What if you experienced every human life in history?

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Examine the ethical stance known as longtermism, which is the idea that we should be doing more to protect future generations.
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Imagine that your life began as one of the planet’s first humans. After dying, you're reincarnated as the second human ever to live. You then return as the third person, the fourth, the fifth, and so on - living the lives of every human that’s ever walked the Earth. How will your actions in one life impact your future selves? Explore the ethics of the philosophy known as longtermism.
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@chingamfong Год назад

No better way to start my Tuesday then some classic TED-ED existential crisis.

@Bo_Mia Год назад

Right. I just woke up about 15 minutes ago and this is how I start my day 🗿

@futuristic.handgun Год назад

@@Bo_MiaHaha! Same! 😂

@Frozennplayss Год назад

I'm ending my day. (From the other side of the globe)

@chad1138 Год назад

Me too mate

@Unhinged_Salmon Год назад

Honestly, truth bro

@Edsotto Год назад

Man I animated this video really well, I'd also give a big shoutout to me for narrating this and another shoutout to me for starting TED to share all this wonderful information to myself

@Paul_Bedford Год назад

I agree with myself that I did a good job with my video.

@Zeppelin3000 Год назад

Thanks bro I appreciate it

@Fantastic_Stranger Год назад

@@Zeppelin3000No. I appreciate it better, and I’d like to congratulate myself for appreciating it better.

@Tururu134 Год назад

@@Zeppelin3000 thanks myself i appreciate it

@Waelly17 Год назад

Gj me, we love ourselves very much

@lisapeesalemonsqueezah3241 Год назад

If this were true, imagine how terrifyingly isolating this is. You have only ever talked to yourself. You have only ever been hated by yourself. You have only ever been loved by yourself. Totally alone in this universe.

@meowrkerd4rker_ Год назад

yet such is the experience of god / "the one".

@danieljeslinek3406 Год назад

@@meowrkerd4rker_ And not Just People. Everything IS me. Fractured whole tiny points of interest

@davestylehenry Год назад

I immediately thought of all the horrible deaths you'd have to go through

@eccogenesis7198 Год назад

Maybe God was bored and or lonely existing in the void or within its self since it created the void I guess? Idk either way Maybe because of boredom or loneliness it decided to create other versions of its self to interact with almost like a kid when you make imaginary friends or maybe play with action figures or dolls. Like idk. Existing is weird

@charlesnath1 Год назад

I don`t know, seems all right to me.

@juf9055 11 месяцев назад

This video is so good I watched it 2.2 million times!

@KritarthaDeka-i9w 5 месяцев назад

Underrated Comment

@klymothe 4 месяца назад

make that 2.8 mil

@Gorgonok3 3 месяца назад

Gold

@jawelneeweedik4980 3 месяца назад

Yeah! Me too, oh wait.

@joes-tech 3 месяца назад

Yes, it was so good I watched it a few more million times.

@yyaahhzxc Год назад

There is a similar short story titled "The Egg" by Andy Weir! The story follows along a conversation between you and "God" about all your past lives that you lived, reincarnating every time after you die. It's very philosophical and existential, and it's totally worth reading!

@dawakat08 Год назад

I came down here for this!

@harshitbalaji1019 Год назад

It is basically the Advaita philosophy of Hinduism

@HideFromIt Год назад

Great video about that on Kurzgesagt

@redcoat4348 Год назад

the funny thing is that Weir didnt mean for his story to be philosophical and he had very mechanical thinking going into it.

@deleted-something Год назад

@yaneve_t Год назад

This is the literal explanation of "You are the universe experiencing itself"! I've heard of this idea before, and this really defines it well. I somehow feel assured because in this way, I achieved something and learned the answer I never did in my other lives. Curiosity is killing me.

@kiranthakur8793 Год назад

It is exactly what reality is, if there was nothing other than the universe then we really r universe experiencing itself, we r God, dust, stars, every living and non being, every particle is one , it's like a wave from sea is also sea

@manser-5361 Год назад

This theory is very wrong for a reason.. If you will live my life later after you finish this life, then who tf am I that is living right know?..

@manser-5361 Год назад

And another thing.. this theory is false as I said, but even if it's true you are wrong, some ancient philosophers believed in that theory so this is not your first life knowing about it

@kiranthakur8793 Год назад

@@manser-5361 we all r the same , for example - if we take 2 buckets of water freeze them and made 2 different sculptures, now the sculptures and Ocean seems different but they are same similarly, this universe is Ocean, we r the sculptures made of the water(energy/matter) from Ocean (universe). We r just the universe experiencing itself, we r living in an illusion made by our brain and senses.

@manser-5361 Год назад

@Kiran Thakur Actually the topic of whether the humanity is a part of the Universe that was made by the Universe itself or not, is a religious belief which is wrong in my religion.. In my religion The God created the first human(Adam) and he wasn't created by the universe to experience itself.. But I respect your opinion actually🙃

@Immortal-Daiki Год назад

Existential crisis question: If you were every person in history, does that mean you were lonely for eternity? That's mighty sad

@cyrilio Год назад

While at the same time being with others for eternity.

@WILLed_into_Existence Год назад

We are all God playing pretend. All that exists is consciousness. So by extension there is only one of us here.

@abstract5249 Год назад

@@WILLed_into_Existence If that's the case, why am I me and you, you? Why can't I control you as I control myself?

