Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - Athletic Greens: athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil - NetSuite: netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour - Blinkist: blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off premium - Magic Spoon: magicspoon.com/lex and use code LEX to get $5 off 1:53 - Origin of life 9:46 - Did aliens seed life on Earth? 14:57 - What is life? 26:36 - Cellular automata 31:04 - The laws of physics may change with time 40:50 - Nobel Prize for the origin of life 46:09 - Is consciousness fundamental to the universe? 57:28 - Life is the most deterministic part of physics 1:00:03 - Free will 1:08:20 - How to detect alien life 1:22:57 - How many alien civilization are out there? 1:29:41 - Shadow biosphere 1:36:08 - UFO sightings 1:39:43 - Exponential population growth of AI lifeforms 1:46:50 - The role of death in life 1:50:54 - Advice for young people 1:56:40 - Meaning of life
I love the way Sara articulates her answers so quickly and efficiently. She is easily as smart as she needs to be but never speaks in riddles or over complicates anything, just quick, simple, to the point and ready for the next question. You were both a pleasure to listen to. Thanks 👌
I’m a substitute teacher from Flint, Michigan. My students put me hip and we have great conversations about your episodes, can’t wait to talk about this one!
@@goku3223 I really think not many people are cut out for being a full time teachers. In my youth there were only a few teachers that were still enthusiastic and curious. The rest were worn down by the stupid kids who seem to be the majority. And with stupid i mostly mean how they act. Uncontrollable a-holes. Once you get older and are paying for your education with your own earned money then suddenly everything changes as all the other ones also want to get their moneys worth and pay attention and do the work.
@@webosm6494 I agree 100% - none of our systems incentivize good teachers because everything tries to be micro-managed to produce a score on whatever the most recent testing procedure is. If you get those kids to vomit the right data we can get raises and they can just go work in a factory or whatever... and be grateful!
Hey Lex, thanks for being you and doing what you do. I'm a 22 y/o and you're a huge role model for me. Just want you to know there are people out here who really look up to your curiosity, gratitude, and humility.
He's not going to answer you just because you suck up like that. I doubt he even reads past the first couple of comments, right Lex? ...I said, "right Lex"? ... "Lex?" " I am humble and curious, answer me God damn you.".
From an engineering background, this has been one of the most eye-opening episodes I have ever heard. My perspectives with regard to the natural sciences have been fundamentally altered.
One of the best podcasts ever. I love how excited she is sharing her ideas. Often intelligent people are bursting with ideas to share but few understand them. I feel that. A need for a proper audience
They aren’t aware of the largest theoretical breakthrough in evolutionary biology in past few decades so the whole discussion is a bit cringe. They should read “The Revolutionary Phenotype” and then redo this discussion.
@@ika5666 I am referring to the explanatory framework of genetic layers and how this explains that the phenotype takes over and becomes the replicator. This theory explains how DNA took over after RNA, and how RNA took over after protein chains ETC. It is the next leap of knowledge that will let scientists know exactly where to look instead ow wander in the darkness hen it comes to research about the origin of life.
Her ability to clearly articulate this topic in a clear and concise way shows how intelligent she is and how well she knows her stuff. Their banter back and forth was refreshing to see and listen too. She was willing to talk about any topic that Lex wanted to discuss and she didn't walk around a question because they didn't know how to answer it. This was highly entertaining and refreshing.
But she falls down on the subject of ‘free will’ which is impossible. Look up (Robert Sapolsky) on Free will, possibly the cleverest person I’ve ever heard. You will be blown away..
I listen to this on repeat even though it's like listening to another language .... She and he are able to articulate these topics so a recovering addict like myself can begin to understand thank you Lex and Sara for bringing these topics to 'reality' for us.
Sara seems to be the kind of person which brings the good mood to the room while being opposite of simple and naive. Lex unearths some fascinating people to listen and see...
Sorry to break it to you @@BakedJake27 but you're old. I know, I know... it was hard for me to accept it at your age to, but the sooner you do the easier it'll be, trust me. Sincerely, a late twenty something.
@@lawrencelord9777 Woowww jokes guys... jokes. If calling someone in their early twenties old and signing it like a freakin' letter isn't obvious bs, then idk what is. Was it stupid? Yeah, absolutelyyy. But "dissing people to feel better about himself...weasel??" 🙄 @J P Someone needs to look in the mirror.
This was a fantastic talk! We are super lucky to have these super impressive, multi-faceted and open minded scientists like Sara that work on the deepest of questions!
Lex, please have her again, she was a brilliant guest and I'm going to listen to the whole thing again because there were so many rich and brilliant ideas
Her explanation of certain topics had me wishing I was at home burning some cannabis instead of at work stocking the shelves with detergent and household chemicals 👽
This researcher is a genius. She ties together seemingly unrelated topics, shows how they are related and has an impressive knowledge of different fields. She is someone you would want to have at your dinner party. I’m glad people like this exist.
