Do Chairs Exist?

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  • @SoCloseToToast
    @SoCloseToToast 2 년 전 +21919

    Intro was the best psychological horror thriller I've seen in years. Thanks Mike

  • @FlyingKitty900
    @FlyingKitty900 2 년 전 +36653

    Another certified hood classic

  • @YourAverageYouTuber64
    @YourAverageYouTuber64 5 개월 전 +1627

    Only Vsauce can make a near 40 minute video about if a chair exists

  • @BrutalJambon
    @BrutalJambon 2 개월 전 +325

    "I am Death and I am the scattering" is really not how I thought a video about chairs existence would end but I'm here for it

  • @georgecarter6978
    @georgecarter6978 2 년 전 +4921

    No officer I didnt kill him, I just arranged his simples dead-wise.

    • @nixietubes
      @nixietubes 2 년 전 +73

      a bit of the old ultra voilence

    • @ThePrufessa
      @ThePrufessa 2 년 전 +31

      @@nixietubes based on what we learned in this video how would a bit of the old in and out be categorized?

    • @nixietubes
      @nixietubes 2 년 전 +12

      @@ThePrufessa matter

    • @thePWNmaster5
      @thePWNmaster5 2 년 전 +62

      I simply killed this matter while it was humaning

    • @ThePrufessa
      @ThePrufessa 2 년 전 +4

      @@nixietubes sex is matter?

  • @The8BitGuy
    @The8BitGuy 2 년 전 +2897

    On a similar topic, I've always wondered how the transporters on Star Trek can differentiate between matter that belongs to a person's body, their clothes, the air around them, the ground beneath them, or a chair they are sitting in.

    • @dj.matexx
      @dj.matexx 2 년 전 +176

      I always felt so unsatisfied that there was no explanation to this, yeah.. i theorized about identifying human cells, putting them together for a model of the human, and then scan for matter in a 3cm radius that is not air (to get the clothes).

    • @chrisc1140
      @chrisc1140 2 년 전 +86

      I have to kinda assume that as they developed them, at first they could only do continuous (or nearly so) atomic blocks. So like chunks of pure or nearly pure iron. And then developed and refined that into the "well you can do it, just don't do anything live through it because it might not quite be right" of Enterprise, and over the next two centuries got to the reliable, fully able to differentiate level of TOS

    • @user-yq5sy4jx9x
      @user-yq5sy4jx9x 2 년 전 +46

      Pattern based isn't it, presumably part of the transport process is some kind of CT scan to establish body Vs surroundings, but how do we know they're not transporting the air around them too?

    • @chai116
      @chai116 2 년 전 +3

      @@user-yq5sy4jx9x krplus.net/bidio/nrWAdHGWhZ_Lino

    • @BlueZirnitra
      @BlueZirnitra 2 년 전 +54

      They can't. That's why we don't have teleporters and replicators, and why they seem even less possible now even though we have advanced much further with our scientific understanding. The whole concept is arbitrary fantasy that we made up because it makes a cool story, just like time travel, reincarnation and everything else in stories that doesn't exist.

  • @pandabro4235
    @pandabro4235 개월 전 +37

    The line “I am not a thing that dies and then scatters; I am death and I am the scattering” is now one of my favorite quotes and it comes from a video debating the existence of chairs

  • @WhiteNucklin
    @WhiteNucklin 개월 전 +76

    “I am death and I AM the scattering.”
    Metal lyrics

    • @yourboy_Vox
      @yourboy_Vox 12 일 전 +1

      I need to write a metal song based on that 😭

  • @gyrotwist6335
    @gyrotwist6335 2 년 전 +9322

    Other mammals: “Must get food to survive.”
    Humans: “Do chairs exist?”

    • @mother722
      @mother722 2 년 전 +148

      *michael

    • @garyt6931
      @garyt6931 2 년 전 +541

      Our species has successfully survived all that is left is to explore what life really is

    • @Ryan-xh7pe
      @Ryan-xh7pe 2 년 전 +167

      @@garyt6931 that’s a cool way to see it

    • @muircat13
      @muircat13 2 년 전 +96

      @@garyt6931 there's always the next great barrier
      enjoy the viewpoint tho

    • @MrJeekz
      @MrJeekz 2 년 전 +51

      Not sure what you're trying to imply but the fact that we can ask such profound questions is much more important than basic survival. Survival is the most primitive form of existence.

  • @Saronite
    @Saronite 2 년 전 +1571

    Two ontological antirealists walk into a bunch of atoms arranged bar-wise.

    • @Andrew-jj6er
      @Andrew-jj6er 2 년 전 +33

      Good one lol.

    • @anuj8825
      @anuj8825 2 년 전 +69

      A few atoms ontologically humaning move to another bunch of atoms bar-ing.
      Where, atoms = simples atoming

    • @r3ked272
      @r3ked272 2 년 전 +39

      A mereological universalist then walks in, and forms a group of the universalist, the simples arranged ontological antirealist-wise, and my front door. Then the bartender asks them to stop arguing and order their damn drinks.

