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Lee Cronin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

uh i'm i won't speak for sarah but i roughly can't i i think that the universe i think the universe is deterministic looking back in the back in the past right but undetermined going future going forward in the future so i'm kind of having my cake and eat it eating it here this is because i fundamentally don't understand randomness right as yasha told me or other people told me but if i adopt a new view now which um

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

uh i'm i won't speak for sarah but i roughly can't i i think that the universe i think the universe is deterministic looking back in the back in the past right but undetermined going future going forward in the future so i'm kind of having my cake and eat it eating it here this is because i fundamentally don't understand randomness right as yasha told me or other people told me but if i adopt a new view now which um

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

The new view is the universe is just non-deterministic, but I'd like to refine that and say the universe appears deterministic going back in the past, but it's undetermined going forward in the future. So how can we have a universe that has deterministically looking rules that's non-determined going into the future? It's this breakdown in precision in the initial conditions.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

The new view is the universe is just non-deterministic, but I'd like to refine that and say the universe appears deterministic going back in the past, but it's undetermined going forward in the future. So how can we have a universe that has deterministically looking rules that's non-determined going into the future? It's this breakdown in precision in the initial conditions.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

The new view is the universe is just non-deterministic, but I'd like to refine that and say the universe appears deterministic going back in the past, but it's undetermined going forward in the future. So how can we have a universe that has deterministically looking rules that's non-determined going into the future? It's this breakdown in precision in the initial conditions.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

And we have to just stop using initial conditions and start looking at... trajectories and how the combinatorial space behaves in expanding universe in time and space. And assembly theory helps us quantify the transition to biology, and biology appears to be novelty mining, because it's making crazy stuff. That we are unique to Earth, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

And we have to just stop using initial conditions and start looking at... trajectories and how the combinatorial space behaves in expanding universe in time and space. And assembly theory helps us quantify the transition to biology, and biology appears to be novelty mining, because it's making crazy stuff. That we are unique to Earth, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

And we have to just stop using initial conditions and start looking at... trajectories and how the combinatorial space behaves in expanding universe in time and space. And assembly theory helps us quantify the transition to biology, and biology appears to be novelty mining, because it's making crazy stuff. That we are unique to Earth, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

There are objects on Earth that are unique to Earth that will not be found anywhere else, because you can do the combinatorial math.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

There are objects on Earth that are unique to Earth that will not be found anywhere else, because you can do the combinatorial math.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

There are objects on Earth that are unique to Earth that will not be found anywhere else, because you can do the combinatorial math.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

So what I'm kind of meaning is because the future is bigger than the present, in a deterministic universe, how do you go from the... How do the states go from one to another? I mean, there's a mismatch, right? So that must mean that you have a little bit of indeterminism, whether that's randomness or something else. I don't understand.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

So what I'm kind of meaning is because the future is bigger than the present, in a deterministic universe, how do you go from the... How do the states go from one to another? I mean, there's a mismatch, right? So that must mean that you have a little bit of indeterminism, whether that's randomness or something else. I don't understand.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

So what I'm kind of meaning is because the future is bigger than the present, in a deterministic universe, how do you go from the... How do the states go from one to another? I mean, there's a mismatch, right? So that must mean that you have a little bit of indeterminism, whether that's randomness or something else. I don't understand.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I want to do experiments to formulate a theory to refine that as we go forward that might help us explain that. And I think that's why I'm so...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I want to do experiments to formulate a theory to refine that as we go forward that might help us explain that. And I think that's why I'm so...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I want to do experiments to formulate a theory to refine that as we go forward that might help us explain that. And I think that's why I'm so...