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Simplifying Complexity

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The Complexity of Information

The deeper you go into a complex object, the more information is associated with it/nTalking about non-life chemistry in terms of complexity helps us measure it in a laboratory/nObserving a complex object excludes other possibilities in its possibility space/nInstructions and narratives over time contribute to the existence of specific objects/nAssembly theory aims to formalize the concept of complexity as an intrinsic property of objects/nTreating a molecule as all the ways the universe can build it has philosophical implications for information/nThe world of complexity requires the invention of new concepts/nPhysics of life can be approached from a complexity standpoint

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