00:00Until now, our lifespans have been pretty straightforward.
00:03We're born, we live, and we eventually die.
00:05But new research is complicating that.
00:07There are these really cool things called xenobots,
00:09which are AI-created or AI-designed microorganisms
00:14that basically defy the rules of mortality.
00:18Scientists believe that they have this third state between life and death
00:22and that when their organism dies,
00:24they can take on an entirely new biological function.
00:27And this is basically upending everything we know about evolution.
00:30So are these tiny cellular zombies intelligent or even conscious?
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