@WILLed_into_Existence Год назад

@@abstract5249 I am you, and you are me. I just don't remember your life and you don't remember mine. Everything is happening now. You can only experience one life at a time. Everyone you see is you in another life.

@itdenelll Год назад

Definition of living in your own world.

@annepandesal Год назад

ever since reading "the egg" i have thought of this concept. its both comforting and horrifying. how joys and tragedies were created by me, us. we all make an impact on each other however big or small. this made me try to be more understanding, consider that that other person could be me in other circumstance, in another time and place i love this video!

@the_nebulous_nova 7 месяцев назад

i am very late to this, but please know, the channel "kursgesagt" has an animated version

@Raven27120 7 месяцев назад

@@the_nebulous_novayes, it does. Very good watch.

@copbabycombo1311 4 месяца назад

I remember watching kurzegast's (if that's how you type it) video on the egg. I find it so ever-changingly fascinating and I believe there is a lot of truth to it. But weirdly, it has only made me want to be more cruel to others/myself. lol

@sendthis9480 4 месяца назад

The egg? Ehhhhh….. Try “The Future Of Football 17776”

@Ndr316 3 месяца назад

The egg makes me feel like I'm part of humanity more than ever, and that all the people in my close proximity are ones I previously lived and lived well

@lukehick4013 Год назад

The most terrifying thing about this is you would go through every unimaginable torture that have ever been inflicted on every human to ever exist.

@fenny4935 7 месяцев назад

Yeah and you also experienced the life that decided to torture others…

@m.j4819 7 месяцев назад

On the contrary, you will also experience the most pleasurable and blissful moments humans have ever experienced. My question is what comes out after experiencing all there has been experienced?

@LuisCadena-b4k 7 месяцев назад

On the good side you will also be the richest most powerful a couple of times.

@somedude4432 7 месяцев назад

Yeah imagine living as Jeffery dahmer bro

@goofyhatesu2642 7 месяцев назад

For humans, by humans

@SearchOfSelf Год назад

Props to the animators who worked hard and displayed their expertise in creating this astonishing animation. This kind of artistry doesn't come easy, and it's obvious that a lot of time and effort went into crafting this video. A round of applause for the animators for doing a tremendous job!

@yaneve_t Год назад

With my love for art and science, this is one of the best job I dream of 🥲

@SearchOfSelf Год назад

@@yaneve_t We both have the same dream! It is actually incredible to witness how art and science meet, enriching each other's existence. I'm wishing you lots of success on your journey and that you carry out your dreams, combining art and science along the way.

@BurningheartofSILVER Год назад

They took care such care to animate even the *tiniest* of details. Case and point 0:48

@SearchOfSelf Год назад

@@BurningheartofSILVER That's for sure! I work hard, hoping that someday I'd make something as great! I do have some weenies in two of my videos so I'm heading the right direction, I think. 👀

@bernardoohigginsvevo2974 Год назад

The animation looks like any PR art that a company puts out nowadays

@LossztYT Год назад

I hope all the versions of me enjoyed listening to this video that I animated of a concept I invented, using technology I conceived of. Wow. I’ve never felt so… appreciated!!! This is actually powerful stuff

@Wa_llly Год назад

Hey me!

@sollec9279 Год назад

Can't believe I was reading my own comments the whole time.

@Nobody-pp4vr Год назад

I enjoy my own inventions, thanks me!!

@jarivuorinen3878 Год назад

It's like me talking to myself

@owsebilolyr2808 Год назад

I enjoy reading my other comments. Keep it coming

@lemonpoppyseed3169 8 месяцев назад

Well, this changes the meaning of “Treat others the way you would treat yourself.”

@gofai274 3 месяца назад

i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared i am scared

@monsegeek Год назад

Kurzgesagt made a video about this and it triggered one of the biggest existential crisis I've ever had.

@BoolahBoosh Год назад

The EGG

@monsegeek Год назад

@@BoolahBoosh Yes!

@matthewwilliams7011 Год назад

YES

@matthewwilliams7011 Год назад

I prefer that one though :')

@kontex616 Год назад

Just for once in yo life, take a psychedelic mushroom(architect of Life) and watch THE EGG! Itll blow yo mind and feel physically CONNECTED to EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE!

@alyssad990 Год назад

the way i used to believe as a kid that this was what happened after death which actually led me to take "treat others how you want to be treated" crazy seriously. . . inadvertently made me a better person lol

@UwU-ok2jr Год назад

ngl its a good thing to take "treat others how you want to be treated" really seriously. I think it's a healthy way to live it'd get you a lot of friends.

@Hoshimaru57 Год назад

Scientifically speaking reincarnation makes sense according to the laws of thermodynamics. So that’s how I look at it. The cycle of atoms within our closed system says that every human alive will eventually contain a tiny part of every other human who has ever lived.

@mollydion1240 Год назад

I feel u girl, I thought the exact same thing as a child 😅

@orangesnowflake3769 Год назад

I thought something kinda similar but not quite the same as this

@stanloretta92 Год назад

@@Hoshimaru57 Heck, they study children who remember past lives at the University of Virginia. Honestly, out of all afterlife scenarios, reincarnation has the most testable circumstances behind it. Even Carl Sagan thought so. Nature works in cycles, after all.

@VRWarLab Год назад

This was one of my irrational fears as a kid and made me feel a lot of empathy. Maybe too much sometimes. Especially for all the situations where a kid can't really do much like natural disasters.

