Discussion with UFC's Firas Zahabi on Randomness, God and the Universe (2018-03-28) #

0:00:00 somali kumarahoe saliva keto I'm here
0:00:02 with Roz I be the mastermind fights her
0:00:05 but also but also the logician right
0:00:08 also the people don't know about this
0:00:09 point is he is the man who has the
0:00:12 ability a theoretical and conceptual
0:00:13 knowledge of that philosophy and logic
0:00:17 and these things so we're gonna actually
0:00:19 discuss randomness is really very
0:00:22 powerful thing we for those who don't
0:00:25 know I I have a degree in philosophy as
0:00:27 well I graduated cord in philosophy and
0:00:29 this was many years ago and for over I
0:00:31 would say 20 years I've been studying
0:00:33 philosophy very very closely and you
0:00:36 know I hear the modern-day conversations
0:00:38 and whatnot and mean I might become
0:00:40 friends we've had a lot of nice
0:00:42 discussions as well and and there are so
0:00:44 many great thinkers in history you know
0:00:46 so many great thinkers and and really
0:00:48 the knowledge is out there it's just a
0:00:50 it's a very difficult tedious type of
0:00:52 knowledge to get to because you have to
0:00:53 read a lot of books to get to this type
0:00:55 of knowledge and to try to encapsulate
0:00:57 all this and and of course you can never
0:00:59 have more than 1% of knowledge so today
0:01:01 well what we want to talk about today is
0:01:03 really a very very important Epis tamal
0:01:06 a piston piston biological excuse me
0:01:10 yeah idea that's so profound that we
0:01:16 have to put it in a simple simple way
0:01:18 for people to understand and this is
0:01:19 actually very important to this course
0:01:21 because like a lot of people now
0:01:22 especially with like atheist and theist
0:01:23 discourse they bring the idea of
0:01:26 randomness so if you ask a lot of people
0:01:28 now eight years to otherwise do how did
0:01:31 the universe come into existence they'll
0:01:32 say well the universe was a random
0:01:34 generation it came we just came into
0:01:36 existence by random general by way of
0:01:38 random generation and and the
0:01:41 fine-tuning that we see around us is
0:01:43 also a random generation or if they
0:01:46 don't go through that route they'll say
0:01:47 well it's random and they'll use that
0:01:49 and the vernacular it's used in the
0:01:51 vernacular kind of like to to explain
0:01:54 processes that can't be explained really
0:01:56 right a common misconception is well we
0:02:01 have to understand there are three
0:02:01 fundamental ways to know something yeah
0:02:04 and we do have the thing in the back or
0:02:06 speaking noise so there's three ways to
0:02:08 know something okay you know something
0:02:09 I'll put in simplest terms possible
0:02:11 you know something mathematically or
0:02:13 logic we can know something
0:02:15 scientifically or empirically okay we
0:02:17 can know something intuitively okay so
0:02:19 these are three basic ways now putting
0:02:21 all that aside all the jargon I like to
0:02:24 start with thought experiments because
0:02:25 thought experiments make complicated
0:02:27 under lessons as simple as possible okay
0:02:30 so we were talking about it earlier
0:02:31 today and Mohamed wanted to record it so
0:02:33 I think it's a great idea let's record
0:02:35 and share it so this question asks you
0:02:37 before yeah so you already know the
0:02:38 answer to it okay but the question was
0:02:41 if I were to flip a coin mmm okay I'm
0:02:44 gonna flip a coin what are the odds that
0:02:47 lands on heads fifty percent is the odds
0:02:51 it lands on heads yeah the actual actual
0:02:55 answer okay if you want to know the
0:02:58 truth in an expression I like to use
0:03:00 this capital T not everyday truth but
0:03:03 the truth the actual truth literally
0:03:05 literally speaking the big t you know
0:03:07 the actual truth reality the odds are 1
0:03:10 and infinity mm-hmm and when we say
0:03:13 these people are gonna be like doesn't
0:03:14 make any sense it's a very normal
0:03:16 reaction now the reason why it's 1 in
0:03:18 infinity is a little bit complicated but
0:03:20 the truth is 1 in infinity now the
0:03:23 reason why we say it's 5050 is because
0:03:26 of our prior experience with coins it
0:03:29 has nothing to do with logic so for
0:03:31 instance if I wiped your memory here's a
0:03:34 thought experiment I wipe your memory
0:03:35 you have all your intelligence you have
0:03:37 all your faculties and I flip a coin in
0:03:40 front of you but this time it's the
0:03:41 first time you see a coin being flipped
0:03:43 and the coin I flip it and it turns into
0:03:46 a butterfly it wouldn't be more
0:03:48 surprising that it turned into a
0:03:49 butterfly
0:03:50 then if it landed on heads that's right
0:03:52 because you have no memory of the first
0:03:54 thing I've first encounter with that
0:03:56 first encounter like for essence a child
0:03:58 who sees a flame for the first time
0:04:00 right he has no idea what's gonna happen
0:04:02 when he touches it hmm as a matter of
0:04:04 fact you could tell him a thousand times
0:04:05 what's gonna happen he still doesn't
0:04:07 understand you but when he touches it
0:04:09 now he has an experience he has a
0:04:11 history with flames
0:04:13 and this is a very profound point
0:04:16 because science science this scientific
0:04:19 method we have today is really the
0:04:22 observations of patterns and
0:04:24 regularities found in nature returns and
0:04:26 regularities found in nature
0:04:28 yeah these patterns and regularities
0:04:31 found in nature is what we call the
0:04:35 science science so for instance when I
0:04:39 flipped that coin I do it enough times
0:04:41 it lands on heads it lands on tails it
0:04:44 lands on heads it lands on yours
0:04:45 developing a history or Divali
0:04:46 developing a you're noticing a pattern
0:04:49 going on it never turned into a
0:04:51 butterfly it never disappeared it always
0:04:54 did the same thing it either landed on
0:04:55 tails or I landed on the head 50% of the
0:04:58 time now that you've had this history
0:05:00 with coins you have this pattern that
0:05:02 you figured out you say next time you
0:05:05 flip it I predict that the future will
0:05:08 behave like the past mmm this is a
0:05:11 scientific method scientific method is a
0:05:13 faith that the future will behave like
0:05:16 the past it's a faith it's based on
0:05:18 faith that's really profound a lot of
0:05:21 people that talk about science right I
0:05:23 mean I think that the antithesis of
0:05:26 science is faith correct if you don't
0:05:29 have faith correct science is the
0:05:31 opposition of faith it's like this
0:05:32 knowledge is pure knowledge and what
0:05:35 you're saying is actually science does
0:05:37 require some kind of faith in science is
0:05:39 a type of faith no I'll give you an
0:05:41 example for those of you were jumping
0:05:42 out of your seats and are furious I mean
0:05:44 how mad are lovers of science we love
0:05:46 science it's just but it's just one way
0:05:48 of knowing something it's not the
0:05:49 absolute truth if you only use the
0:05:53 scientific method you will not get to
0:05:55 the capital T the truth okay like I tell
0:05:58 them how much science is popular because
0:05:59 it fills our bellies with food it put
