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#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Death the Creative Force That Created Everything?
The fear of death, the terror of your mortality is the creative force that created all of the things around us at this human civilization. I feel like if you want to create intelligence, you have to also engineer in some kind of echoes of this kind of fear. It might be wild, but at least we're talking about theories that are at least worth consideration. Bill Bryson: Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity. But so far, all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
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