Lee Cronin

um determined to try and crack the the non-life to life transition looking at networks and molecules and that might help us think about it the mechanism but certainly the future is bigger than the past in in my conception of the universe and some conception of the universe and by the way that's not obvious right that's what was just kind of the future being bigger than the past

um determined to try and crack the the non-life to life transition looking at networks and molecules and that might help us think about it the mechanism but certainly the future is bigger than the past in in my conception of the universe and some conception of the universe and by the way that's not obvious right that's what was just kind of the future being bigger than the past

um determined to try and crack the the non-life to life transition looking at networks and molecules and that might help us think about it the mechanism but certainly the future is bigger than the past in in my conception of the universe and some conception of the universe and by the way that's not obvious right that's what was just kind of the future being bigger than the past

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one is a big one. That one's a really big one. I think so. But I think it's entirely... Because look, we have the second law. And right now, I mean, we don't need the second law if the future's bigger than the past. It follows naturally. So why are we retrofitting all these sticking plasters onto our reality to hold onto a timeless universe?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one is a big one. That one's a really big one. I think so. But I think it's entirely... Because look, we have the second law. And right now, I mean, we don't need the second law if the future's bigger than the past. It follows naturally. So why are we retrofitting all these sticking plasters onto our reality to hold onto a timeless universe?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one is a big one. That one's a really big one. I think so. But I think it's entirely... Because look, we have the second law. And right now, I mean, we don't need the second law if the future's bigger than the past. It follows naturally. So why are we retrofitting all these sticking plasters onto our reality to hold onto a timeless universe?

But isn't that really exciting?

But isn't that really exciting?

But isn't that really exciting?

Yeah, it's kind of crazy, but obvious. I mean, I suppose it sounds obvious, yeah, if it's true. But the nice thing is you can... So the reason why assembly theory turned me on to that was that let's just start in the present and look at all the complex molecules and go backwards in time and understand how evolutionary processes gave rise to them. It's not at all obvious that taxol...

Yeah, it's kind of crazy, but obvious. I mean, I suppose it sounds obvious, yeah, if it's true. But the nice thing is you can... So the reason why assembly theory turned me on to that was that let's just start in the present and look at all the complex molecules and go backwards in time and understand how evolutionary processes gave rise to them. It's not at all obvious that taxol...

Yeah, it's kind of crazy, but obvious. I mean, I suppose it sounds obvious, yeah, if it's true. But the nice thing is you can... So the reason why assembly theory turned me on to that was that let's just start in the present and look at all the complex molecules and go backwards in time and understand how evolutionary processes gave rise to them. It's not at all obvious that taxol...

which is one of the most complex natural products produced by biology, was going to be invented by biology. It's an accident. You know, taxol is unique to Earth. There's no taxol elsewhere in the universe. And taxol was not decided by the initial conditions. It was decided by this kind of interplay between the... So the past simply... is embedded in the present.

which is one of the most complex natural products produced by biology, was going to be invented by biology. It's an accident. You know, taxol is unique to Earth. There's no taxol elsewhere in the universe. And taxol was not decided by the initial conditions. It was decided by this kind of interplay between the... So the past simply... is embedded in the present.

which is one of the most complex natural products produced by biology, was going to be invented by biology. It's an accident. You know, taxol is unique to Earth. There's no taxol elsewhere in the universe. And taxol was not decided by the initial conditions. It was decided by this kind of interplay between the... So the past simply... is embedded in the present.

It gives some features, but why the past doesn't map to the future one-to-one is because the universe is too big to contain itself. That gives space for creativity, novelty, and some things which are unpredictable.

It gives some features, but why the past doesn't map to the future one-to-one is because the universe is too big to contain itself. That gives space for creativity, novelty, and some things which are unpredictable.

It gives some features, but why the past doesn't map to the future one-to-one is because the universe is too big to contain itself. That gives space for creativity, novelty, and some things which are unpredictable.

I think that this falls into the Brouwer-Hilbert trap. So how do you get a cellular automata to produce a complexity? You have a computer, you generate a display, and you map the change of that in time. Mm-hmm. There are some CAs repeat, like functions.

I think that this falls into the Brouwer-Hilbert trap. So how do you get a cellular automata to produce a complexity? You have a computer, you generate a display, and you map the change of that in time. Mm-hmm. There are some CAs repeat, like functions.