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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  • @racoonfederationhecker4173
    @racoonfederationhecker4173 2 года назад +1435

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

  • @LapisPebble
    @LapisPebble 2 года назад +1553

    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 2 года назад +69

      @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 2 года назад +47

      @@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 2 года назад +20

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

    • @2dwatermelon302
      @2dwatermelon302 2 года назад +30

      Ok people should really stop talking about religion here

    • @geturinkup
      @geturinkup 2 года назад +4

      @@Htiy genetics!! Lol

  • @Joyness333
    @Joyness333 2 года назад +901

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

    • @desideratha5698
      @desideratha5698 2 года назад +6

      😭😭😭😭

    • @stealthtomcat4739
      @stealthtomcat4739 2 года назад +19

      You are not either

    • @slajufila
      @slajufila 2 года назад +1

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA HAAAAAAAH HAH

    • @injunsun
      @injunsun 2 года назад +17

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

    • @darkshadow-sv5xd
      @darkshadow-sv5xd 2 года назад +3

      The heart is istill the same

  • @bdemaree
    @bdemaree 2 года назад +332

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

    • @ckinggaming5bucketmadness766
      @ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 2 года назад +7

      when I was 7 years old I replaced my favorite k-pop band member

    • @Americanamae
      @Americanamae 2 года назад +2

      Love this 👌

    • @kottonkandy0962
      @kottonkandy0962 2 года назад +2

      **NCT Dream suddenly disintegrate**
      **Super Junior fade out of existence**
      **Apink spontaneously explode**

  • @leemiller7165
    @leemiller7165 2 года назад +2528

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

    • @moneymatt1691
      @moneymatt1691 2 года назад +704

      Good thing I touch the inner layer😏

    • @Knifity
      @Knifity 2 года назад +183

      @@moneymatt1691 sus

    • @emperortgp2424
      @emperortgp2424 2 года назад +250

      *touches your wounds*

    • @gigar9000
      @gigar9000 2 года назад +113

      How about the orifices?

    • @SomebodysNephew
      @SomebodysNephew 2 года назад +77

      I see dead people.

  • @random_sword4631
    @random_sword4631 2 года назад +683

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

  • @Kaz-_
    @Kaz-_ 2 года назад +105

    Fun fact: every second, we get closer to death

    • @wendysgarden4283
      @wendysgarden4283 2 года назад +16

      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 года назад

      What if you dont get horrified

    • @Kaz-_
      @Kaz-_ 2 года назад +7

      @@wendysgarden4283 thx now I feel depressed

    • @glowstickqueen7139
      @glowstickqueen7139 2 года назад +3

      That's terrifying, thanks!

    • @easypeezy03
      @easypeezy03 2 года назад

      No way I never would've guess that

  • @andremoreiragraca
    @andremoreiragraca 2 года назад +57

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

    • @skullsmitten
      @skullsmitten 2 года назад +3

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

    • @aelolul
      @aelolul 2 года назад +6

      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 года назад +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 года назад +1

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

    • @Matthew-rl3zf
      @Matthew-rl3zf 2 года назад +1

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

  • @tamaghnosaha2520
    @tamaghnosaha2520 2 года назад +1324

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

    • @riseofthephoenix
      @riseofthephoenix 2 года назад +26

      And yet here you are

    • @DelLego
      @DelLego 2 года назад +17

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

    • @tamaghnosaha2520
      @tamaghnosaha2520 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +12

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

    • @DelLego
      @DelLego 2 года назад +4

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

  • @traceyfortich5114
    @traceyfortich5114 2 года назад +411

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

  • @quentinbarth3268
    @quentinbarth3268 2 года назад +12

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

  • @tovesvensk8015
    @tovesvensk8015 2 года назад +2

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

  • @MavelDraconia
    @MavelDraconia 2 года назад +151

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

  • @PLee-vu6mp
    @PLee-vu6mp 2 года назад +393

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

    • @dakshtyagi2410
      @dakshtyagi2410 2 года назад +26

      my mind rembembering the scene from wandavision finale

    • @shoguevara
      @shoguevara 2 года назад +4

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

    • @boldCactuslad
      @boldCactuslad 2 года назад +4

      ribs grow back

    • @phoenixwrong0068
      @phoenixwrong0068 2 года назад +5

      @@boldCactuslad _no zhey don't_

    • @flyball1788
      @flyball1788 2 года назад +2

      For anyone in the UK - Trigger's Broom: ruclips.net/video/LAh8HryVaeY/видео.html

  • @robynblondie1132
    @robynblondie1132 2 года назад +2

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

  • @rosegolds9644
    @rosegolds9644 2 года назад +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

