2020 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Alien Life
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- Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, hosts and moderates a lively discussion about how life might have formed on Earth and explores what alien life might look like elsewhere in the universe. What criteria do we use to classify life as we know it? Should the criteria be revised as we look for life on other worlds?
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In 2020, the Museum is celebrating the legacy of Charles Hayden, whose vision made the Hayden Planetarium possible and brought the universe to New York City.
2020 Asimov Panelists:
Nathalie A. Cabrol
Director, Carl Sagan Center for Research, SETI Institute
Vera Kolb
Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Seth Shostak
Senior Astronomer & Institute Fellow, SETI Institute
Carol Cleland
Director of the Center for the Study of Origins and Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado
Max Tegmark
Director of the Foundational Questions Institute and Professor of Physics, MIT
The late Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific and influential authors of our time, was a dear friend and supporter of the American Museum of Natural History. In his memory, the Hayden Planetarium is honored to host the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate-generously endowed by relatives, friends, and admirers of Isaac Asimov and his work-bringing the finest minds in the world to the Museum each year to debate pressing questions on the frontier of scientific discovery. Proceeds from ticket sales of the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debates benefit the scientific and educational programs of the Hayden Planetarium.
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So happy we've still got the assimov debates! It seems like its been forever, we need multiple assimov debates per year, please Neil!
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Get it?
Yes. You spoke what I was thinking
@@bootstrapperwilson7687 Of course you're right, but please, don't be an as about it.
This is the best side of youtube. Great minds drawing from their vast experience to wrestle with the biggest questions we as humans have.
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I hope you aren't referring to DeGrasse Tyson. He thinks he figured everything out decades ago and ignores any contradictory facts. He's a smug, close minded, asshole
Agreed. These intellectual panel discussions are by far the best content CZcams has to offer. The polar opposite of CZcams shorts.
This forum gives me a new appreciation for Mr. Tyson. He really handles the moderating well while contributing to the discussion. I'll be looking at all of these. Thanks all.
Isn’t he great?
Shows a side of him I never appreciated during his tv appearances.
They are all worth looking at
He interrupts way too much. He doesn't know when to stop talking
I really can't stand Neil but I am very interested in a lot of the topics he discusses so I tolerate him. He's not an idiot by any means. The best way I can describe it is I don't like his persona. Seems very egotistical at times like he has to be the smartest person in the room. Constantly interrupts often right when someone is concluding their point to ask a question that prevents us from getting a full understanding
These kind of discussion really make me miss my science college and highschool classes....and yes Star Trek.
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There's more Star Trek than ever!
Star Trek TNG.
Plenty of online courses on CZcams these days!
I have been patiently waiting for the new panel debate!
Nice, I was watching these months ago and was hoping these would continue. I think these types of discussions/debates should be far more widespread
These debates are always the best.
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This was fascinating! I've already watched it 3 times. Please make more of this!
If you haven't seen our previous Asimov debates, there's a whole playlist to dig into! czcams.com/play/PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ.html
Why a video with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Isaac Asimov at the same time has only 500 likes. Unacceptable!!!
its because its crap.
I just added my 'like', and it looks like another 1.4K thumbs up clicks have been tapped since you wrote your message originally above.
I found this accidentally, while watching Isaac Asimov give about a half hour talk on his early days of science fiction writing, [which was recorded in the 1970s.] That video brought me then to this video. I now have just learned to see that they have these yearly talks on Asimov, as a dozen or so years now streamed down the page, and listed them year by year, so I picked the most recent one here and I'll work my way back over the years.
If it wasn't because Seth is so funny, I wouldn't be watching my 768th Is There Life in the Universe? video. But here we are.
Yepp, he's the reason to watch.
He really is funny
He looks like Richard Dawkins lite.
These types of discussions make me excited for the future. Amazing job everyone here, intellectual endeavors seem to take a backseat these days to political rambling. These are so refreshing.
Always one of the best things on CZcams! Each year is just so entertaining and enlightening.
