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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Life Form Already Teaming in Europa?

If you were to bet all your money on the two options in terms of where life started, I'll be at the bottom. Proteins. But that's to use not like a, that's just an efficiency thing. It's not a fundamentally new. That's why when you're asking is a separate information storage medium, a definition of life? Like no, any kind of self preservation, self reinforcement. And it didn't need to be RNA-based initially. You just need to have enough RNA molecules randomly arising that reinforce each other and ultimately lead to the ignition of the evolutionary process. Yeah. I think it's inevitable. On Earth or just in the universe? I think

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