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Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95

Mind & Matter

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Is Life Reducible?

Life doesn't tend to undermine itself. These are reversals, and so it has this sort of rabbit coming out of the appearance. This is what information is about. Information is about what it's not. We don't think about complexity increasing complexity as being more reductions. In fact, I think that we have to begin thinking about complexity in terms of prevention, of absences.

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