Remember the monoliths in 2001 had dimensions 1x4x9, the squares of the first 3 integers, but the humans were so naive to assume that it stopped there in only 3 dimensions!
You should check in a private window, RU-vid put your comment 3rd to last moving down with new comments. I think it is based on plugins as when I removed my chrome plugins I could comment normally again and then back to the bottom with me you and drosszephyr comment.
Man, this really is my kind of transhumanism. Not putting lasers in your forehead or uploading your mind to the cloud, but ditching your old crappy 3D body and become fourth dimensional, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the world and the universe. That's really cool!
I enjoy the bite sized live stream segments. I also appreciate your philosophical commentary like this. Probably, for me, more enjoyable than most of your builds.
I love listening to your theories. They make so much sense because they are derived from how much you understand the stuff of things and reality and apply it logically to the possibilities. I trust and respect what you say because of your honesty. Thank you Fran.
You may, by that postulate, explain the Fermi paradox. We don't see them because they left this dimension before spreading far enough for us to detect them as beings similar to ourselves. Maybe many have passed through the filters that may destroy them and simply moved on.
An interesting side tangent to the talk of progress 1000+ years ahead of our own is technological stagnation once you reach a certain point of development. Either there's some unforeseen hard limit that can't be broken or is self imposed.
I've thought we could explain modern technology to someone from the early 1900s in terms of impossibly tiny vacuum tubes and relays. Its still electrons and radio. But go back to the steam age, now there's no basis. Looking forward comes down to trying to imagine the next breakthrough in controlling and channeling energy. Humanity's had lightning as the teaser for the electron. Are we missing noticing the next big thing, or does nature obscure it.
We don't even know what we don't know, and don't even have a clue what questions to ask. We will get there though, for better or worse, I am confident of that. Love what you do, Fran. Thanks for all of your hard work :)
The are lots of things we didn't know and lots of questions we didn't know how to ask. But, with the scientific method, eventually those questions were asked and that knowledge was obtained.
Maybe in such long-living civilization they got radically different society... Maybe even their thinking and being are completely different so it's even impossible to understand for us.
7:47 Did you just theoretically explain the scientific possibility of an afterlife... haha what a fun thought experiment before my morning coffee. Always through provoking videos, thanks Fran!
One more bit, imagine taking in to account as a recent prepeer review paper suggests that the universe is not just infinite but infinitely filled. The mind boggles. Put planet Earth on scale to the universe would be to pick one grain of sand off an infinite number of beeches. That thought has done nothing for my ego !
A sufficiently-advanced alien society would be well advised to stay light years ahead of, and *away* from us 🤔🤣😖. Our lack of social advancement as a species should constitute major cause for concern among other more civilized societies, should they exist.
It's true. Tech at some point becomes a meaningless descriptor. At some level all organisms are technology. So we will approach just a state of complete limitless control about every parameter of the universe. A completely different experience of being as well. We are just monkeys who can not even scratch the surface of what that means.
Hi Fran, greetings from Arizona USA. I would like to hear your opinion on Space Junk orbiting our planet. How much is up there? How dangerous is it to future missions ? Is all this Space Junk being tracked by anyone ? And lastly, Is it possible that Space Junk could break up an astroid like a orbital shield? I love your channel and hope you answer my question. Best wishes and positive vibes to you.
I'm no rocket scientist, lets get that straight - and I love your channel Fran. I agree as one thing we as a aspecies are grosslyoverlooking is that we measure an astral body's ability to produce life based on our own circumstance/benchmarks. And that it could quite possibly exist in countless other forms that we cannot comprehend. It's like people debating whether other animals are sentient, or whether insects, or plants - or any other vehicles of medium - feel pain. THese notions are always relative to our holistic and scientific understanding of the world around us. I get that. But to take the animals and insects as an obvious example, we defaulted to the position that they are not sentient and/or don't experinece what we do. That's the part I don't get. We should approach all unknowns/unknowables like mushrooms!❤🙏
We always think of life as we know it, can we not think that out there can be any other life forms that need other physics or elements than here on earth???
Fran, you have such a look of mischief when you play the theremin, especially when you play it by accident. You go off on a tangent if you want girl! Your tangents are interesting.
