Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics | Lex Fridman Podcast

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cross-disciplinary perspectives.

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Manolis Website: http://web.mit.edu/manoli/
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:54 - Human genome
17:47 - Sources of knowledge
29:15 - Free will
33:26 - Simulation
35:17 - Biological and computing
50:10 - Genome-wide evolutionary signatures
56:54 - Evolution of COVID-19
1:02:59 - Are viruses intelligent?
1:12:08 - Humans vs viruses
1:19:39 - Engineered pandemics
1:23:23 - Immune system
1:33:22 - Placebo effect
1:35:39 - Human genome source code
1:44:40 - Mutation
1:51:46 - Deep learning
1:58:08 - Neuralink
2:07:07 - Language
2:15:19 - Meaning of life

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