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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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  OUTLINE:
  Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  (00:00) - Introduction
  (09:37) - Assembly theory paper
  (30:06) - Assembly equation
  (43:19) - Discovering alien life
  (1:01:38) - Evolution of life on Earth
  (1:09:34) - Response to criticism
  (1:27:12) - Kolmogorov complexity
  (1:39:02) - Nature review process
  (1:59:56) - Time and free will
  (2:06:21) - Communication with aliens
  (2:28:19) - Cellular automata
  (2:32:48) - AGI
  (2:49:36) - Nuclear weapons
  (2:55:22) - Chem Machina
  (3:08:16) - GPT for electron density
  (3:17:46) - God

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