How Much Of You Is ACTUALLY Alive?

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    You’re alive right now… at least I’m pretty sure you are. But you’re not TOTALLY alive. Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out, and being replaced. Even right now, parts of you are dying. Some of your cells even died before you were born. And some will never come back. These are all very strange, mildly uncomfortable things to think about. And what’s even stranger than that is a big fraction of your body is, was, and will never be alive. So how much of you is dead?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 2,5 тис.

  • @LapisPebble
    @LapisPebble 3 роки тому +1670

    The fact that our liver alone is 240 Billion cells, I'm constantly amazed how we're even functioning as a singular living being without more going wrong.

    • @Htiy
      @Htiy 3 роки тому +78

      @Ochako kun it’s crazy how I don’t even know some of the things my body does it just does it.. and who taught it? The brain? But who taught the brain to teach them? Lol

    • @GamingManiacMan
      @GamingManiacMan 3 роки тому +60

      @@1kwithabunchofplaylist..382 If God is all knowing, then that means he knows if someone will go to hell before they are created. Why would any God that is "loving" create someone who is bound to burn in the end? To me, it sounds quite cruel and something that a psychopath would do

    • @logicalhuman249
      @logicalhuman249 3 роки тому +20

      @@GamingManiacMan hell isnt real actually humans created that to scare people into paying churches to "guarantee" being saved. Not real

    • @2dwatermelon302
      @2dwatermelon302 3 роки тому +33

      Ok people should really stop talking about religion here

    • @geturinkup
      @geturinkup 3 роки тому +4

      @@Htiy genetics!! Lol

  • @leemiller7165
    @leemiller7165 3 роки тому +2592

    Since metabolism ceases in the outer layers of skin, the part of any person you've ever touched is only the dead part.

  • @racoonfederationhecker4173
    @racoonfederationhecker4173 3 роки тому +1514

    "Youre dead on the inside right now"
    I took that literally

  • @Joyness333
    @Joyness333 3 роки тому +965

    "Honey, you're not the same person I met twelve years ago" takes on a whole new meaning in this context.

    • @desideratha5698
      @desideratha5698 3 роки тому +7

      😭😭😭😭

    • @stealthtomcat4739
      @stealthtomcat4739 3 роки тому +19

      You are not either

    • @slajufila
      @slajufila 2 роки тому +1

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA HAAAAAAAH HAH

    • @injunsun
      @injunsun 2 роки тому +18

      Also to the phrase, "You've really let yourself go." Well, yeah. We kinda don't have a choice.

    • @darkshadow-sv5xd
      @darkshadow-sv5xd 2 роки тому +3

      The heart is istill the same

  • @good-sofa
    @good-sofa 3 роки тому +9

    I've been comparing humanity to an organism for some time and here it also makes sense: people die and give birth and no humans alive two hundred years ago aren't alive right now, so are we the same humanity???

    • @la912
      @la912 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah. Humanity and, in general, the nature are like a one big living organism

    • @doreew
      @doreew День тому

      ​@@la912 Humanity is more like cancer

  • @random_sword4631
    @random_sword4631 3 роки тому +705

    Thumbnail "Part of you is dead"
    Me "I know, you don't need to remind me."

  • @Mikemenn
    @Mikemenn 3 роки тому +1800

    From my research, how often body parts are completely replaced:
    Cornea: 24 hours
    Stomach / Intestines: 2 - 9 days
    Taste Buds: 10 Days
    Skin: 2 - 4 weeks
    Eyebrows / Eyelashes: 6 - 8 weeks
    Red Blood Cells: 4 months
    Liver: 5 months
    Fingernail: 6 months
    Toenail: 10 months
    Lung: 1 year
    Hair: 2 - 7 years
    Bones: 10 years
    Muscles: 15 years
    Fat Cells: 25 years
    Heart: 3 - 4 times over lifetime
    Eye Lens: Lifetime
    Eye: Lifetime
    Brain: Lifetime

    • @beaudavis3808
      @beaudavis3808 3 роки тому +178

      Then based on your research, well over 80 to 90 percent of each of us has been replaced already.

    • @joroc
      @joroc 3 роки тому +69

      Does that considers the atoms trading?😌

    • @coatguards8032
      @coatguards8032 3 роки тому +98

      I can HAVE 3-4 hearts in a lifetime!

    • @user-hv1so9vu8u
      @user-hv1so9vu8u 3 роки тому +18

      Legit??

    • @RupeshSingh-gd5cp
      @RupeshSingh-gd5cp 3 роки тому +105

      Is this data from whatsapp University?

  • @tamaghnosaha2520
    @tamaghnosaha2520 3 роки тому +1344

    I LITERALLY died inside while reading so many "dying inside" jokes.

    • @riseofthephoenix
      @riseofthephoenix 3 роки тому +25

      And yet here you are

    • @DelLego
      @DelLego 3 роки тому +16

      If you LITERALLY died inside you wouldn't be able to comment ya know

    • @tamaghnosaha2520
      @tamaghnosaha2520 3 роки тому +26

      @@DelLego I said 'literally" as a joke. The video says a part of me is always dying. Hence, the statement which I commented is technically correct. It signifies two
      meanings. Dying inside figuratively, and also brings light to the fact tht parts of my body is regenerating.

    • @rgb2296
      @rgb2296 3 роки тому +13

      @@DelLego But our cells are literally dying inside tho.

