#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
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Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the author of a new book titled “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence”. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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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
United States
10:38
One Directional Approach towards Nature/Life leads to nowhere !!!