I love that they're talking about ideas... Instead of pushing a bias opinion or belief right from the beginning. This is how personal growth starts and continues. 💚
I love it how Sara thinks about how important it is to ask the right questions to get to the core of what life is. That it even might be the wrong question to ask What is life?
Watching late, but this is a phenomenol interview. It's refreshing to hear someone speak so eloquently around "Life". I love how much of what she thinks relates to scaling of architecture. Everything I see says she's correct in her approach and should be very much listened to.
She is a breath of fresh air. She gets it. Everyone is stuck in a rut and has tunnel vision. She has unlocked herself. Unlimited herself. Learning and unlearning. So refreshing.
What a beautiful communicator and new theories on life in the Universe. So refreshing and so much better than others you had on recently. Sara is solid!!!
I love you Lex. Please continue to be the beautiful inquisitive, humble existence that you seem to be. Or not lol. Just being authentic to the evolving situation of your life is enough. Much respect and gratitude for what you've shared so far ❤️👍
I wish more people could here this, you're such an inspiration! Also thank you for bringing these topics to our attention. It really opens up new perspectives towards our outlooks on life
A physical law, scientific law, or a law of nature is a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior. They are typically conclusions based on repeated scientific experiments over many years, and which have become accepted universally by scientist because our collective consciousness agreed on certain physical law that made sense to most physicist society so it became the law . are we creating or discovering physical laws ?
@@janakiapesova3128 One could say that everything already exists. It's just up to us to make these metaphysical things tangible enough so that we can play with them and integrate them into our toolbox of knowledge.
almost 200 episodes already Lex doing work....dont slow down! I legit enjoy the hell outta this podcast, it brings me so much insight on things I have no flippin idea about haha. 1
She's brilliant. Her articulated glimpses into the profoundly complex probabilities seen through limited experience, her explanations relate well to my own ruminations.
Lex, you are doing a great job. You should not be so hard on yourself. I think in the long term your job will ne remembered more in net positive than Joe Rogan's or any other podcaster. I admire your strive to bring scientific discourses to general public. There are many exciting and thrilling questions being discussed on your podcasts.
Personally I think the comparisons and fictional VS scenario between Rogan and Lexs podcast really immature. They are and always have been completely different podcasts. And I believe they have both been in the net positive massively for the entire world. In matter of fact they may well have not been one without the other. So whilst I get the comparisons on a surface level, it doesn't need much undoing.
Considering our understanding of the Universe and the laws that govern it can really only be described as still being in it's infancy, this shouldn't come as a surprise. Relatively speaking, we've only just barely stepped out of the cave and started stacking rocks as a species. Anyone who thinks humans have anything reliably figured out, with any degree of immutable certainty, is guilty of hubris.
The following is my comment under Lex Fridman's conversation with Sara Walker. It is written a few days before the activation of Skynet. Be safe and be brave guys.
To have a conversation with either of you would be the greatest thing I can imagine. It's difficult to go through life without having these kinds of conversations. Just by eavesdropping I feel more like I'm participating in my purpose.
While I enjoyed the talk - I couldn't stop noticing a "romantic spark" between these good people. Was it only me? I also think there should be Thomas Metzinger here too - to add some more philosophical spice to this discussion...
I noticed this while listening to the podcast which is why I came here to watch. While only listening, I couldn't help but notice 2 beautiful inquisitive minds that stimulated each other.
The most fascinating thing I take from these talks is in the comments. Every episode someone states that this is the most best conversation they have ever heard. This means that you have changed the way at least 1 person thinks in every episode. That is amazing to me and should give you great cause to continue to upload these and keep having interesting conversations. Maybe one of the people watching some of these talk will go on to change the world or discover the answers to some of the questions you and your guests bring up.
Loved this conversation. It's wonderful that Sara is not an outcast for exploring these complex questions in these "hard to communicate" directions. One day Rupert Sheldrake will be acknowledged for his intimations about life.
This girl is amazing. I feel I'm finally starting to form a grasp of where "we currently are" at the current time. (Don't let me fool you, I'm no where close.) This stuff is getting deep Lex!
Man, Sara is awesome and this episode is great. It's good to know there's still great minds high up in academia willing to "unlearn" things and entertain original or contrary ideas. My minds definitely been expanded after watching this. Thanks again Lex!
I think that's a wrong question. By definition the container can't be real. I like to think that the universe is a physically interactive bubble nested in non interactive "space" when I think about finite physical reality.
@@Alkoholwioslaidziwki If mathematics is the language of physics, my bet is on infinity. Of course monkey brains are trapped in a topology that lets in no light. 😂
Your convo at 1:48 about life and death is perfect, 40 something. Just like Sarah says her sense of time is causal, nature is all consequences and doesn't care about life/death. The suffering involved in our finite nature is actually a threshold to cross and free yourself even more. After you wake up out of trance of purpose, you may not have driving questions, but you might also be able to be content. A bird flies into my hand at the top of a mountain. After I die, I am no longer tethered to this bodymind, but all my material and spiritual energy remains here. The piece you may not get is there is a field of unconditional loving that is here, and this field is bigger than the loneliness you talk about here. Cnscsnss is infinitely creative. Beautiful convo
Exceptional conversation. The idea that there has to be an intelligence behind all life/ creation becomes more like the only logical behind the existence of everything there is. And it is no doubt all loving.
