Sarah Walker

Did you see this in the jungle?

Did you see this in the jungle?

Did you see this in the jungle?

Yeah, but it can't erase it. It's just restructuring it. And I think the other thing that is really vivid to me about this example that you're giving is how much death is necessary for life. So I worry a bit about notions of immortality and whether immortality is a good thing or not. So I have sort of a broad conception that life is the only thing the universe

Yeah, but it can't erase it. It's just restructuring it. And I think the other thing that is really vivid to me about this example that you're giving is how much death is necessary for life. So I worry a bit about notions of immortality and whether immortality is a good thing or not. So I have sort of a broad conception that life is the only thing the universe

Yeah, but it can't erase it. It's just restructuring it. And I think the other thing that is really vivid to me about this example that you're giving is how much death is necessary for life. So I worry a bit about notions of immortality and whether immortality is a good thing or not. So I have sort of a broad conception that life is the only thing the universe

generates that actually has even the potential to be immortal. But that's as like this sort of process that you're describing where life is about memory and historical contingency and construction of new possibilities. But when you look at any instance of life, especially one as dynamic as what you're describing, it's a constant birth and death process.

generates that actually has even the potential to be immortal. But that's as like this sort of process that you're describing where life is about memory and historical contingency and construction of new possibilities. But when you look at any instance of life, especially one as dynamic as what you're describing, it's a constant birth and death process.

generates that actually has even the potential to be immortal. But that's as like this sort of process that you're describing where life is about memory and historical contingency and construction of new possibilities. But when you look at any instance of life, especially one as dynamic as what you're describing, it's a constant birth and death process.

But that birth and death process is like the way that the universe can explore what possibilities can exist and Not everything, not every possible human or every possible ant or every possible zombie ant or every possible tree will ever live. So it's, you know, it's an incredibly dynamic and creative place because of all that death.

But that birth and death process is like the way that the universe can explore what possibilities can exist and Not everything, not every possible human or every possible ant or every possible zombie ant or every possible tree will ever live. So it's, you know, it's an incredibly dynamic and creative place because of all that death.

But that birth and death process is like the way that the universe can explore what possibilities can exist and Not everything, not every possible human or every possible ant or every possible zombie ant or every possible tree will ever live. So it's, you know, it's an incredibly dynamic and creative place because of all that death.

Yeah, it does. I think the thing that's perplexing for me about these kind of examples is, you know, effectively the ant's dead, but it's staying alive now because it's piloted by this fungus. And so that gets back to this, you know— thing that we were talking about a few minutes ago about how the boundary of life is really hard to define.

Yeah, it does. I think the thing that's perplexing for me about these kind of examples is, you know, effectively the ant's dead, but it's staying alive now because it's piloted by this fungus. And so that gets back to this, you know— thing that we were talking about a few minutes ago about how the boundary of life is really hard to define.

Yeah, it does. I think the thing that's perplexing for me about these kind of examples is, you know, effectively the ant's dead, but it's staying alive now because it's piloted by this fungus. And so that gets back to this, you know— thing that we were talking about a few minutes ago about how the boundary of life is really hard to define.

So, you know, anytime that you want to draw a boundary around something and you say, this feature is the thing that makes this alive, or this thing is alive on its own, there's not ever really a clear boundary.

So, you know, anytime that you want to draw a boundary around something and you say, this feature is the thing that makes this alive, or this thing is alive on its own, there's not ever really a clear boundary.

So, you know, anytime that you want to draw a boundary around something and you say, this feature is the thing that makes this alive, or this thing is alive on its own, there's not ever really a clear boundary.

And these kind of examples are really good at showing that because it's like the thing that you would have thought is the living organism is now dead, except that it has another living organism that's piloting it. So the two of them together are are alive in some sense, but they're, you know, now in this kind of weird symbiotic relationship that's taking the sand to its death.

And these kind of examples are really good at showing that because it's like the thing that you would have thought is the living organism is now dead, except that it has another living organism that's piloting it. So the two of them together are are alive in some sense, but they're, you know, now in this kind of weird symbiotic relationship that's taking the sand to its death.