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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Replicating Molecules Is Not That Hard
It seems like one of the greatest inventions in the history of the universe is the first molecule that figured out, holy shit, I can create a copy of myself. It feels like the difficult part is just creating a copy of yourself. That's step one. And so then replication actually over time, when you have bonds, I think is much simpler, much easier. In fact, impossible in one step. There's multiple steps. This is when the blind people look at the blind watchmaker argument and talk about how could a watch spontaneously emerge? Well, it doesn't. The lineage of watchers and cruder devices that a boot strapped onto one another. Right. But if you say
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