Fallible Animals Episode 8: Interview with Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell
Fallible Animals
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The Limits of Language
The three things that life does and therefore you could use to start building a definition what you mean by life will be some kind of complicated chemical network. expect there do you expect there to be an information code wherever we find life yes. Life is a process life is a function not an object if you think about it that wayYeah i agree which is one of the limitations of language i guess if we called life you know quote unquote living it might be easier but anyway it exactly then then you might have problems with how you could detect dormant life or signs of stuff that has once been aligned but is now dead. Could you find biosignatures of extinct life on Mars like what fingerprint
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