  • @drishtantsen3724
    @drishtantsen3724 2 года назад +254

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

    • @tk8i367
      @tk8i367 2 года назад +3

      My hand dies when i sleep on it

    • @ayushtiwari5144
      @ayushtiwari5144 2 года назад +3

      Yes it looks on your profile photo

    • @blueapple1686
      @blueapple1686 2 года назад +1

      Hey fellow deadman, give me deadman high five

  • @kennytvn
    @kennytvn 2 года назад +602

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

  • @scottchristensen4081
    @scottchristensen4081 Год назад +3

    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.

  • @adrians3912
    @adrians3912 2 года назад +1

    This is amazing content.keep up the good work Joe!!

  • @Mikemenn
    @Mikemenn 2 года назад +1790

    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 2 года назад +175

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

    • @joroc
      @joroc 2 года назад +67

      Does that considers the atoms trading?😌

    • @coatguards8032
      @coatguards8032 2 года назад +97

      I can HAVE 3-4 hearts in a lifetime!

    • @user-hv1so9vu8u
      @user-hv1so9vu8u 2 года назад +18

      Legit??

    • @RupeshSingh-gd5cp
      @RupeshSingh-gd5cp 2 года назад +104

      Is this data from whatsapp University?

  • @heynotizzy7493
    @heynotizzy7493 2 года назад +357

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

    • @fundemort
      @fundemort 2 года назад +5

      i want a better offer.
      a much better offer.

  • @shiwalishakya6508
    @shiwalishakya6508 2 года назад

    Hello Joe, I love your content and your content has made more curious about our biology. Keep it up

  • @SITNI
    @SITNI 2 года назад +1

    I really enjoy watching your videos thanks Joe!

  • @rosemarym5334
    @rosemarym5334 2 года назад +132

    Joe's avatar in all animations suffers a lot.

    • @caroline6218
      @caroline6218 2 года назад +5

      Kick the Joe now on mobile!

    • @rosemarym5334
      @rosemarym5334 2 года назад +4

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

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 2 года назад +90

    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 2 года назад +26

      ... or have you?

    • @jvvn361
      @jvvn361 2 года назад +10

      science meets philosophy

    • @daphenomenalz4100
      @daphenomenalz4100 2 года назад +3

      Or did you?

    • @ikocheratcr
      @ikocheratcr 2 года назад +2

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

    • @plazmikpond
      @plazmikpond 2 года назад +11

      @@fernandomerida3752 *vsauce music plays*

  • @mellie4174
    @mellie4174 2 года назад +1

    So fascinating. Great video :)

  • @tocagirl6719
    @tocagirl6719 2 года назад +2

    This is so interesting. I love your channel!

  • @DominikJaniec
    @DominikJaniec 2 года назад +32

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

  • @caroline6218
    @caroline6218 2 года назад +197

    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 года назад +1

      Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, very funny

    • @quick-chemist5479
      @quick-chemist5479 2 года назад +6

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

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 года назад +1

      @@quick-chemist5479 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 года назад +1

      lmao don't forget platelets

    • @Shaurya_Vardhan_Kala_7
      @Shaurya_Vardhan_Kala_7 Год назад

      cough cough chemistry cough cough

  • @pnwcrazyred
    @pnwcrazyred 2 года назад

    Thank you for sharing this video.

  • @Sahilsharma-ce4ow
    @Sahilsharma-ce4ow 2 года назад +3

    *"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.