0:06:02 gold in our safes it allows us to
0:06:04 conquer our enemies it's a very
0:06:06 practical practice it's very practical
0:06:11 yeah a method of going about a life and
0:06:14 it's important that's what we love
0:06:15 science yeah we love our smart phones we
0:06:17 love our modern medicine we're not
0:06:19 against that yeah well when it comes to
0:06:20 capital truth mm-hmm we have to inquire
0:06:24 in the other realms we have to use logic
0:06:26 and intuition
0:06:27 as well it's a more complete
0:06:29 understanding of what reality is now if
0:06:32 people are not interested in reality the
0:06:33 capital truth just turn off this video
0:06:35 and go watch Kim Kardashian video maybe
0:06:37 there's something else you know go get a
0:06:40 financier whatever but this is up this
0:06:41 is for people who are interested in
0:06:42 realities itself and philosophers over
0:06:44 many many millennia have discussed what
0:06:48 is reality and the fascinating topic for
0:06:51 those who are interested Wow no what
0:06:54 were we saying about randomness tipping
0:06:56 the corner so we flip the coin yep we
0:06:59 create a pattern irregularity then we
0:07:00 develop a faith that this pattern
0:07:02 irregularity will stay up and one very
0:07:04 common example one classic example is
0:07:06 Aristotle brilliant man one of the
0:07:08 smartest men that ever lived
0:07:10 yeah and he would see the Sun go around
0:07:12 the earth every day mmm and his
0:07:13 ancestors told him that the Sun goes
0:07:15 around the earth in their lifetime and
0:07:17 that their forefathers told them that
0:07:18 the Sun goes around the earth and that
0:07:20 was a scientific observation found in
0:07:23 nature done by countless people he said
0:07:26 look the Sun goes around the earth it's
0:07:28 a fact fast forward many years later
0:07:33 some philosophers and thinkers started
0:07:35 saying no no no no no no wait a second
0:07:37 we object we think it's the earth going
0:07:39 around the Sun mmm turns out it's an
0:07:42 optical illusion those thinkers were
0:07:44 correct Galileo and the bunch so many
0:07:46 there's actually many great thinkers in
0:07:47 history who suggested that maybe the
0:07:50 earth is going around the Sun it's the
0:07:51 opposite there's an optical illusion
0:07:53 regardless a scientific fact was
0:07:55 overturned
0:07:55 now scientific facts are overturned
0:07:58 throughout history yeah why optical
0:08:02 illusions faulty patterns we made a
0:08:04 mistake we thought a pattern was such
0:08:05 and it wasn't yeah like for instance we
0:08:07 used to think that all flamingos are
0:08:09 pink and then we went to Australia and
0:08:11 we found black flamingos and we turned
0:08:13 out hateful mingoes or pink because of
0:08:14 the food that they eat another
0:08:16 scientific fact overturned a scientific
0:08:19 fact can never actually literally
0:08:20 literally be a fact as people will
0:08:24 commonly understand the word fact okay a
0:08:26 fact is what the consensus is what
0:08:28 experts today agree upon that is a
0:08:31 scientific fact is that's the same as
0:08:32 I'm not a medical fact yeah
0:08:34 so the problem of induction comes into
0:08:36 it yeah the problem induction so a fact
0:08:39 in science is really a high
0:08:40 Baathists a very agreed-upon hypothesis
0:08:44 now this is not an attack on science
0:08:45 again we love science ok nothing wrong
0:08:48 with science Isis beautiful thing we're
0:08:50 just being honest about science and what
0:08:52 is arts what are its strengths and
0:08:54 weaknesses yeah is science absolute
0:08:57 meaning if I follow the scientific
0:08:58 method I will know the reality of the
0:09:00 world as it is what is your opinion on
0:09:02 this well because of the important
0:09:04 production so as you've outlined
0:09:07 crackling in the pole of induction
0:09:08 indicates that with the flamingo example
0:09:11 I think David Hume used the Swan
0:09:12 examples like is it's not right
0:09:14 Swan swimming go yeah so the idea of
0:09:17 like having all of the the sample group
0:09:20 the sample group can't be fully
0:09:22 represented and for that reason we
0:09:24 cannot assume that everything can be
0:09:28 analyzed or and generalized that's one
0:09:30 thing and the other thing is that like
0:09:31 you were saying kind of links into what
0:09:33 you were saying David Hume also
0:09:34 mentioned this point which is the idea
0:09:35 of history repeating itself we have to
0:09:37 have the faith in that that's a
0:09:39 presupposition in all of science you
0:09:42 always have to have that faith yeah and
0:09:43 then David Hume was very open about his
0:09:45 phenomenon philosophy said look
0:09:47 science is the faith that the hist
0:09:49 history will repeat itself the future
0:09:52 will behave like the past if the future
0:09:54 for whatever reason doesn't behave like
0:09:55 the past you know and you know Karl
0:10:00 Popper he did eat a beautiful experiment
0:10:01 to try to dis to try to fix this issue
0:10:04 okay maybe that maybe that we're
0:10:06 sidetracking won't talk about randomness
0:10:07 but we all know so Karl Popper created
0:10:10 falsification for those of you out there
0:10:11 were familiar with Karl Popper but even
0:10:13 that doesn't get around the problem it
0:10:14 makes it better it brings us closer to
0:10:16 the truth but it doesn't get around the
0:10:17 problem so science is not absolute okay
0:10:20 so that's number one
0:10:21 yeah do scientists like Richard Dawkins
0:10:23 and Lawrence Krauss do they know this
0:10:25 they know it the day in my opinion from
0:10:28 hearing them talk they're there they
0:10:30 don't understand adduction and intuition
0:10:32 they don't understand other types of
0:10:33 logic and I've heard them say very
0:10:35 illogical things and then David
0:10:37 Berlinski a philosopher a PhD when he
0:10:40 commented on Richard Dawkins he says
0:10:41 looking Richard Dawkins is a crummy
0:10:43 philosopher to use his words and he even
0:10:45 said he's a reptile of a human being
0:10:48 devar olinsky's a PhD in mathematics and
0:10:51 philosophy he understands logic and
0:10:53 reason and he understands science very
0:10:55 well yeah he's a he's a very learned man
0:10:57 and I put Hold'em to be much more
0:10:59 learner than a Richard Dawkins like Kant
0:11:01 says and this is this is carrots worth
0:11:04 not my words he says look Sciences are
0:11:06 not necessarily smart they follow a
0:11:07 formula they follow a method hmm yes
0:11:11 they're smart to interpret the data etc
0:11:12 the average physicists IQ is about 130
0:11:15 yeah an average physic he was 130 now
0:11:18 just average it's mono 130 is very high
0:11:22 132 is genius
0:11:24 okay there's all right there's smart
0:11:26 people but if we're talking about the
0:11:28 Giants of intelligence okay there they
0:11:30 were you know we have some people we
0:11:31 estimate them by consensus and the
0:11:34 psychologist was to me they're 200 or
0:11:36 170 or one think this is another world
0:11:38 okay
0:11:38 140 is another world 150 is another
0:11:41 world and there are people today alive
0:11:42 and score 190 I mean this is another
0:11:45 world of IQ but IQ is not necessarily
0:11:48 fully IQ like I was talking to telling
0:11:52 you today IQ would be like your
0:11:54 athleticism hmm doesn't mean the best
