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Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics

COMPLEXITY

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The Origin of Life in Opposition to Non Life

I loved hearing people take you to task on this in the recent multiple life workshop at SFI, when you said, well, why not alive? And you answered because we have to tell it to divide. But again, that gets to this question about people tend to think about the emergence of a biosphere from a geosphere. It may be less that the origin of life was about a fundamental shift in the capacities of the geosphere and more about the concentration of behavior that was already happening in a kind of diffuse way in the environment. I'm curious about where you sit with all of this.

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