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#518 - Lee Cronin - What Will Alien Life Look Like?
Modern Wisdom
What Is the Hardest Jump?
We don't yet understand the force if you like that enables to initiate evolution. Everyone thinks that evolution is something that only exists in life, but if that's the case, where did it come from? And I think it's not impossible to understand how you go from a single cell to a multi cell. Not impossible then to go from multi cell to animal and then animal tool making to consciousness and stuff. But so that first jump from the sand to the cell, the molecular machines, is something we have no handle on because it occurs in the molecular regime. So I think that we should nail it soon, but it is fascinating that we have no idea what happened. None.
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