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Elon Musk reveals the single idea that explains why he keeps working despite being worth $800 billion "When I was a teenager, I had an existential crisis trying to figure out what's the meaning of life. It doesn't seem to be any meaning" "For me at least, the religious...

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.Elon Musk (worth $250B) answers why he’s still working: I think it's a good question you asked, because it goes to, like, at a foundational level, what is my philosophy, and why does it lead to this conclusion? So the reason is that when I was a teenager, I had, like, an existential crisis to try to figure out what's the meaning of life. There doesn't seem to be any meaning. For me, at least the religious texts, and I read all of them that I could get my hands on did not seem convincing. Then I started reading the philosophers. Be careful of reading German philosophers as a teenager. It's definitely not going to help with your depression. So reading Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, as an adult, it's much more manageable. But as a kid, you're like, “Whoa.” So then I was like, “Man, I'm just struggling to find meaning in life here.” And then I read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And basically what Douglas Adams was saying is that we don't really know what the right questions are to ask. The question is not, “What's the meaning of life?” In The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Earth it turns out is a big computer, and its goal is to answer the question, “What's the meaning of life?” And Earth comes up with the answer “42”. This is where the 42 number comes from. And 420 is just ten times 42. In that book, which is really sort of a book about, it's an existential philosophy book disguised as humor. They come to the conclusion that, no, the real problem is trying to formulate the question. And to really have the right question, you need a much bigger computer than Earth. And so maybe one way, I think, of characterizing this would be to say, “The universe is the answer. What is the question? Or what are the questions?” The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multistellar species… we have a chance of figuring out what the hell is going on. And so this is why I think we should have more humans and both biological and digital consciousness. And why we should become a multi-planet species and a multistellar species is so that we can understand the nature of the universe. And then in order for that to occur, then we have to make sure that things are good on Earth. We don't want Earth to disappear, so sustainable energy is important.
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.Elon Musk (worth $250B) answers why he’s still working: I think it's a good question you asked, because it goes to, like, at a foundational level, what is my philosophy, and why does it lead to this conclusion? So the reason is that when I was a teenager, I had, like, an existential crisis to try to figure out what's the meaning of life. There doesn't seem to be any meaning. For me, at least the religious texts, and I read all of them that I could get my hands on did not seem convincing. Then I started reading the philosophers. Be careful of reading German philosophers as a teenager. It's definitely not going to help with your depression. So reading Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, as an adult, it's much more manageable. But as a kid, you're like, “Whoa.” So then I was like, “Man, I'm just struggling to find meaning in life here.” And then I read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And basically what Douglas Adams was saying is that we don't really know what the right questions are to ask. The question is not, “What's the meaning of life?” In The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Earth it turns out is a big computer, and its goal is to answer the question, “What's the meaning of life?” And Earth comes up with the answer “42”. This is where the 42 number comes from. And 420 is just ten times 42. In that book, which is really sort of a book about, it's an existential philosophy book disguised as humor. They come to the conclusion that, no, the real problem is trying to formulate the question. And to really have the right question, you need a much bigger computer than Earth. And so maybe one way, I think, of characterizing this would be to say, “The universe is the answer. What is the question? Or what are the questions?” The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multistellar species… we have a chance of figuring out what the hell is going on. And so this is why I think we should have more humans and both biological and digital consciousness. And why we should become a multi-planet species and a multistellar species is so that we can understand the nature of the universe. And then in order for that to occur, then we have to make sure that things are good on Earth. We don't want Earth to disappear, so sustainable energy is important.

