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Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence

COMPLEXITY

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How to Measure the Shortest Path in a Molecule?

assembly index is something we can measure. It has a real physical meaning with respect to that object, in terms of the minimal time that the universe needs to produce that ject and um. And it allows us to basically, like i said, coarse grain reality, assembled reality in this really interesting way. We don't have to know about all the paths or some statistical distribution of paths. We only have t know about the shortest path. That's very significant for molecules, because you can measure the shortest path and an exact observable of molecules. So we want to use assembly theory as a bio signature.

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