Is Life Fundamentally Computational? | Blaise Agüera y Arcas

*Is every living organism fundamentally a computer?* Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that life is computational at its core, suggesting this makes the emergence of life a statistical inevitability wherever the conditions are right. 0:00 Why Life Is Computational 2:48 The Computer Inside Every Cell 4:30 Is Life Inevitable? 9:06 Prediction Drives Evolution 10:29 AI as an Evolutionary Transition *Blaise Agüera y Arcas* is a VP/Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society, and the founder of Paradigms of Intelligence, an organization dedicated to fundamental AI research. He is the author of Who Are We Now?, and his research has included work on privacy-preserving machine learning, on-device AI, large language models, and human identity. *More from Blaise Agüera y Arcas on Closer To Truth:* * Closer To Truth: The Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pLLkP0kHQKL9nZh35UkgkR_ * Agüera y Arcas’s Computational Functionalism : https://loc.closertotruth.com/theory/agueera-y-arcas-s-computational-functionalism * Closer To Truth contributors: https://closertotruth.com/contributor/blaise-aguera-y-arcas/ *Subscribe to Closer To Truth:* https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV *Join the Community:* * Membership (5,000+ videos): https://closertotruth.com/register/ * Audio Podcast: https://closertotruth.podbean.com * Support the Show: https://closertotruth.com/donate/ * Official Merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/closertotruth/ *Follow Us:* * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloserToTruthTV/ * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/closertotruth/ * X: https://x.com/CloserToTruth Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers. #CloserToTruth #Reality #BlaiseAgueraYArcas