@@everready2903 its an asexual clone, so "it" is most technically correct, especially as brainless species, but there are arguments for every pronoun. She/Her, because she creates "daughters". He/Him, because in traditional English that is for both male and neuter. Singular "they" because in common use American English that is what we say when we dont know someone's gender yet (ie "I saw a doctor today" "oh did they give you your results?").
You can find a sympathy card in the stationary isle, just to the left of the cards offering condolences for the single-celled anaerobic organisms that found equilibrium.
As a person who's getting older and can see the physical changes every day and is now at the point in life where they realize, I am going to die. It's just a matter of when and how and who could count the rest of their life in years not decades, I'm watching this ciliate slowly decay and I feel a comradship with it.
Life is always more powerful than death. Death is an endpoint, there is no regret or suffering after it. Before death, there is the will to live and all the small and big enjoyments to be gotten out of it. When death ends life, nothing carries over to you, so in a very real sense, life is never over for oneself. Decay is a terrifying thing, especially when it is in full motion, but throughout all the things I cannot do anymore, I am still myself and live life in this most singular way that no one can rob me of.
@@jonathanSpg True, but when you're young it's not a reality to you. It's usually becomes reality when you're older. 😳 Teens think they are invincible!
@@Felishamois The older you get the more death of friends and family and old stars you liked in your youth. My attitude has changed a lot over the years. Not ready to go yet, but when the time comes I hope I'm old and sick and tired and just ready! I'm not religious, so for me death is the end except for whatever thoughts and feelings (and hopefully good works) you leave behind!
@@marcosbisso7136 it has merged with the universe, and without getting too philosophical, everything shall wither and decay, but the energy will stay, everyday, as we lay, every second even.
@@YouAreInfinity117 it has merged with nothing, since there's no longer an "it". It simply has stopped to be. What remains are what used to be a Ciliate, but no longer is. There's no Ciliate anymore to merge with anything. It's gone.
It amazes me how slow yet fast death is at the same time. This little ciliate was moving around for minutes as it slowly melted, losing bits of itself but never quite reacting to it. Until eventually it just disappeared into the microcosmos, becoming random debris that other animals move through without noticing. Its beautifully poetic really, how it mirrors the macro world and how something as small as a random ciliate can hold onto life as dearly as you or I in our final moments.
@@thiviox1880 Done with what? Life? Don't do it! We all love you! We care! Stop it!!! Think about your family, friends, pets, everything! You can't do it! Life is precious! Live it out til' your very last breath, don't leave it so soon! You will be missing out on everything life can bring you. Every moment shouldn't be taken for granted! ☄️
My opinion ha not that you asked is that we are killing off millions of trillions and billions of bacteria and micro organisms needlessly ancient human beings thrived not just survived millions of years ago they drank straight from water straight from the rivers and the lakes human bodies naturally build up immunities by being exposed to germs and such just saying hope u get my point 😊
Imagine having a heart attack in the middle of the street, but instead of getting CPR you’re just made to listen to an enormous alien creature explaining a bunch of deep philosophy
"This human is about to die" "Why he is dying, we don't know... But it happened here, when his body stopped moving and his expression went numb" "He was just fine little back in time ago, but now... His body has failed."
@@OverRule1 Yes, but the configuration that is "you" will no longer exist in that state. The engine that houses your consciousness will be destroyed, dispersing and diluting your individuality until you are effectively gone. The parts that used to be you, will become the building blocks for other amazing structures and beings, but you'll never know.
Yeah, people say a lot of BS. You die when you die, and you are forgotten when you are forgotten. Thank the heavens we still have different words describing separate things despite all these smartypants platitudes flinging around.
And that was then, now are chances of being forgotten when we die, is close to zero for as long as the internet exists, and even if we do die of age with new breakthrough technology@@vaxrvaxr
As inevitable as this ciliate's death seemed, I'm rather impressed at how long it was able to continue moving before the damage to it's body was too great.
The (invisible) cytoskeleton, a web of structural proteins, prevented the organelles from spilling out, and the cytosol from mixing too quickly with the outside.
@Disent Design Probably until it starved to death or got eaten. At such a small scale for singular celled organisms that is not a plant, no movement = certain death
You shouldn't but I think I understand why. You anthropomorphized it. You probably think it was afraid and in agony. _It_ was not. Its functions and activity gradually decreased to a point where they could function no more and, as Hank so poignantly said, its composition went into equilibrium.
@Level Nine Drow We see the world not directly in all its 'ISness', but through our filter of definitions & labels. We set arbitrary lines along a continuum.
We don't have to anthropomorphize to be sympathetic to the beauty of an organisms' existence, and feel loss when the beauty ends. I feel sad when I squish a mosquito cause it's one tribute to 4 billion years of a successful system that is now gone. Just because there are gazillion mosquitoes or ciliates doesn't make it less a loss. After all life on earth dies at some point that one mosquito will mean everything to the next intelligence that comes along if it's the only fossil they find whether they feel emotion or not.
I found & watched this vid, my intro to the microcosmos, a few days after my brother died unexpectedly. Having been a career ff/paramedic, i was no stranger to death but Sean's hit hard & this vid was impactful. Oddly enough, this vid has come full circle many years later and it's still profound... Not the least of which bc yesterday was the anniversary of his battle w equilibrium.
Well, I believe the sole purpose of life is reproduction and spreading one's genes to the next generations to progress the evolution of one's species. Hence, if this little creature has managed to serve its purpose, then nature no longer needs it to continue being alive. The world is always changing, we too are always adapting by creating new versions of ourselves and teach them to continue on with the cycle. Old versions that are no longer in their prime and can no longer thrive in the new world obviously die out.
@The ChadDevil well it’s true that they would feel pain but for them it’s more of a chemical reaction. That’s what our feeling of pain pretty much also is, but we have a brain, they don’t. I don’t know tho, cells might have a simple consciousness and actually feel, but I doubt it because of their lack of a nervous system.
@@DoganT. “doesn’t really”. You mean doesn’t. Not doesn’t really. That would imply it sorta has brains, but not really. It has NO brains. At all. Period.
@The ChadDevil no it wouldn’t feel pain. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be pain as you understand it as a human. It will feel a stimuli that makes it go in a different direction. Nothing more.
I didn't realize until after I posted my comment, that many others here had a similar experience watching this video. You took the time to watch, and took the time to think about a little creature that really no one else knows or cares about. But now YOU know, and it affected you; profoundly, it seems. You all made me cry, but thank you, you deep thinking and good hearted friends!
Total amateur. He was completely safe on the other side of the slide. A real cameraman worth his salt would have donned a wet suit and swam along with him, Steve Irwin style.
Don't have a crisis, his definition of what he considers some universal equilibrium is based on a feeling. I'm not saying it's a wrong feeling, it just isn't substantiated enough to be asserted as fact.
@@oneRyanJoseph his definition is based not on feeling, but on narrow-mindedness. he does not even realize that many things that are not alive and do not have genes fall into his "definition of life". for example, " stars are chemical systems that use energy from chemical reactions to maintain a state far from equilibrium for billions of years." until they start to " die " for another billions of years, moving towards the equilibrium.
@@piranias if you hear the existential dread in his voice that OP and many others picked up on, I don't think he is being narrow-minded (I'm reading narrow-minded as 'lazy in his investigation'). I think he's trying to intellectualize his very human fear of mortality with some form of nihilistic acceptance by using relative lifespans and calling the death process 'equilibrium' (which to me is just his opinion/feeling). It's coming more from a place of self-soothing the fear than being intellectually dishonest but I felt the need to respond to OP calling the video education . Love the star counterexample for the video's definition of life. It's comforting to think of stars and all bounded entities of the universe as alive and a singular entity. I personally feel this to be true. I'd like to think pain, suffering and death is just another state that we actively try to embrace and resolve, instead of being the thorns on a wilting, dying flower that is life. The former makes me optimistic, the latter makes me stagnant and I wanted to share my skepticism of the narrator's covert pessimism with OP.
When I finally die, I'd like Hank Green to narrate my last breath. "We don't know exactly when this dude died. But it's about here. When he gobbled that cherry ice cream so fast it filled his lungs"
I’m 61, and last week had an angina scare, I’m type 1 diabetic, anaemic, and unfit. I am that ciliate, heading towards equilibrium. The curse of investing so heavily in intelligence, is that we know we’re falling apart.
There is only one entity that has ever defeated death and has the power so that one may live on after reaching equilibrium. Jesus Christ aka (God) There is another state of existence that does not head towards equilibrium. Learn from him and you will live even though you die!
Poetic, esthetic, with calm and relaxing narration: lets the mind wander to the edges of the comprehensible and understandable. Pure Gold, thank you very much!
To be honest... This is the video that made me come across the channel, and it actually helps me with my health anxiety. It puts a logical perspective on what dying is, and helps me think "Well... If it happens, it happens." It also gives me food for thought about existence and what it means to be alive but all in all, it's just comforting when I'm not feeling well. Thank you.
