Sara Imari Walker

And the idea being if we could build a large enough experiment, we could search that huge space of chemistry, a little bit like a search algorithm for chemistry, and then be able to look in chemical space and try to discover aliens.

In an original life experiment on Earth.

And so that's what we're trying to do.

Whoa.

I'm really excited.

I hope it happens.

Yes.

Yeah.

So, I mean, there are benefits to that.

Right.

So so Lee's company chemifies a digital chemistry company and their stated aim is to be able to 3D print any molecule on demand.

Right.

So this has huge impact for the pharmaceutical industry.

But like the real goal is to make an artificial life form in the lab.

But that also has huge impact for humanity because you imagine that.

Now you have the ability to study in this other system, all of these other kinds of chemistries, like what can you do for like antibiotic discovery or pharmaceutical drug discovery or even psychedelic drug discovery, people like that.

But, you know, like there's there's a crazy amount of new technology available.

new insights fundamentally to come out of that but I also don't think that we're really going to understand these other kind of technologies that we're building like when we're thinking about artificial intelligence and like is that alive or not unless we solve this chemical problem of what life is because I think the chemical problem is much harder but much more direct as far as like understanding the fundamental nature of life when you solve it in an experimental program biological life biological life chemical life

Because it won't be biology as we know it, right?

That's the whole point.