Lex, your willingness to combine nature as described through observation and the scientific method with "the big questions" is so refreshing. Thanks for the inspiration.
Wow, you kept the best for last - some very interesting concepts came out right at the end. Not sure however if it made me less rather than more lonely, or simply more conscious of it. Our search for meaning and understanding is really an effort to combat the loneliness we feel from the moment we come to this life. Enjoyed your "interaction" very much. :)
If a person is conscious when awake but unconscious when asleep, then consciousness should lie in the difference. So, in this view, consciousness is defined as a set of active neurological processes. However, it's also important to note that consciousness is in a continual relationship with its environment, and is discovered empirically by interacting with it. So, consciousness is a set of active neurological processes interacting with its environment. The set of active neurological processes is not well defined, but is discoverable over time. This would allow a deconstructive approach. Also, which processes are essential to consciousness and which aren't could be arrived at by comparing diverse conscious experiences from various people. So, there's my shot at describing consciousness as a physical system. Also, I think the environment's role in this is more complex than just as something to be observed and manipulated. If you've ever worked on a complicated math problem, you'll have realized that you can arrive at different conclusions by using pencil and paper as opposed to doing everything in your head. I would say that what's happening here is you're using the paper to expand your short term memory. So, these neurological processes interact with the environment in a way that you can almost think of the environment as part of the neurological process.
@@anthonyhardisky1471 I think the assumption that one would be able to 100% differentiate between conscious and unconscious physical systems is incorrect. So, the differentiation I'm proposing is, I hope, most of the way there (if I'm being optimistic). Having said that, I think you are correct that dreaming can be a conscious experience. By correcting my reasoning behind the definition, one could expand the initial inference to include dream states. On the other hand, one could also include dreaming in the definition itself as a neurological process which is both empirically detectable, and smoking gun evidence for consciousness. I suspect that dreaming could be further deconstructed into other neurological processes such as memorizing, recalling and pattern matching, which could be used to infer consciousness. I think you're right that the intuition behind my definition isn't air tight. But, intuition is just there to guide the generation of a definition. The definition itself seems pretty good, even if it presents some challenges to neuroscience.
I'm semiconscious when asleep and mostly conscious of my dreams. I'm aware of my body movements when asleep. There are a lot of holes in the difference between awake and asleep.
You are not unconscious when you sleep. Your brain still produces consciousness. You however don’t store memories the same rate as awaken consciousness so sleep can “feel” unconscious the same way as trying to think back before you were born. - you have to realize how much the mind can process when reality is out the picture so the brain can simply not handle to perma store those memories since your mind can produce half a lifetimes memories during a nights sleep. Again, time is not a factor in your “dream” or sleeping consciousness. It depends on synapses and is effectively light speed which times up the amount of things the brain can go through several millionfold
@@quickschweezy I totally am conscious when I sleep. I lucid dream, I have a low baseline sense of perception of my surroundings. I know when someone enters my room when I'm asleep. I can feel my body move and ache when I'm asleep. I only go fully unconscious in the first 3 hours of sleep, the rest I'm more or less conscious of.
Listening to Sara is like Jonathan Haidt the first time. I have heard lots of new expressions and words 😁 (English second language) It was a privilege to be witness of this brilliant conversation!
Something I’ve always wondered, since I learned that the heavier elements occur in supernovas, and even heavier elements occur in extremely massive/dense collisions and explosions such as when two neutron stars collide, is if it’s possible that the spark of life can also happen in these. Or if they’re too crazy maybe it happens when stars like ours end? It seems like the most beautiful thing ever to me. And imagine the implications. So this large collision creates some form of life which is ejected out and collects into clouds like all the gasses and elements. They come together and form stars and solar systems, the building blocks for life are already abundant in each one and need only for the right conditions. You might also find then that groups of life would very much share some sort of primordial ancestor. I don’t know I just have this feeling that we are again thinking WAY too small and earth centric on the abiogenesis of life.
“The internet is a hopeful place” 😂 lex you’re a very funny guy and Sara is amazing 🤩 thanks for introducing me to her mind. I wish you’d asked about psychedelics when speaking about aliens. I think that’s a very valid hypothesis to discuss with the greatest minds. Great podcast pal x
You go man! Lex you are committed to a full time video log of interviews and buddy we listen over here at work and at home. Keep loving the world with your full time interviews of fascinating individuals and keep the time on your side ok!
