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*intro music*
Dom: Whoa! Hey! I'm not alone in this video. Why don't you guys introduce yourselves, huh?
Ehlboy: Hi, I'm Ehlboy.
Ehlboy: Uh... Animator. Sometimes helps Dom with his videos.
Jomm: I'm Jomm, sometimes known as "Dom" without the D. Uh...
*laughs in background*
Jomm: *facepalm* Cut!
Jomm: Cut it!
*beep*
Kressh: How can we cut it? If you don't have a "D"?
*laughs* Jomm: Oh my--
Dom: Next, we have, uh, "Kreesh" (Kressh)
Kressh: See everyone's gonna take that seriously, and no one's gonna call me Kressh.
*laughs*
Dom: So, we have a lot of hypotheticals. Uh... talking about a lot of stuff. What's what's an example of what we've thought of before?
Ehlboy: What if... the air
Ehlboy: was wood?
Dom: Okay, that's like--
Ehlboy: That was an original hypothetical--
Kressh (I Think): oh my,
Dom: I don't even know where that came from.
Dom: First one was, "what if all the air in the world (as in like the planet Earth) was just replaced with wood?"
So, in this hypothetical, do we now as humans breathe in wood? Is that what we need to survive?
Well, are you breathing because don't you just die instantly?
So, everyone just like either get like squished by something or just dies cuz they wouldn't have oxygen
But would anyone be conscious to understand what-- what just happened??
No.. I don't think so..
Okay wait, so what was the end-- what was the end of the conversation?
There is no solution to this. These hypothetical there's no solution. We just... it's just...
that's the beauty man. There's no right or wrong answers. Just... there's right and wrong reasoning, I guess.
Okay, so here's the question for-- for this episode *clears throat*
Okay, at what point?
Do you become a cyborg? Let's say for example I-- I have
uh
an item
I'm gonna say a weapon... a gun, okay?
And I held it in my hand, and now I just don't let go for the rest of my life. Am I a cyborg?
Okay, should we define what?
Yeah, I think you need a define cyborg first.
Yeah-yeah, help me define cyborg
The Google definition is:
"A fictional or hypothetical pers-- * hypothetical* person whose phys-- whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human
limitations by mechanical elements built into the body."
Okay, so...
In the television broadcast that I saw, okay,
So they basically claim like even something as simple as a contact you wear for your eyes counts as being like a cyborg.
Okay, let's say let's say I hold the gun, and I tape my hands, so that I can't open it and release it.
I'm thinking like, uh, like the exoskeletons people wear?
Or like when someone like breaks their shin,
And then you get like surgically stick a bar inside or something
So like, Jackie Chan is a cyborg?
Does he have that?
He's got metal all throughout his body. Oh from like the --
Like every bone he's ever broken.
Oh yeah,
I guess that would make him stronger.
So you're saying--
So you're saying in the case of the hearing aid, it is a cyborg?
But in the case of the gun sticking into your hand
That is not a normal thing you can do, so it's not a cyborg now?
I would say that doesn't bring you beyond normal limitation because you lose a function of a whole hand.
Yeah but I still have my other hand
That's still less than like normal humans.
You're like adding a whole new structure to your body.
I'm a weapon!
*laughs*
That doesn't make you better Dom.
I didn't say it's better. It's just like enhanced in a-- in that category, you know?
Okay, no, in my opinion,
it's when you can do everything
normally, but in a situation where you can't do something, you can do something now because you have that implant.
Can cyborgs love?
Oh my god. This is another video!
*laughs* Part two!!
Wait. Isn't a cyborg still a human, basically?
But at what point is it android?
Time to look at the definition of android...
I mean according to, uh, Dragon Ball Z
Okay well, let's put it in reverse. What-- at what point?
Do you have to take an android and add human elements before it stops being called cyborg?
Wait, when you take an android and start adding elements?
Adding and so you know take an Android. Right? You have a yeah robotic skeleton, and you throw in--
So like, you know when Krillin uh, wished android 18 to be human?
Aw dude, spoiler!