    • @yvanstevenaclan1579
      @yvanstevenaclan1579 2 년 전 +8

      Oh my god😭 these guys

    • @SuperAzeton
      @SuperAzeton 2 년 전 +7

      @@anuj8825 I think you mean. Ontologically speaking a few simples humaning inbar a bunch of simples bar-ing.

  • @Hexra_
    @Hexra_ 5 개월 전 +45

    I love how Michael could be kept hostage or could be in a perilous situation but that doesn't stop him from telling anyone near him the history of ropes or whatever

  • @elmo2706
    @elmo2706 2 개월 전 +34

    How can this man taste a chair, pull a spoon out of his shirt, and pull a slice of cheese out of his shirt, and yet teach us things others struggle to.

  • @arkanys3401
    @arkanys3401 2 년 전 +719

    "Do chairs exist?"
    _36 minutes later:_
    "I AM DEATH"

  • @onionenthusiast9832
    @onionenthusiast9832 2 년 전 +1692

    “Do chairs exist.”
    37 minutes
    Yeah why not

  • @user-on4hk9mv4k
    @user-on4hk9mv4k 5 개월 전 +151

    As a Chair myself i have been questioning if my existence actually is true ,Thanks for the video to help me know ,i really needed it

    • @insanity_teacher
      @insanity_teacher 4 개월 전

      Thats cultural appropriation. My family started becoming Chairs many generations ago, and now people like you, who barely look like something u can sit on, think they can come around and count themeselfes into my family. Shame on you.
      Chairs are not chairs!

    • @Astro-X
      @Astro-X 개월 전

      so do you exist?

    • @chair32
      @chair32 일 전

      @@Astro-Xi do exist

  • @megacuck5970
    @megacuck5970 2 개월 전 +64

    What an awesome way to start 2024, studying human thought and existentialism watching Vsauce at 1am.

    • @Xetarine
      @Xetarine 2 개월 전 +2

      same

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 17 일 전

      Watching The Simpsons would
      probably be more beneficial .?

    • @yourboy_Vox
      @yourboy_Vox 12 일 전

      It's 1am for me rn 💀

    • @80llo
      @80llo 9 일 전

      @@2msvalkyrie529probably not,but benificial is not objective

  • @mustakaapu
    @mustakaapu 2 년 전 +1988

    Vsauce: "Do chairs exist?"
    2 million people sitting on a chair: "Hmm interesting"

    • @DS-uj3bt
      @DS-uj3bt 2 년 전 +9

      Lol..very under rated comment

    • @miguelbenavides9160
      @miguelbenavides9160 2 년 전 +37

      But are those 2 million people actually "people" or atoms people-ing

    • @undyingjin5968
      @undyingjin5968 2 년 전 +9

      @@miguelbenavides9160 are those atoms atoms or are they atoms atom-ing

    • @Pandidolod
      @Pandidolod 2 년 전 +9

      That's a big chair

    • @scoopshort
      @scoopshort 2 년 전 +18

      *laughs in bed*

  • @pugalugs9128
    @pugalugs9128 2 년 전 +5651

    I love how the chair is just sitting there not debating it's existence

  • @user-iu1ft6xi1i
    @user-iu1ft6xi1i 3 개월 전 +5

    I truly believe that it is your choice/definition of things defined by what you have experienced and your personality.

  • @jackbettridge957
    @jackbettridge957 5 개월 전 +9

    The Troggs is the band who recorded Wild Thing, whether you cut a tree down or not

  • @whitedinosaur45
    @whitedinosaur45 2 년 전 +1303

    Michael at the beginning: "Do chairs exist?"
    Michael at the end: "I am death"

  • @timondimare1976
    @timondimare1976 년 전 +5197

    Michael: do chairs exist?
    Michael 30 minutes later: I am death

  • @Pizzaroll669
    @Pizzaroll669 2 개월 전 +6

    I like how he would talk about the most random thing that nobody would think of to talk about for halve an hour. Now that’s what I call, “Creativity.”

  • @MrsSiwik
    @MrsSiwik 2 개월 전 +1

    Thank you for making this video. I will need to watch it many more times to hopefully try to grasp all points. But, just from watching once I have to say, it is the best and most important video you've ever made. Cheers to you!

  • @TNinja0
    @TNinja0 2 년 전 +1055

    "Michael, take a seat, we need to talk"
    "Do chairs exists?"
    "MICHAEL"

    • @theredghost9368
      @theredghost9368 2 년 전 +34

      I want some kind of series where Michael is in an insane asylum and constantly does stuff just like that

    • @ErikUden
      @ErikUden 2 년 전 +20

      @@theredghost9368 literally the vsauce KRplus channel

    • @jaykoerner
      @jaykoerner 2 년 전 +17

      Then he pulls a slice of cheese from his shirt

    • @thatgreenguyplayer2
      @thatgreenguyplayer2 2 년 전 +3

      Reminds me of the "what its like to be married to Neil degrasse tyson" sketch done by Key and Peele

    • @ErikUden
      @ErikUden 2 년 전

      @@thatgreenguyplayer2 so true

  • @nucleargameplay6818
    @nucleargameplay6818 2 년 전 +926

    Can't believe this man is powerful enough to unironically say "sus" and not be seen as cringe.