I think about death and dying a lot, it's a really fascinating thing to think about, not to mention straight-up death scary :D There's an awesome video called "What does it feel like to die" by Arvin Ash, seems like our brain is doing everything in its power to die without any pain or bad emotions, at the exact moment our brain stops working it releases all of our dopamines and all other happy chemicals we have to make it easier. fascinating
The entire video was void of philosophy. It was just him explaining his one dimensional view on life and expressing how hard it is for him to comprehend thoughts of meaning beyond basic biological structure. He’s a hack.
@@bendover9021 I'm not a philosophy major so I could be wrong but I think that viewpoint is a form of philosophy in itself. The author of the video expressed their opinion that life is just chemical processes and gave it a cold simple definition. I believe it's called materialism and while I don't fully agree with him I think that was one of the things he was conveying in the video.
Anyone else noticed how he eventually turned into the same pile of green stuff that was everywhere around it? That was kind of a haunting moment, when you realize all of that mass was once a living being just like our little fella there.
I was wondering why he (unintentionally anthrapomorphized it) was never eating any of the stuff it was running into. Definitely a haunting twist in a horror story.
This reminds me of the Daphnia magna culture I unintentionally started in 2017. It is a water bottle that started with a few drops of concentrated algae and a few drops of suspended microscopic detritus. Nothing too out of the ordinary, right? But then slowly but surely a layer of empty chitin shells started accumulating on the bottom. Soon, a layer several millimeters thick was there. The interface between the daphnia shells and water column would swish and undulate every time I would move the bottle. I saw that the daphnia were not creeped out by the human equivalent of eating plants growing in the graveyard while rubbing up against headstones. In us mammals, being around the festering remains of our own cousins, no matter how distant, hogs our cognitive attention. I stopped feeling weird about it and bad for them. I realized life at different scales is not comparable to that of our macroscopic world. It just isn't a stimulus that evokes a repulsive mechanism in the microcosm. The daphnia culture is still active today. Somehow with little intervention the cycles within support the daphnia after 4 full years. And many of them are as content as ever to burrow in the corporeal ruin of their forebearers and prefer it to swimming above.
Edit: Pleasant feeling is in regards to thinking about death like this. I haven't had an existential crisis that actually made me kinda feel peaceful about death. Its a weird but pleasant feeling. Rest in peace little ciliate, I shall remember you forever.
The parts of its body that we called dead will be used up by other ciliates, and then their bodies used up by others. Death may be eternal but life isn’t done fighting yet
@@wren_. that's why death is linked to a specific creature. Again, it's not parts of this system that died. It's that specific system. There's no more THAT ciliate. It will become part of some other ciliates, but to get it back together we need to replicate that exact system again.
This is brilliant, brutal beauty. The depth of respect and honor extended to the star of this film is profoundly present in the narrator's delivery, a raw unfettered compassion and reverence for its innocence as it is transmutated unaware into the willing noble sacrifice in the name of comprehension, simply by our observance. So much grace, beauty and tragedy all coiled up into a single tear of impermanence floating in an ocean of unrelenting, unforgiving chemistry. Entropy is a harsh traveling companion. Thank you to all involved in producing this gem of a vid. It is transcendent.
This video was comforting in a strange way. There's a lot of fear that surrounds death. It's nice to just think about it matter-of-factly. Great job on this video!
I think so too. Many people avoid death by abstracting it. “They moved on to a better place” is nicer, but less real than “they died,” and it alienates death, making it something to be feared, when accepting death can actually lead to a fuller life.
While I don’t want to seem rash, I don’t think we should fear death, I think it’s more logical to fear that we won’t accomplish what we desire before it inevitably arrives.
@@giovannidueck9094 Also doesn't help that about half of the time someone say's “They moved on to a better place” they're referring to someone in hell.
I was going through a very rough period in my life when I first watched this video. It’s very calming to learn about various things, especially those of existential nature. Strangely enough, this video helped me calm down from a panic attack. I saw it on my feed and just kinda clicked out of curiosity. Knowing that everything is cyclical and eventually fades, even pain is a very calming and freeing idea. Thank you for this video!
The death of an organism is always weird. When something our size dies, there is a period of time when the person is dead, but not the cells that make them. Death like life is a very tricky thing to describe.
Nails continues to grow after death. I think we are several system which works for equilibrium. Heart and blood system is major for keep equilibrum. So generally we said we are dead when this system is dead. We have a lot of minor system .often stop working but dont destroy equilibrium.
@@bretagnejean2410 Nails don't continue to grow after death. The skin and other tissues dehydrate and shrink giving the appearance that nails are still growing.
This video is way beyond biology and chemistry, beyond the new microscope. This is about a profound truth, pure philosophy. It is inmensly inspiring to my soul. It's not resignation, it's pure understanding
@@Hexnilium two humans, or a human and animal fighting would be like two worlds bashing into each other. the bacteria and cells are just on their merry way, and boom, they are lost from their host, they are cold as they realize the ting they strove to live in is leaking and they are soon to be no more.
I have a few words: this is the ciliate I came to know the most in my lifetime, and he made the life of a more complex chemical system far from equilibrium much more interesting. Thanks, ciliate.
@@LuisSierra42 *Then God Question you, so that you explore your ownself by these questions??* أَوَلَمْ يَتَفَكَّرُوا فِي أَنفُسِهِم مَّا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَأَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى وَإِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ النَّاسِ بِلِقَاءِ رَبِّهِمْ لَكَافِرُونَ ﴿الروم: ٨﴾ *Why don’t they explore / study their own self own / your own bodies?* Allah had not created these huge skies and earth and all between them, but with a law / with a calculation/science. And it is for short period of time / temporary. And still many people does not believe in their meeting with their Lord / for accountability 30;8 / 7;185. نَحْنُ خَلَقْنَاكُمْ فَلَوْلَا تُصَدِّقُونَ [٥٦:٥٧] It is We! Who has engineered your Creation, then why don’t you agree? 56:57 (This is the verse of Invitation and Inculcation to genuine Creator, who created you and mind, He give further explanations and examples to prove this) أَفَرَأَيْتُم مَّا تُمْنُونَ [٥٦:٥٨] Have you not seen/studied? You were only ejected liquid/samen? 56:58 / 23;14 أَأَنتُمْ تَخْلُقُونَهُ أَمْ نَحْنُ الْخَالِقُونَ [٥٦:٥٩] *Did you created from it, your Creation?* Or, it is We, who have architected from it, your creation? 56:59 / 19;66 نَحْنُ قَدَّرْنَا بَيْنَكُمُ الْمَوْتَ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ [٥٦:٦٠] It is We, who has fixed your time of De ath, and We do not change Our decisions. 56:60
I know that it’s just a single cell, and I know that this or something like it happens billions of not trillions of times every second, but this video has made me sympathize with its main character more than some million dollar blockbusters
Its constant search for energy was "mindless" and "relatable" at the same time. I knew I was watching a very low lifeform, everything it did was fast and spontaneous, not minding even his gradual death. In this aspect I was repelled, but at the same time his constant search for stimuli in order to never stop existing was for me the thing that gave value to this being, so much so that when it stopped moving I was genuinely hurt, It was almost painful to assist at that moment of misery.
I love how the microcosmos really makes you reflect on your assumptions, the things you thought were true not because of any actual reasoning but just because they have always been there with you. The microcosmos had this special ability to be so extremely different from our normal existence, but still relatable to us. Both of us are practically the same, just in differences of scale. And it really makes you think, what other "different" things are the same when looked at, at scale.
Yes, maybe existence is alive, stars and galaxies, the whole universe, yet it will die too. Maybe everything that dies is alive, maybe the essence of life is simply presence. But but, death has always proven to not be the end, just a change, dissolving into something else, transforming into something else. Maybe when everything dies, something else will take place. I think, maybe, in infinite time, everything is possible, like in infinite time, this universe came to be aswell.
@@YskarAlbumLuna there is nothing really called "the universe will die, or even galaxies and stars", changes in galaxies and stars can't be considered really like death in living things, living things will fade and death is the end for them.
@@YskarAlbumLuna- Yeah. But the concept of Death can be literal, or metaphorical. It just depends on what is being described. Is it biotic. Is it abiotic.
What I was expecting: to see a small single cell just stop moving, maybe being eaten by another. What I got: epic thoughts and deep dive into thoughts about life and death and a interesting and kinda calming definition of life. I did not know I love watching a little cell dying while listening to a calming voice speaking about life. Pls more of this!
Well, I wasn't expecting to shed a tear over a random bit of life that lived and died on a piece of glass somewhere. But I saw it and I did... godspeed little spark of mystery.
This really helped my understanding of life and death. I don’t think it gave some solace or anything like that, but it brought some things together in my brain that I hadn’t managed to connect on my own.
This is both beautiful in its detail and devastating in its singular depiction of death on a scale that we will never appreciate. Thank you for this journey and a humble reminder that there is always more out there than just what we can easily see.
