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Perhaps deadpool has backup memory throughout his body. Just imagine if what we perceive as horrific skin defects as a result of his mutations are actually that his has wrinkly brain tissues under his skin backing up his brain.
Hey can you do a video on how the cw flash stops/slows the rotation of the earth. Like the speed and its effect and what would happen if you slowed the frickin Earth's rotation. Like c'mon seriously
Theory: deadpool's ability to regenerate memories comes from his ability to break the fourth wall. Healing factor makes the new brain cells but fourth wall break connects them with the information that he is deadpool and what deadpool is.
Good theory. In the 616 universe, it was speculated by beast that wolverine recovered memory after severe head trauma via either a cellular memory, or an extra dimensional database (a cloud, if you will). Since deadpool derives his healing factor directly from wolverine's his psychosis might have been derived from his attachment to this other dimension, without Logan's adaptive mutations to quell the increased stimulation. This could even explain deadpool's severe memory problems, as he can't differentiate memories between his dimension and ours.
When he dropped the pen, it made a vibration (a noise) which means the void has a floor. That means the void is in 3 Dimensional space and could be in some type of parallel of pocket universe. Anyway, nice video
Deadpool's constant head injuries has been used by writers to explain his memory loss and mental problems. Making it easier to retcon his history on occasion.
That plus various funky Weapon-X related doctors using drugs to do it. After Secret Empire and Deadpool's actions there (including killing Phil Coulson) he even wiped his own memories by ODing on those same drugs to punish himself when no one else could do it.
Not exactly retcon his history so much as he can't remember his own history so makes stuff up about his own history to fill gaps and lost memories. His brain is a patchwork of patch jobs . It also explains his multiple personality disorder, remnants and partial memories of previous versions of his brain.
Maybe his ability to see past the fourth wall is what lets him restore his memory since he could see literally his entire past, as well as alternate pasts made by the various artists only reinforcing his shattered psyche that much more.
While it doesn't make sense for "regular" healing powered characters like Wolverine to be able to retain memories from a newly re-formed brain, Deadpool is in a totally different group. DP has 4th wall breaking powers that allow him to have an awareness that extends beyond conventional memory. 4th wall breaking allows him to have access to the collected knowledge/memories of all comics, social media, etc. In essence, the answer to all of DP's abilities is: Because Deadpool.
You're assuming deadpool's fourth wall break is something that is natural. This was a development due to the "treatment" he received to obtain his regeneration. So it's a learned ability. If deadpool looses his memory due to decapitation, then he may forget he had fourth wall breaking abilities.
He would actually regrow another body as seen on Deadpool 2 when he tried to commit suicide by blowing himself up. The head was the only thing seen left behind though but its guaranteed that he can regrow his body.
@@Danilego probably both, which is another big issue with deadpools regenerative abilities in general. if, in theory, any of his cells were spontaneously able to dedifferentiate and redifferentiate into any type of cell needed, while physiological ressources like biomass or energy are apparently never an issue for him to begin with, then every time you cut off any part of wade wilsons body, both of these parts would over time regrow into a full wade wilson. regardless of which of the parts was bigger, or which one had the head attached to it, yadda yadda. so by cutting up deadpool you would essentially just multiply him -.- you could go even further and say that under such circumstances, any time he shed a skin cell (which as kyle points out happens non-stop) each and every one of these skin cells could potentially grow into a full deadpool clone. hed literally be the the living organism equivalent of metastasizing cancer. which kind of makes sense, in a way, as thats exactly the kind of disease that was mutated into becoming his superpower.
@@erbgorre Maybe his second superpower prevents shenanigans like that, maybe he can break the forth wall just to make sure that shit like that doesn't happen and there continues to be a cool story ;)
I always thought about that. Especially with vampires and their healing. I was like "ok they can heal up, but wonder if they take a bullet to the head and it completely destroys the part of the brain that stores memories. Would they come to not knowing what or who they were thus resulting in essentially a rabid animal?" For example we see numerous vampires shot in the head numerous times with wooden bullets in the vampire diaries..
It's not the same thing, but let's consider a funny thing that happens with caterpillars. When they undergo metamorphosis in their chrysalis, they don't just grow wings and antennae and all the fun butterfly things on top of their body. They break down into goo, a totally unstructured mass of cells, before starting a butterfly from scratch. And yet despite this, it's been shown that butterflies actually have memories from when they were caterpillars. The caterpillars are given a shock while exposed to a stimulus, and the butterflies show fear when exposed to the same stimulus after metamorphosis. The caterpillar learned, and the butterfly remembered. But how can that be? We have no idea. Maybe the caterpillar goo isn't as unstructured as we thought, or maybe some things--fears, instincts, emotions--are stored on a more fundamental level, possibly even the cellular level. Wade probably wouldn't remember his life or many of the skills he learned, but he might know not to touch burning hot things. It would be a fascinating study of which behaviors are generated through what processes, and how much of our functioning is structural or even genetic.
In insect metamorphosis the nervous system is preserved but most of the larval body is broken down. Along the body there are structures called imaginal discs, which are what actually grow to form the adult stage body.
Yup, you're right. I said something simillar in my post about for example - people who have their heart transplanteted can gain access to memories and skills that they never had before. I personally know an old woman and she had a heart transplantation (it was a heart of anti-terrioris police officer - you know, something like SWAT but from Poland) and she rapidly changed her habits and started being more agressive and stubborn - "military - like". Take this under your consideration, lads! Greets from Poland!
What if Deadpool’s cells sort of each have their own “memory”? Each individual cell knowing the genetic composition of every other cell in order for him to regenerate from a single cell. Is there any other way that might be possible? Btw love the show Kyle.
Hi Kyle, I love your channel and all your sci-nerd content, it's great to have a nice source of scientific thinking on TH-cam. Nevertheless, as a Psychologist and researcher I have to point a minor mishap in this episode. When you display the neurons in the back of the void and they start to interact with each other, the synaptic potential travels back and forth through the axons, but that's not right since the neutral activity always travel in just one direction, from the neuronal body through the school to the synaptic button, where the neurotransmitters are finally released. I hope you do more content relating psychological and neuro-behavioural sciences. *Crosses fingers hoping to be awarded as a Supernerd!!!*
Hey Kyle, love the show! Here's a thought. How does Wade even retain memories in the first place? Wouldn't his regeneration prevent new neural pathways from forming the same way that it "heals" any other new bodily change? It isn't selective, they can't get tattoos or piercings, so why would the brain keep changing as he learns new things, when his body is locked in the same state it was when he aquired his healing ability. Wouldn't he just be like 50 First Dates and every day is the day after his last day before abilities? Just a....thought.
That’s sorta how I always pictured vampires. For example if one became a vampire while obese, they would heal to stay that way, because “conditioning” and “working out” is literally destroying your body so that it repairs differently.
Kyle I came upon this episode as I was researching this eerie phenomenon of some people claiming to recall past lives or having knowledge their parents or grandparents possess but they never studied. In this I have read studies that seem to link people who have a natural talent for things to the fact their parents or grandparents or so on became a master of that thing. The percentages of people being talented at, say, playing the piano, were higher among those who had an ancestor, usually fairly recent in the family tree, though not always, than those who had no such ancestor. Also there very well documented cases of people getting organ transplants and suddenly exhibiting a talent or aptitude or interest for something the donor was good at but they themselves never practiced or studied. A man in Paris, for example, got a heart transplant from a famous artist and shortly ever started being able to paint very well and in the style of the donor. Also a guy who builds ships donated a liver to a guy who ended up shortly after being able to draw prints up for ships that guy worked on. Its being studied if memories or other kind of "mental" data can be genetically stored. Is it possible Deadpool could have some advanced mutant version of this that could allow him to regenerate his memories?
if deadpool's head is blown up, he regrows it from his body. if his body is blown up he regrows it from his head. but if his head is simply cut off his body, which part is regrown and how does his cells know which to regrow? as for deadpool's memories... my theory as to how he could "regrow" them... maybe his power could also record the memories and when the brain regrows his power replaces those memories. (like, maybe his power stores memories within each cell as a kind of redundant backup system)
Originally he could only regen if the head was reconnected but the grow back regen is more recent and he grow from the largest piece of his body depending where the head is and how he was dissected. So if his head cut off he grows his head, if hes diagonally / he would grow from the head half down, it's never really shown how he grows from an explosion but I assume it would be either from his head or the largest piece of torso with spinal cord intact
10:13 Don't worry Kyle three (you may not remember all this, but you had a life before this, but have been reset twice by decapitation), you never were able to leave the void voluntarily.
If I remember well, Deadpool's regenerative powers will only regenerate him to his exact physical state at the time his powers were gained. That's why his burns don't regenerate, because those scars were already there when he gained regeneration. Taking that into consideration, I believe that his brain would be returned to the way it was at that time, his memories included. But hey, Mistress Death might have something to do with it too :)
If I were writing a Deadpool comic in which Wade had to regrow his head, AND I wanted him to actually retain his memories, there is a way that it could be explained, albeit Ad Hoc. The Merc With The Mouth™ would need basically a "Backup Drive", an organ or organelle which would take the information in his brain and how it is configured, then copy that structure into something that was both Writable and Readable. One way is to give Wade a "Second Brain" (Which I would yield to temptation and place this "Second Brain" directly in his butt). However the "Second Brain" is inelegant, instead I think DNA is a better solution. Inside Wade's body I would place an Organelle (probably named The Pensieve, though I'd probably be sued) which could write information using Adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine; the four nucleotides found in DNA... however this DNA would not be used to proscribing proteins and other instructions, No, much like how computer code works, it's not the building blocks of information that is important, but How it is read! The Pensieve would take Wade's neural connections and transcribe those connections into a DNA-like-structure, then when his head is removed and the protobrain is being rebuilt, The Pensieve then reads back this information and communicates to the brain how to reorganize itself. Of course this process is not flawless and wouldn't be instantaneous, DP would most likely have amnesia for a short while, and his memories would slowly return to him over the course of the story as The Pensieve slowly but surely read the DNA-like-structure and reprogrammed his fledgling brain; giving him flashbacks and memory dumps as new information is written into his brain. And that is how I would use SCIENCE in the most overly complicated manner in order to recreate one of the dumbest tropes in fiction, *Identity Amnesia:* tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdentityAmnesia CHECK PLEASE! $$$
so basically cell from dragon ball z. he has a little organ like thing (that i believe moves around his body but i could be miss remembering that), and so long as that isnt destroyed he is able to fully regenerate with his memories. actually having that be the case with deadpool would explain what ever body part he regrows from, since sometimes his head being chopped off can result in either his head growing a new body or his body growing a new head
Actually, oddly enough, from an evolutionary stand point, it makes perfect sense to put a Backup Brain that stores kind of the overview of his life in his butt. With the brain and the backup brain far away from each other, it would be less likely for them both to be damaged. But, this gets ever more interesting in a few million years. Lets face it, the homo sapiens will have been wiped out and all that will be left on the toxic wasteland known as earth will be the homo deadpoolians. These homo deadpoolians will probably have advanced and evolution would have created multiple backup brains scattered across the body, each storing the same general overview of the organisms life and each being more tightly packed and smaller. A side effect of the homo deadpoolians multiple backup brains, however, will be that whenever a limb is cutoff, if that limb has a back up brain in it, the limb will grow a new homo deadpoolian and the original will grow an arm and have made a friend. These homo deadpoolians will be capable of creating enormous tribes of themselves and will be able to wipe off the last of the homo sapiens.
