On Episode 74, Nick chats with Emily Parke, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, about her first job creating life from the bottom-up at the academic-run synthetic biology company Protolife, challenging the idea that there’s some epistemic privilege experiments have over models, the trade-offs and causual issues of using microbiome-based explanations to explain every element of human health, and how philosophical debates on the origin of life might actually matter to science.