0:11:55 athlete is the best fighter or the best
0:11:57 boxer he has the potential to be really
0:12:00 good at the sport
0:12:01 hmm but you could be a lesser athlete
0:12:03 and have a better jiu-jitsu a wrestling
0:12:05 ability than a better athlete it happens
0:12:06 all the time
0:12:06 okay so let's not put i q-- above all
0:12:09 it's not it's a factor and many studies
0:12:11 have proven that over and over again but
0:12:13 I don't want to go into a tangent we're
0:12:15 talking about random randomness I think
0:12:18 is the most misunderstood concept in the
0:12:22 history of Western science okay and a
0:12:25 man by the name of Laplace I believe was
0:12:28 Jean Pierre Laplace mm-hmm he was a
0:12:30 physicist and a time of Sir Isaac Newton
0:12:32 he was a successor to Sir Isaac Newton
0:12:34 Sir Isaac Newton completely outshined
0:12:36 him we all know that name Sir Isaac
0:12:38 Newton the Laplace did some phenomenal
0:12:39 work but he was just the scottie pippen
0:12:42 of Michael Jordan you know Scottie
0:12:43 Pippen was great yeah but Michael Jordan
0:12:45 was just the greatest of all time right
0:12:47 okay and we can argue that quite easily
0:12:50 actually we can argue that Isaac Newton
0:12:53 was the greatest scientist of all time
0:12:54 scientists of all time not philosophers
0:12:56 but scientists
0:12:57 and Laplace was this outshine it just
0:13:00 happened so happened to be okay and
0:13:01 Laplace explained something so wonderful
0:13:03 so so deep so profound that that it
0:13:08 bears mentioning in this video he says
0:13:10 look look at a billiard ball table look
0:13:11 at the the balls on a pool table you
0:13:14 guys say pool here yeah billiard balls
0:13:16 yeah so I break the billiard balls yeah
0:13:19 and there are two people watching the
0:13:22 the break one is a physicist and one is
0:13:26 everyday person and everyday person said
0:13:28 look I'm gonna break it the balls are
0:13:30 gonna scatter randomly the physicist is
0:13:32 gonna say no mm-hmm tell me how you're
0:13:34 gonna hit it that what angle that what
0:13:36 force and I'll tell you where every ball
0:13:37 is gonna be there's nothing random about
0:13:39 this and when you tell them all I'm
0:13:42 gonna hit it this hard at this angle
0:13:44 he'll take that table Laplace will take
0:13:47 that table the physicists will take that
0:13:49 table he'll turn it to a mathematical
0:13:50 equation hmm and then he will tell you
0:13:53 where every single ball is gonna be on
0:13:55 the table and with perfect accuracy
0:13:57 except with a tiny error with a tiny
0:14:00 he'll be off by a very small margin and
0:14:02 Laplace says I'll be off by a very small
0:14:05 margin only because I have to round up
0:14:08 the numbers I have to round off the
0:14:10 numbers hmm he says I don't have a
0:14:12 divine calculator if I had a divine
0:14:14 calculator and I didn't round out with
0:14:16 perfect I would tell you exactly to the
0:14:20 smallest degree exactly where each ball
0:14:22 is gonna land now why he's gonna
0:14:24 calculate the friction of the table is
0:14:25 gonna calculate the ball the weight of
0:14:27 the ball he's gonna calculate the angle
0:14:28 he's gonna calculate the density of the
0:14:30 pool bands the bands he's gonna
0:14:32 calculate everything and turn into
0:14:33 mathematics mm-hmm and those mathematics
0:14:36 are sure there's nothing unsure and
0:14:39 Laplace says gives me an atom in your
0:14:42 hand give me its coordinates in its
0:14:44 velocity hmm and I'll tell you where
0:14:46 it's gonna be in five years from now now
0:14:49 many of you might be like oh this makes
0:14:50 no sense it's perfectly sensible if you
0:14:53 understand physics
0:14:55 you understand that he is saying
0:14:56 something 100% true hmm so what you're
0:15:00 saying here is that randomness is just
0:15:03 an excuse for people to describe
0:15:05 something which they can't just what
0:15:07 they can't explain when something is too
0:15:09 chaotic for us meaning we cannot compute
0:15:11 all the factors we use an expression
0:15:14 saying randomness you know how they say
0:15:16 well when somebody says randomness what
0:15:19 they're really saying is look I am NOT
0:15:21 able to compute all this information I
0:15:23 have lost track of all the factors the
0:15:26 way I expressed that as I say the word
0:15:28 randomness Laplace said when God sees
0:15:32 the world he doesn't see any randomness
0:15:33 obviously yeah God sees the future past
0:15:36 and present at once he knows every
0:15:38 single and he was saying this because if
0:15:41 you understand the divine mind obviously
0:15:44 nothing is random there would be no
0:15:46 randomness so randomness is a personal
0:15:47 experience and a reflection of our
0:15:50 ignorance so for instance two people are
0:15:55 watching the pool balls be hit yes one
0:15:59 of them is a physicist he's telling you
0:16:00 look the ball is gonna land right here
0:16:02 yes the layman is telling you know it's
0:16:04 gonna randomly scatter all over which
0:16:07 one is correct the physicist is correct
0:16:09 hmm the layman is incorrect but he
0:16:14 believes there's a randomness to the to
0:16:15 the brain only because they don't
0:16:16 understand the patent only because of
0:16:18 ignorance so anytime we see we say
0:16:21 random this you don't understand the fan
0:16:22 see I believe that certain things happen
0:16:25 in the universe yes but not at random I
0:16:27 don't accept randomness randomness is
0:16:30 just you throwing in the towel saying
0:16:31 look I cannot compute where randomness
0:16:35 is an illusion it's a figment of the
0:16:37 imagination not according to me
0:16:39 according to Laplace and physicists who
0:16:42 turn philosophers I believe if you could
0:16:44 reach a certain level of reflection on
0:16:46 physics that you become a philosopher
0:16:47 that's what a PhD is supposed to be you
0:16:51 reach this level where now you're not
0:16:52 just thinking about the particulars you
0:16:53 are thinking about what we call the
0:16:55 universals long story short there is no
0:16:58 such thing as randomness if there is if
0:17:00 it's natural selection by means of
0:17:04 random mutation I disagree if you tell
0:17:07 me it's natural selection by by means of
0:17:09 mutation I possibly agree if you can
0:17:11 prove me that but randomness I cannot
0:17:13 agree so this brings us to what would a
0:17:19 random world really look like we go back
0:17:22 to the coin experience okay this isn't
0:17:24 this is interesting yeah so what you're
0:17:26 saying here just to kind of summarize
0:17:27 some time if I've got this right what
0:17:29 you're saying here is that with the
0:17:31 whole pool example that if a layman saw
0:17:36 what was going on right they would see
0:17:38 that they would see that as seemingly a
0:17:39 random experiment right because they're
0:17:42 just seeing things moving around in a
0:17:45 haphazard way and they're computing that
0:17:47 as something they can't comprehend or
0:17:49 otherwise wouldn't be able to anticipate
0:17:51 in a normal situation and so they've
0:17:53 labeled that as random they labeled an
0:17:56 onion but what you're saying is now if
0:18:00 you think about it everything does have
0:18:02 a measurement and has a pattern and just
0:18:05 because we don't understand that
