There are 100 billion individual neurons in the human brain. Working together, they allow us to make sense of, and move through, the world around us. Scientists have built replicas of the human brain with computers, but no one has ever successfully made a brain out of humans. On this episode, I’ll travel back to my hometown of Stilwell, Kansas, and turn it into a working brain!
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Michael: Makes a rain-brain joke Also Michael: Doesn't realise the literal 'mind field' in front of him.
He doesn’t
!!
Oh my gosh, his humor is astonishing
@@nikolaangelovski2252 bb
MIND FIELD
"My favorite part about the brain is that it actually worked" that was the best line in the entire video
That was also wut I was gonna comment until he said it :|
#MeAtSchool
It just works
idk about that. I liked the hats better.
@@augustoluis6888 16 times the brain cells
A brain cell: *dies* Everyone at the Mind Field football field: :0
@Alevtina Abramova ah yes, I would like to go to an 18+ website that is replied to a comment about death.
@@thatonedude-6819 was it one of those spam bots
@@sidharthvjain1023 yep
This made me laugh too much
i cause mass murder everyday then, and then there's also your comment
Creating a mind in a field... That's totally MindField's
Ladies and Gentlemen, comedy has been achieved. ~~~Or Has It?~~~
for real though S tier pun ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)
Imagine if it rained alcohol.. from foodbal field to mass grave in a few seconds
@@matthewwynn3025 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
@@matthewwynn3025 0
Everyone take a moment to appreciate Michael for making the Mind Field series free.
@@mikebarnes7441 but it is still nice to watch it for free. i'm loving it
@@mikebarnes7441 makes sense, seeing how every season starts around December, and continues just barely into January
@@the_gamer5781 I think it is produced during the whole year and shown at the end of the year and the begging of the next one. 16:04 shows it was filmed on July 21, 2018, while premiere was December 12, 2018.
i used up my free trial to watch it all just for it to become free right afterwards
@@mikebarnes7441 F**k! You destroyed all my faith in KZhead, Micheal and Humanity. I was so hyped that I can watch this.
I can't believe this demonstration actually made me understand how basic vision works with no prior knowledge
broe with absolutely no prior knowledge i am now literally in awe of the human body
That’s the magic of Vsauce!
That's what makes Micheal so effective, he has a way to show you something that is complicated and put it into a way that one can simply understand, and he has been doing it since the early inceptions of Vsauce.
wahahaha
What was shown in this video is exactly the process used in artificial neural networks to recognize images, it's called forward propagation (input -> prediction). That being said it doesn't talk about how these neurons are actually learning to recognize these specific patterns (lines, dots, angles, faces, etc...). In this experiment the neurons were preprogrammed to fire when they see a line, an angle, a loop, etc... The algorithm used in deep learning to achieve this task is called backward propagation (prediction -> input). There is some evidence that the brain does a similar thing, although it's probably way more complex than what is programmed in our computers today. But hey, it works pretty well
Micheal: we can target that one brain cell, and ask 'are you damaged, what do you need' Human neuron: *sweating*
i see you are the hexagons are the bestagons type of person
@@Kevin_Liu0505 I see you are a cgp grey viewer type of person
I see you have joined the bestagons cult. Good job
event related potential at its finest
Ah yes, a fellow cgp grey 'hexagons are the bestagons' cult memeber.
Math's teacher: You can't bring calculator to the test Me:
This needs more likes
To the math teacher real financial advisors use Excel and a business calculators even CPAs use calculators
Can I bring a football field filled with people with flags and specific orientations?? Hm... I guess... Great! Now I know what an 8 is!!
I don't understand why teachers don't let people use calculators.
