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Are new laws of physics required to explain the origins of life?

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LINKS MENTIONED:

-Brian Keating's Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating

-Brian Keating's "Losing the Nobel Prize": https://amzn.to/3AyXMyE

-Brian Keating's "Into the Impossible": https://amzn.to/33IjsfC

-Brian Keating's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating

-Lee Cronin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/leecronin

-Brian Keating's appearance on Lex's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGwJLXzHs8

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:04:59 Brian Keating's opening statements

00:08:21 Lee Cronin's opening statements

00:13:45 Why defining "life" is difficult

00:23:43 Disagreements on the origin of life

00:38:12 The definition of Entropy is "wrong" (controversial claim)

00:51:44 The universe is filled with life

01:09:20 Will the James Webb Telescope find life? No.

01:12:37 An answer to the Fermi Paradox

01:24:26 Assembly Theory overview (important, watch this first!)

01:38:00 Curt claims Lee's definition of life is circular

01:46:37 Finding UFOs, as an academic project

01:54:26 Lee's gripes against the Galileo Project and Avi Loeb

02:03:47 Curt's views on the UFO videos that have been released

02:08:30 Brian's and Lee's books and talks

02:12:54 Time is more fundamental than space (another controversial claim by Lee)

02:17:45 Eric Weinstein says UAP data should be given scientists... should it?

02:21:53 [Tom Poleski] Why hasn't assembly theory been used already to detect life?

02:23:46 [Visan Cosmin] Materialism and Consciousness (what exists outside consciousness?)

02:30:05 [David] Why do we need new laws to explain life?

02:33:41 Physics doesn't have causation

02:35:27 [kumar910] Why is there something instead of nothing?

02:41:47 Lee expounds on causation, and life

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Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it.

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