  • @gardenhead92
    @gardenhead92 2 года назад +51

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

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 2 года назад +3

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

    • @agnesfonmarten
      @agnesfonmarten 2 года назад +7

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

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 2 года назад +6

      @@sentientflower7891 ... wrote your brain.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 2 года назад +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 2 года назад

      @@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.

  • @Gwydda
    @Gwydda 2 года назад +42

    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

  • @jgurka2105
    @jgurka2105 2 года назад +1

    Great video, thanks.

  • @ext1013
    @ext1013 2 года назад

    OMG!!! I am so smart watching and listening to you.
    This is the answer to cancer and
    not sure why 'they' can't get a cure.
    You are awesome. You make me smarter.

  • @SolaceEasy
    @SolaceEasy 2 года назад +96

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

    • @TheFlyfly
      @TheFlyfly 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +8

      A freaking potato just became the president.

    • @SolaceEasy
      @SolaceEasy 2 года назад +5

      @@megamillionfreak Just barely alive

    • @dineshvasudev6911
      @dineshvasudev6911 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +1

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

  • @notsiddhi2820
    @notsiddhi2820 2 года назад +117

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

    • @laser2144
      @laser2144 2 года назад +8

      cringe

    • @notsiddhi2820
      @notsiddhi2820 2 года назад +3

      @@laser2144 shut up 🥺🤧

    • @afroblender8023
      @afroblender8023 2 года назад +1

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

    • @notsiddhi2820
      @notsiddhi2820 2 года назад

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

    • @afroblender8023
      @afroblender8023 2 года назад

      @@notsiddhi2820 hmmm why are you dying inside?

  • @salaheddinehouache1015
    @salaheddinehouache1015 2 года назад +2

    Keep going, I really love your videos 💪😍

  • @anniemadeit21
    @anniemadeit21 2 года назад

    3:05 reminds me of that line in Pocahontas' song "Just around the Riverbend"
    What I love most about rivers is
    you *CAN'T STEP IN THE SAME RIVERS TWICE* ... The water's always changing always flowing...
    Disney was teaching us about stuff before we knew we were learning!

  • @aagamanpokhrel4113
    @aagamanpokhrel4113 2 года назад +27

    Hey, thanks i always had this question in mind

  • @shanggosteen9804
    @shanggosteen9804 2 года назад +45

    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 2 года назад +17

      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 2 года назад +4

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

    • @gamerdorianyt1
      @gamerdorianyt1 2 года назад

      Yeah how interesting isn't it

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 года назад +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 4 месяца назад

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

  • @buttersleopaldstoch5793
    @buttersleopaldstoch5793 2 года назад

    I am a set of behaviors and experiences. Just like how my body is a formation of physical traits that even when its parts are replaced, still grows to resemble is the same body.

  • @pervygrandpa5312
    @pervygrandpa5312 2 года назад +11

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

  • @Sonu-yi5rk
    @Sonu-yi5rk 2 года назад +31

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

  • @joroc
    @joroc 2 года назад +74

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

  • @henryhawthorn8849
    @henryhawthorn8849 Год назад +9

    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 Год назад +3

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

    • @fabioooh
      @fabioooh Год назад

      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 4 месяца назад

      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).

  • @scythascytha2849
    @scythascytha2849 2 года назад

    What a well made video. Wow! Well done guys!!!!!!

  • @Splarkszter
    @Splarkszter 2 года назад +47

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

    • @paulogarcia9557
      @paulogarcia9557 2 года назад +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 2 года назад

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

    • @eeeithan6588
      @eeeithan6588 2 года назад

      @@paulogarcia9557 now

    • @TheJadedJames
      @TheJadedJames 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +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.

  • @arshadmomen
    @arshadmomen 2 года назад +16

    Very thought provoking episode - Great job, Joe!

  • @multoh4745
    @multoh4745 2 года назад

    I wasn't even thinking about and now I am. Thank you.

  • @harmless_deadly
    @harmless_deadly 2 года назад

    thank you for the info. :)

  • @catattack885
    @catattack885 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +2

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

    • @XWierdThingsHappenX
      @XWierdThingsHappenX 2 года назад

      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 2 года назад

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

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp 2 года назад

      @@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 2 года назад

      @@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.

