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

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the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (06:48)
- Music and life (46:21) - The number 42 (52:22) - The question
about the meaning of life (55:02) - Are humans unique in the
universe? (1:00:46) - Human civilization (1:12:52) - Mars (1:14:45)
- Human mind and the abstraction layers of reality (1:25:38) -
Neural networks and intelligence (1:32:55) - Ideas as organisms
(1:42:19) - Language (1:53:34) - Legacy (2:08:25) - 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