It's amazing to look back at this just one year later and see the speed at which a high level conversation can become antiquated. The RNA world hypothesis has grown enormous legs over the past couple of months, thanks largely to new insights into volcanic glass.
@@briarrose7016 Unlikely. Sara talks about her belief system, not science. And it is a really genuine one, unpublished but worth exploring. Normal that there is no clear language yet to communicate to us. I listen to many people and I am a Theoretical Physicist and thinker myself. 99.99% of time, the ideas put forwad are old or naive. I do not agree to everything Sara said, but this is one of those rare 0.01% interviews.
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1:53 - Origin of life
9:46 - Did aliens seed life on Earth?
14:57 - What is life?
26:36 - Cellular automata
31:04 - The laws of physics may change with time
40:50 - Nobel Prize for the origin of life
46:09 - Is consciousness fundamental to the universe?
57:28 - Life is the most deterministic part of physics
1:00:03 - Free will
1:08:20 - How to detect alien life
1:22:57 - How many alien civilization are out there?
1:29:41 - Shadow biosphere
1:36:08 - UFO sightings
1:39:43 - Exponential population growth of AI lifeforms
1:46:50 - The role of death in life
1:50:54 - Advice for young people
1:56:40 - Meaning of life
Thanks Lex going to enjoy this one. 🙂👍
Do you do this with AI? Or manually?
We're not alone)
@@Daniel.Stanescu "Why" Bob Lazar, LOL.
Lex invite this guy!!!! ruclips.net/video/dd6CQCbk2ro/видео.html SCIENCE
I love the way Sara articulates her answers so quickly and efficiently. She is easily as smart as she needs to be but never speaks in riddles or over complicates anything, just quick, simple, to the point and ready for the next question. You were both a pleasure to listen to. Thanks 👌
Well put
I’m a substitute teacher from Flint, Michigan. My students put me hip and we have great conversations about your episodes, can’t wait to talk about this one!
You sound like someone who should be a full-time teacher!
@@goku3223 I really think not many people are cut out for being a full time teachers. In my youth there were only a few teachers that were still enthusiastic and curious. The rest were worn down by the stupid kids who seem to be the majority. And with stupid i mostly mean how they act. Uncontrollable a-holes. Once you get older and are paying for your education with your own earned money then suddenly everything changes as all the other ones also want to get their moneys worth and pay attention and do the work.
@@webosm6494 I agree 100% - none of our systems incentivize good teachers because everything tries to be micro-managed to produce a score on whatever the most recent testing procedure is. If you get those kids to vomit the right data we can get raises and they can just go work in a factory or whatever... and be grateful!
God I hope they fox your water soon, America is a huge waste of potential 😒
where did your students put your hip?
Hey Lex, thanks for being you and doing what you do. I'm a 22 y/o and you're a huge role model for me. Just want you to know there are people out here who really look up to your curiosity, gratitude, and humility.
There’s no explanation for human brain expansion except by intervention/. What that was is the mystery
@@bethjohnson8353 What are some of your guesses?
Ditto
I second that emotion. I wish there was a filter/sort button based on IQ of videos
He's not going to answer you just because you suck up like that. I doubt he even reads past the first couple of comments, right Lex? ...I said, "right Lex"? ... "Lex?" " I am humble and curious, answer me God damn you.".
From an engineering background, this has been one of the most eye-opening episodes I have ever heard. My perspectives with regard to the natural sciences have been fundamentally altered.
The way Lex finds his guest and tries to converse in a way that a normal layman could understand is a special skill.. keep going
One of the best podcasts ever. I love how excited she is sharing her ideas. Often intelligent people are bursting with ideas to share but few understand them. I feel that. A need for a proper audience
Bullshit 😂
Love lex getting more astrobiologists on
Did anyone else read that first-pass as 'astrologists'? Just me then? :D
LOVE these topics and conversations! Thank you Lex!
They aren’t aware of the largest theoretical breakthrough in evolutionary biology in past few decades so the whole discussion is a bit cringe. They should read “The Revolutionary Phenotype” and then redo this discussion.
@@ika5666 I am referring to the explanatory framework of genetic layers and how this explains that the phenotype takes over and becomes the replicator. This theory explains how DNA took over after RNA, and how RNA took over after protein chains ETC. It is the next leap of knowledge that will let scientists know exactly where to look instead ow wander in the darkness hen it comes to research about the origin of life.
@@rick15666 I have a unified and supported theory that I wrote a book about and have a video series explaining it on my channel!
@@rick15666 i have a playlist that starts with the first one and ends with the final one!
Sarah is so honest about what is unclear. Down to earth. Truly remarkable!
Lex is always prepared and so good at allowing his guests to talk without interruption. He has a way of of making other people feel comfortable.
This woman rocks, incredible communicator, not too serious but fucking brilliant. Awesome listening to this conversation.
Her ability to clearly articulate this topic in a clear and concise way shows how intelligent she is and how well she knows her stuff. Their banter back and forth was refreshing to see and listen too. She was willing to talk about any topic that Lex wanted to discuss and she didn't walk around a question because they didn't know how to answer it. This was highly entertaining and refreshing.