    • @DelLego
      @DelLego 3 роки тому +4

      @@tamaghnosaha2520 Yeah now that I think about it, I suppose technically you're right. I just tired of seeing people using "literally" wrong

  • @quentinbarth3268
    @quentinbarth3268 3 роки тому +20

    "We are not things, but processes." -Robert Hass, A Little Book on Form
    (pretty sure that's right, didn't check today)

  • @Sahilsharma-ce4ow
    @Sahilsharma-ce4ow 2 роки тому +9

    *"I am not a body, I am a spirit living through this body."*
    ~Vedanta Philosophy.
    This seems so much more right after watching this video.

    • @randallbesch2424
      @randallbesch2424 20 днів тому

      Sure once you classify spirit.

    • @kiwionkeys
      @kiwionkeys 6 днів тому

      @@randallbesch2424at the least, we do maintain our minds throughout our lives :D

  • @MavelDraconia
    @MavelDraconia 3 роки тому +158

    "you are dying inside right now"
    Yeah ... I noticed that.

  • @traceyfortich5114
    @traceyfortich5114 3 роки тому +420

    "you are dying inside right now" uhm no i already am dead inside

  • @PLee-vu6mp
    @PLee-vu6mp 3 роки тому +394

    2 lines came to mind in the 1st minute:
    "theseus's ship"
    and
    "it will not grow back"

    • @dakshtyagi2410
      @dakshtyagi2410 3 роки тому +26

      my mind rembembering the scene from wandavision finale

    • @shoguevara
      @shoguevara 3 роки тому +4

      My mind went a bit further with associations till very "John dies at the end" =)

    • @boldCactuslad
      @boldCactuslad 3 роки тому +4

      ribs grow back

    • @phoenixwrong0068
      @phoenixwrong0068 3 роки тому +5

      @@boldCactuslad _no zhey don't_

    • @flyball1788
      @flyball1788 3 роки тому +2

      For anyone in the UK - Trigger's Broom: ua-cam.com/video/LAh8HryVaeY/v-deo.html

  • @Kaz-_
    @Kaz-_ 3 роки тому +133

    Fun fact: every second, we get closer to death

    • @wendysgarden4283
      @wendysgarden4283 3 роки тому +18

      related fun fact. you'll never look better than you do today. So as you get older, and get horrified at what's happening in the mirror, try to appreciate that it's the best you that you'll ever see.

    • @thefogitself
      @thefogitself 2 роки тому

      What if you dont get horrified

    • @Kaz-_
      @Kaz-_ 2 роки тому +8

      @@wendysgarden4283 thx now I feel depressed

    • @glowstickqueen7139
      @glowstickqueen7139 2 роки тому +3

      That's terrifying, thanks!

    • @easypeezy03
      @easypeezy03 2 роки тому

      No way I never would've guess that

  • @scottchristensen4081
    @scottchristensen4081 Рік тому +5

    I’ve worked a lot with trees and they operate in similar ways to the human body. The core of a tree’s trunk is dead heartwood, giving it structural support and the outer bark is a dead outer shell protecting its internal organs. The tree also sheds dead or dying materials such as leaves and branches.

  • @drishtantsen3724
    @drishtantsen3724 3 роки тому +261

    "You know, I'm somewhat a dead person myself."

    • @tk8i367
      @tk8i367 3 роки тому +3

      My hand dies when i sleep on it

    • @ayushtiwari5144
      @ayushtiwari5144 3 роки тому +3

      Yes it looks on your profile photo

    • @blueapple1686
      @blueapple1686 3 роки тому +1

      Hey fellow deadman, give me deadman high five

  • @kennytvn
    @kennytvn 3 роки тому +609

    Joe looks like he wants to use his knife to find out how much we're alive

  • @bdemaree
    @bdemaree 3 роки тому +350

    Apoptosis, as opposed to K-poptosis: when a band member reaches adulthood and is replaced by a younger one.

  • @SunriseLAW
    @SunriseLAW 3 роки тому +3

    Weirder is "how much of you isn't you". At least 65% of the cells in/on our bodies are microbes and other tiny life-forms. All indications are that plants and animals were formed/evolved by microbial life to be their host organisms.

  • @contessa.adella
    @contessa.adella День тому

    It isn’t just physical. The personality which you call you, gradually changes over the years. We even acknowledge this, saying things like “I’ve mellowed since my youth”. Our fears, desires and emotional state gradually shift over time…..so you are not just a fixed idea of “you” because your experiences change you.

  • @rosemarym5334
    @rosemarym5334 3 роки тому +139

    Joe's avatar in all animations suffers a lot.

    • @caroline6218
      @caroline6218 3 роки тому +5

      Kick the Joe now on mobile!

    • @rosemarym5334
      @rosemarym5334 3 роки тому +4

      @@caroline6218 lol that def should be a game on mobile.
      I would wanna play.

  • @heynotizzy7493
    @heynotizzy7493 3 роки тому +360

    “Your body’s janitors are good at what they do”
    Hotel CEOs: *i have a job offer for you*

    • @fundemort
      @fundemort 3 роки тому +5

      i want a better offer.
      a much better offer.

  • @gardenhead92
    @gardenhead92 3 роки тому +53

    Well, at least I'm relieved that our brains mostly stay the same, which is what I consider to truly be "me"

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 3 роки тому +3

      Your brain isn't "you" since the individual identity is a social construct and therefore not an actual thing.

    • @agnesfonmarten
      @agnesfonmarten 3 роки тому +7

      @Sentient Flower Wrong address. The postmodernists’ party is two blocks down the road.

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 3 роки тому +6

      @@sentientflower7891 ... wrote your brain.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 3 роки тому +5

      @@agnesfonmarten you must know that you aren't an actual thing. The illusion of Self is created initially by the gift of a name.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 3 роки тому

      @@ooooneeee wrote a brain, which isn't the same as claiming it was written by "my" brain since the brain organizes itself begins to operate before any sense of Self begins.

