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79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Connection Between Information and Causation

I use the word causation a lot, which people have various problems with. But what's interesting to me is what can happen causally in the universe. And there's a huge industry and complex system trying to understand that deep connection. So I think life is information structuring matter. What is information? In some sense it's like causes that can be copied between physical systems.

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