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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

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How Does Complexity Emerge From Simple Rules?

"I just enjoy the fact that physicists are on cages," he says. " assembly will help us understand weak emergence at the very least, and maybe allow us to crack open complexity in a new way" He adds: "There's lots of minimum number of constraints we need in our system for this to unfold" 'The origin of life must come from the boundary conditions you put in all over the world,' I'm not saying it's magic but there has to be some kind of mechanism' The final question is whether time can have an impact on how complex things become.

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