#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
Lee Cronin is a chemist at the University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(08:31) - Life and chemistry
(21:56) - Self-replicating molecules
(32:19) - Origin of life
(48:45) - Life on Mars
(53:49) - Aliens
(1:00:30) - Origin of life continued
(1:07:24) - Fermi Paradox
(1:17:04) - UFOs
(1:25:25) - Science and authority
(1:31:28) - Pickle experiment
(1:34:23) - Assembly theory
(2:17:22) - Free will
(2:28:37) - Cellular automata
(2:52:08) - Chemputation
(3:09:23) - Universal programming language for chemistry
(3:22:34) - Chemputer safety
(3:35:15) - Automated engineering of nanomaterials
(3:44:15) - Consciousness
(3:53:48) - Joscha Bach
(4:05:04) - Meaning of life