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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Lex Fridman Podcast
Building Life in the Machine
Sarah: We need to simulate a planet, like the large H.A. John Collider was supposed to be simulating conditions just after the big bang. So imagine we built an experiment with the idea in mind of trying to simulate planetary conditions physically simulate. You can't simulate origin life in the computer. You have to do it in an experiment. Simulate enough planetary conditions to explore the space of what's possible and bound the probability for an origin life event. Even if you're not observing it, you can talk about the probability - but we hopefully life is not exponentially rare.
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