Sara Walker: evaluation

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…How many instantiations of life is out there, do you think? How often does this happen? What we see happen here on earth, how often is this process repeated throughout our galaxy, throughout the universe? I said before, right now, I think the origin of life is a continuous process on earth. I think this idea of combinatorial spaces that our biosphere generates not just chemistry, but other spaces often cross this threshold where they then allow themselves to persist with particular regular structure over time. Language is another one where the space of possible configurations of the 26 letters of the English alphabet is astronomically large, but we use with very high regularity, certain structures. And then we associate meaning to them because of the regularity of how much we use them. Meaning is an emergent property of the causation and the objects and how often they recur and what the relationship of the recurrence is to other objects. Meaning is the emergent property. Okay, got it.…

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