  • @ditzfough
    @ditzfough 3 роки тому +4

    I like how alot of the best youtubers come out with videos containing similar topics at same time but there own personal spin.
    Vsauce just tackled this aswell

  • @jeromebethel4837
    @jeromebethel4837 3 роки тому +20

    This puts a whole new meaning on the saying “Feels like I'm dying to live” 😂

  • @caroline6218
    @caroline6218 3 роки тому +200

    Life Science textbook: “all multicellular organisms have nuclei in their cells.”
    Red blood cells: “well yes, but actually no.”
    Biology has a lot of weird exceptions

    • @slajufila
      @slajufila 2 роки тому +1

      Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, very funny

    • @Kophe3e
      @Kophe3e 2 роки тому +6

      I didn’t know red blood cells was a micro cellular organism, lol

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 роки тому +1

      @@Kophe3e Dont just 'hope' for this channel to grow:
      Actively recommend-it-around and share it as much as you can.
      And you may as well ask me for some recommendations for science-youtuber and all such.
      Cause why not. The Learning never ends anyway.

    • @ayas.4636
      @ayas.4636 2 роки тому +1

      lmao don't forget platelets

    • @Shaurya_Vardhan_Kala_7
      @Shaurya_Vardhan_Kala_7 2 роки тому

      cough cough chemistry cough cough

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 3 роки тому +92

    I have had a broom for years, it's had 5 new handles and 3 new heads, but it's still my broom...I've certainly not bought a new one for a long time!
    😁

    • @fernandomerida3752
      @fernandomerida3752 3 роки тому +27

      ... or have you?

    • @jvvn361
      @jvvn361 3 роки тому +10

      science meets philosophy

    • @daphenomenalz4100
      @daphenomenalz4100 3 роки тому +3

      Or did you?

    • @ikocheratcr
      @ikocheratcr 3 роки тому +2

      All I can say, what a fantastic investment, one single buy, plus spare parts "only". lol ;)

    • @plazmikpond
      @plazmikpond 3 роки тому +12

      @@fernandomerida3752 *vsauce music plays*

  • @shanggosteen9804
    @shanggosteen9804 3 роки тому +46

    If you think about it; our body is a dystopia, every cell fights for us to live and breath even if it costs their life, and cancer are the ones who realize it's a dystopia

    • @Gibbypastrami
      @Gibbypastrami 3 роки тому +18

      I see it more like a naturalistic ecosystem, our cells are just like raccoons and possum, they do what they were designed, evolved to do, eat, excrete, procreate, die
      Our bodies are super complex forests, we're the parts interact and in the grand scheme of things contribute to the whole

    • @joroc
      @joroc 3 роки тому +5

      It's a dystopia to contribute for the community that keeps you alive?

    • @gamerdorianyt1
      @gamerdorianyt1 3 роки тому

      Yeah how interesting isn't it

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 3 роки тому +3

      @@joroc well it all depends how much you anthromorphise your cells. Are they akin to slaves, indentured servants, wild animals, fungi on a forest floor, etc. Each commenter has their own metaphor which changes the moral evaluation when they “step back and think about it”.

    • @shadow20482
      @shadow20482 7 місяців тому

      Cancer are simply cells that refuse to die and thus cause problems to others

  • @henryhawthorn8849
    @henryhawthorn8849 Рік тому +10

    Whenever someone tattoos a part of his/her body, if the ink is not part of the body, then why doesn’t the tattoos go away along with the dead cells? You would think that the tattoos would disappear with the dead cells within a 100 days of putting them on. However, I still have the tattoos on the very same place where they were put on 12 years ago. Is it possible that whenever a foreign object, such as ink, is incorporated with the skin that that foreign object becomes an integral part of the cells? If so, then how exactly is that possible?

    • @esmedragon1101
      @esmedragon1101 Рік тому +4

      I think it is because the ink is deep into the skin, so it doesn’t get shed away.

    • @fabioooh
      @fabioooh Рік тому

      The ink just cant/doesnt get absorbed and at the same time its deep enough that it doesnt get washed off ,thats it,the tatto doesnt get like intracellular or something for it to disappear with skin , It just exist there

    • @pastaandmashedpotatoes7494
      @pastaandmashedpotatoes7494 7 місяців тому

      I don't completely remember the full answer but the ink is needled into deeper skin layers, and causes an immune response which kinda holds the ink in place as your body cannot just break it down (immediately).

  • @gabriellashimone6546
    @gabriellashimone6546 2 роки тому +1

    You can never step in the same river twice because it isn't the same river the second time you step in it is one of the greatest existential arguments humans have ever stated. Causality is Empress is how I think of it. We are governed by entropy and rejuvenation and those things are governed by causality. Causality may be programmed or it may be randomly occurring but, as it is another way of discussing change, _the_ absolute universal constant. If one studies biology and human physiology, one learns the things you're sharing but, I think, are often forgotten because, well, causality.

  • @DominikJaniec
    @DominikJaniec 3 роки тому +34

    8:39 thank you for this: _it's not made of cells, it's made by cells_ - finally it cleared my misconceptions.

  • @Gwydda
    @Gwydda 3 роки тому +44

    Me on a first date.
    Date asks me: so tell me about yourself.
    Me: Well, I'm made of blebs and stuff and a part of my is dying as we speak

  • @SolaceEasy
    @SolaceEasy 3 роки тому +98

    "Life exists on a spectrum."
    I posit that rocks and the Sun are alive.

