Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
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The Origins of Life
The origin of life is not about copying molecules. It's not about DNA or RNA or some master molecule that seems to control things like a manager. This is actually about a process that has to precede that. So crossing this threshold, I think is not probably difficult in the cosmos in general. Going beyond that probably is more difficult. Once you've got memory for the first time, even if it's complicated memory made up of a handful of separate chemicals, once you've got this and that capacity can build on itself, spontaneously get complexity.
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