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Simplifying Complexity

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The Origin of Life Transition

The main goal is to measure life because if we have a measurement of life then we can start to talk about the origin of life in a meaningful way. And it turns out that the theory so originally I approached that problem with this top down perspective and everything thinking theorigin of life transition was when information became causal. But now the way I think about it is this sort of inverted perspective where instead of looking at a spatial hierarchy like we described before, I just think about that in an instantaneous slice. It's because there are these objects that informationally are extended in time. If you think about that informational feature as physical and objects have a physical size in time, then you get to some really

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