  • @tomb8430
    @tomb8430 5 개월 전 +2

    One of the most enjoyable videos I have seen in a long time. Subscribed sir. It would be great to have a drink and chat with you for hours on end.

  • @jaxxinator5999
    @jaxxinator5999 4 개월 전 +3

    Wonderful video Michael. One thing I would say is that to me a composite object 'exists' as long as it is more that the sum of it's parts. Okay, you might ask, but what do I mean by this? It means that it has some property for which the simples it contains are more important than the simples it doesn't contain. E.g. the atoms that make up a chair are important in allowing you to rest your butt on it. Existence is therefore a state of being in relation to an intelligence e.g. us. Stuff enters our horizon of understanding and things come into existence. I would not consider the 'incar' to exist because it does have any unique properties that cannot be understood be considering the garage and car separately.

  • @mattawan1000
    @mattawan1000 2 년 전 +2113

    Some random guy: "Do chairs exist?"
    Me: "Yeah of course. What are you, stupid?"
    Michael: "Do chairs exist?"
    Me: "I have no idea"

    • @unicorn7171
      @unicorn7171 2 년 전 +50

      Yesn't 🤔

    • @AdamThoba2
      @AdamThoba2 2 년 전 +1

      remember this is the same guy who thought the universe was created last Thursday. Bullshit.

    • @_P0tat07_
      @_P0tat07_ 2 년 전 +1

      420th like. Nice.

    • @limesandlemons1367
      @limesandlemons1367 2 년 전 +39

      @@AdamThoba2 It's just a theorem, no need to be so upset.

    • @jonbowman7686
      @jonbowman7686 2 년 전 +25

      @@AdamThoba2 you're gonna wanna watch that video again bud

  • @gamerparker1235
    @gamerparker1235 2 년 전 +1406

    Alternate Title: Michael bullies a chair by questioning it’s existence for 37 minutes and 53 seconds

  • @dmboiler6333
    @dmboiler6333 23 일 전 +2

    i cant wait for vinesauce to become a dad and explain every question his son asks him like this

  • @DirtyMardi
    @DirtyMardi 3 개월 전 +2

    As an information architect by trade, I think I’ll just send this video to everyone when a new project starts, so that I don’t have to explain what ontology means every time. Thanks Vsauce!

  • @drawinglikeasir
    @drawinglikeasir 2 년 전 +9535

    * sees title *
    * Sees 37 minute runtime *
    Whoo boy, here we go again

    • @SmplyBoi
      @SmplyBoi 2 년 전 +40

      True I feel that

    • @LightningSquad
      @LightningSquad 2 년 전 +23

      To the person reading this comment you are awesome & hope you having a great day
      My dream is to hit 25K I hope you can help me accomplish my dreams..

    • @LightningSquad
      @LightningSquad 2 년 전 +5

      I uploaded my Face Reveal....

    • @thesomeone2932
      @thesomeone2932 2 년 전 +3

      same shit

    • @irikrosota1852
      @irikrosota1852 2 년 전 +29

      @@LightningSquad no one cares

  • @guilhermesviech4610
    @guilhermesviech4610 15 일 전 +1

    i love that note that plays when the chair appears so much

  • @xflyersshitposting7227
    @xflyersshitposting7227 5 개월 전 +7

    I swear this should be classified as psychological horror

  • @MartinPoulter
    @MartinPoulter 2 년 전 +9708

    I spent a total of eleven years as a philosophy student and got two degrees. This is by far the best explanation of ontology I've ever seen.

    • @Mentox2
      @Mentox2 2 년 전 +148

      I dont think so, its biased (towards naturalism and physicalism) and overly simplistic.
      And his attempt at a solution to the issues raised by composition are unsatisfactory.

    • @MTETELEVISION
      @MTETELEVISION 2 년 전 +471

      @@Mentox2 no

    • @TKOfromJohn
      @TKOfromJohn 2 년 전 +245

      @@Mentox2 Shhhh let people enjoy things

    • @MartinPoulter
      @MartinPoulter 2 년 전 +772

      @@Mentox2 It's literally an introduction to the subject for a general audience. Show me an explanation which isn't "overly simplistic" and which is similarly accessible.

    • @tchaffman
      @tchaffman 2 년 전 +607

      @@Mentox2 Accessibility doesn't make your ideas overly simplistic. Striving for complexity to be seen as profound doesn't make you a brighter or deeper thinker, it just makes you a moron. Being able to translate your abstract ideas in a rich and interesting way that resonates with everyday people shows a higher level of mastery and understanding.

  • @ScenicFights
    @ScenicFights 2 년 전 +1833

    I spent 37 minutes questioning what I'm sitting on.

    • @judicatorhurayth1927
      @judicatorhurayth1927 2 년 전 +2

      I think the as you are!

    • @tehboi2433
      @tehboi2433 2 년 전 +30

      Good thing im on a toilet and not a chair

    • @judicatorhurayth1927
      @judicatorhurayth1927 2 년 전 +3

      @@tehboi2433 which one? A sitting version or a Cultch version?