Only HALF the story. What about the fate of the molecules that made up this living creatures "system?" Life is a precursor to death, but life also emerges..again and again and again. One could also - if we knew how and had the ability - make a video showing LIFE emerging from inanimate (so called "dead") atoms & molecules - which is the needed counterpoint to this morbid existentialist demonstration. Death happens... but life emerges and LIFE GOES ON.
@@oma_elite , You have "proven" nothing. The universe going to "heat death" is still a theory - and that is SCIENCE. And what about other possible universes? And how did ours "begin?" There exist theories - which are just as valid as yours btw - that life is abundant throughout the cosmos and even perhaps in other "cosmoses" so no, I dont agree with your speculation. Heck, consciousness has not even been conclusively or adequately explained.
Friend is all around you now. Part of the world and inside many new places. What made friendo so cool, it's going on to make other organisms just as complicated and astounding and beautiful. and in the same way as your friend.
Wow. I clicked on this video under the premise that I was about to witness, well... a ciliate die; and I did, but, it was a lot more than that. I've also been given a shock lesson in philosophy, you opened my eyes up to a whole other way of looking at life and death, this idea of... reaching equilibriam. It's completely true of course; like how water finds it's level, every atom, molecule, element, every biological construct in my body wants to find it's own natural state, it wants to settle, and my life is preventing that. For me to exist, I am obstructing a fundamental nature of the universe. That's incredible!
It's "entropy" in thermodynamics. Unbelievably cool stuff. So life reduces entropy with the reallocation energy to keep itself from equilibrium... a constant battle to survive. My mind is officially blown....
No, actually, it says clearly in the video that life is about trying to not reach equilibrium, but that death isn't returning to equilibrium, it's something else But i couldn't tell you exactly
Crazy to think eh? Hebrews 11 11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen WERE NOT made of things which do appear.
J-t-t-M : This ciliate is dead. Ciliate : I'm not dead J-t-t-M : Right here, this is where we saw the ciliate die. Ciliate : I'm not dead Me: He says he's not dead. J-t-t-M : Well he will be soon. He's very ill Ciliate : I'm getting better. J-t-t-M : No you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment. Ciliate : I think I'll go for a walk J-t-t-M : You're not fooling anyone you know.
"This is a ciliate. Do not get too attached to it, and whatever you do, do NOT give it a name!"" Me: "Ciliannnn!!!!! Please, just hang in there! Don't goooo!!!!!
absolutely. i'm sorry you're dealing with it, and don't be afraid to get help. grief is a really fundamentally life-changing experience, and its effects can manifest in strange and unexpected ways, even years later. much love to you, internet stranger. ❤️
"And on that day when my strength is failing, The end draws near and my time has come; Still my soul will sing Your praise unending, Ten thousand years and then forevermore." - 10000 reasons
Wow this is literally the best thing I've seen in a while, not even kidding! Your definition of life as a chemical system taking in energy to keep itself from reaching equilibrium is something I've never heard before too and definitely pause for thought. It makes me wonder if at life's beginning, the chemical conditions that generated life may have generated several such systems, some inert and unable to reproduce. But obviously only the systems able to adapt to environment changes and reproduce (so long as the species can copy itself faster than it dies) are the ones which survived past the initial conditions, the very first step of natural selection.
@@ultimatevexation8782 Neither i imagine. They dont really feel "Pain" or process it and just react to stimula. They dont really think either as they are more like a biological machine then "living being". So its just going along until it stops working. But one can dream
@@hombrenuevoacts1728 And its only chemicals as far as he knows looking for equilibrium but life always wants not to die as far as life's impulses go .
Someone very dear to me just died totally unexpectedly and this is somehow comforting beyond what most have said to me about death recently. Thanks as always for putting out this amazing content.
I love this combination of deep bio-existentialism, beautiful footage of the unseen world and calming, thoughtful ambient music. This channel is such a treasure.
Funeral speach begins: "Dear family, friends...as you all know, Bob and I have known each other for 5 minutes now, since our early childhood, which we spent hiding under a pebble lying on the riverbed, scavenging for decaying organic matter and running away from amoebas..."
As a veterinary medecine student, who loves biology, I didn't think I could relive the spark that made me love the natural sciences once more. But this script, and your delivery, I think brings me the closest to it that I'll ever be. Thank you.
We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of Loxy, a rambunctious cell that lived long enough to capture the hearts of 2.4 million organisms that each hold approximately 36 trillion cells. In other words this one cell held the attention of 8.64e+19 cells… this single cell touched the lives of so many and we can only say thank you for your sacrifice, thank you for your fight against equilibrium, and thank you for time.
I literally teared up when it died. What a odd connection to be made. I guess maybe the emotion wasn't for the ciliate but possibly for all of life with its finite existence on this planet.
Now think that's what we do every day. We grow older and our parts start breaking, deforming, but we keep going for decades until one day our shriveled body just can't.
The one time I was able to observe microscopic life in school, I happened to watch a paramecium die. Struggling to somehow escape its wound, flee from its own disintegration, until the paramecium was no more.
it sounds good but it doesn't really cover death... i mean a stone is technically not in equilibrium as it is constantly deterring, yet it is not alive... the word equilibrium kind of confuse me in this context
@@Erebus2075 this comment made me think. thank you. I think they're using the word 'equilibrium' to specifically mean of chemical reactions; in chemistry and biochemistry, it's assumed that's what is meant.
This video is majestic. I honestly don't know what else to say about it. Death is both scary and a calm natural and unavoidable event in our life. Basically the only certain thing of it. It's the end of a journey, no way around it, no escapes, no going back. And yet it could be a welcome gift, to finally rest forever. It has a similar indescribable feeling as nostalgia of never actually experienced times or events. The best way of accepting it is probably to live life at its fullest, in our own way. I have it among my chill videos playlist (mostly songs). You were just one out of many, but rest in peace little ciliate. Scientific/technical question: could someone provide the "name" of the microscope or can suggest something (probably) cheaper perhaps? (mostly for amateur use of observation of whatever comes under the lenses, tardigrades or even smaller organisms. Electronic or mechanical. I will search online of course but suggestions are always welcome)
@@charlesbrightman4237 I mean, I have a theory of everything too that's just as un-provable as yours but is also significantly kinder. The future (probably) isn't as bleak as you think!
It's amazing how long it lasted after losing cytoplasm. I always thought cell death happened fast once the membrane was compromised, like popping a bubble.
A lot of microorganisms have defense mechanisms that let them lose pieces of membrane and not disintegrate. That's probably what we were seeing here, just a constant delay of the innevitable.
Normally they're able to simply stitch it back. I guess this one had some sort of nutrient deficiency, or maybe it got microcancer and lost ability to repair the membrane.
This was the most perspective-shifting thing I've seen in a long time. The first time I watched this with an internal cringe every time the ciliate trailed more of itself away. Watching was intensely uncomfortable but also mesmerizing. I realized partway through that my fascination came from being able to observe my own reaction to the course of this ciliate's death, because the decline and death of a single-celled organism is so different from my own experience of life but is in a way still foundational to my own experience. We share ancestry in the tree of life, but more importantly death is the same for both of us. We will both inevitably stop being a standing wave of matter and energy in the flow of time, and dissolve away, relaxing toward equilibrium. By the end of the second watching, I've realized that there is comfort in the fact that every one of the living organisms on earth, including me and all my loved ones, will die and dissolve just like that. Because we all share that final truth. (Except hydras maybe? But that's a different story.) This video helped me accept death, my own and others. That is something I've been struggling intensely with, especially this year. I'm sure I'll still be scared when it's my turn to dissolve, but I think I'll be a little less scared now. Thanks
Yesterday, my 10 year old son told me he's more scared to be in a coma, than to be dead. A kind of a weird, out of the blue, statement from a 10 year old, although, it stems from a head injury he sustained 4 years ago. There was no lasting effects from the injury, albeit, it was still traumatic for him (and us). However, his fear is that he will go into a coma and eventually die. I think he was scared that *his* process of death would be drawn out, slow and not what we're most use to. So we had a little talk about what comas are, why they happen and that you can, at times, indeed recover from them. He seemed to be more at ease about what a coma is.
I wonder if giant beings of the cosmos are looking at us the same way and either sympathizing with us or simply thinking we’re pathetic…rest well little ciliate❤
Rest In Peace, little Ciliate. You ate well, traveled well, and were observed. You made a difference. A life not wasted, my little friend.
This comment put a smile on my face :)
how far do you think it has travelled ? i think 5 cm
@@lesliesonja4543 lol :)
@@lesliesonja4543 It's incredibly humbling to know that we as a species, have also travelled so, so little too, in astronomical scale
Still a feat for something way smaller than the tip of a pencil
this ciliate will never know the 500k gigantic organisms that knew and loved him
HAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Or her
@@everready2903 its an asexual clone, so "it" is most technically correct, especially as brainless species, but there are arguments for every pronoun.
She/Her, because she creates "daughters".
He/Him, because in traditional English that is for both male and neuter.
