At what moment are you dead? [Ted Ed video by Randall Hayes]
For as far back as we can trace our existence, humans have been fascinated with death and resurrection. But is resurrection really possible? And what is the actual difference between a living creature and a dead body anyway?
Randall Hayes delves into the scientific theories that seek to answer these age-old questions…
“If we think of life not as some magical spark but a state of incredibly complex state of self-perpetuating organization, death is just the process of increasing entropy that destroys this fragile balance. And the point at which someone is completely dead turns out not to be a fixed constant but simply a matter of how much of this entropy we are currently capable of reversing.”
