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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 220 – Damer: “EvoGrid: The Ultimate Nerd Project”
Description: Guest speaker: Bruce Damer
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Bruce Damer.]
"The EvoGrid at home will be your computer looking for signs of emergent protolife in the primordial digital soup."
"[Life-like digital processes] are significant because they show us an insight into our own beginnings. They challenge religious beliefs, creationists' beliefs, they show us that life may have emerged elsewhere in the universe in different environments. They will be, in a sense, one of the ultimate creations of the biosphere."
"Perhaps Gaia, the biosphere, has a devious plan which is to allow one of its species, one of...