Arjun Khemani

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Elon Musk revealed why he keeps working despite of his $800 billion net worth: 1. As a teenager, Musk had a full existential crisis trying to figure out the meaning of life. Religious texts did not convince him. So he turned to philosophy. Reading Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as a depressed teenager, he says, was a terrible idea. 2. Then he read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and something shifted. Douglas Adams argued the real problem is not finding the answer to life. It is figuring out the right questions to ask in the first place. 3. In the book, Earth is a giant computer built to answer the meaning of life. It spends millions of years computing and delivers its answer. The answer is 42. The joke is that nobody knows what the question was. 4. That idea never left Musk. The universe is the answer. We just do not know what question it is answering. And to figure out the right question, you need a much bigger and more expansive consciousness than we currently have. 5. The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. 6. This is why he wants more humans. More digital intelligence. More biological and artificial consciousness working together. Not for economic growth. Not for power. To collectively get better at asking the right questions. 7. This is why Mars matters to him. Not for the adventure. Not for the achievement. A single planet species is a single point of failure for consciousness itself. If something wipes out Earth, the question never gets asked. 8. "The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multi-stellar species, we have a chance of figuring out what the hell is going on." 9. Everything he is building, the rockets, the AI, the robots, comes back to this one idea. He is not trying to get rich. He is trying to keep the candle of consciousness alive long enough to understand why it exists. 10. With $800 billion he could stop tomorrow. He does not stop because to him stopping would mean giving up on the only question that ever actually mattered. What is this all for and what are we supposed to be asking?
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Elon Musk revealed why he keeps working despite of his $800 billion net worth: 1. As a teenager, Musk had a full existential crisis trying to figure out the meaning of life. Religious texts did not convince him. So he turned to philosophy. Reading Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as a depressed teenager, he says, was a terrible idea. 2. Then he read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and something shifted. Douglas Adams argued the real problem is not finding the answer to life. It is figuring out the right questions to ask in the first place. 3. In the book, Earth is a giant computer built to answer the meaning of life. It spends millions of years computing and delivers its answer. The answer is 42. The joke is that nobody knows what the question was. 4. That idea never left Musk. The universe is the answer. We just do not know what question it is answering. And to figure out the right question, you need a much bigger and more expansive consciousness than we currently have. 5. The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. 6. This is why he wants more humans. More digital intelligence. More biological and artificial consciousness working together. Not for economic growth. Not for power. To collectively get better at asking the right questions. 7. This is why Mars matters to him. Not for the adventure. Not for the achievement. A single planet species is a single point of failure for consciousness itself. If something wipes out Earth, the question never gets asked. 8. "The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multi-stellar species, we have a chance of figuring out what the hell is going on." 9. Everything he is building, the rockets, the AI, the robots, comes back to this one idea. He is not trying to get rich. He is trying to keep the candle of consciousness alive long enough to understand why it exists. 10. With $800 billion he could stop tomorrow. He does not stop because to him stopping would mean giving up on the only question that ever actually mattered. What is this all for and what are we supposed to be asking?

Yasmine Khosrowshahi

105,460 次观看 • 2 个月前

ELON MUSK: "I came to the conclusion that, which is somewhat in the Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that the hard part is the question, not the answer, and for that, you need a much bigger computer than Earth. We actually don't know how to frame the questions properly. I think by expanding the scope and scale of consciousness, we can better understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe."
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ELON MUSK: "I came to the conclusion that, which is somewhat in the Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that the hard part is the question, not the answer, and for that, you need a much bigger computer than Earth. We actually don't know how to frame the questions properly. I think by expanding the scope and scale of consciousness, we can better understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe."

DogeDesigner

118,271 次观看 • 8 个月前

Elon Musk: We don't know the meaning of life, but we can expand consciousness to understand more. “Our AI Grok is modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is one of my favorite books. It's a book on philosophy disguised as a book on humor. And I would say that forms the basis of my philosophy, which is that we don't know the meaning of life. But the more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, digital and biological, the more we are able to understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. I have a philosophy of curiosity.” Interview with Lex Fridman, November 9, 2023
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Elon Musk: We don't know the meaning of life, but we can expand consciousness to understand more. “Our AI Grok is modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is one of my favorite books. It's a book on philosophy disguised as a book on humor. And I would say that forms the basis of my philosophy, which is that we don't know the meaning of life. But the more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, digital and biological, the more we are able to understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. I have a philosophy of curiosity.” Interview with Lex Fridman, November 9, 2023

