Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269

Lee 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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