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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the Universe a Turing Machine?
I think we misunderstand each other a lot. We got kind of trapped in our words and terms, because of course it's possible for a Turing machine or computers to exist in the universe. But what I'm trying to understand is where did the transition of continuous to discrete occur? And this is because of my general foolishness of understanding the continuous. There were constructors before there were abstractors,. How did the universe abstract itself into existence? It goes back to saying could the universe intelligence have come first?
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