# Finding life we can't imagine

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxUIUC
- Speaker: Christoph Adami
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/christoph_adami_finding_life_we_can_t_imagine)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

How do we search for alien life if it's nothing like the life that we know? Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research into artificial life -- self-replicating computer programs -- to find a signature, a "biomarker," that is free of our preconceptions of what life is.

## Lectures

1. [Finding life we can't imagine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/christoph_adami_finding_life_we_can_t_imagine/de9ce94e99b0), 19 min (TED's player)