Loved every second of it. We need more of debates like this one. Standing 👏👏👏👏👏
You know a topic like this will be owsome.These types of topics/ debates are always the best.
a fantastic place as a young man living on long island we took field trips to the planetarium it very inspiring place . WE ARE NOT ALONE
In all probability, we are totally alone, at least in our galaxy. The barriers to the emergence of life are incredibly difficult to overcome.
Extraterrestrials also began from the primordial soup ? and from the billions of specie that had evolve, from their world, one or more alien species attained consciousness.
@@raphaelklaussen1951 I'm curious not confronting...if we are alone who or what is zipping around our battleships which they have on radar and video of sorts
Of course we are not alone. One question that must be asked is why the huge of amount of distance to discourage of from visiting other stars? If we alone, there would not be any need for such humongous distance. There is actually a planet on the southern sky where there are humans but that planet is obscured by the inter planetary dust and gas . We are unable to se it even with our telescope and radio astronomer instrument. . I said in our back yard.
I love these "debates". Thank you for doing it over the years.
Have patiently been waiting years for this! I would just like to thank you all for your time and providing us all an opportunity to expand our horizons
The long wait is finally nearly over! 8D>
s. d.
finally a new episode after so many months 🙂
Yup
You're in a simulation right now buddy Bob the Creator.
And we're back!
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This conversation is just delightful!
This was absolutely fascinating and wonderful!
So glad to find out they decided to do this online!! Such a legendary tradition
Many thanks for putting subtitles on!
So thrilled to see this happening this year! An intellectual light in the darkness. Wonderful as always. Thank you for providing this platform!
Thanks for doing this again ... This is always a fun interesting conversation ... SO COOL YOU GUYS !! Never stop doing it !!
A year later and I'm still watching!
Very enlightening! I learn a lot of new things about life. Thank you!
I Always look forward to these talks
Thank for sharing your time .
omg ive been looking for this for the last year or two...woopee!
I can't get enough of you guys!!!!💖💖💖🧬🧬🧬
Wonderful just far to short...
More plz
Another great debate. Many thanks.
It is nice to see scientists addressing the existence of other intelligent life in the universe and enjoy each other's company in the process.
So excited about this!!!!
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If our internal biome affects our mood, are we individual organisms that are alive or a thinking community of various lifeforms? If we cannot survive without many other life forms, what is alive? Individuals or the system? Maybe we are just part of a living planet, not actually life ourselves, in the eyes of other planets at least...
@Joe M. It makes sense to me. I’ve had the same idea for years. You have microbes in your gut that without them you’d have a much shorter lifespan. You don’t produce the oxygen you need to survive so trees and algae are a functioning part of our collective respiratory system. Just sayin it can be a useful thought experiment to contemplate what you consider your “self.”
"Individuals or the system.."
I'd say that we are Individuals who are apart of the system. We cannot survive without the "system", so we must be apart of it if we are to exist. But the system does not need us for its own existence. Remove us from the system, and it will continue to exist and function without interruption, almost like we were never here at all. We need it, but it does not need us. So in that sense, I say that we retain our individualism while being apart of the system.
I dont know, maybe that doesn't make any sense at all lol. Thats just my own worthless opinion on it that no one asked for🤷♂️
I am fascinated by this conversation while watching this on my new galaxy Z Fold 2 phone in tablet mode.
Best definition I have yet heard to define life as we observe it in all its states
'Life is chemistry with memory'.
I AM SO EXCITED
thank you thank you thank you! Since my community college & university days, it's difficult to get my fix for intelligent discussion! My major in philosophy instructs me that a definition of life isn't a reasonable beginning, after only investigating the life on one planet, and my computer science minor instructs me that the first important step from "pre-life" chemistry to life is "encapsulation" to create the principle of homeostasis, and my minor in mathematics tells me that life on different planets could simply be similar to mathematical fields - completely dependent on available chemistry.
