{
  "id": 18445905,
  "title": "Life is the most important problem in physics",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/life-is-the-most-important-problem-in-physics",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-06T05:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Big Think",
    "slug": "big-think",
    "url": "https://bigthink.com/series/full-interview/life-machine-frank/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Descartes cut open living dogs and insisted their cries were just the noises of a machine. Astrophysicist and astrobiologist Adam Frank, a professor at the University of Rochester and author of The Little Book of Aliens, argues that the same life-as-machine metaphor still shapes how we think about AI, and that it gets life fundamentally wrong. Living things are self-creating, self-repairing…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}