Joe Rogan - Everything is Connected

Quantum physics doesn't make sense to me. Well, I've tried. Yeah, I'd really hard It makes about the same sense as that definition you were just reading a ventricle exactly I'll go over it and over it again and get little chunks of it right and I would understand like Sections of sentences right and then I'd have to try to put them together with the other sections. It's hard It's tough stuff. But one of the most important things I think was in the Olds War who said this I'm not quite sure but one of the members of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics Said that basically a particle exists in many states simultaneously And it's not until it's measured that it collapses into one stage. That's one of the basic principles of quantum physics Well, guess what Niels? Every particle is being measured in some way all the time all of its life By other particles that are basically taking its measure and then responding essentially. Nothing is Isolated nothing is isolated in this particular cosmos you were talking I watched a video Where you were talking about that there is essentially a universal brain Well, yes, because you and I right now We're gonna be talking to possibly out of your 500 words. It's more like 1 million Total viewers and listeners More than that. So it's probably closer to three. Yeah, so we're gonna be talking to let's say a hundred thousand of them or 200,000 of them And they're processing what we are saying right now There are bacteria in your gut and mind who live in enormous colonies and enormous bacterial colony If you had it on the palm of your hand, it would be the size of your hand But you couldn't see it Are you thinking of this while you're saying it? Are you thinking of the vast numbers of people that are listening and watching or are you just relaying the information? Like are you? Are you cognizant? Yep, both both because I want remember Einstein gave me my marching orders you have to take complex ideas and simplify them so much that anyone with a high school education and a reasonable degree of Intelligence can understand them and I want to make good radio for your audience But once you what I'm trying to get at is once you have got it established in your head that nothing is isolated That everything is connected when you speak are you aware when you're speaking that everything is connected? I mean are you are you actually? Consciously thinking of all of these different minds taking into account all these different mind-blowing things that you're saying and then applying them out in The world I think so. Yeah, I mean, you know if you hear it coming out of my mouth That's what's turning around in my brain. I'm just you're you're such a bright guy I'm just trying to understand if you're in the moment or if you're in the moment as well as being consciously aware of the spread of Information well my obligation is to do both simultaneously. Yeah. Yeah, that's my obligation. That's what I assumed. Yeah so at any rate so that The entropic theory doesn't make any sense the I mean look there. I wasn't a bed, right, right? So you would think I'm totally isolated. I'm not you're not I'm not I mean once upon a time I wrote an essay about Descartes. Well, Descartes came up with the idea of I think therefore I am He took a retreat in Amsterdam He rented a second floor apartment and he was trying to isolate himself the way that those Particles are isolated with the Schrodinger's equation the particles that were being drawn on napkins in Moscow And so that he could strip everything away and find out what was the most basic Thing the most basic axiom the most basic thing we take for granted in life And he came up with I think therefore am now think about this for a minute While he was trying to think this out. He was needing a Rubbery gum eraser with which he erased his ink he was sitting on the second floor which means somebody had invented the architecture that he was sitting in and the concept of the floor and The concept of beams that go across from one wall to the other that were holding him up He was looking out the window and he was looking at the hats that the Amsterdam men and women Were wearing as they walked by and he was fucking the cleaning lady whom he made pregnant. So how isolated really was he? The universal mind theory this that or this concept I shouldn't say theory It the way you were describing it is very interesting that there is no Individual thought that essentially there's lots of individual thought It's all connected right to all the other people that are around you and all the people that you've interacted with and all the places You've been and the things you've seen and all the people that are constantly thinking Simultaneously around you that you're aware and the people that you're trying to influence because you're trying to influence people all day long If you want somebody to bring you a sandwich you have to get across that you want that sandwich Yeah And especially if you want somebody like a wife or an assistant to bring you a sandwich and that's not normally what they do then you really have to work hard in influence going but but the the universe At least the living part of the universe and so far we only know of life on this planet It's all interconnected those bacteria. I was talking about there in your gut. They are making your vitamin B They are making your vitamin K. They are making an awful lot of the things that you use to survive They're also making chemicals that influence your mind and your moods They're manipulating you. So when you go now to the corner store To buy some chocolate eclairs and you go home and you eat them In fact, you can only digest a small portion of the chocolate eclair those bacterial colonies living in your gut They do the rest of the digesting for you So who's really going to the corner store who's really the boss who's really driving you the vehicle of transportation? Are these bacteria driving you down to the corner store so that you will feed them the stuff that they love the most? Or as your will driving you to the corner