But she falls down on the subject of ‘free will’ which is impossible. Look up (Robert Sapolsky) on Free will, possibly the cleverest person I’ve ever heard. You will be blown away..
Even in 0,75 speed i can´t follow her brain speed.
I found her a little condescending
@@seligseligabc123 Very True
I could listen to you 2 talk almost all day everyday. One of the better podcasts out there in cyberspace. Bravo Lex and Thank you Sara.
Amazing!!!!! She allows us to go through her thought process.
Heck yeah, and how about the chemistry between these two, I'm just saying, adorbs.
Wow, Sara Walker might just be one of the most out of the box thinkers I’ve listened to in a while. Think Lex finds it easier to keep up with Goggins.
Yeah, she's high caliber thinker.
I listen to this on repeat even though it's like listening to another language .... She and he are able to articulate these topics so a recovering addict like myself can begin to understand thank you Lex and Sara for bringing these topics to 'reality' for us.
You got this bro
I'm coming up on 24 hours sober and this video helped a lot during the past 2 hours. Hope you're still clean Levi
@@ljavwa3459 still clean, 4.1.14 would love to visit with lex about addiction from an addicts perspective. The guy is an absolute hero! Sara too!
Sara seems to be the kind of person which brings the good mood to the room while being opposite of simple and naive.
Lex unearths some fascinating people to listen and see...
Feynman type
I love how lex puts “advice for young people” as one of his consistent questions. It’s great to have someone talk about that as often as he does
As somebody who is in their early twenties, i greatly appreciate it too
Sorry to break it to you @@BakedJake27 but you're old. I know, I know... it was hard for me to accept it at your age to, but the sooner you do the easier it'll be, trust me.
Sincerely, a late twenty something.
@@lawrencelord9777 Woowww jokes guys... jokes. If calling someone in their early twenties old and signing it like a freakin' letter isn't obvious bs, then idk what is. Was it stupid? Yeah, absolutelyyy. But "dissing people to feel better about himself...weasel??" 🙄 @J P Someone needs to look in the mirror.
@@lawrencelord9777 Also, there was no point, save maybe a grin or two, it was pointless. So, points for observation.
@@jonhall2274 I am in my early 20s and I chortled aswell
This was a fantastic talk! We are super lucky to have these super impressive, multi-faceted and open minded scientists like Sara that work on the deepest of questions!
Lex, please have her again, she was a brilliant guest and I'm going to listen to the whole thing again because there were so many rich and brilliant ideas
Please, she is truly brilliant. Deep thoughts articulated well, beyond computation.
Her explanation of certain topics had me wishing I was at home burning some cannabis instead of at work stocking the shelves with detergent and household chemicals 👽
@@roverguy23 listen to it again when you get home 💚
@@show_me_your_kitties I did it was amazing!
@@matthewdperkins 9ljmj
This researcher is a genius. She ties together seemingly unrelated topics, shows how they are related and has an impressive knowledge of different fields. She is someone you would want to have at your dinner party. I’m glad people like this exist.
She's 1 of the biggest fools in the world with intellectual dishonesty
I love the constant flow of her statements.. Her answers..
That validated her intelligence..
Very interesting..
Great video..
I love that they're talking about ideas... Instead of pushing a bias opinion or belief right from the beginning. This is how personal growth starts and continues. 💚
@@joea7325Said Eleanor discussing people ironically.
She was absolutely fascinating and charming! Great interview!!
17:07 ⚗️🪤🔬😅
Incredible conversation, mind-blowing ideas but also very funny, a good chemistry. Sara is a great guest.
I love it how Sara thinks about how important it is to ask the right questions to get to the core of what life is. That it even might be the wrong question to ask What is life?
Life is what is, too much for question too much for thought.
She is amazing. This is a fabulous interview!
Watching late, but this is a phenomenol interview. It's refreshing to hear someone speak so eloquently around "Life". I love how much of what she thinks relates to scaling of architecture. Everything I see says she's correct in her approach and should be very much listened to.
She is a breath of fresh air. She gets it. Everyone is stuck in a rut and has tunnel vision. She has unlocked herself. Unlimited herself. Learning and unlearning. So refreshing.
What a beautiful communicator and new theories on life in the Universe. So refreshing and so much better than others you had on recently. Sara is solid!!!
“You don’t need to listen to all of them”- Very funny Lex. Problem is they are all interesting people that you interview!
Translation: only watch episodes twice if you really need to as you can catch up on missed earlier ones.
I wouldn't dare miss a single one
Yeah but I like listening to all of them and they all interest me but that is a very good point my friend
I watch your podcast every day. Thank you sir for the excellent content. Sara Walker is incredible. Thank you Ms. Walker!! Go science!!!!!
I love watching Lex Fridman. Everyone you have on your show, they are such amazing people.