The question is is there enough heavier elements required to not only allow live to evolve into intelligence, but have the heavier elements to develop electronics and advanced power systems? Gold, platinum, uranium, et al had to be synthesized by super novas AND neutron star collisions to then seed the galaxy with the byproducts only synthesized by those events.
What do people think of that lost city which is 2.5 million years old? The rocks are all cut perfectly with stairs, Some say it is real others say it did from that way on its own and it only looks like that via a trick photo from the right side.
There isn't a lost city that is 2.5m years old. Rocks fracture into rectangular blocks under a wide variety of circumstances. The images that they show in the woo-woo shows of that rock formation are showing tiny little areas from carefully selected angles, in a whole area that is very rectangular. Only by carefully cherry-picking what they show you does it appear there is anything odd there.
It's a lot of unknowns about what the Universe is and how long it has been and will be around. And also if someone is around from the last time the universe ended.
No you weren't off topic Fran. Evolution in essence cannot stop itself. There are no rules, no values, no morality in this space and we have no say. That's what made the mandates so scary, but there is a lot more to come. Your interesting you give soul to this field of science, that's quite rare these days. Lot's of presenters are very good narrators but it won't be the narrators who see the problems nor have the solutions. Stick with it Fran, we all need to be concerned but the problem is growing so fast people have no answers not least keep pace with the problem itself. You hear others raise red flags so none of us are alone, it's just that there are not many of us.
Without saying too much that it is very likely however most wouldn't have survived long enough to have advanced beyond Kardashev type 1 for example while at best those that have survived to current day to either find us or be discovered later would more than likely be type 3. As for ours we are currently .7 to .73 though not doing so well as of the past couple of years.
Please feel free to go off on any tangent you like! It's great and natural for us to ponder the question of life elsewhere and the necessary conditions for it. We need to remember, though, that our frame of reference is currently quite limited. We only know (officially) about life on Earth and we have only recently begun to explore the closest corner of our 'galactic backyard'. We can make some reasonable statements about the existence of beings who are biologically similar to us. Future technology may indeed have less 'fabricatedness' to it. We are already expressing this concept, in our virtual gathering places, games and online apps. How about functioning technology as pure ideas, given agency by our individual and collective consciousness? How about creating conscious machines with which we can communicate via our minds? AI, anyone?
@ 5:38 Fran you describing nanotechnology! Robots the size of bacteria or virus. @ 7:29 Sounds familiar to what's flying around that the u.s military has admitted to 🛸
Something as small as... idk, a living sperm, carrying all the info necessary to build another body - outside and apart from itself - and replicate into a sapient living system capable of studying itself and the universe?
Awesome video. I'm new to your channel. I've seen over 10,000 RU-vid videos mostly about science and technology. I've seen a couple of yours so far and I'd recommend your channel. I've pondered such things for decades. You mention things I haven't thought of before. Like extra dimensional technology/beings. I haven't thought about that much. If true they would be like gods to us. I've had the thought that an advanced civilization would seek wisdom. Depending on that and their technology level they would seed planets like farmers and police their territory bc they know what technology can do in the wrong hands. Idk just a thought. Since the pentagon announced UFOs are real we must consider strange things about our reality and reality.
Check out the Caeliar from Star Trek (books series) they are a species of highly advanced / evolved "catomic" beings that construct all of themselves and their habitats in alternate dimensional pockets... doesn't sound crazy at all Fran
Terence mckenna would like to have a word. Reality is probably so strange that it's gonna be hard to accept it as a person, and even harder to study in a lab. Where does all the light and heat go if they are light speed objects that are affected by relativity? They're timeless objects. Is penrose right about light and heat being a physical object at the end of time?
There will still remain some constants for longer time periods. Let´s take fire for example. And IF the aliens should have managed to control time, other dimensions and whatever, they will probably be able to morse us some message.
We make electronics using photography! 📸 (kindah, sortah, maybe) Molecular nanotechnology we can actually imagine. And that's what it might just be. Also shouldn't forget that the scale of infrastructure of just one solar system is also pretty huge. That said, ⚠ risk of woo is high ⚠ (i wouldn't watch youtube channels that constantly talk about such subjects..) Whereas other dimensions, outside our universe, and that stuff is downright impossible for our theory of physics. If such exist hinges on strange physics being hidden from us somehow..
Take it further Fran....if it keeps evolving what does it have to do..use all the matter and perfectly organize it into a grand scale functioning system...a universe. Spooky action. But yup do we have only 3 dimensions...does the quantum world apply it?
Would you consider the human body to be one of those indescribable machines. Maybe what we think to be organisms. Are themselves are a type of machine that was designed by someone or some thing eons ago
I think not. Evolution shows the pathway from simple elements to complex life. No designer needed. We might someday design a machine for interstellar travel that was intelligent since space is too harsh an environment for moist robots.
Hehe. I love this way of thinking. I only wish to hell I would live to see the god level future unfold, should it unfold. I find it difficult to reconcile myself to having to die.
There are some faulty assumptions here about technology and advancement. People like to look at the past, and the rapid progression of our technology and knowledge, and assume it will continue at the same pace, forever, but there is no basis for believing that. Quite the opposite in fact. Only a little more than a century ago, one of the most intelligent humans of all time finally came up with a working theory for gravity, and it remains our current theory - despite a lot of work trying to fix problems it has with other areas of physics - and there were many examples up until then of individuals making huge leaps forward in our understanding. Nowadays, however, to advance our knowledge of physics it takes years of work from teams of thousands, with machines that cost billions. The point being that there has to be a limit to our understanding, and we are coming up against it in the realm of physics - which is at the forefront of understanding - and there has to a limit to what technology can do too, but we don't know where the limits are. I'm not saying that there won't come a time where our understanding and technology are so advanced that we wouldn't be able to recognise them today, but I _am_ saying that it's possible we are closer to the limits than we think, because there are certain boundaries we simply won't be able to cross, and we don't know where those boundaries are. One of the things I find interesting is that it is always a bad thing, in our stories, when AI takes over. Why is that? We are, in fact, the first creatures on this planet who can take an active role in evolution. We are in the process of creating more advanced beings than ourselves, whether we like it or not. We are told that the first human to live to 150 has already been born, but how do we know that the human mind can survive that long without going insane? We don't, and there might be some limitation that we can't cross when it comes to longevity. The point being that building AI machines which can go on indefinitely - and could travel the stars, and populate other planets, because they could shut down during the voyage - is the future, and we know that it's true, deep down inside, and that's why our stories about advanced machines always have an us versus them aspect. The reality is that the future most likely will have knowledge and technology that we wouldn't recognise today, but won't include us.
Consciousness. How, where, and when it presents. The material combination is irrelevant as long as there is consciousness. Today's yardstick is tomorrow's trash.
Writing is, at most, 10,000 years old. We only really have writing going back 6,000 years. The ability to pass information from generation to generation reliably requires writing. So civilisation is really only 6,000-10000 years old. And we will probably last another 10,000. Not long at all really, but we will have exhausted our natural resources by then.
I think people are arrogant we have basically a very minute amount of knowledge. If what the human race knows were represented by a grain of sand being the whole of human knowledge the amount we don't know would be represented by all the rest of the sand on earth. IMHO carbon based life is probably one of many different life forms. I think the word you are looking for is magic. If a modern human met say Neanderthal man and used a lighter to start s fire they would probably think it's magic. The same would apply to modern humans meeting some being from a class 5 civilization.
i wouldn't be surprise if it turned out that there never was a civilization, anywhere in the universe, that lasted more than a few thousand years, just as has been our experience on earth
Last night. I said. We are 13 billion years old. As you and I. Caught your Channel. Min. Ago after searching c 64 games list and emulator. Becouse we were c64 against Apple + . So. 2012. Min ago. Now here now. 5min late. But ahead of time. Are you married. If not. Would love to discuss a few things over. Coffee. Honade Pizza. Where have you been my whole life. Drummer Hirse trainer c64 buff. Seeks Guitar lessons. Or we could just jam. With the c64 synth. Suzuki sound Trac and Multi track recorder. That was a great machine back in the day.
The concept of years and time are a invention of the human nature. Nothing is less important than time but also time is everything being at the right place at the wrong time makes a difference.
