Lex Fridman hosting Betül Kaçar - an astrobiologist at the University of Wisconsin
Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
Conversations about AI, science, technology, history, philosophy, and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Formerly called the Artificial Intelligence (AI) podcast. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
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I think understanding, not even understanding, but asking these questions of where did this even come from? How did this even begin? And attempting to understand that using chemistry and physics and biology, because we can, that's the ultimate gift we can give back to the entire species on those planets. Yeah, I mean, it's humbling. It's humbling to realize the complexity of this whole mechanism. It certainly puts humans in their proper perspective that we're not just because we have brains and brains are intelligent doesn't mean we're the most intelligent thing, because ultimately, the whole mechanism of nature seems to be orders and magnitude more intelligent
