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Nick Lane on Origins of Life, Consciousness, Alien Life, Krebs Cycle, and Evolution
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Life as We Know It
i think there's an emotional charge to that phrase, life as we know it. It says out there there is life as we don't know or there may be life as weDon'tKnowIt. And our little, limited experience is really just a tiny, kind of bit of the possibly universal possibilities. So let's tlk about life on other planets. But i don't think that a planet can boot strap itself up from nothing to give a i without at least complex animals along the way. I don't think silicon as a tool is ever going to get beyond sand on a planetary scale. Carbon is so much better at what it does than silicon in terms of processing power.
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