The Origins of Life with Sara Imari Walker

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🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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What is life? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice tackle assembly theory, artificial life, and the origin of lifeforms in the universe as we revise the definition of life with astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker.

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0:00.0	So Chuck, I don't know if we answered all those profound questions, but we certainly went there.
0:06.0	We certainly did.
0:07.0	What is life as we know it?
0:09.3	Is that understood?
0:10.9	And if it is or isn't, what is life is we don't know it right and as long as we're
0:15.2	talking about life is AI alive is AI life itself right yes but not because soon it
0:21.7	will be asking for a raise and all kinds of rights and oh it's going to be a mess
0:26.4	Coming up life in a nutshell and outside of the nutshell on Star Talk
0:36.0	Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:41.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:45.0	This is Star Talk.
0:49.0	Neil Degrass Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:52.0	Got with me, of course, Chuck Knight, Chuck baby. Degrass Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:52.7	Got with me, of course, Chuck Knight.
0:54.4	Hey, Neil, what's happening?
0:56.0	Lord Chuck Nice.
0:57.4	Thank you, yes.
0:58.2	All right, my co-host, professional comedian,
1:01.3	stand-up comedian, and... Not always the same thing, a professional comedian and stand-up
1:05.9	comedian.
1:06.9	An actor.
1:07.9	I've seen you in some TV commercials.
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