Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together

How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence?

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Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together

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[metadragon]

Emergence is everywhere except in the people doing your group assignment.

[Tjulfar]

"Emergence is everywhere" - Yes, at my workplace for example.

[KeithKeydel]

I spent two years working on a master's thesis on emergence, and Kurzgesagt summarized the key points in a 7 minute video 😣

[arebolar]

You are missing one of the most iconic examples: Computers. They are fantastic machines that are made out of very simple units called transistors, which are mere gates that have only two options: to connect or disconnect, zero or one. It’s very much like the neurons of our brain. And from this extreme simplicity, you get infinite complexity and astounding results!

[acadoe]

"Your arms and legs and heart are an incredibly complex and complicated system made of trillions of individual stupid things" - How Kurzgesagt flirts

[applesud]

Next episode: *How smart things become stupid together!* _The story of humanity_

[ImTrappedInTheInternetHelp]

"An ant is stupid" *Look, he's trying his best okay?*

Edit: It's been two years and I hate that I have to say this, but please don't be mean to each other in the replies :( This is just a joke and I shouldn't need to explain that

[catcat]

“How stupid things become smart together”

Me and the boys

[colonelcrockett]

When the entire class works together to cheat on an exam.

[smellthel]

“An ant is pretty stupid”
The ants watching this video: :(

[Natalie-qsot]

5:00 those birds are like wtf did you just take your face off??!😧

[habibishapur]

I find that understanding emergence is one of the biggest keys for people to understand how the world works. pretty much every complex thing we do (engineering, biology, programming) consists of understanding how self contained units, can work together to make something more complex work, adding layers of abstraction so we dont have to worry about the step by step minutia, allowing us to make or study more complex things without getting bogged down in the details.

[TheTexas]

Your channel is so addictive! Once I get a notification of an upload, I stop what I’m doing and watch it!

[funny-video-YouTube-channel]

I glued millions of ants to my head, now I feel smart :-)
*Intelligence from complexity* does work !

[srend]

we create things, even if we don't intend to. (shows a baby)

[jesinthejust]

Ahh at 3:52 - the "life" theme kicks in. Gave me goosebumps idk why.
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[lucyfea]

How come when me and the boys get together, the stupidness rises ten-fold?

[wamsang]

Next: politics: how smart things become stupid together

[kevint]

You know, this episode has really great music. Like, most videos have good soundtracks, but this one just feels really fitting and good