Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedLee Cronin: uncertainty
9 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
“I don’t know what God is a… I mean, so God exists in our mind created by selection.”
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- Speaker
- Lee Cronin
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- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 9 Dec 2023
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…This is going to be a fun continued conversation on Twitter that I look forward to. Since you’ve had also from another place some debates that were inspired by the assembly theory paper, let me ask you about God. Is there any room for notions of God in assembly theory? Of God. Yeah. I don’t know what God is a… I mean, so God exists in our mind created by selection. So the human beings have created the concept of God in the same way that human beings have created the concept of super intelligence. Sure, but does it mean, does it not… It still could mean that that’s a projection from the real world where we’re just assigning words and concepts to a thing that is fundamental to the real world. That there is something out there that is a creative force underlying the universe.…
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