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Sara Walker

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Across 1 conversation, Sara Walker ranges across technosphere, assembly theory, alien life. Sara Walker argues that life cannot be defined by individuals alone but must include interconnected lineages exchanging parts. Walker suggests that the universe is expanding in both space and time, driving technological advancements and influencing life on Earth.

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Assembly theory suggests that life's complexity arises from historically contingent paths, challenging deterministic physics.
#433Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
Walker claims that interconnected lineages, not individuals, define life, implying a more holistic biological framework.
#433Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
The search for alien life and the origin of life are deeply intertwined, suggesting solving one aids the other.
#433Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
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Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence
by Sara Walker
What is Life?
by Erwin Schrödinger
The Eerie Silence
by Paul Davies
A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram
The Beginning of Infinity
by David Deutsch

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Autocatalytic Sets
by Stuart Kauffman
How Long Can Life Persist in an Expanding Universe?
by Freeman Dyson
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