0:18:06 measurement or that pattern all that law
0:18:07 you could even say it doesn't mean that
0:18:09 that would be random is that I could say
0:18:11 you could understand it but you're not
0:18:13 able to compute it you'll have a divine
0:18:14 calculator but you're not able to make
0:18:16 the equations yeah because they're too
0:18:19 complicated there's too many things to
0:18:20 factor in yeah you might understand the
0:18:23 laws of physics thoroughly but there's
0:18:25 just too much information for you to
0:18:26 compute yeah so if I make the universe
0:18:29 into a billiard ball table now it's
0:18:31 controllable and now you can compute
0:18:33 yeah now Laplace was saying is look all
0:18:37 the chemicals in your brain the chemical
0:18:39 reactions are in thoughts these are all
0:18:41 little billiard balls so to speak it's
0:18:43 an expression we use
0:18:44 yeah it's matter pushing on matter we
0:18:47 say in physics they say in physics that
0:18:49 the cause of line is complete what does
0:18:51 that mean that the cause of line is
0:18:53 complete meaning that everything that
0:18:55 happens in physics everything happens in
0:18:57 the world you were living in today was
0:19:00 little tiny billiard balls so to speak
0:19:02 hitting one well this is an expression
0:19:04 okay we use okay is to say that there's
0:19:07 an interesting opinion yes it's to say
0:19:10 that the dominoes let's say you have a
0:19:12 hundred dominoes right and yeah you
0:19:14 number the dominoes one to a hundred yes
0:19:16 and then you saw a gap you
0:19:17 a gap so nominal 55 56 57 is missing and
0:19:22 you knock down them in a1 and hits
0:19:24 Domino 54 yeah and then Domino 58 58
0:19:29 falls over and there was a gap hmm
0:19:31 they're saying there's no such gap the
0:19:34 dominoes are perfect we can compute
0:19:35 there's nothing there's nothing
0:19:36 mysterious about what's going on physics
0:19:39 is there we can read the situation
0:19:41 clearly there is this Laplace was saying
0:19:43 there is no randomness whatsoever the
0:19:48 the the dominoes are there we can
0:19:50 calculate them the reason we cannot
0:19:52 calculate them we cannot calculate the
0:19:54 weather or what not is because it's too
0:19:56 complex for us to compute all the
0:19:58 factors hmm hypothetically theoretically
0:20:01 it is 100% possible hmm so so you're
0:20:06 asking about the world if it was
0:20:08 actually ready to actually ran right
0:20:10 yeah so and I flipped that coin yeah one
0:20:16 time we would turn into a butterfly
0:20:17 one time we would turn into a bird one
0:20:19 time we would turn into an ice cube one
0:20:21 time it would vanish it would act
0:20:23 randomly completely haphazardly that
0:20:27 would be true randomness the fact that
0:20:29 it lands on you know there they make
0:20:31 little robots you know that to prove
0:20:32 this I sent you this video once upon a
0:20:35 time I don't know if you remember
0:20:35 there's actual robots that can flip a
0:20:38 coin with 100% accuracy did you know
0:20:41 whether they flip and what happens they
0:20:43 flip a coin and you could set a robot to
0:20:46 flip the coin two heads or tails and
0:20:47 it'll flip it 30 40 times in the air and
0:20:50 they know the the machine knows how much
0:20:53 the coin weighs it knows the dog and it
0:20:55 knows how to bring it it throws the coin
0:20:57 in the air and the coin will land on
0:20:59 heads 100 percent of the time not 99.9
0:21:02 these machines exist it was to prove the
0:21:05 laplacian theory hmm then look these
0:21:08 robots are flipping coins and these
0:21:10 coins are landing on heads not 99.9 mm
0:21:13 100% of the time 100% Wow
0:21:16 now what does this mean this means what
0:21:18 are the implications of this
0:21:20 implications are huge yeah the
0:21:23 implications are that randomness does
0:21:25 not exist it is a figment of your
0:21:27 imagination so what instead exists well
0:21:30 order what is the opposite of randomness
0:21:32 order you Tom Porter okay
0:21:34 there's nothing but order so you're
0:21:36 saying that there are laws that are
0:21:38 ordered and predetermined look as stated
0:21:41 in the universe look every pattern in
0:21:45 the world every scientific law I'm
0:21:52 asking this question can you put science
0:21:53 in a test-tube
0:21:54 no you cannot put science in a test-tube
0:21:56 science is not a thing a material thing
0:21:59 right it's something a construct of the
0:22:01 mind when you look at the universe and
0:22:03 you talk about science you're talking
0:22:05 about an activity inside your mind yeah
0:22:07 you were talking about because you
0:22:08 cannot weigh science you cannot hold
0:22:10 science you cannot scientifically test
0:22:13 science the the the the meta scientific
0:22:15 method we cannot scientifically test it
0:22:17 it is a mental construct it's a type of
0:22:19 thinking hmm when you say science you
0:22:22 are admitting to order you're saying
0:22:25 look I see an order if you said I don't
0:22:28 believe in science you would be saying I
0:22:29 don't see an order I see no patterns and
0:22:32 I see no regularities in nature
0:22:34 I see pure randomness now if me and you
0:22:36 lived in a universe that every time you
0:22:39 push the brake in your car the car will
0:22:42 do anything but brake will do a random
0:22:44 activity and every time you say a word
0:22:46 that word would come out completely
0:22:47 different than the time before and
0:22:48 everything was random you would say look
0:22:50 I see no sign you wouldn't know nothing
0:22:52 about science yeah that would be a truly
0:22:54 unscientific world you have a concept of
0:22:57 science
0:22:58 could you imagine a world like this no
0:23:00 it's a little bit of the Alice in
0:23:02 Wonderland
0:23:02 okay no yeah things are popping in and
0:23:05 out of existence and said they're trying
0:23:07 to create some type of random this true
0:23:09 randomness in that story it's a bit of a
0:23:11 little bit of random there is some there
0:23:16 is something special to Alice in
0:23:18 Wonderland a story for another day
0:23:19 yeah could you picture a truly random
0:23:22 world where things pop in and out of
0:23:24 existence
0:23:25 like for instance when they discovered
0:23:26 the quantum world and they reported it
0:23:28 to Einstein he famously said telling
0:23:35 them look it seems random but it is not
0:23:38 once we learn more about quantum physics
0:23:40 it won't you're seeing something so
0:23:42 preposterous God doesn't play dice with
0:23:45 the universe there is no dice in the
0:23:47 universe the dice is just a reflection
0:23:50 of your ignorance now if I roll a dice
0:23:52 that's a great example if you told me
0:23:56 exactly at what force and how you
0:23:59 started with it if I had all the
0:24:00 information I turned it to math I could
0:24:02 tell you exactly how the dice mmm is
0:24:04 going to land there is no randomness so
0:24:07 how does this link to the whole fee ism
0:24:09 atheism theism debate well this is this
0:24:12 is the nucleus of the matter right
0:24:16 picture me a random world before we
0:24:20 answer that question picture me around
0:24:21 so it would be one that you describe one
0:24:23 so one maybe well that doesn't even
0:24:25 exist a one does it doesn't exist yeah
0:24:26 picture one try so maybe things are just
0:24:28 popping in and out of existence
