010: Michael Lachmann

This week Alien Crash Site invites Evolutionary Biologist, and SFI Professor Michael Lachmann into the Zone to seek out a feeling device. We discuss the work he's done in the past year on strategic approaches to COVID, interdisciplinary science in general, his opinions on the origins of life, Roadside Picnic, Stalker, Solaris and understanding how aliens feel.

This week Alien Crash Site invites Evolutionary Biologist, and SFI Professor Michael Lachmann into the Zone to seek out a feeling device. We discuss the work he's done in the past year on strategic approaches to COVID, interdisciplinary science in general, his opinions on the origins of life, Roadside Picnic, Stalker, Solaris and understanding how aliens feel.

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

• Michael’s webpage

• Lauren Ancel Meyers

• Carl Bergstrom’s Calling Bullshit

• Michael’s work on the Neandertal genome

• Information’s impact on fitness

• Michael, Sara Walker, Chris Kempes and Lee Cronin, herein the #OriginsOfLifeLeague

• Life ≠ Alive