Exploring the Assembly Index and the Threshold of Life

This is part two of our discussion with Lee Cronin on Assembly Theory. Lee Cronin is Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow and the Founder & CEO of Chemify. 

In this episode, Lee explains how assembly theory can actually be measured in the laboratory using mass spectrometry and other techniques, reveals the critical threshold of 15 that separates living from non-living systems, and discusses his ambitious vision for using assembly theory to detect life elsewhere in the universe and even measure consciousness itself.

Resources and links:

• ‘Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution’ on Nature

Connect:

• Simplifying Complexity on X
• Sean Brady on X
• Sean Brady on LinkedIn
• Brady Heywood website

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