are you your body well kind of right but is there a line where this stops being true how
much of yourself can you remove before you stop being new and does the question even make sense
interesting question is the sound okay for you guys
because he's a hard dark costume next Halloween that's a fantastic idea I should have done that
[Music] that's brilliant your physical existence is cells trillions of them at least 10 times more
than there are stars in the Milky Way a cell is a living being a machine made of up to 50
000 different proteins it has no consciousness no will no purpose it just is but it is still
an individual together your cells form huge structures for jobs like preparing
food Gathering resources transporting stuff around scanning the environment and so on
if you extract cells from your body and put them in the right environment they will continue to
stay alive for a while so your cells can exist without you but you can't exist without them
if we take all the cells away there is no you anymore
is there a line where a pile of yours what if Consciousness isn't actually you know
or if the Assumption of physicalism doesn't hold true I mean I don't think that I think
you know Consciousness is something that emerges from whatever our neurons are doing maybe even
some weird Quantum stuff going on in the brain I think some Quantum Computing combined with
artificial intelligence is going to provide some interesting insights and that's coming soon you've
got Google's Quantum AI lab and yeah I think Quantum Computing is going to be a significant
you know uh boost to where we're heading with machine learning and artificial intelligence
in general so it's going to be very fun to see how the next 10 years play out because I think
you know uh Google they're aiming for a very useful quantum computer million qubit Thing by
about 2029 you got Intel about the same time time frame you've got a bunch of startups trying to do
it even sooner than that you've got an Australian startup called silicon Quantum computing trying to
actually use silicon you know stuff which means we can just utilize the industry that already exists
and it could come even sooner and they they're looking pretty good they've actually developed
these things called Quantum simulators which is a little bit different to a common computer
there's a simulator you can't reprogram it so it's it's kind of like simulating you know the actual
physics quantum physics of a situation of like a molecule on things but you can't reprogram it
like a quantum computer uh but anyway sales stops being random tangent new for example if you donate
an organ billions of your cells will continue to live on inside someone else does this mean that a
part of you became a part of another person or is this other body keeping a part of you alive
or let us imagine an experiment you and a random person from the Street Exchange cells one at a
time your body gets one of their cells their body gets one of your cells at which point
would they become you would they ever or is this just a very slow and gross way to teleport you
let's make this more complicated the image of ourselves good luck doing that with a brain
though but I've heard the same argument made with the brain if you were to replace or if
you imagine your brain right now you imagine one day we can fix brain cells or fix just
neurons and things in general right the 100 billion neurons what happens if you replace
all 100 billion neurons in your brain are you still you you see what I mean
it's very interesting question and our Viba I don't think Consciousness is anything special
yep I think the same thing it's just from electric signals maybe not just electric signals it could
be something to do with um like the the neural networks and the pathways the electric signals
take and they could be really complex and somehow something emerges from this that we are simply not
understanding I mean look at AI it is starting to approach some things that we thought were
special like creativity I guess the cat's out of the bag there might not even be a real thing
ourselves as a static thing is untenable almost all of your cells have to die during your lifetime
250 million have died since the beginning of this video alone
between one and there goes my last couple of brain cells three million per second
in a seventh period most of your cells are replaced at least once every time your cell
setup changes you are slightly different than before so a part of you is dying constantly
if you are lucky enough to become old you would have cycled through roughly a million
billion cells so what you consider yourself is really just a snapshot but sometimes cells are
broken and don't want to die questioning the very nature of the unity of our bodies
we call them cancer they cancel the biological social contract and become basically immortal
cancer is not an outside Invader it's a part of you that puts its own Survival over yours but
you could also argue that a cancer cell becomes another entity inside us another being that just
wants to thrive and survive but you could argue like all cells like that right we blame it for
that a chilling cell story is that of Henrietta Lacks a young cancer patient who died in 1951.
usually cells only survived for a few days in the lab making research very hard henrietta's
cancer cells were Immortal over the decades they were multiplied over and over again and
used for countless okay that's interesting research projects saving countless lives
henrietta's cells are still alive and overall have been grown to at least 20 tons of biomass
so there are living parts around them have you guys seen the recent stuff about brain cells
sentient brain cells in a Petra dish to play Pong a good game I mean if I was stuck in a
dish pong is so simple that apparently anyone can play it including brain cells in the lab yes you
read that correctly scientists in Australia have taught I didn't even know they were in
Australia when I made this I've taught neurons grown in a Petri dish okay say these mini brains
can sense and react to their environment using drug okay okay World from someone
who has been considered dead for decades how much of Henrietta is in these cells
what makes one of your cells you anyway maybe the information contained in it your DNA until
recently it was believed that all the cells in your body had basically the same genetic code
but it turns out this is wrong your genome is mobile changing over time through mutations and
environmental influences this is especially the case in your brain according to recent discoveries
a single neuron in an adult brain has more than 1 000 mutations in its genetic code that are
not present in the cells surrounding it but how much you is your DNA really about eight percent
of the human genome is made up of viruses that once infected our ancestors and merged with us
mitochondria power plants of the cell once were bacteria that merged with the ancestors of your
cells very cool they still have their own DNA there are some things I need this stuff Bridge
cell has hundreds of them hundreds of little things that are not really human but they still
kind of are this is confusing let's backtrack a bit we know that you're made up of trillions
of little things you see that entering philosophy here we go we're back made from more little things
that are constantly changing together all those little things are not static but Dynamic their
composition and condition is changing constantly so we might just be a self-sustaining pattern
without clear borders that gained self-awareness at some point and now has the ability to think
about itself through time and space but ready only exists in this exact very moment
where did this pattern start with your conception when the first human arose when life first began
conquering our small planet or when the elements that make up your body were forged in a star our
human brains evolved to deal with absolute the fuzzy borders that make up reality are hard to
grasp maybe ideas like beginning and end life and death what do you guys think do you think um
reality is fuzzy like that or do you think there are some absolute fundamental truths going on
maybe ideas that make up reality continues to ruin my life maybe I did did you see
that with a bird's head it's like beginning and end life and death I'm a data scientist
and and more pessimistic than most on how close we are to AGI but I do think it will eventually
change everything I kind of agree with you like um you know how I constantly say I varying degrees of
certainty might it's always changing and so AGI and how soon it comes like that whole Singularity
even though it's the worst term I really have no idea I mean I hope it's in the next 10 years I
think you could be right and it could actually be way longer who really knows you're off squeak good
night squeak 11 p.m so early what's AGI artificial general intelligence so like so like uh something
made out of maybe silicon but it's like human intelligence it can think it's like sentient
I have school but I'm not sure if that's the definition uh like I don't think the definition
of AGI necessarily has sentience if that's even a real thing right maybe all humans are is Agi
you know this sentence is not even a real thing you've got school yeah best get some sleep my man
you have a good rest you and me already not absolute [ __ ] nice but ideas belonging to
a fluent pattern a pattern that is lost in this strange and beautiful universe
the problem of who we are isn't just a question of ourselves but it's also a question of our
minds just as our cells can be divided and separated from us so can our very brains be
divided and separated from us while still in the skull click here to go to my channel
and why we did watch this one it was brilliant it blew my mind as well split my mind in half
it was a better way to put it um that was another good video um so I hope you guys enjoyed that one