    • @warrenarnold
      @warrenarnold 2 년 전 +1

      Hey, wait i know the answer to this, you gotta give it to me.
      ..... ....Guys, i have just discovered that Chairs do exist!?!?! Whoaaaahhh
      How were you surviving before my discovery!?!? Geez, yaall dumb😅 hihi

    • @haakman123
      @haakman123 2 년 전 +5

      @@tehboi2433 Is a toilet not just a chair with a hole that goes into a pipe?

  • @Vendexxity
    @Vendexxity 5 개월 전 +9

    Micheal is the only person who can make the existence of a chair interesting.

  • @desly937
    @desly937 5 개월 전 +1

    Intro was the best psychological horror thriller I've seen in years. Thanks Michael

  • @Th3Birdman
    @Th3Birdman 2 년 전 +3813

    Be honest Mike- there was LSD on that chair, wasn’t there?

    • @ShaniAce
      @ShaniAce 2 년 전 +176

      No the chair IS the LSD!

    • @chummysomething9828
      @chummysomething9828 2 년 전 +99

      @@ShaniAce or is the LSD the chair?

    • @faztznya5207
      @faztznya5207 2 년 전 +76

      @@chummysomething9828 is the lsd a chair, or is the lsd chair-ri?

    • @boardingurban
      @boardingurban 2 년 전 +36

      I was on ls d and saw this and I was like is this guy even serious right now

    • @ethancory6127
      @ethancory6127 2 년 전 +11

      Nothing like sitting with Lucy

  • @momofcjmt4
    @momofcjmt4 2 년 전 +1540

    “I am death, and I am the scattering”
    Nice to see Michael’s slow evolution into an Eldritch God is proceeding apace.

    • @kiera8836
      @kiera8836 2 년 전 +25

      bet it's the ayahuasca he did

    • @daelinblack6681
      @daelinblack6681 2 년 전 +21

      Dude I swear he is the ideal psychonaut. A real intellectual that is experimenting, not using. I only wish we could get another Golden age of more natural psychopharmacology, more Hoffmans and Mckennas that educate rather than simply encourage.

    • @kultw1837
      @kultw1837 2 년 전 +9

      it was really comforting ending tho

    • @aansedar3020
      @aansedar3020 2 년 전 +5

      Can't wait for this stuff to get out of context.

    • @Thatonedude917
      @Thatonedude917 2 년 전 +1

      Sounds like Coheed lyrics

  • @do2xd679
    @do2xd679 2 개월 전 +5

    Only vsauce can end a video calling himself death while not sounding delusional

  • @vDREEGONv
    @vDREEGONv 5 개월 전 +2

    19:25
    "the problem of the many"
    *Unlocks Knife*
    That is a disturbing sequence of events ngl xD

  • @devirtues8596
    @devirtues8596 2 년 전 +810

    Michael:
    Chair: *sweats nervously*

    • @Lefurmage104
      @Lefurmage104 2 년 전 +3

      CAN RELATE

    • @kysssssss
      @kysssssss 2 년 전 +6

      🪑

    • @kreeepyk0
      @kreeepyk0 2 년 전 +5

      🪑 💧

    • @Michael-kp4bd
      @Michael-kp4bd 2 년 전 +2

      There’s always these KRplus meme copy/pasted jokes that I find annoying and unoriginal… until someone actually applies it well. Even though it’s the same template joke, it really actually cracked me up. Props to that

    • @DJSlimeball
      @DJSlimeball 2 년 전 +1

      Especially since he keeps threatening and caressing chair with knife.

  • @fireredgaming1
    @fireredgaming1 2 년 전 +878

    “What’s your job?”
    Vsauce: giving people existential crisis with chairs

    • @donut6789
      @donut6789 2 년 전

      FiRsT!!1!1!1!1

    • @MrSwag-zv3pg
      @MrSwag-zv3pg 2 년 전 +4

      There's no such thing as an existential crisis!

    • @blazer6972
      @blazer6972 2 년 전 +6

      @@MrSwag-zv3pg ... uh... mmm... that.... ok....

    • @LuizHRDC
      @LuizHRDC 2 년 전 +3

      But what IS your job?

    • @CathTheGinger
      @CathTheGinger 2 년 전

      More like giving chairs an existential crisis

  • @tinovelez6601
    @tinovelez6601 4 개월 전 +5

    at 31:39 Michael says “some” at the exact same pitch as the beginning of all star by smash mouth

    • @Taffles-hh9cu
      @Taffles-hh9cu 8 일 전

      “how can i know if someone has perfect pitch?”

  • @TheQuantumzone
    @TheQuantumzone 개월 전 +1

    ❤ A superb piece of work. A great philosophical roller coaster that should really make you think. One of the best explanations of what Stuff really is, or isn't! Thanks Michael!

  • @AldrichNaiborhu
    @AldrichNaiborhu 2 년 전 +5532

    Michael is like that one friend who you don't hear from much, but at 3 AM, he'll start sending you links to the secrets of the universe before he disappears into the night again.

  • @josephweimer2859
    @josephweimer2859 2 년 전 +3224

    I’m relieved to know I’m not the only one who has been skeptical of chairs my entire life.

