is there someone out there that looks
exactly like you known as your
doppelganger you may have one i know
that i do things to the internet his
name is scott hoying you may recognize
him from pentatonix or from superfruit
and people have been saying that we look
the same for years found out that this
guy from asap science is not scott from
pentatonix these are two different
people so we went to la to finally meet
scott my doppelganger and do circle dna
who sponsored today's video the world's
most comprehensive dna test to find out
if we're related we wanted to discover
how seeing doppelgangers actually links
to your cognition and if according to
science everyone including you has a
look-alike on this earth we're going to
be my doppelganger looks exactly like
actually take off my glasses because
there's enough glasses look how
different i look
the phenomenon of doppelgangers is
related to biology there are neurons
that exist in your brain only to deal
with looking at faces and fire only when
you see other people's faces they are
known as facial recognition neurons we
have evolved these specific neurons
because as humans seeing faces is
important they portray moods emotions
behavior sickness and even danger it's
for these reasons that our brains become
pre-loaded with these facial recognition
neurons that fire really fast but they
definitely are not perfect these neurons
are why you suffer from the disease
called peridolia you know when you freak
out because you see faces and things
such as clouds a piece of toast or
bathroom sinks
this is your faulty facial recognition
neurons at work and since the neurons
are designed to work fast they also lack
attention to detail it's why when you
see someone who looks like someone else
in a similar context you may confuse
yourself and think it's that person
since scott and i end up in similar
contexts we both make tick tock videos
we both have done youtube we're both
gay and look freakishly quite similar
this is why your facial recognition
neurons might get us mixed up okay boys
how does it feel to meet each other
finally it's really weird it's weird i
feel like i'm meeting the brother i
never had i know and i've always wanted
a brother and he's rich i see it more in
person which is why i kind of feel
really weird right now like i actually
feel better i really like hanging out
with you but i'm like i can't stop being
like i know it does feel like
we're looking in the mirror it's the
face shape but i don't think we're
actually like relatable
i mean
okay so now we are going to go through
our dna and find out if in fact we are
related because this is horrifying and
we should be i guess yeah and i'm
nervous i'm sweating
me too
before we get to whether scott and i are
related it's important to understand
that seeing doppelgangers actually
relates to your consciousness and your
cognition for this reason you are
constantly seeing faces all day at home
on social media looking at tik tok and
your brain matches these faces to an
identity without you even having to
think about it it turns out that a lot
of your consciousness is based on
predictions that your brain has made
based on prior context and our senses
are there to back up what your brain has
already predicted you put a beer glass
down and turn around your brain predicts
that the beer glass is still there so
when you turn back around your site is
just backing up what your brain has
already predicted a beer glass on the
table where you left it when you are
subscribed to scott on tick tock your
brain predicts based on context that you
could see scott but then all of a sudden
you see a similar looking white gay guy
talking to you down the barrel of the
camera and your brain predicts oh wait
that must be scar but you who twas me
your brain was actually tricked into
thinking i was scott your brain tricking
you is why you left the comment that
helps me find my potentially long lost
brother my doppelganger if you will
which is a german word for double goer
and you don't necessarily have to be
related to have a doppelganger but truly
is scott my brother to find out we use
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let's find out based on these kits are
scott and i related so we're going to
start by going through like our diet
like physical traits genetic traits like
things that we might have similar like
can you handle spicy who knows and then
we're gonna end with our ancestry and
whether or not we're like fully you know
like true great great grandfathers and
excess sisters i don't think i'm a super
taster like like the flavors are so
intense i always like lie when like
they're like do you smell the oak and
wine i'm like yeah like but i'm like 100
no it smells like piss
no i'm not a super taste it says i'm a
super taster taste sensitivity
that's not what we thought thrill secret
seeker
by thrill seeking i mean like having a
dinner with someone i don't know that
well oh my god
that's a thrill i need to leave the
house
yes
girl seeker we're so much fun no i have
horrible appetite control i actually
have an issue too at restaurants with
food waste nothing can be wasted so i
eat at like if someone's like oh i'm
done i'm just like eat it all eat it
i'll eat it all and i have such pride
when they come i'm like it's gone the
whole table and i'm gonna throw up and
hear that better i have low appetite
control i have low appetite control
let's go
i don't have an obsession i don't think
i'm actually dirty i'm pretty dirty my
car is gross sometimes yeah i don't have
a car but if i did you wouldn't want to
go
fill a full mcflurry on the floor and be
like i'll get it in a couple weeks
maybe cut that out less likely to have
an obsession with washing and cleaning
less likely to have an obsession with
washing painting am i highly sensitive
to spice or i feel normal i feel like
normal as a fight man i'm kind of
impressed with sometimes i don't love
when things are like super spicy yeah
like my friends will like all just
lather in sriracha and i can do a
sriracha moment but like i can't lather
in sriracha and just down it and be like
i'm good to go i'll be like damn this
