What is NOT Random? 

Michael Stevens will not become you.

Or is it?..........

MY LIFE GOAL TO BECOME VSAUCE NOOOOOO

I AM Michael Stevens

Michael Stevens NO NO NO YOU ARE NOT DONT LIE TO ME THAT MAN IS A GOD YOU CANT JUST JOKE ABOUT THAT

Lollolo

Yeah that would be nicw

I'm upset now after seeing this... had a great opportunity.

Or when he collabs with a certain game RU-vidr "hey all, Michael here"

This

yeah good one bro

This video is 8 years old... god Coming home late and watching Vsauce and Vertasium was one of the best periods of my life... Vertasium still makes good content and so does Vsauce.

the double V's

The fact that I'm finding this video today is just so random

VeritasiumSauce

when i saw this comment i went back up to see if it was true and the cat appeared that was so random

the fault in our stars lmao

Scientifically romantic

nice bait for fujo

I ship it.

Michael : But what is "romance"?

And a pretty bad one. I'm disapointed

@@gwathanaur cant expect much from a 7 year old collab

@@gwathanaur wait why is it bad?

@@gwathanaur no u

@@derinwithaq5811 yea that’s what I thought as well

The cat is entropy

whats your current stance?

@@TNRPISIQ I'm not entirely sure. Previously I was firmly in the determinism camp of believing there was no free will. Now I find myself leaning towards believing exactly what Derek outlined at the end of the video here. That random quantum events in our brain/body could be a form of free will, that not everything is absolutely predetermined. Though of course there is still the question of who is in control of that pseudo "free will" since it's been shown that one can predict the choices we'll make before we consciously make those choices. So perhaps there is still no free will, no real "choice" being made, but it's also not fully predetermined, there's quantum random chance involved and our brains make up a narrative to match that random choice and make us feel like we made that choice to give us agency in our story. Regardless, I'm fascinated by thinking about this all in a fresh new way now.

​@@beegemanare quantum events truly random or are we not fully advanced to calculate that? thousands of years ago, the people might have thought the moon and it's position sky as random and here we are traveling to moon. My belief is we can't truly stick to one theory at this point. universe may be deterministic or not. I personally believe it's deterministic. but I also believe it's not deterministic so that I can somehow feel I control my life with the free will I have.

Same. This video's been around for 9 years, yet RU-vid only recommends it now?

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Endgame is also about quantum mechanics.

For real

The mouse is the secret element of quantum mechanics.

who thinks endgame is a crossover?

Everyone: Endgame is the ultimate crossover. Weebs: Isekai Quartet

😆😆

*VSauce theme music plays*

He even came in how to basic 🤣

Yeah that was weirdly random. But, *what IS random?*

Ok

who would like physics girl except a simp

@@abhinavbhardwaj5517 Of course you would simply deny

Bro you forgot a legendary channel called "kosmo" It reveals unimaginable truth about universe such a way you won't expect Also they uploads video duration of 1-2 hours so it's better to watch them instead of some dramatic stupidic cringe movie

@@xninja2369 i have a similar opinion

@@abhinavbhardwaj5517 have you watched it Just watch one time and you will fall in love with it

How do I know I won't wake up as Micheal Stevens tomorrow, but with all his memory and his soul, so I will think I'm Micheal Stevens, and no one will know?

dong was such a horrible waste of time lol. terrible content.

@King Pistachion lol. I bet you think TOP 10 2021 AMAZING WOW videos are good content too. Fkn tiktok losers. XD

Which means things you can do online online online now now now guys guys guys guys guys guys guys guys guys guys guys guys guys guys guys guys

@@RU-vidIsAGarbagePit SMCHEK FINKLES SMEGER SMEGSHEETS ZUMBERCHL

What exactly is a movie?

what is actually 'going' =))

what actually is the word actually, well actually derives from Latin word "act-shoe-less" or acttulas.

/music plays

tru

but is that fact random? is me commenting random? maybe. butmaybe is not random.

And its not fun

bruh

Or is he?

*dramatic music intensifies*

+HSGames freak

Hate when it happens

Meh. BN is cool.

Do I look like I care? And how is it disgusting? Because you don't like Bronies?

+HarmonicSymphony hmm seems like a pretty aggressive statement, maybe defensive. I don't know because I haven't read the previous comment..... You have just become my experiment.