@@wta1518 i guess it is an outdated concept, although it is still used. There may be a bit harmful to your education using on early stages, when you are learning multiplication and such, you have to do a little effort to get the result. Plus, there is satisfaction tha you are doing it yourself, it is not a machine that is doing it. Like, I'm a teacher and I remember a student asking to use the calculator for 4x25... Like, I think a little bit of practice without calculator is important. But yeah, the majority of questions nowadays in real life are not those basic ones, but the ones you need creativity to reach results. Calculators are just tools you can use to facilitate. So it is important after all to know how to use it. But, also, one of the main reasons we, teachers, won't let use calculator all the time is because of the admission tests for college. Like, here in Brazil, it is a big deal and high school education is very much shaped for that test, so we are a bit tied to this. But using calculator on class is a concept that is getting more and more approval over the years, let's hope some day we can use the calculators to our advantage
I learned that there are 3 types of people in the world: 1) nerds 2) *_sportos_* 3) infratemporal cortex processing center representatives That's all.
Tag yourself I'm sporto
@@pionaiki I've heard that before, and it's still maybe my favorite smart joke ever. Since you seem like you'd get it, here's another smart one: Descartes walks into a café. Waiter comes up to him and says, "can I interest you in a croissant?" Descartes says, "I think not." Poof!
clarinettist ;)
@Nour Youssef love it
@@pionaiki damn it! You beat me to that one, I came here specially to make that same comment! 🤣
"Some of my earliest memories are from here..." Are you sure they are your memories, Michael?
*_Hey, Michael, Vsauce here_*
.. or are they??
Missed opportunity man: “...or are they?”
Are they your memories? That's not exactly you, Michael. The person who originally created those memories has not yet grown up and made a KZhead channel, while you have. He has no atoms in common with you.
@@jasperlee2295 #YOLOBLOMLMTAASOSBTDPWKEOBOIODAWCHEOBOITOD
Imagine if they actually just made a conscious being without knowing it
then destroyed its life to go home
That part of the brain wouldn't be in the visual area of the brain. I'm wondering if we can create that with people though. It'd be crazy.
*#lolz*
@@keldanbrown4872 it would definitely be an abstract being, but definitely possible. But you would need billions if not trillions of people, but that’s where computers come in with Neural Networks which could be the way to make artificial beings
They did make conscious being
I don't think everyone appreciates how quick the 'brain' was. By far the best episode of Mind Field that I saw, ever.
Hahaha they appreciate
Define appreciate
the main reason it works so well, i think, is that as a neuron you don't need to think a lot individually, you just need to fire if the neurons you're assigned fire, and you can basically do that in an instant. i feel like if you found a way to do this where each neuron-person pressed a button and that button was indicated to the next neuron, you'd see this brain would be even faster.
making your hometown function like a brain....you could say you created a mind field (i hope you dont make this joke later in the episode)
no but someone did make the joke while we were filming and the sauce man liked it
@@jermburd the sauce man liked it
@Jeremy Burd Were you actually part of the filming?
@@Ryan_Parmelee yea. it was a long, hot day but certainly worth it it see the Sauce Man
Hahahaha
All the most important part of the eye, Retina, V1, V2, V3, V4, V5, IT, And Chris.
V6
VSAUCE
6hart
Don't forget Brian the medic
visual system not eye
That episode was a literal MIND FIELD ;)
Holy Shi...
F**k
Michael: and as always, thanks for- Michael’s brain: watching Michael’s brain: wait no Michael: -being a brain
A smart brain. And as always - thnx to Michael ✌🏾💞🐿️
@@haraldhuber3734 AH THERE'S A SQUIRREL IN THE COMMENT SECTION!!! KILL IT!
He stayed at my hotel when he was filming this!! I actually got to meet him and I couldn't believe it!! He's so cool and humble! If you do read this Michael, you rock dude! Keep up the fantastic work! Oh shit I never saw this comment took off! 😭😭 And yes, at the hotel I work at, I do front desk. Thank you guys for all the likes!
GG
haha no you
Lucky
Gosh wow! What was it like?
Your hotel? You mean you own the hotel?? Or did you just stay there?
20:18 Dude look at the absolute CHAD that is no.24 This Retina stood up with purpose in life.
Lmao looked like he was pulling a sword out of stone
bro got a little too much of dopamine
“My favorite part of the brain was that it actually worked” lol
*
@@DMTInfinity couldn’t be me
I know I'm probably wrong when I say this, but I think this episode of Mindfield is so far the single biggest event in Stilwell's history.