  • @thatonecommenter7169
    @thatonecommenter7169 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +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 2 года назад

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

  • @stiofanofirghil1916
    @stiofanofirghil1916 2 года назад

    So much change in my wife & I over the past 26 years, & we never noticed!!

  • @ladyfame1430
    @ladyfame1430 2 года назад

    Love you video.......thank you so much!!!!

  • @mrperfectcell1350
    @mrperfectcell1350 2 года назад +41

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

    • @nazrarain1452
      @nazrarain1452 2 года назад +6

      Ah, I've found a fellow Techno fan

    • @Gainoffuntion
      @Gainoffuntion 2 года назад +2

      I was looking for this comme t

  • @stevenl378
    @stevenl378 2 года назад +12

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

  • @Ciasteczkowy
    @Ciasteczkowy Год назад +1

    I find comfort in thinking about myself as an information. As long as information of me stays the same I am the same me (even tho atoms in me are changeing). after all what is life if not self preservating information?

  • @starscarrednyx
    @starscarrednyx 2 года назад

    Terry Pratchett covered the blade argument (axe) in The 5th Elephant. I love that one.

  • @peacewillow
    @peacewillow 2 года назад +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. 🤗

  • @noelnewlon
    @noelnewlon 2 года назад +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.

  • @brookemears914
    @brookemears914 2 года назад +2

    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 Год назад

      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 Год назад

      It's a nonkaryotic cell.

  • @animalsaroundustv5410
    @animalsaroundustv5410 2 года назад

    we have subscribed to your channel,.. your videos are very interesting, we support you ❤️❤️👍

  • @fugithegreat
    @fugithegreat 2 года назад +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.

  • @QuintarFarenor
    @QuintarFarenor 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +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 2 года назад

      @@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 2 года назад

      @@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.

  • @ditzfough
    @ditzfough 2 года назад +3

    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

  • @Choptron27
    @Choptron27 2 года назад

    Ok so before I watch another awesome video here, I had a thought once that aside from perhaps the brain, geez this can also go back to your “when is now?” video… highly recommended… but that yes your bodies cells divide, grow, die, and are replaced, though it doesn’t happen at one time, it’s my thought that after long enough, the being that made up you in the past, no longer exists, as after long enough every bit has died off and been replaced into your current being… but anyways let’s watch and see if that’s where you’re going with this…

  • @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718
    @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 2 года назад +4

    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.

  • @AntoniGawlikowski
    @AntoniGawlikowski 2 года назад +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 Год назад

      Lmao I thought I was only who noticed that 😂

  • @ssotkow
    @ssotkow 2 года назад

    3:02 It is impossible to step in the same river twice, for not only is the water different, but the observer of that river has also changed. Follow up with body cells being regenerated in a 100-day cycle.

  • @NipSlip123
    @NipSlip123 2 года назад

    You never cease to suprise.

  • @mshk1989
    @mshk1989 2 года назад +14

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

  • @sealyoness
    @sealyoness 2 года назад +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.

  • @SunriseLAW
    @SunriseLAW 2 года назад +2

    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.

  • @danpreston564
    @danpreston564 2 года назад

    In the Uk the replacing bits is known to many as Trigger's broom. From a sitcom where the character Trigger says he’s had the same broom for 30 years, but has replaced the head and the handle many times.

  • @elmacho2789
    @elmacho2789 2 года назад +23

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

    • @alveolate
      @alveolate 2 года назад

      wdym... it worked! (spoiler alert)

    • @johanaytb211
      @johanaytb211 2 года назад

      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

  • @bhraguwar3130
    @bhraguwar3130 2 года назад +16

    Title: what part inside you is dead
    Me: yes

    • @DyslexicMitochondria
      @DyslexicMitochondria 2 года назад +1

      Haha

    • @sterlingarcher8041
      @sterlingarcher8041 2 года назад

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

    • @fort6350
      @fort6350 2 года назад

      Fr you're spitting facts

    • @fort6350
      @fort6350 2 года назад

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

  • @jasleenkaurbrar490
    @jasleenkaurbrar490 2 года назад +2

    ive never seen something so disturbing yet so beautiful

  • @sevaraibragimova8839
    @sevaraibragimova8839 2 года назад +1

    i"ve never thought about died cells and how much of me is alive before watching this video. Thanks to creator of this video. Now i think about all of these fact. fascinating video

  • @AnonymousFreakYT
    @AnonymousFreakYT 2 года назад +3

    5:15 - "Instead of changing your oil, you just poured more in?" - You've never owned a '67 Impala then, I take it.....

