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Big Ideas: Information
Simplifying Complexity
Assembly Theory: Measuring how alive something is based on its building blocks
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- Molecules should not be viewed as hard point objects like elementary particles, but rather as complex objects to be examined from a material perspective.
- The construction of molecules or objects involves the joining of smaller components to create bonds and build towards a specific object.
- Life is unique in that it builds objects above a certain minimal path in a space of possibilities by reducing uncertainty and adding information.
- The presence of specific objects with a high abundance and large depth suggests the existence of a system that evolved the knowledge to build them.
- Objects themselves serve as evidence that information in their environment exists to assemble them.
- The complexity and aliveness of objects increase as one delves deeper into the space of possibilities and associated information.
- This approach provides a means to study non-life, life-boundering chemistry in a laboratory setting by measuring the shortest path in that space.
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