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The Origin of Life Problem
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38:45 - 42:06 (03:21)

The origin of life problem is about minimizing the information we put into physics to watch the spontaneous origin of life. It's part of our biological lineage to put a little bit of life into the experiment, even though we're not actually adding any actual chemistry or biology that could be identified as life.

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Physicist Dr. Sara Walker discusses the fundamental nature of time and causation in her proposed model of the physics of life, where everything except time is emergent, and how the laws of physics are low memory laws.
38:45 - 40:01 (01:16)
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The Physics of Life
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Physicist Dr. Sara Walker discusses the fundamental nature of time and causation in her proposed model of the physics of life, where everything except time is emergent, and how the laws of physics are low memory laws.

Chapter
The Origin of Life Problem
Episode
#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
Our biological lineage and the constraints we add to experiments contribute to the origin of life.
40:01 - 42:06 (02:04)
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Origin of Life
Summary

Our biological lineage and the constraints we add to experiments contribute to the origin of life. The challenge of creating life in a lab requires minimizing the information we put into physics.

Chapter
The Origin of Life Problem
Episode
#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast