AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min chapter
#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Problem of Information and Causation in the Universe
"There is something very interesting about the problem of what exists in its relationship to life," he says. "Our physics is really good if you specify the initial condition at specifying a certain sequence of events." But it doesn't deal with the fact that other things could have happened, which is kind of an informational property, like a counterfactual property,. And so I don't want to fine-tune the initial condition of the universe to specify precisely all the information in this conversation", Hawking adds.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode