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Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens: chapters

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  1. Cosmic isolation and virtualisation
    Listen from 1:23:22 on YouTube (external site)
  2. Cosmological scenarios and detection
    Listen from 1:27:15 on YouTube (external site)
  3. Origin experiments and cosmic expectations
    Listen from 1:31:16 on YouTube (external site)
  4. Perceptual limits and firefly analogies
    Listen from 1:35:15 on YouTube (external site)
  5. Fashion and combinatorial choices
    Listen from 1:39:12 on YouTube (external site)
  6. Aesthetics and provocation
    Listen from 1:43:12 on YouTube (external site)
  7. Beauty and social signaling
    Listen from 1:46:58 on YouTube (external site)
  8. Words and representations
    Listen from 1:50:21 on YouTube (external site)
  9. Computation as a language
    Listen from 1:54:47 on YouTube (external site)
  10. Automata and foundational assumptions
    Listen from 1:59:27 on YouTube (external site)
  11. Explanation and universal languages
    Listen from 2:03:17 on YouTube (external site)
  12. Life intelligence and consciousness
    Listen from 2:06:04 on YouTube (external site)
  13. Temporal depth and selecting agents
    Listen from 2:10:23 on YouTube (external site)
  14. Language models and collective knowledge
    Listen from 2:14:55 on YouTube (external site)
  15. Capabilities and technology risks
    Listen from 2:19:15 on YouTube (external site)
  16. Consciousness tests and ethical concern
    Listen from 2:24:01 on YouTube (external site)
  17. Societies and planetary reproduction
    Listen from 2:28:21 on YouTube (external site)
  18. Mortality and the frontier of knowledge
    Listen from 2:32:36 on YouTube (external site)
  19. Growing questions and cosmology
    Listen from 2:36:29 on YouTube (external site)
  20. Randomness history and free will
    Listen from 2:40:30 on YouTube (external site)