As always, Lex has incredible questions. Such a good listener as well. You can tell when some guests aren’t used to that.
I love hearing brilliant minds talk.
@@Wolfy857 👈👀Breaking News: Small Minded Person Just Entered The Thread.
Excellence in anything is awesome.
This is probably the best guest you've had yet I super enjoyed this
I love you Lex. Please continue to be the beautiful inquisitive, humble existence that you seem to be. Or not lol. Just being authentic to the evolving situation of your life is enough. Much respect and gratitude for what you've shared so far ❤️👍
I wish more people could here this, you're such an inspiration! Also thank you for bringing these topics to our attention. It really opens up new perspectives towards our outlooks on life
A physical law, scientific law, or a law of nature is a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior. They are typically conclusions based on repeated scientific experiments over many years, and which have become accepted universally by scientist because our collective consciousness agreed on certain physical law that made sense to most physicist society so it became the law . are we creating or discovering physical laws ?
@@janakiapesova3128 One could say that everything already exists. It's just up to us to make these metaphysical things tangible enough so that we can play with them and integrate them into our toolbox of knowledge.
" you can think of me as a bundle of information that just became temporary aggregated in a particular individual" that was smooth
almost 200 episodes already Lex doing work....dont slow down! I legit enjoy the hell outta this podcast, it brings me so much insight on things I have no flippin idea about haha. 1
I love her emphasis on asking the right questions. It was the same advice I got from my most influential mentor
She's brilliant. Her articulated glimpses into the profoundly complex probabilities seen through limited experience, her explanations relate well to my own ruminations.
Lex, you are doing a great job. You should not be so hard on yourself. I think in the long term your job will ne remembered more in net positive than Joe Rogan's or any other podcaster. I admire your strive to bring scientific discourses to general public. There are many exciting and thrilling questions being discussed on your podcasts.
Personally I think the comparisons and fictional VS scenario between Rogan and Lexs podcast really immature. They are and always have been completely different podcasts. And I believe they have both been in the net positive massively for the entire world. In matter of fact they may well have not been one without the other.
So whilst I get the comparisons on a surface level, it doesn't need much undoing.
She just blew my mind. The laws of physics changing over time. I had to pause the video. No kidding.
Considering our understanding of the Universe and the laws that govern it can really only be described as still being in it's infancy, this shouldn't come as a surprise.
Relatively speaking, we've only just barely stepped out of the cave and started stacking rocks as a species.
Anyone who thinks humans have anything reliably figured out, with any degree of immutable certainty, is guilty of hubris.
The following is my comment under Lex Fridman's conversation with Sara Walker. It is written a few days before the activation of Skynet. Be safe and be brave guys.
to the moon
Skynet is already active, check Rob Braxman, lol
You know it’ll be a good podcast when lex starts it with talking about a metaphorical party 🍻
To have a conversation with either of you would be the greatest thing I can imagine. It's difficult to go through life without having these kinds of conversations. Just by eavesdropping I feel more like I'm participating in my purpose.
1 Hour in and she's so cool and funny to listen too. This was a good one with deep questions!
I'm in love with this woman. No f' ing cap.
@@MasterThought72 Intelligence is sexy asf, and this woman has it in spades. Yummy.
While I enjoyed the talk - I couldn't stop noticing a "romantic spark" between these good people. Was it only me? I also think there should be Thomas Metzinger here too - to add some more philosophical spice to this discussion...
I noticed this while listening to the podcast which is why I came here to watch. While only listening, I couldn't help but notice 2 beautiful inquisitive minds that stimulated each other.
imagine the kid - superhuman
I sensed it totally and came looking for a comment.
Could you imagine the superhuman babies these two would make?
Rumor has it a Vulcan mind-meld ensued post-interview that set off interferometers across the galaxy.
The most fascinating thing I take from these talks is in the comments. Every episode someone states that this is the most best conversation they have ever heard. This means that you have changed the way at least 1 person thinks in every episode. That is amazing to me and should give you great cause to continue to upload these and keep having interesting conversations. Maybe one of the people watching some of these talk will go on to change the world or discover the answers to some of the questions you and your guests bring up.
Thank you to Sara and you pondering these particular questions. May Life, indeed, eternally go on.
Loved this conversation. It's wonderful that Sara is not an outcast for exploring these complex questions in these "hard to communicate" directions. One day Rupert Sheldrake will be acknowledged for his intimations about life.
I need to be more active on the subreddit. The different faces lex makes while listening to his guests are whole moods, they’re so personal.
Such a mind expanding conversation. Can't get enough of this stuff. Thank you
What a beautiful exchange between the two of you. Your interaction gives me hope for future generations. Thank you!
RUclips putting adverts for stocks in drugs that are illegal in my country... nice ✌️
I mean... I'm listening to Lex more than Joe these days.
Thanks for the great conversations Lex!
Science > Bro Scients
One of my favorite episodes. Absolutely brilliant!
