The Bedazzling Mystery of Why We’re Here
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I'm Rufus Griskim and this is the next big idea. Today, forget your problems. Let's talk about the origin of life. There's a problem that probably didn't keep you up last night. How did life emerge from non-life? And while we're at it
Where does the line between that which is living and inanimate matter lie. Це сам like an easy problem. But while you look at it more closely. It isn't.
One of my favorite next big idea conversations out of hundreds that I've had in the last six years was a conversation with the theoretical physicist Sarah Amari Walker on just this topic. I found this conversation, which I've listened to a few times now, as oddly therapeutic. I I joke with friends that I find their problems, their marital tension and their misbehaving children. Oddly relaxing. Why? Because problems from which you have a little bit of distance are amusing and curious. I'm not a theoretical physicist, I doubt that you are.
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