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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Structure of the Causal Chains

If you look at the structure of two interacting living things populations and they have independent origins for their causal chain, then one is alien. So that's why you would even define them as alien. The question we're all interested in is how many independent origins of a complexifying causal chain are there in the universe? And would all alien civilizations have an evolutionary process on a planet?

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