Exploring the Future of Quantum Technologies

...and the Quantum Information Exchanges in Biology?

Topics discussed in the interview:

0:00 Intro 

4:43 What causes our very first heartbeat? 

6:36 Noble’s 1958 research on the first heart model 

8:40 On self-excitation in cells (and what “self” means) 

9:24 The central dogma in biology 

11:17 Schrödinger’s view of life as a crystal 

13:43 To what degree DNA replicates like a crystal 

15:16 The amazing error correction in our genome 

16:59 How enzymes know when they encounter an error 

19:19 “Genes look like a code of life…” 

22:05 The merits and limitations of the Human Genome Project 

23:39 Can we really say “the cell wants” something? 

24:51 Understanding the scales and extraordinary mechanisms in a cell 

27:18 What we do and don't understand 

29:16 On Michael Levin’s work 

31:23 On cancer 

35:41 Neo-Darwinism vs true Darwinism 

38:19 Something must have sped evolution up 

41:22 The cell controls the genome 

44:19 On the metaphysics of chemistry leading to life 

46:42 Biological relativity 

51:08 The universe as a self-excited circuit 

52:18 On Richard Dawkins 

54:27 On the difference between causation and association 

56:48 The limitations on the predictive power of genomics 

58:46 The false hopes around the Human Genome Project 

1:00:20 The central dogma in biology has the wrong metaphysics 

1:07:03 Noble on Spinoza 

1:11:08 How dualistic thinking still limits us 

1:13:40 On the nature of the self 

1:17:06 How life lives on the boundary between order and chaos 

1:18:32 How errors become solutions 

1:19:51 A love story between a human and an AI 

1:23:58 On quantum biology 

1:26:27 On the importance of humility in science 

1:28:16 How we crave meaning (and reductionist science has deprived us of it) 

1:29:07 Denis Noble singing troubadour poetry 

1:30:27 Science must lay down its weapons 

1:32:18 What dancing to the tune of life means on a personal level

Causation and Association/Correlation Multiplicities = Intelligence (@ 52:00-56.48)?  Why when one approach fails multiple others react and attempt to compensate for the failed mechanism?  Mutliple "agents" applying (at a multiplicity of biological levels) a "use it or lose it" philosophy?

...Between Inter-Dependent 'Intelligent" Agents

OUTLINE: 

0:00 - Introduction 

0:44 - Biological intelligence 

9:17 - Living vs non-living organisms 

14:30 - Origin of life 

18:15 - The search for alien life (on Earth) 

51:19 - Creating life in the lab - Xenobots and Anthrobots 

1:04:21 - Memories and ideas are living organisms 

1:18:02 - Reality is an illusion: The brain is an interface to a hidden reality 

2:03:48 - Unexpected intelligence of sorting algorithms 

2:29:26 - Can aging be reversed? 

2:33:17 - Mind uploading 

2:51:57 - Alien intelligence 

3:06:52 - Advice for young people 

3:13:21 - Questions for AGI