I think the problem with that is, what is the language that the connectome is encoded in? To rebuild the information in the brain, you'd have to encode the position of each neuron in the three dimensional space of the skull and then you'd have to encode all the connections. The human genome has 3x10^9 base pairs. The human brain has 1x10^10 neurons and we're going to need three times that for an x, y and z coordinates so 3x10^10. So far so good, we only need a structure ten times the size of a cell's nucleus to hold that information in DNA. The problem is that there are also 1x10^14 synaptic connections in the brain. So now we need a structure 33,333 times the size of a cell nucleus to store that DNA. In total 33,343 times the size of a cell nucleus. That still doable since the cell nucleus is only 6 micrometers in diameter. -However it would be about 20 cm in diameter! That would be a chunky bulge in Deadpool's pants!- Edit: oops, no I should be doing volume, not diameter. Ok it's tiny, only .0037 cubic millimeters for volume. It didn't make sense that it would be that big, 33,343 human cells wouldn't be that big. The real problem would be in reading and writing all that DNA. A normal human cell has about 2 meters of DNA in it. This back up brain's DNA would be 66.6 kilometers long! I can't find a speed that a cell can read DNA but if we figure the fastest a human cell can divide as the base time for reading the genome then it takes 20 hours to read 2 meters or 1 meter in 10 hours. It would take 76 years to read all that DNA! The read process could be done in parallel and maybe it wouldn't matter what order it was read in, but you'd have to shuttle that information up into the brain where the cells would have to write each bit just to find their spot and what connections to make. Each cell would have to sift through the copies of the DNA to find their place and how to grow. Thats when the real slow down would occur. You could produce multiple copies to make it easier to find the part you want to read but that will just lengthen the replication time. -The other problem is that all that copied DNA will also take up 20 cm diameter of space in the head! Multiple copies would only make that worse.- Edit: Yeah space wouldn't be a problem. Just the read/write times. That was a fun brain exercise! Badum bum chi!
@@emmettobrian1874 Your right. There is another way to have multiple backup brains, but it's.. ehh... complicated... and very theoretical. Our brain creates memories by "simply" storing data that we receive from our senses in the connections of neurons. Now, if all of our senses, our skin, eyes, ears, balancing-sense in our ears, EVERYTHING, sent the data they were collecting to the main brain in our head AND to the backup brains it may be possible. However, the backup brains would contain no emotions, feelings, or anything at all. They would only contain the information our senses collected of what happened, the glibber-glabber that is English, the bright light that is the sun, it would only contain the data and would not understand any of it. These backup brains, since they do not contain the most complicated part of our brain, the emotions and feelings withing, would be significantly smaller. Let's say this homo deadpoolians arm was cut off. In the arm was a backup brain. This backup brain has all the information of the senses of the original body in it. The original body would grow back it's arm and "re-upload" everything back into that arm's backup brain. The arm on the other hand, would begin to grow a new body. It would take weeks. But, once the body and brain is fully developed, what would happen is that the new organism's main brain would get all of the pure memories, without emotions, from the arm's backup brain. The main brain would process all of these new memories, kind of like a baby growing up but in hyperspeed, it would still take weeks though. After a long time, the new organism would understand who he was from these pure memories, and then would develop the proper emotions attached to those memories, because it is basically a clone of the original homo deadpoolian. After that, there would be two homo deadpoolians. However, after the arm was cut off, the new homo deadpoolian would not have the weeks of memories that the original had. So, they would be near-perfect clones, but effectively individual organisms at the same time.
Bro the *best* Deadpool fourth wall break is when Professor X looked into Deadpool's mind and was instantly rendered catatonic....idk if that is a fourth wall break in a literal sense but you catch my drift
One could argue that since deadpool can remember things from between taking lethal damage and coming back, notably any of the mistress death stuff, that he actually has an additional ability that keeps his memories independent of his body. This deadpool exists beyond his body which is a meat puppet that he reinhabits after it has repaired enough. This fourth wall breaking is actually an extension of his ability to store memory beyond his body
Would it be possible for Deadpool to have a copy of his memories stored with epigenetics? This could allow his brain to regrow with the same neutron connections in place as defined by the epigenetic information in his cells. It could also be how Deadpool breaks the 4th wall, if all information about Marvel were somehow preprogrammed into his epigenetic memories.
A few points: 1.If he had to regenerate his head can someone explain how he would get the energy needed in his body since he cant eat any longer and how much energy(food) he would need to regenerate even a finger at that rate. 2. If his body would know not to lay down scar tissue when his head was decapitated doesnt that mean that when he regenerated his limbs for example he would no longer have the scar tissue over the part that was regenerated thus fixing his uglynes problem?
1. comic book logic is how. Being serious now, fat, muscle, bone, kidney, then anything else, will be sacrificed to do so. 2. The extremely quickly multiplying cancers would fix that beautification at roughly the same rate as it regenerates.
The same question would apply to any super hero but technically he could convert co2 into carbon and use that to build most of the mass out of the air. You know, like a tree.
His ugliness isnt caused by scar tissue its cancer. Tumors. They'd regrow as fast as the rest of him. Maybe faster as cancer cells multiply faster than normal cells. Which in turn might be part of where his fuel comes from as cancer cells are just normal cells basically multiplying out of control. His body could be consuming the cancer to fuel his abilities. Also deadpool can put away an insane ammount of food perhaps as a consequence of his regenerative abilities
Favourite episode (I'm biased, it's my topic, I have also loved the whole series). Hey Kyle, you are correct in every particular. I would add one really useful analogy: The data for a hand sits recorded in the DNA of every cell in your body, so when the salamander regrows a paw, that is led by data in a simple way ('simple'). Memory is an architecture of associative connections. Acquired physical connections with acquired biochemical variances that govern ion channels, firing rates etc, etc. Beyond that acquired structure of connectivity and coactivation, there is no independent record of the architecture, so there is no data to reference when rebuilding a mind. DNA can make a new hippocampus and can put it in the right place, as a base structure that's primed to respond to certain stimuli and experiences. Nothing other than lived experience (or a Star Trek teleporter?) can specify the network of connectivity within that hippocampus to regrow memories. Great work as always. You're my favourite.
@@duardor2027 not really, they are just helping kill a common misconception. Envy, is wanting what someone else has. You envy better looking, richer, and more skilled people. Jealousy is fear, fear of losing what you have. You a jealous of your girlfriend and her new _guy friend_ or maybe jealous of someone better at your job than you, afraid you might be fired and them promoted. They are two very different things, jealousy typically comes from fear, anger, and anxiety. Envy is a feeling of emptiness, of wanting, and coveting. To envy someone can be to see them as maybe unworthy of what they have because you think you deserve it, you feel entitled to it. Hope that helps clarify.
Hey, shouldn't your head be hairless like Deadpool after regenerating your head and not just have hair style changing every time. I have so much to say yet I don't know if I should. This is my first comment on youtube, I think. Been a long time.
Theory #2: The Marvel universe is all a computer simulation, and Wade keeps his memories via digital backups. Preferably backups in the cloud, only because then I could assume actual clouds are just memory storage.
The limits of the regeneration by looking at real world animals capable of regeneration has been covered in a previous episode. Go check it out. But the short answer is… the full extent of his regeneration as shown in the comics is already beyond the scope of reality. So the answer would be yes, if the authors need it to work that way. 🤓
This was Lobo's original power, he was made as an over the top parody of Wolverine largely so his regen was so that if he even bled, each drop of blood would grow a new Lobo, who all would then battle it out while screaming "bastich" at each other until only one true Lobo remained. This power was removed later by Vril Dox, son of Brainiac. For Deadpool, the times he's been decapitated he has always later had the head reattached, so it's unclear. The one time it was believed to have happened with Agent X (an amnesiac very similar to Deadpool) it turned out a freak incident had melded their powers and personalities instead... So it's still unknown.
I've always assumed that if Deadpool was decapitated, he would just pick up his severed head and place it on his shoulders and regrow the neck. So by reattaching the severed head to the body, Deadpool would avoid having to regenerate a new head. That's what I have always thought on this topic. This would always avoid having to worry about losing memories, as Deadpool would just be reattaching his severed, not re-growing a new one. Does that make sense? Great video, keep up the good work. Have a nice day/night.
I would think the reattaching a limb is possible. For instance, in the second deadpool, it is weakly implied that DP is able to do this. I derived this from the scene where Colossus is dragging DP's "parts" to the mansion and in the next scene he is whole. This may have just been movie magic with some time compression and he actually just regrew his body cause the mouth was still working in the bag.
One could have one's head exploded, or have the amputation at the brain level rather than the neck level. Then you still have problems with nerve regeneration and memory loss. Sure, a neck can be regrown, but there are other ways to have one's brain damaged. :-(
There was a story line where a crazy person loved wade so much she saved body parts of his witch had their own healing factor and when put together they made a new deadpool with all his memories, (atleast everything that the head had experienced untill decapitation i assume) but was mentally more missed up than the original deadpool
But Kyle, if dp for some reason regenerated not only on the cellular but the atomic level as well, wouldn't he also regenerate his memories as well? It is an exact atomic copy after all.