    • @TheFlyfly
      @TheFlyfly 3 роки тому +13

      i've honestly thought about if starts technically count as being alive. they do have the fusion stuff going on which is keeping them as stars

    • @megamillionfreak
      @megamillionfreak 3 роки тому +8

      A freaking potato just became the president.

    • @SolaceEasy
      @SolaceEasy 3 роки тому +5

      @@megamillionfreak Just barely alive

    • @dineshvasudev6911
      @dineshvasudev6911 3 роки тому +5

      okie here is a thing.. technically speaking sun does ticks out few criteria of being alive.. it uses energy, it has a complex structure it has a temperature which regulates and to some extent on can say it even reproduces because after it will die the the new elements will be used up to create more stuff in the universe..... Personally i don`t consider scientific criteria because you will generally hit a fuzzy area if you try to progress like this where things will seem alive and dead at same time... i believe it would be better if one just says whatever moves than it is alive... if you look like this than there isn`t anything that isn`t moving... so everything is alive and you don`t hit a point where you see dead chemicals creating life..

    • @dakarai47
      @dakarai47 3 роки тому +1

      The sun is not alive, no star is alive the fact people are even considering this proves how slow humanity really has become

  • @tgclericoll572
    @tgclericoll572 3 роки тому +1

    Everything has a core element to it that, once replaced, changes the old into the new. For a ship its the keel, for an ideology it its core tenants, and for a person its your brain. We are still us even though we replace ourselves because the brain is never replaced.

  • @tovesvensk8015
    @tovesvensk8015 2 роки тому +2

    i love this video it helps me understand life better but also just makes me more uncertain and thoughtful.

  • @Splarkszter
    @Splarkszter 3 роки тому +50

    Disclaimer:
    Technically you is brain(it get's nearly never replaced)
    Body is just your toolset to do things.

    • @paulogarcia9557
      @paulogarcia9557 3 роки тому +5

      if you copied every single thing of information in your brain and it is transfered to a machine just to let your brain die, would that mean that you are dead or you are still alive inside of the machine (full consciousness in de machine)

    • @pranaveshjelly7351
      @pranaveshjelly7351 3 роки тому

      no no no....
      he's got a point

    • @eeeithan6588
      @eeeithan6588 3 роки тому

      @@paulogarcia9557 now

    • @TheJadedJames
      @TheJadedJames 3 роки тому +8

      @@paulogarcia9557 There would be no continuity between your brain and the information copied into the machine. You would be dead. It would like tracing a drawing and destroying the original

    • @Splarkszter
      @Splarkszter 3 роки тому +1

      @@paulogarcia9557 Are digital photos the same photons that hitted the camera at that time. But being reproduced on a screen makes it not that original photo anymore.

  • @andremoreiragraca
    @andremoreiragraca 3 роки тому +62

    To me, the easiest way to solve this, ontologically, is to think of entities as processes, not fixed states. :P

    • @skullsmitten
      @skullsmitten 3 роки тому +3

      perfect, i like that too! thank you for sharing!

    • @aelolul
      @aelolul 2 роки тому +7

      The important part of ourselves is not the particular matter, but how the matter is organized. Even as cells come and go, the organization is maintained.

    • @Matthew-rl3zf
      @Matthew-rl3zf 2 роки тому +2

      Dude that is smart!!! I've been struggling with the concept of personal identity ever since I watched the Crash Course philosophy video on it. It think you might have just provided the beginning of the answer, thank you so much!!

    • @andremoreiragraca
      @andremoreiragraca 2 роки тому +2

      @@Matthew-rl3zf I got u fam, keep on doubting

    • @Matthew-rl3zf
      @Matthew-rl3zf 2 роки тому +1

      @@andremoreiragraca Thanks brother, my motto is follow your doubts not your dreams

  • @notsiddhi2820
    @notsiddhi2820 3 роки тому +117

    joe- "you are literally dying inside"
    yessir ✨emotionally✨

    • @laser2144
      @laser2144 3 роки тому +8

      cringe

    • @notsiddhi2820
      @notsiddhi2820 3 роки тому +3

      @@laser2144 shut up 🥺🤧

    • @afroblender8023
      @afroblender8023 2 роки тому +1

      How are you doing inside emotionally? How old are you? Do you even know what you are talking about?

    • @notsiddhi2820
      @notsiddhi2820 2 роки тому

      @@afroblender8023 I am not so great...... I am 19 yrs old.... and yeah ik what I'm talking bout.......

    • @afroblender8023
      @afroblender8023 2 роки тому

      @@notsiddhi2820 hmmm why are you dying inside?

  • @soulsaver369
    @soulsaver369 День тому

    Your example of the knife handle and blade is perfectly summed up by the character Trigger from "Only Fools and horses" who worked as a road sweeper.Trigger was telling someone that he had used the same broom since he started his job and it only ever had 8 changes of the handle and 12 changes of the broom head. Lol.

  • @cherrybeom4181
    @cherrybeom4181 3 роки тому +1

    "Because you are dying inside!" literally changes the meaning of both paragraphs.

  • @Sonu-yi5rk
    @Sonu-yi5rk 3 роки тому +32

    Alternate name for this video : Vision explains about the ship of Theseus .
    I always thought he looked similar to Paul Bettany

  • @catattack885
    @catattack885 3 роки тому +26

    To solve the Theseus Paradox: It's whatever you consider the original thing, that's the original, our entire perception of who is who, and what is what is made of bias and considerations.

    • @warduxe
      @warduxe 3 роки тому +2

      and our perception is our reality. and our brain controls our perception.

