Cosmic Lifeforms, Abiogenesis, Machine Consciousness - Drs. M.S. DeLay & A.V. Bendebury, #299

Today we're bouncing off our recent conversation with
evolutionary biologist, Dr. Michael Lachmann from SFI, and
unpacking why the modern definition of life sucks and why it
matters. We attempt to construct a more scientific (i.e. less
circular) definition of life and take it for a walk in the park.
As a test case we examine an inadvertent hypothesis, which stems
from Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker, a science fiction work that
supposes stars themselves have an interior life and that when
they move according to gravity they are simply doing the dance of
a school of fishes or drivers on a freeway. We pull out cases
where the stars satisfy a scientific definition of life and also
problems with the theory. The notion forces us to reconsider the
limits of life and its possible forms in the universe. READ OLAF
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Rethinking Life's Definition (00:09:03) Anthropocentric cosmology
(00:14:47) Life's Persistence (00:23:16) Harnessing Tension
(00:30:20) Information and Evolution (00:36:29) Life Beyond Earth
(00:41:13) Cosmic Communication (00:47:37) Communication and
Understanding (00:57:00) Communication Across the Cosmos
(01:10:47) Galactic Dynamics and Gravity (01:13:31) Stars as
Autonomous Entities; Olaf Stapledon (01:22:29) Life's Potential
Ubiquity (01:25:32 )Science's Quest for Understanding
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