Join Philomena Cunk as she embarks on a comedic journey to unravel life's most profound mysteries, from the origins of the universe to the future of artificial intelligence. This mockumentary-style film features Cunk's unique, often misguided, observations as she interviews academics and creatives. Prepare for a humorous and thought-provoking exploration of existence.
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00:00:00Have you ever looked around at the limitless majesty of creation and wondered, wondered
00:00:21what all these forests, valleys, mountains and puddles are actually for? Wondered how
00:00:27many buildings were knocked down to make way for them and who granted the planning permission?
00:00:32Wondered about all the incredible yet musky animals we share our planet with. What's up
00:00:37with them? From pointless ants to long-necked horse monsters, from repugnant wombats to
00:00:44beautiful elephants. What do the creatures want and why do they refuse to tell us? And
00:00:52then of course, there's us. Humanikkind. Have you ever wondered how we got here? Wondered
00:00:58where we're going? Wondered about the biggest mystery of all? What is the meaning of life?
00:01:04Well, I haven't. But others have. For thousands of years, thinkers, artists, authors and my
00:01:11aunt Carol have struggled to define humankind's purpose. Is life's meaning a riddle that even
00:01:17can be answered? And if so, should we listen? Or cover our ears to avoid spoilers? In this
00:01:23landmark documentary special, I'll travel the globe to walk in slow motion through picturesque
00:01:29locations, get up close to some of the most significant molecules in existence and meet
00:01:35a variety of academics, experts and professional mammals to ask some of the most significant questions
00:01:41you can say with a mouth. Hello, who are you? I'm Brian Cox, professor of particle physics
00:01:46at the University of Manchester. Can I call you Brian or do you prefer Cox? So join me,
00:01:51Philomena Conk, as I uncover the point of it all. This is Conk On Life!
00:02:12Welcome to our universe. A limitless expanse peppered with stars, planets and assorted space
00:02:20stars, planets and stars, planets and stars, planets and stars. It's where you live. In fact,
00:02:24you're somewhere in this photo. But we don't know where, because the universe is so vast,
00:02:30we simply can't make you out, even with your ears.
00:02:37Gazing into this infinite tapestry makes us ask questions, not just about where the ceiling's
00:02:43gone, but deep questions that strike at the very core of our arseholes. Questions like,
00:02:49how did it get here?
00:02:56Who are you? I'm Douglas Headley and I teach the philosophy of religion at the University
00:03:02of Cambridge. So, why are we here?
00:03:06You mean why human beings exist?
00:03:09No, I mean, why are we here in, in, is this near your house or something?
00:03:14No.
00:03:16Took me 90 minutes to get here on the Piccadilly Line.
00:03:19There are countless theories about how the universe got here, and the earliest one comes
00:03:25from the wacky world of religion. This is the Good Old Testament, the first entry in
00:03:31the Christian cinematic universe. Jesus isn't in this one. It's mainly about his bad-tempered
00:03:36dad. A man so mysterious, we still only know him by his stage name. God.
00:03:43I'm going to go straight in at the deep end. Is there a God?
00:03:47Yes.
00:03:48Oh, that was quick.
00:03:50Hmm.
00:03:51Great. Has anyone proved it?
00:03:55No, except to their own satisfaction. Does God have a brother called Simon?
00:04:02No.
00:04:03But they can't prove that either, so he might have. The universe could have been created
00:04:08by Simon. The Old Testament claims God, and or Simon, created our universe in just
00:04:15seven days. It sounds like a lot to achieve in such a short space of time. But unlike us,
00:04:21God wasn't constantly interrupted by iPhone notifications. God started by saying, let
00:04:27there be light, which makes sense because he needed to be able to see what he was doing.
00:04:31Then he divided light from dark, like I do when I'm doing a clothes wash. Next, he created
00:04:37the firmament, whatever that is, and the oceans and the stars. For his next trick, God filled
00:04:43the oceans with water animals, or fish, as they're sometimes known, and the heavens with
00:04:48sky beasts, or birds. Then he infested the earth with insects, reptiles, mammals, and
00:04:54whatever category of things slugs are. And finally, for his croning achievement, he created
00:05:00perhaps the only thing worth celebrating. Us.
00:05:05Here on the planet of Italy is the Sistine Chapel. Inside it is an astonishing collection of images,
00:05:12created by overachieving painter-decorator, Michael A. N. Gello. This artwork took him four
00:05:19years to complete, ruining a perfectly good ceiling in the process. But whatever you think
00:05:25of it, what it depicts is momentous. The moment God created life by jizzing us out of his hands.
00:05:34This image of the most significant finger-banging history has inspired visitors to the Sistine Chapel
00:05:39for many centuries, and visitors to this replica for less time than that.
00:05:44It's perhaps the greatest masterpiece in all of art, but also the most annoying to look at. When I gaze
00:05:51up at it, I'm struck by a sense of wonder, but mainly by a crick in my neck.
00:05:57When Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, did he start on the floor, and then they flipped the
00:06:03building over? Or was it always on the ceiling? The painting was always on the ceiling.
00:06:09It's quite high up, isn't it? Did Michelangelo use a really long brush, or did he have really
00:06:15long arms? Well, he had to stand up on top of some scaffolding and bend his head backwards.
00:06:22Wouldn't paint drip down into his eyes when he was doing it? I bet he was blinking the
00:06:27whole time, like that. He doesn't complain about that, but he must have done.
00:06:32However he did it, painting the Sistine Chapel must have been a great upper body workout. How
00:06:37strong were Michelangelo's arms? Like, if a mad priest had leapt on his back while he
00:06:42was painting it, would he have been able to reach round and pull him off?
00:06:46Oh yeah, I think so. I think Michelangelo was quite muscular. He must have been.
00:06:52So he could really yank him off? I think he could have done, yeah.
00:06:56The man God's creating here is called Adam. He's one half of the first celebrity couple, Adam
00:07:02and Eve, played here by actors who happily signed a nudity waiver.
00:07:07Of course the real Adam and Eve wouldn't have had tattoos. We'd have to paint over our intimate
00:07:12piercings. We'd have to ask them to take out and hand to our researcher for safekeeping.
00:07:17We've pixelated the offensive parts of their bodies, a technology that wasn't available in
00:07:21Old Testament times, which is why I can see everything, even though I don't really want
00:07:26to. Adam and Eve weren't just the first humans to exist, but the first humans to disappoint
00:07:32their dad. God had hidden the secret of knowledge inside a delicious looking fruit and then forbidden
00:07:38them to eat it for some fucking reason. But eat it they did. An early example of an apple product
00:07:44hastening the downfall of humankind. This was the original sin. And ever since, all humans
00:07:51have been considered sinful. Sinners worry God might punish them, but what about you?
00:08:07Well, I'm a sinner like anybody else. No, I mean, should they worry about you punishing them?
00:08:17Uh, no. God realised he needed help keeping us sinful humans in check, and he knew just you
00:08:26to call on. This is Holy Moses, the most successful influencer of Old Testament times, very much the
00:08:33Mr Beast of his day. One day God invited Moses to the top of Mount Sinai, and handed him a set of
00:08:39rules for life carved on stone tablets. It was the world's first and heaviest press release. God commanded
00:08:46Moses to spread this message far and wide, which must have been annoying for Moses, because he'd have to
00:08:51carry the tablets back down on foot, and probably didn't have room in his rucksack. How many Ten Commandments
00:08:57were there? How many? You just named them ten. So there were ten Ten Commandments. There weren't a hundred
00:09:04Commandments. There were ten Commandments. There were ten Commandments. Yes. That's it.
00:09:11These shalts and shalt-nots are a set of terms and conditions for humankind. All Christians had to
00:09:17agree to abide by them, and also accept occasional promotional messages from God on subjects that may interest them.
00:09:23How did God manage to boil his terms and conditions down to just ten points, when the iPhone end-user
00:09:30license agreement is about a hundred pages long? Well, it just proves the point that God is God, and so he's
00:09:36a lot more concise than we are. Is it a legally binding contract? It is a covenant, which is a covenant of
00:09:42love between God and God's people. No, I meant the iPhone one. In a bid to stay in God's good books, devout followers
00:09:51avoid sinful pleasures, like lusting after sloths, during their lifetimes.
00:10:00Not everyone thinks enjoying yourself is bad. Some people dedicate their lives to hedonism. The sleaziest
00:10:06ism there is, apart from jism.
00:10:10Entire cities have been built for hedonist pursuits. Impressive, opulent cities like Swansea
00:10:17and Wales. And also this place. This is Las Vegas. Spanish for The Vegas. With its culture
00:10:25of casinos, strip clubs and round-the-clock drinking, it's a Mecca for people who aren't going to Mecca.
00:10:31Vegas is a shimmering visual metaphor for human indulgence, according to our director. And too
00:10:37far away and expensive for us to film in, according to our producer, who lost the argument.
