What Is Life?
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
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What is life? Is an open conversation with Alicia Kopf and Bego Vendrell, as part of the CCCB's Science Friction, Conversations among ruins series.
How does our perception of the human species change once life is understood as a co-existence between unfamiliar beings? How do new beings originate from association and cooperation? What should be cut and what should be connected so that multispecies relationships flourish? What types of narratives are generated from the links and frictions between the entities?
In this first session, biologist and professor Bego Vendrell, a disciple of Margulis, and artist and writer Alicia Kopf speak about the flow of energy and matter that generates life through change. This talk will focus on the endo-symbiotic theory of biologist Lynn Margulis, which sustains that “new species evolve primarily through long-term interaction.” The discussion will also explore the friction between natural selection and competition as the driving force of evolution, and symbiosis and co-operation as generators of life.
This talk will be held in Spanish and Catalan.
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