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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Glowing Pickle?
"I tried to make an electrochemical memory in at home using a pickle, and the only way I could get any traction with it was actually by plugging it into a very high voltage alternate and current," he says. "But my kids weren't impressed... They're not impressed with anything I do, any experiments I do at home." 'It's so elegant and simple and it works so well for the evolution process that we kind of use that as an intuition to explain that that must be the only way to have life,' you say. But can you explain the glowing pickle situation? And is there many arbitrarily many versions of you in alternate dimensions that you're aware of?
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