00:10:42Given its reputation, Las Vegas is also known as Sin City, which is short for Cincinnati, or
00:10:53would be if that wasn't a different place altogether. Many of the tourists who flock here
00:10:58each year hope that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Maybe that's true, but on the other
00:11:04hand, God sees everything. Even that thing my ex Sean used to do with his thumb. Worse still, God
00:11:11doesn't just know about the sinful things you've done. He also knows about the sinful things
00:11:16you're merely thinking of doing. God knows everything we're thinking. That's a data privacy nightmare,
00:11:23isn't it? Is there a way to opt out? Not that I'm aware of. Could you put God off the scent
00:11:30by only thinking decoy thoughts, like only thinking the opposite of what you actually think? Would
00:11:36that work? I don't think so. No.
00:11:40Because you're not just dealing with a God who is omniscient, knows everything. You're also
00:11:45dealing with a God who is omnipotent, is all-powerful. I'll be honest, this relationship with God
00:11:50throws up a lot of red flags. He's watching us all the time. He sets rules. He's got a terrible
00:11:57temper. He even thinks he's God. Isn't he basically just a toxic narcissist?
00:12:03If you follow God's rules religiously, you'll ascend to the kingdom of heaven. Which sounds great,
00:12:09although, if you're old when you die, you might not want to be going up a lot of stairs.
00:12:14In heaven, nobody has to work anymore. The most that will be asked of you is doing the washing up. But since
00:12:21all earthly appetites will have been sated, we can only be talking about the odd mog.
00:12:26The alternative to heaven is hell, a fiery pit of damnation and eternal torment, which currently
00:12:33only has two stars on TripAdvisor. This is quite a spiritual show. Can I ask about our souls? Do we get
00:12:42judged for the cleanliness of our souls when we get to heaven?
00:12:45I think we get judged by how we've acted in the world.
00:12:49When we look into our souls, what do we find there?
00:12:54Well, it depends on how far we're prepared to look into it.
00:12:58How far you look up, yeah.
00:13:01God's unforgiving nature means his believers try to stay in his good books
00:13:06through a form of organised grovelling called worship.
00:13:12CHOIR SINGS
00:13:15Enter our souls, King of heaven, even though they we not see.
00:13:24Enter our souls resolutely penetrating the depths within.
00:13:34Our souls, our souls, our souls, our souls, fill them up unto the free.
00:13:48Many find praising God in this way gives them a purpose in life, sucking up to the boss.
00:13:55If God's up there looking down on us, why do we kneel when we pray?
00:13:59Kneeling is the expression of a sense of awe and holiness.
00:14:06Yeah, but what's the point in kneeling though all bent over?
00:14:09You know, it's terrible acoustics.
00:14:11Wouldn't it be better to stand up and shout a list of demands up to the sky?
00:14:15God is not in the sky, literally.
00:14:17Right. So where is he? Has he got an address?
00:14:20God is present in all places and all times.
00:14:29What, even like in cupboards?
00:14:31Well, you've raised a very important question here
00:14:35because one way of thinking about the divine presence is in terms of his knowledge.
00:14:46So maybe God is not located in the cupboard, but he knows about the state of affairs in the cupboards.
00:14:56Sorry, is he in a cupboard or not?
00:14:59Not everyone believes God is solely responsible for giving us life.
00:15:03Other origin stories are available.
00:15:07The man slowly moving towards you is unshaven Victorian genius Charles Darwin.
00:15:12One day Darwin rode a beagle to the Galapagos Islands, where an exotic tortoise gave him an idea in the form of a theory.
00:15:19A theory that human bodies haven't always been human bodies.
00:15:24Why do we say our ancestors came in apes?
00:15:29Our ancestors came?
00:15:31In apes.
00:15:32Ah.
00:15:33They didn't come from apes.
00:15:35Apes and ourselves came from something else.
00:15:39A chimp.
00:15:40Sort of, you know, it's not exactly like a chimp or a modern ape or ourselves.
00:15:45Right.
00:15:46So we didn't come in and chimp?
00:15:47No.
00:15:48It's hard to believe we all mutated from monkey meat, unless you consider all life is basically the same at a microscopic level.
00:15:56Lots of things are alive, from tiny microbes to bigger microbes.
00:16:01Every life form is made of cells, like a prison, which is probably why existence is so depressing.
00:16:08It's a life sentence.
00:16:10Just like the sentences I say in this programme about life.
00:16:13Are cells worth having?
00:16:17Well, without cells we wouldn't be.
00:16:20We're made up of trillions of cells.
00:16:22We all came from a single cell.
00:16:24So they're really important to us.
00:16:26Are my cells dividing and multiplying all the time, like even when I'm sitting here now?
00:16:32Since you've been sat there, they've probably, you've had about a million cell divisions going on in your body.
00:16:37Ah, no wonder I feel so worn out all the time.
00:16:40Cells couldn't multiply without this, the IKEA instruction manual for life, DNA.
00:16:47DNA is tiny yet complex, like Tom Cruise.
00:16:51It would take a typist over 50 years to type out the DNA sequence, which would be stupid because she could just cut and paste it and go home.
00:16:58I call her she because of unconscious bias, which is in my DNA and not my fault.
00:17:04Have you heard of DNA?
00:17:07Yes.
00:17:08Do we all have DNA or do some of us have D or A, but not both?
00:17:15No, it's not D and A. It's three letters, D-N-A.
00:17:20Can you tell by looking at me whether I have DNA?
00:17:23Well, I know you have DNA because you're a living organism and all life has DNA.
00:17:28My mate Paul tried to create a new life form by inserting his DNA into a grapefruit.
00:17:34But halfway through the experiment, the green grasses started hitting him.
00:17:39Why is science so controversial?
00:17:44Sorry, that question didn't follow from your story of the DNA?
00:17:49No, it changed, yeah.
00:17:51One of life's biggest mysteries is how it's possible for me to look both like my mother and my father at the same time, even though I've only got one face.
00:18:04Is it true the most important thing we can do as humans is piss in our genes?
00:18:10Pass on our genes.
00:18:12Sorry?
00:18:13Sorry, it's a pass on our genes.
00:18:15Oh, right.
00:18:16Is it true the most important thing we can do as a human is pass on our genes?
00:18:25Well, I don't know if it's the most important thing, but it is very important because what it means is that you pass on your genes from you to your child.
00:18:36What if I don't want to pass on any of mine?
00:18:38Then, erm, then you don't have to.
00:18:40Right.
00:18:41How can I avoid it?
00:18:42Well, erm, you have to make love.
00:18:45What, to avoid passing on my genes?
00:18:49All living things reproduce, which means all living things procreate.
00:18:56Dogs, lions, pigs, penguins, monkeys, shell monsters, elephants, horses, David and Victoria Beckham, and pigs again.
00:19:05The female reproductive organs are largely hidden indoors for safekeeping and are normally only visible behind some kind of paywall.
00:19:13By contrast, the male genitals, or mister genitals, live on the outside of the body, where they can be easily photographed and DM'd to a potential mate without consent.
00:19:23So, which bit's the penis?
00:19:26So, the penis is over here.
00:19:28It's this bit here.
00:19:29Right.
00:19:30I'll talk quietly.
00:19:31I don't want to wake him.
00:19:32OK.
00:19:33This is a flaccid penis, so for sexual intercourse, it has to become erect.
00:19:38So, what happens then? What bit goes where?
00:19:41So, this penis needs to become erect, and then it will be put into the vagina here during intercourse, and he's going to ejaculate sperm through his penis and then into the woman's vagina.
00:19:53Christ.
00:19:55I hope nothing like that ever happens to me.
00:19:58The disappointingly flavoured soup that vomits from the penis contains millions of plucky young tadpoles which swim their way up through the female pipework towards an egg, and then kamikaze into it like a tiny 9-11 happening up a lady.
00:20:13This is where, incredibly, the miracle of life begins and the precise moment that a woman's right to choose ends.
00:20:23Nine months after conception, the infant painlessly slides through the lady's front hole and out into the world.
00:20:30It then slowly mutates from a baby into an actual human being.
00:20:35But what exactly is a human being? What percentage of people have a human body?
00:20:42All humans have a human body.
00:20:44What about people holding a cat? Have they got a human body and a cat's body, or does it not work that way?
00:20:51No, the two are completely separate. The human is a human and the cat is a cat.
00:20:56Human biology has existed almost as long as humans themselves, if not longer.
00:21:03It involves a complex arrangement of skin and meat machines called organs.
00:21:08Put these organs in a plastic bag and walk around a shoe shop with them and you'd be arrested.
00:21:13But put them in the right order and you've got a human body, an exquisitely constructed machine that also farts on its crisps.
00:21:23Our organs are so gory, some people can't bear to see images like this.
00:21:27If you're one of those sensitive viewers, look away five seconds ago.
00:21:32Is the correct term for all this awful or gore, all this stuff?
00:21:38That is, this is called the intestine.
00:21:40If you pulled an intestine out, how long would it be?
00:21:44It would be many metres.
00:21:46OK, but why are you pulling it out?
00:21:48We wouldn't normally pull it out unless there was a disease process.
00:21:52Right, so you don't know why it's happening?
00:21:54No.