I think we need to appreciate the question that we ask when we ask if there's life. Because I think what everyone wants to know is if there's intelligent life and that's a whole different question. This an awesome debate 👏
This was a great panel and great topic. I hope to be able to attend in person one day!
We hope so, too! So glad you enjoyed.
Amazing discussion.Intelect of those people is outstanding.I would love to meet those people in person.Those Asimov Memorial debates are all S klasse.HUGE THUMBS UP,keep up the good work !
If life began as soon as the earths crust cooled down, then maybe the theory of panphysicism is a possibility. That life/consciousness exists at the very fundamental level and expresses itself and becomes more complex as soon as the right conditions arise. Who knows!
What a wait, after 30yrs the #memorialdebate returns!
This is the best Asimov debate to dare. I can say this because you just made me binge all the deabtes so thank you for that :)
Thank you for posting this, I missed it very much last year. I could listen to those kind of discussions for hours
@Joe M. "2020 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Alien Life"
Thanks everybody for this.
Thank you guys! :)
Our pleasure!
They should have taken questions from viewers like they usually do in the Q&A half of the debate
When is Mr. Tyson doing the Isaac Asimov Memorial panel in person (offline)?
Is it next year?
Anyone else still patiently waiting for this year's assimov debate? 😇🙏😬
Intersting and very diverse panel. Thanks Neil in bringing these folks together. What really caught my interest was Max Tagmark who started to talk about artificial intelligence as an extension of life. Unfortunately, after Carols reaction to Mr. Tagman's thoughts, Neil took the discussion in another direction before Max could fully respond. Oh well. I would have love to hear. Then at the end, when favorite movies were on the table, interesting films were mentioned. However, I'm surprised that no one thought of the Spielberg/Kubrick film "A.I." which took the idea and implication of artificial intelligence a step further. The film challenged me to think... "What is (intelligent) life, actually?"
Great series and fascinating topic. Most of this discussion is on the macro level which assumes a more complex definition of life. On the chemical, molecular level, it would seem that supramolecular organization that holds design information so that it can reproduce itself would be the basis for “life”. This implies that there have to be moieties or structures that can perform work at a molecular level - e.g. enzyme or protein and a chemical disequilibrium to drive chemical reactions. Colloidal dispersions are very efficient at creating these assemblies and therefore can exist on a aqueous or non-aqueous dominated planet.
I can't believe I'm 10 months late to see this considering I've binge watched the entire series back in 2019
I absolutely loved this conversation... Deep thinking without constraints.. well one.. which will go unmentioned.. 5 stars
Thank you Neil...for the journey through such diverse lenses. The blob was also my choice, because it sits outside the boundaries of our expectations, or imaginings. Which addresses my question.....how do we begin to perceive beyond our limitations? ........ humility perhaps?
Vera is such a legend! Loved the way she explained concepts and her arguments! Would've made a great teacher. Big kudos
When will the 2021 debate be ? will it be live ?
Thank you to the host and panel
Thanks for this!
My favorite alien is from Galaxy Quest, the Thermians. They're Cephalopods! (with advanced mimetic capabilities)
Wonderful! Thank you
We really appreciate the IAM Debates, and the technology of video conferencing. But, hey, nothing beats live sessions, with all Neil's humour!!!!! Damn Covid!!!!
Wao... ty so much for this. yall just opdatede my brain. What you seek, is also seeking you
How do I watch the ones not on CZcams? And how do I get updates on when they are expected to record the next one?
Hi there! All past debates that were recorded are available on CZcams. You can see the full playlist here: czcams.com/play/PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ.html. If you're subscribed to our channel and turn on notifications, you should get word when future debates are available. (We don't yet have a date for 2021.)
@@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory okay okay thank you I already found the playlist and actually currently listening to them I’m at 2016 but I saw it didn’t go before 2011 that’s why I asked but I’m already subscribed waiting patiently for the next debate.
