Sarah Walker

And I think it's really important to recognize that because if you want to ask a question of why does life emerge in chemistry, well, life emerges in chemistry because life is the physics of how the universe selects what gets to exist. And those things get created along historically contingent pathways and memory and all the other stuff that we can talk about.

And I think it's really important to recognize that because if you want to ask a question of why does life emerge in chemistry, well, life emerges in chemistry because life is the physics of how the universe selects what gets to exist. And those things get created along historically contingent pathways and memory and all the other stuff that we can talk about.

And I think it's really important to recognize that because if you want to ask a question of why does life emerge in chemistry, well, life emerges in chemistry because life is the physics of how the universe selects what gets to exist. And those things get created along historically contingent pathways and memory and all the other stuff that we can talk about.

But the universe has to actually make historically contingent choices in chemistry because it can't exhaust all possible molecules.

But the universe has to actually make historically contingent choices in chemistry because it can't exhaust all possible molecules.

But the universe has to actually make historically contingent choices in chemistry because it can't exhaust all possible molecules.

Oh, if it's not chemical. So I think some of the things that have evolved on our biosphere, I would call as much alive... as chemistry, as a cell, but they seem much more abstract. So for example, I think language is alive, I think, or at least life. I think memes are, I think- You're saying language is life.

Oh, if it's not chemical. So I think some of the things that have evolved on our biosphere, I would call as much alive... as chemistry, as a cell, but they seem much more abstract. So for example, I think language is alive, I think, or at least life. I think memes are, I think- You're saying language is life.

Oh, if it's not chemical. So I think some of the things that have evolved on our biosphere, I would call as much alive... as chemistry, as a cell, but they seem much more abstract. So for example, I think language is alive, I think, or at least life. I think memes are, I think- You're saying language is life.

Life maybe not, maybe not alive, but I don't, I actually don't know where I stand exactly on that. I've been thinking about that a little bit more lately, but mathematics too. And it's interesting because people think that math has this platonic reality that exists outside of our universe. And I think it's a feature of our biosphere and it's telling us something about the structure of ourselves.

Life maybe not, maybe not alive, but I don't, I actually don't know where I stand exactly on that. I've been thinking about that a little bit more lately, but mathematics too. And it's interesting because people think that math has this platonic reality that exists outside of our universe. And I think it's a feature of our biosphere and it's telling us something about the structure of ourselves.

Life maybe not, maybe not alive, but I don't, I actually don't know where I stand exactly on that. I've been thinking about that a little bit more lately, but mathematics too. And it's interesting because people think that math has this platonic reality that exists outside of our universe. And I think it's a feature of our biosphere and it's telling us something about the structure of ourselves.

And I find that really interesting because when you would sort of internalize all of these things that we noticed about the world and you start asking, well, what did these look like if I was, you know, something outside of myself observing these systems that we're all embedded in, what would that structure look like?

And I find that really interesting because when you would sort of internalize all of these things that we noticed about the world and you start asking, well, what did these look like if I was, you know, something outside of myself observing these systems that we're all embedded in, what would that structure look like?

And I find that really interesting because when you would sort of internalize all of these things that we noticed about the world and you start asking, well, what did these look like if I was, you know, something outside of myself observing these systems that we're all embedded in, what would that structure look like?

And I think we look really different than the way that we talk about what we look like to each other. Yeah.

And I think we look really different than the way that we talk about what we look like to each other. Yeah.

And I think we look really different than the way that we talk about what we look like to each other. Yeah.

I think it's the fact that it's open-ended in some sense. It's another open-ended combinatorial space and the recursive properties of it allow creativity to happen. which is what you see with the revolution in the last century with Gödel's theorem and Turing. And there's clear places where mathematics notices holes in the universe.

I think it's the fact that it's open-ended in some sense. It's another open-ended combinatorial space and the recursive properties of it allow creativity to happen. which is what you see with the revolution in the last century with Gödel's theorem and Turing. And there's clear places where mathematics notices holes in the universe.