ELON MUSK: MAGICIAN OF THE NEW AGE? (2020-10-09) ​

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0:00:15 how are you guys doing it's a nice day
0:00:19 and it's a nice day to comment on
0:00:21 something which is very viral on the
0:00:23 internet
0:00:24 the neural link and obviously our
0:00:26 brother zeeshan from smile to janna has
0:00:28 an entire video on this which you can
0:00:30 check out
0:00:31 but let me talk about this because
0:00:33 actually when i went to santa clara i
0:00:34 went to santa clara which is also known
0:00:36 as
0:00:36 silicon valley and i had a debate
0:00:40 with one of the intellectuals there or
0:00:43 one of the
0:00:44 people who represented atheism an
0:00:46 atheism debate in
0:00:48 sacramento and i was in california and i
0:00:50 went to santa clara
0:00:51 and there was someone who actually works
0:00:53 with elon musk
0:00:54 who came to me and he said he wants to
0:00:56 have me speak to elon musk
0:00:59 privately and so on and so forth and at
0:01:01 that time
0:01:02 the schedules were conflicting i mean i
0:01:04 had to go back to london
0:01:05 i had to go to la first and then go back
0:01:07 to london and so the schedules were
0:01:09 conflicting and unfortunately i wasn't
0:01:12 able
0:01:12 to make that that meeting but of course
0:01:15 now if we
0:01:16 uh want to reschedule it we can i know
0:01:18 obviously elon musk
0:01:19 or his employees or anyone who works for
0:01:21 him can
0:01:22 contact me uh on the email that belongs
0:01:25 to this channel you can obviously go to
0:01:26 the about us
0:01:27 page or the section on the youtube
0:01:29 channel and send me an email
0:01:30 with the appropriate titling but having
0:01:32 said this now
0:01:34 the reason why i've just thought of elon
0:01:35 musk is because of the whole neural link
0:01:37 discussion that's being had but before
0:01:39 we have that discussion and
0:01:40 before i comment on those things let's
0:01:42 see what elon musk actually said which i
0:01:45 thought
0:01:45 was quite problematic let's take a look
0:01:47 at what he says will you be able to save
0:01:49 and replay
0:01:50 memories in the future
0:01:53 uh yes i think uh in the future you will
0:01:55 be able to save and
0:01:57 replay memories um i mean this is
0:01:59 obviously sounding increasingly like a
0:02:01 black mirror episode
0:02:02 before i comment on this situation here
0:02:04 with elon musk
0:02:05 i want to say something which is that
0:02:07 you know back in the days
0:02:09 magic used to be illusionary you used to
0:02:11 have some kind of you know trick
0:02:12 to take the bunny out of the hat and so
0:02:15 on that would be magic
0:02:16 but i want to give you maybe a thought
0:02:18 experiment something to think about
0:02:20 if we brought one of our smartphones or
0:02:23 maybe a rocket or
0:02:24 a car and we transported it back to
0:02:28 let's say the 8th century or the 9th
0:02:30 century what do you think people would
0:02:32 say about this instrument this
0:02:34 technological instrument i'm pretty sure
0:02:36 that they would call this magical and
0:02:39 the reason why
0:02:40 they would call this magical is because
0:02:41 for them it's completely inexplicable
0:02:43 they can't explain it in any way shape
0:02:45 or form
0:02:46 so they would attribute it to the demons
0:02:47 they would attribute it
0:02:49 to magic and magic really works best
0:02:53 when the person who's doing it is able
0:02:56 to delude
0:02:58 in a sense deceive individuals into
0:03:01 thinking
0:03:02 that they can do something which is not
0:03:03 actually possible
0:03:05 which defies the scope of the empirical
0:03:08 reality
0:03:10 and i think that to be honest with you
0:03:12 um when i was growing up i used to watch
0:03:14 these
0:03:15 you know when i was a kid i used to
0:03:16 watch people like david blaine and these
0:03:18 you know
0:03:19 famous magicians recently i saw david
0:03:21 blaine he's on the
0:03:23 gre uh joe rogan experience podcast
0:03:26 and he was vomiting out some frogs and i
0:03:29 i promise you even joe rogan was
0:03:30 felt sick and disgusted from this and i
0:03:33 don't think
0:03:34 that we have room for that kind of
0:03:36 illusionary type of magic anymore it's
0:03:38 boring now it's
0:03:39 the thing of the past it's a waste of
0:03:41 time
0:03:43 and actually it's quite disgusting in
0:03:44 the case of the example i just gave you
0:03:46 but the most effective magic i see
0:03:49 happening now
0:03:50 relates to people speaking in
0:03:52 technological terms scientific terms
0:03:54 so-called
0:03:55 scientific so-called technological terms
0:04:00 in ways which makes people think that
0:04:02 they can do things
0:04:04 which they can't actually do and of
0:04:06 course
0:04:07 from an islamic perspective and i know
0:04:08 from a christian perspective as well
0:04:10 the meta narrative is at the end of
0:04:11 times there will be an antichrist
0:04:13 and this antichrist or from the islamic
