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Ep77 "What is Life?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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Complexity and the Signature of Life

This chapter examines the interplay between information, causation, and the emergence of complex technologies as markers of life, illustrated by the hypothetical discovery of a cell phone on Mars. It introduces assembly theory, arguing that complex structures cannot arise spontaneously and highlights the existence of a 'complexity threshold' in chemistry that differentiates living from non-living entities.

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