What are mini brains? - Madeline Lancaster 

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*Excellent animation*

Thank you TedEd for bringing us yet another informative video with amazing animation.

I’m going to write a science fiction script for a movie about organoid rights

Love the animation so simple yet captures each phenomenon beautifully especially the brains learning part. Also thank you for telling us about such research, I never knew this was already achieved 5 years ago and i am gonna be a doctor. In our country research are not given priority but learning by your videos is way to pass those walls.

What is a mini brain? It's what I have in my skull.

Brain the size of a pencil eraser? So that scene in David Lynch's Eraserhead was legitimate head science, who knew.

This is insanely fascinating, well explained, and beautifully animated

Ahh...The animation is soo smooth My OCD brain is satisfied.

0:33 so you're saying there's a moat around my consciousness and it has duckies in it. accurate.

The analogies used throughout the entire video is on point. Really makes the subject a lot easier to learn.

TED-Ed >>> TEDTalks.

I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE! I have one!

it is just amazing how they utilize every bit of animation to deliver both the information and the message they want to deliver. when making this video, way more taught was put into it than it shows. that is part of why it is so good

Please use this art style and genre of music from now on. It's so relaxing and helps me focus on the topic at hand.

As a visual person I really love this animation at best. It keeps pace with the subtitles the most.

0:54 Someone should tell the animator that schizophrenia isn't split personality.

I LOVED the animation of this video. Excellent as always, Ted-Ed.

Ur voice should be universal

The animation was a different and familiar simultaneously and I loved every second.

"What makes us human?" Didn't Aristotle kinda answered that by defining the different kinds of species in dependence with their capabilities?

2:53 SQUID GAME?? phenomenal animation work btw

I love the analogy - the way the brain organoid is likened to parts of the plane. Thank you, TED-Ed!

The animating in this, like all Ted ed Vids, is fantastic.

What about a video about consciousness and self-consciousness?

I was today years old when I first learned about this! amazing

Which software you use for making these animations? I wanna learn too. It's amazing!

It is interesting to note how many of the comments about what such a mini brain will be capable of doing have now been proven to be incorrect. Developments in the past couple of years enabled us to now allow such a mini brain to be connected to the outside world to give it inputs and collect outputs. Mini brains have been taught how to play Pong etc. The future potential is enormous…!

Your amazing videos develop neuroplasticity in my brain.

Tha plane example was perfect, i love how you explain things, i wish u was my bilogi teatchers

Thank you TED ED it's really helping me

The animations in this are absolutely brilliant! I couldn't focus on the explanation the first time I watched this video (the explanation is amazing btw). I muted the video on one of my viewings just to observe the plethora of amazing graphic design and kinetic motion techniques used in this video... I love this channel because of the beautiful animations and amazing explanations! Keep up the good work.

Makes me think how incredibly complex life is. A complete human/ animal/ ... just originates from 2 cells that came together.

Ted-Ed's animation is soooo good that I can't keep them in watch later. I can't even finish the video without pausing to comment how amazing the animation is!

We will all grow a better one for ourselves. I definitely will.

I work in one of these labs! We use our spheroids as models for TBI, Ischemic stroke, neurotoxicology, and more!

This animation are gonna make me cry

Very insightful! I really appreciate the hardwork y'all put in. Thank you!

Really like the animation style! Not mentioning the way the topic explained. Thank you!

For something to think in the way we know it, it has to have a body to know what is to see, touch, feel. It has to have a parents to know what is to be. The brain by it self is just and organ. Studying brain cells and studying thinking are two very differente things. You can know how a guitar produces sound, how a string vibrates, even how to tune it correctly, and still you will not know a bit about what music is.

Very informative and easy to digest

the graphics and illustration in this vid >>

What a beautiful piece of art portraying a cutting-edge science!

I can sense future bio-computers here. I recall to have read somewhere about possible future bio/organic storage which is thought to be more efficient, less energy consumption, durable as can with stand extreme measures and microscopic in size. This was non other than a certain bacteria’s DNA. Though it was still experimental it is very likely to be true in near future. Now imaging to how extent can this lab brain go? DNA as storage, then instead of busses to connect with processors within the computer, all of this is replaced with neurones and so on. Wow can’t imagine how many more break throughs will come out of this successful experiment. Probably the future might be less of a grey and more of green unlike as depicted in most sci-fic movies. ;)

Scientists make rally smart being then say we cant make them Get it

For context: a bee has 100,000 neurons

Considering human brains can be grown in a womb, a lab isn't that far fetched.

I love the analogy. The way the brain organoid is compared to a plane. Thank you, TED-Ed!

This animation style pleases me.