@ruzgar1372 Год назад

It's interesting how children can have very different ideas of life itself. When I was younger (can't remember the age) my line of thought was: I can't and will never experience this person's life so what's to say that they aren't just an empty vessel, pretending to be the sum of memories and emotions (obviously much more simplified in a kid's mind). Naturally years passed and I'd forgotten about that thought until when I first read Descartes I was reminded of my thoughts about other people's lives, that's where I'd learned about the idea of "Solipsism" It's also weird how as a young person you think you're onto a new and riveling philosophical take yet you learn that it was around centuries earlier.

@MouhibBayounes Год назад

@@ruzgar1372when I was 5 years old I used to think why I am myself and not any other person

@appl3thegr3at64 Год назад

when I was 5, I used to think that why am I here, in this body, in this planet, in this universe?

@pageturner2958 Год назад

@@MouhibBayounes Phew, thought I was the only one

@Kkksksjsjsjsjsjsj Год назад

When I was a kid I would randomly have a realisation that damn, this is indeed my life and be aware of every single thing I’ve done.

@celaine_ 4 месяца назад

I have severe anxiety & I watch these videos to calm myself down when I have anxiety attacks and they always give me something amazing to think about.

@kawag6356 3 месяца назад

Same, I am autistic with adhd and have always had existential dread.

@TheWanderstar Год назад

I had a VERY vivid dream about the same experience, It actually felt like I was living other people's lives

@Bibibosh Год назад

no you didnt. prove it. i dont believe you

@eduardoxenofonte4004 Год назад

@@Bibibosh well if you don't want to believe in it then don't lol

@DB-me7ol Год назад

Even if it isn’t true it sounds like a very interesting thought! I hope I have such dreams too.

@Bibibosh Год назад

@@eduardoxenofonte4004 He only said it because it was relateable to the video. Probably chatGPT told him to say it or gave him the idea. hassan, im sorry if you felt insulted but i can express my freedom of speach. Is that a crime or something? people have beliefs and i have mine!

@JJean64 Год назад

@@Bibibosh troll

@chulainn32 Год назад

I tripped through this entire concept over 20 years ago on a really strong hallucinogenic and the remnants of it has always stayed with me. I must say its crazy to stumble upon this video here today on a wet Monday afternoon :)

@justinhamilton8647 Год назад

these trips are always the best, you come out a bit different on the other side

@chulainn32 Год назад

@@justinhamilton8647 aw for sure. It was the oneness of everything. I seen it all - from my childhood to the universe. Everything was one and the same.

@fizzy_buzz 11 месяцев назад

that must've bene terrifying, but cool at the same time...

@ZxZNebula 8 месяцев назад

That’s me but just a year out of it lol. I believe in like an egg type theory. And also the multiverse so it’s infinite..

@SniperHog0317 7 месяцев назад

It's a Friday for me, and dry. But maybe I already experienced that wet Monday afternoon you mentioned 5 months ago.

@djayjp Год назад

Missed opportunity: to discuss empathy in this context and how that can lead to new ethical values and ways of organizing society.

@noname6756 Год назад

Ig that's the main thing that is focused in this

@georgeuferov1497 Год назад

It will change nothing because you don't remember your previous life

@djayjp Год назад

@@georgeuferov1497 Lol the video is not literal. There is no such thing as past lives, or at least certainly no good reason to believe such is true (as there's zero supporting evidence). The point being that our identity should be extended to include a global community as the birth lottery is random and we should empathize with others and the idea that harming others just means hurting ourselves ultimately. Everything affects everything else.

@ddogthepimp Год назад

@@djayjpempathy has nothing to do with the cosmic egg theory. so theres no point bringing it up.

@djayjp Год назад

@@ddogthepimp I know a fair bit about cosmology and I've never heard of the "cosmic egg theory" lol

@meepruns4636 9 месяцев назад

1:49 i love how this is the most rewatched part

@icedqq 6 месяцев назад

what can i say? its just how i am.

@Dhuxul9 Месяц назад

the reason why we are so successful as a species 😂

@Klinoklaz Год назад

I like how he describes those overwheming crazy things calmly just like he's talking about some avarage person's avarage life

@oofi1 Год назад

cirno

@sushilskolia Год назад

I couldn’t have imagined such a best way of explaining the current situation of humanity.

@arctrix765 Год назад

how old are you, because if you are younger, i hope, that i'll remember me

@slaywithclay Год назад

I’m so glad, I’m not the only person who’s thought about this. What terrified me most is the horrific things we’ve done to each other and how we will or have experienced this in our next or previous lives. Sure there are infinite pleasures and luxuries but with that is also the infinite tragedies, insufferable pains and mutilated existences. But another version I’ve thought about is idea we could also have lived the lives of every life form to have ever existed. Makes you wonder.

@masoudsultani7803 Год назад

You're not the only one. I think exactly the same thing. I didn't used to. But with enough contemplation, anyone would reach the same conclusion.

@GLUBSCHI Год назад

Now that makes me wonder what the combined amount of time experienced by everything that has ever lived on earth would be, if you added up all of those lives what would that come out to? (After a little bit of googling i'd say the grossly overestimated, very upper bound of time that that could be is around 10^38 years)

@wasabebo8334 Год назад

@@masoudsultani7803me too

@MelanieMrtinezfanx12 11 месяцев назад

Omg imagine if I was a cat that would be so strange

@RealBillyFanword 11 месяцев назад

@@MelanieMrtinezfanx12 Imagine if you were Shane Dawson's cat.