"Vsauce, Michael here. In this episode, i turn a small town in kansas into a complete brain fit for our lord cthulhu to inhabit, using the United States as a body. Is it illegal to overthrow a nation and rearrange a planet's geography using occult methods? We're about to find out."
Top tier sh!tpost
PRAISE CTHULHU!!!
You're supposed to wait for the stars to align.
@Ape Hey Vsauce! Michael here, and, some have questioned the nature of reality. Well, today, we're going to find out the truth. Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftagn!
My sis was part of the V4 layer, and I still have her green hat from the video! Thank you Michael, very cool
Wow. THAT'S so cool! Lucky her!
She's lucky
Did you ask how accurate the brain was
@Desperadox23 Savage
@Desperadox23 damnnnn
12:39 Accurate representation of my brain
nice
Cheers I'll drink to that bro
Michael: "Unfortunately, I don't have access to everyone in China" Also Michael: Runs for president of China when Xi Jinping dies
Wait Michael is a commie?
@@erikt3162 He could be?
@@erikt3162 All people named Michael are commies
@@erikt3162 always has been
Or does he?
THIS BUT WITH REDSTONE
That can be arranged
@@nickm3694 it must
I HAVE TO TRY THAT!!!!!!
*Accidently creates hyper intelligent self learning redstone AI that ends the world
@@TaggerW1lson Did a crazy, self replicating, red stone machine invaded the map ?
My new pick up line: "Hey, smart stuff. Wanna make a bigger brain?"
Hahaha. Good one!
machinegun "Get procreating" _- Michael Stevens_
No sorry no
@@gcqen5ucw1x2bgev you can like now some other 28 people already did
This episode, gave my adhd brain such a dopamine boost and so much positivity that i was able to get out of bed on a day that even my meds had let me down That's by far my favourite mind field episode ❤️
I love how fast it is and how accurately they could troubleshoot. The "cells" looking around in confusion as they realize everyone is raising their flags, though, shows real brains take in and react to a lot more data than a simulation-- the cells gave the "correct" wrong answer-- but if you interviewed the retina people, they would have individually guessed: "He drew all over the grid. It can't actually be a number."
Can we just appreciate Ryan the medic? What a fella
late but *Brian
He makes it all possible
@@aaaa-kr1qb or is it brain? 🧠 lol
stfu
@@emn8168 how?
"My favourite part about the brain was... it actually worked" Yes, exactly, I love that, too
"I think therefore I am" My brain: I'M NOT YOUR FRIEEEEND
Honestly, one of the most amazing things ever done. Not just on Mind Field.
Hecc yeah mindfield, this show is the best thing that’s come out to youtube premium
True!
gamelab?
@benjamin Do Couto have you seen WAYNE
Benjamin Do Couto yes but don’t forget Cobra Kai
Thats right
Michael literally activated big brain time
If science was this cool when I was in school I'd have learned and remembered more of it.
23:06 i stan the kid who yelled no
He literally created a Mind Field. A field with a mind. Fellas. (Edit/Side Note: Someone else made this joke already!! Sorry about that!! Go like their comment instead 😁)
Roll credits
**rewords top comment** **gets lots of likes**
Lads
🤯
Wooow I'm actually surprised Michael didn't say that, he's kinda good at such things 😅😅
Wow that worked so much faster than I would have thought.
That's good, it means we can do bigger townbrains and they'll work fine
That's because you didn't activate big brain time
That's because there are only 5 layers..
Well in fact, it technically worked way slower than you would have thought. (Get it ? hehe)
Ombelle not funny didn’t laugh
I love the beginning where Michael goes back to his home town and just reminisces of his childhood. It's just so wholesome
I'm also from stilwell. I did the math and we should have gone to school together until I moved away after first grade! That's wild. I totally forgot about the amazing snow cones!
The best show on Premium!
the only good premium show!