    • @esphyxia
      @esphyxia 2 년 전 +76

      Yes. I think they are decoys. There are just too many chairs in the world. I feel a rebellion amidst

    • @MrCockburger1212
      @MrCockburger1212 2 년 전 +46

      ever have that feeling your chairs in your house are watching you?

    • @dametocosita4994
      @dametocosita4994 2 년 전 +35

      But what are you skeptical of? I mean do chairs even exist? Do you exist? Do I exist? Am I having an existential crisis? Or is it just simples arranged me-wise having existential crisis? 🤔

    • @Darkenssf7436
      @Darkenssf7436 2 년 전 +9

      The comments are so serious lol

    • @t-827
      @t-827 2 년 전 +1

      Bueno

  • @dune-e
    @dune-e 5 개월 전 +2

    36:54 fun fact, this is what inspired Oppenheimers famous quote

  • @13lood13ath
    @13lood13ath 5 개월 전 +3

    The paper is the material.
    The crane is the shape.
    The unfolded paper is now in the shape of a rectangle and while both the rectangle and crane are made of the same material, the shapes are different.

  • @refreshedog4860
    @refreshedog4860 2 년 전 +1449

    This tells us a lot about Michael's grudge against chairs.

    • @Treddian
      @Treddian 2 년 전 +32

      *sigh* You're accusing Micheal of begrudging something he doesn't even believe in.

    • @rotisseriepossum
      @rotisseriepossum 2 년 전 +8

      @Spiderman you fool, what if the office has a chaise lounge like in the cartoons? it’s practically a chair-couch-bed hybrid!

    • @aniksamiurrahman6365
      @aniksamiurrahman6365 2 년 전 +2

      Imagine learning all sort of philosophy just bcoz one doesn't like chairs.

    • @fr0zeNid
      @fr0zeNid 2 년 전 +6

      Honey wake up new Michael chair grudge lore just dropped

    • @alrex96
      @alrex96 2 년 전 +3

      Says alot about society

  • @TimeBucks
    @TimeBucks 2 년 전 +16524

    his sense of humor is still as good as always

    • @vitaminluke5597
      @vitaminluke5597 2 년 전 +145

      I remember the old days when he dressed as a bearded nun in Lady Gaga parodies. The old Michael was indeed always this bizarre.
      Edit: I wrote this BEFORE watching the part when he mentioned this video! I always thought he was hiding from his past, but I guess not.

    • @admrfq41
      @admrfq41 2 년 전 +91

      sus out

    • @Home_Rich
      @Home_Rich 2 년 전 +47

      @@admrfq41
      Sus in?
      Sussin?

    • @huzaifakhurram2024
      @huzaifakhurram2024 2 년 전 +18

      I think it's getting better with every plank second

    • @no3ironman11100
      @no3ironman11100 2 년 전 +13

      @@admrfq41 The more sus they become
      NO HE DIDN'T OH MY GOD I DO NOT PARTAKE IN THIS

  • @dr._pie3745
    @dr._pie3745 5 개월 전 +3

    Im like 90% sure Michael set up the chair, sat down and recorded this all in one take. Dude spits fire

    • @noahgraff-uw8rs
      @noahgraff-uw8rs 2 개월 전

      This was a random thought and none was scripted, this is just what he said off the top of his head

  • @ludvigbergqvist
    @ludvigbergqvist 5 개월 전 +1

    36:54 "I am death and I am the scattering. And as always, thanks for watching"

  • @grunt2376
    @grunt2376 2 년 전 +853

    the fact Vsauce has just accepted his meme status as an insane internet genius yet still manages to be so informative is just *Chefs kiss*

  • @gabigol52
    @gabigol52 2 년 전 +3738

    ive learned two things from this video
    1. chairs don’t exist
    2. michael is going insane

  • @nithinhmmm
    @nithinhmmm 15 일 전 +1

    This has to be up there among the greatest youtube video ever, as it takes us closer to the edge of human reasoning.

  • @rushvii7
    @rushvii7 24 일 전 +2

    Only Michael can make me question the existence of chairs.

  • @AsaWRLD47
    @AsaWRLD47 2 년 전 +1008

    Everyone else when they see a chair: Sit
    Michael when he sees a chair:
    "hmm yes, salty"

    • @anidiotthathasexistence364
      @anidiotthathasexistence364 2 년 전 +5

      Micheal: what is salty am I real is chair real is wood real is trees real are my pants real

    • @zakx_
      @zakx_ 2 년 전 +2

      mmmm salt

    • @nasuegaming1255
      @nasuegaming1255 2 년 전 +1

      If that's a oversimplified reference, there's gonna be a tax for that.

    • @ht87y
      @ht87y 2 년 전 +2

      Normal people when they see a donut in a toilet: ew
      Michael when he sees a donut in a toilet:
      Hmm yes food (begins consumption)

    • @LupeSunglass
      @LupeSunglass 2 년 전 +5

      Hm yes, ass flavour

  • @fish4716
    @fish4716 7 개월 전 +8097

    Michael in 2017: Fewer than 3 days in isolation can cause brain damage. I will be staying in this room for 3 days.
    Michael in 2022: Do chairs exist?