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Elon Musk reveals the existential crisis he had at 11 and the Douglas Adams book that pulled him out of it "When I was about 11 or 12 years old, I had somewhat of an existential crisis, because there just didn't seem to be any meaning to life. So I tried to read all the religious texts" "I read the Bible, the Quran, the Torah. Then I got into the philosophy books, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, which is quite depressing to read as a kid" "None of them really seemed to have answers that resonated. But then I read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is really a book on philosophy disguised as humor" "The point Adams makes is that we don't actually know all the answers. We don't even know what the right question is to ask. Earth is a giant computer to understand the answer to the question, what is the meaning of life, and comes up with 42. The thing that's going to take a computer far more powerful than Earth is to understand what question to ask" "That was a fundamental turning point"
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Elon Musk reveals the existential crisis he had at 11 and the Douglas Adams book that pulled him out of it "When I was about 11 or 12 years old, I had somewhat of an existential crisis, because there just didn't seem to be any meaning to life. So I tried to read all the religious texts" "I read the Bible, the Quran, the Torah. Then I got into the philosophy books, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, which is quite depressing to read as a kid" "None of them really seemed to have answers that resonated. But then I read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is really a book on philosophy disguised as humor" "The point Adams makes is that we don't actually know all the answers. We don't even know what the right question is to ask. Earth is a giant computer to understand the answer to the question, what is the meaning of life, and comes up with 42. The thing that's going to take a computer far more powerful than Earth is to understand what question to ask" "That was a fundamental turning point"

Jaynit

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ELON: IF WE EXPAND CONSCIOUSNESS, MAYBE WE CAN FIND THE MEANING OF LIFE “I did have this existential crisis when I was around twelve about what's the meaning of life. Isn't it all pointless? Why not just commit suicide? My motivation then was that my life is finite, really a flash in the pan on a galactic timescale. If we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then we are better able to figure out what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe, and maybe we can find out the meaning of life or even what the right question to ask is. Where did we come from? Where are we going? Where are the aliens? Are there aliens? Is there new physics to discover?” Source: New York Times DealBook Summit, November 2023
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ELON: IF WE EXPAND CONSCIOUSNESS, MAYBE WE CAN FIND THE MEANING OF LIFE “I did have this existential crisis when I was around twelve about what's the meaning of life. Isn't it all pointless? Why not just commit suicide? My motivation then was that my life is finite, really a flash in the pan on a galactic timescale. If we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then we are better able to figure out what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe, and maybe we can find out the meaning of life or even what the right question to ask is. Where did we come from? Where are we going? Where are the aliens? Are there aliens? Is there new physics to discover?” Source: New York Times DealBook Summit, November 2023

Mario Nawfal

73,785 次观看 • 1 年前

Elon Musk answers why he is still working even though he is worth $1T. “The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.”
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Elon Musk answers why he is still working even though he is worth $1T. “The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.”

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

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Lex Fridman asked Elon Musk what the meaning of life is. His answer was not what anyone expected. We do not know, he said. And that is exactly why we need to expand consciousness. Not to find the answer. To ask better questions. He believes the universe is full of things we cannot even formulate yet. We are like children trying to understand calculus. The problem is not that calculus is too hard. The problem is that we have not developed enough to know it exists. Consciousness, to him, is a tool for exploring the universe. The more of it we have, the better our questions become. The better our questions become, the closer we get to understanding what any of this means. This is why he builds rockets and brain interfaces and AI. Not because he has the answers. Because he thinks the only way to get them is to expand what we are capable of thinking. Most people spend their lives looking for meaning. Elon is building the tools to look for it at a scale we cannot yet imagine.
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Lex Fridman asked Elon Musk what the meaning of life is. His answer was not what anyone expected. We do not know, he said. And that is exactly why we need to expand consciousness. Not to find the answer. To ask better questions. He believes the universe is full of things we cannot even formulate yet. We are like children trying to understand calculus. The problem is not that calculus is too hard. The problem is that we have not developed enough to know it exists. Consciousness, to him, is a tool for exploring the universe. The more of it we have, the better our questions become. The better our questions become, the closer we get to understanding what any of this means. This is why he builds rockets and brain interfaces and AI. Not because he has the answers. Because he thinks the only way to get them is to expand what we are capable of thinking. Most people spend their lives looking for meaning. Elon is building the tools to look for it at a scale we cannot yet imagine.

