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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Causation?
If you were to look at me as a box, the same box, am I a sum of my parts in terms of like, how do you know what's my assembly index? So I would be gentle. So let's just take a pile of sand the same way as you. And I would take you and just cut up all the molecules. You can average it out. But what's really cool is that you're going to have a really high assembly. The sand will have a very low assembly. Your causal power is much higher. It says something about causal power in universe. That's not supposed to exist. Because physicists don't accept that causation exists at the bottom. Why
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