    • @xxxkratosxxx9232
      @xxxkratosxxx9232 7 개월 전 +173

      if u take it as a joke,just a 37min video.
      if you try to understand deep, you'll question your life, concusiness, etc

    • @AltiumYT
      @AltiumYT 7 개월 전 +142

      Sounds like 2017's theory was correct, proven by himself

    • @salaxim6027
      @salaxim6027 7 개월 전 +81

      @@xxxkratosxxx9232 ahh yes concusiness

    • @carlos-zy7vx
      @carlos-zy7vx 7 개월 전

      ​@@salaxim6027concussy

    • @XFGHL78E
      @XFGHL78E 7 개월 전 +43

      I mean, that kind of proves what he said in 2017...it just takes 5 years for the damage to be shown

  • @danteeightsix9069
    @danteeightsix9069 5 개월 전 +1

    It's the function that makes something what it is.
    The chair and paper were formally parts of trees or maybe even trogs, but now they function as a chair and paper.
    The origami crane would not function as paper nor a tree, but will as origami.
    The boat that you owned was on the right because that's the one that had the function for you to use.

  • @xSolitari
    @xSolitari 개월 전 +2

    Watching at 4AM hits different. Like a punch in the groin.

  • @soulslvr9562
    @soulslvr9562 2 년 전 +1792

    I love how Michael is just welcoming the horror aspect the internet has given him over the years

    • @soulslvr9562
      @soulslvr9562 2 년 전 +72

      @@JoeyIsGlowey TLDR the internet has made Michael seem to be an eldrich scp that cannot be contained. And hes playing along to it

    • @pattherick6875
      @pattherick6875 2 년 전 +22

      @@soulslvr9562 haha your tldr is as long as your original 😂

    • @soulslvr9562
      @soulslvr9562 2 년 전 +37

      @@pattherick6875 ah ha! You are wrong! ITS EVEN LONGER!!! MUHAHAHA

  • @venompogg4231
    @venompogg4231 2 년 전 +5700

    Michel is the only man who can ask the question “do chairs really exist” and explain it for 40 mins and make me believe that Chairs don’t exist

  • @washcode9613
    @washcode9613 개월 전

    I got to take a seminar taught by Van Inwagen in college where we went over his book, and it was fascinating! Really interesting to question the limits of how we define the world around us

  • @stuartcuateco3898
    @stuartcuateco3898 2 년 전 +1307

    Vsauce: do chairs exists?
    Chair companies: *nervously sweats

    • @jocosesonata
      @jocosesonata 2 년 전 +26

      Sitting was invented by chair companies to sell chairs!

    • @yourfellowcrow
      @yourfellowcrow 2 년 전 +6

      chair companies: *starts having a panic attack*

    • @Mereaux
      @Mereaux 2 년 전 +8

      Hey, Vsauce, Michael here! Down here. But which way is down? And how much does down weigh? Well, down weighs about 1/100 of a g/cm3 . It is light, and airy, which makes it a great source of insulation and buoyancy for waterbirds. But if you let go of down, it falls down. So that's which way down is, it's the direction that gravity is pulling everything. Now for someone on the other side of the Earth, my down is their up, but where are falling things going? Why do things fall? Are they being pushed or pulled? Or, is it because of TIME TRAVEL.

    • @cantrusthestory
      @cantrusthestory 2 년 전 +5

      Ikea: *nervously sweats

    • @AAaa-jc5sk
      @AAaa-jc5sk 2 년 전 +1

      The demon in the corner is filled with fear as the man asks questions that harm reality.

  • @SemihSonmez89
    @SemihSonmez89 2 년 전 +595

    Me: trying to find out if chairs exist.
    Michael: "I am death"

  • @LemonSarah
    @LemonSarah 12 일 전

    I swear, Michael could say literally anything, make a video that lasts like five hours to watch, and I'd watch it in one sitting, no breaks, even if I had a job interview.

  • @randomaccount593
    @randomaccount593 5 개월 전 +1

    Me: One more video then I'm going to bed
    The video:

  • @isaacdanoob2434
    @isaacdanoob2434 2 년 전 +587

    Me: Stops paying attention for 5 seconds
    Michael: *GUNKY*

  • @LTDLimiTeD1995
    @LTDLimiTeD1995 2 년 전 +946

    "I am death, and I am the scattering" -- Most metal thing Michael has ever said.

    • @izzymosley1970
      @izzymosley1970 2 년 전 +21

      Someone needs a power scale Michael off of that statement that he just made there about him being death and the scattering how powerful does this make Michael if we take what he said literally.

    • @snoski
      @snoski 2 년 전 +17

      I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

    • @astro_lane
      @astro_lane 2 년 전

      that’s literally exactly what i said

    • @Paravoid
      @Paravoid 2 년 전 +1

      @@izzymosley1970 If he is death itself than that already makes him beyond everything that is capable of dying (because in the end he’ll outlive everything). If this is true then he is at least multiversal+

    • @The-Secret-Dragon
      @The-Secret-Dragon 2 년 전 +6

      out of context vsauce just got a lot more intimidating

  • @griffinshorts785
    @griffinshorts785 5 개월 전 +2

    I like how we start exploring questions that get more and more “contrarian” if you will, until Michael just goes “Okay okay this is silly right? It’s not practical. But…” and then new ideas are brought and disproven or proven until the process repeats again.

