What We Talk About When We Talk About Science with Sara Walker | What Could Go Right? S4 E16

What's the nature of the universe? What is life? And what do we talk about when we talk about science? We're joined by Professor Sara Walker, an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist with research interests in the origins of life, artificial life, and detection of life on other worlds, to see how the way we think about the world informs the rest of our being. Plus, Indonesia's growing economy, US job satisfaction, and an update on mapping the human genome.

[@malakiblunt]

Love Sara - this was a great interview that let her talk in different ways

[@TheProgressNetwork]

Glad you enjoyed! Sara is fantastic.

[@Kyzyl_Tuva]

Sara is fantastic. Looking forward to her book release in a couple of weeks. BTW, at 26:18, what does “really wealthy people” have to do with the question you asked??

[@kevincronin464]

You would be better off calling it artificial lifelike. Ask Sara in what time period, artificial lifelike might understand Gödel's incompleteness theorems? Brains are not computational. There is no doubt at all that robotics could and most likely will wipe out any human in relation to warfare confrontations. Then the best human inventor of the best robotic killing machine will rule the world.

[@Amethyst_Friend]

Why and how are brains not computational?

[@kevincronin464]

because neurons are slow@@Amethyst_Friend

[@Lyros1000]

"Super biased by my background as a physicist" you don't say lol