store while the answer is a little of both a little of both Not as much of both. I mean there there's this example of There's this fungus and The fungus has a very peculiar lifestyle and I'm very curious to found out how it got this lifestyle But it lives half of its life in an ant colony and half of its life in a sheep so when it comes out of the phase of That it goes through in the ant colony and is ready to go into the sheep it takes over the brain of an ant and It gets that ant to climb to the top of a stalk of grass Why because when the sheep come along to graze they will inhale the ant What you're telling me that a fungus? Can control the mind of an ant in ways that we're just beginning to explore now This year and maybe last year a tiny little bit that it can actually be that precise in how it takes over the controls Oh that's related to one of those the fungus that gets inside those ants and the ants are aware of it So they take the ant away because the ant will explode and spray spores into the air and affect the infect Oh, I'm not aware of that one, but it sounds the cordyceps. Yeah, yeah, but it but it sounds similar Yeah, but but the real deal is okay Life on this earth functions the way that a beehive functions and how does a beehive function? 95% of the bees are conformist bees and they go go out to the hot flower patch of the day and they mine The nectar and they have a public stomach in which they can carry this stuff I mean built into them inside of them and they have these carrying hairs on their thighs and They carry pollen in those and when they arrive at the unloading bay There is an unloading bay in the hive and when they arrive at the unloading bay if the unloaders know that the interior really needs pollen and nectar and They see you carrying that pollen and nectar they stick their tones down your throat to check out what's in your public stomach They go wild with excitement when they discover it's filled with nectar They check out your thighs the carrying hairs on your thighs They go wild when they see that you're carrying pollen. They feel you all over with their antennae They're intensely excited when they are unloading you and that gets you excited. You feel like a rock star Because this is the same kind of attention a rock star gets so you go back out to the flower patch of the day and mine some more Meanwhile, there are these lazy good for nothing bohemian bees they're anyway from 5% to 20% of the colony and They don't do a single useful thing at all And so far as you can see they don't do anything to earn their keep in the colony Why because they're out doing loop after loop after loop and lazy eights after lazy eights after lazy It's the fly eight miles just following their whims following their whims. I mean if you were their mother, what would you say? You're wasting your fucking life for God's sakes. Okay, eventually you the conformist being Star coming back without pollen and you're carrying hairs and without nectar and your public stomach because the flower patch the hot flower patch of the day Has been thoroughly plundered and when you arrive at the unloading dock of the hive The unloading bees stick their tongue into your public stomach empty. Sorry, they see your carrying hairs empty they turn their backs on you so savagely that you feel as if you've been cut dead and If finally, I mean you can't believe that the old factory is not delivering anymore and it's not giving you a paycheck So you keep going back to the same patch over and over again more slowly each time until finally you give up and you literally crawl into the hive and Thomas Seeley the guy who's done most of the research on this Calls you an unemployed bee and you are as depressed as if you were unemployed How do we know that because your body temperature is down and you're crawling instead of walking? And you're begging for food from other bees. Well, you look for something to perk you up Now what are humans use a football game a movie? Bees use pretty much the same thing. What does that mean? They go to the unloading dock Out of the 200 lazy good-for-nothing bohemian bees simply following their instincts five have come back having found new flower patches and they are dancing and the dancing excites you and They're dancing in competition with each other. Some will dance 27 seconds Some will dance 27 minutes and if you find the dance of one of those dancers sufficiently persuasive It lifts you out of your lethargy Gets you excited and you fly out. She's giving a little in a little figure 8 dance she is giving precise instructions on how to get to the flower patch and what the headwinds are and what the tailwinds are and You pick up her message you fly out to the flower patch that she has recommended and you check it out for yourself and if you get excited about it you come back and you start dancing and ultimately the bee who gets the greatest number of backup dancers wins and You all go out all you conformist bees were now unemployed Go out to the new hot flower patch of the day in the same pattern repeats itself Now that's a collective mind operating on the basis of 20,000 independent bees and that the living world Operates in pretty much the same way Bacteria are using you to get them chocolate eclairs. You are using them to digest chocolate eclairs. They are Teasing our scientists into wild activity by threatening to develop illnesses that can bypass all of our antibiotics Which by the way are chemical weapons that microorganisms colonies of microorganisms organisms used to kill entire Competing colonies we stole them for microorganisms. We didn't invent them antibiotics so the scientists are very worth the fact that the bees are that the Bacteria are getting ahead of us in research and development and are beginning to develop techniques to get around all of our drugs So they are researching their ass off. So is there any common brain that links the Bacteria to the scientific community you bet they're competing with each other and in the process of competing with Each other what are they doing? They are both creating new options for all of life