313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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How to Define Life and Then What Is Life?
"We still don't know how to do that," he says of creating life in the lab. "It's going to be a long time before we can if it comes from us then that's fair enough right okay so but um... let's see what was i gonna ask about oh yeah so how would you then define life or a living organism and then the godsite well in the context of then define first what a gene what a gene is because a gene is not about either no seriously i'm not joking about being a true so this is fascinating i talked to my students about this so if you talk to philosophers uh... they're really interested in definitions of life if you'd
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