How Will the Emerging Plurality of Lives Change How We Conceive of and Relate to Life?

Erik Persson, Jessica Abbott, Christian Balkenius, Anna Cabak Redei, Klara Anna Čápová, Dainis Dravins, David Dunér, Markus Gunneflo, Maria Hedlund, Mats Johansson, Anders Melin and Petter Persson
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Erik Persson: Department of Philosophy, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Jessica Abbott: Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Christian Balkenius: Department of Philosophy, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Anna Cabak Redei: Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Klara Anna Čápová: Department of Anthropology, Durham University, DH1 3LE Durham, UK
Dainis Dravins: Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
David Dunér: Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Markus Gunneflo: Department of Law, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Maria Hedlund: Department of Political Science, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Mats Johansson: Medical Ethics, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Anders Melin: Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Petter Persson: Department of Chemistry, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden

Challenges, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: The project “A Plurality of Lives” was funded and hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University, Sweden. The aim of the project was to better understand how a second origin of life, either in the form of a discovery of extraterrestrial life, life developed in a laboratory, or machines equipped with abilities previously only ascribed to living beings, will change how we understand and relate to life. Because of the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the project aim, the project took an interdisciplinary approach with a research group made up of 12 senior researchers representing 12 different disciplines. The project resulted in a joint volume, an international symposium, several new projects, and a network of researchers in the field, all continuing to communicate about and advance the aim of the project.

Keywords: Life; definition of life; extraterrestrial life; synthetic life; artificial intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A00 C00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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