  • @terracotta6294
    @terracotta6294 2 года назад +3

    That's an artistic, imaginative way of destroying cellular replacement. When our skin is scaley, it is a visual of dead cells being replaced by new cells. Soap that is an emolient helps remove the dead cells.

  • @tgclericoll572
    @tgclericoll572 2 года назад +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.

  • @rmt3589
    @rmt3589 2 года назад

    That was beautifully poetic!

  • @Scribe13013
    @Scribe13013 2 года назад +3

    When viewed from this perspective life becomes a much more rare and precious thing...like little flickering flames of growth in the darkness

  • @singletona082
    @singletona082 2 года назад +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 2 года назад

      Ah, man of culture

    • @joroc
      @joroc 2 года назад +1

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

  • @jeromebethel4837
    @jeromebethel4837 2 года назад +17

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

  • @xINVISIGOTHx
    @xINVISIGOTHx 5 месяцев назад

    which space shuttle is that on the shelf

  • @axem.8338
    @axem.8338 2 года назад +16

    My last gf made sure my heart was broken down.

    • @galileogaming.5606
      @galileogaming.5606 2 года назад +1

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

    • @nelson8318
      @nelson8318 2 года назад

      Me too man, me too.

    • @caiohenrique1603
      @caiohenrique1603 2 года назад +1

      that feeling ia gonna go away bro, stay strong

  • @SalsadArte
    @SalsadArte 2 года назад +3

    “If we want that everything remains as it is, everything needs to change” (quote: Tomasi Di Lampedusa, “The Leopard”)

  • @_valor
    @_valor 2 года назад +1

    Commenting for the algorithm, because this channel deserves it :")

  • @mattwright6786
    @mattwright6786 2 года назад

    3:37 I don’t like how fast you said “otherwise” there 😭

  • @TheTmaaan55
    @TheTmaaan55 2 года назад +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 2 года назад

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

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 2 года назад

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

  • @atharvavarade495
    @atharvavarade495 2 года назад +3

    This is me from the time I commented : "I really liked the video, keep up the nice work ."

  • @mattconrald1673
    @mattconrald1673 Год назад

    I can really see how it changed history. Bronze is indeed very important to history. There is even an era named because of it lasting for 2000 years. The points presented were informative. Fermentation was the next step up. The video really clarified its history, its uses, and its big impact on history. Saponification, i didn't even know it was that far back in history. He made it really easy to understand the chemicals involved and how soap works, how they do. Czochralski process was explained in an easy manner for most to understand as well as its importance. The Haber-Bosch process seems to be the perfect chemical reaction that changed history to end the video on. As it has so many uses as well as the very important use, fertilizer. Again, the video is very interesting and presents the ideas clearly. I also noticed that half was related to food and shows importance to food security leading to more advancements.

  • @xXJunnaXx
    @xXJunnaXx 2 года назад

    I did think about this when I was a kid when I learned that our cells are always on cycle. That I don’t have the same body when I was a baby.. so I thought what made me me is my life experiences that are stored as my memories, or my soul if it existed.

  • @SF-li9kh
    @SF-li9kh 2 года назад +6

    The animation of the couple replaced by you was funny 😂

  • @RickySTT
    @RickySTT 2 года назад +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?

  • @Neuralatrophy
    @Neuralatrophy 2 года назад +1

    Logical answer to the ship of thesius. Following a continuity of self/identity, The ship of Thesius is indeed the ship of Thesius and yes, you can step in the same river twice. The identity follows the new parts to the greater whole.

  • @alpha_jasperflair1097
    @alpha_jasperflair1097 2 года назад +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.