I've let this collect dust in my watch later list for far too long. Great conversation!
More of these types of discussions. Super interesting. I don't get to go deep on things im curious about very often.
Ok but they're going to date right? So much chemistry 😂
Agreed.
I was looking for this comment. You could cut that sexual tension with a knife.
@@ErnoSallinen Well that's something people say, but neither one of them seemed tense to me.
Yes, it's a figure of speech.
She talked about her kids! Come on, they are fun in discussion..but....
Lex, you and this podcast give me hope. Truly man- thank you.
Such a brilliant guest, please have her on here again.
This girl is amazing. I feel I'm finally starting to form a grasp of where "we currently are" at the current time. (Don't let me fool you, I'm no where close.) This stuff is getting deep Lex!
This was a freakin' awesome conversation. THANK YOU BOTH!
Sara is very high energy - especially in juxtaposition to Lex, lmao
They make each other look exponentially opposite!!!😁😅🤣😂
I couldn't listen this one in 1.5x because of her... 😒
I'm having to go with .75 speed to follow Sara Lol
She's wonderful!
This great thinker is one of top 5 guests on your show.
Man, Sara is awesome and this episode is great. It's good to know there's still great minds high up in academia willing to "unlearn" things and entertain original or contrary ideas. My minds definitely been expanded after watching this. Thanks again Lex!
Thank you both for making one of best things I ever learned and experienced. Love ya both
I feel like they are polar opposites but they work well with each other! Definitely need a part 2!!
If our physically reality is finite, then what does it exist in and what is the container’s reality.
@@OleMisss ...and well put too.
I think that's a wrong question. By definition the container can't be real. I like to think that the universe is a physically interactive bubble nested in non interactive "space" when I think about finite physical reality.
@@Alkoholwioslaidziwki That's part of the question: 'what is [the condition of] the container's reality?' . I like your answer though. :)
@@Alkoholwioslaidziwki If mathematics is the language of physics, my bet is on infinity. Of course monkey brains are trapped in a topology that lets in no light. 😂
Does it exist inside of a containter or on top of a sphere?
Lex!! This is so deep my mind might implode from these brilliant and forward thinking ideas.
I love this discussion about existence and the words we use to describe it.
Your convo at 1:48 about life and death is perfect, 40 something. Just like Sarah says her sense of time is causal, nature is all consequences and doesn't care about life/death. The suffering involved in our finite nature is actually a threshold to cross and free yourself even more. After you wake up out of trance of purpose, you may not have driving questions, but you might also be able to be content. A bird flies into my hand at the top of a mountain. After I die, I am no longer tethered to this bodymind, but all my material and spiritual energy remains here. The piece you may not get is there is a field of unconditional loving that is here, and this field is bigger than the loneliness you talk about here. Cnscsnss is infinitely creative. Beautiful convo
Exceptional conversation. The idea that there has to be an intelligence behind all life/ creation becomes more like the only logical behind the existence of everything there is. And it is no doubt all loving.
Amazing, one of the best podcasts I've seen this year. Great job Lex & Sara.
Lex, you are a great interviewer. Along with David Kipping, one of my favorite to listen to
Lex, your willingness to combine nature as described through observation and the scientific method with "the big questions" is so refreshing. Thanks for the inspiration.
This might be the most fascinating conversation I've ever heard.
Agreed
Lex has best podcasts out there
one of my favorite episodes, thanks a lot! would love to see Sara on the podcast in the future
Wow, you kept the best for last - some very interesting concepts came out right at the end. Not sure however if it made me less rather than more lonely, or simply more conscious of it. Our search for meaning and understanding is really an effort to combat the loneliness we feel from the moment we come to this life. Enjoyed your "interaction" very much. :)
First and foremost she is a philosopher. Really enjoyed this interview.
I’ve been loving all the space content lately Lex, if you could try getting Isaac Arthur or John Michael Godier on that’d be awesome
If a person is conscious when awake but unconscious when asleep, then consciousness should lie in the difference.
So, in this view, consciousness is defined as a set of active neurological processes.
However, it's also important to note that consciousness is in a continual relationship with its environment, and is discovered empirically by interacting with it.
So, consciousness is a set of active neurological processes interacting with its environment.
The set of active neurological processes is not well defined, but is discoverable over time. This would allow a deconstructive approach. Also, which processes are essential to consciousness and which aren't could be arrived at by comparing diverse conscious experiences from various people.
So, there's my shot at describing consciousness as a physical system.
Also, I think the environment's role in this is more complex than just as something to be observed and manipulated.
If you've ever worked on a complicated math problem, you'll have realized that you can arrive at different conclusions by using pencil and paper as opposed to doing everything in your head.
I would say that what's happening here is you're using the paper to expand your short term memory.
So, these neurological processes interact with the environment in a way that you can almost think of the environment as part of the neurological process.
