Free Video Lecture | Paul Nurse | The Cell: Biology’s Atom | GREAT MINDS

We often divide the world into two categories: living and non-living. However, the way we define life itself is a little unclear. For example, a virus has characteristics of both living and non-living things. Would it be possible to deal with threats such as a virus if we could better define life?
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Nobel Prize winner and former President of the Royal Society, Paul Nurse has prepared a lecture series on “life.” As a scientist who has studied the mechanism of a cell throughout his life, he raises a simple question: “What is life?”
Nurse brings us the wonders of life in this lecture series. He vividly shows us the big picture of biology, along with its history and recent discoveries, while focusing on the five great ideas of modern biology: the cell, DNA, evolution by natural selection, life as chemistry, and life as information. Paul Nurse’s lectures integrate these five ideas and establish the principle of life, which will help us get a better understanding and perspective on what exactly life is at its core. Paul Nurse’s lectures can be our first step to overcoming the crises humanity faces now: climate change, a global pandemic, and the loss of the diversity of life.
Paul Nurse is an English Biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for his discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells.
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[@qd4051]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@frankr29]

He starts off by linking life forms through their shared sense of purpose, but then drops this and does his usual dance: life is defined through its attributes. In my view, life is AWARENESS. This is what creates the will or volition that produces purpose. Paul: any comments?

[@rodneypantony3551]

I'm thinking signals processing, aka information processing aka computing is the central paradigm of all science. All systems monitor their environment for change. From atomic to cosmic. It's Intelligence, if you will. But, we have a standard model of physics as uniform PHYSICS and we even have a name for it: "physics". Really the revolution in cellular biology and astronomy, and possibly more, suggests physics in layers where each layer is a scale. Exemplia gratia: Water, something we're familiar with, behaves differently at an ant's scale, a human scale, and possibly a planet's scale etc. Insects can carry a ball of water but humans usually carry water in containers but never have I seen anyone carrying a ball of water. How far can information processing analogies or models explain physics at different scales. Well, some physicists talk about memory at very, very small scales, almost to the point where atoms are elemental quantum computers. A computed cosmos would be consistent with Wong's paper, Systems Evolution ( or systems engineering ). And if Wong is wight the same processes occur throughout the cosmos. Funny eh? Still, you gotta wonder how many scientists have read Wong. Sniff some, taste others but thoroughly digest Wong. Biologists might want to understand AI aka intelligence because biology may be based on intelligence.

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[@VisothVisaa-lh4ck]

the life is miserable