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The Origins of Life: David Krakauer, Sarah Maurer, and Chris Kempes at InterPlanetary Festival 2019

COMPLEXITY

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Thermodynamics of Life

Ridi tink: Right now, i think agency is very far from where my experiments are. So we're just really building the chemical context for life to evolve in and iant actually generate that next step. There's a growing ot on a momentum around this idea that life is a sort of thermo dynamic inevitability because of the way that metabolisms come together and dissipate energy more effectively in a system. I may think one way to break that question down is to ask, under what sort of conditions do you get subsets of the system that have,. you know, surprisingly more structure able to then harness energy from other parts of the system? That's that sort of the thermo

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