Lex Fridman hosting Dr. Sara Walker
Dr. Sara Imari Walker is an American theoretical physicist and astrobiologist with research interests in the origins of life, astrobiology, physics of life, emergence, complex and dynamical systems, and artificial life. Wikipedia
This is a provocative and intriguing speculative discussion with several original ideas to feed your imagination and enhance the quality of your daydreams. Enjoy this opportunity to elevate your thoughts on these concepts and more.
- How did life start on Earth?
- Has life begun multiple times on our planet, or could it even be continuous?
- Has life emerged on other planets, and is the mechanism planetary-dependent?
- We put information into our experiments, which helps define the results.
- Information emerges that wasn’t put into the experiment.
- Discussing consciousness, Sara defined herself as a bundle of information.
- The complex problem of consciousness is that it is impenetrable from the outside.
- We are searching for correlates between chemistry and life and mind and consciousness.
- Free will and the ambiguity surrounding its definition.
- We could define complexity as the number of causal events to arrive at the object of our study. How hard it was for the universe to make it.
- The potential difficulty of interacting with aliens.
- We are ‘inside’ the universe and need to view it as part of it.
- What aliens could tell us about ourselves.
- The meaning of our lives could be defined as the creative process in the universe.
As I said, you’ll have much to consider when viewing this discussion.
Content link: Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #198 – YouTube
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