Comments by "Jin Kee" (@JinKee) on "Can Physics Predict Evolution? - Assembly Theory Explained" video.

  1. 18:54 Wait a minute the stones in the SOS message may be simple but it took more than 15 operations to place all those stones into that shape. Also if you consider the entire universe that SOS message should add one to the copy number of all the times anyone has written SOS, which is relatively high compared to totally random gibberish strings that people have only written once or never, such as "0x4938adf394944" which nobody has written before ever.
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  2. Use assembly theory to check the copynumber of memes to the difficulty in producing them to determine if memes are alive.
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  3. 17:27 the chemical garden came out of a chemistry set which had a cardboard box of staggering complexity- a life derived product. A similar structure formed from a volcanoe where elemental sulphur makes those stringy shapes would be a better example of a physical process.
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