Actually in one comic thor turns deadpool into ashes whit other guy, who's name i don't want to remember, and both of them come back in a single body, kind of mixing both personalities and memories
Memories are electric signals passing through the brain. If regrown, the neurons are new, so they don't have the ability to regenerate the electric signals
mabey in the future deadpool can upload his memory by wi fi and then regrow a head with the same memories like in nier automata(but in nier automata is a new body being with the same memories)
Here is some thought food, when superheroes regenerate almost immediately like in wolverine, deadpool, attack on titan, etc they shouldn't have hair or fingernails, but somehow they do. Think about it, they regenerate and create new cells but pilling up dead cells is a different process and if you say that the regeneration process, lets say of a limb, includes a combination of creating and killing new cells and then stacking them up then that would mean that they would grow their hair and nails everytime they heal, but that isn't the case. Somehow their hair and fingernails always grow up to a comfortable point. Does their healing factor somehow know how long a fingernail or every hair thread should be? That's without mentioning the amount of bacteria that don't form part of their DNA so they shouldn't be able to regenerate them and that their bodies need for digestion. They would have stomach ache and malnutrition for months
Hey Kyle, love the show and happy holidays. If deadpool was to lose his head and regenerate it the matter to grow a new head would have to come from somewhere. So his body would need fuel(food) to get the biomass needed to regenerate his head....so does that mean his headless body is taking in food down the hole where his esophagus would be? I mean without a jaw, he would have to survive off a easily digestible food that does not require chewing(because no teath). The mental image of a headless body feeding itself by pouring food down its neck hole is....well messy.
He could be converting other cells (biomass) from other parts of his body to regrow bodyparts. The human body doesn't directly use all nutrients that you eat. A lot of it gets stored in the form of fat. If you don't eat for a while, the body will start to consume fat reserves to keep itself going. But normal humans mostly consume fat as a source of energy. So what if Deadpool has body fat that essentially work as stem cells instead? That way he could regrow a bodypart without having to "eat it back" first. However, he would probably feel extremely hungry afterwards.
I remember an experiment that involved training the regenerating worms something, then basically liquefying them and allowing them to regenerate, and their memories seemed to come through, even though the structures of the nervous system had completely disappeared.
If you decapitate Deadpool, does his body grow a new head, or does his head grow a new body? For that matter, what if you split him down the middle vertically? Would you get 2 Deadpools like a fluke work? Is deadpool a fluke worm?
To take it a bit further: where does regeneration start? Is it at the level of organs? Cellular? If it's organs, then I agree with your question. But if it's cellular, by which I mean that individual cells regenerate, then every blood splatter from a bullet wound eventually becomes a new Deadpool...if you ignore the inherent problems of basic biology needing "building blocks" like proteins and carbohydrates to actually function.
He would need a part of his body as the core of his regeneration for that not to happen, right? Maybe something so small that it doesn't get easily destroyed too, considering the punishment he takes. A core cell or what not.
The part that can regenerate would need enough energy to survive until enough of the digestive system is restored that DP can take in more nutrients. So if a severed hand or splatter of blood started regeneration… it would likely “starve” to death before completing a full Deadpool. But what if Deadpool gave a blood transfusion. Would the DP blood derive enough nutrients from the recipient’s system to continue to regenerate? Would it eventually overtake the recipient and turn them into Deadpool? Or would Deadpool start regeneration inside of them until he becomes big enough to burst forth from their chest like a xenomorph?
This reminds me of something that happens in the anime "Ajin". In one part, the protagonist (who is inmortal) is captured by a guy who is hunting him down. He says he can't kill him, but he can do something similar: to cut off his head, so all that makes him who he is dies (severed parts don't regenerate), while the body regenerates a new one, with a completely different personality and memories
Hello sir from Australia, first time commenting but I believe I have a way for Deadpool to retain his memory even with his head being removed from his body. You see as Deadpool has the ability to break the forth wall and communicate and interact with us, the reader/viewer he is able to see is past through the life's he has lived there fore being able to regain those lost memory's. Not to mention that he, himself has stopped time in a comic/T.V/animation to address the audience and has even looked back and forward in his own comic pages to see what happened or what comes next. So with that being said I believe that the moments before he loses his head he "flips" to the next part of his story and either gives his "new self" his memory's or after reforming his own head he goes back a panel or screen to see and interact with his past self to reform those lost memory's. The only other thing I can think of is if Deadpool after losing his head, talks to the writer of his comic/show to see what he has done in his past. I am interested to see if anyone agrees with me or have there own theory on this and thank you all for your time to read this :)
Another thing to think about is the question of consciousness. As others pointed out, he can regain memories using his ability to break the fourth wall, but would he still have that ability? Would he still be deadpool, or wade wilson, at all? Or, would he be a different person entirely. If he did lose his brain, wouldn't it stand to reason that deadpool, the current self aware version, would indeed die, and be replaced by a new entity entirely? It's basically a question of what makes you, you. Considering that 4th wall question though, I don't believe Wade Wilson would retain his ability to do that, since he would likely no longer be Wade Wilson at all on regeneration. Unless of course were all in a computer simulation and there's backups of everyone.
While it would be more probable that he deadpool would regenerate with a blank memory, there might also be a chance that his neurons - randomly connected to each other after regeneration - would make him a whole different person. That would lead to even more fun, when he dosn't get decapitated but looses only half of his brain. He could regenerate and have a lot of wrong memorys that make no sense whatsoever. That sounds like a fun Plot to me!
There's an infamous incident of an American worker that got a steel bar through his frontal lobe and a actually changed personalities in the process, becoming cold and aloof, almost like a psychopath... So such a story would have grounds in reality! Instead the result in the comics is usually similar to the knife in the skull incident in the first movie, or just the loss of motor function, though it has been used to explain Deadpool's sometimes changing personality and retcons.
Aw, I was hoping a footnote would say "But then of course, you have the head you lopped off regenerating another body, so you have two Deadpools. Or, y'know, Deadpool 2. *sunglasses*"
I know you were going off a quote from Liefeld, but I have to think it would make more sense for his head to regenerate a new body rather than the other way around. It would be interesting if he could do both, though. It would be, like, big-head/tiny-body DP riding big-body/small-head DP, like Master Blaster from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Of course, if that happened, it would beg the question: how many DPs could you have? Like, if you just kept bisecting Wade until he stopped duplicating himself. Think the brooms Mickey brings to life in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
i would love a scene in a deadpool movie where he loses half his head (idk where motor functions are controlled, but basically cut off the head in a way where this part is preserved) and proceeds to feel where his lack of head is, queue a funny one-liner about losing his head
Hey Kyle something I was thinking: would deadpool have a secondary mutation of a Solid-state Secondary brain. As the problem is that as the brain doesn't that capabilities to regrow complex memories. So he would need a Silicone based "nerve" bundle to be a black box to protect his memory. So yeah I was overthinked this. I was thinking Silicone based as it can survive a lot of what deadpool can handle.
If he had a silicon secondary brain it would need to change as his organic brain did. If it's not just some kind of hard drive and is actually biological he would probably power it through respiration. The by product of silicon respiration is SiO2, silicon dioxide otherwise known as silica sand. He'd either have to breath it out or pee it out. Both sound awful.
You know what, if Deadpool got his head separated from his body, wouldn't it make more sense to regrow the rest of his body from his head? Since his head contains the cerebellum, which is where the info on your body rests. Building new limbs would be much easier when your whole body knows which part of you is missing, and if you lost your cerebellum and grew a brand new one along with your head, you would have the movement capacity of a newborn, not just the mind. Of course, growing a body from your head would take much longer than the opposite.
I saw a page of a comic online where Deadpool was decapitated and his head was put in a coffin, probably because the rest of the body wasn't found, but instead of his head growing from his body, his body started growing from his neck.
Hey Kyle, there was a time in the comics when Wade Wilson regrew his entire body from one atom. (Theres a fun story behind it 10/10 recommend) I was wondering how difficult that would be and how long it could take realistically.
Yeah. I just got a new stomach lining and tastebuds....you jelly bro. I'm immune to butthurt it just regenerates to quickly no wahmbulance for this biological organism. 🤣
Watched a talk recently that discussed this exact scenario in those two organisms you listed - Titled: "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018". In the video Prof. Michael Levin talks about the Planerians after regenerating their entire heads were able to retain memory after they finished regrowth. He goes over much of what the understand in the whole process of how the bodies and cells themselves encode data (almost like software) that is retained and used to regenerate and retain memory and other details about how the body is formed together. He also goes over how they can even manipulate this process through drugs that block ion channels in the cell membranes so they can even grow functional eyes or even heads in places where they normal are not located.
Would he still have muscle memory? Does muscle memory actually send signals to the brain? When I was younger, they said the signals did not go to the brain, but I've seen recent studies saying they do.
Couldn't find the sources for my claims but I seem to recall that one reason why Deadpool is constantly insane is the supercancer constantly mushing is brains and his regeneration repairing the damage, one x-man or similar commented to it that Deadpool literally _changes his mind_ every 10 or so seconds. Also probably related as to why no psychic will ever try to invade his mind.
My theory is that his mind is now backed up in his cells, genetic memory if you will. I'm pretty sure they've actually determined that there is some degree of genetic memory even with mundane humans. Well, there is certainly epigentics at least, some changes that are made over the course of your life based on experiences (environmental and mental states). It's all rather a stretch of course, but not any moreso than the idea of a person regrowing whole limbs over the course of seconds/minutes/hours.
Can you regenerate muscle memory? If you were an adept swordsman and your arm was cut off, and it regenerated, would you have to re-train your reflexes with it?
@@xSlykiller I would tend to agree. I don't know how reflexes work. But I wonder if it would be akin to coming out of a cast and having to learn to use the previously immobilized limb again? (Faster than learning in the first place, but still some retraining to do.)
There's a great anime on Netflix called "Ajin: Demi-Human" about these metahumans called ajin; they are effectively immortal because they can regenerate from anything, and come back to life from any fatal wound. The only exception is if you cut their heads off, their heads dissolve and their body grows a new head, but the new head has no memories from the original head. Thus, a death of self rather than the death of the body.
