Life as a Digital Being

Life as a Digital Being

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ In the future we might see the rise of minds entirely on computers, be it uploaded humans, transhumans, or artificial intelligence. But what would such an existence be like? Would they interact with our...

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Why Life Exists

Why Life Exists

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur The big question of why life exists has challenged minds for countless centuries, but what does science have to say on this matter? Could life arise on other worlds and in other Universes,...

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Boltzmann Brains & the Anthropic Principle

Boltzmann Brains & the Anthropic Principle

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ We continue our discussion of the Boltzmann Brain - a hypothetical randomly assembled mind rather than an evolved one - by looking at the Anthropic Principle and the Fine-Tuned Universe Theory,...

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