I've read all the Cosmere works, and this was still very helpful at helping me understand these realms. I had to go back and rewatch a few parts, because this is one of Brandon's more complex parts of his books.
That makes sense, though I think the player is more like the God Beyond - outside the actual world of the game but still influencing the workings within it.
I'd argue for switching the code vs electricity metaphor for the spiritual realm being code and the coginitive realm being electricity or something else. The emperors soul and Mistborn both have magic systems which cause changes to the spiritual manifestation of something to affect its physical interpretation. Hemalurgy lets you basically steal parts of someone else's spirit web (I think thats how it works at least) and attach it to someone else's to steal powers or attributes from them. That affects what you can do, and how your body works with constructs like koloss. The emperors soul has forging, which uses stamps to dictate changes to an objects history to affect how it manifests physically. These both seem like changing the spiritual form of something affects its physical and cognitive form. In addition, stormlight healing heals your body to what it spiritually thinks it is, not cognitively, and Bondsmiths can affect how stormlight flows by causing spiritual changes to connection, like Ishar bonding a radiant's body to the ground so the stormlight thinks the earth is part of its body
Not exactly. Consider what happens when a soulstamp is broken or removed - the piece reverts back to its original form, because its spirit knows what it's supposed to be. Similarly with stormlight healing: Kal's brands don't heal until he no longer considers them as part of himself - his cognitive view was overriding the spiritual in attempting to heal the physical. Hemalurgy is messy because it does steal chunks of spiritweb, which forces change to the cognitive and physical, and removal of the spikes doesn't necessarily revert that change.
Hey, nice video and channel. The analogy has its merits and it I really like it but I'd add a few things. The spiritual analogue with electricity is a bit trickier cause there you'd need every electron that represents something in the physical to "know", independently from the others (if that even makes sense given that spirtual realm is both time and space independent), exactly and perfectly (like in and idealistic sense) what they are. Also the code being the cognitive would mean that interface that you play could also change the code so is more like a symbiotic code that can rewrite itself, or be forced to by other bits (haha). Also, Shadesmar is the name given to the cognitive realm by Rosharians. I mean, you are not wrong as you can call it that: Same way you could say that an apple is called an apple but I would call it a manzana. Cheers!
even if people found out exactly how far away the planets of the cosmere are, it probably wouldn't matter to much to the cognitive realm, because humans can't comprehend such MASSIVE distances.
To quote a wiser man than I: "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
Sel dor analogy: If you make a game that is incredibly hard to hack, mod, glitch etc, the resulting hardware (cognitive realm) will be complex and dangerous to touch, because of all the antivirus-implementations and similar.
I love your videos. I would love it even more if you mimicked AltShiftX's video style to explain things like the Cosmere and the different books and characters. Have you watched his videos? A lot of work goes into them, but they are hugely helpful in following the Game of Thrones TV show and books.
My take on realmic theory is that the phsyical realm is comparable to our real world, baseline observable reality. The cognitive realm is a reflective of Carl Jung's idea of the collective unconscious, a "place" where shared ideas and ideas "come from" basically explaining how/why so many cultures have similar symbols and stories. And the spiritual realm corresponds with Plato's world of forms, wherein non-physical Forms represent the most real and true version of reality, basically every physical object is an imitation, or flawed representation of its Platonic Form.
I totally agree about the Cognitive Realm and Platonic forms, but I'm not familiar enough with Jung's collective unconscious. I'm planning a "Philosophy of the Cosmere" video at some point, highlighting real-world ideas that are the basis for in-world metaphysics, so I'll definitely check it out!
Since the spiritual realm is where the ideals live, wouldnt it be something like: Physical Realm: the game application Cognitive Realm: the code that is running in the game Spiritual Realm: where class definitions, global variables and preprocessed information is stored
Does poop have a cognitive/spiritual image? If that is the case, when does it gain it, inside the intestine or when it is expelled? Questions that can keep you up at night. Love your videos!
Nice analogy! I would've thought that the spiritual aspect, rather than being the electricity, would have been represented by the player. Although, that makes it a bit concerning if Bowser should ever get hold of Nightblood...
I dunno; Bowser seems like the kind of guy who would want to actually use Nightblood, and so would end up getting stabbed through the chest by the scabbard.
Probably for the better, given the alternative ;) Although, now that we're talking Cosmere powers in video games, I can't help but feel like the Master Sword in The Legend of Zelda is somewhat similar to a type IV awakened entity and an honorblade. It is sentient (Fi, Skyward Sword), literally a shard of a goddess (Hylia), and grants access to special magic (time travel, OoT)... It'll never happen, but I may dream of crossovers all the same :) Makes you wonder, where else could we find links like this?
By all means, go ahead! One more example, a world that I feel would have fit right in with the rest of the Cosmere, is the universe from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, it feels like that magic system has proto-Brandon written all over it.
Another good video. Any plans in the future of a higher quality camera? Enjoying the content, but the video quality is a tad low for modern standards. In the end though,the quality content will keep me coming back!
@@TheCosmerenaut it would be quite funny if they were tiny and annoying. But, Sanderson is great at foreshadowing, even from the first book. I'm sure the future books will answer this. PS, these videos really help to contextualise the Cosmere, especially to less versed readers. Great work 👍
Interestingly, no it's not! If it were the Spiritual Realm, ascended Shards would be about to see into it to a point, which we've seen that they can't. The Beyond is either the afterlife, or simply non-being, depending on who you ask in the Cosmere.
This is the 10th time I’ve watched this hahaha, I’m still a bit confused as to why “Vasher” and “Raoden” means “cheating” 2:53 I’ve read all the books but can’t figure it out •_•
Yeah, I ended up shifting the organization of this video midway through editing, so it became a lot choppier than I wanted. I'll make sure my future videos are better. Thanks!