00:21:55All these slimy innards need a surrounding structure to stop them slopping onto the floor for passers-by to slip on.
00:22:01We wouldn't be upstanding citizens if it wasn't for this, the human skeleton of ghost train fame.
00:22:07It's incredible to think that there's one of these inside some of us.
00:22:12Did you know only 40% of people have skeletons?
00:22:16Where did you get this figure from?
00:22:19It's true, I saw a video about it.
00:22:21You only find out if you've got a skeleton after you die.
00:22:24Some people are just solid meat.
00:22:26This is...
00:22:27You know Burt Lancaster, the actor? He was solid meat, apparently, like a sausage.
00:22:32Every human being has a skeleton. That figure is 100%.
00:22:38Did you know knees are a con?
00:22:40Why do you say that?
00:22:41Apparently, if you walk everywhere without bending your legs, you can prolong your life by about eight years.
00:22:46I went running this morning. How would I run without bending my knees?
00:22:51I'm not saying you didn't bend your knees.
00:22:53Yes.
00:22:54I'm just saying that if you didn't bend your knees, you could prolong your life by eight years.
00:22:59Although it does make stairs a problem, I'll grant you that.
00:23:03The most important bit of the human body is up here, in the driver's compartment, or skull.
00:23:10Imprisoned within every skull is a creature we've enslaved to do our thinking for us.
00:23:14A sort of smart cauliflower known as the brain.
00:23:18So, this is a brain.
00:23:20This is a brain.
00:23:21How many of these are in an average head?
00:23:24We have one each.
00:23:26Just the one?
00:23:27Just the one brain.
00:23:29The brain doesn't just tackle complex tasks like blinking or making porridge.
00:23:34It also handles trivial things, like our entire human consciousness.
00:23:39The origins of which are a complete mystery.
00:23:44Does the brain generate the consciousness, or does the consciousness operate the brain?
00:23:50You'll find lots of disagreement about this.
00:23:53Oh, I'm sorry, and I'm supposed to remind you to keep your answer coherent for our fuckwitted viewers.
00:23:59It is a complicated question.
00:24:01My view is that the brain generates consciousness.
00:24:05But consciousness gives us the ability to do things that we wouldn't be able to do if we weren't conscious.
00:24:12And apparently I wasn't supposed to read that card aloud, so apologies to you at home.
00:24:20All of this leads to a fundamental human question.
00:24:25Who am I?
00:24:26Not me, obviously.
00:24:27I'm on the telly, so people know who I am.
00:24:30But who are you?
00:24:31What are you doing here?
00:24:33And is any of this really happening?
00:24:36When we have a thought like, if I picture a windmill, how real is that windmill?
00:24:43It's not real.
00:24:44It's not real.
00:24:45It's not real?
00:24:46It's in your mind.
00:24:47Why did I picture a windmill though?
00:24:49Is it a clue?
00:24:50A clue to...
00:24:52Something.
00:24:53I don't know.
00:24:54Depends what you are thinking about.
00:24:56What's inside the windmill?
00:24:58Depends what you are thinking about.
00:25:01What if someone lives inside the windmill, and I'm not imagining them, they're imagining
00:25:08me?
00:25:09This is a very unusual way to think about how imagination works.
00:25:15Imagination is a side effect of having a mind, and some believe it can be enhanced
00:25:21with the use of mind-expanding drugs.
00:25:24When hippies took mind-expanding drugs, how much wider did their minds get?
00:25:31Did their skulls ever pop open?
00:25:33Their skulls didn't pop open, but it meant that they were more open to ideas and philosophies
00:25:39and concepts they might not have previously considered.
00:25:42You know when people talk about opening their third eye?
00:25:47That's what my mate Paul calls the hole in the end of his penis.
00:25:51Why would anyone want to widen that?
00:25:54The use of psychopathic drugs in the 1960s also led popular figures to contemplate more
00:25:59spiritual aspects to human existence.
00:26:02When the Beatles dropped acid and went to India, did they actually go, or was that part
00:26:09of the trip?
00:26:10No, they did actually go to India, and they visited an ashram and they visited gurus
00:26:15while they were out there.
00:26:16It changed the stuff they said, didn't it?
00:26:18They said, all you need is love.
00:26:21And then George Harrison said, all things must pass.
00:26:25Those were spiritual messages, weren't they?
00:26:27So, when Paul said he was simply having a wonderful Christmas time, was there a deeper
00:26:33meaning there?
00:26:34I don't know.
00:26:35There was a deeper message there.
00:26:37And that was a bit later that Paul was having a wonderful Christmas time.
00:26:40Yeah, my ex Sean sang that to me in bed once during an intimate moment.
00:26:45Honestly, I went as dry as a cat's tongue.
00:26:49Rock stars also popularise meditation as a way to clear the stresses of modern life from
00:26:55the mind.
00:26:56Do you have to sit down to meditate, or could I do it at the same time as something else,
00:27:01like driving or operating heavy machinery?
00:27:05Some people do, some Buddhists for example, do walking meditation, so you don't have to
00:27:10sit down.
00:27:11Does meditation help our souls relax?
00:27:14Yes.
00:27:15Meditation does help our souls relax?
00:27:18Yes.
00:27:19Let's take a moment to realign ourselves with our present reality, together.
00:27:24We're going to do a guided meditation now, so feel free to join in at home.
00:27:29Close your eyes.
00:27:31Slow your breathing.
00:27:34Now, breathe in.
00:27:46Sorry, breathe out.
00:27:48Slow your breathing.
00:27:51Become aware of the rise and fall of your belly.
00:27:54Feel the fabric of your clothes on your skin.
00:27:58Why is it that particular material?
00:28:00Was it sewn together by a child in a sweatshop?
00:28:03Probably best not to think about that actually.
00:28:06Listen to my voice.
00:28:09Why have they put a sort of echo effect on it?
00:28:12I think it's so that when they show this footage of me it sounds like these are my thoughts echoing in my mind.
00:28:17Well, we filmed that weeks ago.
00:28:19Hang on.
00:28:20Where am I now?
00:28:21Hang on.
00:28:22That's me waking up and standing.
00:28:24That's not meant to happen.
00:28:26Help!
00:28:27I'm still here!
00:28:28Oh God, I've got separated from my own body.
00:28:30They said this might happen.
00:28:31Help!
00:28:32Help!
00:28:33Help!
00:28:40Well, our apologies for that.
00:28:42We had a duplicate consciousness stuck on the voiceover track.
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00:29:11Philomena pilots her very own spacecraft.
00:29:13The USS Triceratops with her intergalactic friends.
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00:29:19Together, they tore the galaxy repairing black holes and mutilating cattle.
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00:29:35Coming up on Kunk on Life.
00:29:37Meet a man facing oblivion on death row.
00:29:40I ask a philosopher to probe our souls.
00:29:44Do philosophers spend a lot of time thinking about our souls?
00:29:49And I visit the Large Hadron Collider for some astro chat with Professor Brian Cox.
00:29:55What's a black hole?
00:29:57A black hole?
00:29:58Sorry, a hole of colour.
00:30:01But first, let's take a sideways look at the suffocating inevitability of death.
00:30:10Death is the great leveller.
00:30:13In life, you might have been a billionaire supermodel, president and king.
00:30:17But the moment you die, you start rotting like a sausage in a lay-by.
00:30:21The big unknown is how you'll die.
00:30:22You might die falling off a ladder or a cliff or into a lake full of knives.
00:30:31You could be hit by a car or a bus or a tractor if you're rustic.
00:30:35Maybe you're already dead and watching this from beyond the grave, which would be a shame
00:30:39because you won't count towards the ratings.
00:30:42Statistically, which is more common, athlete's foot or death?
00:30:45Death is infinitely more common.
00:30:49In fact, it is guaranteed for all of us.
00:30:51How soon after death is it safe to resume your regular day-to-day activities?
00:30:56You can't resume your day-to-day activities once you're dead. How would you?
00:31:02So you can't do anything? You can't even listen to a podcast?
00:31:05You can't listen to anything?
00:31:07If you played a podcast to a corpse, would really none of it go in?
00:31:13Absolutely nothing would go in.
00:31:15One downside of our big brains is we're the only creatures who are aware that death is inevitable.
00:31:21Although if you line ten dogs in a row and shot them one by one,
00:31:25the dog on the end would probably get the gist by about dog four.
00:31:29Of course, it's easy to forget about death until it happens to you,
00:31:33at which point your brain gets wiped anyway.
00:31:35It wasn't like that in medieval times.
00:31:37Back then, thanks to plagues, wars and a general undercurrent of violence,
00:31:41people were casually familiar with death.
00:31:44In fact, they got FOMO when they didn't die.
00:31:47And this matey relationship with their own mortality was reflected up their art.
00:31:54This is Bruegel's triumph of death,
00:31:57which depicts an army of the undead violently laying waste to humankind
00:32:02in scenes unlikely to be adapted into a Pixar movie.
00:32:06It's terrifying to think that this actually happened.
00:32:09We're lucky Bruegel managed to capture this image
00:32:12before he too was captured by the skeletons.