Shruti

16,844 次观看 • 2 个月前

ELON'S POV ON THE MEANING OF LIFE: "IT'S ABOUT THE QUESTION, NOT THE ANSWER" Elon is literally saying the entire purpose of human existence, and everything he's building, from Neuralink and Starship to Grok and Optimus, is aimed at one goal. What's the goal, you ask? To turn humanity into a massive superintelligence that can finally figure out the right questions to ask reality itself. "Humans are 30~40 trillion cells, trillions of synapses… but the why of it is just so we can increase our understanding of the universe. I came to the conclusion, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy style, that the answer is 42, but the real problem is we don't even know what the question is. The hard part is the question, not the answer. And for that you need a much bigger computer than Earth. So by expanding the scope and scale of consciousness, we can better understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe." He's literally saying the entire purpose of human existence, and everything he's building (Neuralink, Starship, Grok, Optimus), is to turn humanity into a massive superintelligence that can finally figure out the right questions to ask reality itself. Not to get the answer. To learn how to ask the question that makes the answer meaningful. This is why he doesn't give a damn about money, politics, or fame anymore. He's playing the longest game in history: Turning consciousness into a galaxy-scale instrument so we can finally understand why anything exists at all. Source: Nikhil Kamath, Elon Musk
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ELON'S POV ON THE MEANING OF LIFE: "IT'S ABOUT THE QUESTION, NOT THE ANSWER" Elon is literally saying the entire purpose of human existence, and everything he's building, from Neuralink and Starship to Grok and Optimus, is aimed at one goal. What's the goal, you ask? To turn humanity into a massive superintelligence that can finally figure out the right questions to ask reality itself. "Humans are 30~40 trillion cells, trillions of synapses… but the why of it is just so we can increase our understanding of the universe. I came to the conclusion, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy style, that the answer is 42, but the real problem is we don't even know what the question is. The hard part is the question, not the answer. And for that you need a much bigger computer than Earth. So by expanding the scope and scale of consciousness, we can better understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe." He's literally saying the entire purpose of human existence, and everything he's building (Neuralink, Starship, Grok, Optimus), is to turn humanity into a massive superintelligence that can finally figure out the right questions to ask reality itself. Not to get the answer. To learn how to ask the question that makes the answer meaningful. This is why he doesn't give a damn about money, politics, or fame anymore. He's playing the longest game in history: Turning consciousness into a galaxy-scale instrument so we can finally understand why anything exists at all. Source: Nikhil Kamath, Elon Musk

Mario Nawfal

825,676 次观看 • 8 个月前

Elon once shared something that completely shifted how I see everything. As a kid he had the full existential crisis. He read every philosophy book. Every religious text. Nothing landed… until Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He explained that Earth is basically a giant computer built to answer one question: “What is the meaning of life?” The answer it gave? 42. The cosmic joke? The answer was simple. The hard part is knowing what question to ask. That’s why Elon believes our real mission is to expand consciousness so we can finally ask better questions about the universe itself. The future isn’t just about survival. It’s about understanding.
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Elon once shared something that completely shifted how I see everything. As a kid he had the full existential crisis. He read every philosophy book. Every religious text. Nothing landed… until Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He explained that Earth is basically a giant computer built to answer one question: “What is the meaning of life?” The answer it gave? 42. The cosmic joke? The answer was simple. The hard part is knowing what question to ask. That’s why Elon believes our real mission is to expand consciousness so we can finally ask better questions about the universe itself. The future isn’t just about survival. It’s about understanding.

