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Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive
http://www.ted.com Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of inorganic molecules -- no carbon -- that can assemble, replicate and compete.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Chi...
published: 09 Sep 2011
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Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #404
Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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TRANSCRIPT:
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published: 09 Dec 2023
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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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published: 11 Mar 2022
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Groundbreaking chemist defines all of life in 2 words | Lee Cronin
This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation.
Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube
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What is life, really? Despite our scientific advancements, we still don’t really know.
Lee Cronin, the Regis Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, says there is a significant disconnect between the physics of the universe and the biological processes we observe. This discrepancy makes for a difficult challenge in understanding how inanimate matter evolves into breathing, thinking, life forms.
The solution? Cronin prop...
published: 15 Aug 2024
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Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin | Lex Fridman Podcast #279
Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conversation and debate about alien life and alien civilizations. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Sara's Website: http://emergence.asu.edu
Lee's Twitter: https://twitter.com/leecronin
Lee's Website: https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin
Chemify's Website: https://ch...
published: 24 Apr 2022
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Don’t fall into the determinism trap. Everything is, in fact, random | Lee Cronin
This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation.
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How did something come from nothing? Chemist Lee Cronin explains.
According to current physics, the universe began with a Big Bang, leading to an expanding universe where matter, hydrogen, stars, and galaxies formed. From exploding stars came planets, and eventually, life emerged, leading to human beings and technology as we know it today.
Quantum physics reveals the universe as a field of probabilities, full of entirely random sequences. When these sequences produce objects that can copy themselves and surviv...
published: 20 Aug 2024
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"GARBAGE" Lee Cronin & Nick Lane clash on Origin of Life progress | Assembly Theory Challenged
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published: 15 Mar 2024
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Debating the Origin of Life, Dr Tour vs Dr Lee Cronin on Premiere Unbelievable #shorts
What is the origin of life? Is abiogenesis established science?
See the full conversation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DHvNRK452c
published: 11 Nov 2022
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Lee Cronin vs. Liron Shapira: AI Doom Debate and Assembly Theory Questions
Prof. Lee Cronin is the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His research aims to understand how life might arise from non-living matter. In 2017, he invented “Assembly Theory” as a way to measure the complexity of molecules and gain insight into the earliest evolution of life.
Today we’re debating Lee's claims about the limits of AI capabilities, and my claims about the risk of extinction from superintelligent AGI.
00:00 Introduction
04:20 Assembly Theory
05:10 Causation and Complexity
10:07 Assembly Theory in Practice
12:23 The Concept of Assembly Index
16:54 Assembly Theory Beyond Molecules
30:13 P(Doom)
32:39 The Statement on AI Risk
42:18 Agency and Intent
47:10 RescueBot’s Intent vs. a Clock’s
53:42 The Future of AI and Human Jobs
57:34 The Limits of AI Creativit...
published: 30 Oct 2024
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Origin of Life Challenge RESULTS + HUGE announcement w/ Lee Cronin & James Tour | Evolution of Life
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00:00 60 Day Origin of Life Challenge Recap
00:57 60 Days Later
02:11 They Couldn't Answer the Questions
02:28 Origin of Life research is a SCAM
03:30 Professor Dave Says We've Solved these Problems
03:52 Professor Dave's Copy/Paste Answer to Question #1 (Dipeptide DK) is Wrong.
04:00 Lee Cronin's Response
04:14 Dr James Tour & Lee Cronin at Harvard
04:55 Steve Benner Claims he could Make Life in an Hour
05:19 I Will Fly To Gainesville
06:12 Making Matter Come Alive
06:40 These are NOT the only Questions by far
08:07 John Lennox at Rice University
08:23 John Lennox and Will...
published: 08 Nov 2023
15:12
Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive
http://www.ted.com Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a diff...
http://www.ted.com Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of inorganic molecules -- no carbon -- that can assemble, replicate and compete.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.
https://wn.com/Lee_Cronin_Making_Matter_Come_Alive
http://www.ted.com Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of inorganic molecules -- no carbon -- that can assemble, replicate and compete.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.