@gabiausten8774 Год назад

It’s so beautiful and sad, no wonder love would be the most important in such a world, you’d be all alone, longing for nothing more than love from another being, a love u were only able to give yourself…or not.

@baconlettucepotato69 Год назад

this makes me feel comforted, weirdly. i always worry about the future, how death is inevitable and i worry that i won't make a difference by then. this video made me realize that i've already impacted the world greatly, and will continue to impact it for a large portion of my life.

@amiralkhafagi Год назад

But who is the real human of consciousness

@homelessdishrag5109 Год назад

@@amiralkhafagi everyone, I guess?

@amiralkhafagi Год назад

@@homelessdishrag5109 assuming this theory suggests one consciousness or entity plays the role of humanity it cant be everyone

@ouwyukha Год назад

@@amiralkhafagi everyone, anyone, isone

@amiralkhafagi Год назад

@@ouwyukha assuming this theory suggests one consciousness or entity plays the role of humanity it cant be everyone

@stanleyuchenna4606 Год назад

This video makes me appreciate life and how far we humans have come so far😊

@Zinchidoom Год назад

Verdade Stan Uchiha

@swarangiuttarkar5231 Год назад

Great way to educate people to live life with sustainable practices. As always great animation 💜💜

@BOZ_11 Год назад

How so? This video communicated nothing; no lesson, as such. Merely 5 minutes of a whiny meandering American voice talking about our end, with zero details on what shape it takes or any preventative steps. Complete waste of time.

@waffle8364 Год назад

Or just stop and think about how connected we really are and to be mindful of it. being sustainable is just one aspect of survival but full conscious awareness is something to really consider

@lawrencearabia9007 Год назад

Wow, what a way to complement yourself man

@johnjohnathan1939 Год назад

@@lawrencearabia9007 Thanks, me!

@Jesse-fk3xc Год назад

Or you want to end humanity to put a limit on all the lives you have to live

@purplestar188 Год назад

This is something I was always afraid of since I was a kid. I remember sitting in the dinning hall of my middle school having dinner alone after just starting my 7th grade. I wondered after I die, what if I am reincarnated again. That though of it sent chills straight up my back. The fear of having to experience all the pain of growing up again made me hope never to be reincarnated. But then I wondered if it would even matter because if I were to come to live as another person, my memory would be gone anyway. Perhaps I wouldn’t even call it “me”. It would just be someone else with a consciousness having to deal with this whole shebang again. At the same time, I thought perhaps I had already been reincarnated 1000 times and lived 1000 lives. Those past lives’ pain don’t really matter to me, as I don’t feel the weight of them. It’s not cumulative. If that’s the case, even if there is karma and karma determines if I reincarnate into a pleasurable life or suffering life, perhaps it still doesn’t matter at all-how I live this life and if I live it well or sin.

@Tom-cl1gl 11 месяцев назад

doesnt matter if its culmulative or not, pain is still pain just in the present moment. and theres more pain objectively than pleasure so this concept is hellish to say the least.

@gagangurung5297 8 месяцев назад

if u think samsara is absolute worse the more we reborn the more we suffer from all attachment and fear of dying again and again

@petrospetromixos6962 6 месяцев назад

Live a good life now to experience a more amazing life later

@Eyebleachey 22 дня назад

You could spray paint info only you would understand that way if it happens you know

@frayansertzrave Год назад

This is the greatest "what if" about life. Everything we read on our history makes us say today that we have to be grateful. We also love hearing the life stories and experiences of our grandparents or any older generations. ❤️

@dv9239 Год назад

The greatest what if is what if you are living every life there is that is all the animals and insects along with plants

@prakash_77 Год назад

No words to describe how beautiful this video, the illustrations, animations and the ideas depicted in this video are. Just mind-blowing

@wanderer37 Год назад

This video literally gave me whole different perception on incarnation 😳. Great video.

@NocturnalCoder Год назад

that's not the lession tho 🙄

@honeybloom8533 Год назад

@@NocturnalCoder doesn’t mean they still can’t have a changed perception on things

@metra4835 2 месяца назад

I cried from this. First from the dead kid and mom, then I just kept going. This really hits deep. Thanks TED ED

@lilypad_2137 Год назад

"Be kind to yourself" brings a whole new meaning

@Aezra27 Год назад

From the book What We Owe The Future by William McAskill. A great read; highly recommend it!

@Strike2-9245 Год назад

would recommend!

@why_tho Год назад

'The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity' by Toby Ord

@rollingfire3471 Год назад

This book made me cry ngl

@AnimealPlanet Год назад

If I ever experienced many lives, I either become a Omnipotent and omniscient being or becoming mad after experiencing many lives that make constantly make you forget who you are and what you stand, witnessing death of loved ones and everlasting loneliness and many more.

@AnimealPlanet Год назад

Or experiencing different kind of death and pain that will make you eventually numb... If I can experience this and survive with my sanity intact, I would bevome a god like existence.

@mastershooter64 Год назад

I think you would lose your mind billions of times over and over again

@gracelandtoo6240 Год назад

If you never remember anything from past lives, those experiences can't directlybaffect your current mental state. The only effect your past lives have on you is in the people that are around you, not in your memory of being them.

