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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Smallest Von Neumann Constructor
John von Neumann is a hit real hero, actually, not just me, but many people, I think computer science and physics. He probably solved a lot of the problems that we're working on today and just forgot to write them down. A mathematician came to the US and basically got, was involved in the Manhattan Project and developing computation and came up with all sorts of ideas. And I think it was one of the first people to come up with cellular automata.
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