0:24:30 okay give me an example like you say so
0:24:33 if for example it's hard to envision
0:24:35 yeah it's just something which things
0:24:38 are moving all the time just it's very
0:24:40 here there will be no like even be able
0:24:43 to talk in a truly weird there would be
0:24:45 no conversation because patterns and
0:24:48 regularities languages patterns and
0:24:50 regularities everything is patterns and
0:24:52 regularities your whole existence you
0:24:55 would go mad if you didn't have patterns
0:24:56 and regularities these patterns and
0:24:59 regularities are the opposite of
0:25:00 randomness when they say the world came
0:25:03 to be that becomes the now we're
0:25:08 starting to deduce now a creative
0:25:09 deduction when the world became to be
0:25:11 they say look there are so many
0:25:12 universes that this one landed the way
0:25:14 it is yeah at random they say this
0:25:20 universe didn't land that random it
0:25:23 landed exactly precisely because of
0:25:27 patterns and regularities
0:25:30 this entails heavily god it doesn't tell
0:25:34 god it basically says look god created
0:25:36 order in the universe this is what is
0:25:38 known as top down not bottom up bottom
0:25:40 up is by trial and error top down is by
0:25:43 design
0:25:43 now I don't hold the same views as the
0:25:46 mainstream design believers okay maybe
0:25:50 should not have used that word because
0:25:52 people don't associate me with the
0:25:54 people who the way I see if you look at
0:25:59 the Quran Francis is some beautiful
0:26:01 verses it's a beautiful beautiful verses
0:26:03 that I don't know an Arabic and I wish I
0:26:04 could do them justice and tell you them
0:26:06 properly but God says the night and the
0:26:08 day the pattern of night and day that's
0:26:11 a sign for those who think that pattern
0:26:14 the Sun if it was random
0:26:16 it would blink in and out of existence
0:26:17 of a change change temperature it would
0:26:19 change color it would do all sorts of
0:26:21 great things it's not it follows an
0:26:23 exact measurement francis exactly the
0:26:26 quran says this measurement shows will
0:26:28 cover we husband that the Sun and the
0:26:30 moon for an exact measure measure really
0:26:33 yeah to say it's to say it's random is
0:26:38 to make yourself the center of the
0:26:39 universe Wow yeah because you're seeing
0:26:43 the world through your own eyes and
0:26:46 you're being soft centered you're making
0:26:49 the world all about me I'm the center of
0:26:51 my universe it's a type of egoism the
0:26:56 world
0:26:56 I'm the measure of all things like they
0:26:58 were there was the the surface they say
0:27:00 manage the measure of all things mmm
0:27:02 this in Islam is the polar opposite of
0:27:04 his love hmm
0:27:05 I would tell you man is not a measure of
0:27:07 all things the truth is above man
0:27:10 so I mean Socrates had a great dialogue
0:27:13 in the book of Gorgas with the Sophos
0:27:15 and he kind of shut them down you kind
0:27:16 of give them in my opinion the deathblow
0:27:18 man is not to measure all things there
0:27:20 is an independent truth outside of man
0:27:22 agree to it or not as yeah so Socrates
0:27:26 does it beautifully in the book of
0:27:27 Gorgas I won't go to it maybe later if
0:27:29 we have times and this would be a
0:27:31 tangent okay
0:27:32 but mm-hmm there is no randomness there
0:27:36 are only patterns and regularities these
0:27:38 patterns and regularities are not
0:27:41 are not logical in any way hmm they're
0:27:49 not necessary in any way they're not
0:27:51 necessary in any way there's no logical
0:27:53 reason for them to exist in the way they
0:27:55 do there is no logical reason for them
0:27:57 to exist whatsoever logical reason yeah
0:28:00 when I flip the coin in front of your
0:28:01 eyes you would know before you've ever
0:28:03 experienced one you wouldn't know you
0:28:04 said I realized yeah I've deduced we
0:28:07 don't reduce the our experiences we
0:28:10 discover our experiences mm-hmm it's a
0:28:14 bit complicated it's a bit sticky but if
0:28:16 you meditate on you think about it
0:28:18 you'll realize there's no such thing as
0:28:19 randomness and the only thing left is
0:28:21 order yeah when you look at science
0:28:24 science is not out there
0:28:26 science is an internal experience you
0:28:29 are noticing these patterns and
0:28:30 regularities now a scientists will say
0:28:32 no no look there were so many earths out
0:28:34 there at random he'll throw that word in
0:28:38 and one of them so happened to be close
0:28:40 enough to the Sun it didn't burn but
0:28:42 close enough that it didn't freeze far
0:28:44 enough away that had been in vertical
0:28:45 something and freeze I will agree that
0:28:48 there are maybe many earths mmm
0:28:50 somewhere too close somewhere too far
0:28:52 and one of them was the Goldilocks right
0:28:54 the right amount but I won't agree that
0:28:57 it was random I will agree like Leibniz
0:29:00 would say again none of these ideas are
0:29:02 mine okay I don't want to think any
0:29:02 please don't don't if you're agree with
0:29:04 me don't give me any credit and you
0:29:05 disagree with me please no you're
0:29:07 disagreeing with the Giants of
0:29:08 philosophy and science liveness will
0:29:11 tell you this is Leibniz was is often in
0:29:13 the top five of the greatest IQs of all
0:29:16 time and all the lists are the consensus
0:29:17 he's the man who invented who discovered
0:29:21 excuse me a calculus and the binary code
0:29:25 your computer this phone it's all
0:29:26 working because of lightness okay and
0:29:28 he's a brilliant really human being
0:29:29 brilliant philosopher we'll talk about
0:29:31 him many times in their discussions he
0:29:34 said look this world is the perfect
0:29:36 world why I won't get into it completely
0:29:39 but he's saying look there could not
0:29:41 have been that this world was made this
0:29:43 way it was contingent and he was a
0:29:46 theist he had a great argument for the
0:29:49 khadija yes its contingent but because
0:29:52 God made it this way it's the purpose
0:29:54 there wasn't a rat not a random effect
0:29:56 hmm these patterns and regularities are
0:29:59 not random they're illogical hmm they're
0:30:04 completely illogical hmm there is no
0:30:06 logic to them there's no logical way of
0:30:08 explaining why they exist even there is
0:30:11 no that's a better way to say it
0:30:12 maybe Allah his own logic for how it
0:30:14 created the world but there is no way of
0:30:18 deducing them logically it's impossible
0:30:20 hmm randomness is a figment of your
0:30:23 imagination because if I increase your
0:30:24 knowledge randomness will disappear so
0:30:26 the most worthwhile explanation is to
0:30:29 say that this universe had these laws
0:30:34 placed within them by a higher
0:30:37 metaphysical agency these laws don't
0:30:39 exist their patterns and regularities
0:30:40 and we project laws these laws are just
0:30:45 our way of talking about our just our
0:30:47 way of bookmarking the patterns all
0:30:49 right all right yeah but the pansy I'll
0:30:52 give you for instance
0:30:53 Isaac Newton one of the brilliant most
0:30:55 brilliant man in history he said look
0:30:56 here the three laws of motions hmm I've
0:30:58 discovered them hmm turns out they're
