Episode #2184
Sara Imari Walker
Books mentioned
Life as No One Knows It
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The War of Art
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Sara Imari Walker, an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, discusses her assembly theory and the physics of life's emergence. The conversation explores definitions of life, plant intelligence, artificial life, and the integration of humans with technology. Walker also addresses free will, determinism, and the need for new physics to explain life.
What they talked about
- Assembly theory and origin of life
- Complexity and life in the universe
- Cephalopod intelligence and neuroscience
- Plant intelligence and behavior
- Evolution of societies and planetary impact
- Human-technology integration and future evolution
- Simulation hypothesis and physics of computation
- Free will and determinism in assembly theory
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