Environment and Sustainability

Persson, Erik; Martínez‐Frías, Jesús; Milligan, Tony; Arnould, Jacques; Kminek, Gerhard

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96265-8_5

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“…One of the most serious potential problems with new life, whether invented or discovered, is that it will become invasive or in other ways threaten existing biological life and ecosystems [37,77,[82][83][84]]. An immediate concern is the question of planetary protection [56,[85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95]. An example of this is the issue of quarantine for spacecraft to and from Mars [88,[96][97][98].…”

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

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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.

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