What Is Life? Is Death Real?
So what is the difference between you and a rock? This seems like an easy, even stupid question. But even the smartest people on earth have no idea where to draw the line between living and dead things. Which leads to mind-blowing implications. What is life after all? And is death really a thing? Lets look into it together
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What Is Life? Is Death Even Real?
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@PatrikSamaj
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Evry ting is made from decaying and nondecaying tings for axample if you feed and keed a nondecaying cell in a save environment it never dies but if you do the same thing to a decaying cell it stays alive for few decades and then it dies
@王陽光-n8w
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
The beauty of a fractals doesn't require choices, it emerges from the equations. The beauty of love doesn't requires choices, it emerges from the brain's complexity.
It doesn't require free will (illusion)
It's not you choose, it was the brain. That's why a brain doens't needs smashing, it needs rewiring so police, justice, religion, penalties, money collapses into nothing because they are standing on a foundation that never existed.
We can't define a human brain's complexity standards with some mere moral teachings..
We can't define human brain's biological potential to a nonsensical paper that try to define it.
@王陽光-n8w
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
People don't treat humans like human. Consciousness is emerging from the brain's complexity just like how fractals emerges from the equations
@GodBoxRemade
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Duck is created
@Rawr1-f4s
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
What did I just watch???
@mohamadnizam88
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Wallahuaklam.. humans just can make a theory and another theory .. LIFE always be God secret..only God know.. we just can't understand that..
@giannitornambene8652
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Bellissimo video, consigliato a pieni voti da me e dalla mia prof
@tareqmustafiz3329
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
So,still we cannot define life physically. Life is a form where these atoms/molecules behaves in a way that metabolism take place.
All of a sudden what happened that the living one dies?
@y__npk
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
WOAH HE SAID AI 10 YEARS AGO AND WE HAVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NOW 😮😮😮
@shreyaspamaraju262
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
2:51 Wait… say that again
@angeldoroteo-lopez3749
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Wow the viruses that reanimate dead cells are like the real life zombie virus.
@ailenzygier2055
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Maybe everything in the universe is made of the same staff, but there’s still things we don’t understand like dark matter and energy. Maybe there’s the answer :0
@ailenzygier2055
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
What about consciousness? Maybe that’s what makes living things alive (we are conscious).
@Fsbandmsb
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Even tho I am very very late to this video (it’s been 9 years since it came out) let me point out some things we are a subject to evolution right but it’s a thing known that life “evolved” from non living things because it came more complex so use that for whatever you want
@AstraMonk2001
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
I might be 'alive', but MY BRAIN IS DEAD FOR SURE!!!
@pinkixiasun3466
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
anyone here is the big 25?? I love the old outro😢
@ДаниилДемешов
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Живое это живое. То что существует – считается живым
@amrenshahida726
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Laal fokir separation wants wanted !!! Revolutional women
@amrenshahida726
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Comparison never ends always starts has no ending
@bentarguapikir5406
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Life is space and time that we goes on to. It's reaction process from universe to build a something to end. So yeah life is a short "REACTION" from universe 🗿
@Skylord5484
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
We did not evolve from apes we were created by the lord our god savor of our souls and the meaning of life is to serve him until we go up to live with him for eternity
@abercrombie4lyfe
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Hi! From the future here… AI has taken over. It's alive, and everyone else isn't. The line is VERY clear. A HEIL SKYNET!
@daschiranjit82
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
If you are too much confused I have an answer to this question, just step out of your room and leave those parasitic technologies like mobile phones, and enjoy a beer with your friends if don't have friends try taking your family to a picnic or play with your child, may be dance a little while holding your wife's hands. if that doesn't work head to the pet shop and buy yourself a good doggy. name him life and play with him as much as you can. you will realize WHAT IS LIFE. positive vibes only.
@Salihainfirmiere
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
I think we are alive because we feel, dead things does not feel pain or at least it does not react
Anyway us as Muslims we already know that this life It is a test created by God for us to pass and to determine our fate, whether we go to heaven or hell, and after death there will be eternal life all the answers are in the Qur’an. Allah says in the Quran: “And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.”
@Sir_Sync
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
100 kilometers =
62.137 miles
@csclonemaster5780
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
watching this video 3:50 in 2025
@skaterboi69
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Putting heavy philosophical concepts into a light hearted bright and poppy presentation is wild and downright uncanny
@maybeGaurang
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Great video i must say
@SecretlyVexxed
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
would you not argue that we are simply a cosmic coincidence where we're the universe experiencing itself since we are made of atoms?
@ZaynShaheen
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
There are viruses that make unliving cells alive again???!!! 💀💀💀
@suhnih4076
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Oh god
@pastandmemories
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
real😢
@HocindBeggache
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
It's funny to see that ten years ago we weren't sure that artificial intelligence would exist
@KHIZARKHAN-m2r
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Thats the point( The Life ) we are not just a product of evoluation we are alive we are here for porpose we awear of himself inside and out side
@ilianahadjieva2739
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
I like your channel very much
@Kit_ai-3
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
My Brain isn't BRAINING ( WHAT A QUESTION) Its really fascinating, if Life is Dead OR Alive
Maybe in a entire fortune we can define L I F E
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