Categories Podcast 1-What is Life Post author By scienceatp Post date April 22, 2020 No Comments on 1-What is Life An opera singer and precision instrument sales associate help Adam and Alexis probe the definitions of life and some edge cases. Footnotes:Lottie’s Youtube channel:https://youtu.be/R74ksJfYNzESchroedinger’s – What is life? Schrodinger, R. and Schrödinger, E., 1992. What is life?: With mind and matter and autobiographical sketches. Cambridge University Press.Dictionary definition of lifeDictionary.cambridge.org. 2020. LIFE | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary. [online] Available at: <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/life> [Accessed 18 April 2020].Merriam-webster.com. 2020. Definition Of BIOLOGY. [online] Available at: <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biology> [Accessed 18 April 2020].Orthodox definitions of life https://science.sciencemag.org/content/295/5563/2215http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/mars141.phpKoshland, D.E., 2002. The seven pillars of life. Science, 295(5563), pp.2215-2216.Phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu. 2020. Phoenix Mars Mission – Education – Mars 101 – Habitability And Biology. [online] Available at: <http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/mars141.php> [Accessed 18 April 2020].MRS GREN/NERGCooke, V. and Howard, C., 2016. Key Concepts in Primary Science: Audit and Subject Knowledge. Critical Publishing.Are computers alive? MacKay, D. and Simons, G., 1983. Are Computers Alive-Evolution and New Life FormsPlants bend towards light Thimann, K.V. and Curry, G.M., 1960. Phototropism and phototaxis. Comparative biochemistry, 1, pp.243-309.On the Motion of AnimalsAristotle. and Nussbaum, M., 1985. Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.The Turing test Saygin, A.P., Cicekli, I. and Akman, V., 2000. Turing test: 50 years later. Minds and machines, 10(4), pp.463-518.Video of Google AI passing the Turing testhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbHu_bVa_gAre viruses alive? A discussion between 2 microbiologists https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Bhella/publication/305235846_Are_viruses_alive/links/5be0222b4585150b2b9faed8/Are-viruses-alive.pdfBrown, N. and Bhella, D., 2016. Are viruses alive?. Microbiology Today, 43(2), pp.58-61.Nasas definition of lifeAstrobiology.nasa.gov. 2020. NASA Astrobiology. [online] Available at: <https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/life-detection/about/> [Accessed 18 April 2020].TransposonFeschotte, C. and Pritham, E.J., 2007. DNA transposons and the evolution of eukaryotic genomes. Annu. Rev. Genet., 41, pp.331-368.EndosymbiosisArchibald, J.M., 2015. Endosymbiosis and eukaryotic cell evolution. Current Biology, 25(19), pp.R911-R921.Shadow biosphere Davies, P.C., Benner, S.A., Cleland, C.E., Lineweaver, C.H., McKay, C.P. and Wolfe-Simon, F., 2009. Signatures of a shadow biosphere. Astrobiology, 9(2), pp.241-249. Tags AI, DNA, Life, Living, Transposons, Virus