The following is a conversation with Manolis Kellis, his fourth time on the podcast.

He's a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.

Since this is episode number 142 and 42, as we all know, is the answer to the ultimate

question of life, the universe, and everything according to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

We decided to talk about this unanswerable question of the meaning of life.

In whatever way we two descendants of apes could muster from biology, psychology,

to metaphysics, and to music.

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As a side note, let me say that the opening 40 minutes of the conversation are all about the

many songs that formed the soundtrack to the journey of Manolis' life. It was a happy accident

for me to discover yet another dimension of depth to the fascinating mind of Manolis.

I include links to YouTube versions of many of the songs we mentioned in the description

and overlay lyrics on occasion. But if you're just listening to this without listening to the songs

or watching the video, I hope you still might enjoy as I did the passion that Manolis has for music.

His singing of the little excerpts from the songs and in general the meaning we discuss

that we pull from the different songs. If music is not your thing, I do give timestamps

to the less musical and more philosophical parts of the conversation. I hope you enjoy this

little experimenting conversation about music and life. If you do, please subscribe by YouTube,

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