100%
Zico Tops The best show now available to we plebeians who waited for you to subsidize the show for free viewing by the masses.
@@HughesEnterprises Indeed, thanks paypigs
Wait then how am I able to watch it without premium.
"Hey there braincell, are you a little damaged or something?"
stupid people that can't follow simple directions lol
What's the matter little guy? Did you do a fucky wucky?
guess they’re a braincel.
@@apple54345 can't tell if this is a serious comment or not but just in case, that guy's instructions were written wrong as Michael said right after pointing out that he didn't, "fire.", and he then corrected it. It wasn't that participant's fault.
@@zainkhanar5132 actually, the instruction he didn't get was that he was supposed to be inhibited by another neuron, and he _did_ "fire" when he wasn't supposed to.
I love Michael, just the sincere "I love cats" at 7:32 :3
This man is a global asset... Please take care of him. He is a combination of genius and absolute artistry...
That series is F AWESOME not kidding, you're actually showing stuff that people never did and isn't some explanation of something, it's literally raw science and that's amazing Keep doing it, I love it and I know that a lot more people love it as well
If the sample sizes were larger it could go into a scientific journal.
Hélio Júnior FUCKING AWESOME*
@@Darth_Insidious , well, this is really more mathematics or engineering than science. They created a mechanism that's supposed to do something and it worked. That did not itself tell us anything about how a brain works. It's someone who thinks he knows how a brain works who suggested doing it this way.
@@NickRoman also biology
This is genuinely one of the most fascinating episodes of one of the most fascinating series of all time. I love you, Michael! Mindfield is amazing!!!
Dude I'm gonna write a script that works this way. This is such a relativley easy way to create a very soft thinking computer. I love it.
"I can count" Yeah for many hours in fact
Mind Field is slowly turning into Vsauce. Michael can finally be himself as seen in this great episode.
" Today, I was a neuron. "
π≠3.14≠22/7
@@SpiffyCheese2 3.14 is my time of the day and 22/7 is my birthday.
3.14 22/7 bruuuuuhhh
I have no idea why, but watching this even for like the seventh time makes my eyes water. This is just marvelous, incredible and wonderful on a whole another level.
One of the best episodes so far, that was honestly so awesome to see it unfold like that, and the fact that the whole system not only worked but it did it so fast. Just so cool.
23:13 - LSD was put into the system!
Hey, that's actually exactly how LSD affects brain. Nice example :)
That’s right
This is the most Vsauce video of Mindfield (to this point): no hidden camera, funny editing, comedy and a lot of puns. I really enjoyed Michael here!
It has an interesting and drawing title aswell
he literally created mind field in mind field, truly one of the show of all time
This video is absolutely phenomenal, this is literally a small scale simulation of the brain that was planned with very good detail to work very efficiently, and transmitted to the viewers the underlying concepts of the signalling process that occurs in our brain, in a groundbreaking way. Truly brilliant work.
I love this show, it is the only reason I still have youtube premium because to me this show is worth it
same
Remember that you also get a google music subscription with your YT Red subscription. It's the only music app I use anymore.
@@firstnamelastname9955 same, also no ads without feeling like a scumbag
Dont forget being able to download podcasts and videos and music!
same! haha
Old professor telling his story: "Well it all started as a neuron."
as a marching band kid, michael being a former marcher himself is honestly heartwarming.
Dude I love your pfp lol
"We can pick up that one brain cell and say 'Are you damaged?'" Me towards my only braincell
Dang, I wish I had as much enthusiasm as Neuron #24. Look at that guy go, he's an inspiration.
Imagine that, in the future, Vsauce released his last video ever, and he literally says “Hey! Vsauce here. By the way, everything on my channel was fake. You believed it, didn’t you?” Michael then proceeds to explain the entire collection of psychological effects that he used to convince the world that his KZhead channel was honest research. When in reality, the entire channel was a long-term experiment. Forget the meme of getting vectored, getting vsauced is up next.