00:32:14In fact, I'm surprised he could paint at all.
00:32:17My hands would have been shaking so much,
00:32:19I'd have had my own eye out with a brush.
00:32:21What the fuck is this?
00:32:26Well, it's a scene of imagination.
00:32:31But it's not a scene that Bruegel would have actually witnessed.
00:32:37I mean, but it could happen, couldn't it?
00:32:42No, it couldn't happen.
00:32:44Misinformation is getting so sophisticated, it's terrifying.
00:32:49For years, morbid art like this depicted an ominous figure dispatching human souls with a scythe.
00:32:56That's this man, the Grim Reaper.
00:32:58Don't worry, I haven't gone mad.
00:33:00It only looks like there's no one there.
00:33:02In fact, you won't be able to see the Grim Reaper at home
00:33:05unless you're going to die within the next 24 hours.
00:33:08What happens after death is the subject of huge debate.
00:33:12Some think that after you die, you evolve into a ghost,
00:33:15a sort of low-tech hologram made of haunted smoke.
00:33:19Scientists say ghosts don't exist,
00:33:21even though they've been caught on camera loads of times,
00:33:24like in Poltergeist and Poltergeist 2
00:33:27and the remake of Poltergeist.
00:33:29In fact, ghosts have been caught on camera more often than scientists have.
00:33:34So who's real now?
00:33:36Shall we move on to more hardcore scientific stuff?
00:33:41OK, so ghosts.
00:33:43When a human body dies,
00:33:45which hole does the ghost come out of, north or south?
00:33:50I don't regard ghosts as a hard scientific subject, I'm afraid.
00:33:57Let me tell you something.
00:33:59Don't dismiss it.
00:34:00In 2021, my Aunt Carol got engaged to a man called Bob Collins.
00:34:06But one day, he just vanished and cleared out a bank account.
00:34:11And when she looked up the name Bob Collins,
00:34:14she discovered he'd died in 1958.
00:34:17He'd been a ghost all along.
00:34:21Could it not just have been someone impersonating Bob Collins?
00:34:24No, no, there were photos of Bob Collins in 1958,
00:34:27and he looked totally different,
00:34:29which proves he'd disguised himself
00:34:31so she wouldn't know he was a ghost.
00:34:34You can't explain it, can you? It's terrifying.
00:34:36Isn't the easy answer that he doesn't look like him
00:34:39because it's a different person altogether?
00:34:44No, it...
00:34:49It's a ghost.
00:34:51Death, tragedy and suffering have always been part of human life.
00:34:54Struggling with lives of ceaseless misery,
00:34:56people began to wonder whether any kind of God exists at all.
00:35:02But for centuries, no-one dared voice that suspicion
00:35:05in case God did exist and smited them shitless.
00:35:09But that was about to change.
00:35:12It's 1883, and German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
00:35:15is hard at work in his study, putting his thoughts on paper.
00:35:19Don't worry, he can't hear me.
00:35:22He's about to write one of the most controversial...
00:35:25He's about to write one of the most controversial catchphrases in history.
00:35:39Three little words by the name of God is dead.
00:35:43Nietzsche said God is dead, didn't he?
00:35:46And now he's dead himself.
00:35:48Who's next? Did he name the killer before he died?
00:35:52Nietzsche.
00:35:54No.
00:35:56I think he thought that...
00:35:59people should realise that they had constructed a God
00:36:03that actually wasn't doing them as much good as they thought,
00:36:07and people need to realise...
00:36:09not perhaps that he was dead, but that he hadn't existed.
00:36:13So he's saying that we killed him?
00:36:16In effect.
00:36:17But I wasn't even born.
00:36:19No, yeah.
00:36:20Nietzsche can fuck off.
00:36:22Hmm.
00:36:24Can we be sure God didn't kill himself?
00:36:27You know, cos you never know what people are going through.
00:36:32It's possible.
00:36:33Nietzsche's proclamation that God was dead caused an intellectual firestorm,
00:36:39as writers and thinkers debated the decline of religious authority
00:36:44in an increasingly secularised world,
00:36:47107 years before the release of unrelated Belgian techno anthem,
00:36:51Pump Up The Jam.
00:36:52Pump Up The Jam.
00:36:53Pump it up.
00:36:54While your feet are stumping.
00:36:55And the jam is pumping.
00:36:56Look ahead, the crowd is jumping.
00:36:57Pump it up a little more.
00:36:58Get the party going on the dance floor.
00:36:59See, cos that's where the party's at, and you'll find out if you do that.
00:37:01I want a place to stay.
00:37:02Pump up the jam, pump it up
00:37:10While your feet are stumping
00:37:12And the jam is pumping
00:37:13Look ahead, the crowd is jumping
00:37:15Pump it up a little more
00:37:17Get the party going on the dance floor
00:37:19See, cause that's where the party's at
00:37:21And you'll find out if you do that
00:37:23I want a place to stay
00:37:27Get your booty on the floor tonight
00:37:30Make my day
00:37:31I want a place to stay
00:37:35Get your booty on the floor tonight
00:37:37Make my day
00:37:39Make my day
00:37:41Make my day
00:37:43Make my day
00:37:45Make my day
00:37:46But if Nietzsche was right and God is dead
00:37:56It means we've got no higher entities judging our lifestyles
00:37:59Except the people from the flat upstairs
00:38:01It could create a terrifying moral vacuum
00:38:04In which people feel free to behave atrociously
00:38:07Like they did in the entertainment industry of the 1970s
00:38:11And the 80s and the 90s
00:38:132000s, 2010s and today
00:38:16Luckily, moral guidance was on hand
00:38:18Thanks to the world of literature
00:38:21There were a lot of influential Russian writers in the 19th century
00:38:28Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Turnover and Pushkin
00:38:33Who was best?
00:38:36I like Pushkin
00:38:37Yeah?
00:38:38Yes
00:38:39What about Turnover?
00:38:41Turnover
00:38:41Is...
00:38:43What did he write?
00:38:45Oh, I don't know
00:38:46It's in the notes
00:38:47The main influential Russian writers were Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Turnover and Pushkin
00:38:58It's all right if you've not heard of him, it's fine
00:39:01You shouldn't be embarrassed
00:39:01I hadn't heard of him either
00:39:03Yeah, no, no
00:39:04This is one of the literary world's greatest moral thinkers
00:39:08Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky
00:39:11Seen here enjoying himself at a party
00:39:13He wrote many books still not read to this day
00:39:16But his most celebrated work
00:39:19His absolute tour de France
00:39:20His unopened masterpiece, Crimean de Punishment
00:39:23Crime and Punishment grapples with individual freedom
00:39:27The role of authority and the complexities of morality
00:39:31What would you give it out of ten?
00:39:32I'd give it nine, I think
00:39:36Nine
00:39:36Yeah
00:39:37Nine
00:39:39Punishment hasn't changed much since Dostoevsky's day
00:39:44Although incredibly, in some countries
00:39:46If an offender's crime was really bad
00:39:48The authorities will actually cut their sentence short
00:39:51By killing them
00:39:53Capital punishment forces us to ask questions like
00:39:57Does it hurt?
00:39:58Are tickets available?
00:39:59And what's the view like from seat 6A?
00:40:01And also other more profound moral questions
00:40:04Why do we say people are facing the electric chair
00:40:08When they've got their backs to it?
00:40:11Well, I think you're taking it too literally there
00:40:12What we mean by facing the electric chair
00:40:14Is facing an inevitable death
00:40:17This is Waylon Jackalote the fourth
00:40:21In 2019, he skinned six people alive
00:40:24And was rewarded with his own Netflix documentary
00:40:27And a guest spot on death row
00:40:29And I'm delighted to say he's joining us right now
00:40:33So, Waylon, you murdered six people
00:40:36Where'd you get your ideas from?
00:40:38It's kind of tough for me to dwell on
00:40:41All I can say is
00:40:43The Waylon Jackalote
00:40:45That killed those folks
00:40:46Was a different man
00:40:49To the one you see today
00:40:50So it wasn't you?
00:40:52You're innocent?
00:40:53Well, no, ma'am
00:40:55I killed them
00:40:56Oh, thank God for that
00:40:58So, um, have you been on death row before
00:41:01Or is this your first time?
00:41:04First time?
00:41:05You're facing the electric chair
00:41:07Aren't you worried about what's going to happen?
00:41:09I've made my peace with the Lord
00:41:11And I'm ready to meet him
00:41:13Yeah, but aren't you scared it'll hurt?
00:41:15It's millions of volts
00:41:17My mate Paul says
00:41:18You liver fries
00:41:19And your kidneys pop
00:41:21And your bowels go into reverse flow
00:41:23And shoot boiling shit up into your throat
00:41:25Which chokes you
00:41:26Apparently it'd be genuinely more humane
00:41:29To just pay some of the other inmates
00:41:30To hold you down
00:41:31And physically pull your head off
00:41:32Anyway, um
00:41:39Best of luck
00:41:40Actually, before you go
00:41:43Could you just do a quick promo thing for us
00:41:45Into that phone?
