Physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker proposes a new paradigm for using physics to deepen our understanding of what we recognize as life. Assembly theory is a framework that uses the physics of molecular complexity to open a new path to identify where the threshold lies for life to arise from non-life, drawing in insights from new discoveries on the nature of historical contingency and time itself.
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Complexity Digest 