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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

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Is It a Law in Physics?

There's no such thing as a law in physics. It's just low memory stuff. As you get built in more memory, you get to chemistry. So the more memory you need, the more your laws are local. That's all I'm saying and that the less memory, the more the laws are universal because they're not laws. They are just low memory states. We have to talk about a thing you've kind of mentioned already but doing computation through chemistry, chemical based computation. What is chemically chemical based computation? So, a name I gave to the process of building a state machine to make any molecule physically in the lab. And it's carried from human to human, some

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