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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

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How to Make a Chemical Turing Machine?

The person tried to convert the humans to become robots. And next, you could you agree you might as well just create the robots? Yes. But so in that, in that the formalization process. Yeah. So what I did, was look, react chemical to make a molecule, you need to do four things abstractly. I want to make a chemical Turing machine because a Turing machine is the ultimate abstraction of a computation. It's been shown by Turing and others that basically a universal Turing machine should be able to do all computations that you can imagine. Let's think of a magic robot that can make any molecule.

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