Episode
Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics
COMPLEXITY · Oct 1, 2022 · 1 h 10 min
What does it mean to be alive? Our origins are the horizon of our understanding, and as with the physical horizon, our approach brings us no closer. The more we learn, the more mysterious it all becomes. What if we’re asking the wrong questions? Maybe life did not begin at all, but rather coalesced piecemeal, a set of properties contingent and convergent, plural, more than once? Maybe the origin…