0:31:01 wrong did you guys know that well yeah
0:31:03 his theories on gravity were wrong he
0:31:05 thought gravity was a pulling force yeah
0:31:07 gravity is a pushing force Einstein and
0:31:09 one day we'll discuss how Einstein
0:31:11 figured that out with a thought
0:31:12 experiment we're doing a thought
0:31:14 experiment
0:31:15 Einstein one of the great kings of
0:31:16 thought experiments how he figured out
0:31:19 is a beautiful story how he figured out
0:31:20 that gravity is a pushing force not a
0:31:22 pulling force he outdid Isaac Newton hmm
0:31:26 when they asked him how do you feel to
0:31:28 have done Isaac Newton you know he's he
0:31:30 giving beautiful answer he said if I see
0:31:32 farce because I stand on the shoulders
0:31:33 of giants meaning Sir Isaac Newton's
0:31:36 work made pave the way for my work
0:31:38 because Isaac Newton was wrong about
0:31:41 gravity we still used as physicists
0:31:44 still use the three laws of motion
0:31:46 because they're so useful however
0:31:47 they're not fundamentally true another
0:31:49 scientific fact that we had to revisit
0:31:51 nothing wrong with it I praise the man
0:31:53 he was a brilliant man
0:31:54 hmm however these laws of physics were
0:31:57 just bookmarks yeah for patterns
0:31:59 irregularities however is explanations
0:32:02 for pattern irregularity
0:32:02 were wrong they were they were
0:32:04 illusionary Einstein figured out the
0:32:06 true cause the the seemingly truth it's
0:32:12 kind of like the the Sun going around
0:32:14 the earth hmm there wasn't there was an
0:32:16 illusion there and then Einstein proved
0:32:18 it okay he proved it with a thought
0:32:19 experiment he said what of the Sun
0:32:20 disappears science try and prove
0:32:23 something exactly exactly so these are
0:32:25 the laws of physics are just bookmarks
0:32:27 they're just our way of saying look here
0:32:30 these patterns let's give it a name
0:32:32 let's give it a label they also they
0:32:35 indicate the existence of a higher
0:32:37 metaphysical being absolutely it's the
0:32:39 greatest egocentric it's the greatest
0:32:42 egotistical statement to say something
0:32:45 as random well why because you're saying
0:32:48 that the world is us how I see it and
0:32:51 because my ignorance is here the world's
0:32:54 here that cannot see any further a great
0:32:56 question I want to ask you is the
0:32:58 highest mountain you've ever seen this
0:33:00 is a great question I'm forgetting about
0:33:02 who said it's such a beautiful question
0:33:03 is the highest mountain you've ever seen
0:33:05 comedy job the highest mountain that
0:33:08 exists no how do you feel that you can
0:33:13 imagine possibly you know that your
0:33:14 experiences are not the end-all be-all
0:33:16 it's a very humble answer yeah to say
0:33:18 you know what maybe not but the man who
0:33:20 says the highest mountain I've seen is
0:33:22 the highest mountain there is mm-hmm
0:33:24 he's taking an egocentric position he's
0:33:26 saying I'm the measure of truth that's a
0:33:29 really it is it is a beautiful way when
0:33:32 somebody tells you something is random
0:33:33 and they refuse to let go of randomness
0:33:35 they're telling you look don't tell me
0:33:36 I'm ignorant it's a personal issue and
0:33:39 philosophy why people don't like
0:33:40 philosophy and I remember reading one of
0:33:42 my textbooks he was saying look
0:33:43 philosophy is you looking in the mirror
0:33:45 and he was saying if you don't want to
0:33:48 know that you're ugly
0:33:49 don't go look in the river don't go look
0:33:52 in the river that's how people used to
0:33:53 see the reflections if you want to
0:33:56 believe you're beautiful don't look in
0:33:57 the river because when you look in the
0:33:58 river you can see your reflection in
0:33:59 philosophy when you study philosophy you
0:34:02 realize how little you know no I start
0:34:04 as sorry Socrates said it so well
0:34:06 knowledge is to know the extent of your
0:34:07 own ignorance
0:34:08 randomness is a reflection of my
0:34:10 ignorance I know that randomness when I
0:34:12 see something around this I know it's
0:34:13 not the truth capital T
0:34:15 it's my level the highest mountain that
0:34:17 I've seen is not necessarily the highest
0:34:19 mountain you know the highest mountain
0:34:20 we have observed as a human species on
0:34:22 Mars hmm it's bigger than the state of
0:34:24 Texas so if you stood on the highest
0:34:27 mountain earth EC proclaim this to be
0:34:29 the highest mountain you'd be wrong we
0:34:30 know of a higher much higher mountain
0:34:32 they say that mountain so high if you
0:34:33 were standing on it you wouldn't even
0:34:35 know you're on the mountain hmm so
0:34:38 randomness is it is a figment of your
0:34:39 imagination all we know is Gorder and
0:34:41 the story about the multiverse would
0:34:43 still not escape the problem you know
0:34:45 some people say oh there's a multiverse
0:34:47 hmm you should still have not understood
0:34:51 determinism determinism if there was a
0:34:54 multiverse then there is one multiverse
0:34:57 it would never change you you never
0:34:59 escape determinism we will do a video
0:35:01 I'm sure when they order determinism
0:35:03 yeah determinism in philosophy is the
0:35:06 one thing we all agree on I don't care
0:35:08 who you are
0:35:08 atheists theists a logician we all agree
0:35:11 on the term is in philosophy we say you
0:35:13 either agree with determinism or you
0:35:15 don't understand it that's the two
0:35:17 positions when I would go to school some
0:35:21 people would be upset with determinism
0:35:22 that there's no randomness except people
0:35:24 would be furious they don't understand
0:35:27 they would fail the teacher will give
0:35:29 you a zero you didn't understand hmm
0:35:31 determinism is a very important topic in
0:35:34 Islam people Muslims my knowledge we are
0:35:36 hard determinist in Islam it's hard core
0:35:39 determines we have that balance between
0:35:40 free will and determinism it
0:35:42 it's what Hegel would call an apparent
0:35:44 contradiction man you know I mean I will
0:35:47 talk about anything you want yeah listen
0:35:49 determinism even when you move your own
0:35:52 hands physics will explain how you move
0:35:54 your own hand remember we said the cause
0:35:56 of line is complete physics tells us
0:35:58 that every action in the history of the
0:36:00 world is due to two things your genetics
0:36:03 and your environment about the mind
0:36:06 we'll get to that after mmm it's a very
0:36:09 interesting question very interesting
0:36:10 but to keep things super simple
0:36:13 if I observe every behavior you've ever
0:36:16 done every action it's a result of two
0:36:19 things your genetics and your
0:36:22 environment so for instance keep it
0:36:24 really simple here as simple as possible
0:36:27 you go in a restaurant there are two
0:36:29 flavors hmm vanilla or chocolate go
0:36:32 ahead choose choose the flavor vanilla
0:36:44 or chocolate right I've been vanilla
0:36:47 okay why did you choose vanilla two
0:36:51 choices and I chose one okay you just
0:36:54 tell you there's an explanation
0:36:56 you chose vanilla because your taste
0:36:58 buds hmm
0:36:59 they have a chemical reaction that's
0:37:02 more pleasurable then when your taste
0:37:06 buds touch chocolate yeah and they're
