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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:
  Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  (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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