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67 | Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Evolution of Life
i think one way of thinking about the evolution of life is not only an evolution of complexity in terms of the structures that make the physical organism but an evolution of the sophistication with which we deal with information right? The first RNA or DNA molecules actually carried some information and that was crucial obviously. And then there was this sort of differentiation of information when you got to eukaryotic life, he says. When the brain came along and the nervous system uh you could think and you could have self-awareness and these are all you know information processing leaps forward so i think this is another wonderful frontier in science and how they relate to physical evolution both of the universe and of the biology within
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