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What Is the Ceiling of Assembly?
Whatever physics governs life emerges actually in chemistry, it's not relevant at the subatomic scale or even at the atomic scale. When you get into this combinatorial diversity that you get from combining things on the periodic table, that's when selection starts to matter. And whatever we're talking about as physics of information or physics of assembly becomes relevant at a certain scale of reality. Do you think if you were there in the early universe, you would have been able to predict the emergence of chemistry and biology? Because at this stage as humans, do you think we can possibly predict the length of the universe? Like how complex is what is the ceiling of assembly?