What did that even mean

The background music is from vsauce

That nostalgic music ur not a vscause member if u can't get the music

That VSauce music hits different!

@@sambran310 Perhaps he's referring to the "everybody gangsta" part, which would be quite reasonable, due to the informality of it.

or is it random? lol

A lot of this isnt science. It's logic.

NOT random! Completely predictable.

@@realitynowassigned it's physics, Theoretical, Thermodynamics, Relavtivistics, Quantum Mechanics and I'm sure other types of physics would be involved. It goes way way beyond "logical" unless your name is Spock. It's science not logic.

@@gwsmith76 general and special relativity are both founded on logical thought experiments.

+Jedi Spock Michael: It's a mass of completely random particles which carry a random seed of information bla bla bla...

A+

+August Svensson but what is random

AND CAN BURGERS MOVE AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT?

+Bernard Hazel no no no no. Can light travel at the speed of burgers?

Or will you?

@@Somedude48 *_Vsauce Music Intensifies_*

445th like

Or can you ???

mubashar qadeer I can

Mine too, it connects so many topics together it's satisfying

Same

I came from that same Vsauce video lol

I'm currently stuck in an infinite loop between watching Derek's video, then Michael's, then Derek's, then Michael's, then...

So not random!

Same

I don't get it.

@@vkishan2089 You will.

@@vkishan2089 cause you India you lose

LOL 😂😂

@@isprithul I wonder where you are from.

Don't panic too much. They are getting a lot of this wrong. The second law of thermodynamics isn't actually a law. It contradicts with Newton's second law, which is a law. The second law of thermodynamics is more of a mathematical approximation. Also thermodynamic entropy and information entropy are _not_ the same thing. In some ways they are each others opposites, in other ways they are completely different things. Source: I've studied my fair share of information theory and thermodynamics in university.

Yeah you shouldn’t get too depressed until you realise that there’s a 1 in a billion chance that we are real in a low dimensional plane where virtual higher dimensional beings are gods to gods of gods

actually knowing that i have free will makes me NOT have a existential crisis

Or because you don’t have free will you can’t have a existential crisis

@@toddhowardfr But you don't. So you can start panicking now.

That's the music for all 3 vsauce channels

hugeKingKibbleFan 69 When you have a terrible profile picture and are just following a trend.

True

@@bigman489 true

@@bigman489 When you're so bored in life and internally miserable you bully strangers online.

**cries**

''But what is crossover?''

@@Am4nchaudhary and how much does a crossover weigh?

@@VaguelyCanadian if all the crossover were stacked on top of each other, how high would it be?

@@ragingdragonii1783 When is crossover now?

*Music plays *Mysterious raising of the eyebrow

You are saying this after 8 years ? 😅

@Collin Vail :P

That's because there is no Free Will regardless of "quantum effects in our brains."

😆. YEAH.

What is random? can you prove that randomness exist?

@@Danishdonjuan i can prove ur mom's existence

+Keytotruth You mean dat Jake Chudnow song.

Gabriel Maisonet I didn't know the author, thanks!

+Keytotruth Composer, not author

Sam Lunn The author of a song is the person who creates it, so no, both things are right.

+Keytotruth If I remember correctly, you write lyrics and compose music, so both of you are right and wrong. And not random, apparently.

No it isn't :D

"Everything would be predictable. Even human behavior." So, you could finally understand how your woman thinks? Really? It's pretty clear that hypothesis is wrong.

I was hoping someone would say that

This is something that I wish to remember and hopefully share with someone in the future

Given quantum entanglement, you can assign a probability distribution to all possible outcomes and theoretically still "know" every position and momentum for every particle.

That’s DePlace!

Laplace: What if you knew the exact position and velocity of every particle in the universe? Heisenberg: Wait, that's illegal.

So frigging cute ...I think I'd like watching geeking out over maths and science....

Gay

@@chriswebster24 bit homophobic? Time to grow up and stop being so scared, not even gay guys would want you.

@@brodiewatson-victory7801 they never used gay in a bad way if u see it that way ur the one with internalised homophobia

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Behold! The messy intersection of science and philosophy. :)

I love it! Sharing!

MIND BLOWING :D i loved the vid, and i love this comment ;) gjgjgjgjgj keep it up

Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery Today is a gift, which is why it's called the present.

