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OUTLINE:Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.(00:00) - Introduction(05:37) - What Turing got wrong(11:02) - MIT Center for Bits and Atoms(24:08) - Digital logic(30:44) - Self-assembling robots(41:12) - Digital fabrication(52:07) - Self-reproducing machine(59:53) - Trash and fabrication(1:04:49) - Lab-made bioweapons(1:09:04) - Genome(1:20:56) - Quantum computing(1:25:28) - Microfluidic bubble computation(1:30:49) - Maxwell's demon(1:39:35) - Consciousness(1:46:35) - Cellular automata(1:51:07) - Universe is a computer(1:55:53) - Advice for young people(2:05:10) - Meaning of life