sucks okay what are you precise i'm high
sensitivity
oh
i'm normal
oh
sorry brother you're my younger brother
all of a sudden can't handle the spice
our skin's simmered
i don't like my skin
i'm gonna say normal because i just
can't say you made the other one i'm
gonna say i'm gonna say normal
my skin age is younger mine is younger
too
we're babies we're younger brothers
we're both younger brothers
i'm gonna say gifted wow i feel like
math was easy going for me compared to
oh my god and you still got grammys on
the show oh my god well they say
musicians in math mathematical skills
oh that's embarrassing because mine's
excellent oh my god
like emotional intelligence yes i have
that i feel like if i go into a room and
there's like you know bored very
different people i can like get on their
levels it's the gay thing survival oh
that's the gay thing
normal i'm gonna say like less likely i
feel like i've learned it over time but
i was not an empathy queen girl yeah
nemo normal emotional person normal emo
gifted
whoa
tell me
everything that hurts
i think i'm medium endurance i'm
different physically and mentally
physically i feel like i'm pretty good
at endurance but mentally i'm out
physical endurance i really want to say
that i'm like medium to high but then i
do remember doing cross-country running
with like in grade six and just being
like you're still going definitely
there's always that kid that's like a
miley cyrus
and he's like talking not sweating yeah
so i'm saying medium i'm gonna say
medium too yeah okay okay i'm really sad
because i'm low high
oh it lasts
it says consider the following rowing
skiing football
i've done none of those i think i'm i
think i'm low whenever i work out i'm
like nothing's happening no you know
when you get inspired you're like i'm
gonna lift weights and be buff tomorrow
yeah you're like i guess i'll start with
90. yeah it's like i didn't know nothing
no results it says i'm hot
i'm a jock yeah i run away from the bear
you fight the bear
i dance all the time i'm just high dance
dance dance if it says that i'm gifted
and danced i'm going to be so depressed
because i'm like my parents i didn't
want to play piano i should have been a
dance so know what i'm actually saying i
think i'm gifted to music and dance and
i just didn't pursue that oh my god it's
never too late
music
i would say yes gifted just because like
i did it from a really young age yeah it
came naturally dance i would love to
think so dancing ability normal adds up
this is not fair says that i'm give to
that music oh my god
and it says
it says i'm not okay just goes to show
if you put your mind to something
i want to thank my mom and my dad for
putting me in piano it was the right
thing to do i didn't want to actually be
in dance the people who succeed in
singing are just the ones that like work
the hardest yeah and like get the most
creative with how to navigate the
business the moment we've been waiting
for so like i went to scotland once and
my dad was like get the tartan and i was
like we're scottish i have no idea i
feel like german oh my god oh my god
they're identical i'm 98.81
european oh my god you're you're whiter
than me by point four percent oh my god
i'm 98.45
eastern european forty percent eastern
america's northwestern european they are
scholarships we're very similar i
honestly think it just feels bad for us
and it's trying to give us something
else other than european because it says
i'm 1.19 african okay we're white we
knew that and we could be related we
knew that when you look at us i feel
more like
i was starting to feel less until yeah
but i was like fully yeah and i do feel
like you're vibe i'm just like having so
much fun and we have we have similar
energies yeah and we won't do that
so scott and i are freakishly similar it
was honestly super weird to be in his
presence i thought like his humor was
similar to mine and based on the
ancestry like who knows we could have
been related far far far far back but of
course we are not identical but we do
look so similar some studies find your
face could be similar to one in a
hundred thousand people other studies
say we'd need 150 billion people for
statistically everyone to have a
doppelganger but still many of you have
one dun dun dun you just gotta like make
tick tocks and maybe people in the
comments will find them for you and i'm
sure some of you are saying you know me
and scott aren't exact doppelgangers but
there are people out there who do look
more identical and according to
statistics the probability of a face
being the same is similar to your
fingertips one study found there's a one
in a trillion chance that you have the
same face as someone else which means
right now on earth it's likely
impossible and people who clock that
scott and i don't look alike at all may
have more brain firing and neurons in
regions of the brain which involve
attention to detail also depending on
how well you know each of us you may
begin to see the differences like when
you first meet twins but over time you
get to know them and they start to look
different it was a very weird experience
to be around someone who looked so much
like me and i felt kind of acted like me
and i felt like i got a unique
experience into what it might be like to
hang out with myself you do likely look
similar enough to someone on this earth
that if you both were in similar
contexts the facial recognition neurons
of other people would make you seem the
same as that person this is what a
doppelganger is it does not mean that
you're necessarily identical but based
on biology and science there's a chance
that many people out there could mix you
up for someone else my friends all know
i love to bike all over toronto and i'm
a white guy with a beard there's lots of
us in toronto and the amount of times
that my friends are like just saw you on
a bike and i'm like oh that's funny i'm
actually at my parents on the couch it's
the context of the bike going so
freaking fast so they couldn't really
get a close look that tricks your brain
into thinking i'm on the bike if you
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