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What are you?

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Are you your body? And if so, how exactly does this work? Kurzgesagt takes on the challenge of asking how many of those cells can you take away before you stop being you? And does that question even make sense?

Kurzgesagt’s video both taught us about cells and made us ask existential questions. Though a daunting task, many have said questioning our identity is exactly what makes us human. Even Albert Einstein once said, "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has is own reason for existing."

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