@AnimealPlanet Год назад

@@gracelandtoo6240 Of course. I just grew excited and commented after reading 1 min of the video. Now, I am watching it again.

@RS-cf6jv Год назад

Until the bitter End.. Until Whatever End..

@Velorant2 Год назад

Experiencing every human life in history would be an extraordinary, if not impossible, feat. The vast diversity of experiences across time and cultures would provide unparalleled insights and perspectives, shaping a profound understanding of the human condition. However, the sheer magnitude of such a task raises questions about the feasibility and the impact on one's identity and consciousness.

@fenny4935 7 месяцев назад

No magnitude would be felt. As with each new life, there are no recollections of the previous.

@kingfairytale4306 7 месяцев назад

@@fenny4935 Except in supposed casses where some individuals claim to remember either their single most previous life or multiple of their most previous lives. Though those people don't seem to have such existential questions about themselves... In fact, they seem rather dissociated with their past lives, almost as if they only really care about their current life, which is understandable.

@YamYugi Год назад

I wish everyone in the planet could watch this , this was truly amazing, thank you

@ShatabdaRoy115 Год назад

hehe pity those us.

@kesler4982 Год назад

I often think about the idea of how individual things represents a whole. Like how a single individual represents the human race, and subsequently life, carbon based organisms, and suddenly we are this huge conscious mass, stuck in space, always reproducing and getting larger, trying to expand, stretching it's reach. From the micro lives inside your body to the macro spectrum of the existence of living.

@EvaintheAlps Год назад

I was worrying or having panic attacks about this topic for a while. I was even scared to watch this video, because in this life I'm such a big baby... But it's, actually- very calming. And it makes me appreciate my life even more, especially the fact that I have time to have bunch of existential crisis while lots of other people are starving, fighting in wars and living thru other horrible things... eh. Live is unfair lottery.

@Daytruin Год назад

a lottery where you always win and always lose, at least in totality. sounds like training for a god.

@Critikal4k 7 месяцев назад

Can i say that everyones expectations would be terrifying, and isolation would be your greatest symbol of peace. Beliefs of everyone would tear you apart.

@sammieimmas289 Год назад

This is the potential truth of life (not only apply to human but also other sentient beings) that I have been thinking about for the last 5 years, and that’s why i am trying my best to be kind to other’s beings as much as I am to myself. 😃🙏

@thebruckler3707 Год назад

It'd be wild to be born as 1 twin, and then hundreds maybe thousands of years later you finally get to be the other twin

@the_real_skateboard 7 месяцев назад

you effectively wait thousands of years to be the strawberry flavored version of yourself🗿🗿🗿

@tqit0210 Год назад

I sometimes find myself wondering about this possibility, and tend to internalize it. I think it truly helps me maintain a constant empathy, and helps me see others as equivalent to myself. This mentality certainly makes it easier to follow the Golden Rule. Most importantly, though, I find it keeps me appreciative of the successes of others and myself, as well as keeping me mindful of my own failures and the history/mistakes that I should avoid repeating.

@NeedMorePlebs Год назад

Except all the lives you live where you are a serial killer and murderer.

@ved955 9 месяцев назад

what golden rule?

@kingfairytale4306 7 месяцев назад

@@ved955 The Golden Rule is essentially, "treat others how you want to be treated". Basically, if you want to be treated like a King/Queen, you should treat others as such. This works in the opposite sense aswell.

@EJCorey-cl5ul 3 месяца назад

Ah, that one time we got rejected from art school…

@OmicronGaming Год назад

This could be why some people with near-death experiences feel themselves in someone else's shoes, someone that they did something to that they regret. Perhaps it was themselves in another life experience.

@Volxzor Год назад

hello omicron

@casesater Год назад

hello omicron

@perceivedvelocity9914 Год назад

I've read a story that uses this concept. It's a interesting thought experiment. The one thing that is not considered in the story that I read or in this video is that we are no different than our ancestors. We have not significantly evolved since our ancestors were hunter gatherers. We were born into a world that has developed interesting technology over time. Our species and our survival instincts have not changed.

@cru3her608 Год назад

but our moral compas has improved immensely

@dangerfly Год назад

@@cru3her608 Our moral advancement hasn't matched our technological advancement at all. Nearly every action we take has a moral component yet our scientific understanding of ethics is abysmal. We're confidently inept.

@cru3her608 Год назад

@@dangerfly but our behavior and instincts are far more moral then ever

@penguinspenguins2376 Год назад

What is the story called?

@karan_jain Год назад

@@penguinspenguins2376 The Egg

@MishelFayad Год назад

It's a very nice, unifying philisophy actually. To see humanity as one person ❤

@Nothingwillworkk 9 месяцев назад

“Treat people how you want to be treated”

@Leron... Год назад

Andy Weir's "The Egg" but posed as a direct question to the audience? Rad.

@Pendragon667 Год назад

Be it Ted, Infographics or Kurzgesagt: i just love those short, informative, animated videos. While they share the same problem - trying to find a compromise of being both entertaining and informative - i just think they are indeed one of the better things that came out of RU-vid.

@user-qe6lk9ul2x Год назад

Agree with you 100%

@calamitaleb247 Год назад

Oh my days... this has literally been a philosophy theory I have had in my head for years... and I thought I was the only one. From as early as I can remember I considered that I won't see what's next until I have lived every life from every perspective. Imagine.... living all of these lives simultaneously.

