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

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/
Manolis Twitter: https://twitter.com/manoliskellis
Manolis YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkKlJ5LHrE3C7fgbnPA5DGA

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:18 - Music and life
41:51 - The number 42
47:52 - The question about the meaning of life
50:32 - Are humans unique in the universe?
56:16 - Human civilization
1:08:22 - Mars
1:10:15 - Human mind and the abstraction layers of reality
1:21:08 - Neural networks and intelligence
1:28:25 - Ideas as organisms
1:37:49 - Language
1:49:04 - Legacy
2:03:55 - 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=E_5DRKZI1Ow
[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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