Okay, so you have a robot, and you slowly throw in human pieces like a brain, a liver, lungs, skin,
whatever. At what point does that stop becoming a cyborg?
And I think that's when we would get our definition for-- at what point does something become...
So, the spectrum, it's
Android, cyborg, human.
Yeah, like how many human bits do you have to throw in before it's not considered a cyborg anymore?
Uh... I'm gonna say brain. Brain, yeah because--
So you're saying if it's a fully robotic body with a human brain, it's not a cyborg?
Okay, if you're working like from the ground up with like organs first, and then the last thing replaces the brain
Then you just made a human.
That's what I'm saying!
Then that's a human!
Like what ratio of cyborgs and human bits does it have to be before it's not a cyborg anymore?
Little bits... *laughter in background*
Uh, I'd say all of it
So then by that definition, the moment we put anything mechanical into a human being, is when they're a cyborg?
Yeah, so like-- cuz--
That's what I said! That's the first question! Put a gun in my hand, I'm a cyborg!
It doesn't count with a gun!
I don't think a gun is the best example--
Toaster!
I don't know give me like an iPod or something.
So, if someone puts actual cyborg parts on to you that are functional,
but you switch it off, you're not a cyborg
Until you switch it on
No, you're just a cyborg that's turned off.
*laughter*
I think we need to draw a line between when something's "equippeded" and when something is built into things.
Did you say "equippeded"?
EQUIPPED!
That double past-tense dude. He's in like the fourth dimension
At what point, can you permanently equip something that makes it built-in?
Wait what?
You know, I equip--
When it's permanent
Yes, so
Permanent equipping equals built-in, but then if it's not permanent it's not built-in.
Yes, so, so, if I never let go of the gun. I shower with it. I sleep with it
Oh my god Dom...
I eat my brunch with it
It's... it's permanent. It's built-in cuz you can build a thing with tape, right? Then it's built.
But it's not mechanical.
The gun is mechanical!
I meant tape is not mechanical.
Yeah, but the way-- that's my method of attaching it to my body
So, it's not effective way to...
It's not effective, but it's on me.
But by definition, you are at a cyborg?
Yes.
No! I'm not agreeing with you. I'm saying it's just--
DAS what I wanted to hear!
No! Dom!
At what point, does a gun stop being a gun?
Oh my god...
Like if you take out,
the internal components of a gun, and it's just a gun shell, is this still a gun?
So, if I walk by like something on the floor, I'm like, "Oh, it's a gun."
I look inside, and it's like-- it's empty.
I'm like, "Oh, I guess it's not a gun."
Like, do I just say that?
*laughter*
So, a blow dart can be considered shooting bullets, then it's a gun?
Yeah, a dart is a bullet. *laughter*
It's a type of bullet.
It has a tube that fires.
So, if you put like a nine-millimeter in a straw and then blew, is it a gun?
What kind of straw do you have that would allow you to swallow a bullet?
Yeah, like you get like a spitball it.
And let's say you don't take that straw out of your mouth, are you a cyborg?
Oh my god!
Stop!
Ugh!
This is not coming full circle.
This is just like almost getting there, and then we--
I think we have our answer. Kressh said it, I'm a cyborg.
That was out of context!
I'm gonna arrive to Canada with nerf blaster in my hands,
and you call me a cyborg.
You're not going to get into Canada
It'll be taped in there.
You'll probably get stopped at the border.
Yeah, and then they're gonna--
They're gonna stop me. It's gonna be all taped all on my hand--
"Sir, you have to take those off!" Then you're like, "No, it's permanent! I'm a cyborg!"
"Okay, pass."
No, I'm a cyborg!
"I'm sorry, sir. I didn't realize."
Uh, I identify as--
Assume my species?!
And that wraps up first episode of "Damn Hypotheticals"
Is that what we're calling it?
"Hypodomicals"
I don't know
I don't have a name for it
Dem hypotheticals
Dem "hypos"
The "Hypopo"?
"Hypo"?
Dat "Hypothesis"
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