Recognizing the Alien in Us

Sara Walker Life does not violate any of the known laws of physics. But it is not explained by them either. In this SFI Community Lecture, Sara Walker guides us through the quest to uncover a new theory of physics that might allow us to understand what life is, its general characteristics, its origin on Earth, and how to find it elsewhere in the universe. Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life and how to discover alien life. At Arizona State University she is the deputy director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, associate director of the ASUSFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, and associate professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Complex Adaptive Systems. She is also an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. Learn more at Follow us on social media: fac