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Sara Walker | Unraveling Life's Beginnings with the Cosmic Perspective
The Foresight Institute Podcast
The Power of Explanations
I think the easiest way to think about it is really that there's only one question I'm really interested in answering and that's what is life. Part of my motivation for that is really because I want to understand the origin of life and the transition from when you know a universe without life to a universe with life seems like a pretty radical transformation. My research group is actually fairly eclectic I have a lot of PhD students that come in with seem like totally different interests but the core unifying theme is understanding that life manifests in a lot of different things that we study. We're trying to just study that problem in as many domains as possible to try to figure out what is actually common across all
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