Fun fact: they did an experiment on a caterpillar by playing a specific sound and then giving them an elictric shock. After a few shocks the caterpillar upon hearing the noise would flinch. Now when a caterpillar goes into a cocoon it becomes a goo substance before forming into a butterfly. So once the caterpillar became a butterfly they played the noise and the butterfly had the same reaction as the caterpillar before getting shocked. This proves that somewhere in that goo resides the caterpillars memories. (just thought that would be a fun fact to share)
90% shure Deadpool's memories have been stated to be forgotten every time his head gets destroyed and or cut off and the only reason he can remember was is 4th wall braking ability allowing him to look back in the pages and/or the whatever medium he is in and recall past events.
The weird thing about regrowing his head, is that in a lot of the comics he regrows from his head. Like in the marvel zombies run, he lived as a zombie head for a long time. And the time wade had a stalker at a mental Institute, she cut off "enough parts to make another me", as deadpool put it. Hence the birth of evilpool
Perhaps, instead of the body regrowing a head; it is the head that begins regrowing the body. Now I do understand that the head would have a finite amount of resources which may not be sufficient to regrow an entire body, but if possible, it would resolve the issue of memories becoming unrecoverable. In addition it would make sense that the head would send signals to trigger the regrowing process, rather than the body, otherwise wouldn't a severed limb (say a hand) try to grow the arm>shoulder>body>etc?
Assuming Deadpool’s brain was cut off with his head, would it really be possible to regenerate his head in the first place? His stem cells would need a signal to activate, like a hormone. A hormone would need one of the endocrine glands to activate, and they can not do that without an electrical signal from the nervous system. I maybe wrong but the only nervous system that deadpool would have left, assuming that his head was chopped off at the base of his neck, is the spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system. They act as “highways” for electrical signals going to and from the brain and outside stimuli. And before it comes up, the planarian nervous system is primitive compared to the human nervous system, so growing back a couple thousand neurons for a worm would be nowhere as complex as growing out the hundreds of billions of neurons in a human brain. How do the worms grow back their brains without a brain? They don’t really have a true brain. Their “brain” is called a ganglion, which is just a cluster of nerve cells, so in reality, a lot of the functions that we associate mammal brains of doing could in theory be done by its other nerves in its nervous system. As mentioned before, the spine in humans is used as a highway, transporting info rather than being the transmitter/receiver, so sending so starting a signal to send to the endocrine system to activate stem cells would be extremely hard for a human’s body to do. Keep it up Kyle!
so wolverine can regenerate a hand in seconds but takes deadpool hours? how long would it take for each to regenerate an entire body if u burned them both down to skeletons
anyone notice that every time when he got his head chopped his hair was always in a ponytail? I know why but i just wanted to know if anyone else noticed that.
Because of the cancer that spread to his brain, when given a healing factor from wolverine's dna, which is body based, Wade's healing factor became brain based because he still has brain cancer so it is constantly regenerating(which is why he is immune to telepathic attacks). If he was to be decapitated, he would grow a new body not a new head but wolverine would just die. But there are showings where his head has regrown from being blown off. There are also showings where he is just a head and still has control of his body.
I think because of his ability to break the fourth wall, he doesn't necessarily "store " his memory. The writer is who determines what he says, so he sort of has the brain of the writer. Some Deadpools ( from different universes) know things that other Deadpools don't, because the writers determine what he does and doesn't know. So even if his head is cut off, the writer can still have him know everything pre-decapitation.
I watched something on decapitation, I think it was "today I found out". They showed that a person can be cognitively aware for about 30 seconds after the heads roll. So imagine your head on the ground and watching your head start to regrow. (Although by the timeline it shows Deadpool's healing to happen, your old head would expire long before the new one grew.) Now the question becomes, if Deadpool could "regrow" memories, would he remember those 30 seconds of decapitation or would they be lost? Also something else comes to mind, if his head regrew a new body then his memories would still be intact, so I think it would depend on which one did the growing... The head or the body.
OK I SAW AN AXOLOTL IN THE PREVIEW SCREEN AND IM REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE I HAVE AN AXY AND I LOVE AXIES SOOOO MUCH plus deadpool is my favorite marvel character. also in case youre wondering his name is Wade, YES after Wade Wilson, YES because of the regenerative capabilities im NOT obsessed.
Couldn't Deadpool have a backup memory somewhere else in his body, maybe next to his heart (or maybe online! That would be interesting), that perfectly mirrors the connections formed in his brain memory? That way, when his body regrows the brain, it has a copy of all the neuronal connections and could regenerate his memories based on that copy.
Another explanation that I've not seen in the comments so far is that on occasion Deadpool has possessed the Continuity infinity stone, which allowed him to talk to the comic writers, and even view and alter his own continuity.
Similarly, wouldn’t you lose your memories after quantum teleportation? As I understand it - and correct me if I’m wrong - quantum teleportation basically takes all of the information of your exact composition, down to the atomic level, sends that information to a second location, and builds an exact copy of you, perfect down to the atomic level in the new location. The part that makes it teleportation, not cloning, is the fact that in order to get the precise information to create a copy of you, the only methods we have of getting information that precisely change the state of your particles, essentially destroying the old you. If you are teleporting using this method, you wouldn’t retain these same connections between neurons, since it is essentially creating a new brain, similarly to what was said in this episode. It would stand to reason that you would lose your memories.
Hey Kyle, I may be wrong since i learned this in high school and that was a while ago, but when you drew the neurons the electrical signals were animated going both directions along the axon. Isn't the axon usually sending signals and the dendrites receiving signals therefore meaning it is not a 2-way street? Of course if you consider reuptake then that may be what was shown, but I'm pretty sure that reuptake doesn't really produce electrical signals. P.s. I know it's hard to be an amazing artist and show 100% detail with markers, but you did a really good job on showing the synaptic cleft and myelin sheath on the axons. :)
Dear Kyle, my husband and I love the show. Even before we watched this episode we wondered if you would talk about butterflies which have been known to exhibit the effects of conditioning, experienced when they were caterpillars, even though the process of metamorphosis essentially destroys their caterpillar nervous systems. This would appear to show that a certain kind of memory can survive losing one's brain. It might not be episodic memory, but some kind of memory.
I think if that ever happen the writers should make it clear that in case of decapitation he will regen from head/neck down not from body/neck up or head needs to be reattach to body. This way they have cover any probable loophole/or further issues this could may cause in story etc.
The question for this is what will the "checkpoint" be as basis for regeneration. Will your super healing make you a "newborn brain" which is basically cell genesis not, regeneration...or can your super healing make a checkpoint like in games to remember how your brain connections were, prior to injury. Its kinda similar to "if you get reconstructed (eg teleportation), will you be the same person with same personality, which is yes because you were reconstructed 100% similar to how you were prior to deconstruction.
If you haven't seen Ajin, I highly reccomend it. Basically a few people in the world cant die. They will renegerate anything needed and comeback after death. The main antagonist, as a punishment for them will cut off their heads and let both the head and body grow back both needed parts. They cant tell which is the real one
Thanks for watching! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday no matter what/how/with who you celebrate. No livestreams for the rest of the year, but there will still be Footnotes and the main episodes every week (even on Christmas Day and New Year's Day!). -- kH
Perhaps deadpool has backup memory throughout his body. Just imagine if what we perceive as horrific skin defects as a result of his mutations are actually that his has wrinkly brain tissues under his skin backing up his brain.
Thank you so much for all that you do for us!!! Happy holidays!
Hey can you do a video on how the cw flash stops/slows the rotation of the earth. Like the speed and its effect and what would happen if you slowed the frickin Earth's rotation. Like c'mon seriously
Wouldn't there be a change that mr.pool just grows a new body for the head instead retaining his memories in the case it´s a clean decapitation?
Doesnt ajin touch on this?
Theory: deadpool's ability to regenerate memories comes from his ability to break the fourth wall. Healing factor makes the new brain cells but fourth wall break connects them with the information that he is deadpool and what deadpool is.
Good theory. In the 616 universe, it was speculated by beast that wolverine recovered memory after severe head trauma via either a cellular memory, or an extra dimensional database (a cloud, if you will).
Since deadpool derives his healing factor directly from wolverine's his psychosis might have been derived from his attachment to this other dimension, without Logan's adaptive mutations to quell the increased stimulation.
This could even explain deadpool's severe memory problems, as he can't differentiate memories between his dimension and ours.
I actually love this concept (and of course how the commenter above me expands on it)
I like this theory, and I will subscribe to it.
I came to say something like this, he probably reads some back issues
Pretty good theory
When he dropped the pen, it made a vibration (a noise) which means the void has a floor. That means the void is in 3 Dimensional space and could be in some type of parallel of pocket universe. Anyway, nice video
Deadpool's constant head injuries has been used by writers to explain his memory loss and mental problems. Making it easier to retcon his history on occasion.
That plus various funky Weapon-X related doctors using drugs to do it. After Secret Empire and Deadpool's actions there (including killing Phil Coulson) he even wiped his own memories by ODing on those same drugs to punish himself when no one else could do it.
Personally I think coulson had it coming. He's such a douche.
Not exactly retcon his history so much as he can't remember his own history so makes stuff up about his own history to fill gaps and lost memories. His brain is a patchwork of patch jobs . It also explains his multiple personality disorder, remnants and partial memories of previous versions of his brain.
Maybe his ability to see past the fourth wall is what lets him restore his memory since he could see literally his entire past, as well as alternate pasts made by the various artists only reinforcing his shattered psyche that much more.
While it doesn't make sense for "regular" healing powered characters like Wolverine to be able to retain memories from a newly re-formed brain, Deadpool is in a totally different group. DP has 4th wall breaking powers that allow him to have an awareness that extends beyond conventional memory. 4th wall breaking allows him to have access to the collected knowledge/memories of all comics, social media, etc. In essence, the answer to all of DP's abilities is: Because Deadpool.
Teru Kage Wrong Show - kH
Tell it to Matt Pat, I’m sure he can create a full Film Theory to explain how that power works.
Deadpool's brain exists in higher dimensions. Tesseract brain. That's why he breaks the 4th wall, he passes right through it.
