WHAT IS LIFE? (Part 1): A Mind-Bending Conversation with Sara Walker
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Today, the physics of life's emergence. This podcast recently turned five, and in celebrating that milestone, I've been thinking about all the brilliant people we've had on the show, and in particular all the brilliant scientists. Brilliant, I should say, but also outlandish. I'm thinking about people like Donald Hoffman, a cognitive psychologist who argues that what we perceive as reality isn't actually an objective representation of the world. Reality is not space and time and its contents.
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