Name: Neill Blomkamp Talks About Eternal Recurrence
Uploaded: 2021-08-19T17:30:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Neill Blomkamp Talks About Eternal Recurrence' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Neill Blomkamp Talks About Eternal Recurrence' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-19. Transcript available.

My own point of view with all with with thinking that that you know
extravagant is is that I I think I'm a complete solipsist I think everything
around me is some sort of holographic thing that I'm dropped into for the
duration of my life and when I die it all disappears really yeah I kind of do
think so I think I think it's I also think that there's there's everything
that is going to happen has already happened and there's a paradox where
free will also exists so I think that I think I have the ability to go around
and act with free will I don't think that things are completely
deterministic but I think the free will is informed by the biological
programming
we were talking about before hmm but I'm still choosing within a given set of
what I'm allowed to choose from but the paradox is also that I think that by
you
know I'm probably on my deathbed if you collapse time down and look at it as
like
a linear that you know thing if you just if you just observe it it's like Neil's
death is here his birth is here these are these other events theoretically with
free
will as you move through that three-dimensional map these other events
should change right each day with choices you make all of these other
outcomes should move and somehow I don't think they do I think that they're
kind of
locked in place and Nietzsche speaks about that he calls it eternal recurrence
and it's like eternal
recurrence was something that I got I got quite interested in because it felt
true to me
how so how so felt true well he says he says that he says that what what
happens is that your life is set and all of the events within your life
not only are set but they will also recur infinitely through time so instead of
the idea of reincarnation it's almost like the the idea of reincarnation into
your own life eternally and so someone else from a different point of view
would be able to see the this event of like Joe Rogan's life
and see you make these choices and then they would see you begin and make these
choices again and he kind of used it as a thought experiment where he said
he said that if I if I went to most people out in the world and I said to them
that your life is going to repeat exactly like this forever he said it was a
burden that would be too heavy for most people to be able to deal with
yeah that their life is that they don't want to live their life over the way
that they've lived it enough that it would be literally the worst burden that
they could be given
I've pondered this before and I've heard this brought up before in fact Elio
Gracie is a famous Brazilian Jiu Jitsu guy who was uh he's the he's the
patriarch of like the greatest martial arts clan ever yeah he believed that he
believed you will live your life over and over again until you get it right
yeah Nietzsche is saying that you you don't get the chance to do it right it's
locked in place it's locked in place it's locked in place it's
except exactly the same way forever yeah but why why would he believe that
because you can chip but if you believe in free will that's the paradox yeah so
if you believe I think you'll make the same choices over and over but why but
because you're not learning each time you go back you're not it's not a
different version of you it's the same version of you but why haven't you
learned from the past because you it to us we are the birth and the death is
one event but if you are having
uh the same life experience over and over and over and over again what is you
if that's you having the same is it new versions of you or is it you know it's
just one it's just you yeah why don't you learn well what what what you
because from from a from a three-dimensional standpoint in in that linear
timeline when you die you that feels like the end of the play from from a
fourth dimensional different observational standpoint you can watch it
repeating yeah but his point was was with free will inside of that linear
timeline you should live your life in a way that the that you would want it to
go on forever it was sort of a thought experiment yeah but what what i was
getting at was the feeling that to me it feels like things are set in
place and because this comes from the solipsistic thing that we were talking
about where i think that it's it's all in the the person it's in the observer's
eyes
right and by the and i also think time is an illusion as well so by the time
you get to the end of your life and you're you're lying on your deathbed
um you you all of these events could have been a dream it could just be a fever
dream you know um so they they weren't because you free will exists and you
acted on them but time compresses down to this moment
and and and and that's the only thing that's there is the sort of this present
moment that you're living inside of but it's being committed to this idea that
all these things are playing out is that comforting is that why you're willing
to embrace it that way that there's no getting around this and that this is
what it is no i mean i
i mean i don't i don't act like i don't have free will right and i don't act
like things are set in place i just on a very very deep subconscious level i
feel like they are
so you feel like fate is real in some ways in some in some ways it is yeah i do
think there's a paradox though i think there's a definite paradox do you think
about that when you're making films do you think do you think like
as because the the creative process of writing and then i'm sure i've never
edited a film but i would imagine editing and filming it and choosing the
angles you're visualizing this creation and you're putting it together and then
ultimately you get a final product and
yeah that's what people go to see it's similar to people's lives i mean you
could say right it the choices that you're making because there's infinite
possible there's infinite possible outcomes right and you're
collapsing that down you're collapsing the wave the wave function into one
outcome and so that's what i think is happening i think that we are given
infinite numbers of options and we have the ability to act on on those we
choose a
we choose a path and in in the action of choosing we collapse all possibility
to one outcome and the tree is crushed down watch the entire episode for free
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