  • @capribreezee
    @capribreezee 3 개월 전 +1

    Me next time at a party, "hey can you grab me a simple assembled chairwise?"

  • @melangalade
    @melangalade 2 년 전 +542

    *chairs exists*
    philosophers : wow this is clearly getting out of hand

  • @UltimateKyuubiFox
    @UltimateKyuubiFox 2 년 전 +679

    “I am Death, and I am the scattering.” ~Vsauce Michael
    That’s a metal af quote.

    • @scoobysnax
      @scoobysnax 2 년 전 +16

      Honestly, Oppenheimer doesn't have shit on Mr. Vsauce after that quote.

    • @xXPamelaXalemaPXx
      @xXPamelaXalemaPXx 2 년 전 +1

      It reminded me of "I am the danger" from Breaking Bad

    • @yes6650
      @yes6650 2 년 전

      It sounds like what a villain in a marvel movie would say

    • @era_s
      @era_s 2 년 전

      I think the preceding line is necessary to get across the quote's essence:
      "We are not the universe seeing itself. We are the seeing. I am not a thing that dies and becomes scattered. I am death, and I am the scattering."

    • @jalenshi8399
      @jalenshi8399 2 년 전

      Reminds me of the famous Nietzsche quote, “I am not a man, I am dynamite”

  • @AllieCatra
    @AllieCatra 5 개월 전 +1

    I start my morning, brew my coffee, and sit down in a nice comfy gaming chair to sip my coffee while I go through my YT recs
    And now I'm not convinced that chairs actually exist.
    What the hell VSauce

  • @JeremyRight-zi4yp
    @JeremyRight-zi4yp 개월 전

    I'm surprised you never mentioned Plato's ontology. Throughout the whole video my brain was crying for it, this would solve so many of the posed questions!
    Plato would probably say a chair is a piece of furniture for one person to sit and lean back on. What happens if you remove some atoms from it? If you can sit on it, it's still a chair. When does it stop being a chair? When you can no longer sit on it.

  • @fbi-thecommenter127
    @fbi-thecommenter127 2 년 전 +2950

    Michael saying "sus" is one of the best and the worst thing I have ran into this year.

  • @Ceduce
    @Ceduce 2 년 전 +427

    New Vsauce video: "Do Chairs exist?"
    Me currently sitting on one: "I sure as hell hope so"

  • @egg_lord1
    @egg_lord1 3 개월 전 +2

    Michael be like: Thats a chair. Or is it? [Vsauce music starts]

  • @gracetaveo2733
    @gracetaveo2733 2 개월 전 +3

    Maybe the chair was the friends we made along the way

  • @blakecacini8016
    @blakecacini8016 2 년 전 +436

    "The more we try to sus out where they are... The more _sus_ they become" -Michael Stevens 2021

  • @Khafaji
    @Khafaji 2 년 전 +7741

    Love how there no context behind the title but i am ready for vsauce to convince me chairs don't exist...

    • @leovy7227
      @leovy7227 2 년 전 +83

      titles are always the context of everything.

    • @swordigo
      @swordigo 2 년 전 +5

      yes

    • @its_lucky252
      @its_lucky252 2 년 전 +65

      He can convince you that up is down

    • @The-toast
      @The-toast 2 년 전 +68

      Somebody needs to stop this man, he clearly holds too much power

    • @dakaripro
      @dakaripro 2 년 전 +11

      i swear i saved this just so i can be convinced later

  • @Surgery_boy
    @Surgery_boy 4 일 전 +1

    Your gana want to sit down for this one

  • @nonsensicalmemes
    @nonsensicalmemes 5 개월 전 +1

    Michael is the only person I know who would make a 40 minute long video about if chairs exist

  • @jemmerllast8492
    @jemmerllast8492 2 년 전 +821

    "I am death, and I am the scattering." Is such a raw line filled with power.

    • @user-ds4gp8dr2q
      @user-ds4gp8dr2q 2 년 전 +1

      what does that even mean?

    • @ONE.Music.
      @ONE.Music. 2 년 전 +4

      36:54

    • @TheMinecraftBeast101
      @TheMinecraftBeast101 2 년 전 +3

      I fully got chills

    • @yourikhi
      @yourikhi 2 년 전 +7

      It means I am the destroyer and the creator same time...that's pretty much Hindu philosophy...
      Edit ..it goes much more deeper than this...

    • @nahometesfay1112
      @nahometesfay1112 2 년 전 +6

      @@user-ds4gp8dr2q In the context of this video, he explained earlier that a consistent way to describe a "simple object" is an action or performance of more fundamental "stuff" so he claims that death and scattering are a continuation of the performance that is "Michael-ing" while this is plausible under his reasoning, it doesn't directly follow from it. Under his reasoning, it would also be valid to say that death is when his body stops "Michael-ing" and scattering is a process done to a body that was "Michael-ing"

  • @btheboio8602
    @btheboio8602 개월 전

    Every now and then I cycle back to watch old VSauce. There are several videos I don't remember past 10 minutes because I undoubtedly fell asleep watching lmao

  • @PanTrimtab
    @PanTrimtab 2 개월 전

    "There is no spoon" this video is a pretty good analysis of one of the major themes of The Matrix. I feel like you could make Deleuze relatively accessible to people; the concept of the rhyzome is pretty close to this. I'd love to see you do a video on nomadology and the war machine.

