The Most Complex Language in the World

Published 2023-02-14
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You are cells. Your muscles, organs, skin and hair. They are in your blood and in your bones.
Cells are biological robots. They don’t want anything, they don’t feel anything. They are never sad or happy. They just are, right here, right now. They are as conscious as a stone or a chair or a neutron star. Cells just follow their programming that has been evolving and changing for billions of years, molded by natural selection.
They are impossible machines and yet, here they are, driven entirely by the fundamental forces of the universe. The smallest unit of life, right at the border where physics becomes biology.
Sometimes, to get a truer understanding of how amazing something is, you need to hold your breath and dive in really deep. So, what are cells and how do they work?


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All Comments (21)
  • @kurzgesagt
    Go ‘beyond the nutshell’ at brilliant.org/nutshell/ and dive deeper into these topics and more with a free 30-day trial! This video was sponsored by Brilliant. Thanks a lot for the support!
  • I’m in a college biochemistry class and we had to memorize the structures for the amino acids, I loved how the little animated pictures for each amino acid actually resembled the real structure for each, fantastic job on the artwork for this one!!
  • @animus9346
    As a biologist I can only say that this video is a masterpiece! The animation work is done beautifully to show how complex "the language of life" really is.
  • @anacreon212
    This channel overall deserves an award for science communication. The complex topics that get broken down in a way so that nearly anyone can understand the basics of said topic is an amazing feat.
  • @university89
    I'm a simple-minded translator and teacher. I have never seen a message conveyed more succintly and a topic explained more thoroughly yet plainly than this. Now I have a vivid image of how my cells communicates. Great work, guys! Thank you.
  • looks like the art and animations reached yet another greater level, i cannot even understand just how much effort you guys put into this
  • You guys won't believe how valuable these videos are for us. Just remember we are so really grateful for you guys.
  • "....but if you look inside of what you really are, you just discover almost indescribable complexity, a beautiful language of life" This made me rethink things from a different perspective, thank you
  • Space and molecular biology, two of the most fascinating topics one can immerse himself into. Keep up the amazing work.
  • @tahu9759
    As a Microbiologist, this video is amazingly simplified with the essence untouched and with a clear understanding of how it works. Considering how extremly complex is this, it's an incredible work!
  • @anirudh_b
    I'm a molecular biologist and this video explains complex mechanisms in an amazingly simple manner! The artstyle is visually stunning and narration is brief and simple.
  • @cadea7578
    Just finished third year of my analytical biochemistry undergrad degree. It has taken about that many years to understand these concepts to a sufficient level for my field. It always makes me a bit sad that this beautiful and important process will not get seen by most people. Obviously this is a simplified version but I really hope people appreciate this video and that it is a look into a mystery still being uncovered
  • Am I the only person that cried a little bit because of how beautifully life was explained in this video?
  • @Xevon69
    As a normal person who breathes for living and not a biologist/doctor, this video is really very informative. Also i loved the animation.
  • @Ci3nne
    This video allowed me to confirm the accuracy of this channel's content. I've studied molecular oncology for 13 years and have a PhD in Human Biology and Genetics and can say that this channel is the way to communicate science to everyone. Biology is unbelievably complex, and more I deepen knowledge into specific molecular mechanisms, and more I discover how much we don't know about it. This makes me appreciating the depths of other fields, incentivizing learning over creating superficial opinions. The superficiality by which COVID vaccines have been misjudged by the people not in the field, reminded me the importance of education and to teach critical thinking in schools.
  • @farasapt6579
    I really needed this. Was feeling down and suicidal about personal issues, then stumble upon Film theory coma video and that sad story makes me appreciate life on a emotional sense, and this video helps me appreciate life on a technical and complex sense. Never thought about how billions of tiny robots are working endlessly to keep me alive. Can't let them down like that.
  • @jessie-ht7bc
    watching this as a biomedical sciences student adds a layer to it really.Awesome work to simplify something so incredibly complex that we still don't know all about it.
  • @ColinGrym
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  • @realbirb
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  • "If you look outside the incredable dimensions and scale of space, a place where forever is a real thing, its almost impossible not to feel an bit small, but if you look inside into what you really are, you discover almost indescribable complexity. The beautiful Language of Life." This can be summarised into 1 word : Equilibrium