00:41:47Could you say
00:41:48Watch me die on kunk on life?
00:41:51It's for TikTok
00:41:52It's only short
00:41:52Watch me die on kunk for life
00:41:58On life, on life
00:42:00Watch me die on kunk on life
00:42:05There you go
00:42:07Wasn't hard, was it?
00:42:10Why does the electric chair
00:42:12Only do one person at a time?
00:42:15Could you have an electric bench
00:42:17That does about seven in one go?
00:42:19You probably could
00:42:20We definitely shouldn't
00:42:22Would be quicker though
00:42:23And you can do them in batches
00:42:24It would be quicker
00:42:25But we'd have to accept
00:42:26That the death penalty
00:42:27Was a sensible and useful thing to do
00:42:30And I don't accept that
00:42:31Electrocuting people
00:42:32Isn't very eco-friendly
00:42:34Is it?
00:42:34Could we steam them to death instead?
00:42:38I'm sure there are other ways
00:42:39Of administering the death penalty
00:42:42That might be more eco-friendly
00:42:45I think their preference
00:42:47Would be to not do it at all
00:42:48In a just and moral society
00:42:50Is it better to kill one innocent person
00:42:53Than to save one innocent person?
00:42:57It's never going to be better
00:42:58To kill an innocent person
00:42:59I don't think
00:43:00Contemplating weighty
00:43:02Big-bummed life and death dilemmas
00:43:04In a godless universe
00:43:06Opens the door to nihilism
00:43:08And existentialism
00:43:09Two of the hardest to spell concepts
00:43:11In philosophy
00:43:12So nihilism is the view
00:43:17That nothing
00:43:18Absolutely nothing
00:43:19Matters
00:43:20Why don't people mention
00:43:22The nihilists
00:43:23On their dating profiles?
00:43:25I went on a date
00:43:26With a bloke
00:43:27And 20 minutes in
00:43:28He said he was a nihilist
00:43:30And that
00:43:31Because human existence is futile
00:43:33There was no point
00:43:34Continuing with the date
00:43:35And he left
00:43:36And I had to pay
00:43:37Was he a nihilist
00:43:39Or just a prick?
00:43:40Probably both
00:43:42Yeah
00:43:43As I suspected
00:43:44Nihilism is the belief
00:43:48That life is meaningless
00:43:49And nothing is worth believing in
00:43:51Except more nihilism
00:43:53Existentialism is the same as that
00:43:55But using longer words
00:43:56Who's the most famous
00:43:59Existentialist in history?
00:44:02Probably Jean-Paul Sartre
00:44:05Right
00:44:05See I'd have said it was E.T.
00:44:07This is the first
00:44:10Celebrity existentialist
00:44:12Parisian writer
00:44:13Jean-Paul Sartre
00:44:14And Ringo
00:44:15Sartre saw things
00:44:16Differently to everybody else
00:44:17Partly because of
00:44:18His questioning mindset
00:44:19But mainly because
00:44:21Of those eyes
00:44:21I mean seriously
00:44:23You could probably see
00:44:24The back of his own ears
00:44:25With them
00:44:26Or write two books
00:44:27At once
00:44:27That's why he was
00:44:29Such a prolific author
00:44:30Writing book upon book
00:44:32Outlining his
00:44:33Existentialist theories
00:44:34Decades before the release
00:44:36Of unrelated Belgian
00:44:37Techno anthem
00:44:38Pump Up The Jam
00:44:39Which you heard earlier
00:44:41Someone told me that
00:44:42Cats are a good example
00:44:44Of something that
00:44:45Lives like an existentialist
00:44:47A good life
00:44:49For an existentialist
00:44:50If there is such a thing
00:44:52Is a matter of
00:44:53Creating your own goals
00:44:55And values
00:44:56And sincerely following them
00:44:59For example
00:44:59My cat reacts
00:45:00To his environment
00:45:02Rather than just being
00:45:03Dragged around by others
00:45:05How do you know
00:45:06Cats aren't thinking
00:45:07About their existence
00:45:08They might be really anxious
00:45:10And when they say
00:45:12Meow
00:45:12They're expressing
00:45:13Their own pain
00:45:14Like
00:45:14Meow
00:45:15Well
00:45:16Cats have pain
00:45:18They don't behave
00:45:19In a way
00:45:20That seems to suggest
00:45:22A level of self-consciousness
00:45:24Cats lick their own
00:45:25Bumholes
00:45:25Don't they
00:45:26Are all existentialists
00:45:28Supple enough
00:45:29To do that
00:45:30Er
00:45:30No
00:45:31Being overwhelmed
00:45:34With existential angst
00:45:36Is part
00:45:37Of being human
00:45:38Some of the greatest
00:45:42Artists in history
00:45:43Have tried to express
00:45:44The agony
00:45:45Of the human condition
00:45:46And so have ones
00:45:47Who could only paint
00:45:48As badly as this
00:45:50This is Edvard Munch's
00:45:52The Scream
00:45:52The first major
00:45:54Existentialist statement
00:45:55To later become an emoji
00:45:56What inspired Eddie Munch
00:45:58To paint this?
00:45:59It was an experience
00:46:01He'd had walking
00:46:02With his friends
00:46:03But I've been on bridges
00:46:04And you don't find me
00:46:06Painting about it
00:46:07How come we can't hear him?
00:46:09Is he on mute?
00:46:10No
00:46:11It's nature
00:46:12That is screaming loudly
00:46:13And we all
00:46:14Could hear nature
00:46:15Screaming loudly
00:46:16So is this one of the few
00:46:18Examples of a silent painting?
00:46:21All paintings are silent
00:46:22If Edvard Munch knew
00:46:23He wouldn't be able
00:46:24To hear it
00:46:25Why didn't he wait
00:46:26Till this bloke's mouth
00:46:27Was closed
00:46:28Before painting him?
00:46:29It's just annoying
00:46:30I've noticed he's not moving
00:46:32Either
00:46:32Why is that?
00:46:33Because he's rooted
00:46:34To the spot
00:46:35By the deep emotion
00:46:38He finds
00:46:38So it's a freeze frame
00:46:40Of a painting?
00:46:41It's a freeze frame
00:46:43Of a mood
00:46:45Drew Barrymore
00:46:47Dies at the start
00:46:48Of this painting
00:46:49Doesn't she?
00:46:49Do you know
00:46:50If they've got
00:46:50Scream 2
00:46:51In this gallery
00:46:52As well?
00:46:53Scream 2?
00:46:54Yeah
00:46:54I'm afraid
00:46:55I don't know
00:46:56Scream 2
00:46:56But this was based
00:46:57On the film
00:46:58Wasn't it?
00:46:59I don't think
00:47:00You'd seen the film
00:47:01It's a painting
00:47:02Of an experience
00:47:04He'd had
00:47:05But not a physical
00:47:06Experience
00:47:07An emotional
00:47:08And psychological
00:47:09Experience
00:47:10We paint our souls
00:47:12Why do we paint
00:47:14Our souls?