Singular "they" because in common use American English that is what we say when we dont know someone's gender yet (ie "I saw a doctor today" "oh did they give you your results?").
@@rickwrites2612 i know a lot of cilliate multicellular organisms with colored hair
Edit: fixed a typo
@@everready2903 That's right. Don't misgender it.
Sending my deepest condolences to the family of this ciliate
the family is also dead
Lmao 😂😂
Highly appreciated
You can find a sympathy card in the stationary isle, just to the left of the cards offering condolences for the single-celled anaerobic organisms that found equilibrium.
Yes
As a person who's getting older and can see the physical changes every day and is now at the point in life where they realize, I am going to die. It's just a matter of when and how and who could count the rest of their life in years not decades, I'm watching this ciliate slowly decay and I feel a comradship with it.
Everyone is getting older
The sad truth
Accepting that death is inevitable is the first step to achieving peace
I like to think death is just a really long nap and I’m kinda looking forward to it
Life is always more powerful than death. Death is an endpoint, there is no regret or suffering after it. Before death, there is the will to live and all the small and big enjoyments to be gotten out of it. When death ends life, nothing carries over to you, so in a very real sense, life is never over for oneself.
Decay is a terrifying thing, especially when it is in full motion, but throughout all the things I cannot do anymore, I am still myself and live life in this most singular way that no one can rob me of.
@@jonathanSpg True, but when you're young it's not a reality to you. It's usually becomes reality when you're older. 😳 Teens think they are invincible!
@@Felishamois The older you get the more death of friends and family and old stars you liked in your youth. My attitude has changed a lot over the years. Not ready to go yet, but when the time comes I hope I'm old and sick and tired and just ready! I'm not religious, so for me death is the end except for whatever thoughts and feelings (and hopefully good works) you leave behind!
This is probably one of the, if not THE most famous Ciliate by now.
So in a way, against all odds, it has achieved immortality.
it will be quickly forgotten. no immortality there
@@marcosbisso7136 it has merged with the universe, and without getting too philosophical, everything shall wither and decay, but the energy will stay, everyday, as we lay, every second even.
@@YouAreInfinity117 it has merged with nothing, since there's no longer an "it". It simply has stopped to be. What remains are what used to be a Ciliate, but no longer is. There's no Ciliate anymore to merge with anything. It's gone.
Lmao as if metaphorical immortality is even vaguely the same
The immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks is immortal? Basically a cancer cell...
It was like a sweater, slowly unraveling, until there was not enough thread to hold it together. Thanks for the video.
If you want to destroy my sweater
Pull the string as I walk away
@@noelvalenzarro I was just going to say the same thing. I love that song!
@@noelvalenzarro I love how Rivers pronounces walk away like it's a galaxy. "Pull this string as I Walky Way".
If you want to destroy my sweater~
Put that on the headstone
It amazes me how slow yet fast death is at the same time. This little ciliate was moving around for minutes as it slowly melted, losing bits of itself but never quite reacting to it. Until eventually it just disappeared into the microcosmos, becoming random debris that other animals move through without noticing. Its beautifully poetic really, how it mirrors the macro world and how something as small as a random ciliate can hold onto life as dearly as you or I in our final moments.
Well…shit…
I don't want to die 😭
@@Mr_Rain_Forest
one day, you could suffer enough to stop fearing death,
and that is when you begin to appreciate life
@@absolutelyagirl1012 That day is inevitable. I just hope I don't find that out when I'm done.
@@thiviox1880 Done with what? Life? Don't do it! We all love you! We care! Stop it!!! Think about your family, friends, pets, everything! You can't do it! Life is precious! Live it out til' your very last breath, don't leave it so soon! You will be missing out on everything life can bring you. Every moment shouldn't be taken for granted! ☄️
One of the most beautifully made videos on RUclips. Impactful and thought provoking. Thank you Hank and friends!
I thought so too. Very profound just by following around 1 single individual (MICROSCOPRIC) organism. Rly happy i watched this.
I work in a wastewater treatment plant and this video made me realize the insanely huge number of ciliates and other organisms I incinerate every day.
Better them than us, brother..
But on the other hand, they have a fulfilling life in your aeration tanks; they get to meet a lot of lost socks, goldfish who had passed, etc.
They call him death, destroyer of worlds
My opinion ha not that you asked is that we are killing off millions of trillions and billions of bacteria and micro organisms needlessly ancient human beings thrived not just survived millions of years ago they drank straight from water straight from the rivers and the lakes human bodies naturally build up immunities by being exposed to germs and such just saying hope u get my point 😊
@@Scouse.raver1 i think you meant, without intent, as opposed to saying we needlessly killed germs.
Imagine having a heart attack in the middle of the street, but instead of getting CPR you’re just made to listen to an enormous alien creature explaining a bunch of deep philosophy
and also, at the same time, melt your parts little by little.
@@softcopymahasiswa * imagine falling into acid...
Or getting burned 🤷🏼♀️
Better way to go than most.
Ben 10 Alien X be like:
"This human is about to die"
"Why he is dying, we don't know... But it happened here, when his body stopped moving and his expression went numb"
"He was just fine little back in time ago, but now... His body has failed."
The ciliate might have died physically but the memories of it's last moments will always be alive in our hearts
Hearths that, in fact, die
Eventually it will experience the final death, when for the last time someone remembers the ciliate.
lives on in this video as a being of light 🙃
@@ctakitimu Information and energy is never lost. Only changed
@@OverRule1 Yes, but the configuration that is "you" will no longer exist in that state. The engine that houses your consciousness will be destroyed, dispersing and diluting your individuality until you are effectively gone. The parts that used to be you, will become the building blocks for other amazing structures and beings, but you'll never know.
People say you only die when you are forgotten. This ciliate is forever on the internet and will be immortalised for a very long time.
Yeah, people say a lot of BS. You die when you die, and you are forgotten when you are forgotten. Thank the heavens we still have different words describing separate things despite all these smartypants platitudes flinging around.
@@vaxrvaxr you sound nice...
@@RetoskiCat he sounds like a bad ass. I could use someone like him in my road warrior gang.....
@@HBoggggggggg I don't think you can afford my rates. But thanks for the compliment and good luck with your startup!
And that was then, now are chances of being forgotten when we die, is close to zero for as long as the internet exists, and even if we do die of age with new breakthrough technology@@vaxrvaxr
As inevitable as this ciliate's death seemed, I'm rather impressed at how long it was able to continue moving before the damage to it's body was too great.
When your entire body is covered in stuff to help you move you dont need very much of it to move.
The (invisible) cytoskeleton, a web of structural proteins, prevented the organelles from spilling out, and the cytosol from mixing too quickly with the outside.
"Bodies may fail, but they do not give up. Only the mind has the capacity for surrender." - David Goggins
@Disent Design Probably until it starved to death or got eaten. At such a small scale for singular celled organisms that is not a plant, no movement = certain death
Death "how have I not caught up with you yet?"
Cilliate: "I'm just built different"
"2020 can't get any worse."
Me, knowing that a ciliate died.
WWWWHHHYYY, oh god why, it was too young to die! XD
Me, tired of seeing this meme template
;-;
Yep😥
Thank you for this comment, made the sadness of reflecting on the futility of my own life, less hard to withstand.
I really felt sad when the ciliate died.
You shouldn't but I think I understand why. You anthropomorphized it. You probably think it was afraid and in agony.
_It_ was not.
Its functions and activity gradually decreased to a point where they could function no more and, as Hank so poignantly said, its composition went into equilibrium.
Death is just a part of life
@@Pow3llMorgan ya, it wasn't in pain. I take solace in that. Still can't help but have an intense emotional reaction though.
@Level Nine Drow We see the world not directly in all its 'ISness', but through our filter of definitions & labels. We set arbitrary lines along a continuum.
We don't have to anthropomorphize to be sympathetic to the beauty of an organisms' existence, and feel loss when the beauty ends. I feel sad when I squish a mosquito cause it's one tribute to 4 billion years of a successful system that is now gone. Just because there are gazillion mosquitoes or ciliates doesn't make it less a loss. After all life on earth dies at some point that one mosquito will mean everything to the next intelligence that comes along if it's the only fossil they find whether they feel emotion or not.
I found & watched this vid, my intro to the microcosmos, a few days after my brother died unexpectedly. Having been a career ff/paramedic, i was no stranger to death but Sean's hit hard & this vid was impactful. Oddly enough, this vid has come full circle many years later and it's still profound... Not the least of which bc yesterday was the anniversary of his battle w equilibrium.
Sorry for your loss man!
What terrifies me the most about this, isn't the looming thought of death itself.
But rather the fact that we have no idea why it died.
Well, I believe the sole purpose of life is reproduction and spreading one's genes to the next generations to progress the evolution of one's species. Hence, if this little creature has managed to serve its purpose, then nature no longer needs it to continue being alive. The world is always changing, we too are always adapting by creating new versions of ourselves and teach them to continue on with the cycle. Old versions that are no longer in their prime and can no longer thrive in the new world obviously die out.