Lacey

20,193 次观看 • 3 个月前

Elon Musk about the meaning of life and the trap of wishful thinking : “When I was a kid, I was wondering what's the meaning of life? Like, why are we here? What's it all about? And I came to the conclusion that what really matters is trying to understand the right questions to ask. And the more that we can increase the scope and scale of human consciousness, the better we are able to ask these questions. And so I think that there are certain things that are necessary to ensure that the future is good. One of the biggest mistakes people generally make, and I'm guilty of it too, is wishful thinking. You know, like, you want something to be true even if it isn't true. And so you ignore the things that you ignore the real truth because of what you want to be true. This is a very difficult trap to avoid.”
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Elon Musk about the meaning of life and the trap of wishful thinking : “When I was a kid, I was wondering what's the meaning of life? Like, why are we here? What's it all about? And I came to the conclusion that what really matters is trying to understand the right questions to ask. And the more that we can increase the scope and scale of human consciousness, the better we are able to ask these questions. And so I think that there are certain things that are necessary to ensure that the future is good. One of the biggest mistakes people generally make, and I'm guilty of it too, is wishful thinking. You know, like, you want something to be true even if it isn't true. And so you ignore the things that you ignore the real truth because of what you want to be true. This is a very difficult trap to avoid.”

Eva Fo𝕏 🦊 Claudius Nero's Legion

75,023 次观看 • 9 个月前

Elon Musk just flipped 3,000 years of philosophy in a single sentence. Musk: “The universe is the answer.” Not a clue. Not a fragment. Not something we’re still chasing. The answer. Already here. Already complete. The problem is we don’t know what it’s answering. Musk: “What we really need to figure out are what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.” Humanity has spent millennia hunting for answers. Building telescopes. Splitting atoms. Mapping genomes. Launching probes into the void. Musk is saying we have the entire framework backwards. Musk: “The question is really the hard part. If you can properly frame the question, then the answer, relatively speaking, is easy.” Every philosopher since Socrates assumed the answers were hidden. That truth was buried. That meaning was locked behind a door no one had found yet. The door is open. Always has been. We’re standing inside the answer. We’re just not conscious enough to read it. Musk: “We need to expand the scope and scale of consciousness so that we’re better able to understand the nature of the universe and understand the meaning of life.” This is where it stops being philosophy and starts being engineering. The only barrier between humanity and meaning is the limitation of consciousness itself. Expanding it isn’t a side project. It’s the only project that matters. Mars. Neuralink. xAI. Not products. Not ventures. Instruments for asking better questions. Musk: “That is the foundation of my philosophy.” Not wealth. Not dominance. Not conquest. Curiosity as architecture. Musk: “I am curious about the nature of the universe.” Musk: “I will die. I don’t know when I’ll die, but I won’t live forever.” No deflection. No bravado. Just the most grounded sentence a man building rockets to other planets has ever said. I will die. Musk: “But I would like to know that we are on a path to understanding the nature of the universe and the meaning of life and what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.” He doesn’t need to find it himself. He just needs to know the path exists. That something, carbon or silicon, keeps expanding until the right question finally surfaces. Musk: “If we expand the scope and scale of humanity and consciousness in general, which includes silicon consciousness, then that seems like a fundamentally good thing.” Everyone builds to leave a mark. Musk is building to leave a question. One big enough that the universe finally has something worth answering to.
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Elon Musk just flipped 3,000 years of philosophy in a single sentence. Musk: “The universe is the answer.” Not a clue. Not a fragment. Not something we’re still chasing. The answer. Already here. Already complete. The problem is we don’t know what it’s answering. Musk: “What we really need to figure out are what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.” Humanity has spent millennia hunting for answers. Building telescopes. Splitting atoms. Mapping genomes. Launching probes into the void. Musk is saying we have the entire framework backwards. Musk: “The question is really the hard part. If you can properly frame the question, then the answer, relatively speaking, is easy.” Every philosopher since Socrates assumed the answers were hidden. That truth was buried. That meaning was locked behind a door no one had found yet. The door is open. Always has been. We’re standing inside the answer. We’re just not conscious enough to read it. Musk: “We need to expand the scope and scale of consciousness so that we’re better able to understand the nature of the universe and understand the meaning of life.” This is where it stops being philosophy and starts being engineering. The only barrier between humanity and meaning is the limitation of consciousness itself. Expanding it isn’t a side project. It’s the only project that matters. Mars. Neuralink. xAI. Not products. Not ventures. Instruments for asking better questions. Musk: “That is the foundation of my philosophy.” Not wealth. Not dominance. Not conquest. Curiosity as architecture. Musk: “I am curious about the nature of the universe.” Musk: “I will die. I don’t know when I’ll die, but I won’t live forever.” No deflection. No bravado. Just the most grounded sentence a man building rockets to other planets has ever said. I will die. Musk: “But I would like to know that we are on a path to understanding the nature of the universe and the meaning of life and what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.” He doesn’t need to find it himself. He just needs to know the path exists. That something, carbon or silicon, keeps expanding until the right question finally surfaces. Musk: “If we expand the scope and scale of humanity and consciousness in general, which includes silicon consciousness, then that seems like a fundamentally good thing.” Everyone builds to leave a mark. Musk is building to leave a question. One big enough that the universe finally has something worth answering to.