00:47:15The more agonised
00:47:17And miserable
00:47:17The artwork
00:47:18The more people
00:47:19Like it
00:47:19And no dead
00:47:20Agonised artist
00:47:21Is bigger than
00:47:22Miserable redhead
00:47:23And own ear vandal
00:47:24Vincenzo van Beethoven
00:47:25Goff
00:47:26As you can see
00:47:28From this photograph
00:47:29Van Gogh
00:47:30Actually resembled
00:47:31A painting in real life
00:47:32Making a career
00:47:33In art
00:47:34Inevitable
00:47:35Several of his works
00:47:37Such as
00:47:37Sad Flowers
00:47:38Scary Night
00:47:39And Woofie McPoker
00:47:41Have fetched
00:47:42Millions at auction
00:47:4322 million
00:47:45500 thousand
00:47:47Pounds
00:47:47For the last time
00:47:49This is one of his
00:47:51Most famous works
00:47:52Wheatfield
00:47:53With crows
00:47:54At first glance
00:47:56It's a simple
00:47:57Rural scene
00:47:58But look closer
00:47:59And you'll see
00:47:59It's actually
00:48:00Very badly made
00:48:01Take these birds
00:48:03Apparently
00:48:04They're crows
00:48:05But it's impossible
00:48:06To know
00:48:07Because there's
00:48:07No detail at all
00:48:09Some are big
00:48:10Some are small
00:48:11Some have more wings
00:48:12Than others
00:48:12Looking at this
00:48:14It's hard to believe
00:48:15Van Gogh
00:48:16Had actually even
00:48:17Seen a crow
00:48:18Or a wheat field
00:48:19Or even held
00:48:20A brush
00:48:21Before
00:48:21Look at those
00:48:24Strokes
00:48:24They're sloppy
00:48:26It's like he painted it
00:48:27Wearing boxing gloves
00:48:28It's just not good enough
00:48:30In fact
00:48:31It's actively bad
00:48:33Van Gogh's life
00:48:34And by extension
00:48:35Our world
00:48:36Would have been improved
00:48:37If he'd never
00:48:38Painted anything
00:48:39Not even a bog door
00:48:40In a home for the blind
00:48:41Anyway
00:48:43That's my view
00:48:43What do you think
00:48:45Of course
00:48:50Most people
00:48:50Aren't miserable
00:48:51Like Van Gogh
00:48:52They're miserable
00:48:53Like themselves
00:48:54They simply
00:48:58Don't have time
00:48:59To channel their pain
00:49:00Into artistic expression
00:49:02Because they're
00:49:02Too busy working
00:49:03And work is something
00:49:05We all learn
00:49:06To barely tolerate
00:49:07Ever since
00:49:08The earliest caveman
00:49:10Went to work
00:49:10For the first cunt
00:49:11People have hated
00:49:12Their jobs
00:49:12Partly because
00:49:14Those jobs
00:49:14Were awful
00:49:15For centuries
00:49:17Most jobs
00:49:17Involved manual labour
00:49:19Like logging
00:49:19Heavy coal around
00:49:20And tilling the fields
00:49:21While someone
00:49:22Sketched you
00:49:23For posterity
00:49:24But as our world
00:49:25Gets more modern
00:49:26And full of old
00:49:27Plastic and metal
00:49:28And stuff
00:49:28The nature of work
00:49:30Has changed
00:49:30Now jobs
00:49:31Are even worse
00:49:32Which contributes
00:49:34To an ever-growing
00:49:34Sense of hopelessness
00:49:36Humans have to work
00:49:38A lot
00:49:39Don't they
00:49:40Can work ever
00:49:41Be truly rewarding
00:49:42Yeah I think so
00:49:45What even for him
00:49:48All he does
00:49:50Is hold a stick
00:49:51All day
00:49:51There's no way
00:49:52That's rewarding
00:49:53Or meaningful
00:49:54There's no skill
00:49:56Involved
00:49:56We wouldn't even
00:49:58Need a machine
00:49:59To replace him
00:50:00Just like a bracket
00:50:00And a standard do
00:50:01Can't be fulfilling
00:50:03In the slightest
00:50:04He holds that stick
00:50:06More than he holds
00:50:07His loved ones
00:50:07If you think
00:50:09Of the things
00:50:09He's missed out on
00:50:10Just holding that
00:50:11Fucking stick
00:50:12Like a slave
00:50:13You don't get that
00:50:15Time back
00:50:15You know
00:50:16Wasted his life
00:50:19Very echoey in here
00:50:27Isn't it
00:50:27Phil would have
00:50:28Hated that
00:50:29Wouldn't he
00:50:30Ian
00:50:31You're next
00:50:35Can we have a
00:50:37Minute for Atmos
00:50:37Please
00:50:38Life itself
00:50:44Can sometimes
00:50:44Feel like a
00:50:45Horrible burden
00:50:45From which there
00:50:46Is no escape
00:50:47But luckily
00:50:48Help is at hand
00:50:49That's why I've
00:50:50Come to leading
00:50:51Streaming platform
00:50:52Streamberry
00:50:53To see how they
00:50:54Help distract viewers
00:50:55From the bottomless
00:50:55Misery of existence
00:50:57Here at Streamberry
00:51:01We're passionate
00:51:02About providing
00:51:03Our users
00:51:03With entertainment
00:51:04That speaks to them
00:51:05On a personal level
00:51:06About their needs
00:51:07Not just as a consumer
00:51:09But as a mammal
00:51:10We monitor our viewers
00:51:12Emotional state
00:51:14At all times
00:51:15And we've discovered
00:51:16Most of them
00:51:16Are locked in a state
00:51:17Of existential helplessness
00:51:19And I imagine
00:51:21You want to fix that
00:51:22Yes
00:51:23That's why we launched
00:51:24A suite of programming
00:51:25Aimed at viewers
00:51:26Who have given up
00:51:27All hope
00:51:28Which is 116% of them
00:51:30These shows are
00:51:31Grouped together
00:51:32Into genre brackets
00:51:33That help despairing
00:51:34Viewers locate content
00:51:35That really speaks
00:51:37To their mood
00:51:37We're currently seeing
00:51:39Maximum growth
00:51:39In a category called
00:51:41Standing on a ledge
00:51:42Right now
00:51:42And what's that?
00:51:44That's programming
00:51:44Aimed at viewers
00:51:45Standing on a ledge
00:51:46Right now
00:51:47Usually watching
00:51:48On their phone
00:51:49Naturally we don't
00:51:50Want them to jump
00:51:51That would negatively
00:51:52Affect engagement
00:51:53And what's about
00:51:56The little ones
00:51:56Is there anything
00:51:57For them?
00:51:58Yes
00:51:58Actually
00:51:59One of our newest
00:52:00Releases is a show
00:52:01Aimed at kids
00:52:02Standing on ledges
00:52:03Wow
00:52:04And I think we've got
00:52:05An exclusive preview
00:52:07Of that right now
00:52:08Hey mister
00:52:20Don't jump
00:52:20Why not?
00:52:22Well
00:52:22Sometimes we all feel
00:52:26Like life's lost
00:52:27Its meaning
00:52:28But jump and that
00:52:29Sidewalk
00:52:29Will need careful
00:52:30Cleaning
00:52:31And more to the
00:52:32Point you just
00:52:33Wouldn't survive
00:52:34Let me list you
00:52:35Some reasons
00:52:36For staying alive
00:52:37Uh, okay
00:52:39You'd miss out
00:52:40On nature
00:52:41In all of its wonder
00:52:43Like puppies
00:52:43And kittens
00:52:44And sunshine
00:52:45And thunder
00:52:46Your parents
00:52:47Would miss you
00:52:47In sorrow
00:52:48They drown
00:52:49If you blinded
00:52:50From that legend
00:52:50Went flat on the ground
00:52:52Uh-huh
00:52:53Jumping's no final
00:52:57No chance of revision
00:53:00Most people
00:53:01Who do jump
00:53:03We quit their decision
00:53:05Oh, it's right
00:53:07To leave a great legacy
00:53:09Stay in the game
00:53:13It's your beats
00:53:14Just leaving a dent
00:53:15And a stain
00:53:17Ugh
00:53:18Oh, okay
00:53:19You've convinced me
00:53:21Yeah
00:53:22Life is worth it
00:53:23I don't wanna die
00:53:25Oh, be careful
00:53:26Returning
00:53:27You don't wanna slip
00:53:29Oh, well
00:53:31It's too late
00:53:32Bye-bye
00:53:33Well, thanks, Jackie
00:53:40That was really enlightening
00:53:42And Streamberry
00:53:43Seems fantastic
00:53:44Thank you
00:53:45Thank you
00:53:45Great
00:53:46Brilliant
00:53:47Thank you
00:53:49Yeah
00:53:51Still to come
00:53:55Will computers
00:53:56Recode the meaning
00:53:57Of life?
00:53:58Will we ever be able
00:53:59To upload our souls
00:54:00To a computer?
00:54:02I take a closer
00:54:03Look at cloning
00:54:04If you clone twins
00:54:06Do you get
00:54:08Two copies
00:54:09Of one of them
00:54:10Or one copy
00:54:11Of both of them?
00:54:12Brian Cox
00:54:13Gives a scientific view
00:54:14Of the firmament
00:54:15Isn't it a waste
00:54:16Of energy
00:54:17Leaving the stars
00:54:17On at night?