@@loremipsum980 so... staying virgin = imortality
@@araujotavares5015 from a theological christian point of view, that's probably why monks practice celibacy.
@@setiem13 nah, they just gay.
@@andrewbcliff Hello 911 , I would like to report a murder !
"Mr. Biologist, I don't feel so good"
Honestly, I laughed seeing Peter Parker die. The scene was meant to be serious but came off more funny.
He just went “poof”! DED
ohhhh my heart.
Correction, Mr. MICRObiologist... 💡🤔🤨
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Was going to say same but figured someone already had. I’ll go equilibrium now.
@Jordy Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. EQUILIBRIUM
I thought that the insect's lives were scary, but the microscopic life is even more disturbing, this little guy literally melted to death.
@Kelvin Higgs visually, it looked a bit like he was dissolving.
I don’t think it’s as gruesome as it looks because microscopic life doesn’t really have brains, so I’m guessing they don’t feel “pain” the way we do.
@The ChadDevil well it’s true that they would feel pain but for them it’s more of a chemical reaction. That’s what our feeling of pain pretty much also is, but we have a brain, they don’t. I don’t know tho, cells might have a simple consciousness and actually feel, but I doubt it because of their lack of a nervous system.
@@DoganT. “doesn’t really”. You mean doesn’t. Not doesn’t really. That would imply it sorta has brains, but not really. It has NO brains. At all. Period.
@The ChadDevil no it wouldn’t feel pain. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be pain as you understand it as a human. It will feel a stimuli that makes it go in a different direction. Nothing more.
I didn't realize until after I posted my comment, that many others here had a similar experience watching this video. You took the time to watch, and took the time to think about a little creature that really no one else knows or cares about. But now YOU know, and it affected you; profoundly, it seems. You all made me cry, but thank you, you deep thinking and good hearted friends!
Fun fact: this little organism technically had a funeral with 250K paticipant.
what funeral you going to where you watch the person die?
@@OakNuggins lmao
You cant spell Funeral without Fun.
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@@J-ManProductions thats not true whrn we die at least a billion mircro organisms will attend our funeral. You dont even have to spend for reception.
It's really telling to me how we can empathize with seemingly any living thing that's dying. Even the ones who are made of just one cell.
Says genghis khan!!!!
😂😂😂
I hope you're a Jain vegan, with that comment.
@@father3dollarbill I teared up, then went and had chicken for dinner.... oh my!
We can empathize with a microorganism, but a microorganism can't empathize with us. Rather lonely actually.
Genghis Khan massacred millions of humans each made-up of trillions of cells but has great sympathy for this unicellular organism.
Not all pepple emphasise with this "gelatinous turd", bro..
I was holding my father's hand while he drew his last breath not 10 hours ago. I find this soothing.
It will get better :) What a lucky man to have someone so dear to him hold his hand.
Condolences :(
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My condolences, I'm so sorry. I'm glad that this video could help.
I hope you are feeling better today.
Shoutout to the camera man who, despite the risk of getting dragged into the quantum realm, still shrunk himself to take this amazing footage!
Enough.
Total amateur. He was completely safe on the other side of the slide.
A real cameraman worth his salt would have donned a wet suit and swam along with him, Steve Irwin style.
Well, you managed to educate me while simultaneously giving me an existential crisis. You have a new subscriber.
Yes!!! Existential crisis!!
Don't have a crisis, his definition of what he considers some universal equilibrium is based on a feeling. I'm not saying it's a wrong feeling, it just isn't substantiated enough to be asserted as fact.
Fuck that
@@oneRyanJoseph his definition is based not on feeling, but on narrow-mindedness.
he does not even realize that many things that are not alive and do not have genes fall into his "definition of life".
for example, " stars are chemical systems that use energy from chemical reactions to maintain a state far from equilibrium for billions of years." until they start to " die " for another billions of years, moving towards the equilibrium.
@@piranias if you hear the existential dread in his voice that OP and many others picked up on, I don't think he is being narrow-minded (I'm reading narrow-minded as 'lazy in his investigation').
I think he's trying to intellectualize his very human fear of mortality with some form of nihilistic acceptance by using relative lifespans and calling the death process 'equilibrium' (which to me is just his opinion/feeling). It's coming more from a place of self-soothing the fear than being intellectually dishonest but I felt the need to respond to OP calling the video education .
Love the star counterexample for the video's definition of life.
It's comforting to think of stars and all bounded entities of the universe as alive and a singular entity. I personally feel this to be true. I'd like to think pain, suffering and death is just another state that we actively try to embrace and resolve, instead of being the thorns on a wilting, dying flower that is life. The former makes me optimistic, the latter makes me stagnant and I wanted to share my skepticism of the narrator's covert pessimism with OP.
When I finally die, I'd like Hank Green to narrate my last breath.
"We don't know exactly when this dude died. But it's about here. When he gobbled that cherry ice cream so fast it filled his lungs"
Where the hell did all the likes on this comment go?
Honestly, eating my favorite ice cream in my final moments is the best way to go
Quite a eulogy.
I just realized this was hank green thank you
Wow I didn’t realise it was Hank until read this too
I’m 61, and last week had an angina scare, I’m type 1 diabetic, anaemic, and unfit.
I am that ciliate, heading towards equilibrium.
The curse of investing so heavily in intelligence, is that we know we’re falling apart.
true, the curse of intelligence is knowing it is ending, but the gift is the ability to plan and take the time to appreciate everything around us.
We all fall apart in the end.... see you there soon, 5 heart attacks type 3 diabetic one kidney, also anaemic.... and other bits failing
Hope you guys had a good run. See you in the next one.
There is only one entity that has ever defeated death and has the power so that one may live on after reaching equilibrium. Jesus Christ aka (God) There is another state of existence that does not head towards equilibrium. Learn from him and you will live even though you die!
@@oma_elite Lol
Poetic, esthetic, with calm and relaxing narration: lets the mind wander to the edges of the comprehensible and understandable. Pure Gold, thank you very much!
Micro-organism:
Mr. Microbiologist: So you have chosen equillibrium.
He chose... poorly.
So deep but funny...damn i feel guilty but enlightened brudaasss👀
😂😅😂😅
This is a good one 👌
Death by snu snu!
To be honest... This is the video that made me come across the channel, and it actually helps me with my health anxiety. It puts a logical perspective on what dying is, and helps me think "Well... If it happens, it happens." It also gives me food for thought about existence and what it means to be alive but all in all, it's just comforting when I'm not feeling well. Thank you.
I think about death and dying a lot, it's a really fascinating thing to think about, not to mention straight-up death scary :D
There's an awesome video called "What does it feel like to die" by Arvin Ash, seems like our brain is doing everything in its power to die without any pain or bad emotions, at the exact moment our brain stops working it releases all of our dopamines and all other happy chemicals we have to make it easier. fascinating
This can be humorous if you imagine it's a large Bus in South America that's plowing down the mountain and losing it's passengers. {0.o}
😆😂🤣
The soothing narration and the slow, inexorable collapse of the organism was such a weird juxtaposition.
almost like Hank was an Undertaker
@@2b_or_not_2b_4gotten Im impressed you knew "inexorable" already!
Mmmmmm yesssssh ineeeeeed inexorable *sips tea and adjusts monocle*
@melskunk Exactly.
you are such a weird juxtaposition
7:30 Love the moment you silence you gave after that. This is easily one of your best videos, if not the best.
Came here for a biology lesson, stayed for the philosophy lesson.
The entire video was void of philosophy. It was just him explaining his one dimensional view on life and expressing how hard it is for him to comprehend thoughts of meaning beyond basic biological structure. He’s a hack.
@@bendover9021 I'm not a philosophy major so I could be wrong but I think that viewpoint is a form of philosophy in itself. The author of the video expressed their opinion that life is just chemical processes and gave it a cold simple definition. I believe it's called materialism and while I don't fully agree with him I think that was one of the things he was conveying in the video.
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@@bendover9021 I agree, he really spent time on the most boring take on "what is the meaning of life".
Anyone else noticed how he eventually turned into the same pile of green stuff that was everywhere around it?
That was kind of a haunting moment, when you realize all of that mass was once a living being just like our little fella there.
yeah, that tripped me out. I realized it as soon as it died.
As we will all return to dirt when we die.
I was wondering why he (unintentionally anthrapomorphized it) was never eating any of the stuff it was running into. Definitely a haunting twist in a horror story.
This reminds me of the Daphnia magna culture I unintentionally started in 2017. It is a water bottle that started with a few drops of concentrated algae and a few drops of suspended microscopic detritus. Nothing too out of the ordinary, right? But then slowly but surely a layer of empty chitin shells started accumulating on the bottom. Soon, a layer several millimeters thick was there. The interface between the daphnia shells and water column would swish and undulate every time I would move the bottle. I saw that the daphnia were not creeped out by the human equivalent of eating plants growing in the graveyard while rubbing up against headstones. In us mammals, being around the festering remains of our own cousins, no matter how distant, hogs our cognitive attention. I stopped feeling weird about it and bad for them. I realized life at different scales is not comparable to that of our macroscopic world. It just isn't a stimulus that evokes a repulsive mechanism in the microcosm.
