Are We the Most Beautiful Thing in the Universe?

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The dinosaurs ruled the earth for 135 million years. We've been around for a million years. So how many other planets have still, you know, mindless dinosaurs where strength was the only dimension ruling the planet? The evolutionary context in which this was made is enormously fascinating. And it has to do with other humans that we have now killed off or that have gone extinct. That can basically make us think that there's something very weird and unique that happened in human evolution maybe not recreated elsewhere.

Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(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