First Asimov debate video for me. Reading Asimov's Foundation series at the moment too. Really enjoying listening to you all. Edit: Love Vera! Edit: I'm with Seth, the alien from Alien is my fav. I just wouldn't want to be on the same planet with it!
Same! First one for me too!
Amazing that the absence of an audience doesn't seem to crimp their discourse. In years past I recall polite chuckling from the gallery but these pros can keep slinging ideas and slipping into and through each other's fields despite not only having no crowd but also each sitting in separate locations. I miss having good conversations. Love my dog and all but she isn't much of a conversationalist.
Very interesting! They should definitely happen more than once a year ;)
What a treat! So much fun.
My word ! I am born 1959 and had family that worked on the lunar excursion module that went to the moon. I have always been inquisitive , often found in the library reference section (Google in the 60s and 70s when I was a lad ) if I was cutting classes. Classes bored me , the reference section ... now there were answers and questions yet to form !
These panelists and Neil are so driven , they are accomplished and still pushing ! I can only dream of that fire driven quest they have , and perhaps I too had ... once. Must visit 200 central Park West !
Please don't send carol on the first contact mission lmao.
Considering how interesting Vera is, I would definitely ask her to marry me, too. 😁
These people are wonderfully unboring, btw. 🙂
I wanted to just say that I just found this channel, and I am really appreciative of what you’re doing. I also appreciate women panelists who are on this panel. As a younger woman in STEM, it is so nice and encouraging to see women included in these panels. ❤️💫☄️🌎👩🏽🔬👩🏻🔬
1:25:25 The most important question :-) And shout out to the Horta!
Very interesting ideas, lots of fun.
Excellent open discussion
I missed this a lot in 2019
سلام به خدمت همه استادان به خدمت شما برنامه گدار محترم
@1:21:44 the best way to explore the universe would definitely be to seed it. also an efficient way of long distance space travel.
Best avent guard book on the subject is Edgar Mitchell's "Beyond UFOs: the science of consciousness and contact with non-human intelligence volume 1" - written by scientists interviewing thousands of contactees to findvtge commonalities.
It really bugs me that these so called scientists have sold their inquiring minds to the powers that be and just avoid the topic of the aliens that are already here as exposed by many other scientists and people who have either seen or have seen the evidence of aliens and who will not be silenced by those that wish to control what we know. Many intelligent and credible people have now come forward with their experiences with alien technology and/or alien life forms so please let's not keep pretending that they don't exist because it's insulting to our intellect and shirks our responsibility to tell the truth. We could be using all kinds of advanced technology that would help us to stop damaging this planet but because they want to sell us stuff for as long as possible so they get richer we have lies shoved down our throats and some of our smartest people are bullied into silence so they tow the BS line.
pick up a stone anywhere on this planet and you will find life in many, many different forms , from the top of the tallest mountains to the deapths of the oceans , life always finds a way and so it goes for the univearse .
600 books! A bounty of original and collaborative achievement. What a legacy. And here we are to push on. And here we go.
I think I've read 10 of them so far.
Great alien movie besides what is mentioned in this video in my opinion would be Life (2017) and Prometheus.
I’m surprised they didn’t mention K-pax near the end. Such an underrated alien movie with no real depiction of what an alien ought to look like.
will there be an alien disclosure soon?
Awesome bravo!!!! Still love going to the museum and the park that’s Neil for remembering Issac Asimov and his legacy 👌🏾🙏🏾
Thanks neil👍🏾
I'm 5 minutes in and ... this is so cool! I think NDT is going to a great host/moderator.
Wonder if Neil is going to host havent seen him around much
www.amnh.org/calendar/alien-life-asimov-debate Shows Neil as the host and moderator
we are looking for radio waves/electromagnetic waves (like laser as seth said) in general because they are only way of transmitting information through space in our universe , there are others (like gravitational waves) , but they are not accessible to any life we can conceive of
What a company! Thank you for that debate, it was a real pleasure to watch it! A few thoughts after going through it for the first time (I have no stable knowledge of science and I am not a native speaker of English).
