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Nov 2020
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#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, ...

LEX FRIDMAN
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Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:48) – Music and life
(46:21) – The number 42
(52:22) – The question about the meaning of life
(55:02) – Are humans unique in the universe?
(1:00:46) – Human civilization
(1:12:52) – Mars
(1:14:45) – Human mind and the abstraction layers of reality
(1:25:38) – Neural networks and intelligence
(1:32:55) – Ideas as organisms
(1:42:19) – Language
(1:53:34) – Legacy
(2:08:25) – Poems

SONGS MENTIONED:
[1] Dwros Gewrgiadis – An imoun plousios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7akZoEQv6jI
[2] Grigoris Bithikotsis – Ftoxologia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyGR24O0KQ8
[3] Sto perigiali to kryfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GBPx_GXQw
[4] Michael Jackson – Man in the Mirror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqe5NP86OCc
[5] George Michael – Careless Whisper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ
[6] Gainsbourg with Isabelle Adjani – Pull Marine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7MwHGHWgLk
[7] Georges Moustaki – Le meteque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8fGf-N06A
[8] Jacques Brel – Ne me quitte pas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_bq5mStroM
[9] Sting – Englishman In New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk
[10] Sting – Fragile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6a-iD6ZOY
[11] Pink Floyd – The Wall (When the Tigers Broke Free)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9b9UhFe6Eg
[12] Pink Floyd – The Wall (One Of My Turns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOay-7aqLks
[13] Sting – Russians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
[14] Joni Mitchell – Both sides now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnf46boC3I
[15] Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOnXe8ttmjY
[16] Alison Krauss & Union Station – The Lucky One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcRZ_J_VgNc

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