Lol
You just made me lose my smartness gained from Vsause I will never be able to believe his shiz again
except he hasn't fooled us now that there is doubt caused by you which spread to 79 people whoat the time i'm writing this liked your comment including me that may or may not spread it further
@@PenumbraDweller count me in
You just adding up to my existential crisis.
This is probably my favorite episode of MindField. Thank you for making this free. I'm glad I get to watch these videos over and over, and share them with the new youngsters in my life so they can learn from the same amazing guy that I did!
Thank you, Michael, from the bottom of my heart for making the entire Mind Field series free. You are inspiring future generations to ask questions and stay curious, pursue careers in academic fields like science, psychology, and philosophy, and to have their minds expanded. I’m looking forward to binge-watching all these episodes.
Michael, please ignore the naysayers. I am happy you are now making money off of your hard work and being given the budgets to produce top quality content of your own direction. Mind Field is great. The DMT episode was really adventurous. I have an immense respect for you creatively and intellectually. Keep it up Michael, you are an inspiration.
Mind Field is great, but I personally prefer Vsauce. That is just my taste and that is just a fact.
He's always made money off of his work, and ignoring "naysayers" is a good way to blind yourself to genuinely helpful criticisms.
@@wynterfoxx2517 There's always gonna be people complaining who want free content. DONG has VSauce style videos for free. Most criticisms here are just stubbornness, not valid criticisms
Church Of Thought well now they don’t have a reason to complain, eh? :)
Avik Das lmao, chill and enjoy the food for thought Michael provides
I have so much respect for my brain now. I'm going to start myself as 'us'
I feel like people will think you're referencing Venom. Now that's a conversation starter.
you gon have to put that on your instagram bio and confuse the ever loving shit out of people
@@PenumbraDweller Your brain clearly doesn't have enough people.
@@wta1518 why the hate man XD woke up with black forces energy?
Fun fact: A lot of people in my country, India, refer to ourselves as hum in our native language, it means we. I do it as well.
Thank you Michael! Your program is amazing, enlightening, and smartly done. It is also very funny! My absolute favorite!
Michael, you have blown my mind with this episode wish you all the best .. and as always thank you for being you
Michael: "And as always, thanks for wa- being a brain"
When ever michael jump cuts from one place to another I just imagine he teleports there randomly
Yeah he can do that
Me: puts like on Michaels Episode My Moral Licensing goes up Michael: and as always thanks for watching Me: doesnt say you’re welcome Theory confirmed
**cough** **cough** "thanks for being a brain" **cough** **cough**
I wish they went into how they employed the logic and specific “programming” of the neural network, there are quite a few ways to do it so I would have loved to see how they did.
"Body's prowess....at the clarinet". I love your sense of humor!
Michael, the "Clarinet Sporto"
@@Cjnw v
"7...and we put a line through it." haha. That is how we draw Sevens in Germany, so that you cant confuse a ugly 7 with a 1. I just noticed for the first time, that the keyboard 7 also has no line through it.
Here in Brazil too. Though, I think that both ways (w/ and w/o the line) are used everywhere. I don't think it is a country thing, but that it varies from person to person. I have no evidence to speak for everyone, but as far as I know, there are people who write 7 with and people who write it without the line. I personally do put a line through 7, it just looks weird if I don't XD.
The comment has 7 likes
I'm from the US and I put a line through my 7's if i accidentally make an ugly one which is most of the time
I always put a line through it and I’m American
germans have "drei" sense of humour.
My Brain during an exam 24:24
This is the most fascinating and enjoyable Mindfield episode that I have watched until now! Thank you, Michael, for enlightening us!
This warmed my heart, seeing him collaborate with his hometown like this!
I spent a lot of time here, impressing the world with my body's prowess… *at the clarinet*
My brain while planning to do a clutch in a video game: 20:18 My brain when it's time to do that clutch: 24:25
This is probably the best episode of any documentary or series or anything about science I have ever seen, such a good video
Mom: “Why are you home from school so late?” Me: “Oh that’s because I was a braincell today!!”
' na
This was absolutely insane. Easily my favorite episode
ए
i like the sign. "mild field season 3 film crew welcome to stilwell" 4:51
Amazing visualization! Thank you all for doing this and sharing it!