Let me start with "The Thing". How would you think of the transition from the 1951 to the 1982? In some way it makes me think of the most powerful religion in our region, Christianity, growing out of Judaism but departing from it significantly (from the blood consumption being forbidden to the consumption of the blood of God), pinpointing which is also my suggestion concerning the ways we can think of life. When we open the Holy Bible and read The Genesis, we learn that the man and the animals were to feed on plants. From that we travel to my current question of the Last Supper with the Christ body and blood, what the event was exactly, which starts a few questions aside: What kind of body did Jesus have? Then we travel to our times. It is 31 years between the two movies. If someone has a crazy scentific imagination a bit similar to mine, they can imagine that the superb extraterrestrial intelligence can communicate to us as God can - through signs or ideas rising in our minds (I consider the advanced extarterrestrial intelligent life still under God). If we put the two together and believe that the ideas the Hollywood movie writers have might come from an extraterrestrial source, with the extraterrestrial presence being active in the history of humankind on the Planet Earth, we could read a message of transition from The Thing 1 to The Thing 2 and map it against the development of human history as written into The Holy Bible, which could give us a time relation (accelaration, i.e. how fast further changes of the qualitative quantity represented by the change from The Thing 1 to The Thing 2 will be taking place).
As for the telescope, would you consider it possible that the inventions we have originated on the Planet Earth only because the ideas came as germs from the outer space, which is by no means anything ingenious to say on my part? My other point has a bit more orignality. How about a different perception, however impressed we might be by the modernity? I can imagine a human species that develops evolutionarily, so there are evolutionary leaps but no "instant jumps" - let me put it like this - by which I mean a change that marks a historical departure from what had been before. If I think of the human species developing in an environment, where culture influenced by what exists in the daily-life reality of the individuals is a part of the environment by definition, I could look at the first technological inventions as different from arriving at tools and uses, a knife would be a tool, the fire used for its warmth or a stone used for cutting things would be uses, a light bulb would be an invention. I would be ready to consider inventions - as I think of the "invention" - a result of the human brain receiving pre-information from advanced extraterrestrial civilisations and developing the invention. To continue my argument - which is obvious only at the start but not in consequence -, I would say the Industrial Revolution is the beginning. I depart from the accepted standard in saying it is the end of the human species. A similar historical process might have been taking place on Mars.
I feel uncomfortable about the missing definition of intelligence, or at least an approximation of it.
I love the exposition of the radio-wave base for further developments. I think the point can lead to interesting perceptions of categories of phenomena, if they are collected and reviewed again - my crazy scientific imagination I mentioned in the second paragraph.
I am not sure if it was purposeful in "The Contact" but the fact that I do not see The Alien when I watch the movie is signifcant for me. Would you see their Spaceship, should they will to arrive here? How about their Planet, should you try to find it with your telescope?
More like this please
Thank you
I have always "felt" that life is a basic force of the universe, just like the strong nuclear force, et. al. Of course how I "feel" is just a thought, my scientific degrees tell me up front to be wary of that. However...
Always a pleasure thank you for puting this on. The screwdriver Vera could be the resonance of the eviroment "shoeman resonance expertments" people go nuts if its cut off and degrarion of living animals I think this is all the way down to DNA atom vibration. The transition may or could be vibration matching(resonating) ... due to lighting and our electro magnetics on this world.. We should be looking for these ELF frequencies or useing them to synth life. (Forgive me if im right im just a scince/computer nut banker lol) Shout out to Seti@home/SETI brothers and sisters. Thank you all you lit my brain on fire!
Great, thanks!
Awesome.
This was excellent.
Entertaining! Nice.
Each generation thinks they have the basics wrapped up and just details are needed to fill in a few pieces. But that’s what the ancient Greeks thought also. They couldn’t dream of what we know. And we must look ahead the same distance and imagine things of which we can’t even dream.
we don't know what life is, we don't know what intelligence is, what we've learned in the last 500 years?