    • @XWierdThingsHappenX
      @XWierdThingsHappenX 3 роки тому

      To me living beings and inanimate objects are different. I say the ship becomes new when there is more new parts than the original ship. Than it's just a replica. For living beings your cells make new ones and such. Buts that's a process that happens with in your own body. If you pop your arm off and replace it with someone else's it's not your original arm. The arm now belongs to you. But it wasn't yours you replaced it from an outside source. Now if say the ship regenerated itself I'd say it'd the same ship.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp 3 роки тому

      people get mad at me when I say learning is biasing.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp 3 роки тому

      @@XWierdThingsHappenX "living beings and inanimate objects are different" no, they aren't. living beings are "inanimate" objects with some behavior.
      there's no such a thing as inanimate in this universe, there's movement everywhere, everything is changing. Living things are just a kind of changing behavior with feedback that keeps looping and repeating itself.
      Its more like a spectrum between living and "dead".
      Who say rocks aren't alive in the millions of years scale, we can't see them changing because we live for so little time.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp 3 роки тому

      @@XWierdThingsHappenX this is such a binary thinking... worth of computers, not humans
      "I say the ship becomes new when there is more new parts than the original ship."
      Parts don't matter, what matters is the abstract structure, that's why you could replace all the parts and still have that ship.
      50% of parts replaced is such an arbitrary number...
      This western foundation of thinking, this essentialism and immutable "purity".
      Yet, people believe in souls... go figure
      What's a soul if not the abstract mathematical structure of a thing, that's what defines it, not the real parts.
      Complex things have no essential formula, they are complex dynamic systems, you can't reduce complexity. Damn reductionism , that is, bullshit. You have to study things on the proper level of complexity, you switch between levels, you never try to break things into smaller things.
      That only works for computers and mathematics, not for complex dynamic systems, which living things are. The total is always greater than sum of the parts in complex systems.
      That's what leads people to hopelessly try to separate things into categories like "life" and "inanimate", when actually both are the same thing, the categories are made up, they are arbitrary, such binary reductionism leads to no understanding. Life is made of chemistry which is made of "inanimate" matter.
      But chemistry is much dynamic, just go see some things exploding, that's chemistry, life is controlled explosion that keeps burning. Even wonder why we consume oxygen ? its because we are slowly burning things, that's what mitochondria does.
      You only need a self-fulfilling chemical reaction to evolve over time to create life. Life is not different from any other chemical reaction, except in complexity, its much more complex, has much more abstraction layers on top of each other, each of it giving birth to new complex irreducible behavior on top of the previous layer, but its just chemistry on the bottom, not a different "magical" thing.
      The magic is the universal complexity.
      Yet, no part of it could evolve individually by chance, that's when people make the error.
      But still, if it starts very simple, it evolves in irreducible complexity from the very "beginning", if you can call a begin.
      Was it when the planet was formed ? when it cooled down, or its already the result of the complex chemical reactions of that big ball of matter that formed earth cooling down, where's the beginning of the reaction ? was it when the Sun exploded for the first time in its nuclear reaction from space dust ? perhaps...
      Chemistry only needs gradients in thermodynamics to work...
      That's the only thing it needs, and that was created in the first milliseconds of the Universe, it all goes back to the singularity. Everything is like the same thing, its pure energy ! That's the soul of the Universe.
      Universe itself is alive in is uttermost complexity.

  • @joroc
    @joroc 3 роки тому +74

    Even if the tissue doesn't regenerate the cells still "eat and poop", neurons change eletrons thus changing

  • @sirjeffels4020
    @sirjeffels4020 3 роки тому +1

    I think that a "human" or a "boat" are both words to represent a finished structure. If parts of the structure are replaced, then the structure is still there.

  • @rosegolds9644
    @rosegolds9644 2 роки тому +1

    I wish I had a friend like you your energy is very calming you seem to be very compassionate towards others god bless you as much as you gather more knowledge you become more aware of how we should treat and be with others

  • @aagamanpokhrel4113
    @aagamanpokhrel4113 3 роки тому +28

    Hey, thanks i always had this question in mind

  • @thatonecommenter7169
    @thatonecommenter7169 3 роки тому +16

    I like to think that no matter how many parts of something gets replaced as long as the concept of the original exists.
    Like a memory of how that something once was. Even if it's functionally a replica of the original, i'd still call it the original since it technically doesn't make a difference.

    • @bobikoart
      @bobikoart 3 роки тому +1

      To take that one step further. If a perfect clone was created of a specific person and the original person was killed off, is the clone still the same person? Technically yes, but emotionally i might still treat the clone differently😂

    • @Stardustabyss8365
      @Stardustabyss8365 3 роки тому

      @@bobikoart but you're qualia would decease due the break in consciousness continous

  • @mrperfectcell1350
    @mrperfectcell1350 3 роки тому +41

    "Welcome home thesius."
    - Sun Tzu, The art of war.

    • @nazrarain1452
      @nazrarain1452 3 роки тому +6

      Ah, I've found a fellow Techno fan

    • @Gainoffuntion
      @Gainoffuntion 3 роки тому +2

      I was looking for this comme t

  • @alpha_jasperflair1097
    @alpha_jasperflair1097 2 роки тому +2

    Well all of our hair is already dead, alive hairs appear in the scalp and once they grow out of it their dead, you might notice why the strands of our keeps growing longer each month its because the scalp makes it grow it produces keratin, even our nails nails are also dead, so hair and nails are similar.

  • @brookemears914
    @brookemears914 2 роки тому +3

    I never realized that blood cells were missing so much of what other cells typically have! That's pretty amazing to think about, that they might not actually be considered cells because they are missing so much!!! - I always love the content of these videos!! :D

    • @martinbriggs9699
      @martinbriggs9699 2 роки тому

      A blood 'cell' is a misnomer. you'd have to read up about why it's called a cell when the biological understanding is something that has a nucleus, which a blood 'cell' does not - the correct word for a 'blood cell' is a erythrocyte.

