Life uniquely enables creativity in the universe, acting as a mechanism for generating diverse possibilities that wouldn't arise otherwise. Given the vast potential of what could exist, life optimizes the emergence of novel entities over time, expanding the array of unique creations possible within the constraints of resources and time.
Professor Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist whose research focuses on the origins of life, artificial life, and the detection of life on other worlds. She is the author of “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence.”
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