Betül Kaçar

Not a house I want to live in.

But I guess what I observe in the field also, I think there was some division between metabolism or is it information, is it informatics or, you know, do we need to replicate or do we need to eat, right?

And I think we are more merging right now that we need both.

Like it's a problem that needs both ends.

Not only you need metabolism, but also you need a way to transform that information of the presence of the metabolism to your offspring.

Life is a form of chemistry that maintained a memory over really long time periods.

That's all I can say about life at this point.

Some good, some bad.

But it retained it, right?

Yeah, I think, I mean, intelligence is an interesting term, especially these days, because what does that even mean, right?

So we attribute it to artificial intelligence.

Like what is that?

What makes the artificial system intelligent?

I guess we wanted to confront that with a new term, which is chemical intelligence.

It's not artificial, it's not biological, but there's an underlying intelligence to life.

At the heart of life and its emergence, we think that these reactions that we talked about, that complex systems,

They're probably coupled to one another, right?

You're not looking at a complex carbon fixation metabolism, right?

These are very big.

It's like a huge, it's a crowded place in the cell.