Sara Walker
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Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.
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Life obeys universal principles, and the right framework will let us recognise life that is currently too different for us to see as alive at all. (opens korrents.com)
“I think life obeys universal principles. I think there is some deep underlying explanatory framework that will tell us about the nature of life in the universe and will allow us to identify life that we can’t yet…”
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Astrobiology's standard definition of life — a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution — is wrong in every single one of its words. (opens korrents.com)
“That’s one of these standard different definitions that a lot of people in my field like to use in astrobiology is life as a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution, which I was once quoted as…”
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Life is not chemical; it merely emerges in chemistry, because chemistry is the first space the universe builds that is too large for it to exhaust. (opens korrents.com)
“And then you can go to chemical system. I don’t think that’s good either. I think there’s a confusion because life emerges in chemistry that life is chemical. I don’t think life is chemical. I think life emerges in…”
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Life obeys universal principles, and the right framework will let us recognise life that is currently too different for us to see as alive at all. (opens korrents.com)