#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
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4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 182 minutes
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(10:40) - Definition of life
(31:18) - Time and space
(42:00) - Technosphere
(46:25) - Theory of everything
(55:06) - Origin of life
(1:16:44) - Assembly theory
(1:32:58) - Aliens
(1:44:48) - Great Perceptual Filter
(1:48:45) - Fashion
(1:52:47) - Beauty
(1:59:08) - Language
(2:05:50) - Computation
(2:15:37) - Consciousness
(2:24:28) - Artificial life
(2:48:21) - Free will
(2:55:05) - Why anything exists
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Sarah Walker, her third time in this |
| 0:04.0 | podcast. She is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the |
| 0:09.8 | origin of life and in discovering alien life on other worlds. |
| 0:15.0 | She has written an amazing new upcoming book titled Life as no one knows it, |
| 0:20.0 | the physics of life's emergence. |
| 0:22.0 | This book is coming out on August. the physics of life's emergence. |
| 0:22.8 | This book is coming out on August 6th, so please go pre-order it now. |
| 0:29.2 | It will blow your mind. |
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