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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is Life Versus What Does Life Do?
Life is able to create objects in abundance that are so complex. The assembly number is so high, they can't possibly form in a environment where there's just random interactions. And then life doesn't exist actually in that kind of situation. It's just how evolved you are. As an object, because you have incredible causal power, you could go and launch rockets or build cars or create drugs. Or you can do so many things. So it's a good question. What is life versus what does life do? Yeah. That's this is the definition of life, the only definition we need. Right.
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