The daphnia culture is still active today. Somehow with little intervention the cycles within support the daphnia after 4 full years. And many of them are as content as ever to burrow in the corporeal ruin of their forebearers and prefer it to swimming above.
@@PepperDarlington We don't originate from dirt. We're conceived in a womb that lies within a female we affectionately refer to as a Mom.
Edit: Pleasant feeling is in regards to thinking about death like this.
I haven't had an existential crisis that actually made me kinda feel peaceful about death. Its a weird but pleasant feeling. Rest in peace little ciliate, I shall remember you forever.
The parts of its body that we called dead will be used up by other ciliates, and then their bodies used up by others. Death may be eternal but life isn’t done fighting yet
@@wren_. that's why death is linked to a specific creature. Again, it's not parts of this system that died. It's that specific system. There's no more THAT ciliate. It will become part of some other ciliates, but to get it back together we need to replicate that exact system again.
No you won't. You'll remember it until your death and then you'll never know or experience anything eternally.
Pleasant feeling huh?
No. Because you won't live forever.
Lol oh you guys are soo deep
This is brilliant, brutal beauty. The depth of respect and honor extended to the star of this film is profoundly present in the narrator's delivery, a raw unfettered compassion and reverence for its innocence as it is transmutated unaware into the willing noble sacrifice in the name of comprehension, simply by our observance. So much grace, beauty and tragedy all coiled up into a single tear of impermanence floating in an ocean of unrelenting, unforgiving chemistry. Entropy is a harsh traveling companion. Thank you to all involved in producing this gem of a vid. It is transcendent.
This video was comforting in a strange way. There's a lot of fear that surrounds death. It's nice to just think about it matter-of-factly. Great job on this video!
I think so too. Many people avoid death by abstracting it. “They moved on to a better place” is nicer, but less real than “they died,” and it alienates death, making it something to be feared, when accepting death can actually lead to a fuller life.
While I don’t want to seem rash, I don’t think we should fear death, I think it’s more logical to fear that we won’t accomplish what we desire before it inevitably arrives.
I agree and we needed this with everything going on right now
Coulda been a silent film
@@giovannidueck9094 Also doesn't help that about half of the time someone say's “They moved on to a better place” they're referring to someone in hell.
I was going through a very rough period in my life when I first watched this video. It’s very calming to learn about various things, especially those of existential nature. Strangely enough, this video helped me calm down from a panic attack. I saw it on my feed and just kinda clicked out of curiosity. Knowing that everything is cyclical and eventually fades, even pain is a very calming and freeing idea. Thank you for this video!
I hope you're doing better now.
Hope you are Better today
I'm grieving and this video helped me find peace for a a few minutes.
The death of an organism is always weird.
When something our size dies, there is a period of time when the person is dead, but not the cells that make them.
Death like life is a very tricky thing to describe.
Add to the mix that sometimes some of those cells continue to live on in another one of our size and that’s a whole other can of worms
Either it is dificult to describe or you just realised that death has more to do with something else than the physical body itself
Isn't it ?
Nails continues to grow after death.
I think we are several system which works for equilibrium. Heart and blood system is major for keep equilibrum. So generally we said we are dead when this system is dead. We have a lot of minor system .often stop working but dont destroy equilibrium.
@@haloskaterkid The cells don't live on after death, only their chemicals are transferred as nutrients.
@@bretagnejean2410 Nails don't continue to grow after death. The skin and other tissues dehydrate and shrink giving the appearance that nails are still growing.
This video is way beyond biology and chemistry, beyond the new microscope. This is about a profound truth, pure philosophy. It is inmensly inspiring to my soul. It's not resignation, it's pure understanding
''Sorry boss, can't make it to work today. One of my ciliates is about to die''
Sorry boss, I'm taking a day off. Need to attend a funeral.
Sorry boss,had a chemical reaction today...
That's one nice excuse and it's not even a lie
The ciliate didn't go gentle into that good night;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
o.o
We're just microbiology to some other universe at a really big scale that is almost unfathomable.
@@Hexnilium two humans, or a human and animal fighting would be like two worlds bashing into each other. the bacteria and cells are just on their merry way, and boom, they are lost from their host, they are cold as they realize the ting they strove to live in is leaking and they are soon to be no more.
Indeed brudaa that ciliate put a figth until the end
And it was quite a fight it gave till the end. Dylan Thomas would have wept too
I have a few words: this is the ciliate I came to know the most in my lifetime, and he made the life of a more complex chemical system far from equilibrium much more interesting. Thanks, ciliate.
Very kind of you. ❤️🤣
I also knew this ciliate, we went to school together for years. RIP Carlos
Nah, eff that ciliate.
He owed me money. And I heard he was racist.
@@father3dollarbill 🤣🤣🤣
You just reached 666 likes!
Thoughts and prayers to all family and friends of the little ciliate.
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@@LuisSierra42 *Then God Question you, so that you explore your ownself by these questions??*
أَوَلَمْ يَتَفَكَّرُوا فِي أَنفُسِهِم مَّا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَأَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى وَإِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ النَّاسِ بِلِقَاءِ رَبِّهِمْ لَكَافِرُونَ ﴿الروم: ٨﴾
*Why don’t they explore / study their own self own / your own bodies?*
Allah had not created these huge skies and earth and all between them, but with a law / with a calculation/science.
And it is for short period of time / temporary.
And still many people does not believe in their meeting with their Lord / for accountability 30;8 / 7;185.
نَحْنُ خَلَقْنَاكُمْ فَلَوْلَا تُصَدِّقُونَ [٥٦:٥٧]
It is We! Who has engineered your Creation, then why don’t you agree? 56:57
(This is the verse of Invitation and Inculcation to genuine Creator, who created you and mind, He give further explanations and examples to prove this)
أَفَرَأَيْتُم مَّا تُمْنُونَ [٥٦:٥٨]
Have you not seen/studied? You were only ejected liquid/samen? 56:58 / 23;14
أَأَنتُمْ تَخْلُقُونَهُ أَمْ نَحْنُ الْخَالِقُونَ [٥٦:٥٩]
*Did you created from it, your Creation?*
Or, it is We, who have architected from it, your creation? 56:59 / 19;66
نَحْنُ قَدَّرْنَا بَيْنَكُمُ الْمَوْتَ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ [٥٦:٦٠]
It is We, who has fixed your time of De ath, and We do not change Our decisions. 56:60
My grandmother passed away around the time this video was released, and I found this to be really comforting in a way. This was beautiful, thank you.
even the tiniest thing is meaningful to the others. like the return of atoms back to the nature.
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Sorry about your grandma.
I know that it’s just a single cell, and I know that this or something like it happens billions of not trillions of times every second, but this video has made me sympathize with its main character more than some million dollar blockbusters
I cared more about this ciliate than I cared about Ben Solo in the Star Wars sequels.
@@brandonchan5387 there are only 4 star wars movies, rest are all crap
Great observation.
Its constant search for energy was "mindless" and "relatable" at the same time. I knew I was watching a very low lifeform, everything it did was fast and spontaneous, not minding even his gradual death. In this aspect I was repelled, but at the same time his constant search for stimuli in order to never stop existing was for me the thing that gave value to this being, so much so that when it stopped moving I was genuinely hurt, It was almost painful to assist at that moment of misery.
@@gregoryeverson741 stay focused 😉
This guy managed to make us cry to a single cell.
It's because we are kind and empathetic. ❤️ The narrator definitely was the cherry on top.
Should go watch Sci Show
Just wait until our sun explodes. Who knows what we'll end up in our next iteration?
@@williamyoung9401 entropy will ultimately win.
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😢 RIP little guy, you impacted the world more than you knew
I love how the microcosmos really makes you reflect on your assumptions, the things you thought were true not because of any actual reasoning but just because they have always been there with you. The microcosmos had this special ability to be so extremely different from our normal existence, but still relatable to us. Both of us are practically the same, just in differences of scale. And it really makes you think, what other "different" things are the same when looked at, at scale.
Yes, maybe existence is alive, stars and galaxies, the whole universe, yet it will die too. Maybe everything that dies is alive, maybe the essence of life is simply presence. But but, death has always proven to not be the end, just a change, dissolving into something else, transforming into something else. Maybe when everything dies, something else will take place.
I think, maybe, in infinite time, everything is possible, like in infinite time, this universe came to be aswell.
@@YskarAlbumLuna damn, I never thought of it like that
@@YskarAlbumLuna there is nothing really called "the universe will die, or even galaxies and stars", changes in galaxies and stars can't be considered really like death in living things, living things will fade and death is the end for them.
@@mixnewton5157 Death is just a word and a concept.
@@YskarAlbumLuna- Yeah. But the concept of Death can be literal, or metaphorical. It just depends on what is being described. Is it biotic. Is it abiotic.