- published: 09 Sep 2011
- views: 77279
3:19:22
Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #404
Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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TRANSCRIPT:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:15 - Assembly theory paper
21:45 - Assembly equation
34:57 - Discovering alien life
53:16 - Evolution of life on Earth
1:01:12 - Response to criticism
1:18:50 - Kolmogorov complexity
1:30:40 - Nature review process
1:51:34 - Time and free will
1:57:59 - Communication with aliens
2:19:57 - Cellular automata
2:24:26 - AGI
2:41:15 - Nuclear weapons
2:47:00 - Chem Machina
2:59:54 - GPT for electron density
3:09:24 - God
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TRANSCRIPT:
https://lexfridman.com/lee-cronin-3-transcript
EPISODE LINKS:
Lee's Twitter: https://twitter.com/leecronin
Lee's Website: https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/
Nature Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9
Chemify's Website: https://chemify.io
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:15 - Assembly theory paper
21:45 - Assembly equation
34:57 - Discovering alien life
53:16 - Evolution of life on Earth
1:01:12 - Response to criticism
1:18:50 - Kolmogorov complexity
1:30:40 - Nature review process
1:51:34 - Time and free will
1:57:59 - Communication with aliens
2:19:57 - Cellular automata
2:24:26 - AGI
2:41:15 - Nuclear weapons
2:47:00 - Chem Machina
2:59:54 - GPT for electron density
3:09:24 - God
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- published: 09 Dec 2023
- views: 1753952
4:05:51
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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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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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
SOCIAL:
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- published: 11 Mar 2022
- views: 1065072
7:12
Groundbreaking chemist defines all of life in 2 words | Lee Cronin
This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation.
Subscrib...
This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation.
Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube
Watch Lee Cronin’s next interview ► How the universe randomly unfolded from "quantum foam" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f6TSjR2Grk&t=0s
What is life, really? Despite our scientific advancements, we still don’t really know.
Lee Cronin, the Regis Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, says there is a significant disconnect between the physics of the universe and the biological processes we observe. This discrepancy makes for a difficult challenge in understanding how inanimate matter evolves into breathing, thinking, life forms.
The solution? Cronin proposes assembly theory – where we use complexity at scale to piece together all the components that work together to create adaptable life. Assembly theory suggests that life emerges through two key processes: copying and existence. These two simple words, Cronin explains, are the essential essences of life as we know it.
Thanks to Cronin, this theory has been put in use by NASA in its search for lifeforms on other planets. Together, we are growing closer to understanding the mystery of life – how it started, what it looks like, and how it might evolve.
Read the full video transcript: https://bigthink.com/the-well/how-does-matter-become-life-assembly-theory
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About Lee Cronin:
Leroy Cronin has one of the largest multidisciplinary, chemistry-based research teams in the world. He has given over 300 international talks and has authored over 350 peer-reviewed papers with recent work published in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals, and construct chemical computers.
He went to the University of York where he completed both a degree and PhD in chemistry and then went on to do postdocs in Edinburgh and Germany before becoming a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham, and then Glasgow where he has been since 2002, working up the ranks to become the Regius Professor of Chemistry in 2013 at age 39.
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Do we inhabit a multiverse? Do we have free will? What is love? Is evolution directional? There are no simple answers to life’s biggest questions, and that’s why they’re the questions occupying the world’s brightest minds.
Together, let's learn from them.
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This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation.
Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube
Watch Lee Cronin’s next interview ► How the universe randomly unfolded from "quantum foam" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f6TSjR2Grk&t=0s
What is life, really? Despite our scientific advancements, we still don’t really know.
Lee Cronin, the Regis Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, says there is a significant disconnect between the physics of the universe and the biological processes we observe. This discrepancy makes for a difficult challenge in understanding how inanimate matter evolves into breathing, thinking, life forms.
