Finding Life by Looking for Complexity
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Importance of Falsifiability in Science
"If you can't ultimately falsify something, then you're never going to be sure that your thesis is correct," he says. "So what we try to do with assembly theory is to say, well, look, but you're breathing out CO2 and that CO2 is evidence of life... It will fail." He adds: "What we all really care about rather than tech, tech, tech,. molecules that could be produced by life ... We only want to make sure we capture those molecules are complex enough".
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