@@NinjaBearFilms He already did about the time the first Deadpool movie came out.
You're assuming deadpool's fourth wall break is something that is natural. This was a development due to the "treatment" he received to obtain his regeneration. So it's a learned ability. If deadpool looses his memory due to decapitation, then he may forget he had fourth wall breaking abilities.
First time: Maximum Effort!
Second time: Max Effort.
Third time: Do... it... harder...
Last time: Why am I here?
Would he regrow another body or another head?
That's the biggest question!
I heard of a story where he did both - one of the new deadpools was evil I think.
He would actually regrow another body as seen on Deadpool 2 when he tried to commit suicide by blowing himself up. The head was the only thing seen left behind though but its guaranteed that he can regrow his body.
@@Danilego probably both, which is another big issue with deadpools regenerative abilities in general. if, in theory, any of his cells were spontaneously able to dedifferentiate and redifferentiate into any type of cell needed, while physiological ressources like biomass or energy are apparently never an issue for him to begin with, then every time you cut off any part of wade wilsons body, both of these parts would over time regrow into a full wade wilson. regardless of which of the parts was bigger, or which one had the head attached to it, yadda yadda.
so by cutting up deadpool you would essentially just multiply him -.-
you could go even further and say that under such circumstances, any time he shed a skin cell (which as kyle points out happens non-stop) each and every one of these skin cells could potentially grow into a full deadpool clone. hed literally be the the living organism equivalent of metastasizing cancer. which kind of makes sense, in a way, as thats exactly the kind of disease that was mutated into becoming his superpower.
@@erbgorre Maybe his second superpower prevents shenanigans like that, maybe he can break the forth wall just to make sure that shit like that doesn't happen and there continues to be a cool story ;)
I always thought about that. Especially with vampires and their healing. I was like "ok they can heal up, but wonder if they take a bullet to the head and it completely destroys the part of the brain that stores memories. Would they come to not knowing what or who they were thus resulting in essentially a rabid animal?" For example we see numerous vampires shot in the head numerous times with wooden bullets in the vampire diaries..
It's not the same thing, but let's consider a funny thing that happens with caterpillars. When they undergo metamorphosis in their chrysalis, they don't just grow wings and antennae and all the fun butterfly things on top of their body. They break down into goo, a totally unstructured mass of cells, before starting a butterfly from scratch.
And yet despite this, it's been shown that butterflies actually have memories from when they were caterpillars. The caterpillars are given a shock while exposed to a stimulus, and the butterflies show fear when exposed to the same stimulus after metamorphosis. The caterpillar learned, and the butterfly remembered. But how can that be?
We have no idea. Maybe the caterpillar goo isn't as unstructured as we thought, or maybe some things--fears, instincts, emotions--are stored on a more fundamental level, possibly even the cellular level. Wade probably wouldn't remember his life or many of the skills he learned, but he might know not to touch burning hot things. It would be a fascinating study of which behaviors are generated through what processes, and how much of our functioning is structural or even genetic.
In insect metamorphosis the nervous system is preserved but most of the larval body is broken down. Along the body there are structures called imaginal discs, which are what actually grow to form the adult stage body.
Yup, you're right. I said something simillar in my post about for example - people who have their heart transplanteted can gain access to memories and skills that they never had before. I personally know an old woman and she had a heart transplantation (it was a heart of anti-terrioris police officer - you know, something like SWAT but from Poland) and she rapidly changed her habits and started being more agressive and stubborn - "military - like". Take this under your consideration, lads!
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Wade would touch hot thing cause he can just make new hand
What if Deadpool’s cells sort of each have their own “memory”? Each individual cell knowing the genetic composition of every other cell in order for him to regenerate from a single cell. Is there any other way that might be possible? Btw love the show Kyle.
Hi Kyle, I love your channel and all your sci-nerd content, it's great to have a nice source of scientific thinking on TH-cam. Nevertheless, as a Psychologist and researcher I have to point a minor mishap in this episode. When you display the neurons in the back of the void and they start to interact with each other, the synaptic potential travels back and forth through the axons, but that's not right since the neutral activity always travel in just one direction, from the neuronal body through the school to the synaptic button, where the neurotransmitters are finally released.
I hope you do more content relating psychological and neuro-behavioural sciences.
*Crosses fingers hoping to be awarded as a Supernerd!!!*
"Cutting edge research..." I see what you did there.
When the pun makes the pun teller wince
What was his face after he said that lmao😂
Hey Kyle, love the show! Here's a thought. How does Wade even retain memories in the first place? Wouldn't his regeneration prevent new neural pathways from forming the same way that it "heals" any other new bodily change? It isn't selective, they can't get tattoos or piercings, so why would the brain keep changing as he learns new things, when his body is locked in the same state it was when he aquired his healing ability. Wouldn't he just be like 50 First Dates and every day is the day after his last day before abilities? Just a....thought.
That’s sorta how I always pictured vampires. For example if one became a vampire while obese, they would heal to stay that way, because “conditioning” and “working out” is literally destroying your body so that it repairs differently.
The real question is would his head grow a body or would his body grow a head 🧐🤔
It's been both in the comics.
Generally it's whichever has more mass or whichever isn't just destroyed
Both... Infinite Deadpools
@@1217BC oh god pls no!
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Cut of One head, and two More Will take its place...
@@gamershavefun8108 HAIL HYDRA!!!
Kyle I came upon this episode as I was researching this eerie phenomenon of some people claiming to recall past lives or having knowledge their parents or grandparents possess but they never studied. In this I have read studies that seem to link people who have a natural talent for things to the fact their parents or grandparents or so on became a master of that thing. The percentages of people being talented at, say, playing the piano, were higher among those who had an ancestor, usually fairly recent in the family tree, though not always, than those who had no such ancestor. Also there very well documented cases of people getting organ transplants and suddenly exhibiting a talent or aptitude or interest for something the donor was good at but they themselves never practiced or studied. A man in Paris, for example, got a heart transplant from a famous artist and shortly ever started being able to paint very well and in the style of the donor. Also a guy who builds ships donated a liver to a guy who ended up shortly after being able to draw prints up for ships that guy worked on. Its being studied if memories or other kind of "mental" data can be genetically stored. Is it possible Deadpool could have some advanced mutant version of this that could allow him to regenerate his memories?
if deadpool's head is blown up, he regrows it from his body. if his body is blown up he regrows it from his head. but if his head is simply cut off his body, which part is regrown and how does his cells know which to regrow?
as for deadpool's memories... my theory as to how he could "regrow" them... maybe his power could also record the memories and when the brain regrows his power replaces those memories. (like, maybe his power stores memories within each cell as a kind of redundant backup system)
Well, if it's like the Planarian Worms you get two Deadpools. ;-)
His memories are stored in the 4th wall
Originally he could only regen if the head was reconnected but the grow back regen is more recent and he grow from the largest piece of his body depending where the head is and how he was dissected. So if his head cut off he grows his head, if hes diagonally / he would grow from the head half down, it's never really shown how he grows from an explosion but I assume it would be either from his head or the largest piece of torso with spinal cord intact
He would just regenerate from the bigger part I hope.
@Martin Smouter Memory is stored in the balls
I do love the attention to detail in the first movie when he cut off his hand, and the way it was growing back.
10:13 Don't worry Kyle three (you may not remember all this, but you had a life before this, but have been reset twice by decapitation), you never were able to leave the void voluntarily.
Except for that whole season of the next mythbuster search. (I forget the actual title,guess that's another non-regenerating memory ;) )
If I remember well, Deadpool's regenerative powers will only regenerate him to his exact physical state at the time his powers were gained. That's why his burns don't regenerate, because those scars were already there when he gained regeneration. Taking that into consideration, I believe that his brain would be returned to the way it was at that time, his memories included. But hey, Mistress Death might have something to do with it too :)
If I were writing a Deadpool comic in which Wade had to regrow his head, AND I wanted him to actually retain his memories, there is a way that it could be explained, albeit Ad Hoc.
The Merc With The Mouth™ would need basically a "Backup Drive", an organ or organelle which would take the information in his brain and how it is configured, then copy that structure into something that was both Writable and Readable. One way is to give Wade a "Second Brain" (Which I would yield to temptation and place this "Second Brain" directly in his butt).
However the "Second Brain" is inelegant, instead I think DNA is a better solution.
Inside Wade's body I would place an Organelle (probably named The Pensieve, though I'd probably be sued) which could write information using Adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine; the four nucleotides found in DNA... however this DNA would not be used to proscribing proteins and other instructions, No, much like how computer code works, it's not the building blocks of information that is important, but How it is read! The Pensieve would take Wade's neural connections and transcribe those connections into a DNA-like-structure, then when his head is removed and the protobrain is being rebuilt, The Pensieve then reads back this information and communicates to the brain how to reorganize itself.
Of course this process is not flawless and wouldn't be instantaneous, DP would most likely have amnesia for a short while, and his memories would slowly return to him over the course of the story as The Pensieve slowly but surely read the DNA-like-structure and reprogrammed his fledgling brain; giving him flashbacks and memory dumps as new information is written into his brain.
And that is how I would use SCIENCE in the most overly complicated manner in order to recreate one of the dumbest tropes in fiction, *Identity Amnesia:*
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so basically cell from dragon ball z. he has a little organ like thing (that i believe moves around his body but i could be miss remembering that), and so long as that isnt destroyed he is able to fully regenerate with his memories. actually having that be the case with deadpool would explain what ever body part he regrows from, since sometimes his head being chopped off can result in either his head growing a new body or his body growing a new head
kinda like a parody drive as a backup server
Actually, oddly enough, from an evolutionary stand point, it makes perfect sense to put a Backup Brain that stores kind of the overview of his life in his butt. With the brain and the backup brain far away from each other, it would be less likely for them both to be damaged. But, this gets ever more interesting in a few million years. Lets face it, the homo sapiens will have been wiped out and all that will be left on the toxic wasteland known as earth will be the homo deadpoolians. These homo deadpoolians will probably have advanced and evolution would have created multiple backup brains scattered across the body, each storing the same general overview of the organisms life and each being more tightly packed and smaller. A side effect of the homo deadpoolians multiple backup brains, however, will be that whenever a limb is cutoff, if that limb has a back up brain in it, the limb will grow a new homo deadpoolian and the original will grow an arm and have made a friend. These homo deadpoolians will be capable of creating enormous tribes of themselves and will be able to wipe off the last of the homo sapiens.
