Back to episode — Episode 1553 Scott Adams - All of Our Problems Have Been Solved Except For Celebrities Killing People
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in a productive way that would be great. Yeah infrastructure bill got passed. So boring. So that's the part that a lot of people agreed on just the pure infrastructure. The real infrastructure part. And how would you know if that's a good idea? How would any of you know if the infrastructure bill, and by the way they've separated out the social programs and now that's going to be part of the buil…
← Previous segment →ing I did it but I can't. So I mean if you're substantially smarter than me in this particular way maybe you can but I know I can't. So unless you're pretty sure you're way smarter than I am about how to analyze stuff I don't think you can either. Not with confidence anyway. Not with any confidence.
What kept me awake? I hate sleep so when I woke up I just didn't want to be asleep again and then it doesn't happen. I feel like sleep is just wasted life. But I will tell you I've been thinking more and more about the state of what a dream is.
Have you ever said to yourself the one way that you know this is not a simulation is that the stuff is solid? Do you ever think to think that to yourself? Well I know that whatever this is that I'm experiencing my reality I know it can't be just code or program because they're solids right? It doesn't go through it. You know if I were made of software or some imaginary thing none of this could happen right? It wouldn't be solid.
But what about dreams? In your dreams everything's solid isn't it? In your dreams things have weight don't they? In your dreams there's still gravity. So apparently we absolutely routinely pretty much most of us every night have an illusion in which there is full weight and gravity and all the rules of physics. Sometimes you can fly in your dreams sometimes but the question of whether you can imagine solids when there are no solids it has been answered. Yeah you can. It's called a dream. That's just one way you can do it.
All right which is different than virtual reality because when you've got virtual reality goggles on you can't actually feel any of the objects so that's less than a dream. A dream you have the sensation that objects have weight. Dreams are software updates could be or defragmenting. It feels like defragging to me.
So Scott doesn't have spirituality I guess it's all just a waste. Is it? I have no physical sensation in YouTube. Well but the rules of physics apply in your dreams is what I'm saying.
I learned your lesson about doing your own research trying to figure out how to do a live broadcast. Yeah that's a pretty humbling thing.
Now some of you are going to say but Scott what about that situation you gave us with the spasmodic dysphonia and googling your own voice problem? That's an exception and one of the things that makes an exception is that once I found it I could verify it. So having found it on my own that I could easily take it to an expert. I could find an expert once I had a name for it and then the expert could say oh yeah you're right and then you know my research just ends up being the same as science. You know I end up in the same place. So that's really a special case and I do think that a motivated person can do a slice but I don't think we can evaluate studies very well most of us.
All right that is all I have for today. I believe I'm babbling and I'm going to say goodbye to you YouTube. Talk to you later.