"i don't know what it's like to be an alien i would like to know two alien civilizations coexisting on a planet what's that look like exactly when you see them and they see you you're assuming they hav..."

"first of all welcome back sarah welcome back lee you guys i'm a huge fan of yours you're incredible people i should say thank you to sarah for wearing uh really awesome boots we'll probably overlay a ..."

"talk about life what is life what is non-life what is the line between life and non-life and maybe at any point we can pull in ideas of assembly theory like how do we start to try to define life and f..."

"and and start at the beginning what is assembly theory lee send me some slides there's a there's a big sexy paper coming out probably maybe i don't know we've almost finished it um almost almost that'..."

"exactly it's a uh a nice simplification at this simple description of what so we have a computer scientist a physicist in the chemist here why i can do a bar i think the chemist is going to define mat..."

"you mentioned that there's no way to communicate with aliens until there's overlap in the causal craft communication includes being able to see them and like what are we this is the question is um is ..."

"uh different like local pockets of the universe start remembering stuff how does memory uh emerge exactly so at the origin of the universe i was very forgetful that's when the physicists were happiest..."

"cascading thing so what if that's the reason we're lucky is that we got to have a rare cascading of um like accelerating cascading effect in terms of the complexity of things so like maybe most of the..."

"isn't it possible once you figure out the origin of life that that's not going to solve um that's not actually going to solve the question of what is life like is isn't it because you're kind of putti..."

"we talked about the early days of the universe when there was just stuff and no memory not even causality i think lee at least implied the causality's immersion somehow we could discuss this what happ..."

"is there room for god in assembly theory who's god i like arguments for a necessary being better than god well i think i said it earlier like something that has to exist oh so you like i mean you like..."

"you mentioned offline the assembledtron assemblytron assemblytron yep uh what what's an assemblytron these are the there's an early idea of something you're thinking about um so sarah's team uh well i..."

"few things i want to ask but we brought up time quite a bit you guys tweet about time quite a bit uh what is time in all this we kind of mentioned it a bunch um is it not important at all in terms of ..."

"only had no pages and they have all had one page another page another page whereas a physicist will now say all the pages exist and we could in principle access them i'm saying that is fundamentally i..."

"about alien sightings so there's been quite a bit of ufo sightings and all that kind of stuff what do you think would be the first time when humans cite aliens see aliens in a sort of unquestionable w..."

"what would you say is between the two of you is the biggest disagreement about aliens alien life out there is it from the basic framework of thinking about what is life to maybe what aliens look like ..."

"what about robots so is it possible to engineer see because you're really talking about like engineering life at the chemistry level but do you think it's possible to engineer life at the like humanoi..."

"isn't that what love is being fooled like what why why are you not giving much value to the emotional connection with objects with with robots with humans emotion is that thing which happens when you'..."

"oh beauty i wanted to mention this because you also tweeted i think this was sarah no it might have been lee i don't remember but it was a survey published in nature showing that scientists uh find ye..."

"questions and i demand relatively short answers uh lee what's the scariest thing you've ever done okay yeah or what's a scary thing that pops to mind giving lecture giving giving seminars in front of ..."

"fascinating minds and not i would say uh non-standard in the best possible way is there advice you can give to young folks how to be non-standard how to stand out novelty how to generate novelty that'..."

"if you were abducted by aliens sarah excellent i'm waiting [Laughter] there on a spaceship there and then they somehow figured out the language you speak um and ask you what are what are you what is w..."

"rather lose all of your old memories or never be able to make new ones i would have to um lose all my old memories again it's the novelty um what about you sarah i'm not saying because i don't think l..."