The solution? Cronin proposes assembly theory – where we use complexity at scale to piece together all the components that work together to create adaptable life. Assembly theory suggests that life emerges through two key processes: copying and existence. These two simple words, Cronin explains, are the essential essences of life as we know it.
Thanks to Cronin, this theory has been put in use by NASA in its search for lifeforms on other planets. Together, we are growing closer to understanding the mystery of life – how it started, what it looks like, and how it might evolve.
Read the full video transcript: https://bigthink.com/the-well/how-does-matter-become-life-assembly-theory
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About Lee Cronin:
Leroy Cronin has one of the largest multidisciplinary, chemistry-based research teams in the world. He has given over 300 international talks and has authored over 350 peer-reviewed papers with recent work published in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals, and construct chemical computers.
He went to the University of York where he completed both a degree and PhD in chemistry and then went on to do postdocs in Edinburgh and Germany before becoming a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham, and then Glasgow where he has been since 2002, working up the ranks to become the Regius Professor of Chemistry in 2013 at age 39.
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About The Well
Do we inhabit a multiverse? Do we have free will? What is love? Is evolution directional? There are no simple answers to life’s biggest questions, and that’s why they’re the questions occupying the world’s brightest minds.
Together, let's learn from them.
Subscribe to the weekly newsletter ► https://bit.ly/thewellemailsignup
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- published: 15 Aug 2024
- views: 373344
4:05:23
Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin | Lex Fridman Podcast #279
Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conversation and debate about alien life and alien civilizations....
Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conversation and debate about alien life and alien civilizations. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Sara's Website: http://emergence.asu.edu
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Lee's Website: https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin
Chemify's Website: https://chemify.io
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:08 - Aliens
16:14 - What is life?
23:56 - Assembly theory
46:24 - Math
58:06 - Communication with aliens
1:22:59 - Evolution of the universe
1:32:17 - Creating alien life
1:39:50 - Origin of life
1:46:50 - Before the Big Bang
1:53:43 - God
2:04:00 - Goal-directed behavior
2:21:58 - Time
2:30:15 - Free will and imagination
2:45:27 - UFO sightings
2:50:27 - Alien life forms debate
3:05:35 - Robots
3:14:50 - Love and emotion
3:33:16 - Beauty in science
3:43:27 - Random questions
3:52:51 - Advice for young people
3:56:09 - Life on Earth
4:00:33 - Memory
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:08 - Aliens
16:14 - What is life?
23:56 - Assembly theory
46:24 - Math
58:06 - Communication with aliens
1:22:59 - Evolution of the universe
1:32:17 - Creating alien life
1:39:50 - Origin of life
1:46:50 - Before the Big Bang
1:53:43 - God
2:04:00 - Goal-directed behavior
2:21:58 - Time
2:30:15 - Free will and imagination
2:45:27 - UFO sightings
2:50:27 - Alien life forms debate
3:05:35 - Robots
3:14:50 - Love and emotion
3:33:16 - Beauty in science
3:43:27 - Random questions
3:52:51 - Advice for young people
3:56:09 - Life on Earth
4:00:33 - Memory
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- published: 24 Apr 2022
- views: 977916
3:26
Don’t fall into the determinism trap. Everything is, in fact, random | Lee Cronin
This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation.
Subscribe...
This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation.
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How did something come from nothing? Chemist Lee Cronin explains.
According to current physics, the universe began with a Big Bang, leading to an expanding universe where matter, hydrogen, stars, and galaxies formed. From exploding stars came planets, and eventually, life emerged, leading to human beings and technology as we know it today.
Quantum physics reveals the universe as a field of probabilities, full of entirely random sequences. When these sequences produce objects that can copy themselves and survive in their environment, evolution takes place. This quantum randomness provides the fuel for these processes, making the universe appear deterministic over time.