@sealbeegle9785 Год назад

look up The Egg, by Kurzgesagt. It's this, animated differently, and explained in another way.

@channelname9897 Год назад

What if your other life made this video? 🤔

@maniacobra8103 8 месяцев назад

I also have a theory very close to that, quite impressive to notice that many people think the same way too

@cherpsy3770 7 месяцев назад

damn so if it’s true i’m talking to myself

@vyxinia 7 месяцев назад

sorry I don't quite get this theory. If you're the only person who's ever existed, and you can only reincarnate as the next human by dying, how would there be multiple people all at once? How would you exist at the same time as I?

@fwoop4848 Год назад

Imagine all the absolutely horrible things you’d have to go through in some of the lives. You’ll have to experience the worst pains and torture.

@RUDDYHELL2014 9 месяцев назад

Also be that person inflicting the worst pain and torture 😮

@jasminb7317 Год назад

I was thinking about that as a child, how long would it take to have lived every single (human) life that has ever existed. And how long would it talk to know everything and master all traits.

@alexmartian3972 Год назад

I'm almost sure you don't know what you ate a year ago. Same as you don't know what some (other?) king ate at some point. But that you ate effected your life and lead to this moment, also what that king ate effected the world and subsequently your life. So what's the difference?

@johnparla6252 Год назад

We have exspirenst everything for aternity and aternity will never end 👍

@MedEvil1c Год назад

Imagine that there was one person who has lived every life out there, in other words "the silent passenger" locked in to witness everything the good and the bad of humanity but never allowed to voice their conscious

@maciejgrabowski2228 Год назад

god

@ChillinChicken55 Год назад

Welcome to my life

@athulmohan1831 Год назад

What a precise and deep animation work! The artist deserves a hike.

@doyouunderstandthis Год назад

Imagine how many excruciatingly painful lives you would have to live.

@sarahlovesolives 4 месяца назад

Yeah, but you don't remember any of them so I don't think it would be too bad.

@kawag6356 3 месяца назад

@@sarahlovesolivesbut some people suffer for years in excruciating conditions 🥲

@Rosie-ij3on Год назад

what an interesting concept. My initial thought was how awful that would be knowing what immense suffering many people have gone through and continue to go through in their lives. Reminds me how unbelievably lucky I am to have the life I have 💝

@Jesse-fk3xc Год назад

An unfathomable amount of pain and suffering waits us if it’s true

@atmega16a5 Год назад

@@Jesse-fk3xc The same amount of joy, pleasure and love awaits us. Maybe even more. And what do you eman "if it is true" it is a thought experiment, we will never know what is the meaning and truth of existence. Just try to do better, take care of yourself and others. STAY HYDRATED THIS IS A THREAT.

@solsystem1342 Год назад

@@Jesse-fk3xc and we (as in humanity) have the ability to reduce it

@hibye4469 Год назад

Is muslims actually believe in something similar to this. Basically after everyone dies and we’re at the day of judge,ent where it gets decided weather you go to heaven or not, everyone who ever lived takes a look at ever single persons life and how they lived how they died who they were and what they did. This is basically to teach you that what ever you do now, will never be hidden and to try to make your life as good as possible. And by the way during this we believe that you won’t feel sadness, embarrassment, hate, love, or any other basic human emotion and time will feel much quicker you won’t feel how long or how short it was.

@harshnehara508 Год назад

As I am traveling right now and see countless people around I love how thinking that all of them are me makes one feel more empathetic towards them thinking that it is me who is suffering and also me who can change it. You see younger children and feel that you will be living that life one day and what actions can help make their life a little better. On the other hand you see older ones suffering and feel that you couldn't do much for them in the past which further strengthen the will to do something for the future.

@petrospetromixos6962 6 месяцев назад

i dont think recarnation works that way, that you will live all lives in existance , just the lives this part of soul that you are needs to advance to higher plains,its conscience that reicarnates is different than the others

@petrospetromixos6962 6 месяцев назад

I think each soul reicanrnates the amount of lifes it needs to advance to higher plains

@HellOnWheel Год назад

I can't believe I just made every part of this Ted-Ed video. And I've already watched it thousands of times.

@AlgerianRatt Год назад

This was like the most incredible video I've seen in a very long time. Amazing message, great animation, and, overall, insane. Thanks, TED-Ed!

@harasen_haras5 Год назад

This is fascinating to think about. And if we think of the world like this we've got a whole new way of looking at ethics. Even someone who only cared about themself would have a reason to take other people's experiences into account.

@zelowatch30 Год назад

Are you nuts? This is the scariest thing one can imagine, you must be a bot

@Josh-ee6hj Год назад

I'd probably hate myself a lot less if I was also everyone I've ever hurt and everyone who has ever hurt me. You'd have a total understanding of humanity and probably true inner peace.

@zenonpineska 9 месяцев назад

I had this vision in a deep meditative state, fear came and stopped meditation that time, trying not to think about it so often. This is difficult knowledge.

@linaali6792 Год назад

I am from Syria and I am 21 and already experienced every possible thing you can imagine so I could relate to this video because I noticed that after I moved to Europe, I appreciate every single detail of life and try my best to leave a good impact on earth and nature ❤

@sarabk13 Год назад

I don't usually reply to strangers' comments on the internet, but I just wanted to wish you a life full of happiness. I'm glad you're somewhere safe now.