Awesome Video! I'm not an expert but how is the second law of thermodynamics is proven in universal scale?(6:37-- "It'd take more information to specify the state of universe now rather than right after Big Bang")

It was 8 yrs ago my friend

@@raghvendrasinghsengar8360 late better than never

@@KufLMAO it was 4 months ago my friend

@@raghvendrasinghsengar8360 what’s 4 months compared to 8 years?

@@KufLMAO exactly lmao 😂

But it wasn't Deja Vu. So we're ok. 😄

Schrödinger seconds that

Vsauce music plays

8:01 That fly was random.

@@ChewyWolf64 or was it?

I keep returning to it. It's like a temple, a video temple.

@@geirtwo how could you describe it so well, that's exactly what I feel this is!

It's everything I've thought about free will versus determinism since I was 16 and shed my naive deterministic model of the universe, only with more theoretical grounding than I had available.

When Michael’s soundtrack starts playing 😂😭❤️!!

Same here 🔥

i think he means "random" as totally unpredictable knowing the context around that file

My take is that, if there is a repetition in the binary digits of the file, you can re-assign the recurring patterns to another pattern with less digits. for example you could instead of using "qu", create another letter which does the same job. If you do that optimally, the probability of the next digit in the is the same as any other digit, hence totally random.

@@amiralipoor2974 You lost me after "qu." Can you clarify?

@@op_pls_nerf4495 In order for something to be random, it must be devoid of a cause. If we fail to discern what caused X, that does not mean that X is devoid of a cause, only that we, for whatever reason, haven't discovered the cause yet. Unfortunately quantum mechanics culture has developed an "out of sight, out of mind" approach to hidden variables: "I have repeatedly failed to predict X, therefore X is random." There is a distinction between conventional randomness and ultimate (metaphysical) randomness. A flip of a coin is random in the conventional sense but not in the ultimate sense. We know that, in theory, with sufficient environmental data, one could predict the result of a coin toss - it is not truly random. The issue arises when members of the hard sciences conflate demonstrations of conventional randomness with ultimate metaphysical randomness, such as on the molecular level. When they fail to predict an atomic event, they should presume, via Occam's razor, that just like the rest of the observable universe, this event has a cause; they just haven't discovered it yet. Instead they choose to presume the existence of metaphysical randomness without justification.

@@ericberman_ Just as the video mentioned, almost always "q" is followed by "u" in English. Then you are using two alphabets - that is you are sending two data points- for something that could be done with one letter. For example i generate a new symbol, and instead of sending qu, I send that. In that sense I avoided shrunk the data that I was sending you.

Stop clicking Boom loop ends

According to the Second law of thermodynamics everything will eventually come to disorder, so sooner or later you'll break free from this loop

or are you?

Just misplace your fingers and it should be solved

Derek does, however, give you the choice to click over, or not.

So true xD

+TheOfficialNar Mine are not like that^^

+TheOfficialNar maybe thats the reason for most people not knowing much about science incompetent teachers

+TheOfficialNar difinitive

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yes

Nilered

Nileblue

3brown1blue

You damn right

Good thing veritasium didn't retake

The was not random

@@greensteve9307 yea he told the cat to do it xD

Cat acting randomly. Michael: Or is it?

Username checks out :)

now we need one with Michael, Veritasium, Mark Rober, and the Kurzgesagt team

​@@Matthew_MBGKurzegast for sure, but who is Mark Rober?

​@@TON__618.He used to work for nasa, he makes fun engineering videos on youtube

We need Steve Mould and Smarter Everyday in that movie too!

Nile Red would be nice

Even with that explanation we still don't have free will and just obey the to the randomness of quantum processes in our brains

@@user-wh5se3cb2y It is free becuse it is not deterministic. Randomness IS freedom. How else would you describe free will ?

@@whynot5757 Well, that's the thing. You cannot describe something that is contradictory within itself.

@@alvarodps28 It is not contradictory, it's just hard to grasp. There is a spectrum. The two (fictional) extremes of it are asbolute randomness and absolute determinism. Neither of them exist; becuse the universe, just as human will is between the two. Partly random, partly determistic, which is called probability. There is no definition of freedom of the will beyond spontaneity and randomness. The less predestined something is, the more free it is. If our will is not entirely determinstic, then it is partially free, which is free enough to me. And this is what free means, not something asbtract "I as an idividual decide independently". If your choice is (mostly) indepent, then it is (mostly) random. There is nothing else. No definition beyond that. The (partial) absence of causality is the highest form of freedom. If freedom doesn't mean that, then it doesn't mean anything at all.

