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#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens

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What Is Life?

There could be many different kinds of life yeah so the basic definition and i just had i think somebody that you know Sarah Walker i just had a very long conversation with her about even just the very basic question of trying to define what is life from a physics perspective. That's a dangerous question because the the answer can't be any more precise than the question. There are edge cases like viruses and some people would like to say that electrons have consciousness and you know so you can't if you really have fuzzy concepts it's very hard to reach precise scientific answers.

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