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 Рік тому

      It's a nonkaryotic cell.

  • @peacewillow
    @peacewillow 3 роки тому +10

    actually, this video gives me a new appreciation for the work that my cells do, independent of "me", to keep me alive. 🌻
    i will do my best not to make their job any harder than it needs to be. 🤗

  • @fugithegreat
    @fugithegreat 3 роки тому +5

    I guess this is part of why we look so different when we age. It's like making a copy of a copy of a copy, on and on until it's all distorted.

  • @bhraguwar3130
    @bhraguwar3130 3 роки тому +16

    Title: what part inside you is dead
    Me: yes

    • @DyslexicMitochondria
      @DyslexicMitochondria 3 роки тому +1

      Haha

    • @sterlingarcher8041
      @sterlingarcher8041 3 роки тому

      @@DyslexicMitochondria your username made me click on your profile. Your channel is a hidden gem bro

    • @fort6350
      @fort6350 3 роки тому

      Fr you're spitting facts

    • @fort6350
      @fort6350 3 роки тому

      @@DyslexicMitochondria you're channel needs to be more famous its a hidden gem 💎

  • @HeracIeid
    @HeracIeid 3 роки тому +3

    In the immortal words of Philip J. Fry - "Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!"

  • @belgik
    @belgik Рік тому +1

    Thank you, due to this video my great great grandpa from misisiiropouipi said this in court after he got charged for 92nd degree murder and he is no longer a free man

  • @stevenl378
    @stevenl378 3 роки тому +12

    Hope nobody's going through an existential crisis after that! Great video joe/team!!!

  • @noelnewlon
    @noelnewlon 3 роки тому +19

    Your video supports my view: life is a near-death experience, for one's life contains one's death as a viable, intrinsic component.

  • @arshadmomen
    @arshadmomen 3 роки тому +16

    Very thought provoking episode - Great job, Joe!

  • @Villosa64
    @Villosa64 Рік тому +2

    Everybody gangsta till a cell decides it doesn’t want to die

  • @kulia3163
    @kulia3163 2 роки тому +1

    You're still you, you're just a new version of yourself on the outside of you.

  • @TheTmaaan55
    @TheTmaaan55 3 роки тому +4

    Small note: red blood cells DO metabolize glucose. That has to be accounted for when testing blood sugar. Source: CLS grad student

    • @hdgdjgsgfj1297
      @hdgdjgsgfj1297 3 роки тому

      They also have a cytoskeleton for shape other than enzymes for doing what you said.

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 3 роки тому

      True. They use anaerobic glycolysis to metabolize sugar. It's inefficient, but it doesn't use up any of the oxygen they carry.

  • @QuintarFarenor
    @QuintarFarenor 3 роки тому +39

    Regarding the ships, the knife, the stack: It's by definition what we define it as. If we say "That ship is the ship of theseus" then it's that until we say "nah, it's not that anymore as we changed too much around"

    • @crusatyr1452
      @crusatyr1452 3 роки тому +3

      I believe the question is getting at where we should draw the line. At what point should we start calling it smth else?

    • @BD-yl5mh
      @BD-yl5mh 3 роки тому +10

      I think the key to the Ship of Theseus to me is the line between maintenance and rebuilding.
      If every year the ship operates I need to rip off a few planks that have rotted and replace them, most people would agree that the ship has continuity and it hasn’t really changed even after years and every bit being replaced.
      But if the ship sunk and then a year later just the bow washed up on some shore and I rebuilt the rest of the ship, it would seem more that I’ve built something new, using a small bit of something older. Some people might say, well… there’s still a continuity, but most people would also think it reasonable that upon completing this rebuild I give this ship a new name, and that it would have something of a new identity. Still tied to the old one, but nonetheless distinct.
      I think it’s sort of, as long as the action of replacing only affects a minority of the whole at any one time, it’s fine.

    • @DarthObscurity
      @DarthObscurity 3 роки тому +1

      That's the whole point of the thought experiment, though. You aren't really making an argument, it just kills the whole line of thinking. If everything is as we define it, then philosophy and debate is pointless and why the hell are you even commenting?
      The whole thing boils down to the question, where is the boundary between thinking it's just being maintained and when does it become new? Where should our definition draw the line?
      Please stop thinking you are edgy, cool or helping any debate/thought experiment ever with this kind of logic. It's similiar to the religious filling in stuff they don't know with god. It just kills the discussion and serves no real purpose. Everyone capable of this level of critical thought understands how language works.

    • @QuintarFarenor
      @QuintarFarenor 3 роки тому

      @@BD-yl5mh it really depends on the view of the persons involved. If more then half the people interacting with the object call it by a specific name (and it has no way of disputing that or naming itself) then that's more or less the name.
      Philosophy seems to try to think about something more then it needs to to come to a conclusion. Sure we could define "The ship isn't the ship of theseus anymore if 51% are changed out by new/other material" but in the end it's the people who still call it "the ship of theseus" who give it that specific identity until enough people change it to a different identity. (I'm not saying if enough people call a rock a bird that now it should'Ve be able to fly and chirp, what I'm saying is if enough people call a rock a bird then the name changes, nothing else)

    • @QuintarFarenor
      @QuintarFarenor 3 роки тому

      @@DarthObscurity What's the purpose of arguing about the name of something? Because it's really only that if we only argue about the identity of something. The identity is that of which enough (most) people give to an object
      (a person can normally try and articulate their identity and we should accept that one, even if we don't agree)
      What I'm saying is: in the real world we more or less just give something an identity until enough people change their mind/call it something else. Almost noone in the real world argues about how much changed of something especially if they don't even know how much changed (or don't care) just to give it an identity.
      What I'm saying is: I'm me and my name is Quintar for as long as I (and others) are willing to call me Quintar. No matter of how many parts of myself I change will change that fact until I decide to change my identity/name.