@@whynot5757 Well, you can have that definition. Eventually the only thing that matters is that we are not the ones deciding independently, so I personally wouldn't want to equate a word as bold as freedom to probabilistic uncertainty.

That’s one circumstance tho

@@ytkaci I just wanted to make the point that the fact that entropy increases over time doesn't disprove determinism

yeah but thats like saying an apple doesnt disprove determinism - its not directly related

In your example the increase in entropy is only apparent but not real; if determinism is true the state of the box at t2 could be described by its state at t1, the laws of physics and the timestamp ´t2´.

in a deterministic universe an apple wouldn exist. and you wouldn't talk and think about anything. infinite possibilities enable things evolve in the way we observe it.

+Bruno Henrique I actually do that but I didn't notice it in the video. what's the timestamp?

9:20 - WAIT! ARE YOU A CANNIBAL? D:

Bruno Henrique it's kind of how I got my nickname, actually

but how do we know a kiwi is real?

Atemyselftodeath. and what is real? how much does real weight?

Lol I'm not high and still tripping balls hahah

Lol. Nice pfp btw

@@okb6436 opaganastai

What a great idea. The play list that is.

Guess I'll never watch it then

Epic

Not random

A man that doesn't care about youtube money but about science.

You mean because of advertising? Actually sometimes the displayed duration varies slightly from what you see before/in YT Studio.

And it somehow has midroll ads

That can't be random :P

+위대한하지알렉스 Whoa whoa whoa, take a chill pill.

***** Here is me, not knowing what vinesauce is.

Cobi Miller Just don't be a V-tard.

Cobi Miller A gaming channel.

Wow, I don't even remember the first time I watched a vsauce video, good to see people are still discovering the guy.

yea me too but i still freaked out when he bit into that kiwi with the skin still on

+evangeline amber Maybe you should try actually listening to what they are saying and comprehending it? Just a suggestion.

maybe you should try actually understanding jokes. just a suggestion.

evangeline amber Thanks, but I understand jokes perfectly fine. It's only when they are not the least bit funny that I fail to realize they are even a joke. There is no punch line or anything to suggest your comment is supposed to be even mildly amusing and not just a statement of your ignorance.

learn to understand different types of jokes then, if you fail to realize its a joke, dont comment on it.

+evangeline amber hahahahaha you just made my day with that comment man

It was schrödinger's cat

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Predicted it

Paid actor

If you can read this you can get a good job with high pay.

HawaiiMclovin69 Ohhh! Thank you!

***** D:

I was lost as well xD I guess we won't get good jobs D:

John Smith We'll get good jobs, they just won't have high pay. XD

***** You´re welcome :D

I do that sometimes

peeling a kiwi? o_O I thought everyone just cut them in half and ate with a spoon...

Kamil Janowski I do that too.

Kamil Janowski Me, too. But I was stunned when I saw him eating it like an apple :P

Joshua Blanco Same pieces and how many pieces from the first time 🤯?

But what is 'scraping'?

off* lol jk

lol 😂😂

But you could just call ServPro to clean it all up, you know the guys who say "Like it never even happened." tsk-tsk

M, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, E, R, E

There are 11

@@davidwickline9710 count again

P64 Blue you counted Uranium twice

P64 Blue btw still appreciate the thought and effort you put into your comment and I didn’t mean to take away from that. I just wanted to inform you that there are 11 elements listed and suggest editing it. Sorry for the rudeness, and have a good day

+DanV Nah just pertaining to small shite.

+Ziquafty Nny only the laws / interactions are very complicated at that level

I suppose it is in reality just perspective.

nah, pice a cake..

lice in cake

dwi'n credu hynny

@@jojo.s_bekaar_adventures translates to "am I a joke to you?"

@@mariogabel7633 hell yeah I was right

@@ArcanineEspeon Nid wyf yn siŵr beth ydych chi'n ei olygu. Ond agorais eich camlas a bu bron imi syrthio i'r llawr pan welais ddyddiadur o Dref y Dirgelion. Nid hiraeth yn unig mwyach. Fe wnaethoch chi fy argyhoeddi yn fawr. Rwy'n edrych ar ran 5: Cyfarchion DDD o Slofacia.

Ok

Wow!! You really solved the mystery of my life