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00:00Is God real? If the answer is yes, then it's a sure bet that God is actually a Type 7 being
00:07on the Kardashev Scale. This is the highest possible point of civilization advancement,
00:12so imagine that you were a Type 7. What would you do first of all?
00:20Here it is, the big one. Regular viewers to our channel will by now know the Kardashev Scale
00:25like the back of their hand, but we've never, ever travelled this far up it. Type 7 is all
00:31new territory, and the absolute apex of this particular system. But first of all, how did
00:36we get here? As far as looking into the future goes, it makes for quite an incredible journey.
00:41So, for one last time, here's the recap. The Kardashev Scale was devised by and takes
00:47its name from the Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev, who first proposed it in 1964.
00:54It's a method of measuring how advanced any given civilization is or could become,
00:58based on how much energy they're able to control and use. Kardashev initially imagined three levels
01:04to it, with Type 1 harnessing all the energy from its own planet, Type 2 harnessing all the energy
01:10from its home star, and Type 3 all the energy from its home galaxy. There have been various
01:16estimations made about where humanity currently ranks on the scale, but the most often cited
01:21figure puts us at about 0.7. We still then need to master all of the energy from Earth before we
01:27can move on to the solar system and the Milky Way and beyond. Because, in the years since,
01:32a number of levels have been added to the scale, notably Type 4, a civilization which harnesses all
01:38of the energy in the universe, and Type 5, where it's all of the energy in the multiverse. The
01:44standard models tend to end here, and indeed many don't actually go beyond Type 4 universal power.
01:50But, as we found out in our previous episode, there are theories on a Type 6, which would entail
01:56a civilization which exists outside of reality itself. It has complete and total power over the
02:02multiverse, and is able to bend and shape spacetime and all the laws of physics to its will. To our
02:08minds, a Type 6 society would consist solely of godlike beings. But, according to some extremely
02:15forward-thinking models, there is still one paradigm shift left for us to make. Type 7.
02:22How would or could Type 7 differ from Type 6? Well, there are two main, major upgrades that
02:27it's theorised to make. The first is that we're now dealing with what's usually known as the
02:32Omniverse. The Omniverse is totally and completely everything. It's also infinite. Any structure or
02:40concept or idea or dimension you can think of, or any other civilization type after you could
02:45think of, the Omniverse contains. It's unmatched, unparalleled and unsurpassable. While Type 6
02:52exists outside of the reality of a relatively simple multiverse, which is certainly impressive,
02:57an omniversal being collects even the content of their superior minds and condenses all of
03:03that knowledge and information into one, final, all-encompassing data point, a Type 7 existence.
03:10There is a paradox in play, though, because of the infinite, all-powerful position we've now taken.
03:15By now, the energy usage criteria we've applied to each and every level before this dissolves into,
03:21well, nothingness. We're so far beyond the question of energy potential at this stage.
03:27Now it's all about information and understanding. And a Type 7 has it all within itself. Which means,
03:34because there is nothing else beyond it, a Type 7 essentially creates itself. It's a fluid,
03:40constant entity. There is nothing else higher up that can have dominion over it.
03:45And that's what sets up the second major upgrade. That a Type 7 civilization wouldn't really be
03:51a civilization at all. Rather than being an all-powerful collective, a Type 7 would, by most
03:57estimations, need to be singular. A Type 6 society might have a number of beings, connected via a
04:03hive mind, with a universal language and thought transference… but even that would be too
04:09inefficient for a 7. There'd be too many opportunities for something to be imperfect,
04:14and perfection is the name of the game at this level. So, we most likely get one individual
04:19thing or essence, not through choice or design, but through nature. Although it, in itself,
04:25would also account for the concept of nature. So, really, we, way down here at just level 0.7,
04:32are extremely limited in how we can describe it. Even contemplating the conditions of its
04:37reality is currently beyond us. Again, we'd probably call it a god. But, actually, it would
04:42also, itself, be the reason why we even had the concept of gods to fall back onto. Not only would
04:49it, like a Type 6 civilization, have all the answers to all the questions imaginable… but
04:54it wouldn't even need to formulate the questions in the first place. To it, the required information
05:00would just be. Here, there, and everywhere. In the past, the future, the present. Its
05:06consciousness is everything. Across every single variation of every single timeline imaginable.
05:13In a never-ending number of multiversal dimensions. Nothing would be unknown or unexpected.
05:18For the Type 7, it would just be. So, where does humanity come into the picture? Well,
05:24on the literally never-ending landscape of a level 7 perspective, we really, truly would be
05:30infinitesimally small. One species, on one planet, in a single galaxy, in a single universe, on one
05:38arm of the multiverse, inside one vision of one reality. The layers go on and on. If Type 7 really
05:45does exist, then it almost certainly gives our existence very little thought indeed. But it does,
05:51of course, know that we exist all the same. Because it knows everything, always.
05:56And, finally, could humanity ever become this itself? What if we climbed far enough to reach
06:02the very top of this absurdly theoretical tree, first planted by Kardashev in the 1960s?
06:08Well, such an ascension would confirm various mind-boggling ideas. For one, it would without
06:14a doubt establish us as the most advanced species ever to exist. We would also have stopped even
06:19caring about the Kardashev Scale, though, because we will have long since realized that the scale
06:24only exists as a tiny, ancient piece of our own inevitable journey to total, all-consuming power.
06:30But, if that all sounds just a little too crazy, if this all feels just a touch too impossible,
06:35maybe that's because it probably is. Even if the ethereal Type 7 really does exist,
06:40then it could be that no civilization, human or otherwise, could ever hope to reach it.
06:45That our being outside of it is confirmation enough that we can never become it ourselves.
06:50If and when we master Earth, we will at least be able to call ourselves Type 1.
06:55And, according to the lower estimates, that could happen within just a few hundred years' time.
06:59If we were to then work out how to spread across the solar system, we could justifiably relabel
07:03ourselves as Type 2. And perhaps humanity won't need to have changed itself too dramatically
07:08between that particular future point and now. The path gets fairly unknowable from this moment
07:14forward, however. By the time our species fulfils the credentials to become just Type 3 or 4,
07:19as we've found in previous episodes, it is already beginning to morph into something that's
07:23unrecognizable to us today. To get to Type 5, we not only have to understand the true nature of
07:29the universe, but we also need to have uncovered actual proof of the multiverse. Not only would we
07:34be a totally different prospect at this point, but our reality would be, too. Then, for Type 6,
07:40we have to see that reality and step outside of it. And, finally, for Type 7, we have to be that
07:46reality from the beginning. We're now so far removed from our humble beginnings, and all in
07:51the name of progress, there's no telling what path humanity will take in the future. But the route to
07:56the top of the Kardashev Scale would transform it beyond all recognition. And that's what would
08:02happen if humanity was a Type 7 civilization. What do you think? Is there anything we missed?
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