@mharis8726 Год назад

@@sarabk13 You don't need to move to Europe to appreciate life. All you need is a appreciating heart. And the thing you said about leaving a positive impact does not actually mean anything, rather it's an attempt to satisfy your heart from all those questions you cant answer. This video breaks down as "dont worry about anything keep living the life of bots and do not think too much. And above all trust 'Science' ."

@RAMBO14001 Год назад

حليكي قوية اختاه

@adamalmalki7903 Год назад

then u must watch the movie : "the swimmers"

@bellezavudd Год назад

@@mharis8726 Apparently you didn't watch the last minute of the video. Its clear that scientific creations can be disasturous.

@Iloveterrorisim Год назад

It’s crazy that I’ve watched this video 1.8 million times

@patriautism Год назад

That sounds like a nightmare. Every horrible way someone has been murdered will happen to everyone!

@mill2712 Год назад

Though I could also be the world's greatest detective and spy.

@TheSpinkels Год назад

Good thing is you'll literally never experience any of it! Since you recall nothing of any of your previous lives, you'll effectively just teleport to the end of the universe as the last living thing ever to exist. Unless by some rule intrinsic to your off-brand immortality you suddenly regain all memories at the end, it's honestly almost a shittier deal than just having the one life.

@steventhefan Год назад

It would almost suggest that free will isn’t a thing. With how it’s phrased, each time I die I become the person who was born just after me. Meaning I’ve already lived as everyone older than me, and I have yet to live as anyone younger than me. But since I’m living right now c I’m im aware of the choices younger people (around me at least) have done or rather choice I will do in my next lives. I won’t remember making those choices when it’s time for ME to make them, but this isn’t time travel, everything is set in stone.

@vishnupriya.k.p. Год назад

It's so amazing how we have more impact than how much our older generations had

@Mansory811 Год назад

What let you think you have more impact than your grandfather?

@gabrielsantosbastos5257 Год назад

@@Mansory811 i think it's a joke

@Mansory811 Год назад

@@gabrielsantosbastos5257 if it is, in what way would that be funny tho?

@gabrielsantosbastos5257 Год назад

@@Mansory811 sarcasm

@zrozadxz Год назад

@@gabrielsantosbastos5257 its noy funny lol

@cosmicfails2053 Год назад

This reminds me of a conversation I had with my father about determinism Basically we were discussing whether or not our actions are of our own choices, whether or not we have control over our own lives etc And I more or less said that, we don't. Or rather, *We* dont have control over *our* own lives. But rather, we have control over the lives of other, which in turn means that others have control over our lives. Our actions may be the results of the actions of others, but in turn, our actions can influence the actions of others, and while we may be narrowed down to only few choices and options, its those small shifts we make that can change our own lives by changing other peoples lives, who in turn, change ours.

@86Miguelisimo Год назад

Like the butterfly effect

@TauandPi Год назад

As soon as I saw the title, the first thing that came to my mind was the book 'What we owe the future' by William MacAskill and the video was indeed about that. Great book, definitely worth reading

@LinkingYellow 3 месяца назад

I remember imagining a simple version of this concept when I was 6 years old. My general takeaway was that I should always treat others the way I want to be treated, as that might have been a previous me, or it might be me one day in the future. I don't believe it anymore, but I think the thought experiment helped influence me to be a better person

@Ad_Astra2023 Год назад

If this is true and every one of us knew this was happening, we might be kinder for each other as we understand exactly what they as I went through.

@njmddn Год назад

Prospective gf: Soo, how long do you last? Me: the answer to your question is at 1:47

@aru1814 Год назад

This gives me a good lesson for today. For every action we did on yesterday, we might think how it will affect our day in present time, and we might worry about it will change our future. Aside from what reality might be come, it is better to do some action on now that hopefully will tackle our past failure, and embrace the next future.

@Imagummybearpop 11 месяцев назад

I ALWAYS think this. It does seem to extend your empathy massively, even if sub-conscious. But it also sickens me, every single person...that means in one life I torture animals, in one life I am held hostage with chains or in a box. I have to experience the worst thing to ever happen and live whole lifetimes of misery, pain, and crisis. There are good parts, sure, but I'm mostly bored... God it ruins me!

@NathanStern-e5h 11 месяцев назад

yup. But that's why I like the idea of Karmic bondage. if you are good to people in this life then im sure you are already over most of the lives that were painful to live assuming this also transcends time of course

@artrip Год назад

This reminded me of the video from Kurzgesagt called the egg. I really love this concept thank you for sharing this ❤

@thedeepermystery Год назад

It's based on the short story by andy weir, great stuff 🙂

@artrip Год назад

@@thedeepermystery wow I did not know that. Thanks for sharing 🥰

@Alex-rg5yb Год назад

The title of the video reminds me of the Andy Weir book "The Egg". It's a very short read, but very good!

@bigboibebop Год назад

This mindset would do a lot to help people stuck in the selfish mindset that “only their lives matter”. if you got them thinking “well, maybe *all lives* could be you’re lives. You wouldn’t want to screw up the rest of them, would you?” They’d probably change their tune.

