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126. Ard Louis | Symmetry, Function & Predictability

Language of God

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How to Explain Symmetric Structures in Our Body Structures

Theory is that if I make something with a short description of it, then it's likely to be more symmetric. And so we have a prediction about how often you should see certain types of symmetries and then we look in nature and we can more or less predict what you see. But our theory hasn't used our theory to look at bodies yet. It's so much more complicated story. We've just written a paper where we claim that we can explain a lot of the symmetries seen in these structures in our bodiesjust from this argument about algorithms.

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