What is life
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This is a conversation with Addy Pross. He is a Professor emeritus at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His work focuses on Theoretical and physical chemistry. In this conversation we talk about what is life?, Bridging Chemistry and Biology to understand origin of life, creating artificial life, and life elsewhere in the universe.
About the guest
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:46 Interest in how life emerges?
00:02:33 Is 'what is life?' a relevant question?
00:05:39 Probability of life emerging on a planet?
00:07:42 Gap between physics, chemistry and biology
00:13:34 Evidence for Panspermia
00:18:43 When did the life originated?
00:20:53 Where did the life start?
00:23:15 Ahistoric vs historic question of life
00:24:08 Why is there life?
00:31:39 What is complexity?
00:38:13 Importance of energy for the origin of life
00:44:22 Dynamic-Kinetic states (DKS) for life
00:49:44 Solution of 'origin of life' problem
00:51:58 Complex life from simple building blocks!
00:55:02 Organization of the building blocks of life
00:56:46 Intelligent life elsewhere
01:00:52 Cooperation and life
01:06:13 Basis of cognition
01:10:46 Consciousness and chemistry
01:12:46 Cognition and alien life
01:15:00 Meaning of understanding "Origin of life"
01:17:19 What is life?
01:18:16 Further reading!