Dirty Secrets of...Life: Paul Davies at the 5th FQXi Meeting

_{Updated on 11 November 2016.} Video of Paul Davies' talk is now up. More video is available on FQXi's youtube channel.

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From 19 August 2016:

Greetings from Banff, Alberta, where FQXi is currently holding its 5th international meeting.

The first session summarised the "dirty secrets of science": cosmology, quantum foundations, quantum gravity, life, artificial intelligence, and consciousness.

The FQXi pixies are working hard to bring you all the great content from our speakers and participants as fast as we can. First up, we have audio from Paul Davies talking about what we know -- and what we don't -- about the origin of life. Is it as easy to explain as we might have been led to believe? Do we need to factor in quantum effects to understand it? Is Darwinian natural selection enough to explain what's going on? Is Lamarckism dead? (Note: To be extra classy this year, we're conducting the conference in B&W.)

You can listen to his talk here. (We were running short on time, in case you're wondering about the abrupt cut at the end.)

You can also read more about some of the ideas he discusses on the site. Carinne Piekema has written about evidence for quantum effects in biology (bird brains and in our noses), and how living organisms may use quantum processing to predict the future, and you can also listen to Susanne Still and Luca Turin talking about these issues on past editions of the podcast too.

There will be more audio, video and posts to follow soon. Stay tuned.