Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
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Cronin describes a proposed measurement on a box of molecules. Estimate the assembly cost of a structure and count identical copies before asking what origin hypotheses the combination might support.
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We count the number of identical moleculescalculate the assembly number