Professor Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist whose research focuses on the origins of life, artificial life, and the detection of life on other worlds. She is the author of “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence.” https://search.asu.edu/profile/1731899 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The universe cannot generate complexity outside of living processes.
Life is a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution.
Life emerges in chemistry, but it doesn't mean it's a chemical phenomena.
Technology does seem to be a life form that requires us to give birth to it.
The things that we're trying to work through at this moment in history are being worked through.
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So, your subject matter is so fascinating to me.
So first, please explain what this idea of assembly theory.
Yeah.
Assembly theory is born out of an interest in solving the origin of life
and finding aliens.
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