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#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Criticism and Controversy

In this chapter, they discuss the criticism that the paper has received regarding the origin of life. They mention that evolutionary biologists thought that the origin of life was a solved problem, but the speaker disagrees, explaining that evolution had to occur before biology and there is a gap. They also talk about how physicists were polite but unsure about the initial conditions of the universe and the emergence of life. They clarify that the origin of life cannot be encoded in the initial conditions of the universe.

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