What I was expecting: to see a small single cell just stop moving, maybe being eaten by another.
What I got: epic thoughts and deep dive into thoughts about life and death and a interesting and kinda calming definition of life. I did not know I love watching a little cell dying while listening to a calming voice speaking about life. Pls more of this!
Well, I wasn't expecting to shed a tear over a random bit of life that lived and died on a piece of glass somewhere. But I saw it and I did... godspeed little spark of mystery.
o7
This has always been one of my favorite videos on youtube.... terrific work, thank you.
This really helped my understanding of life and death. I don’t think it gave some solace or anything like that, but it brought some things together in my brain that I hadn’t managed to connect on my own.
Well said.
So my therapist is gonna hear about this video
🤣🤣lol so hard
@@rosekay5031 +1.. Really, I DID "LAUGHED OUT LOUD" in my room... 🤣 but immediately went to 😢 once you think about the video..
😂😂😂
Won't do anything though
Same, lol. Watching it was totally worth it, tho.
So those punches man, you aren't pulling any of them.
it hurts..
im a baby now
This is both beautiful in its detail and devastating in its singular depiction of death on a scale that we will never appreciate. Thank you for this journey and a humble reminder that there is always more out there than just what we can easily see.
Ciliate did not die, it is now immortal on RUclips. Long live the Ciliate !!
He's dead.
@MatZ the ciliate will still be reposted
Only HALF the story. What about the fate of the molecules that made up this living creatures "system?" Life is a precursor to death, but life also emerges..again and again and again.
One could also - if we knew how and had the ability - make a video showing LIFE emerging from inanimate (so called "dead") atoms & molecules - which is the needed counterpoint to this morbid existentialist demonstration. Death happens... but life emerges and LIFE GOES ON.
@@oma_elite , You have "proven" nothing. The universe going to "heat death" is still a theory - and that is SCIENCE. And what about other possible universes? And how did ours "begin?" There exist theories - which are just as valid as yours btw - that life is abundant throughout the cosmos and even perhaps in other "cosmoses" so no, I dont agree with your speculation. Heck, consciousness has not even been conclusively or adequately explained.
RUclips Arguments number 151
"I admit i was wrong"
Proceed to delete file?
Yes 👈 No
My best friend has been gone sense March 9th and when ciliate just completely disappeared I could t help but bust out crying. I miss my friend
Hugs
Gone to a better place
Friend is all around you now. Part of the world and inside many new places. What made friendo so cool, it's going on to make other organisms just as complicated and astounding and beautiful. and in the same way as your friend.
Maybe your friend swirls around as a happy lil ciliate now
Same. My cat just died this very day. And for some reason, I just started crying watching this.
Wow. I clicked on this video under the premise that I was about to witness, well... a ciliate die; and I did, but, it was a lot more than that. I've also been given a shock lesson in philosophy, you opened my eyes up to a whole other way of looking at life and death, this idea of... reaching equilibriam. It's completely true of course; like how water finds it's level, every atom, molecule, element, every biological construct in my body wants to find it's own natural state, it wants to settle, and my life is preventing that. For me to exist, I am obstructing a fundamental nature of the universe. That's incredible!
It's "entropy" in thermodynamics. Unbelievably cool stuff. So life reduces entropy with the reallocation energy to keep itself from equilibrium... a constant battle to survive. My mind is officially blown....
@@richardhubbard2151 I still find myself thinking about this video from time to time, truly incredible.
@@deadinfebruary it really is... this one will stick with me for quite a while. Great comment you posted
you just gave a baf definition of entropy, and clearly you don't know what it is.
No, actually, it says clearly in the video that life is about trying to not reach equilibrium, but that death isn't returning to equilibrium, it's something else
But i couldn't tell you exactly
Never knew watching a little ciliate cease to exist could make me so emotional
"...it is about to die. Of course... we are all about to die."
I DIDN"T NEED THIS EXISTENTIAL DREAD TODAY
the cells living in my eyes and brain are helping me watch a cell die. im so high right now this is awesome haha
Crazy to think eh?
Hebrews 11
11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen WERE NOT made of things which do appear.
@@oma_elite how and why did u bring religion into this
@@Koala019 usually lack of common sense or knowledge is why people do anything.
@@Koala019 just dont feed the troll
@@Koala019 maybe because so many people are having existential crisises?
J-t-t-M : This ciliate is dead.
Ciliate : I'm not dead
J-t-t-M : Right here, this is where we saw the ciliate die.
Ciliate : I'm not dead
Me: He says he's not dead.
J-t-t-M : Well he will be soon. He's very ill
Ciliate : I'm getting better.
J-t-t-M : No you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
Ciliate : I think I'll go for a walk
J-t-t-M : You're not fooling anyone you know.
And we never saw J-t-t-M bonk it over the head.
THIS IS AN EX CILIATE
"I feel happy, I feel happy...!"
@@LolUGotBusted No, it's just pining for the fjords! Just look at its beautiful Cilia...
it's just a cell membrane wound!
This still by far my favourite vídeo of this great channel! such depth and beauty, visually and philosophically
Amazing how many eyes laid upon this tiny organism, watch the end of it's life, cared about it and loved..
amazing how the little ciliate...just went about its ciliate business...none the wiser.
@@xzysyndrome Makes you wonder if we are being watched like that too.
@@coolcat1530 I don't wonder any more. The little Ciliate is proof positive...I am a ciliate.
I neither cared about it nor loved it. It was kind of gross to be honest.
@@shadesilverwing0 you’re kind of gross to be honest
This hit pretty hard. Moment of silence for this ciliate and thank you for this beautiful video.
Literally we just watched a micro-organism die for 8 minutes
Quite simply:
Yes.
💡🤨😰
@@Hmongboi228 What we watched is the cycle of natures copying machine. The cell. That, in essence, is all that life is. Even you and me.
Isn't that , amazing . We are the first to explore this phenomena !!!!!!
One of the coolest videos about life and death. Quite deep even. Made me understand the distinction between chemistry and biology so easily!
Somewhere I read, "Biology is just applied chemistry" and I think of that a lot😂
"This is a ciliate. Do not get too attached to it, and whatever you do, do NOT give it a name!""
Me: "Ciliannnn!!!!! Please, just hang in there! Don't goooo!!!!!
Cillian mc'celly
Her name is Susie the ciliate. She was hoping to get married and have little cilia. You will be remembered little cilie.
As someone dealing with loss, this is both heartbreaking and comforting. Thank you for making it.
absolutely. i'm sorry you're dealing with it, and don't be afraid to get help. grief is a really fundamentally life-changing experience, and its effects can manifest in strange and unexpected ways, even years later. much love to you, internet stranger. ❤️
Keep strong
"Let's not go that deep, at least not today" - ARE YOU F*&%ING KIDDING ME?!
Word!
>F*&%ING
>Fucking
done, fixed
Just say fucking, that censorship is pointless
@Mason Wyberg meh, i prefer saying it clear and loud, why the fuck do we need to censor?
I know right 😂
"And on that day when my strength is failing,
The end draws near and my time has come;
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending,
Ten thousand years and then forevermore."
- 10000 reasons
This has to be the most fascinating, relaxing, and informative snuff video on the internet.
Nobody accept this challenge. Please.
Somebody’s never seen the funkytown cartel video
*Literally the most anxiety inducing subject ever*
Jesus this comment made me belly laugh.
@@Pyriphlegeton hey, actually... would you guys watch that? Then again, youtube would probably just delete it
I’ve noticed with microscopic life like this that in the time leading up until they die, they become smaller and smaller.
Old people do too :(
@@joopie2time2killu yep, I was walking behind an old lady at a mall and with each step she took her organs were spilling out. Gross experience
@KailyKail I hadn't noticed that. Did it also seem to you that it had entered its 'death throes?'
Man, wtf? This is some of the most unexpectedly emotional shit I've ever seen!
😂😂😂😂 are you Cancer zodiac sign?
It does happen! It's called aging! You just can't perceive it because you are not aware enough, apparently! Time melts you away - all the time....
It does happen! It's called aging! You just can't perceive it because you are not aware enough, apparently! Time melts you away - all the time....
@@hombrenuevoacts1728 Holy sh*t, ya!
This = My wife after she hits a tree with the car and unfortunately, the car will still drive. {0.o}
😆😂🤣
Wow this is literally the best thing I've seen in a while, not even kidding! Your definition of life as a chemical system taking in energy to keep itself from reaching equilibrium is something I've never heard before too and definitely pause for thought. It makes me wonder if at life's beginning, the chemical conditions that generated life may have generated several such systems, some inert and unable to reproduce. But obviously only the systems able to adapt to environment changes and reproduce (so long as the species can copy itself faster than it dies) are the ones which survived past the initial conditions, the very first step of natural selection.