I think the problem with that is, what is the language that the connectome is encoded in? To rebuild the information in the brain, you'd have to encode the position of each neuron in the three dimensional space of the skull and then you'd have to encode all the connections. The human genome has 3x10^9 base pairs. The human brain has 1x10^10 neurons and we're going to need three times that for an x, y and z coordinates so 3x10^10. So far so good, we only need a structure ten times the size of a cell's nucleus to hold that information in DNA.
The problem is that there are also 1x10^14 synaptic connections in the brain. So now we need a structure 33,333 times the size of a cell nucleus to store that DNA. In total 33,343 times the size of a cell nucleus.
That still doable since the cell nucleus is only 6 micrometers in diameter. -However it would be about 20 cm in diameter! That would be a chunky bulge in Deadpool's pants!- Edit: oops, no I should be doing volume, not diameter. Ok it's tiny, only .0037 cubic millimeters for volume. It didn't make sense that it would be that big, 33,343 human cells wouldn't be that big.
The real problem would be in reading and writing all that DNA. A normal human cell has about 2 meters of DNA in it. This back up brain's DNA would be 66.6 kilometers long! I can't find a speed that a cell can read DNA but if we figure the fastest a human cell can divide as the base time for reading the genome then it takes 20 hours to read 2 meters or 1 meter in 10 hours. It would take 76 years to read all that DNA!
The read process could be done in parallel and maybe it wouldn't matter what order it was read in, but you'd have to shuttle that information up into the brain where the cells would have to write each bit just to find their spot and what connections to make. Each cell would have to sift through the copies of the DNA to find their place and how to grow. Thats when the real slow down would occur. You could produce multiple copies to make it easier to find the part you want to read but that will just lengthen the replication time. -The other problem is that all that copied DNA will also take up 20 cm diameter of space in the head! Multiple copies would only make that worse.- Edit: Yeah space wouldn't be a problem. Just the read/write times.
That was a fun brain exercise! Badum bum chi!
@@emmettobrian1874 Your right. There is another way to have multiple backup brains, but it's.. ehh... complicated... and very theoretical. Our brain creates memories by "simply" storing data that we receive from our senses in the connections of neurons. Now, if all of our senses, our skin, eyes, ears, balancing-sense in our ears, EVERYTHING, sent the data they were collecting to the main brain in our head AND to the backup brains it may be possible. However, the backup brains would contain no emotions, feelings, or anything at all. They would only contain the information our senses collected of what happened, the glibber-glabber that is English, the bright light that is the sun, it would only contain the data and would not understand any of it. These backup brains, since they do not contain the most complicated part of our brain, the emotions and feelings withing, would be significantly smaller.
Let's say this homo deadpoolians arm was cut off. In the arm was a backup brain. This backup brain has all the information of the senses of the original body in it. The original body would grow back it's arm and "re-upload" everything back into that arm's backup brain. The arm on the other hand, would begin to grow a new body. It would take weeks. But, once the body and brain is fully developed, what would happen is that the new organism's main brain would get all of the pure memories, without emotions, from the arm's backup brain. The main brain would process all of these new memories, kind of like a baby growing up but in hyperspeed, it would still take weeks though. After a long time, the new organism would understand who he was from these pure memories, and then would develop the proper emotions attached to those memories, because it is basically a clone of the original homo deadpoolian. After that, there would be two homo deadpoolians. However, after the arm was cut off, the new homo deadpoolian would not have the weeks of memories that the original had. So, they would be near-perfect clones, but effectively individual organisms at the same time.
Half the time I can't figure out what Kyle is saying but I love his enthusiasm all the same :D
*_When you realized that Thor can do the fourth wall better than Deadpool._*
They make a face like your profile picture
Bro the *best* Deadpool fourth wall break is when Professor X looked into Deadpool's mind and was instantly rendered catatonic....idk if that is a fourth wall break in a literal sense but you catch my drift
Why would Xavier of all people even think about looking into Wade's mind? That's brain damage waiting to happen.
What
*Now that's a lot of damage*
but Super-Regeneration can fix any problem!
I SAWED THIS DEAD POLE IN HALF
One could argue that since deadpool can remember things from between taking lethal damage and coming back, notably any of the mistress death stuff, that he actually has an additional ability that keeps his memories independent of his body. This deadpool exists beyond his body which is a meat puppet that he reinhabits after it has repaired enough.
This fourth wall breaking is actually an extension of his ability to store memory beyond his body
Would it be possible for Deadpool to have a copy of his memories stored with epigenetics? This could allow his brain to regrow with the same neutron connections in place as defined by the epigenetic information in his cells. It could also be how Deadpool breaks the 4th wall, if all information about Marvel were somehow preprogrammed into his epigenetic memories.
A few points:
1.If he had to regenerate his head can someone explain how he would get the energy needed in his body since he cant eat any longer and how much energy(food) he would need to regenerate even a finger at that rate.
2. If his body would know not to lay down scar tissue when his head was decapitated doesnt that mean that when he regenerated his limbs for example he would no longer have the scar tissue over the part that was regenerated thus fixing his uglynes problem?
1. comic book logic is how. Being serious now, fat, muscle, bone, kidney, then anything else, will be sacrificed to do so.
2. The extremely quickly multiplying cancers would fix that beautification at roughly the same rate as it regenerates.
The same question would apply to any super hero but technically he could convert co2 into carbon and use that to build most of the mass out of the air. You know, like a tree.
His ugliness isnt caused by scar tissue its cancer. Tumors. They'd regrow as fast as the rest of him. Maybe faster as cancer cells multiply faster than normal cells.
Which in turn might be part of where his fuel comes from as cancer cells are just normal cells basically multiplying out of control. His body could be consuming the cancer to fuel his abilities. Also deadpool can put away an insane ammount of food perhaps as a consequence of his regenerative abilities
This is probably my favorite video. I love everything to do with brains, they're just so cool!
Can deadpool regenerate fourth walls
He breaks it so much, I'm surprised that the 4th wall still exists
Hence the OP's question about regenerating them.
Favourite episode (I'm biased, it's my topic, I have also loved the whole series). Hey Kyle, you are correct in every particular. I would add one really useful analogy: The data for a hand sits recorded in the DNA of every cell in your body, so when the salamander regrows a paw, that is led by data in a simple way ('simple'). Memory is an architecture of associative connections. Acquired physical connections with acquired biochemical variances that govern ion channels, firing rates etc, etc. Beyond that acquired structure of connectivity and coactivation, there is no independent record of the architecture, so there is no data to reference when rebuilding a mind. DNA can make a new hippocampus and can put it in the right place, as a base structure that's primed to respond to certain stimuli and experiences. Nothing other than lived experience (or a Star Trek teleporter?) can specify the network of connectivity within that hippocampus to regrow memories.
Great work as always. You're my favourite.
At 4:00 you aren't jealous you are envious, jealousy implies ownership.
Tnx Homer
Ooh, trying to be smart i see
@@duardor2027 not really, they are just helping kill a common misconception.
Envy, is wanting what someone else has. You envy better looking, richer, and more skilled people.
Jealousy is fear, fear of losing what you have. You a jealous of your girlfriend and her new _guy friend_ or maybe jealous of someone better at your job than you, afraid you might be fired and them promoted.
They are two very different things, jealousy typically comes from fear, anger, and anxiety. Envy is a feeling of emptiness, of wanting, and coveting. To envy someone can be to see them as maybe unworthy of what they have because you think you deserve it, you feel entitled to it.
Hope that helps clarify.
Yay, pedantry!
@@DanteYewToob @FlyingFree333 Huh, I did not know that, thank you both!
Hardly ever comment but i love your vids! Just wanted to say great work to you and all of your crew! Memory is so strange but amazing!
Hey, shouldn't your head be hairless like Deadpool after regenerating your head and not just have hair style changing every time. I have so much to say yet I don't know if I should. This is my first comment on youtube, I think. Been a long time.
Theory #2: The Marvel universe is all a computer simulation, and Wade keeps his memories via digital backups. Preferably backups in the cloud, only because then I could assume actual clouds are just memory storage.
Kysier so much cgi, it pretty much is a computer simulation
Comics can be silly, but Kyle makes them smart. A true superpower!
Was there a missed editing opportunity @2:50? Perhaps another hand cut off?
I noticed that
Seems like it
I was thinking about that too
same
Memory loss, to many regrows.
Its been said that Deadpool can regenerate from a single cell. So if Deadpool is decapitated, would the body regrow a head and the head regrow a body?
The limits of the regeneration by looking at real world animals capable of regeneration has been covered in a previous episode.
Go check it out.
But the short answer is… the full extent of his regeneration as shown in the comics is already beyond the scope of reality. So the answer would be yes, if the authors need it to work that way. 🤓
That's what happens with Planarian Worms. If you cut them in half both halves will grow into whole individuals.
This was Lobo's original power, he was made as an over the top parody of Wolverine largely so his regen was so that if he even bled, each drop of blood would grow a new Lobo, who all would then battle it out while screaming "bastich" at each other until only one true Lobo remained. This power was removed later by Vril Dox, son of Brainiac. For Deadpool, the times he's been decapitated he has always later had the head reattached, so it's unclear. The one time it was believed to have happened with Agent X (an amnesiac very similar to Deadpool) it turned out a freak incident had melded their powers and personalities instead... So it's still unknown.
@Martin Smouter oh no
@@Sacremas that was the first deadpool comic I read since a kid...so I was confused as shit by the end lol
What about how a butterfly seems to be able to retain memories from when it was a caterpillar after turning into bug soup?
I've always assumed that if Deadpool was decapitated, he would just pick up his severed head and place it on his shoulders and regrow the neck. So by reattaching the severed head to the body, Deadpool would avoid having to regenerate a new head. That's what I have always thought on this topic. This would always avoid having to worry about losing memories, as Deadpool would just be reattaching his severed, not re-growing a new one. Does that make sense?
Great video, keep up the good work.
Have a nice day/night.