Cronin uses a flipping coin as an example. If a system were truly random, it would yield an equivalent number of heads and tails on a flipped coin. If the coin were weighted, however, and showed mostly heads upon flipping, the system would be considered deterministic.
Cronin’s perspective might just be imperative to understanding how the universe has evolved, through processes of selection and replication, and eventually brought us to this place in space and time.
Read the full video transcript: https://bigthink.com/the-well/how-the-universe-unfolded-from-randomness
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About Lee Cronin:
Leroy Cronin has one of the largest multidisciplinary, chemistry-based research teams in the world. He has given over 300 international talks and has authored over 350 peer-reviewed papers with recent work published in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals, and construct chemical computers.
He went to the University of York where he completed both a degree and PhD in chemistry and then went on to do postdocs in Edinburgh and Germany before becoming a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham, and then Glasgow where he has been since 2002, working up the ranks to become the Regius Professor of Chemistry in 2013 at age 39.
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This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation.
Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube
Watch Lee Cronin’s next interview ► https://youtu.be/jtwkzZM-8Eg
How did something come from nothing? Chemist Lee Cronin explains.
According to current physics, the universe began with a Big Bang, leading to an expanding universe where matter, hydrogen, stars, and galaxies formed. From exploding stars came planets, and eventually, life emerged, leading to human beings and technology as we know it today.
Quantum physics reveals the universe as a field of probabilities, full of entirely random sequences. When these sequences produce objects that can copy themselves and survive in their environment, evolution takes place. This quantum randomness provides the fuel for these processes, making the universe appear deterministic over time.
Cronin uses a flipping coin as an example. If a system were truly random, it would yield an equivalent number of heads and tails on a flipped coin. If the coin were weighted, however, and showed mostly heads upon flipping, the system would be considered deterministic.
Cronin’s perspective might just be imperative to understanding how the universe has evolved, through processes of selection and replication, and eventually brought us to this place in space and time.
Read the full video transcript: https://bigthink.com/the-well/how-the-universe-unfolded-from-randomness
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About Lee Cronin:
Leroy Cronin has one of the largest multidisciplinary, chemistry-based research teams in the world. He has given over 300 international talks and has authored over 350 peer-reviewed papers with recent work published in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals, and construct chemical computers.
He went to the University of York where he completed both a degree and PhD in chemistry and then went on to do postdocs in Edinburgh and Germany before becoming a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham, and then Glasgow where he has been since 2002, working up the ranks to become the Regius Professor of Chemistry in 2013 at age 39.
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Do we inhabit a multiverse? Do we have free will? What is love? Is evolution directional? There are no simple answers to life’s biggest questions, and that’s why they’re the questions occupying the world’s brightest minds.
Together, let's learn from them.
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- published: 20 Aug 2024
- views: 189432
0:54
"GARBAGE" Lee Cronin & Nick Lane clash on Origin of Life progress | Assembly Theory Challenged
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- published: 15 Mar 2024
- views: 17332
0:59
Debating the Origin of Life, Dr Tour vs Dr Lee Cronin on Premiere Unbelievable #shorts
What is the origin of life? Is abiogenesis established science?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DHvNRK452c
What is the origin of life? Is abiogenesis established science?
See the full conversation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DHvNRK452c
https://wn.com/Debating_The_Origin_Of_Life,_Dr_Tour_Vs_Dr_Lee_Cronin_On_Premiere_Unbelievable_Shorts
What is the origin of life? Is abiogenesis established science?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DHvNRK452c
- published: 11 Nov 2022
- views: 65504
1:31:58
Lee Cronin vs. Liron Shapira: AI Doom Debate and Assembly Theory Questions
Prof. Lee Cronin is the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His research aims to understand how life might arise from non-living matter. In ...
