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Finding life we can't imagine

TEDxUIUC 2011Feb 201118 min663625 views

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How do we search for alien life if it's nothing like the life that we know? Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research into artificial life -- self-replicating computer programs -- to find a signature, a "biomarker," that is free of our preconceptions of what life is.