A character in Through the Wormhole
Sara Walker
Through the Wormhole · 29 quotes
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Through the Wormhole: in 3 of its 29 quotes
What's amazing about having a small child in your home is how they learn things. … So he's really just like an information junkie, running around being like, "What is this? What is this? What is this?" And, so, it's pretty fun.
Perhaps that actually is the purpose of living systems—is to figure out how the universe actually works. So living systems, in this kind of framework, are somewhat fundamental to the universe because they're the way the universe figures itself out.
I think about biological systems as physical systems, but they're a unique kind of physical system, and they're uniquely defined, really, by the way they handle information.
Sara defines life as a self-replicating algorithm, a computational machine that processes information and then makes copies of itself.
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