[ExI] Things I have (sort of) changed my mind on (2): Life and consciousness

Giulio Prisco giulio at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 15:44:49 UTC 2018


Well, cells are complex and common on Earth, why shouldn't complex
life be common in the universe? Perhaps the causal gaps that I mention
(quantum collapse, fractal chaos etc.) conspire to make life both
complex and common. That's what I like to think.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 5:15 PM,  <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> Things I have (sort of) changed my mind on (2): Life and consciousness
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> ... Perhaps life is special and perhaps we are still far from understanding
> life, let alone building it. The physics of biology could be much more
> complex than particle physics or cosmology, and a flower much more complex
> than a black hole.
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> There is a good free course in Khan Academy on cell biology.  Studying just
> that top-level course gives one a feeling that even a single cell is more
> complicated than a black hole.  Perhaps life really is extremely rare, to
> the extent we really are the only ones on our scale.  Reasoning: there
> really is plenty of room at the bottom.  Going inward really is a lot easier
> than going outward.
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