April 7, 2023
MP3 FILE / 51 MINUTES / 124 MB
What is Life? What is Consciousness? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 5
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What is Life? What is Consciousness? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 5
MP3 FILE / 51 MINUTES / 124 MB
Miriam Frankel asks whether physics can ever explain the spark of life that differentiates animate and inanimate matter. Could there ever be a fundamental physical theory of consciousness? She's joined by physicist Jim Al-Khalili and physicist and astrobiologist Sara Walker in episode five of Great Mysteries of Physics — a podcast series from The Conversation, in collaboration with FQxI.
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