How Simple Cells Learned to Build Impossible Life

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• EM

  @Emergent_Behaviour · 8 months ago (edited)

  I recorded human brain cancer cells for 7 days. Just left them alone for a whole week under the microscope in a simple dish. They started as noise - then suddenly assembled into giant moving collectives. These multicellular structures started to crawl around, sometimes even competing between one another for cells to devour and make them part of themselves. &nbsp;It is stunning.<br>If you feel excited about emergent collective properties of living systems, you can have a look. I published it recently on my channel

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• RO

  @robertcanastra2288 · 8 months ago

  This guy is freaking incredible. He covers the gamut from the emergence of life to an understanding of consciousness and onto the pathologies of social media. Incredible

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• BO

  @bodylabfiles · 4 months ago

  Amazing! We need to study more cells..

• DA

  @danielwalkercorasmin6688 · 8 months ago

  That’s the real mind-blower right there: this isn’t just a miracle, it’s a cosmic anomaly. Neither blind chance nor neat, tidy design really explains what we’re seeing. If it were pure randomness, the universe would be either total chaos or packed with consciousness everywhere. If it were clean design, we’d see clear purpose, order, and consistency. But instead, we get something way stranger—a universe that can wake up, but almost never does; a cosmos that can love, think, create, and wonder, but only in tiny, fragile pockets of existence. That’s not randomness. That’s not design. That’s some eerie kind of cosmic selectivity, like reality itself has the capacity for meaning but no obligation to deliver it. And that’s what makes it so damn astonishing. Not that consciousness exists—but that it’s rare, costly, and wildly improbable. Awareness doesn’t just spill out of matter. Love doesn’t naturally rise from physics. Meaning doesn’t automatically grow out of energy. Yet here we are—not as the rule, not as the norm, but as the exception. A freak cosmic accident that somehow learned to feel, to think, to care, to ask why. And honestly? That mystery goes deeper than any explanation we can build, because we’re not just observing it—we’re made of it. We’re inside the puzzle, shaped by it, limited by it, with no choice but to live within a mystery we can never fully step outside of or fully understand.

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• MI

  @mikemcaulay9507 · 8 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irnOHYCgjts&amp;t=4188">1:09:48</a> I can fully appreciate why this could get &quot;philosophically uncomfortable,&quot; particularly for certain brands of philosophy. At 53 years old, this is what I&apos;ve settled on. Our existence is the ongoing complex set of interactions between our past experiences and how our system observes our environment. Riding the experience of emergence has allowed me to lean into the &quot;wisdom&quot; of all those complex internal brain activities surfacing as something that feels like life. Like making choices, like loving, like choosing to treat others well, and showing kindness. In the end, for me, it&apos;s not the how that matters (though it does increase my sense of wonder). What seems to matter to me is that there is a consistency in how I live that aligns with what I perceive as my core values and beliefs.

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• LU

  @lucasgreiner4358 · 8 months ago

  One of the best videos

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• DR

  @DREAMLANDSCIENCE · 8 months ago

  The idea that simple rules could become the architecture of everything alive is absolutely mind-blowing

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• RI

  @richardg.lanzara3732 · 8 months ago

  Great! We also need to know how cells began to sense their environment (See: &quot;Origins of Life&apos;s Sensoria&quot;).

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• SG

  @SG-ue8ph · 8 months ago

  this was so helpful for me to think about emergence. thank you!

• AL

  @AlEndo01 · 2 months ago

  Wonderful narrative. &nbsp;But it would be MUCH better if the visuals bore at least some relationship to what is being said. &nbsp;How hard can it be?

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• TO

  @TontonMacoute · 8 months ago

  I wish the footage was more clearly tagged to the script.

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• DD

  @DDXYZ56 · 8 months ago

  This is awesome !!!!

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