Some rough working notes, me thinking out loud: "The varieties of material existence": http://cognitivemedium.com/vme pic.twitter.com/g66P85yiVZ
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A particularly strong version of this might result in a point of view in which the fundamental particles and forces barely matter at all, and what really matters is notions like universality in computation, programmability, and some sufficiently broad notion of phases of matter.
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@michael_nielsen On the question of "What phase is life?", you should check out Eric Smith and Harold Morowitz's work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cwvj0XBKlE … An amazingly wide ranging book about how life is a cascade of non-equilibrium phase transitions!https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Nature-Life-Earth-Emergence/dp/1107121884 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Some immediate thoughts: I think the fixation on matter is a highly interesting perspective, but potentially limiting. Energy and information are equally fundamental and probably less understood. Why Information Grows gives a solid treatment exploring the nonequilibration of life
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Michael, that is quite interesting and very thought provoking write up. You pointed to quite a bit of materials there. On the quantum domain I was just looking at a recent draft by my old friend David Mermin on making a better sense of QM. Have a look: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01639
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