Alternative life
Even today, we have to revise our daily perception of what life is, as artificial living processes actually exist in computer systems and are about to become a reality both in chemical systems and in robotic systems. Professor Steen Rasmussen and his research team at SDU work to create chemically based life from the ground up from non-living materials, which are different from those we find from biology. They create very simple cells, which consist of a self-collecting container (oil and soap), a light-driven energy conversion, and a memory that can divide and evolve.
Hear how far we are from creating artificial life that will crawl out of the petri dish. Get Steen Rasmussen's clue as to where artificial life is moving.
Science journalist Jens Degett talks (in Danish) with Steen Rasmussen about the creation of alternative life.
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