  • @elmacho2789
    @elmacho2789 3 роки тому +23

    Joe: there was this guy Theseus
    Me who has watched Wandavision: oh that ain’t gonna work

    • @alveolate
      @alveolate 3 роки тому

      wdym... it worked! (spoiler alert)

    • @johanaytb211
      @johanaytb211 3 роки тому

      I'm calling it, if I ever watch wandavision I'm going to have a flashback of reading this comment whenever whatever this is about comes up

  • @pervygrandpa5312
    @pervygrandpa5312 3 роки тому +12

    "parts of you are dieying"
    me who works in a minimum wage job: Fk he figure me out !

  • @natashaorr1596
    @natashaorr1596 3 роки тому

    Mental growth is also the old you dying and regenerating. That’s why people say I’m not the same person I was a year ago.

  • @sealyoness
    @sealyoness 3 роки тому +4

    Sir Terry Pratchett (in the book Thud, I think) brought this question up years ago. It's worth the philosophical energy expended. Change is a constant.

  • @singletona082
    @singletona082 3 роки тому +12

    It is a fair question, and I like Vision's answer in that the ship is the rot and wear, the experiences of the thing, accumulated along the way much like we are our memories, knowledge, and responses accumulated along our own lives.

    • @sujitprasad676
      @sujitprasad676 3 роки тому

      Ah, man of culture

    • @joroc
      @joroc 3 роки тому +1

      Memories of a dead child, a dead teen, a dead adult and an old person

  • @AntoniGawlikowski
    @AntoniGawlikowski 3 роки тому +8

    Nice cut at 3:38 - really smooth, good job to the editor! :) Although it does look a little like Joe got a mini-seizure for a split second there :P

    • @bhxlegend
      @bhxlegend Рік тому

      Lmao I thought I was only who noticed that 😂

  • @tocagirl6719
    @tocagirl6719 2 роки тому +3

    This is so interesting. I love your channel!

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 3 роки тому +1

    In some cases this is an important legal question. In ships and boats and houses, so long as a single part from the original is used in the reconstruction it is considered the same building. It has been restored, not built new.
    There was an important historic building that was completely destroyed in a fire. Only one plank in the floor had survived the fire. That plank had been under a fire proof safe and the safe protected only that bit of wood.
    The building was completely restored and it is still considered to be a 200 year old building, even though the only part of the building that is 200 years old is again under a fire proof safe.
    In airplanes it's a little different. Every airplane has a small identification tag somewhere on the plane, usually mounted in a location where it can be seen inside the plane.
    The airplane can be completely destroyed and the little tag bent and burned, and so long as the tag is still legible when cleaned up and straitened you can build an entirely new airplane around the tag and it is considered a restoration.
    This is the case for almost all the the airworthy planes made before the end of WWII.
    There was a light bomber/heavy fighter, the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito. It was made almost entirely of wood and served in the RAF to great acclaim. By the turn of the century there were no airworthy Mosquitos left anywhere in the world. Then some people with tones of money restored a few to flying condition. Now, once again you can hear the roar of those twin Merlins going by. In my opinion there is no better sound in aviation.
    ua-cam.com/video/M-I4hZah_Pc/v-deo.html

  • @mshk1989
    @mshk1989 3 роки тому +14

    "Youre dead on the inside right now" In more than one way Joe

  • @RC32Smiths01
    @RC32Smiths01 3 роки тому +17

    "Part of you is dead"
    Me: *I know*

  • @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718
    @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 3 роки тому +5

    11:50 Pfft at my age my body is a more like an apartment building in some crime-ridden ghetto. No tatoos so at least it's graffiti-free.

  • @ditzfough
    @ditzfough 3 роки тому +1

    "You cant step in the same river twice. The waters always changing always flowing" Thank you Pocahontas for quoting a really old philisopher!

  • @artemis_smith
    @artemis_smith Рік тому +1

    I don't have to see this video to tell you that part of me died that cold November night in 2014. There's some things no one should see.
    Remember to support your local firefighters, kids.

  • @axem.8338
    @axem.8338 3 роки тому +16

    My last gf made sure my heart was broken down.

    • @galileogaming.5606
      @galileogaming.5606 3 роки тому +1

      Let’s see how many subs I can gain from this comment currently at 61

    • @nelson8318
      @nelson8318 3 роки тому

      Me too man, me too.

    • @caiohenrique1603
      @caiohenrique1603 3 роки тому +1

      that feeling ia gonna go away bro, stay strong

  • @ScrapPalletMan
    @ScrapPalletMan 3 роки тому +8

    So my dad WAS right, I am Brain-dead. Joking not joking

  • @badasstrapbass2313
    @badasstrapbass2313 3 роки тому +13

    I always knew I was dead on the inside.

    • @galileogaming.5606
      @galileogaming.5606 3 роки тому +2

      Let’s see how many subs I can gain from this comment currently at 61

  • @LethalBubbles
    @LethalBubbles 3 роки тому

    Plutarch was not just Greek but his philosophy was specifically Middle Platonism, which tackles often with the form vs essence problem. I feel like the video should've mentioned that.