0:04:15 perspective
0:04:17 will literally deceive people into
0:04:19 thinking that they he can
0:04:21 raise people back from the dead
0:04:24 and of course this is impossible
0:04:28 it could be the case god knows best
0:04:31 that the antichrist does so using
0:04:34 technological jargon
0:04:37 because now almost if you use technology
0:04:40 like elon musk has in the clip that
0:04:43 we've seen
0:04:44 you can pretty much try and justify
0:04:46 anything so let's get to the point of
0:04:49 why what elon musk said itself is really
0:04:52 problematic
0:04:53 and it bypasses so many discussions are
0:04:55 happening in academia
0:04:57 in such a you know casual way let's talk
0:05:00 about it
0:05:01 so when he was asked about saving and
0:05:04 retrieving
0:05:05 memories elon musk states
0:05:09 that he thinks it's possible to do so
0:05:11 but what our memories really are
0:05:12 composite of
0:05:15 what our memories really are composite
0:05:16 of because memories
0:05:18 are not just the information retrieved
0:05:20 from the five
0:05:21 senses they are not just the information
0:05:24 retrieved from the five senses
0:05:26 memories are also the experiences or the
0:05:29 first person subjective
0:05:31 states otherwise known sometimes as
0:05:33 emotions that we had
0:05:35 when we were undergoing such things
0:05:37 whatever it is that we were going
0:05:38 through
0:05:39 so i want you to think of a memory that
0:05:41 you you're acquainted with
0:05:42 maybe with a loved one now obviously if
0:05:45 i were watching the same thing if
0:05:46 for example you got that video of
0:05:50 you and your son daughter mother
0:05:53 uh father person that you love and it
0:05:55 was a really meaningful memory to you
0:05:58 and i watched it on a television set am
0:06:01 i gonna have the same experience with
0:06:02 that
0:06:03 information as you would of course not
0:06:06 of course not the reason why is because
0:06:09 the feelings that you had
0:06:11 interacting with that information are
0:06:12 completely different to the feelings
0:06:14 that i have
0:06:15 now the question is can emotions be
0:06:17 saved
0:06:18 stored and retrieved the answer is
0:06:20 unequivocally no
0:06:21 they can't be because they're
0:06:22 first-person subjective experiences
0:06:24 and as thomas sneagle says science is
0:06:27 the work of third person
0:06:29 science works in the third person so how
0:06:31 can third-person science access in the
0:06:33 first place
0:06:34 first person subjective experiences
0:06:38 another issue is this say for example we
0:06:41 take the physicalist view
0:06:42 which by the way is unprovable through
0:06:45 neurology
0:06:46 because physicalism is an assumption
0:06:47 it's a metaphysical
0:06:49 philosophical assumption and you have to
0:06:52 have this assumption in order to think
0:06:53 somehow that it's possible to take
0:06:55 first-person subjective experiences and
0:06:56 save them and retrieve them
0:06:59 but let's say for the sake of argument
0:07:01 we take this view
0:07:02 to be charitable and say
0:07:05 we put an individual under an mri scan
0:07:08 and we
0:07:09 activate for example we stimulate
0:07:13 their love center for example by showing
0:07:15 them pictures or videos
0:07:17 of people that they love showing them on
0:07:19 the other hand pictures and videos of
0:07:20 people that they hate
0:07:23 and tracking in the on their brain
0:07:26 the centers the neurological centers
0:07:29 which
0:07:30 activate when you know the when they are
0:07:32 reminded of the people that they love
0:07:34 versus when they're like
0:07:35 reminded of the people that they hate
0:07:37 you'll see in the brain
0:07:39 in that mapping for the sake of argument
0:07:42 a certain area
0:07:44 or certain neurons reacting in a certain
0:07:46 way let's say for the sake of argument
0:07:48 they react in ways
0:07:49 call it abc love whenever love is
0:07:52 present
0:07:53 abc is present in the brain this is a
0:07:55 neurological
0:07:57 uh kind of like you know a reaction to
0:07:59 love
0:08:00 abc and whenever hate is with the the
0:08:03 the opposite whenever hate is there cde
0:08:06 neurological pathways are activated and
0:08:08 firings happen
0:08:09 in on the mind on the brain sorry and
0:08:12 when this happens
0:08:14 okay you think
0:08:17 as the scientists so love equals abc and
0:08:20 hey equals
0:08:20 cde right are you with me here so
0:08:24 you got the brain under the mri and
0:08:26 you're stimulating it with love and hate
0:08:28 and you think love is abc and you think
0:08:31 hate is d
0:08:32 c d e okay now
0:08:35 in the case of love which is abc in the
0:08:37 case of love which is abc
0:08:39 the question is is neurological pathway
0:08:41 abc
0:08:43 only present when love is present
0:08:46 so david papanua says no
0:08:50 and this is the argument an undercutter
0:08:52 for me
0:08:53 in the academic literature which i
0:08:55 believe smackdown
0:08:57 is a smackdown argument for this kind of
