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#518 - Lee Cronin - What Will Alien Life Look Like?
Modern Wisdom
How Does Life Develop a Memory?
I think it's the simplest way I can describe the process by soulless matter or stuff that's not directed is able literally to act on other stuff by experiencing stuff in stuff. And if you think of sand on the beach and the sand has no memory, but maybe every now and then some clumps of sand get blown together in a triangle and they become resistant to weathering from either side. And so that in a way is like a little rudimentary memory because the effect of that that chance arrangement has a material influence on the future. The past really does have a meaning, which is obvious probably to us, but not to physicists who basically think the past doesn't exist.
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