#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

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