#132 Vsauce - Does Anything Exist?

Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, one of YouTube's most popular channels. Alongside Hannah Fry he hosts the newly-launched podcast The Rest is Science.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Does Anything Really Exist?
10:32 - Is Michael a Mereological Nihilist?
19:42 - Are Philosophers Overcomplicating Function Behaviour?
25:24 - Do “You” Really Exist?
41:57 - Free Will and the Bicameral Mind Theory
50:09 - Why the Future Isn’t Changing Like It Used To
59:11 - The Scientific Mystery of Torque?
01:17:46 - Consciousness

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Let me try this British diet, Dr. Pepper.
0:03.6	Dr. Pepper zero sugar.
0:04.9	It's probably their newer formulation,
0:07.3	because there's also a Dr. Pepper zero sugar.
0:17.6	Wow.
0:21.0	Another wonderful British exporter.
0:22.8	I got to say this is different than diet Dr. Pepper in the United States.
0:27.7	Do you think?
0:28.7	I think that it's a more modern formula.
0:34.4	Hmm.
0:35.1	It's more syrupy.
0:36.6	That was what they couldn't quite crack in the 80s.
0:39.3	How do you make a sugar-free drink taste like it's got that sugar thickness?
0:44.0	And how does that do?
0:45.2	That's got it.
0:46.6	Yeah.
0:47.0	Are you sure it's not to do with the glass?
0:49.7	Because you know how drinks taste different depending on what they're coming out?
0:52.5	Yeah.
0:52.9	Yeah.
0:53.6	Do you know why that is?
0:56.0	I think it's probably a lot of things, not just the container, but how much carbonation they
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alex J O'Connor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Alex J O'Connor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.