I am genuinely shocked at how amazing this was.
He made his hometown function as a brain on a football field. I guess you could call it a: Field Mind
Nice stolen joke
@@lukerubin1896 The show's called mind field, and there's a mind field. I'm sure more than one person came to that conclusion.
LOL
*you had one job*
@@lukerubin1896 hi peanut brain man dream stan, you do not represent dream well
10:56 Finally... some people starting arrays at 0 ! Love you Michael, great show, can't wait for S4, you seemed to have so much fun ❤
This is my favourite episode. I still come back to watch it every so often.
This is why seizures happen in the brain, huh? Because the flashing lights fire the neurons on and off continuously.. Wow! Such a good episode
n-not quite, but warmer? It's a significant bit more complicated
Epilepsy
my mum has nocturnal epilepsy. it's a common misconception that epilepsy=photosensitive, which is not true at all, in fact it's quite rare. seizures are due to abnormal signalling in the brain, photosensitive epilepsy is triggered by visual stimuli, my mum's is triggered by a combo of sleep hormones and dream activity
I wonder how many "neurons" it would take to carry out a simple addition, with only the retina seeing the numbers used
Depends how big you want the numbers to be that you add together. You can add together 1+1 with around 5 neurons. Then I think you need an extra 8 or so neurons for every power of two increase. This is based on the equivalence between artificial neurons, logic gates and integer arithmetic.
Dylan Cope I’m talking about separate systems like in this experiment that see the numbers, relay them back, have another section understand the full numbers, a further back section add them up and then output the number. Basically this entire system with an addition function
@@brandonhughes4076 ahhh cool. You could have two image detector networks and them an adder network, but the adder network would be roughly the same size as a detector. However, this is a bit overkill. It would probably be possible to train a network roughly the same size as one detector number that could compute the additional of two input numbers. As far are the network is concerned, the world is just inputs and labels. The pattern corresponding to "4+7" simply has the label "11". I doubt the network they've created is at full capacity, so it should be possible to retrain for your addition task.
Judging from introspection and computer design, you don’t need to create a linear neural network. The addition is better represented by a memory combined with an adder unit and a clock, so you can do addition one digit at a time and store intermediate results.
As someone who lives just down the road from Stilwell, I'm happy Michael still staying involved in his hometown.
It will be amazing to see how our understanding of ourselves will make us more aware of who we truly are, Michael really deserves a legacy for the efforts he has put in contributing to Neuroscience. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
"Get Procreating" Sorry Michael, best I can do is 0.
,,Get procreating, please. I want to make a bigger superhuman mind" is my new favourite quote. I will quote it in random places at random times without context.
Watching this now from Stilwell KS.
Eat a poopy! 😁❤️
Jesse Mole 🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘
Were you a brain cell?
These replies make no sense
This is just awesome!!! thank you for the editing and the afford!
You are a GENIUS!!! I can't even comprehend how you think about these projects.. Thank you so much for this extremely informative lesson!
What is good about YT premium is that all comments on the video are about the video it self. Please don't say that my comment isn't about the video
Well your watching a channel for learning. I'm sure if you went to the other YT Red channels you'd get some weird comments haha! And I wonder about the Red series by channela for kids, obviously kids can't purchase Red themselves. So make me wonder if kids are watching those series or adults?
@@huntzkush what if parents get YT red so that their children doesn't encounter inappropriate Ads or videos. Or maybe Google knows that there are some grown up people who are into children videos.
parents buy it for them.
Who likes fortnite
Not anymore Breaking bad>GOT
I live in your hometown and i didnt even know, thats pretty epic
Lucky! That is so cool :D
You don't even deserve to be in the presence of the sauce man then
that is pretty pathetic. how dare you not knowing the Sauce Man?!?!
You're not even worthy to view his DONG
missed it
such a fun video. appreciate the time and effort for this series michael
an amazing episode, i even had eyes full of tears. probably my best source of brainfood on yt