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10 Oct 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
“If you’re starting with CO2 and hydrogen, what I’m saying is the metabolism is thermodynamically favored chemistry. This same chemistry will just go on happening because if you react hydrogen with CO2, and with another CO2 molecule, the parts of the molecules that are going to react are quite predictable.”
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- 10 Oct 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…With the same metabolism? Yes. If you’re starting with CO2 and hydrogen, what I’m saying is the metabolism is thermodynamically favored chemistry. This same chemistry will just go on happening because if you react hydrogen with CO2, and with another CO2 molecule, the parts of the molecules that are going to react are quite predictable. This is a naive question, but what is the reason to think that there are no alternative chemistries which lead to alternative metabolisms?…
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