Why You Probably Shouldn't Be Alive

[Music] if you're watching this right now you've won you've won the game of life you just don't know it yet as of May 2019 there are approximately seven point seven billion humans on our planet seven point seven billion people just like you and me living their own lives with their own jobs relationships hobbies and not one is the same as any other the number of events of situations of interactions that happen on a daily basis across everyone on earth is a number so high that it's hard to fathom but something that is even harder to understand is how you're even here in the first place a lot has happened over the course of history like a lot of things there was nothing and then there was something there were a lot of things and all of this the entire history of the universe has led you to this very second the timeline we live in the one where you're breathing and using your senses to get all the information from this video what are the odds of that happening everything has led to this moment but by the numbers you shouldn't even be here in the first place in order to be living a life like you do today you had to be put here but even at one time the earth wasn't here the universe had to form in the exact way it did for life to form on earth the fundamental forces of nature just so happened to come together in the way that they did luckily gravity is a thing and it's proved to be useful so useful that it's pretty much the glue that holds together any star planet galaxy pretty much anything the strong and weak nuclear forces are able to keep us as humans held together at the lowest levels imaginable luckily one Lost Planet roaming the solar system collided with earth over 4 billion years ago and that is why we have the moon that is why we have seasons it's why the climate is just perfect it's why we have liquid water on earth Earth's currently remains as the only place in the entire universe known to harbor life forms of any kind out of millions billions whatever the number is out of all of those planets only one has life for certain but even one out of a billion are better odds than you being alive for some reason that I wish I could tell you one day a microorganism one that couldn't be seen to our naked eye begin feeding on the thermal vents at the bottom of the ocean this little almost insignificant organism played the most important role of the mall for all they knew the world above them didn't exist but one day it would over millions of years evolution took place these microbes began to be able to replicate themselves and each and every single step of evolution began the pure numbers of the situation doesn't do it justice the odds of everything being so perfect that each step brought us progressively closer to becoming modern humans humans that could realize their human yet from one microbe spawned an entire species that took over the entire planet over a few thousand years on a universal timescale that's quite literally nothing but now let's think about humans what separates us from everyone else the minds of animals have continuously gotten more advanced over time but a human mind is something completely different sentience consciousness we are aware of some internal state of being you don't wake up in the morning because you've thought about it your brain just did it we don't think about breathing we don't think about blinking your brain automatically takes in all of your senses and creates a picture a view of the world in your head for all we know the earth could be something completely different from what we see day-to-day but the way we perceive it all comes down to how a three-pound organ in your head can put together a puzzle with the pieces being all of your senses but it isn't perfect it's easy to trick for example listen to this and try to imagine it right now you're probably thinking of restaurant it has multiple tables all having a little world of their own you might be imagining waiters moving food around this little universe of its own was created in your head all from just your sense of hearing humans have the ability to picture things to see them from a different perspective to take our imaginations and make them a reality this works great actually every invention ever made was to do that spark that initial burst of creativity the brain built us as individuals and we built the world luckily we're on a planet with hundreds of different elements some of which worked great for shelter or technology some work greatest food sources to keep us alive some released certain chemicals in your brain that make you feel a certain way and these chemicals released form you as a person for example the fight-or-flight response that we get when we're in danger is the result of adrenaline a hormone in your body happiness is the result of having large amounts of serotonin and the most important one involving your existence today the love formula sorry to break it to you but you see you couldn't have gotten here by yourself even if you wanted to you may think you're the result of randomness but actually everything happened the way it was supposed to your parents met which by itself is an extremely low probability event depending on your age out of millions or possibly billions of people these two met at the perfect timing for example you watching this video offsets your daily activities by about 10 to 15 minutes everything you do after you finish watching this video will alter your life in some way as weird as it sounds you're actually changing the course of your life right now some events that should have happened won't and others that shouldn't have happened will every day you stray further down your own personal timeline one that not any other single person on the planet has lived except you your parents are no exception to this they both live their own lives were raised by different parents hopefully work different jobs had different friends but somehow ended up meeting and not only did they meet but they liked each other enough to stay together to come to the decision to have a child you unless you were a mistake like me not even kidding it keeps going a woman has about 300,000 eggs inside her body a male can have billions or trillions of different sperms throughout his life but only specifically one Beach could make you and it did the odds of that are 1 in 400 quadrillion if the situation hadn't been perfect if that one stoplight hadn't been green if that line at the grocery store wasn't so long there's a pretty high chance that your parents would have never met these lucky situations don't stop at your parents they keep going it extends to their parents and to their parents all of which somehow ended up living long enough to have kids this goes back tens of thousands of years even your ancestors thousands of years ago when the life expectancy was literally 30 years this continues all the way back to that very first little microbe at the bottom of the ocean floor over 4 billion years ago your life is the result of a family tree that hasn't been broken for billions of years what are the odds that all of that happened perfectly you're more likely to be struck by lightning a thousand times in a single day than you are to be alive you're more likely to be a victim of an airplane crash every single day of the year back to back to back then you ought to be alive you're more likely to win the lottery nine times in a row then you ought to be alive some may say you were put here for a purpose others may say you just got lucky the universe has 10 to the 80 atoms the odds of you being born are much lower than that the number of 5050 coin flips your family has went through when it comes to living long enough to have children or dying before carrying on the family line it goes back tens of thousands of millions of years this gets more interesting when you consider alien civilizations the odds of us meeting are already low but when you think about everything that had to happen for two different civilizations coming into existence close enough to each other to actually contact each other it's just crazy to think about no matter what age you are no matter where you live no matter your gender you are alive this is a luxury that by the numbers you shouldn't have even been given what's the point in living a life that you aren't trying to squeeze everything out of looking at the regret in the faces of people who are too old to do the things that they really wanted to do in life is perhaps one of the scariest things in the world waking up in the morning and realizing that your existence is actually a miracle something that seems so perfect so orderly came from an infinite set of possibilities the amount of thoughts you have in a day the number of neurons that are fired and exist in your brain are inconceivable in magnitude this doesn't happen by accident everything that could have happened didn't it only happened in the way that set the universe into its current state the smallest of things the tiniest of decisions makes the biggest differences the biggest impacts understanding a little of a chance there is that you're here today is terrifying but yet I find that more than anything else it gives me purpose it gives me a reason to say that I and everyone else have a reason to exist I believe you exist for a purpose but that's for you to figure out I can't tell you why we exist but I can tell you one thing that's for certain we shouldn't have even been here in the first place [Music] staying on top of your identity is important especially online with dashlane you're secure you don't have to worry about being tracked or having your online information fall into the hands of someone else by managing your digital identity - link can help keep you out of harm's away the best way to stay secure online is to use different passwords for literally everything but this is super hard to keep track of and you'll end up 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Id: 4zWt0hcMLAQ

Length: 11min 40sec (700 seconds)

Published: Fri May 31 2019