It's interesting that chemical desequilibrium creates beings that at intelligence level desire for equilibrium in many abstracts
I like to think this cell knows his time is up and is exploring and enjoying the remaining minutes of it's life
Or it could be in pain. Panicking
@@ultimatevexation8782 HAHAHA
@@ultimatevexation8782
sush child, it's enjoying it's final moments. But yeah idk maybe ur right
@@ultimatevexation8782 Neither i imagine. They dont really feel "Pain" or process it and just react to stimula. They dont really think either as they are more like a biological machine then "living being".
So its just going along until it stops working. But one can dream
yeah, eating shit
What I came for: To see how a single cell organism dies
What I got: PHILOSOPHY
It does happen! It's called aging! You just can't perceive it because you are not aware enough, apparently! Time melts you away - all the time....
@@hombrenuevoacts1728 And its only chemicals as far as he knows looking for equilibrium but life always wants not to die as far as life's impulses go .
Someone very dear to me just died totally unexpectedly and this is somehow comforting beyond what most have said to me about death recently.
Thanks as always for putting out this amazing content.
Sorry for your loss, sometimes perspective is more meaningful than words.
I love this combination of deep bio-existentialism, beautiful footage of the unseen world and calming, thoughtful ambient music. This channel is such a treasure.
I have never felt so bad for a single cell.
same
Don’t be sad the single cell died, be glad the single cell lived
Funeral speach begins:
"Dear family, friends...as you all know, Bob and I have known each other for 5 minutes now, since our early childhood, which we spent hiding under a pebble lying on the riverbed, scavenging for decaying organic matter and running away from amoebas..."
😁
_"Amaaaaaaazing graaaaaaace..."_
As a veterinary medecine student, who loves biology, I didn't think I could relive the spark that made me love the natural sciences once more. But this script, and your delivery, I think brings me the closest to it that I'll ever be.
Thank you.
Biology rules
I suppose your field of work will involve using energy to keep pets and livestock from reaching equilibrium, or at least do so with less pain?
@@DamazViccar beautifully put ^^
I'll use that line for sure:)
@@Mrzoux1 Please study more about aging etc and come up with some ideas brah. We hate the equilibrium.
We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of Loxy, a rambunctious cell that lived long enough to capture the hearts of 2.4 million organisms that each hold approximately 36 trillion cells. In other words this one cell held the attention of 8.64e+19 cells… this single cell touched the lives of so many and we can only say thank you for your sacrifice, thank you for your fight against equilibrium, and thank you for time.
So you just sat there and watched her die? Call 911, you monsters.
"911, what is your emergency?" "I think my ciliate is dying." "Your what?" "My ciliate. On my microscope slide."
The 'Micropapparazi' chased it around the slide till it crashed.
did you just assume its gender?!
@@parvuspeach Who's the REAL monster here?
@@rhiiazami the operator: *now THIS is an avengers level threat*
I literally teared up when it died. What a odd connection to be made. I guess maybe the emotion wasn't for the ciliate but possibly for all of life with its finite existence on this planet.
Even the planet will die, and eventually, the entire universe will become nothing. Everything has a finite existence.
Cancer Cells are immortal
Nothing is infinite
@@Enthalpy-- to some extent
@@Enthalpy-- how is that😧
This footage was incredible, shocked at how long that microbe kept “truckin along” after the initial cell membrane tear.
It doesn't need a brain, every part of its body keeps doing its own thing even after the others have failed.
Now think that's what we do every day. We grow older and our parts start breaking, deforming, but we keep going for decades until one day our shriveled body just can't.
It genuinely makes me happy to see so many people care about this ciliate, gives me a little more faith in humanity lol
It made me lose faith in them.
@@nerobaal6655Okay edgelord you can stop wearing the mascara now, we know you're unique
Because there’s no responsibility. Tell them to care about a homeless man, and then the issues start coming.
"This is a ciliate"
*pulls out shotgun*
"It is about to die*
Yes
*sound of ciliate slowly pulling the pin off a grenade*
based
The one time I was able to observe microscopic life in school, I happened to watch a paramecium die. Struggling to somehow escape its wound, flee from its own disintegration, until the paramecium was no more.
what kind of acid did you use ?
"She reached equilibrium" is a much more poetic way of saying that they've died.
Or "She started her journey to equilibrium"
Probably worth listening to the video again. 5:30 It's explicitly stated that this is not what death is.
“It”
it sounds good but it doesn't really cover death... i mean a stone is technically not in equilibrium as it is constantly deterring, yet it is not alive...
the word equilibrium kind of confuse me in this context
@@Erebus2075 this comment made me think. thank you. I think they're using the word 'equilibrium' to specifically mean of chemical reactions; in chemistry and biochemistry, it's assumed that's what is meant.
This video is majestic.
I honestly don't know what else to say about it.
Death is both scary and a calm natural and unavoidable event in our life. Basically the only certain thing of it.
It's the end of a journey, no way around it, no escapes, no going back. And yet it could be a welcome gift, to finally rest forever.
It has a similar indescribable feeling as nostalgia of never actually experienced times or events. The best way of accepting it is probably to live life at its fullest, in our own way.
I have it among my chill videos playlist (mostly songs).
You were just one out of many, but rest in peace little ciliate.
Scientific/technical question: could someone provide the "name" of the microscope or can suggest something (probably) cheaper perhaps?
(mostly for amateur use of observation of whatever comes under the lenses, tardigrades or even smaller organisms. Electronic or mechanical. I will search online of course but suggestions are always welcome)
"Were all about to die" is nice to be reminded of every now and then.
@@charlesbrightman4237 Bobis fruit on a jocky stick! That's a lot I have to read!
@@charlesbrightman4237 how much meth were u on when you wrote this shit dont lie
@@charlesbrightman4237 : don't need drugs.
Also @Charles Brightman : Alcohol helps.
So just the most popular, cheapest drug on the market, then.
Memento Mori
@@charlesbrightman4237 I mean, I have a theory of everything too that's just as un-provable as yours but is also significantly kinder. The future (probably) isn't as bleak as you think!
It's amazing how long it lasted after losing cytoplasm. I always thought cell death happened fast once the membrane was compromised, like popping a bubble.
A lot of microorganisms have defense mechanisms that let them lose pieces of membrane and not disintegrate. That's probably what we were seeing here, just a constant delay of the innevitable.
Normally they're able to simply stitch it back. I guess this one had some sort of nutrient deficiency, or maybe it got microcancer and lost ability to repair the membrane.
It's called cytoskeleton, a dense web of actin and other proteins, that enables protein transport.
@@aleksandrajadczyk9981 r/whoooosh
@@aleksandrajadczyk9981 Single-cell organisms cannot get cancer, at least in usual sense.
Holy shit this video was magical. I love this channel so much.
i can imagine your voice saying this while your mouth doesn't move
holy also can shit.
the world is so, so, so much more complex than what we can imagine.
@@noorazmi2329 what
@@xodannyxo
your complexity is astounding.
intelligence like this like to question even when already seen the answer.
amazing.
@@noorazmi2329 holy can shit???
Enjoying biology and chemistry is unfortunately not the same thing as understanding the process. Thanks for explaining a bit.
I didn't think watching a microscopic organisms slowly perish would be so upsetting.
This was the most perspective-shifting thing I've seen in a long time.
The first time I watched this with an internal cringe every time the ciliate trailed more of itself away. Watching was intensely uncomfortable but also mesmerizing.
I realized partway through that my fascination came from being able to observe my own reaction to the course of this ciliate's death, because the decline and death of a single-celled organism is so different from my own experience of life but is in a way still foundational to my own experience. We share ancestry in the tree of life, but more importantly death is the same for both of us. We will both inevitably stop being a standing wave of matter and energy in the flow of time, and dissolve away, relaxing toward equilibrium.
By the end of the second watching, I've realized that there is comfort in the fact that every one of the living organisms on earth, including me and all my loved ones, will die and dissolve just like that. Because we all share that final truth. (Except hydras maybe? But that's a different story.)
This video helped me accept death, my own and others. That is something I've been struggling intensely with, especially this year. I'm sure I'll still be scared when it's my turn to dissolve, but I think I'll be a little less scared now. Thanks
Even hydras will all die, given enough time. Biological immortality is little shield against a dying sun.
Wow well said my friend, i hope you will be at ease when the time comes.
Yesterday, my 10 year old son told me he's more scared to be in a coma, than to be dead.
A kind of a weird, out of the blue, statement from a 10 year old, although, it stems from a head injury he sustained 4 years ago. There was no lasting effects from the injury, albeit, it was still traumatic for him (and us). However, his fear is that he will go into a coma and eventually die. I think he was scared that *his* process of death would be drawn out, slow and not what we're most use to.
So we had a little talk about what comas are, why they happen and that you can, at times, indeed recover from them. He seemed to be more at ease about what a coma is.
Puts the 'cycle' in better perspective for me. We'll dissolve, and in turn, other things get a chance at "far from equilibrium"
@@notflanders4967
Well said.
The universe is defiant, it exists when nothing is easier to be than something. Life took that one step further and defies the comfort of equilibrium.
I wonder if giant beings of the cosmos are looking at us the same way and either sympathizing with us or simply thinking we’re pathetic…rest well little ciliate❤