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by Dr_Birdbrain
819 days ago
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I think assembly theory is most useful to define a spectrum of complexity. Sure, a refrigerator requires intelligence, whereas loose carbon atoms do not. What about everything in between? Methane? Complex hydrocarbons? Pointy sticks? Things that look like crude tools? It’s about defining a metric that can measure complexity across a wide range of things you might encounter, to help estimate the odds that it was produced by something simple yet alive, or something complex and alive, or something alive but not very smart, or something kinda smart, or something super smart, etc |
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