Lee Cronin

So good chemistry examples, if you took some carbon and you made a chain of carbon atoms, whereas if you took some, I don't know, some carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and made change from those, you start to get different reactions and rearrangements. So a chain of carbon atoms might be more resistant to falling apart under acidic or basic conditions.

versus another set of molecules so survives in that environment so the acid pond the molecule the molecule the resistant molecule can get through and and then then that molecule goes into another environment so that environment now maybe being an acid pond is a basic pond or maybe it's an oxidizing pond and so if you've got carbon and it goes an oxidizing pond maybe the carbon starts to oxidize and break apart so you go through all these kind of

versus another set of molecules so survives in that environment so the acid pond the molecule the molecule the resistant molecule can get through and and then then that molecule goes into another environment so that environment now maybe being an acid pond is a basic pond or maybe it's an oxidizing pond and so if you've got carbon and it goes an oxidizing pond maybe the carbon starts to oxidize and break apart so you go through all these kind of

versus another set of molecules so survives in that environment so the acid pond the molecule the molecule the resistant molecule can get through and and then then that molecule goes into another environment so that environment now maybe being an acid pond is a basic pond or maybe it's an oxidizing pond and so if you've got carbon and it goes an oxidizing pond maybe the carbon starts to oxidize and break apart so you go through all these kind of

Obstacle courses, if you like, given by reality. So selection is the ability happens when an object survives in the environment for some time. But, and this is the thing that's super interesting.

Obstacle courses, if you like, given by reality. So selection is the ability happens when an object survives in the environment for some time. But, and this is the thing that's super interesting.

Obstacle courses, if you like, given by reality. So selection is the ability happens when an object survives in the environment for some time. But, and this is the thing that's super interesting.

subtle the object has to be continually being destroyed and made by process so it's not just about the process the object now it's about the process and time that makes it because a rock could just stand on the mountainside for four billion years and nothing happened to it and that's not necessarily really advanced selection so for selection to get really interesting you need to have a turnover in time you need to be continually creating objects producing them

subtle the object has to be continually being destroyed and made by process so it's not just about the process the object now it's about the process and time that makes it because a rock could just stand on the mountainside for four billion years and nothing happened to it and that's not necessarily really advanced selection so for selection to get really interesting you need to have a turnover in time you need to be continually creating objects producing them

subtle the object has to be continually being destroyed and made by process so it's not just about the process the object now it's about the process and time that makes it because a rock could just stand on the mountainside for four billion years and nothing happened to it and that's not necessarily really advanced selection so for selection to get really interesting you need to have a turnover in time you need to be continually creating objects producing them

what we call discovery time. So there's a discovery time for an object. When that object is discovered, if it's, say, a molecule that can then act on itself or the chain of events that caused itself to bolster its formation, then you go from discovery time to production time, and suddenly you have more of it in the universe. So it could be a self-replicating molecule.

what we call discovery time. So there's a discovery time for an object. When that object is discovered, if it's, say, a molecule that can then act on itself or the chain of events that caused itself to bolster its formation, then you go from discovery time to production time, and suddenly you have more of it in the universe. So it could be a self-replicating molecule.

what we call discovery time. So there's a discovery time for an object. When that object is discovered, if it's, say, a molecule that can then act on itself or the chain of events that caused itself to bolster its formation, then you go from discovery time to production time, and suddenly you have more of it in the universe. So it could be a self-replicating molecule.

And the interaction of the molecule in the environment, in the warm little pond or in the sea or wherever, in the bubble, could then start to build a proto factory, the environment. So really to answer your question, what the factory is, the factory is the environment, but it's not very autonomous. It's not very redundant. There's lots of things that could go wrong.

And the interaction of the molecule in the environment, in the warm little pond or in the sea or wherever, in the bubble, could then start to build a proto factory, the environment. So really to answer your question, what the factory is, the factory is the environment, but it's not very autonomous. It's not very redundant. There's lots of things that could go wrong.

And the interaction of the molecule in the environment, in the warm little pond or in the sea or wherever, in the bubble, could then start to build a proto factory, the environment. So really to answer your question, what the factory is, the factory is the environment, but it's not very autonomous. It's not very redundant. There's lots of things that could go wrong.

So once you get high enough up the hierarchy of networks of interactions, something needs to happen that needs to be compressed into a smaller volume and made resistant and robust. Because in biology, selection and evolution is robust, that you have error correction built in, that there's good ways of basically making sure propagation goes on.

So once you get high enough up the hierarchy of networks of interactions, something needs to happen that needs to be compressed into a smaller volume and made resistant and robust. Because in biology, selection and evolution is robust, that you have error correction built in, that there's good ways of basically making sure propagation goes on.

So once you get high enough up the hierarchy of networks of interactions, something needs to happen that needs to be compressed into a smaller volume and made resistant and robust. Because in biology, selection and evolution is robust, that you have error correction built in, that there's good ways of basically making sure propagation goes on.

So really, the difference between inorganic abiotic selection and evolution, and evolution and stuff in biology, is robustness. The ability to survive in lots of different environments. Whereas Our poor little inorganic soul, molecule, whatever, just dies in lots of different environments.