Yikes. This goes beyond “correlation does not equal causation”, this is just straight up “fiction does not dictate reality”. That dude took the innate human drive to find patterns and dove dangerously far off the deep end with it. The Perry coincidence is a hilarious and happy one, but that’s all it is-a coincidence.
You could maybe argue that we would never have cared to notice if not for a teal platypus being buried in our subconscious. Not to say that Dan created the platypus, but I'd be on board with crediting him for the reason world at large discovered it
@@shalimarlake7852 That's exactly it, if it weren't a coincidence then he wouldn't have noticed. Ignore all the times coincidences don't happen and suddenly it seems like coincidences are more than coincidences.
Well, this is also mostly a bit / a joke that Dan is perpetuating in a list of stuff he finds amusing. The show itself carries that sort of trope. Nothing to get all serious about 👌
@Amelia Fathiyah EN Vtuber Most of the pioneers of early psychology were hacks, but that doesn't mean their concepts aren't useful, even if not in the way they thought said ideas would be. In this case, collective unconsciousness in actual psychology is a term for the collection of memes deeply embedded into a family of cultures, such as common story themes, character archetypes, or moral messages. Though the psuedoscientific magic shared mind concept Jung envisioned has no basis in reality as we currently understand it, the abstract form of some of his concepts are nonetheless useful for understanding ourselves and society, and the same goes for most early psychologists people actually remember.
@Amelia Fathiyah EN Vtuber Jung was the opposite of a cultist. He left left Freud's circle when he realized Freud t be a hypocrite barking up the wrong trees. This fool in the video just doesn't know what he was talking about. Jung was a pioneer and an explorer of the memes of the past thousand years. The collective unconscious is all the cultural and historical knowledge we've developed. Books and movies are part of the collective unconscious, which contribute to our of stories about and perspectives on reality as cultures. We in the Eest have a rather different collective unconscious from many in the East because we have such different ways and stories, so have a different stock of common experiences to relate to. And yet we are still many of us subconsciously aware of some concepts from the East that have permitted through the global collective subconscious into our culture's.
@@blackbeltofmurphy8451 the reality-reshape-inator. Not the hot-dog-reshape-inator, that was really just.... yeah, that was a terrible idea honestly, we don't know what he was thinking with that one, I mean, all the hot dogs just ended up looking like little.... little lumps of hot dog based substance shaped like the state of Arkansas. Just little... Arkansas-shaped meat extrusions... meaty slabs in the shape of the 25th state in the union... a very unflattering portrait of the toothpick state rendered entirely out of würstchen. A geographically inclined pork concoction containing no more than twenty percent mechanically separated pork-sorry, I'm just belaboring the point now. You know, he's not even sure how that happened honestly, they were supposed to come out looking like Oklahoma. Arkansas and Oklahoma look nothing alike. And he doesn't really know what he's supposed to do with all of these Arkansas-shaped hot dogs, they're just sort of lying around now, all over the place, and you trip over them when you're trying to go to the bathroom at 3 in the morning, you know, when you're half asleep and everything is sort of fuzzy... Anyway, Perry the platypus, now that you've walked right into his trap, you can watch from inside this giant Arkansas-shaped hot dog (that he made from the remains of the smaller Arkansas-shaped hot dogs that had invaded his workspace) while he reshapes the very fabric of the ENTIRE TRI STATE AREA! ...And this time, *not* in the shape of Arkansas! He knows because he already tested it on a miniature scale model of the ENTIRE TRI STATE AREA!
I would have gone with Dan tapping into the vast pool of unconscious knowledge from the universe and subconsciously realizing that Platypuses are green. But still, ending world hunger sounds nice.
This would be the kind of thing to happen to Doofenschmirtz: unknowingly make a breakthrough invention and then waste it on something irrelevant. Heck, I believe it actually happened to him AT LEAST once
The all-you-can-eat-inator would probably qualify. He made it to use on people to make them eat the all you can eat buffets out of business, so he could make his own buffet and be the only one in the Tri State Area. He literally tells some guy in a restaurant how it speeds up your metabolism so you can eat as much as you want and still stay skinny. The guy's like, "You should mass produce that. You'd be a millionaire!" And Doof's like "That's a ridiculous idea."
Would the Universal Delete Button (or whatever that thing was called, it was from the episode with aglets) count? He'd be able to change anything about reality, and nobody, except the people who don't care about said thing, would notice. He could probably even make everyone forget Roger was elected mayor, including Roger himself, allowing him to take over the Tri-State Area. But he wasted it when he tripped, making everybody, except Candace, forget about aglets.