Prof. Lee Cronin is the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His research aims to understand how life might arise from non-living matter. In 2017, he invented “Assembly Theory” as a way to measure the complexity of molecules and gain insight into the earliest evolution of life.
Today we’re debating Lee's claims about the limits of AI capabilities, and my claims about the risk of extinction from superintelligent AGI.
00:00 Introduction
04:20 Assembly Theory
05:10 Causation and Complexity
10:07 Assembly Theory in Practice
12:23 The Concept of Assembly Index
16:54 Assembly Theory Beyond Molecules
30:13 P(Doom)
32:39 The Statement on AI Risk
42:18 Agency and Intent
47:10 RescueBot’s Intent vs. a Clock’s
53:42 The Future of AI and Human Jobs
57:34 The Limits of AI Creativity
01:04:33 The Complexity of the Human Brain
01:19:31 Superintelligence: Fact or Fiction?
01:29:35 Final Thoughts
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Lee’s Twitter: https://x.com/leecronin
Lee’s paper on Assembly Theory: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02279
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Prof. Lee Cronin is the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His research aims to understand how life might arise from non-living matter. In 2017, he invented “Assembly Theory” as a way to measure the complexity of molecules and gain insight into the earliest evolution of life.
Today we’re debating Lee's claims about the limits of AI capabilities, and my claims about the risk of extinction from superintelligent AGI.
00:00 Introduction
04:20 Assembly Theory
05:10 Causation and Complexity
10:07 Assembly Theory in Practice
12:23 The Concept of Assembly Index
16:54 Assembly Theory Beyond Molecules
30:13 P(Doom)
32:39 The Statement on AI Risk
42:18 Agency and Intent
47:10 RescueBot’s Intent vs. a Clock’s
53:42 The Future of AI and Human Jobs
57:34 The Limits of AI Creativity
01:04:33 The Complexity of the Human Brain
01:19:31 Superintelligence: Fact or Fiction?
01:29:35 Final Thoughts
Lee’s Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Cronin
Lee’s Twitter: https://x.com/leecronin
Lee’s paper on Assembly Theory: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02279
Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate.
Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at https://DoomDebates.com and to https://youtube.com/@DoomDebates
- published: 30 Oct 2024
- views: 2858
9:31
Origin of Life Challenge RESULTS + HUGE announcement w/ Lee Cronin & James Tour | Evolution of Life
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00:00 60 Day Origin of Life Challenge Recap
00:57 60 Days Later
02:11 They Couldn't Answer the Questions
02:28 Origin of Life research is a SCAM
03:30 Professor Dave Says We've Solved these Problems
03:52 Professor Dave's Copy/Paste Answer to Question #1 (Dipeptide DK) is Wrong.
04:00 Lee Cronin's Response
04:14 Dr James Tour & Lee Cronin at Harvard
04:55 Steve Benner Claims he could Make Life in an Hour
05:19 I Will Fly To Gainesville
06:12 Making Matter Come Alive
06:40 These are NOT the only Questions by far
08:07 John Lennox at Rice University
08:23 John Lennox and William Lane Craig discussion
08:37 Email me for a 1 on 1
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00:00 60 Day Origin of Life Challenge Recap
00:57 60 Days Later
02:11 They Couldn't Answer the Questions
02:28 Origin of Life research is a SCAM
03:30 Professor Dave Says We've Solved these Problems
03:52 Professor Dave's Copy/Paste Answer to Question #1 (Dipeptide DK) is Wrong.
04:00 Lee Cronin's Response
04:14 Dr James Tour & Lee Cronin at Harvard
04:55 Steve Benner Claims he could Make Life in an Hour
05:19 I Will Fly To Gainesville
06:12 Making Matter Come Alive
06:40 These are NOT the only Questions by far
08:07 John Lennox at Rice University
08:23 John Lennox and William Lane Craig discussion
08:37 Email me for a 1 on 1
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#originoflife #abiogenesis #evolution
- published: 08 Nov 2023
- views: 175122