Hearing about trees taking care of each other is just the most adorable and amazing thing. This is my first time listening to you guys on this podcast (found you through Noah lol) and you remind me why I love learning about science. Thanks so much for sharing, and stay safe ❤️
You should definitely check out the Arc of a Scythe series by Neil Schusterman, if you're interested in the concept of immortality, the whole series is centred around the fact that humans can longer die, they dont get infections or anything, they can "reset" or "turn a corner" right down to 21 when they're tired of being old, there are no car accidents or anything and people can be brought back from death, death is so far removed from society that people jump in front of cars and stuff for fun, knowing they'll be up and about again in a few days, and because nobody is dying but lots of people being born, some people are trained as "Scythes" who are people trained in kill-craft and basically have a liscene and a duty to kill or as they call it "glean" a certain number of people a year, and these people arent revived. It's a great series!
What they talked about at the end with people using internet footprints of people to simulate them talking after they die is really interesting. Since it's not a real person that you're talking too, it is really just a footprint of that person that is being preserved for the living, which is the same concept as what we've been doing since the beginning of time. Like as an artist, the art that I make are literally pieces of me that will persist long after I'm dead. Every culture has different traditions of preserving parts of people or things that they have effected as a way of keeping their memory alive. So even though simulating people after death can be marketed as immortality, it's only immortality in the sense that keeping a photo album is immortality.
I agree with Luke, if we are able to "create" a baby we could hypothetically be able to regenerate and never age but if that were the case evolution would be stuck and reproduction wouldn't be necessary.
A self driving car could hit a pedestrian if it is programed to think that the life of its occupants are more important. And in the avoiding the death of the occupants can only be achieved by plowing into a person waiting at the street side.
Hearing about trees taking care of each other is just the most adorable and amazing thing. This is my first time listening to you guys on this podcast (found you through Noah lol) and you remind me why I love learning about science. Thanks so much for sharing, and stay safe ❤️
I assume you then watched the podcasts with Noah first
Cause thats what I did LOL
You should definitely check out the Arc of a Scythe series by Neil Schusterman, if you're interested in the concept of immortality, the whole series is centred around the fact that humans can longer die, they dont get infections or anything, they can "reset" or "turn a corner" right down to 21 when they're tired of being old, there are no car accidents or anything and people can be brought back from death, death is so far removed from society that people jump in front of cars and stuff for fun, knowing they'll be up and about again in a few days, and because nobody is dying but lots of people being born, some people are trained as "Scythes" who are people trained in kill-craft and basically have a liscene and a duty to kill or as they call it "glean" a certain number of people a year, and these people arent revived. It's a great series!
I was going to suggest this series!
needed this entertainment in lockdown :)
i studied biochemistry and always looked into these topics. great work guys for making it simplistic for slower people such as myself :)
Well this is officially my new favourite! It's like the 4th one of these I watched in the last 3 days
What they talked about at the end with people using internet footprints of people to simulate them talking after they die is really interesting. Since it's not a real person that you're talking too, it is really just a footprint of that person that is being preserved for the living, which is the same concept as what we've been doing since the beginning of time. Like as an artist, the art that I make are literally pieces of me that will persist long after I'm dead. Every culture has different traditions of preserving parts of people or things that they have effected as a way of keeping their memory alive. So even though simulating people after death can be marketed as immortality, it's only immortality in the sense that keeping a photo album is immortality.
Minute 28 this week sure hits different... love it!!
will you still be doing the podcast in the weeks in lockdown?
zoe brenna Yes!! We may have to change how we do things... but it’s business as usual for us!
@@SciGuys that's so good to hear - appreciate you guys so much!
36:50 MMMMMMUUUUUUSSSSSSHHHHHHRRRRRROOOOOMMMMMSSSSS. That is all I have to say for that entire discussion :p
I agree with Luke, if we are able to "create" a baby we could hypothetically be able to regenerate and never age but if that were the case evolution would be stuck and reproduction wouldn't be necessary.
So basically, as a chronically ill person with several autoimmune disorders, I’m hearing that I’ll die early most likely
"we live in a world"
Look at Alcor they say no one needs to die if they don’t want to
A self driving car could hit a pedestrian if it is programed to think that the life of its occupants are more important. And in the avoiding the death of the occupants can only be achieved by plowing into a person waiting at the street side.
Covid transfer at 4:09
cant lie this is kinda boring go listen to star talk
Disagree, the content was rather interesting imo, delivery was a bit awkward but fully expected given the topic 🔥🤣