Comments by "N Marbletoe" (@nmarbletoe8210) on "Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318" video.

  1. Mulder: is that a proposal?
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  2. Well said.
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  3. Reverse engineering a brain without a body, is like a building a car without wheels.
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  4. One: that the universe is at least a little bit understandable by means of observation and logic. All the other miracles operate if you believe them or not. Existence is a miracle, but atoms don't disappear if you stop believing in atomic theory. If I don't think the universe can be understood at least a little bit by observation and logic, then science is not my bag.
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  5.  @onorg1  Agree, logic isn't everything! That's why I'm saying "a little bit understandable" by logic and observation
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  6. They don't realize the universe is alive, and every part of it is alive.
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  7. I was watching drones flying around a gigafactory and thought, 'This may be the first building that approaches the complexity of a mitochondrion"
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  8. The Turing Test by Dogs: can AI simulate a person so well that I can't tell if a human or an AI fed me treats?
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  9. Agree. I'd say a city is alive, but it is not an organism because most of it's connections and flows cross the city lines. But a Greek city state together with it's countryside might be an organism.
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  10. nice
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  11.  @mcmanustony  yes, there could be design, accident, and designed accident. Perhaps God wanted the universe to develop on its own terms, rather than being just a bunch of robots reading a script. Maybe life is just one of many wonders that have emerged due to the the laws of nature, which were designed to produce structure in new and unpredictable ways.
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  12. God is a poor hypothesis but a wonderful creator.
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  13.  @mcmanustony  Because I define God that way. God is the creative force that is responsible for the universe existing, rather than just sitting on the couch and thinking about it. We can't really test this idea scientifically because we'd need some non-existent matter for the control group, which obviously is hard to find.
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  14.  @mcmanustony  Yup, I feel like a creative animal more than an omniscient source of knowledge.
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