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In this walk and talk, I explore the complexity of organisms (as opposed to machines) and give some of my nascent excitement about Assembly Theory as proposed and popularized by Lee Cronin and Sarah Walker (et al).

Assembly theory’s publication occurred in Nature on October 4, 2023. It may represent one of the most staggering discoveries in science… or it may represent a bold overstatement of its own scope and novelty in science (see refutation in youtube description).

It proposes a way to empirically »measure selection and evolution, as well as giving us ways to quantify, measure and understand what appears to be an innate feature of »any object we can detect. It may represent »a new method for empirically understanding features of identity which, while previously proposed, existed outside our capacity to examine or prove.

I encourage interested listeners to listen to Cronin himself as he talks about the history and peculiarly fraught path to publication in Nature…