Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
Blaise Agüera y Arcas explores how random processes can lead to organized, self-replicating, information-bearing systems. He discusses a new paper suggesting that "lifelike," self-replicating programs can emerge from random systems, raising questions about the ubiquity of life.