For people who didn't quite get what the British guy said: Basically, he's claiming that if enough people believe something then it becomes a reality, and that them (Plato people as major monogram calls them) having a teal tint isn't a coincidence. Basically he's using a coincidence as "proof" or "evidence" of something that honestly has no proof or evidence to support it. Edit: basically what I'm saying is "TL;DR he's kinda dumb lol"
yeah, also a really massive misunderstanding of reality. reality is constructed within the brain, yes. but NOT in the way the guy is saying. he's saying that reality in the object sense can be warped by our beliefs, which is delusional and psuedoscientific. complete and utter misunderstanding of nueroscience, psychology, post-modern and metaphysical philiosophy as well as just pure cult-like mumbo jumbo. tl;dr the platypus didn't magically turn teal because of phineas and ferb.
So, there is some evidence that human perception can alter the universe around us (quantum particles if i have the name right). The general basis for those types of theories is that. Just that. One particle at a time. Even if the theory is correct, there is no way it could have made such a major change so quickly. Now, perhaps if they didnt already glow teal green, and over the course of the next hundred thousand years or so (because P&F will definitely still be watched for all that time) then perhaps human perception would have changed it (if thats even how it works in the first place).
Honestly possessing a power like that and using it on making platypuses glow a certain color under UV just sounds like the most Doofenshmirtz thing you could do
So, some small context that makes all this seem a little less fantastical: One, green florescence is actually one of (if not the most) common forms of fluorescence found in nature. Most other colors of fluorescence are found either underwater, or in plants as signals to pollinating species. Two, of the terrestrial species that do fluoresce, they often live in low latitude or highly arid climates, where sun exposure is intense. And three, Green fluorescence was also found among the fur of all the Platypus' closest relatives, meaning it's likely an adaptation that has been around since before they diverged into separate species, thus long before Perry the Platypus was first conceived as Green by Dan Povenmire. It's more likely that they have just adapted green fluorescent proteins as a means of helping mitigate intense sun exposure as many species of Scorpion also have done. The whole idea of our minds directly shaping the universe around us seems a little far-fetched to me, since our thoughts are derived from our experience of the universe. If the universe were also affected by our conceptions of it, then surely if enough people believed that the universe couldn't be affected by their perception of it, then by the rules of said theory, the universe must make itself no longer susceptible to changing by people thinking of it. How can something that is defined by something else, define itself to no longer be defined by that thing? Either the universe doesn't have the ability to change according to people's consciousness, or it doesn't have the power the change itself according to certain subsets of human consciousness, which just leads to endless philosophical debate over why some people's perceptions of the universe where others don't when in theory the weight of each person's consciousness should be equal. Regarding Perry the Platypus, the people who think of Perry when they think of a platypus is roughly the same size as the amount of people who believe that homeopathy and other alternative medicine practices work, so if this theory were true, there would be far more evidence of alternative medicine being just as or in some cases even more effective than placebos, but alternative medicine rarely shows itself to be more effective than placebo treatments (which is strange because far more people believe that placebos work, so in theory, placebo treatments should also be much stronger than alternative medicine if this worked on anything larger than an individual level). I'm not saying that there isn't something special about our consciousness (as that's one of the great things that we know we can't prove anything about while mortal), just that the particular theory of consciousness shaping the universe directly can't be self-consistent while also having the universe appear as it is currently. This whole debate seems to exist in the absence of the framework of Alder's razor.
@@solar0wind Alder's razor is also known under the rather grandiose (and understandably more annoying) term of "Newton's Flaming Laser Sword" by Alder. It's basically the idea than any statement that cannot be proven experimentally or logically is not even worth entertaining. It's basically an extension of the concept of falsifiability. Unless I'm completely misunderstanding it, Alder's razor states that we shouldn't even debate any proposition that doesn't have consequences that can be tested to a compelling degree.
@@Aderon Oh that's interesting. Thank you. And it's exactly how I approach my mum's Telegram doomsday scenarios, like the "Great Reset" by either Bill Gates, Soros, or the WHO, and other stuff. _Maybe_ a little bit of the stuff she claims is true (most definitely isn't), but as long as I don't have proper evidence for that, I don't want to lose sleep and feel bad because of stuff like this, so I'll ignore it.
I'd still call it a coincidence because, as the other commenters say, there's still no baby with a triangle-shaped head. Lol. But that's such an interesting theory. And you're right; we'll see if one day platypuses start wearing a fedora and attacking scientists. Haha.
too many people think babies can't be born with triangle head, the platypus thing only works cuz not too many people think about platypuses outside Phineas and Ferb
@@sparshjohri1109 Who’s been messing up everything? It’s been Doofenshmirtz all along! Who’s been pulling every evil string? It’s been Doofenshmirtz all along!
too many people think babies can't be born with triangle head, the platypus thing only works cuz not too many people think about platypuses outside Phineas and Ferb
The argument against this is fairly easy: if this was the way the world worked, then it would happen all the time and wouldn't have been noteworthy or a surprise. People notice coincidences because they are unusual.