@hongsonnguyen8204 7 месяцев назад

But if you keep it to your self to alway being nice, you would end up depressing

@adamhaney1048 7 месяцев назад

@@hongsonnguyen8204why would u always be nice if it makes u depressed tho

@cepe1 3 месяца назад

I absolutely felt something every time you said "you" or "your life"

@AegisAuras Год назад

When you get into the more philosophical and spiritual communities, all consciousness is understood as one entity merely pretending to be separated in order to learn from the experience. I am the one writing this comment and all those reading it as well, but my consciousness is spread across multiple forms simultaneously. We are all humanity and have/will experience every event of every life. Eventually, at higher states of consciousness/evolution, all the memories of those lives will be available to us, all the knowledge of humanity and more in one entity. Evolution continues beyond that point as well.

@yathavadi Год назад

What a tragedy. I would be in excruciating pain if I could recall everything from my prior life. Why am I compelled to live a life that will end so soon? But thankfully, I have amenesia. 🙃

@nerdlingeeksly5192 Год назад

Now imagine if you could remember everything.

@marcantiojo7703 Год назад

You either become god or go insane

@Valgyan 4 месяца назад

This concept is the most terrifying thing to me.

@amdma2003 Год назад

I've been looking for a video like for for years! A brief timeline of human history and our achievements, discoveries, and hardships. Would like to find a longer and more thorough version. Disappointed to realize I'll be living an ordinary life 😞

@youknowwho8271 Год назад

You Either Die A Hero Or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain.

@NowNormal Год назад

Both, by logic of the video

@KnightsofGaming2016 Год назад

I know this is video is hypothetical, but this really makes me wanna change my life and make it more interesting instead of just living a boring life. Thanks TED-Ed!

@andrewhaler3215 5 месяцев назад

Why is this comment section so pessimistic? Yes you go through all the horrible struggles of humanity, but you also expire every instant of pleasure, joy, love that a persons life offers.

@Tamizushi Год назад

I had a similar thought experiment when I was a teenager. In my thought experiment though, I lived through the life of every sentient creatures and not necessarily in chronological order. I also sometimes find it useful to do the opposite thought experiment: to think of my past self or my future self in this life as another person. "Would it be mean toward 10 year older me if I made this choice?"

@Daytruin Год назад

literally my thoughts despite what i have known. I've thought many iterations of this idea too. Might explain why at a young age i felt everything had feelings even inanimate objects. I always felt it was a waste if i did not finish a meal or felt guilt being wasteful in general. i've always felt older than i am but can't place my finger on it. I intuitively know things that are not taught to me yet at the same time can't explain , it just feels like i've lived before, i every so often have memories that are likely just imagination but i always wonder if they are dreams from a past life or just dreams. i still admit it all is silly, but at the same time keep it in the back of my mind, because i can't help but think there is some truth. An idea i toy around with is that maybe we are all part of a being like a god, and that god separated themselves many times to the point of attempted destruction, only to be brought to life again as many beings and destined to be again reformed. I don't truly believe these things, but i can't help but think the what if as humans often do.

@cjtimmons5498 Год назад

1:49 thats good.

@AllAboutHistory76 6 месяцев назад

This is still my favorite video! It must’ve taken forever to finish between the animation, the music, and the research.

@mylonoceda Год назад

I have always thought about what it would be like to live someone else's life and how the universe would be have I never existed in it. I admit that I still don't have answers to those questions, but to me both phenomena are tempting and frightening at the same time.

@skymaster0yt Год назад

0:47 why did they have to include the D

@El_Fran38 Год назад

They just had the time and money to animate a complete render of some dudes dingaling post editing process

@eunuchoftheimperialcore7965 7 месяцев назад

because they aren't neurotic prudes

@MuffinDaMoose 4 месяца назад

And the jiggle too💀

@redfox4561 Год назад

I've thought of this exact thing many times and it both fills me with horror and hope at the same time...very weird concept to think about.

@lenthehen9290 Год назад

I am you. or are you me?

@DankMoreLifeee 4 месяца назад

i think about this all the time. i am somehow convinced this is the key to existence, but this scares me because i know for a fact there are thousands of lives worse than death. not just humans but animals as well. i don’t know

@ShAd0w0100 7 месяцев назад

I've had this same thought. Horrifies me when I realize that I'll have to live the life of every person who was severely tortured...

@deuterium4.028 Год назад

I just thought about my mom and how the life in her body is the same that is in my body just at a different point and for some reason it filled me with so much empathy and like very vivid warm emotions, I really kinda wish this was true, because it would make it so much easier to love people. or am I just a tad bit narcissistic ?

@sasha_l Год назад

For anyone that reads this: Imagine your pure consciousness. You’ve just done everything you could possibly think of, so what else could you do? You start dreaming of course. And whats the best dream? The strongest experience is when your convinced its real. So you end up creating “space” and experience all life as if that individual is all you are. ❤

@doyouguysnothavephones8967 Год назад

Wow this was such a beautiful and powerful video.

@JadeLwoj Год назад

I think I remember a Tumblr story from a long time ago about this concept. It was beautifully written and I ended up crying about it. About how you are every life and every life was you. How you treated everyone and how they treated you was just...how you treated yourself. And the end, the cumulative experiences and lives and emotions create a being that is God.

@Lance0 Год назад

google Andy Weir's "The Egg"

@SuperSonic-9999 11 месяцев назад

Tha sounds like abunch of baloney

@thepursuiterer Год назад

This reminds me of the main issue tackled in Children of Dune, although in there the children can remember their ancestors’ lives and feel the weight of all of their ideas and desires. Nonetheless it’s an interesting thought