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#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything by Lex Fridman

#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

from Lex Fridman Podcast

by Lex Fridman

Published: Mon Nov 30 2020

Show Notes

Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
()– Introduction
()– Music and life
()– The number 42
()– The question about the meaning of life
()– Are humans unique in the universe?
()– Human civilization
()– Mars
()– Human mind and the abstraction layers of reality
()– Neural networks and intelligence
()– Ideas as organisms
()– Language
()– Legacy
()– Poems

SONGS MENTIONED:
[1] Dwros Gewrgiadis – An imoun plousios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7akZoEQv6jI
[2] Grigoris Bithikotsis – Ftoxologia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyGR24O0KQ8
[3] Sto perigiali to kryfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GBPx_GXQw
[4] Michael Jackson – Man in the Mirror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqe5NP86OCc
[5] George Michael – Careless Whisper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ
[6] Gainsbourg with Isabelle Adjani – Pull Marine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7MwHGHWgLk
[7] Georges Moustaki – Le meteque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8fGf-N06A
[8] Jacques Brel – Ne me quitte pas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_bq5mStroM
[9] Sting – Englishman In New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk
[10] Sting – Fragile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6a-iD6ZOY
[11] Pink Floyd – The Wall (When the Tigers Broke Free)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9b9UhFe6Eg
[12] Pink Floyd – The Wall (One Of My Turns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOay-7aqLks
[13] Sting – Russians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
[14] Joni Mitchell – Both sides now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnf46boC3I
[15] Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOnXe8ttmjY
[16] Alison Krauss & Union Station – The Lucky One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcRZ_J_VgNc