Lex Fridman Podcast: #142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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Manolis Website: http://web.mit.edu/manoli/

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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