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#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Shadow Biosphere?
There could be a physics of hope or optimism in there too. It seems like optimism does seem to be a kind of engine that results in innovation. Why the hell are we trying to come up with new stuff? So I made this point about thinking life is the physics of existence, it's the physics of more things existing. Imagine the universe is actually trying to maximize over the number of things that could physically exist. The best way to do that would be evolve intelligent technological things that could explore that space. That's talking about alien life out there in the universe. But you've also earlier in the conversation mentioned the shadow biosphere. Is it possible that we have weird life here on earth
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