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NEW VIDEO: WHY ARE YOU ALIVE?
🕑 Added 2020-05-10 12:39:11 +0000 UTCAt this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably donβt feel it, but there is an incredible amount of activity going on inside you. And this activity can never stop. Picture yourself as a slinky falling down an escalator moving upwards β the falling part represents the self replicating processes of your cells, the escalator represents the laws of physics, driving you forwards. To be alive is to be in motion but never arriving anywhere. If you reach the top of the escalator there is no more falling possible and you are dead forever. Somewhat unsettlingly, the universe wants you to reach the top. How do you avoid that and why are you alive?
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Ernando De Souza Silva
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Such a good video. a good talk raise more questions ,and this one raises a bunch of interesting ones. I think existential angst is a powerful fuel for thinking and so many people are afraid of it .the fear of existential angst is the source of all ignorance.
Another very nice video :) Looking forward to the Entropy video!
As a biochemist too, i completely agree with you. However, we have to think that those videos are made for non-specialist. Sometimes to teach basics you have to alter reality just a bit to not lose the important message. If you explain DNA genes to students by first talking about ncRNA regulations, enhancers/silencers regions and topologically associating domains they will get confused and lost.
I think that is one of my favorite Kurzgesagt videos, partially because I find that entire field of science hard to grasp but this explanation was amazing and I am looking forward to the rest of the explanations
Ali Burak ΓZKAYA
Great video, as usual. However I have some objections as a biochemist. First mitochondria do not consume glucose but semi-oxidized products of lipids and glucose. Therefore it is dependent on cytoplasmic metabolic reactions (glycolysis) to function as an energy producing unit. Secondly carbohydrates (sugar molecules) are stored on almost all cells but not much in adipocytes (fat cells). Fat cells store lipids (as the name suggests) which can be broken down to produce energy in mitochondria but cannot be used to synthesize carbohydrates.
saviga
great! i've seen tardises and green daleks from doctor who all over your videos! can you make a dr. who video? no rush!
Abhorsen Ailin
My kiddos were fascinated by the new video! I was a little concerned about the potential for existential angst, but I may have shown them just enough science videos over the years to have inured them to concepts like entropy.
David Patterson
the joy of waking up to a friendly email notification with a punch of existential verve WHY ARE YOU ALIVE? thanks Kurzgesagt
Paula Patzova
love it!
Samir Jain
I'm deaf. When do english scripted captions go up?
Same, I backtracked just to make sure I heard right!
LonMcGregor
Life's ultimate goal is to defeat entropy. Yet humans spend a lot of time acting as agents of entropy, inviting it. Another neat video, but I don't like the existential angst they seem to bring out of me.
Good question
Riz
I had to pause for a whole minute as my brain wrestled with reality at that one line about 5 and a half minutes in. I've associated your voice with distilled information and I definitely did NOT see that coming... Good laugh though!
not the best video u've made but still a nice easy explanation. and the CUTEST graphics!
Thimothy Lavaert
Random question why does the email notification always say new patron-only video when it's always public at the same time ? :P
