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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Reusability Fundamental to Life in Complex Organisms?
The fact that not everything exists is really weird. And then as I'm looking at two mugs and two water bottles, and the things that exist are similar and multiply in copies. So could this just be a nice tertiary signal for living organisms? Or do you think reusability is something fundamental to life in complex organisms? It works for molecules, and it appears to work for any objects produced by causation. Could you take a motor car? You can look at the assembly of the motor car. Look at a book. We can talk about what that means in a minute.
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