    • @PanTrimtab
      @PanTrimtab 2 개월 전

      Also, did I miss it, or did you choose to leave out Buckminster Fuller's "I seem to be a verb?" He spoke often at length on that idea.

  • @72nodes85
    @72nodes85 2 년 전 +3801

    I love how Michael is fully aware of a memes surrounding him, and likes to play with them.

  • @SeLeV93
    @SeLeV93 2 년 전 +1900

    "I am death, and I am the scattering."
    I bet Michael could write the most epic, cosmic black metal.

    • @wrenpyle7098
      @wrenpyle7098 2 년 전 +4

      feels like a daughters song tbh

    • @TheArtofKAS
      @TheArtofKAS 2 년 전 +6

      Literally the only line I will continue to repeat in my head

    • @Sh1ranu1
      @Sh1ranu1 2 년 전 +1

      36:28 or something

    • @justinmiller129
      @justinmiller129 2 년 전 +2

      It reminds me of *_these mice_* krplus.net/bidio/hqlugad9oX23c2E&.vgula

    • @uselessduck5994
      @uselessduck5994 2 년 전 +11

      I am death, I am the scattering.
      My existence is truly flattering.
      Make me a chair,
      I guess I’m not.
      But I’m still there, in every thought.
      Chairs are things, long and wide.
      You can even go inside.
      Chairs don’t exist,
      that is true.
      But you know what?
      6606.48 divided by 2.

  • @SpartanMJO12
    @SpartanMJO12 개월 전

    The answer I took from this is "it is what it is if it's useful". A random scattering of pipes doesn't have a name because it's not useful to give it a name, but together it's scaffolding

  • @akorn9943
    @akorn9943 2 년 전 +2906

    *“I am death and I am the scattering.”* -Michael, perfectly sane human being

    • @JasonVoorheeTalkShow
      @JasonVoorheeTalkShow 년 전 +126

      Michael the eldritch god

    • @a.pigeon
      @a.pigeon 년 전 +34

      Perfectly sane is a strech

    • @Spiggo97
      @Spiggo97 년 전 +26

      Saint Michael of the Vesaucian Lakes

    • @creeperbait_42
      @creeperbait_42 년 전 +16

      Now I'll just BE DEATH and SCATTERING like a normal human person HA HA laughter laughter

    • @iam_funnny
      @iam_funnny 년 전 +26

      Michael is actually the sanest person on the Earth.
      It's just us that are flawed and stupid and unintelligent and we should really worship the ultimate being known as the creator of the youtube channel VSauce.

  • @joseville
    @joseville 2 년 전 +791

    This Michael-wise assembly of simples makes some good points.

    • @furretwalk2664
      @furretwalk2664 2 년 전 +11

      I agree with your comment-wise assembly of simples.

    • @devlinmcguire7543
      @devlinmcguire7543 2 년 전 +3

      But which one? And just how many simples are Michael-wise _anyway,_ opposed to (Michael-wise) + (Michael's red shirt-wise) simples?
      XD

    • @driftmaster2009
      @driftmaster2009 2 년 전 +4

      No this Micheal-ing assembly of simples makes good point-ing assemblies of simples that are wirelessly arranging a little part of yourself-ing assembly of simples to make other simples around that part notice the good point-ing arrangements of those simples.

    • @pegasBaO23
      @pegasBaO23 2 년 전 +1

      Is theory is the smallest denominations of existance called simples or symbols, cause I heard symbols the entire time

    • @johnclasing4627
      @johnclasing4627 2 년 전 +1

      This checks out.

  • @Borisbored
    @Borisbored 3 개월 전 +2

    Vsauce is the kind of guy who takes shower thoughts seriously and tries to solve them.

  • @plewis9
    @plewis9 2 개월 전 +5

    Watching this video as Amie Thomasson’s daughter was so surreal! Not only was my mom cited as an expert, Whenever he cited another expert, I was like “oh, yeah, he came to our house for dinner; I baked a cake for him…” and so on. Plus all of the books in the video are literally in my house right now. Also, my mom loves that you put her in a video, and says she’s now a KRplus star!

  • @silkmilk8128
    @silkmilk8128 년 전 +7282

    Vsauce is the type of guy to make a 38 minute video determining if chairs exist

  • @austinmiller2041
    @austinmiller2041 2 년 전 +531

    Vsauce: Do chairs exist?
    Michael: I am Death, and I am the Scattering.

  • @Xvon-
    @Xvon- 4 개월 전

    That intro was a work of art

  • @jacquelinekindred2977
    @jacquelinekindred2977 5 개월 전 +1

    I love how he didn’t mention grass when he was listing everyday things.😂