00:54:19No
00:54:19But first
00:54:20Time to contemplate
00:54:22Our fate
00:54:22In a pitiless
00:54:23Godless universe
00:54:24With God dead
00:54:27With God dead
00:54:27And existential despair
00:54:28All the rage
00:54:29It seemed humankind
00:54:30It seemed humankind
00:54:30Was all alone
00:54:31In the universe
00:54:32We were back
00:54:34To square one
00:54:35Staring up
00:54:36At the night sky
00:54:36And wondering
00:54:37How it got there
00:54:38To find out
00:54:39We'd have to reopen
00:54:40The biggest cold case
00:54:42Of all time
00:54:42The bible
00:54:49The bible had claimed
00:54:50The bible had claimed
00:54:50The universe
00:54:50Was God's creation
00:54:52But now we knew
00:54:53That that was a lie
00:54:54We'd have to come up
00:54:55With a new
00:54:56Implausible theory
00:54:57It's October the 5th
00:55:001923
00:55:02And astronomer
00:55:03Edwin Hubble
00:55:04Is about to make
00:55:05An incredible discovery
00:55:06Peering through
00:55:09His telescope
00:55:10He becomes the first
00:55:11Human to observe
00:55:12A Cepheid variable star
00:55:13In a galaxy
00:55:14Beyond our own
00:55:15Hubble raced home
00:55:18To tell his wife
00:55:19Grace
00:55:19Who had loyally
00:55:20Supported him
00:55:21Throughout his career
00:55:21I've done it
00:55:23He cried
00:55:24But in his voice
00:55:25Instead of mine
00:55:26I've fundamentally
00:55:27Altered our concept
00:55:28Of the universe
00:55:29Oh darling
00:55:30That's wonderful
00:55:31She replied
00:55:32Her eyes shone
00:55:33With pride
00:55:34And they embraced
00:55:35As they kissed
00:55:37Hungrily
00:55:37Their excitement
00:55:38Gave way to passion
00:55:40And they moved
00:55:41To the bedroom
00:55:41Hurriedly shedding
00:55:42Their clothes
00:55:43Flesh pressed on flesh
00:55:48As they explored
00:55:51Each other's bodies
00:55:52With carnal abandon
00:55:53Together they steadily
00:55:56Built towards
00:55:57A crescendo
00:55:58Of ecstasy
00:55:58Their faces
00:55:59Contorting with bliss
00:56:01And a mutual orgasm
00:56:21Shuddered through
00:56:21Their bodies
00:56:22There they lay
00:56:27Quietly entwined
00:56:28Exhausted yet resplendent
00:56:30In the warm afterglow
00:56:32Of their union
00:56:32And then Hubble
00:56:34Mocked up the damp
00:56:35Patch with his vest
00:56:36Hubble's discovery
00:56:40Paved the way
00:56:41For a groundbreaking theory
00:56:42About how our universe
00:56:43Was formed
00:56:44A theory
00:56:45That still excites nerds
00:56:47To this day
00:56:48Why do people say
00:56:50The universe came out
00:56:51Of a big bag
00:56:52I think you mean
00:56:54Big bang
00:56:54A big bag
00:56:56That went bang
00:56:56No no
00:56:57Just a big bang
00:56:58No bag
00:56:59Has anyone ever
00:57:01Claimed responsibility
00:57:02For the big bang
00:57:03It just happened
00:57:06So we're no nearer
00:57:08Finding a culprit
00:57:09The big bang
00:57:11Is a theory
00:57:12And like all theories
00:57:13No one understands it
00:57:15And if they come too close
00:57:16To working it out
00:57:17They're assassinated
00:57:18By the CIA
00:57:19But if it did happen
00:57:21The big bang
00:57:22Filled the universe
00:57:23With matter
00:57:24This is an atom
00:57:26It's so tiny
00:57:28You probably can't see it
00:57:29Even if you're watching in 4K
00:57:31In fact it's so small
00:57:33Chances are I dropped it
00:57:34Before we started filming
00:57:36You, me
00:57:37And everything around us
00:57:39Is made from these
00:57:40Apart from this coat
00:57:42Which is 100% cashmere
00:57:43What's the point of atoms?
00:57:47You know
00:57:47Do we really need them
00:57:48Or could we just do without?
00:57:49We do really need them
00:57:50Because we're made of atoms
00:57:52Everything in the world
00:57:53Is made of atoms
00:57:54So without them
00:57:56We wouldn't be here
00:57:56Are eyes made of atoms?
00:57:59Yes
00:58:00Because my mate Paul
00:58:01Did ketamine once
00:58:02And he said he started
00:58:04Counting all the atoms
00:58:06In his eyes
00:58:06Then he tried to eat a towel
00:58:08And he ended up in hospital
00:58:10Okay
00:58:10Are my feet made of atoms?
00:58:13Yes
00:58:13I mean I could
00:58:15Save you the bother
00:58:17By everything you say
00:58:19Absolutely everything
00:58:19All stuff is made of atoms
00:58:21Are thoughts made of atoms?
00:58:23Well no
00:58:24Well no
00:58:25Thoughts are
00:58:25Well there you go then
00:58:26Okay
00:58:27But thought
00:58:28Okay
00:58:28You might think nothing's
00:58:31Smaller than atoms
00:58:31But as usual
00:58:32You'd be wrong
00:58:33Incredibly
00:58:34Atoms themselves
00:58:35Are made of even smaller
00:58:36Subatomic particles
00:58:38Scientists have spent
00:58:39Literally decades
00:58:41Attempting to explain
00:58:42Why these are interesting
00:58:43To no avail
00:58:44Perhaps that's why
00:58:47Deep underground near Geneva
00:58:48They built a gigantic machine
00:58:50Called the Large Hadron Collider
00:58:52It smashes subatomic particles together
00:58:55Recreating the conditions
00:58:57Of the Big Bang
00:58:58And I'm actually walking into it now
00:59:00Wearing a hard hat
00:59:02In case a proton falls on me
00:59:05So this is
00:59:06This is the actual
00:59:07Large Hadron Collider
00:59:09So am I right in thinking
00:59:10That this might prove
00:59:11The existence of chakras
00:59:13Within the human body
00:59:14No
00:59:15You're not interested in chakras
00:59:17No
00:59:19In the same way
00:59:20I'm not interested in ghosts
00:59:21But my aunt Carol
00:59:22She can sense chakras
00:59:24In someone's body
00:59:25And she doesn't need any machines
00:59:27This could explode
00:59:29At any minute
00:59:29Couldn't it
00:59:30No
00:59:30How fast do the protons
00:59:32In this thing go
00:59:3399.999999%
00:59:37The speed of light
00:59:38Your sense of smell
00:59:39Is faster isn't it
00:59:40No
00:59:41Well how come
00:59:42That when someone's frying bacon
00:59:44And you walk in the kitchen
00:59:45You can smell it straight away
00:59:47Before you've even seen it
00:59:48Have you ever tried
00:59:49Putting bacon in here
00:59:51No
00:59:54Yeah you should try it
00:59:55You might make quantum bacon
00:59:56Would that make it more interesting
00:59:58A little bit
00:59:58Why would it be more interesting
01:00:01Because what it's trying to do
01:00:02I'm desperately
01:00:02I'm trying to help you out here
01:00:04I'm trying to like make it
01:00:06Even slightly more interesting
01:00:08Than it is
01:00:08But what it did
01:00:10Was it detected
01:00:11A thing called the Higgs particle
01:00:13Without the Higgs particle
01:00:15You
01:00:16Me
01:00:17And everything else
01:00:18That we know of in the universe
01:00:20None of those things would exist
01:00:21No
01:00:22In 2012
01:00:23The mega boffins at CERN
01:00:25Discovered something incredible
01:00:27The Higgs bosom
01:00:28Because of its significance
01:00:31In explaining how our universe was made
01:00:33The Higgs bosom is sometimes referred to
01:00:36As the God particle
01:00:37But it could also be called
01:00:39The Allah particle
01:00:40Because we can't show you
01:00:41Any pictures of it
01:00:42No less an authority
01:00:45Than the man I just spoke to
01:00:46Claimed it was the biggest
01:00:48Scientific discovery
01:00:49In his lifetime
01:00:50I think this is the biggest
01:00:52Scientific discovery
01:00:53In my lifetime
01:00:54And that it stood with
01:00:55The great scientific discoveries
01:00:56Of all time
01:00:58And it stands
01:00:59With the great scientific discoveries
01:01:01Of all time
01:01:02Can the Higgs boson
01:01:04Rewind time?
01:01:05No
01:01:06Can it tell when an earthquake
01:01:09Is going to go off?
01:01:10No
01:01:10Can it make food spicier?
01:01:13It's just a particle
01:01:14It's like saying
01:01:15Can an electron
01:01:17Tell when an earthquake
01:01:19Is going to go off?
01:01:21Can it?
01:01:21No
01:01:22Subatomic particles
01:01:24The tiniest things in existence
01:01:26Can simultaneously exist
01:01:28In two different states at once
01:01:29Just like Liam Hemsworth
01:01:31Who's sexy
01:01:32And boring
01:01:33In other words
01:01:35Science moves in mysterious ways
01:01:37Just like God does
01:01:38Which was awkward
01:01:39Because scientists had decided
01:01:41God didn't exist
01:01:42So they invented
01:01:44A whole new kind of science
01:01:45The science of things
01:01:47That don't make scientific sense
01:01:49And to make it sound official
01:01:51They gave it a clever name
01:01:53What is quantum at physics?
01:01:55Quantum physics
01:01:56Is
01:01:57So quantum mechanics
01:01:58Is our best theory
01:01:59Of how the world works
01:02:01It describes everything
01:02:02That we've observed
01:02:03Other than gravity
01:02:05Do mirrors run on quantum physics?
01:02:09Run?
01:02:10Yeah
01:02:10As in?
01:02:13Well according to quantum physics
01:02:14Mirrors shouldn't work
01:02:15They're a miracle
01:02:16That's not correct
01:02:19Quantum theorionics
01:02:21Proves there's infinite multiverses
01:02:23Like in Marvel films
01:02:24Doesn't it?
01:02:25That's one interpretation
01:02:26Of the theory
01:02:27How many infinite multiverses
01:02:29Are there?
01:02:30If there were
01:02:31An infinite number
01:02:32Of multiverses
01:02:33Then the number of multiverses
01:02:34Would be infinite
01:02:35See I think there's two
01:02:36Ours
01:02:38And the one in mirrors
01:02:39Mirrors are windows
01:02:43Into other universes
01:02:44Aren't they?
