Sara Walker
December 8, 2022
Abstract:
Most of our efforts to search for life beyond Earth are anthropocentrically biased – that is they focus on features that have evolved on Earth as analogous to what we might find in alien examples. In this talk, I will discuss whether we can even imagine the possibility space for alien life, and if we can, how we might predict its properties. The discussion is based on recent advances in developing theories, or laws, for universal features of life that suggest some new viewpoints on the problem of alien intelligences.