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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

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Logic-Based State Machines

A state machine is a unit operation on an object, either abstract or mechanical. It's very formal in nature in terms of precise how you do it. You are looking to come up with a chemical computer to form state machines to create molecules. So, computation is not a chemical computer because we talked a few minutes about actually doing computations with chemicals. What I'm now saying is I want to use state machines to transform chemicals. Yeah.

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