@@anthonyhardisky1471 I think the assumption that one would be able to 100% differentiate between conscious and unconscious physical systems is incorrect.
So, the differentiation I'm proposing is, I hope, most of the way there (if I'm being optimistic).
Having said that, I think you are correct that dreaming can be a conscious experience.
By correcting my reasoning behind the definition, one could expand the initial inference to include dream states.
On the other hand, one could also include dreaming in the definition itself as a neurological process which is both empirically detectable, and smoking gun evidence for consciousness.
I suspect that dreaming could be further deconstructed into other neurological processes such as memorizing, recalling and pattern matching, which could be used to infer consciousness.
I think you're right that the intuition behind my definition isn't air tight. But, intuition is just there to guide the generation of a definition. The definition itself seems pretty good, even if it presents some challenges to neuroscience.
I'm semiconscious when asleep and mostly conscious of my dreams. I'm aware of my body movements when asleep. There are a lot of holes in the difference between awake and asleep.
You are not unconscious when you sleep. Your brain still produces consciousness. You however don’t store memories the same rate as awaken consciousness so sleep can “feel” unconscious the same way as trying to think back before you were born. - you have to realize how much the mind can process when reality is out the picture so the brain can simply not handle to perma store those memories since your mind can produce half a lifetimes memories during a nights sleep. Again, time is not a factor in your “dream” or sleeping consciousness. It depends on synapses and is effectively light speed which times up the amount of things the brain can go through several millionfold
@@quickschweezy I totally am conscious when I sleep. I lucid dream, I have a low baseline sense of perception of my surroundings. I know when someone enters my room when I'm asleep. I can feel my body move and ache when I'm asleep. I only go fully unconscious in the first 3 hours of sleep, the rest I'm more or less conscious of.
@@TheSolasion I do too. I've been having a dream journal since I hit puberty. Still doesn't change anything, or make you special, to be frank.
Listening to Sara is like Jonathan Haidt the first time. I have heard lots of new expressions and words 😁 (English second language)
It was a privilege to be witness of this brilliant conversation!
Something I’ve always wondered, since I learned that the heavier elements occur in supernovas, and even heavier elements occur in extremely massive/dense collisions and explosions such as when two neutron stars collide, is if it’s possible that the spark of life can also happen in these. Or if they’re too crazy maybe it happens when stars like ours end? It seems like the most beautiful thing ever to me. And imagine the implications. So this large collision creates some form of life which is ejected out and collects into clouds like all the gasses and elements. They come together and form stars and solar systems, the building blocks for life are already abundant in each one and need only for the right conditions. You might also find then that groups of life would very much share some sort of primordial ancestor. I don’t know I just have this feeling that we are again thinking WAY too small and earth centric on the abiogenesis of life.
I love this girl, but I can’t fall asleep to her voice🤣 bring Geohot back!
Mr and Mrs Fridman are great podcasters! Lovely people, great compliments! 😊
isn't she far older than him?
You have come such a long way Lex with some of the most renowned people and topics interviewed. Love your voice by the way, and your Chanel. 😇
You two dorks are absolutely adorable together.
That was deep! Love Lex's questions. Sara Walker is amazing! Beautiful, intelligent, with a positive outlook. Could listen to her for hours.
Yet again amazing guest, can't help thinking there was palpable tension between youse two though 🤔
Oh my goodness. I love her answers. An open mind!
“The internet is a hopeful place” 😂 lex you’re a very funny guy and Sara is amazing 🤩 thanks for introducing me to her mind. I wish you’d asked about psychedelics when speaking about aliens. I think that’s a very valid hypothesis to discuss with the greatest minds. Great podcast pal x
You go man!
Lex you are committed to a full time video log of interviews and buddy we listen over here at work and at home. Keep loving the world with your full time interviews of fascinating individuals and keep the time on your side ok!
It's amazing to look back at this just one year later and see the speed at which a high level conversation can become antiquated. The RNA world hypothesis has grown enormous legs over the past couple of months, thanks largely to new insights into volcanic glass.
The most attractive woman ever. I could listen to her theorize ALL DAY! 😍🤩
She clearly only has eyes for Lex.
she has super fun nerd vibes ^_^ im not smart enough to really keep up but i am pleasantly confused.
Same 🙂
@@briarrose7016 Unlikely. Sara talks about her belief system, not science. And it is a really genuine one, unpublished but worth exploring. Normal that there is no clear language yet to communicate to us. I listen to many people and I am a Theoretical Physicist and thinker myself. 99.99% of time, the ideas put forwad are old or naive. I do not agree to everything Sara said, but this is one of those rare 0.01% interviews.
"Pleasantly confused" I'm using this from now on. I have no idea what she is saying but I want to keep listening.
pretty good candidate here, Lex
Go Lex go
she was very flirty, right?
talks way too fast. imagine that for the rest of your days
@@earl-larsen 😂💯
I love you thoughts and views on life and great guests on your podcast 👍👍👍👍👍👍