All The Ghosts You Will Be

Summary by Krater

An exploration of human mortality, history, ancestry and the traces we leave behind, using statistical breakdowns and philosophical concepts to examine why we seek to be remembered.

From the video

Answers: How does human history, legacy, and mortality relate to our digital and biological traces?

• human population statistics
• solar corona
• fossilization rates
• genetic inheritance
• ancient naming and history
• documentality and digital traces
• information-action ratio

What it concludes

• A single bag of flour contains enough dust particles to theoretically represent every human alive on Earth.
• By dividing the global population with yes-or-no questions 33 times, you can isolate any specific individual.
• Your name is your nominal ghost, which eventually fades after your name is spoken for the last time.
• Kushim is the oldest named character in written history, appearing on a 5,000-year-old Sumerian tablet.
• After 11 generations, you share roughly 70% of your ancestors' DNA with no trace of them left in your genome.
• Fossilization is extremely rare, with less than 1/10 of 1% of a species ever becoming fossilized under ideal conditions.