I would think the reattaching a limb is possible. For instance, in the second deadpool, it is weakly implied that DP is able to do this. I derived this from the scene where Colossus is dragging DP's "parts" to the mansion and in the next scene he is whole. This may have just been movie magic with some time compression and he actually just regrew his body cause the mouth was still working in the bag.
One could have one's head exploded, or have the amputation at the brain level rather than the neck level. Then you still have problems with nerve regeneration and memory loss. Sure, a neck can be regrown, but there are other ways to have one's brain damaged. :-(
There was a story line where a crazy person loved wade so much she saved body parts of his witch had their own healing factor and when put together they made a new deadpool with all his memories, (atleast everything that the head had experienced untill decapitation i assume) but was mentally more missed up than the original deadpool
But Kyle, if dp for some reason regenerated not only on the cellular but the atomic level as well, wouldn't he also regenerate his memories as well? It is an exact atomic copy after all.
Actually in one comic thor turns deadpool into ashes whit other guy, who's name i don't want to remember, and both of them come back in a single body, kind of mixing both personalities and memories
Memories are electric signals passing through the brain. If regrown, the neurons are new, so they don't have the ability to regenerate the electric signals
mabey in the future deadpool can upload his memory by wi fi and then regrow a head with the same memories like in nier automata(but in nier automata is a new body being with the same memories)
i'm still playing that
Here is some thought food, when superheroes regenerate almost immediately like in wolverine, deadpool, attack on titan, etc they shouldn't have hair or fingernails, but somehow they do. Think about it, they regenerate and create new cells but pilling up dead cells is a different process and if you say that the regeneration process, lets say of a limb, includes a combination of creating and killing new cells and then stacking them up then that would mean that they would grow their hair and nails everytime they heal, but that isn't the case. Somehow their hair and fingernails always grow up to a comfortable point. Does their healing factor somehow know how long a fingernail or every hair thread should be?
That's without mentioning the amount of bacteria that don't form part of their DNA so they shouldn't be able to regenerate them and that their bodies need for digestion. They would have stomach ache and malnutrition for months
Their emotion change how long their hair could be. If wolverine go berserk, his hair grows super long.
wade doesn't really have hair. he's all skin and tumors.
All cells on the last layer (stratum corneum) of epidermis are keratinized and dead.
I love the fact that every time Kyle makes a pun he does that little self congratulatory grin
Hey Kyle, love the show and happy holidays. If deadpool was to lose his head and regenerate it the matter to grow a new head would have to come from somewhere. So his body would need fuel(food) to get the biomass needed to regenerate his head....so does that mean his headless body is taking in food down the hole where his esophagus would be? I mean without a jaw, he would have to survive off a easily digestible food that does not require chewing(because no teath). The mental image of a headless body feeding itself by pouring food down its neck hole is....well messy.
He could be converting other cells (biomass) from other parts of his body to regrow bodyparts.
The human body doesn't directly use all nutrients that you eat. A lot of it gets stored in the form of fat. If you don't eat for a while, the body will start to consume fat reserves to keep itself going. But normal humans mostly consume fat as a source of energy.
So what if Deadpool has body fat that essentially work as stem cells instead?
That way he could regrow a bodypart without having to "eat it back" first.
However, he would probably feel extremely hungry afterwards.
I remember an experiment that involved training the regenerating worms something, then basically liquefying them and allowing them to regenerate, and their memories seemed to come through, even though the structures of the nervous system had completely disappeared.
If you decapitate Deadpool, does his body grow a new head, or does his head grow a new body? For that matter, what if you split him down the middle vertically? Would you get 2 Deadpools like a fluke work? Is deadpool a fluke worm?
Thats a great question
To take it a bit further: where does regeneration start? Is it at the level of organs? Cellular? If it's organs, then I agree with your question. But if it's cellular, by which I mean that individual cells regenerate, then every blood splatter from a bullet wound eventually becomes a new Deadpool...if you ignore the inherent problems of basic biology needing "building blocks" like proteins and carbohydrates to actually function.
He would need a part of his body as the core of his regeneration for that not to happen, right? Maybe something so small that it doesn't get easily destroyed too, considering the punishment he takes. A core cell or what not.
I vote 2 deadpools I think that's how he reproduces
The part that can regenerate would need enough energy to survive until enough of the digestive system is restored that DP can take in more nutrients.
So if a severed hand or splatter of blood started regeneration… it would likely “starve” to death before completing a full Deadpool.
But what if Deadpool gave a blood transfusion. Would the DP blood derive enough nutrients from the recipient’s system to continue to regenerate? Would it eventually overtake the recipient and turn them into Deadpool?
Or would Deadpool start regeneration inside of them until he becomes big enough to burst forth from their chest like a xenomorph?
This reminds me of something that happens in the anime "Ajin". In one part, the protagonist (who is inmortal) is captured by a guy who is hunting him down. He says he can't kill him, but he can do something similar: to cut off his head, so all that makes him who he is dies (severed parts don't regenerate), while the body regenerates a new one, with a completely different personality and memories
On the bright side. We got thumbs and can sweat, that’s pretty OP.
Hello sir from Australia, first time commenting but I believe I have a way for Deadpool to retain his memory even with his head being removed from his body. You see as Deadpool has the ability to break the forth wall and communicate and interact with us, the reader/viewer he is able to see is past through the life's he has lived there fore being able to regain those lost memory's. Not to mention that he, himself has stopped time in a comic/T.V/animation to address the audience and has even looked back and forward in his own comic pages to see what happened or what comes next. So with that being said I believe that the moments before he loses his head he "flips" to the next part of his story and either gives his "new self" his memory's or after reforming his own head he goes back a panel or screen to see and interact with his past self to reform those lost memory's. The only other thing I can think of is if Deadpool after losing his head, talks to the writer of his comic/show to see what he has done in his past. I am interested to see if anyone agrees with me or have there own theory on this and thank you all for your time to read this :)
uploaded 45 seconds ago? wow
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Another thing to think about is the question of consciousness. As others pointed out, he can regain memories using his ability to break the fourth wall, but would he still have that ability? Would he still be deadpool, or wade wilson, at all? Or, would he be a different person entirely. If he did lose his brain, wouldn't it stand to reason that deadpool, the current self aware version, would indeed die, and be replaced by a new entity entirely? It's basically a question of what makes you, you. Considering that 4th wall question though, I don't believe Wade Wilson would retain his ability to do that, since he would likely no longer be Wade Wilson at all on regeneration. Unless of course were all in a computer simulation and there's backups of everyone.
While it would be more probable that he deadpool would regenerate with a blank memory, there might also be a chance that his neurons - randomly connected to each other after regeneration - would make him a whole different person. That would lead to even more fun, when he dosn't get decapitated but looses only half of his brain. He could regenerate and have a lot of wrong memorys that make no sense whatsoever. That sounds like a fun Plot to me!
Sounds like a Marvel What If one shot or mini series.
There's an infamous incident of an American worker that got a steel bar through his frontal lobe and a actually changed personalities in the process, becoming cold and aloof, almost like a psychopath... So such a story would have grounds in reality! Instead the result in the comics is usually similar to the knife in the skull incident in the first movie, or just the loss of motor function, though it has been used to explain Deadpool's sometimes changing personality and retcons.
Psychopathy isn't a learned trait made by memories though, you start out with defective structure and/or chemistry.
@@Tfin well destroyed/regenerated and unusable sounds a lot like defective
Yes. I'm saying that it isn't new memories as you proposed that make someone like that.
Aw, I was hoping a footnote would say
"But then of course, you have the head you lopped off regenerating another body, so you have two Deadpools.
Or, y'know, Deadpool 2. *sunglasses*"
5:20 wouldn’t you have baby hands xD
I know you were going off a quote from Liefeld, but I have to think it would make more sense for his head to regenerate a new body rather than the other way around.
It would be interesting if he could do both, though. It would be, like, big-head/tiny-body DP riding big-body/small-head DP, like Master Blaster from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
Of course, if that happened, it would beg the question: how many DPs could you have? Like, if you just kept bisecting Wade until he stopped duplicating himself. Think the brooms Mickey brings to life in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
What about muscle memory which is stored in the nerves in your spine. Would wade still have his fighting skills and reflexes.
i would love a scene in a deadpool movie where he loses half his head (idk where motor functions are controlled, but basically cut off the head in a way where this part is preserved) and proceeds to feel where his lack of head is, queue a funny one-liner about losing his head
Hey Kyle something I was thinking: would deadpool have a secondary mutation of a Solid-state Secondary brain. As the problem is that as the brain doesn't that capabilities to regrow complex memories. So he would need a Silicone based "nerve" bundle to be a black box to protect his memory. So yeah I was overthinked this. I was thinking Silicone based as it can survive a lot of what deadpool can handle.
Silicon isn't organic, pure silicon can't be naturally formed in living things.
@@abdlhmdx I sorta vented my thought but he'd need a very durable secondary brain in order to keep his memories safe.
I think that his memories are stored in the same place as his 4th wall.
If he had a silicon secondary brain it would need to change as his organic brain did. If it's not just some kind of hard drive and is actually biological he would probably power it through respiration. The by product of silicon respiration is SiO2, silicon dioxide otherwise known as silica sand. He'd either have to breath it out or pee it out. Both sound awful.
@@emmettobrian1874 another option is to poo out sand.
4:13 : "You insensitive Prick! Do you have any idea how much that stings?!"
The real question is, can deadpool regenerate meeeeemes
if a meme is dead it's dead........i mean do yu kno da whey
Thanks Kyle & team! Happy holidays!
I wonder how many of these comments were purely written, just to get into footnotes...
They only read the smart comments in footnotes.
not always sometimes they look for silly or random lol :P @@WAMTAT
You know what, if Deadpool got his head separated from his body, wouldn't it make more sense to regrow the rest of his body from his head? Since his head contains the cerebellum, which is where the info on your body rests. Building new limbs would be much easier when your whole body knows which part of you is missing, and if you lost your cerebellum and grew a brand new one along with your head, you would have the movement capacity of a newborn, not just the mind. Of course, growing a body from your head would take much longer than the opposite.
Movies: Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them.
Kyle: Diseases of the Brain & How to Cure Them.
I saw a page of a comic online where Deadpool was decapitated and his head was put in a coffin, probably because the rest of the body wasn't found, but instead of his head growing from his body, his body started growing from his neck.
