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Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas, author and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, returns to the podcast to talk about his new work, What is Life?<\/a>. This limited-edition, pocket-sized book is the first part of a larger print project with MIT Press and Antikythera titled What Is Intelligence?<\/a>. What is Life? draws fascinating parallels between the life-building chemical reactions taking place in natural chimneys deep in our oceans and the work of Alan Turing and John von Neumann in the mid-twentieth century. Blaise joins Robb and Josh to explore how self-reproduction\u2014and thus life\u2014is inherently computational. This conversation delves into the nested nature of life on Earth and how technology is an extension of our evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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