Sara Imari Walker

Yeah, there's no problem with crazy ideas, by the way.

I love crazy ideas.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

But even going back to the simulation, I'd like... But yeah, the Big Bang is... I mean, but I think, you know, when you're trying to understand how reality works, it should surprise you.

And it should have...

counterintuitive properties.

I mean, I think that's how we really know we're learning things.

And I'm also of the perspective that I think any theory can be replaced by a better one.

Any explanation is not an ultimate explanation.

So we're constantly learning more and we're constantly refining our ideas.

I think collectively, yes, I think scientists have a hard time doing that.

And so, you know, I confront this a lot in my work because the kind of ideas we're proposing are new and they they say very different things than, you know, sort of the standard canon would say or like we make, you know, like we're seeing structure that isn't part of the way that people talk scientifically about the nature of life or like.

It's fundamental properties.

And what I see is a lot of resistance to new ideas because people think things are already explained.

And so this is really funny for me, the original life.

It's like we already have an evolutionary theory.

Like the original life is solved.

And it's like have you been to a meeting on the original life?

It's like that problem is not solved.