Please please make a video on schizophrenia and how it affects the brain. Pleaseeeee

try to make , mini nerve cells , for spinal injured people. patients, could have interchangeable parts. The ability to fix cripple spines, is sooner than thought. keep up the great work. amen God bless you.

man this is INSANE! never been so mind blown like this to scientific stuff before

I thought this video would be about controllers for specific body parts. I recall watching a ted talk on how a crab chews using less than 100 cells(Somewhere around 100)to control the jaws.

Great animation! Stands apart by its originality.

this animation is masterfully done... my god

Kudos to Ted ed for very informative videos as always i just became one your patrons

Thanks TED-Ed. This was amazing!

The brain is really complex even this video shows it. We would take decades or even probably more than a century to completely know its secrets.

Man how do you animate! Amazing!

This is the BEST ANIMATIONS I've ever seen in a Ted-Ed video!

Classic animation , I love soooo much . Love form India !!!!

The animation is so strikingly good

Beautiful animation! Great content!

I thin this is one of my favorite looking videos so far from this channel

Send your Animator to our schools.

Literally amazing animation!! Can you explain the dynamo effect which cause the earths magnetic field to work! Because if we are saying that earth has its magnetic field due to its molten iron core, than the core shouldn't be a magnetic thing as magnet looses its magnetism on heating! Plzz answer if you can!

This video is a work of art

loved the animation on that video!

To know the answer of the age-old question , scientists must study both brain and heart. Also the brain cells in the heart.

Just because the mini-brain isnt set up like our brains doesnt necessarily mean it can't think. I dont think it could develop consciousness the way we think of it, but it probably does perceive even if it doesnt attribute any meaning to those perceptions. Also 1 cm is not small for a brain, ants are fully functional organisms with complex behaviors and their brains are way smaller.

Those animations are amazing

Mini brain blown!

Best animation yet, subjective of course. The symbolism and somehow perfect representations better than most. Bar none.

That graphic for schizophrenia was pretty cool

Best channel for education.

Thank you TED for all of these amazing videos - everyone

Better graphics this time. Thank you.

The animation is Nooice! 👌👏

It is still possible that there is a conciousness

don't let the christians know we are growing little brains in the lab

Yes as I make a living selling human brains. The only problem is that I can’t figure out how to sell consciousness. If I could do that I’d be rich.

I wish I could donate to you guys because you haven’t only entertained me but also informed me about the wonders of this world. But im only a kid who doesn’t have a patreon account :(

Minibrains have grown in 2019 now they reached 1million neurons and twitched a muscle

Wow! I did not know that. This is why I like Ted-ed.

Love these videos. Keep it up

That is great animation concept. Thank you for that animators

I can already see some writers begin writing horror/dystopian story about an apocalyptic world ruled by an overlord grown from a mini brain.

Great work and very easy to understand! Yet we are still missing the big picture including the effects of diet, sleep on our cortex and the effects of diseases on the construction and deconstruction of synapses basically our memories and learning!

what is the differences between learning in ur puberty/childhood vs at 20, in terms of art/creativity, philosophy, science, physical skills like sports/martial arts, is it too late and whats the differences

How can I donate skin cells to study the effects of chronic pain on the brain?

And this is how humanity gains immortality....I'm never going to get to retire

We can mimic Logan's brain though, I show you nothing

i can't get over the animation

I love this channel

Awesome efforts!!!! I appreciate it I'm 16 but I'll luv to appreciate it!!!!

Amazing Video.Great concept and supported by a brilliant animation.

The animation is really cute. I feel like watching Monument Valley if it's used to explain science. Definitely love it!

*I love the new animation style!!!*

If this advances further, then we could technically grow our own robo-humans, and then maybe an actual human. Yes, the narrator said these brains don't have consciousness, but if I understood correctly, that's because we can't really make them any bigger or wire them correctly. If we made a suit capable of supplying everything a normal brain would need, then we could theoretically grow a mini brain into a normal size, although it still wouldn't be wired correctly. However, if we managed to link up sensors that feed the brain info like our own (sight, touch, etc.), and hooked them up to the correct parts, the brain may be able to learn and realize what's around it. If we found a way to make the brains learn enough to be able to discern different objects and other such things, we could give it a robotic body and see if it begins to learn how to move around. Even further in the future, if this succeeds, we could try to put the brain in organic body of artificially grown limbs (Which are already a science, although it's still evolving). If we manage to do this, even if it isn't that well done, it will spell out a future of artificially grown humans, and give us the possibility to make humans with bodies that excel in certain areas; for example, we could grow limbs that are stronger and more durable than your typical human's. Basically, we could soon begin to grow super humans and make them fight robots for us

sitting on our shoulders is the *most complex* thing in our universe