0:09:00 reasoning if
0:09:03 only love caused abc then you'd have
0:09:07 more of an argument but it's not the
0:09:09 case that abc
0:09:10 is instantiated only when love is there
0:09:14 and even if that was the case whenever
0:09:16 love is there and only love
0:09:18 abc is there then there'd be an issue
0:09:20 with
0:09:21 saying that correlation equals causation
0:09:23 so there's two layers of problem
0:09:25 which show us how it is impossible even
0:09:28 on physicalist grounds
0:09:30 that emotions can sometimes somehow be
0:09:33 saved and retrieved and then
0:09:35 saved and then retrieved so
0:09:38 this is where individuals
0:09:41 who who use technology
0:09:45 may not be who may not be acquainted
0:09:47 with the academic literature on the
0:09:48 topic
0:09:49 on the heart problems of consciousness
0:09:52 will make such claims very casually
0:09:57 to make people think that they can
0:09:58 actually do things which are not
0:09:59 possible
0:10:01 in fact it's not possible to save let me
0:10:02 tell you this now it's not possible to
0:10:04 save
0:10:05 and retrieve how you felt about anything
0:10:08 because how you felt is a first person
0:10:11 subjective state
0:10:12 and how you felt is inextricably linked
0:10:15 to how
0:10:16 and what you did and that is
0:10:19 the equation for an experience and a
0:10:21 memory otherwise
0:10:22 it's the same as me videoing something
0:10:24 on my phone saving and retrieving what's
0:10:26 the difference a neural link you put it
0:10:27 in your brain
0:10:28 video and something on my phone there's
0:10:30 not much difference you see
0:10:32 so here it's very important to note that
0:10:35 those postulations that are made
0:10:37 are false because if we start to believe
0:10:40 these individuals who speak in these
0:10:42 technological ways
0:10:44 and these scientific ways in order to
0:10:46 really make philosophical arguments
0:10:48 or at least make assumptions which have
0:10:51 uh
0:10:52 make arguments which have philosophical
0:10:53 presuppositions physicalist
0:10:55 presuppositions in this case
0:10:57 then that is the slippery slope
0:11:00 that will lead ultimately to
0:11:04 believing that these individuals are
0:11:07 worth
0:11:07 your in in a sense mental subordination
0:11:10 quite frankly
0:11:11 mental and ideologically even
0:11:14 subordination
0:11:15 and this is the pathway leading to the
0:11:19 antichrist from our perspective leading
0:11:21 to
0:11:21 the gel from our perspective so we have
0:11:23 to be careful of
0:11:24 those realities so the reason why this
0:11:27 is
0:11:28 important to this whole narrative of the
0:11:30 antichrist
0:11:31 is because from our perspective as
0:11:33 muslims that the jail the antichrist
0:11:35 will come at the end of times and will
0:11:36 tell people
0:11:37 that look i'm going to be able to raise
0:11:38 your parents i'm going to be able to
0:11:39 raise the dead i'm going to be able to
0:11:40 do these things and
0:11:42 and then finally he's gonna ask people
0:11:44 for his worship
0:11:45 which is really in truly submission
0:11:47 mental
0:11:48 and ideological submission so i say to
0:11:50 elon musk it'll be really interesting
0:11:53 uh you know it was two years ago when i
0:11:55 was meant to come and see you
0:11:57 in silicon valley with the invitation of
0:12:00 your
0:12:01 your colleague or your employee
0:12:05 in santa clara and of course i'm willing
0:12:08 to do that
0:12:09 still like we can have a conversation on
0:12:11 zoom we and so on and so forth but the
0:12:13 point is
0:12:15 these are big questions about life and
0:12:17 the quran actually has something to say
0:12:19 about life in general and about what you
0:12:21 can and can't do
0:12:22 and by knowing what you can't do then
0:12:25 you can't aspire to impossibility
0:12:27 and the quran says this look
0:12:30 at me
0:12:36 those who you call besides god and take
0:12:39 as gods in other words you worship and
0:12:40 you give them that mental subordination
0:12:42 and that
0:12:43 you know that absolute subordination
0:12:45 submission
0:12:46 besides the creator god allah we call
0:12:50 allah
0:12:53 they will not even be able to create a
0:12:55 fly
0:12:57 because even if you get the chemical
0:13:01 things that are required for a fly to be
0:13:03 you will never be able to
0:13:04 to put in that fly first person
0:13:06 subjective experiences
0:13:08 you will never be able to give that fly
0:13:10 consciousness life-bearing consciousness
0:13:13 and therefore you'll never be able to
0:13:14 create a fly in the first place
0:13:18 the quran says even if they come
0:13:19 together and try
0:13:21 and do so so knowing all those things
0:13:24 will let us know
0:13:26 what the limits are to science and
0:13:28 technology generally
0:13:30 and not allow us to give ourselves as
0:13:32 slaves
0:13:34 to such individuals who speak in
0:13:36 scientific
0:13:37 and technological jargon but intend
0:13:40 nothing but
0:13:40 magic was like
0:13:54 you