoughts is pure consciousness. Once we settle into that source, we are all set. No more questions to explore outside of our Self. Self manifests as everything.

I think one key thing missing from all these episodes is to keep in mind that when you ask a question, you also have to define what kind of answer you're willing to accept. What if the meaning of life, the universe, and all that is actually "42"? We wouldn't be satisfied with such an answer, but it might be the actual final truth.

Please interview tom campbell.

He said a computer will become conscious __ It is pathetic to hear this from a thinking being let alone a scientist___A computer will never be conscious in zillion years _It is simply impossible!!! To be conscious = to be alive = LIFE

And his journey's motto is: intrigued but not convinced.

I always think I'm permeable and what it is to be me carries the information into the next time I'm am to arise I ask why 2020

I don't think you need to go beyond the laws of nature as the fundamental bedrock of existence. They don't need an explanation, they just are the ontology. They are also abstract and cannot be destroyed, there's no way to get to them. If you must, that's what God is. Or you could simply say "Nature", instead.