Matpat already bet u at answering this question...
What does that even mean
Scadelapers film theorist Mattpatt answered this already
Hey Kyle, there was a time in the comics when Wade Wilson regrew his entire body from one atom. (Theres a fun story behind it 10/10 recommend) I was wondering how difficult that would be and how long it could take realistically.
Yeah. I just got a new stomach lining and tastebuds....you jelly bro. I'm immune to butthurt it just regenerates to quickly no wahmbulance for this biological organism. 🤣
You sir, are a genius.
too*
The explanation at about 9:00 of the results of Deadpool regrowing his head to be a different person make him sound like a Time Lord.
Watched a talk recently that discussed this exact scenario in those two organisms you listed - Titled: "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018". In the video Prof. Michael Levin talks about the Planerians after regenerating their entire heads were able to retain memory after they finished regrowth. He goes over much of what the understand in the whole process of how the bodies and cells themselves encode data (almost like software) that is retained and used to regenerate and retain memory and other details about how the body is formed together. He also goes over how they can even manipulate this process through drugs that block ion channels in the cell membranes so they can even grow functional eyes or even heads in places where they normal are not located.
Would he still have muscle memory? Does muscle memory actually send signals to the brain? When I was younger, they said the signals did not go to the brain, but I've seen recent studies saying they do.
Couldn't find the sources for my claims but I seem to recall that one reason why Deadpool is constantly insane is the supercancer constantly mushing is brains and his regeneration repairing the damage, one x-man or similar commented to it that Deadpool literally _changes his mind_ every 10 or so seconds. Also probably related as to why no psychic will ever try to invade his mind.
My theory is that his mind is now backed up in his cells, genetic memory if you will. I'm pretty sure they've actually determined that there is some degree of genetic memory even with mundane humans. Well, there is certainly epigentics at least, some changes that are made over the course of your life based on experiences (environmental and mental states). It's all rather a stretch of course, but not any moreso than the idea of a person regrowing whole limbs over the course of seconds/minutes/hours.
Can you regenerate muscle memory? If you were an adept swordsman and your arm was cut off, and it regenerated, would you have to re-train your reflexes with it?
Brian Brock I hAve no clue how muscle memory works, but I assume it’s more to do with your brain than your actual muscles
@@xSlykiller I would tend to agree. I don't know how reflexes work. But I wonder if it would be akin to coming out of a cast and having to learn to use the previously immobilized limb again? (Faster than learning in the first place, but still some retraining to do.)
This channel's staff would be the best science teachers in schools.
There's a great anime on Netflix called "Ajin: Demi-Human" about these metahumans called ajin; they are effectively immortal because they can regenerate from anything, and come back to life from any fatal wound. The only exception is if you cut their heads off, their heads dissolve and their body grows a new head, but the new head has no memories from the original head. Thus, a death of self rather than the death of the body.
being that DP break the 4th wall constantly he can just watch/read his history/memories
Fun fact: they did an experiment on a caterpillar by playing a specific sound and then giving them an elictric shock. After a few shocks the caterpillar upon hearing the noise would flinch. Now when a caterpillar goes into a cocoon it becomes a goo substance before forming into a butterfly. So once the caterpillar became a butterfly they played the noise and the butterfly had the same reaction as the caterpillar before getting shocked. This proves that somewhere in that goo resides the caterpillars memories. (just thought that would be a fun fact to share)
90% shure Deadpool's memories have been stated to be forgotten every time his head gets destroyed and or cut off and the only reason he can remember was is 4th wall braking ability allowing him to look back in the pages and/or the whatever medium he is in and recall past events.
The weird thing about regrowing his head, is that in a lot of the comics he regrows from his head. Like in the marvel zombies run, he lived as a zombie head for a long time. And the time wade had a stalker at a mental Institute, she cut off "enough parts to make another me", as deadpool put it. Hence the birth of evilpool
I just realized that you're actually right-handed and mirror the videos in postproduction to avoid having to write in mirrored letters
Perhaps, instead of the body regrowing a head; it is the head that begins regrowing the body.
Now I do understand that the head would have a finite amount of resources which may not be sufficient to regrow an entire body, but if possible, it would resolve the issue of memories becoming unrecoverable.
In addition it would make sense that the head would send signals to trigger the regrowing process, rather than the body, otherwise wouldn't a severed limb (say a hand) try to grow the arm>shoulder>body>etc?
Assuming Deadpool’s brain was cut off with his head, would it really be possible to regenerate his head in the first place? His stem cells would need a signal to activate, like a hormone. A hormone would need one of the endocrine glands to activate, and they can not do that without an electrical signal from the nervous system. I maybe wrong but the only nervous system that deadpool would have left, assuming that his head was chopped off at the base of his neck, is the spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system. They act as “highways” for electrical signals going to and from the brain and outside stimuli. And before it comes up, the planarian nervous system is primitive compared to the human nervous system, so growing back a couple thousand neurons for a worm would be nowhere as complex as growing out the hundreds of billions of neurons in a human brain. How do the worms grow back their brains without a brain? They don’t really have a true brain. Their “brain” is called a ganglion, which is just a cluster of nerve cells, so in reality, a lot of the functions that we associate mammal brains of doing could in theory be done by its other nerves in its nervous system. As mentioned before, the spine in humans is used as a highway, transporting info rather than being the transmitter/receiver, so sending so starting a signal to send to the endocrine system to activate stem cells would be extremely hard for a human’s body to do. Keep it up Kyle!
so wolverine can regenerate a hand in seconds but takes deadpool hours? how long would it take for each to regenerate an entire body if u burned them both down to skeletons
Indeed Wolverine Origins is the best superhero film, with exception of watchmen, I love the comic too but the film end seems more plausible to me
anyone notice that every time when he got his head chopped his hair was always in a ponytail? I know why but i just wanted to know if anyone else noticed that.
Kyle just solved the 'how does Deadpool work in the MCU' problem, good job by you
Because of the cancer that spread to his brain, when given a healing factor from wolverine's dna, which is body based, Wade's healing factor became brain based because he still has brain cancer so it is constantly regenerating(which is why he is immune to telepathic attacks). If he was to be decapitated, he would grow a new body not a new head but wolverine would just die. But there are showings where his head has regrown from being blown off. There are also showings where he is just a head and still has control of his body.
I think because of his ability to break the fourth wall, he doesn't necessarily "store " his memory. The writer is who determines what he says, so he sort of has the brain of the writer. Some Deadpools ( from different universes) know things that other Deadpools don't, because the writers determine what he does and doesn't know. So even if his head is cut off, the writer can still have him know everything pre-decapitation.
I watched something on decapitation, I think it was "today I found out". They showed that a person can be cognitively aware for about 30 seconds after the heads roll. So imagine your head on the ground and watching your head start to regrow. (Although by the timeline it shows Deadpool's healing to happen, your old head would expire long before the new one grew.) Now the question becomes, if Deadpool could "regrow" memories, would he remember those 30 seconds of decapitation or would they be lost? Also something else comes to mind, if his head regrew a new body then his memories would still be intact, so I think it would depend on which one did the growing... The head or the body.
OK I SAW AN AXOLOTL IN THE PREVIEW SCREEN AND IM REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE I HAVE AN AXY AND I LOVE AXIES SOOOO MUCH plus deadpool is my favorite marvel character. also in case youre wondering his name is Wade, YES after Wade Wilson, YES because of the regenerative capabilities im NOT obsessed.
Couldn't Deadpool have a backup memory somewhere else in his body, maybe next to his heart (or maybe online! That would be interesting), that perfectly mirrors the connections formed in his brain memory? That way, when his body regrows the brain, it has a copy of all the neuronal connections and could regenerate his memories based on that copy.
Another explanation that I've not seen in the comments so far is that on occasion Deadpool has possessed the Continuity infinity stone, which allowed him to talk to the comic writers, and even view and alter his own continuity.
Similarly, wouldn’t you lose your memories after quantum teleportation?
As I understand it - and correct me if I’m wrong - quantum teleportation basically takes all of the information of your exact composition, down to the atomic level, sends that information to a second location, and builds an exact copy of you, perfect down to the atomic level in the new location. The part that makes it teleportation, not cloning, is the fact that in order to get the precise information to create a copy of you, the only methods we have of getting information that precisely change the state of your particles, essentially destroying the old you.
If you are teleporting using this method, you wouldn’t retain these same connections between neurons, since it is essentially creating a new brain, similarly to what was said in this episode. It would stand to reason that you would lose your memories.
Hey Kyle, I may be wrong since i learned this in high school and that was a while ago, but when you drew the neurons the electrical signals were animated going both directions along the axon. Isn't the axon usually sending signals and the dendrites receiving signals therefore meaning it is not a 2-way street? Of course if you consider reuptake then that may be what was shown, but I'm pretty sure that reuptake doesn't really produce electrical signals.
P.s. I know it's hard to be an amazing artist and show 100% detail with markers, but you did a really good job on showing the synaptic cleft and myelin sheath on the axons. :)
Dear Kyle, my husband and I love the show. Even before we watched this episode we wondered if you would talk about butterflies which have been known to exhibit the effects of conditioning, experienced when they were caterpillars, even though the process of metamorphosis essentially destroys their caterpillar nervous systems. This would appear to show that a certain kind of memory can survive losing one's brain. It might not be episodic memory, but some kind of memory.
I think if that ever happen the writers should make it clear that in case of decapitation he will regen from head/neck down not from body/neck up or head needs to be reattach to body. This way they have cover any probable loophole/or further issues this could may cause in story etc.
The question for this is what will the "checkpoint" be as basis for regeneration. Will your super healing make you a "newborn brain" which is basically cell genesis not, regeneration...or can your super healing make a checkpoint like in games to remember how your brain connections were, prior to injury.
Its kinda similar to "if you get reconstructed (eg teleportation), will you be the same person with same personality, which is yes because you were reconstructed 100% similar to how you were prior to deconstruction.
If you haven't seen Ajin, I highly reccomend it. Basically a few people in the world cant die. They will renegerate anything needed and comeback after death. The main antagonist, as a punishment for them will cut off their heads and let both the head and body grow back both needed parts. They cant tell which is the real one