0:37:08 this way because of your genetics and
0:37:09 your genetics you didn't choose them mmm
0:37:11 hence you didn't choose vanilla your
0:37:14 genetics chose for you because you
0:37:15 always follow your greatest desire and
0:37:17 you have no choice in the matter every
0:37:19 human being always follows their
0:37:20 greatest desire and they don't choose
0:37:21 what their greatest desire is now maybe
0:37:25 you were to chose strawberry but your
0:37:26 environment only allows you to choices
0:37:28 right and now we trace back the choice
0:37:32 to environment it's always nature or
0:37:34 nurture nature or nature and then in
0:37:37 science and in philosophy we have
0:37:39 something called epiphenomenalism
0:37:40 epiphenomenalism means that because of
0:37:43 determinism this little example I gave
0:37:45 you because of Laplace the billiard ball
0:37:47 theory because everything is pushing
0:37:50 everything else physics is a causal
0:37:51 chain yeah and your genetics were given
0:37:54 to you because of your parents you
0:37:55 didn't choose your parents and so on and
0:37:56 so forth and you were born in this
0:37:58 country and this is your environment you
0:37:59 didn't choose your environment all these
0:38:01 things are out of your control and your
0:38:02 behavior is based on these two things
0:38:04 and these two things are out of your
0:38:05 control therefore your behavior is out
0:38:06 of your control yeah yet in
0:38:11 epiphenomenalism they tell you when you
0:38:13 reach for a glass of water mmm
0:38:14 they say your your desire to reach for a
0:38:17 glass your your your your will you know
0:38:19 your your free will the thing you're
0:38:21 telling me about for you when you reach
0:38:23 for it was irrelevant we knew you were
0:38:24 gonna reach for that glass of water
0:38:26 we could calculate we could look into
0:38:27 your mind and calculate all those
0:38:30 billiard balls we can know your genetics
0:38:32 one day we'll compute your genetics well
0:38:34 say Muhammad ejobs gonna walk in this
0:38:36 restaurant at 5 o'clock he's gonna sit
0:38:38 here he's gonna ask for a different
0:38:39 flavor we're gonna tell him knowing he's
0:38:41 gonna end up choosing vanilla we could
0:38:43 predict everything hmm and it would be
0:38:46 right now where does that leave free
0:38:50 will because I've net said let's use me
0:38:52 Leibniz said that contradicts my
0:38:54 experience I'm not this robot hmm
0:38:57 because it would be basically you're a
0:38:59 robot or that life is a rollercoaster
0:39:01 kind of thing you're on the track
0:39:03 yeah but what what physics is saying is
0:39:06 look how many job you are exactly like a
0:39:08 robot if we know your algorithm we know
0:39:11 exactly what decisions you will make
0:39:13 anything we would say is randomness is
0:39:16 really a truly a limit of our thought
0:39:17 ability to think to compute if we had a
0:39:21 divine calculator we would know exactly
0:39:24 everything okay but when I sit down I
0:39:28 feel like I'm having a choice now how do
0:39:31 I know that I feel like I having a
0:39:33 choice what method am I using am I using
0:39:35 a scientific method a logical method
0:39:37 meeting mathematics or am i using
0:39:39 intuition tuition intuition I feel like
0:39:44 this story you just gave me is BS I
0:39:47 don't believe this robot theory right
0:39:49 you know what I chose vanilla all right
0:39:52 and my intuition is just as true or if
0:39:54 not it's actually more - I'm more
0:39:56 confident because I'm feeling it
0:39:58 directly all your science is an
0:40:00 interpretation of patterns and
0:40:01 regularities you have a faith based
0:40:02 system system that did the history the
0:40:05 future will behave like the past mmm how
0:40:10 did lime let's melt these two together
0:40:11 he said look Hegel would say that's an
0:40:14 apparent contradiction when things seem
0:40:15 they cannot be reconciled but they can
0:40:17 be it seems it cannot be reconciled
0:40:20 whether it can be but they can't be so
0:40:22 liveness of course life that comes to
0:40:24 the rescue in quite often in the history
0:40:26 and philosophy many great thinkers did I
0:40:27 don't want to just give liveness as a as
0:40:29 an example Leibniz coined it beautifully
0:40:31 and I always like to quote the person
0:40:32 who coined it very beautifully because
0:40:35 you know in in
0:40:36 in Islam we say you're determined the
0:40:40 Sahaba even asked the Prophet if we're
0:40:41 determined why salon it was Sammy said
0:40:43 I'm a little do you know dude I make
0:40:46 action man asked him should I tie my
0:40:48 camel or shares-a-lot take care of it
0:40:50 what was there was a harmony yeah
0:40:56 there's a harmony so lightness says this
0:40:58 says look picture two trains right there
0:41:02 on twin tracks they're not connected
0:41:04 together at all they're just
0:41:05 synchronized they're operating
0:41:07 independently but they're synchronized
0:41:08 hmm okay so these two trains if you
0:41:13 looked at from bird's-eye view you think
0:41:14 they're connected you get closer to them
0:41:17 and you see no they're not connected
0:41:18 there are not harmony together lightness
0:41:20 says this look when I reach for a glass
0:41:22 of water and I drink it Leibniz says my
0:41:27 will my this this part of my body that's
0:41:31 not part of the machine hmm
0:41:33 your your consciousness is not part of
0:41:35 the machine hmm
0:41:37 remember we talked about in another
0:41:40 video about if I walked around in your
0:41:42 brain I would see all the mission
0:41:43 machinery of your brain but I wouldn't
0:41:45 see your consciousness I wouldn't see
0:41:46 your first-person experience
0:41:47 yeah I wouldn't see all the thoughts you
0:41:49 have I wouldn't see that what it is to
0:41:51 be you that's you only know what
0:41:52 intuitively we don't know that
0:41:53 scientifically hmm he said look that
0:41:55 intuition the part of mine that spirit
0:41:58 that consciousness that immaterial part
0:42:01 of me that metaphysical part of me isn't
0:42:03 harmony my arm is moving and my will
0:42:06 which is not moving my arm they're just
0:42:08 in harmony they're anomaly and I bring
0:42:11 that water and I drink it hmm or they
0:42:14 eat that ice cream or whatever you did
0:42:15 hmm he says that harmony we asked him oh
0:42:18 how does his harmony come about he says
0:42:19 God God basically saying to you took the
0:42:23 greatest pool shot in history okay
0:42:27 everything is harmony now in Quran and
0:42:29 Islam this is perfect because anything
0:42:32 outside the will of Allah yeah but at
0:42:34 same time there is the the whole idea of
0:42:36 freewill as well
0:42:36 there's idea freewill yes but there's
0:42:40 there's a condition
0:42:41 yes if I go to shoot you and then you
0:42:44 can jams yes a cutter Allah yeah
0:42:46 my will was to kill you yes but Allah
0:42:49 didn't will it there wasn't the harmony
0:42:51 mmm but yet still no contradiction yeah
0:42:54 contradictions cannot exist yes that's
0:42:56 how we know truth exists people say our
0:42:58 truth is relative know if truth was
0:43:00 relative contradictions would exist we
0:43:02 know contradictions do not an
0:43:04 interesting refutation of relative
0:43:06 absolute listen and one day we'll do a
0:43:08 video on just the book of gory gets from
