In the second "Conscious in the Cloud" session hosted by Tom Barbalet at Netflix HQ in Los Gatos, CA as part of a new series for the Biota.org podcast, Dr. Bruce Damer presents for the first time in public the conception of the "Genesis Engine" driven by the "Genesis Formulation". Inspired by the Drake Equation the formulation is ten factors that Damer and U.C. Santa Cruz collaborator Dr. David Deamer and others are putting forth as required for laboratory experiments to create sufficiently rich simulations that might generate a chemical milieu that exhibits some properties of living systems. Damer posits that if all ten factors were implemented in a large scale automated chemical/computing hybrid system (a "Genesis Engine") and run for long enough, then a second genesis of life on Earth might be witnessed some time in this century. Find the Biota Podcast at: http://www.biota.org/podcast and find more information on Damer and this project can be found at: http://www.damer.com