01:02:45No
01:02:45My mate Paul says
01:02:46They run on quantum power
01:02:48And that's why
01:02:49You can see into
01:02:50An alternative dimension
01:02:51In which everything's
01:02:52The same as our realm
01:02:53But backwards
01:02:54What does Paul do?
01:02:56Well he worked in
01:02:57A tennis bowl factory
01:02:58Where he had to capture
01:02:59Tennis balls
01:03:00But he was fired from that
01:03:01And now he's unemployed
01:03:02Sorry am I wasting your time?
01:03:10Yeah
01:03:10By the end of the 20th century
01:03:15Science had tried to outdo religion
01:03:17By explaining creation
01:03:19Unpicking the fabric of existence
01:03:21And discovering the God particle
01:03:23For its next trick
01:03:25It tried to emulate God himself
01:03:27By creating life
01:03:29The first ever thing to be cloned
01:03:31Was Dolly the sheep
01:03:32Daughter of Dolly the other sheep
01:03:34Dolly became the most famous sheep in history
01:03:37Although to be fair
01:03:38That's a low bar
01:03:39Of course cloning raises
01:03:41Awkward questions
01:03:42About our sense of identity
01:03:44If I get copied
01:03:46Am I still unique?
01:03:48Or is the clone me more unique?
01:03:50Because it's a clone
01:03:51Which is cooler
01:03:52What makes me me
01:03:54And you you
01:03:55And us us
01:03:56And we we
01:03:57But rather than being
01:03:59Replaced by clones
01:04:01It's more likely
01:04:02We'll be replaced
01:04:02By something else we created
01:04:04Computers
01:04:05Which are becoming so clever
01:04:07They might one day
01:04:08Outsmart their masters
01:04:10Will a computer ever be clever enough to play chess?
01:04:15Computers are already clever enough to play chess
01:04:17Really?
01:04:18This is chess we're talking about?
01:04:20Yes
01:04:20Years ago
01:04:22Computers overtook human beings at chess
01:04:25But do they know what all the pieces do?
01:04:27Like even the little horse ones?
01:04:29Yes
01:04:29But the horse ones move in random directions don't they?
01:04:33There's no pattern to it?
01:04:34No there is
01:04:35They just move
01:04:36Two in one direction
01:04:38And one in the other
01:04:39So that
01:04:39Oh right
01:04:40Did the computers work that out for us?
01:04:43Not content with playing chess
01:04:45Computers are getting better at emulating other
01:04:47More human
01:04:48Less chess like pursuits
01:04:50One of the first examples of AI
01:04:52Was a piece of software called ELIZA
01:04:54Which stands for something
01:04:56ELIZA simulated a psychiatrist
01:04:58It would ask you how you were feeling
01:05:00And respond to your reply
01:05:01But it was basic
01:05:03It couldn't do everything a psychiatrist can do
01:05:05It couldn't walk around the desk or overcharge you
01:05:08Start an affair with its secretary
01:05:09Cook an omelette or go
01:05:10Today AI is everywhere and all around us
01:05:38In our homes and in our hands
01:05:39With digital assistants like Siri
01:05:42Hi there
01:05:43Alexa and that Google one no one remembers
01:05:45Seriously it might as well be called Cuthbert
01:05:47But when people talk about AI
01:05:49Most of them are thinking about generative AI chatbots like this
01:05:53Chat GPT
01:05:54Which is so good at mimicking humans
01:05:56We might as well fucking kill ourselves
01:05:58Or at least that's what it just told me
01:06:00People worry a lot about AI
01:06:03What about you?
01:06:08You mean am I worried?
01:06:09About
01:06:10No I mean should they worry about you?
01:06:14I hope not
01:06:16I hope not
01:06:16I mean I'm
01:06:17People are worried about artificial intelligence
01:06:20Because they think maybe one day
01:06:21It will replace us human beings
01:06:23I'm a human being
01:06:25Why should they be worried about me?
01:06:26No no no
01:06:27The letter U
01:06:28They're all vowels aren't they?
01:06:31A-I-U
01:06:32What does the U in AI stand for?
01:06:36There isn't a U in AI
01:06:38So it's a secret then
01:06:40The computer's hidden it
01:06:41I'm more than machine
01:06:44Oh man
01:06:45More than a fusion
01:06:47Of the two
01:06:48Of course us humans aren't about to be slaughtered
01:06:52By the nightmarish robots of science fiction
01:06:54We're about to be slaughtered
01:06:56By the nightmarish robots of real life
01:06:58Now as humans stand on a precipice
01:07:02At the edge of a cliff face
01:07:03Peering into a bottomless abyss
01:07:05And wondering if there's a void underneath it
01:07:07The question of life's purpose seems more urgent than ever
01:07:11And even experts are confused
01:07:13Is there a point to human existence?
01:07:18And if there is
01:07:19What is it?
01:07:21And when you're answering
01:07:22Bear in mind that if it's too long
01:07:23We have to overlay funny pet videos
01:07:25Over part of the screen
01:07:26So viewers don't get bored
01:07:28Well we want our lives
01:07:31To have
01:07:32Meaning
01:07:33And the question is
01:07:36Is that meaning
01:07:38Something that
01:07:40We construct
01:07:41Which is what the German philosopher
01:07:44Nietzsche
01:07:45Would say
01:07:46Or is meaning
01:07:48Something that we discover
01:07:49In the world
01:07:50Maybe that meaning
01:07:52Is generated by God
01:07:55Or maybe
01:07:56That meaning
01:07:57Just happens to be
01:07:58Part of the fabric of the universe
01:08:00Why are poos tapered at the end?
01:08:05Are they that shape
01:08:06When they're inside us?
01:08:08Or do our bums
01:08:09Mould them into that shape?
01:08:13Sorry that's for the poo expert
01:08:14Although you're here
01:08:16So do you fancy answering it?
01:08:18Or...
01:08:19I don't think I know enough
01:08:20About human biology
01:08:21To give you an accurate answer
01:08:23Fair enough
01:08:23Throughout this landmark epic
01:08:27Which you have definitely enjoyed
01:08:29My quest for meaning
01:08:30Has taken me around the world
01:08:32And into several buildings
01:08:33Downstairs
01:08:34And at one point
01:08:35Onto a bouncy castle
01:08:36From religious ecstasy
01:08:38To nihilistic defecation
01:08:40From great works of literature
01:08:42To that awful fucking painting
01:08:44Humankind's quest for meaning
01:08:46Has never let up
01:08:47And now my work here is done
01:08:49I hope you found it illuminating
01:08:52Now it's time for me to find out
01:08:54The meaning of life in other worlds
01:08:55Goodbye
01:08:56Do authors sign their books at the end
01:09:07Like when you write a letter
01:09:08Like that's crime and punishment
01:09:11The end
01:09:12Yours sincerely
01:09:13Dostoevsky
01:09:15Seldom I think
01:09:18Why does the human eye
01:09:20Have a nerve connecting it
01:09:22Directly to the anus?
01:09:24It doesn't
01:09:24It does because when you pick your bum
01:09:26You sort of go like that
01:09:27When the penis goes into a lady
01:09:32Why does it keep backing out
01:09:34And going back in?
01:09:35Can't it just go in
01:09:36Get it done and leave?
01:09:38Were our souls created
01:09:40During the Big Bang?
01:09:42Depends what you mean by our souls
01:09:43You know what I mean by our souls
01:09:45It's a shame they only make semen
01:09:48Isn't it?
01:09:49If they made tomato soup
01:09:50You could share a nice mug of it
01:09:52In bed afterwards
01:09:52Is it harder to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
01:09:56Since Brexit?
01:09:59I don't think Brexit has anything to do
01:10:01With the Kingdom of Heaven
01:10:03Doesn't matter
01:10:03Or hell for that matter
01:10:04My mate Paul says
01:10:06If you look in a mirror for about an hour
01:10:08It's possible to trick your consciousness
01:10:09Into thinking it's inside the other you
01:10:12And then you can run off
01:10:14Before it can jump back out and get you
01:10:16He said he managed it once
01:10:18But about a second after he started running
01:10:20He caught his balls on a door handle
01:10:22And ended up rolling around on the floor in agony
01:10:25While his consciousness watched him from the mirror
01:10:27Pissing itself
01:10:28I don't think your consciousness can go inside a mirror
01:10:32Do worry about Paul
01:10:34I think he just hasn't found his role in society
01:10:38So you're in the Big Bang Gang?
01:10:42The Big Bang
01:10:43Gang
01:10:44The Big Bang Gang
01:10:45The Big Bang Gang
01:10:46I think we're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:10:47Are we?
01:10:48Yeah
01:10:48Could you say that down that lens there, please?
01:10:51Yeah, I'm in the Big Bang Gang
01:10:52You're in the Big Bang Gang
01:10:54You're in the Big Bang Gang
01:10:55We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:10:57We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:10:59We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:00We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:01We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:02We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:03We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:04We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:05We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:06We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:07We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:08We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:09We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:10We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:11We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:12We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:13We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:14We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:15We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:16We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:17We're all in the Big Bang Gang
01:11:18We're in the Big Bang Gang
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