0:43:09 Plato
0:43:09 yeah I know you like Plato and
0:43:12 especially in stories look I think this
0:43:14 is a lot too I want if I want to cap it
0:43:22 off yeah yeah we've been talking for
0:43:24 hours okay this is this is like this is
0:43:26 like our we're about 45 minutes in
0:43:27 though yeah this is like our seven for
0:43:29 us okay hang out all day yeah I'll give
0:43:35 you that example the pool example this
0:43:37 is more of a theology now look when
0:43:39 people say Islam is peace Islam is peace
0:43:41 as long as me I'll tell you from what I
0:43:43 understand again my limit my knowledge
0:43:44 of Islam is limited correctly okay but
0:43:47 from somebody who studied philosophy for
0:43:49 20 years and now I'm studying Islam or
0:43:51 I'm seeing some very profound profound
0:43:54 statements that I wonder if you can
0:43:57 correct me this is my interpretation
0:43:58 maybe it's completely wrong but is la
0:44:01 miz is a practice it's a verb right
0:44:04 somebody's Islam could be better than
0:44:05 another's or practice better than
0:44:07 another verb it's a practice submission
0:44:08 yeah it's a submission right it's
0:44:10 actually very intriguing the name
0:44:12 submission because I'll give you this
0:44:15 example I'm not imagine you're standing
0:44:16 by a pool hmm and I push you in the pool
0:44:19 and you're angry because you're dressed
0:44:20 in your clothes and you're in the pool
0:44:22 and you're angry I've got a video like
0:44:23 that so you're angry I pushed you in the
0:44:28 pool I'm laughing and you're angry hmm
0:44:31 and now you're standing by the pool
0:44:33 again on another day mm-hmm and you're
0:44:36 you don't know I'm behind you and I'm
0:44:38 about to push you in and as I'm pushing
0:44:40 me and you were jumping in I was in time
0:44:43 there was a synchrony a harmony and you
0:44:46 land in the pool and I think I pushed
0:44:47 you and you jumped involuntarily and
0:44:49 there's a harmony amazed
0:44:50 amazing you so harmony there are wheels
0:44:52 weren't tuned Wow Wow
0:44:55 did you are you at peace now in this
0:44:57 scenario yes amazing the first scenario
0:44:59 you're not at peace
0:45:00 the second scenario at peace now before
0:45:03 I let you go and tell you story about
0:45:04 Kitty buyer
0:45:05 why I believe that if you if you have a
0:45:07 trust in Allah mmm you accepted then
0:45:10 yeah as it is you accept your your
0:45:12 destiny as it is you have a peace
0:45:14 because you have a trust any type of
0:45:16 turmoil is being at odds with the will
0:45:19 of God you don't accept the world as it
0:45:21 is you don't accept your looks as they
0:45:23 are your intelligence as they are your
0:45:25 potential as it is your situation and as
0:45:27 you're angry you're not in harmony so
0:45:31 there's a woman named Katie Byron and
0:45:32 I'm using her as an example because
0:45:34 she's a great bridge from east and west
0:45:36 hmm she was a secular person a Western
0:45:40 thinker maybe she's even English if I
0:45:42 remember correctly American English
0:45:44 Katie Byron very very intriguing person
0:45:47 she's considered to be an enlightened
0:45:49 being though yeah they consider him like
0:45:51 the the Buddhist they considered to be
0:45:53 unlike me man
0:45:55 so she said that she was going to the
0:45:58 madhouse she went to she was committed
0:45:59 mmm because her life was just shed
0:46:02 depression and then one day she said she
0:46:04 had an epiphany she writes books now
0:46:06 shelves people all over the world see a
0:46:07 very famous speaker and writer very
0:46:08 famous she has people all sorts of
0:46:10 problems she says look one day I came to
0:46:13 the conclusion that you know what
0:46:14 there's God's business and there's my
0:46:15 business and I'm never gonna object to
0:46:17 God's business again yeah so she went
0:46:19 back home and she saw her kids socks on
0:46:21 the floor she says she for years she
0:46:23 fought with them to pick up their socks
0:46:25 now she said you know what I'm just
0:46:26 gonna pick it up and if her daughter
0:46:28 gave her bad news it wouldn't it wasn't
0:46:29 bad news she did interpret it as bad
0:46:31 news now this is very stoic of her you
0:46:33 know that's the story for another day
0:46:35 and she became happy and joyful and she
0:46:38 gives you the story about how her
0:46:39 grandson once upon a time was dying in
0:46:41 her arms and she didn't let the fact
0:46:43 that he's dying spoiled it she said look
0:46:45 if he lives or dies that's God's
0:46:46 business the part the medics are doing
0:46:48 what they can't can do
0:46:49 Wow yeah I won't let this rob me of my
0:46:52 moment I have with him whether I have 50
0:46:53 years with him or ten shows you the
0:46:55 power there's no minutes this whole
0:46:56 philosophy has been over this whole
0:46:58 theology this whole precept has it makes
0:47:00 you
0:47:01 another video makes you much more like
0:47:04 willing to give the world or take from
0:47:06 the world because you realize that there
0:47:08 is a plan there's a plan but there was a
0:47:10 submission on her part yeah she yielded
0:47:13 to God's business [ __ ] look God this
0:47:15 I'll never argue with you again I'll
0:47:17 never I'll never go against the grain
0:47:19 again hmm
0:47:21 if something a calamity happens tomorrow
0:47:25 I will not interpret as a calamity
0:47:26 I refuse to it's your bet you did this
0:47:29 it's out of my control so this is it
0:47:31 whatever is in your control do it be in
0:47:33 harmony
0:47:34 whatever is out of your control don't
0:47:36 say you like it or you dislike be in
0:47:38 harmony with it and accept it this is
0:47:40 what I understand from what I've
0:47:41 understood myself and understood it you
0:47:43 know again I'm very beginning this makes
0:47:46 why I would say it's the name Islam is
0:47:49 one maybe one reason it makes sense its
0:47:51 submission to the will there must be a
0:47:53 synchrony a yielding a yielding I should
0:47:55 say a yielding and again this is very
0:47:57 complicated topics and I think that that
0:48:00 last pool example is I think both
0:48:02 examples lightness examples after you
0:48:04 think about them you might not have
0:48:06 understood them straight away but if you
0:48:07 think about them with a little bit of
0:48:08 thought and kind of live mature and
0:48:11 ferment in your mind a little bit I
0:48:12 think it will actually have a real
0:48:14 resonating effect on you so do you think
0:48:16 about it's really interesting how to put
0:48:18 the two things together kind of like
0:48:19 free will and determinism and how it can
0:48:22 seem like a contradiction when you do
0:48:24 put them together it can become very
0:48:25 very powerful but if you object to any
0:48:29 of these ideas show us one instance of
0:48:32 true randomness oh yeah somebody can
0:48:37 show one example of actual randomness of
0:48:39 actual randomly earth that's not a
0:48:41 reflection of our ignorance nobody in
0:48:43 history has done it so far maybe
0:48:45 somebody out there will mmm who knows
0:48:47 I personally visit it's logically
0:48:49 impossible yeah but again I've made
0:48:52 mistakes in the past and I'm sure yeah
0:48:55 you know shouldn't leave their comments
0:48:56 and definitely try engage with us but
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