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

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Is Time Fundamental for Assemble Theory to Work?

Right now, assembly theory appears to work. I appear to be able to measure objects of high assembly in a mass spectrometer and look at their abundance. And you know, all that's fine. It's a nice way of looking at how molecules can compress things. Now, am I saying that a time has to be fundamental, not emergent for assembly theory to work? No. I think I'm saying that the universe,. it appears that the universe has many different ways of using time. You could just have time that's the way I would think a bit if you want if you want to hold on to emergent time. Let's do that for a second. Hold on

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