#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

652.961 - 683.866 Sarah Walker

I think the question there is about whether life can be described in terms of matter and physical things, or whether there is some Other feature that's not physical that actually animates living things. So for a long time, people maybe have called that a soul. It's been really hard to pin down what that is. So I think the vitalist idea is really that it's kind of a dualistic interpretation.