Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
19,763Lee Cronin is a chemist at the University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:02 - Life and chemistry
15:27 - Self-replicating molecules
25:51 - Origin of life
42:16 - Life on Mars
47:20 - Aliens
54:01 - Origin of life continued
1:00:55 - Fermi Paradox
1:10:35 - UFOs
1:18:56 - Science and authority
1:24:59 - Pickle experiment
1:27:54 - Assembly theory
2:10:53 - Free will
2:22:08 - Cellular automata
2:45:40 - Chemputation
3:02:54 - Universal programming language for chemistry
3:16:05 - Chemputer safety
3:28:47 - Automated engineering of nanomaterials
3:37:46 - Consciousness
3:47:19 - Joscha Bach
3:58:35 - Meaning of life
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