  • @dinnerchief
    @dinnerchief 18 днів тому

    Thats not a persistent of physical thing that makes something stay as itself, it's the idea that this something gives or contains makes it stay as itself

  • @RickySTT
    @RickySTT 3 роки тому +6

    So, are we living the Star Trek transporter paradox in extreme slow motion, or is it the near instantaneous action of the transporter that makes it a paradox?

  • @saitarun1574
    @saitarun1574 3 роки тому +10

    he says "you are dieing right now ,in a functional and beautifully orcestrated way" woow🤣🤣🤣👍seems like a drama scene

  • @hadoukenhadouken9219
    @hadoukenhadouken9219 3 роки тому +8

    If you go to bathroom and #2, each squeeze indicates 20% loss of age.
    - Can't make this up seriously no joke.

    • @Chaos_Nova
      @Chaos_Nova 3 роки тому +3

      So in 5 poops I’ll be dead?

    • @CarFreeSegnitz
      @CarFreeSegnitz 3 роки тому

      @@Chaos_Nova 6 poops indicate you are among the undead.

    • @bdemaree
      @bdemaree 3 роки тому

      Every time you pick your nose is tickles you brain stimulating a 37% increase in IQ
      Can't make this stuff up seriously!

    • @Chaos_Nova
      @Chaos_Nova 3 роки тому

      @@bdemaree everytime you blow boogers you’re releasing part of your brain

  • @kamaluddeenbabagana1647
    @kamaluddeenbabagana1647 3 роки тому

    Correction.
    Red blood cells do under go metabolism.
    A simplest example is that they can perform anaerobic glycolysis to generate energy using glucose molecules.

  • @fostena
    @fostena 3 роки тому

    "you" are only your nervous system. Your body is the symbiotic, living, vessel that you need to stay alive

  • @KuruGDI
    @KuruGDI 3 роки тому +4

    If most of us is dead matter anyway, why is _killing_ someone considered a crime?

    • @phasepanther4423
      @phasepanther4423 3 роки тому

      Vandalism is still a thing. If someone was mummified and someone else came and broke the mummy, the completely dead person was still acted on criminally.
      So even life doesn't limit whether something is a crime or not.

    • @boygenius538_8
      @boygenius538_8 3 роки тому +1

      Because there is more to us than simply matter. The mind transcends that, life has greater value than the sum of its parts.

  • @SF-li9kh
    @SF-li9kh 3 роки тому +6

    The animation of the couple replaced by you was funny 😂

  • @olliefoxx7165
    @olliefoxx7165 3 роки тому +18

    I'd say Theseus's ship would still be considered his ship. It's an object made up of many parts. As long as it retains it's shape it's still a shape.
    However, laws vary on antique cars. To be considered an antique it must retain a certain percentage of it's original equipment. If that percentage exceeds the percentage it's still a classic or custom car but not an antique.

    • @zelest
      @zelest 3 роки тому +5

      To continue the thought experiment: save all the pieces you replace of Theseus's ship and then build a new, complete ship from the old pieces. Now you have two ships. Which one is the "real" ship? Going by the logic that the ship made out of replacement parts is still Theseus's ship, what does that make the ship made with the original parts?

    • @amehak1922
      @amehak1922 3 роки тому +3

      @@zelest the ship with the original parts is a rotted mess.

    • @Gaia_Gaistar
      @Gaia_Gaistar 3 роки тому +1

      Imo if it still looks and functions the same it's the same as far as i'm concerned. I mean yeah, it's made of all new pieces but it still gets the job done.

    • @darkhanvasilev7080
      @darkhanvasilev7080 3 роки тому

      @@zelest the original one is the one Theseus is using at the moment, just simple as that
      It's more about context and structure than the contents

  • @AlexanderRodriguez-ni4kt
    @AlexanderRodriguez-ni4kt 6 днів тому

    Once your heart stops you start to decompose.

  • @WorriorXD
    @WorriorXD 3 роки тому +4

    *"Hey! How you're doing, I'm doing just fine I lied, I'm dying inside," now has a new meaning!* 🤔😂

  • @edyann
    @edyann 3 роки тому +9

    What a cute name for a channel. 😉

  • @holden_tld
    @holden_tld 3 роки тому +3

    "if instead of changing your oil, you just kept pouring more in"
    BMW like >>

  • @wolflahti412
    @wolflahti412 3 роки тому

    "A man cannot step into the same river twice; for neither is it the same river nor is it the same man."
    ―Heraclitus c. 540-c. 480 BCE

  • @robynblondie1132
    @robynblondie1132 3 роки тому +2

    Your content is literally amazing. The way you explain thing is phenomenal ❤️👀

  • @joaoarturdasilvapiteira9239
    @joaoarturdasilvapiteira9239 3 роки тому +3

    "there's a French saying about a knife"
    Well, there's a Greek one about a boat that works similarly

  • @dermmerd2644
    @dermmerd2644 3 роки тому +3

    I mean, the program running in my brain is ongoing and constant. Even when unconscious. So the "new" me is _mine_ I'd argue is a better wording.

  • @zwerko
    @zwerko 3 роки тому +16

    People don't believe me when I tell them that I feel dead inside... Science denialists, I say!

  • @SlashHarkenUltra
    @SlashHarkenUltra 3 роки тому +1

    6:06 "This is why brain and spinal injuries are often so permanent. *smiles*"

  • @ParadeTheGospel
    @ParadeTheGospel 2 роки тому +1

    It's amazing at how complex our bodies are but astounding that people still deny a Creator God. Professing to be wise they became fools.

  • @10thdoctor15
    @10thdoctor15 3 роки тому +4

    When a Time Lord regenerates, every single cell is replaced, they look different and have a slightly different personality, but they are the same individual.