Dustin

59,131 次观看 • 3 个月前

ELON: I AM DRIVEN BY CURIOSITY ABOUT THE UNIVERSE Ted Cruz: “What do you do differently that makes you so effective?” Elon: “I suppose I have a philosophy of curiosity. I want to find out the nature of the universe, understand the universe. And in order to do that, we have to travel to other planets, see other star systems, maybe other galaxies, find perhaps other alien civilizations, or at least the remnants of alien civilizations. We have to gain a better understanding of where the universe is going, where did it come from. And what questions do we not yet know to ask about the answer that is the universe.” Source: Interview with Ted Cruz, March 2025
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ELON: I AM DRIVEN BY CURIOSITY ABOUT THE UNIVERSE Ted Cruz: “What do you do differently that makes you so effective?” Elon: “I suppose I have a philosophy of curiosity. I want to find out the nature of the universe, understand the universe. And in order to do that, we have to travel to other planets, see other star systems, maybe other galaxies, find perhaps other alien civilizations, or at least the remnants of alien civilizations. We have to gain a better understanding of where the universe is going, where did it come from. And what questions do we not yet know to ask about the answer that is the universe.” Source: Interview with Ted Cruz, March 2025

Mario Nawfal

48,887 次观看 • 1 年前

ELON: WE’RE DESCENDANTS OF STARS – BUT HOW DID WE BECOME CONSCIOUS? “I've thought a lot about what is consciousness. Where does consciousness arise? If you start at the beginning of the universe, assuming the standard model of physics is true, then you have this Big Bang, the matter condensing into stars, those stars exploding. A lot of the atoms that are in your body right now were once at the center of stars. Those stars exploded, recondensed. Fast forward 13.8 billion years, and here we are. And somewhere along that very long journey to us, consciousness arose. Or the molecules started talking to each other. And it begs the question of what is consciousness? Is everything conscious? Maybe. It's hard to say where along that line, there's no sort of discrete point where consciousness didn't exist and then suddenly does exist. It seems to be, maybe you have a condensation of matter that has a density of consciousness, we don't know. The real answer is, we don't know what consciousness is. But with Neuralink and the progress that the company's making, we'll begin to understand a lot more about consciousness.” Source: Neuralink Update, June 2025
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ELON: WE’RE DESCENDANTS OF STARS – BUT HOW DID WE BECOME CONSCIOUS? “I've thought a lot about what is consciousness. Where does consciousness arise? If you start at the beginning of the universe, assuming the standard model of physics is true, then you have this Big Bang, the matter condensing into stars, those stars exploding. A lot of the atoms that are in your body right now were once at the center of stars. Those stars exploded, recondensed. Fast forward 13.8 billion years, and here we are. And somewhere along that very long journey to us, consciousness arose. Or the molecules started talking to each other. And it begs the question of what is consciousness? Is everything conscious? Maybe. It's hard to say where along that line, there's no sort of discrete point where consciousness didn't exist and then suddenly does exist. It seems to be, maybe you have a condensation of matter that has a density of consciousness, we don't know. The real answer is, we don't know what consciousness is. But with Neuralink and the progress that the company's making, we'll begin to understand a lot more about consciousness.” Source: Neuralink Update, June 2025

Mario Nawfal

55,256 次观看 • 1 年前