This week, Eye on AI explored a deceptively simple question: what exactly is life? Dr. Kate Adamala's episode reveals why scientists still lack a universal definition, despite centuries of study, and how that gap matters for everything from astrobiology to synthetic biology. The conversation highlights a fundamental tension between how we intuitively understand life and how we attempt to formalize it scientifically.
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