Episode
Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence
COMPLEXITY · Jul 2, 2022 · 1 h 22 min
What is life, and where does it come from? These are two of the deepest, most vexing, and persistent questions in science, and their enduring mystery and allure is complicated by the fact that scientists approach them from a myriad of different angles, hard to reconcile. Whatever else one might identify as universal features of all living systems, most scholars would agree life is a physical…