Woah, great news, Roger. cc'ing Ed, Frank, Josh and Steve Smith. PS I'll be in Santa Fe this Friday and probably at Friam.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab <https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home> mobile: (505)577-5828 On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 5:12 PM Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > 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. > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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