Podcast
#269 – Lee Cronin- Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
- Is Terminator Coming? Er might be here already. Yes. So i agree with that. And so going back to the origin of life discussion, i think that in synthetic biology right now, we have to be very careful about how we edit jean holmes and edit synthetic biology to two things. So that’s kind of, that’s where things might go wrong, in the same way as er, you know, twitter turning s elves into kind of strange scale affairs. Transcript: Lee Cronin Yeah, it might be here already. Yeah. So I agree with that. And so going back to the origin of life discussion, I think that in synthetic biology right now, we have to be very careful about how we edit genomes and edit synthetic biology to do things. So that’s where things might go wrong in the same way as Twitter turning ourselves into kind of strange scale effects. (Time 0:45:05)
- You Don’t Go and Talk to Your Cat About Calculus No, i’m saying that because we don’t understand causal chains and the way that information is propagated in the universe, and we don’t understand what replication is yet, and we don’t understand er how life emerged, i think that we would not recognize aliens, and they and if if someone doesn’t recognize you ar, you wouldn’t go and talk to it. You don’t go and talk to the ants. You don’t go and talk to birds, or maybe some birds. You do right? Because you can. Transcript: Lee Cronin I’m saying that because we don’t understand causal chains and the way that information is propagated in the universe and we don’t understand what replication is yet and we don’t understand Um how life emerged i think that we would not recognize aliens and they and if if someone doesn’t recognize you, you wouldn’t go and talk to it. You don’t go and talk to ants. You don’t go and talk to birds. Or maybe some birds you do, right? Because you can. (Time 1:10:50)