[FRIAM] Theil

[Roger Critchlow]

The stars have aligned to make this assembly theory day!

First this article on How Did Life Begin:
    https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/14/1082828/how-did-life-begin/

pointed me to an open access article:
   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9
   Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution

and then Eric S noticed the interview with Walker and Cronin
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxIazwNP_0

The interview itself, even with Fridman, is much more entertaining than
Claude's summary.

Walker and Cronin have a shared idiom for talking about the history of
complexity in the universe which they use quite casually in the interview.
This is probably the result of long familiarity with each other (Sara
Walker, Lee Cronin, and Eric Smith were part of the Science Organizing
Committee and speakers at Reconceptualizing the Origin of Life in November
2015) and of intense collaboration and arguments over Skype during the
covid lockdown.  They also talk informally about a lot of ideas they've
been thinking about.

-- rec --

PS I'll be in Santa Fe this Friday and probably at Friam.
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