I love how Dan acknowledges that him using his reality-bending powers to make platypuses teal-green and alter nothing else is something he would possibly do
If any of that was legit, Downey would really be Iron Man by now, suits and all, genius intellect and giant company He's already rich but I doubt he's reached Billionaire status
I've been rewatching Phineas and Ferb recently and the music is so good. I was wondering if there is a compendium of sheet music for the show because I want to learn how to play a bunch of these songs.
I wish that all of the songs were published separately in a mega album so that I could listen to them without the characters talking over them or Doof’s machine end them abruptly
Most of them are actually not too hard to figure out. The chords are pretty easy to pick up, because generally the songs were written under time crunches very quickly.
@@paul16451 the only issue with that is I can't play chords. I can't play guitar, but I can play bass decently well or so I'd like to think. Its also just nice to have sheet music so I can mess around with it on a bunch of different instruments.
The theory is cute, but I wonder why a few million kids can turn platypuses green simply by thinking of a character for a few minutes at a time whereas the entirety of humanity for thousands of years can’t end suffering and tragedy by wishing desperately for it to end
@@zapkidproductions well, apparently not everyone needs to be on the exact same page for reality to shift. Surely not everyone who’s ever existed has seen Phineas and Ferb, but according to this guy the people who have seen it were enough to turn platypuses green.
@@zapkidproductions I also don’t think you’re correct. Wanting to end suffering doesn’t mean you have the power to do so. Besides, I’m sure everyone at some point has at least wished some tragedy would go away.
I am 100% certain people didn’t just “think” that color onto a platypus. It’s been there way before even Mr.Povenmire was born, and well before the show was created.
@@zapkidproductions you mean to cite one of the most refuted ideas about quantum mechanics? What next? Crystals have magical aura energy that causes healing? You sort of people disgust me
@@thenerdyanarchist3492 It’s more that it’s a misunderstanding rather than a whole cloth falsehood. Observation does change the outcome in experiments regarding quantum mechanics, but that’s because the equipment used for observation interacts with what’s being observed.
Consciousness informs reality, but it does not create it. Most English speaking people can’t differentiate blue from cyan, since they’re considered shades of the same color, yet Russian speakers can easily do it, since their language considers them both different distinct hues. Different time periods and cultures have had múltiple widely distinct gender systems, gender roles and beauty standards that informed the way they viewed people, their role in society and how aesthetically pleasing they are.
@@eddie-roo an interesting phenomenon that pertains to how language affects the human psyche. Not quantum physics. Still an interesting and under appreciated idea nonetheless
I think it's a coincidence, or the possibility of sub consciously knowing. Otherwise the recipes for mice would have definitely worked to make more instead of attracting them. Also breadcrusts probably would be the most nutritious part
Ngl, when I first heard about this 'Platypus being green under black light' thing I thought that's already known for longer and that's why Perry is green.
One of the only people I’ve found that can go all the way from dimensional and reality changing conversation and still be just as funny as getting the actors to sing a song that was actually my wedding song. . You’re a true entertainer and at 28 years old all three of my children, my wife and I all still watch phineas and ferb quite often. Thanks for all the boredom and time you’ve killed for all of us over the years
if Dan can do that I'm pretty sure we also manifested Dr. Doof into reality because he has the power to bend reality but ultimately it just made platypuses teal green under uv light. something Doof does with his powerful -inators that just outrights fails or do something insignificant 🤣
Ah, yes, the two options: 1. Present an outlandish theory that, if real, would've resulted in the distortion of space and time itself, or, 2. Just a coincidence. _One of these is not like the other_
You know dan i just happened to pass your vid of the tri-stone episode, first it's a piece of art, wonderful like any of your achievements, second you were/are/still and always look beautiful.
Wielding your massive power to influence a lot of people's mind that can bend reality so that it makes platypus green sounds just like something Doofenshmirtz would do.
To be honest Dan, me and my girlfriend were watching the Aglet episode last night and we realised you and Swampy are single-handedly responsible for anyone in the world knowing what the end of a shoelace is called
The funny thing is, I was watching Doof turn Johnny into the ape lizard thing and I get a notification… Dan Povenmire “Did I do that?” And I was like “Yes, yes you did”
Steven Spielberg also has this power. In Jurassic Park, Spielberg changed how big the Velociraptors were. Velociraptors grew to the size of a turkey. Because killer turkeys are scary enough, they were changed to the 6 foot tall Death Incarnate we saw. Right as Jurassic Park hit theaters, scientists found a dinosaur matching the film depiction of a Velociraptor in Utah, dubbed the Utah Raptor.
Some people really think coincidences are so unbelievable, they'll believe any impossible nonsense before they can accept the idea that something was just a crazy coincidence
You had phenomenal, reality-warping power and you wasted it on platypi!? *_CURSE YOU, DAN POVENMIIIIIRE!!!!_* (seriously, though, this whole set of circumstances was just hilarious. XD) (also my Doofenshmirtz impression needs a _lot_ of work.)
