Lee Cronin

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.

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.

So there's something super special that happens from the inorganic molecule in the environment that kills it to where you've got evolution and cells can survive everywhere.

So there's something super special that happens from the inorganic molecule in the environment that kills it to where you've got evolution and cells can survive everywhere.

So there's something super special that happens from the inorganic molecule in the environment that kills it to where you've got evolution and cells can survive everywhere.

I don't, and I'm excited because I think selection isn't special at all. I think what is special is the history of the environments on Earth that gave rise to the first cell that now has taken all those environments and is now more autonomous. And I would like to think that this paper...

I don't, and I'm excited because I think selection isn't special at all. I think what is special is the history of the environments on Earth that gave rise to the first cell that now has taken all those environments and is now more autonomous. And I would like to think that this paper...

I don't, and I'm excited because I think selection isn't special at all. I think what is special is the history of the environments on Earth that gave rise to the first cell that now has taken all those environments and is now more autonomous. And I would like to think that this paper...

could be very wrong but i don't think it's very wrong it means certainly wrong but it's less wrong than some other ideas i know right and if this allow inspires us to go and look for selection in the universe because we now have an equation where we can say we can look for selection going on and say oh that's interesting we seem to have a process process that's giving us

could be very wrong but i don't think it's very wrong it means certainly wrong but it's less wrong than some other ideas i know right and if this allow inspires us to go and look for selection in the universe because we now have an equation where we can say we can look for selection going on and say oh that's interesting we seem to have a process process that's giving us

could be very wrong but i don't think it's very wrong it means certainly wrong but it's less wrong than some other ideas i know right and if this allow inspires us to go and look for selection in the universe because we now have an equation where we can say we can look for selection going on and say oh that's interesting we seem to have a process process that's giving us

giving us high copy number objects that also are highly complex. But that doesn't look like life as we know it. And we use that and say, oh, there's a hydrothermal vent. Oh, there's a process going on, there's molecular networks. Because the assembly equation is not only meant to identify at the higher end advanced selection, what you get, I would call it in biology, super advanced selection.

giving us high copy number objects that also are highly complex. But that doesn't look like life as we know it. And we use that and say, oh, there's a hydrothermal vent. Oh, there's a process going on, there's molecular networks. Because the assembly equation is not only meant to identify at the higher end advanced selection, what you get, I would call it in biology, super advanced selection.

giving us high copy number objects that also are highly complex. But that doesn't look like life as we know it. And we use that and say, oh, there's a hydrothermal vent. Oh, there's a process going on, there's molecular networks. Because the assembly equation is not only meant to identify at the higher end advanced selection, what you get, I would call it in biology, super advanced selection.

And even, I mean, you could use the assembly equation to look for technology and God forbid, we could talk about consciousness and abstraction, but let's keep it primitive, molecules and biology. So I think the real power of the assembly equation is to say how much selection is going on in this space. And there's a really simple thought experiment I could do.

And even, I mean, you could use the assembly equation to look for technology and God forbid, we could talk about consciousness and abstraction, but let's keep it primitive, molecules and biology. So I think the real power of the assembly equation is to say how much selection is going on in this space. And there's a really simple thought experiment I could do.

And even, I mean, you could use the assembly equation to look for technology and God forbid, we could talk about consciousness and abstraction, but let's keep it primitive, molecules and biology. So I think the real power of the assembly equation is to say how much selection is going on in this space. And there's a really simple thought experiment I could do.

You have a little Petri dish, and on that Petri dish you put some simple food. So the assembly index of all the sugars and everything is quite low. And you put a single cell of E. coli cell. And then you say, I'm going to measure the assembly, the amount of assembly in the box. So it's quite low, but...

You have a little Petri dish, and on that Petri dish you put some simple food. So the assembly index of all the sugars and everything is quite low. And you put a single cell of E. coli cell. And then you say, I'm going to measure the assembly, the amount of assembly in the box. So it's quite low, but...

You have a little Petri dish, and on that Petri dish you put some simple food. So the assembly index of all the sugars and everything is quite low. And you put a single cell of E. coli cell. And then you say, I'm going to measure the assembly, the amount of assembly in the box. So it's quite low, but...