A New Theory of Time, Life and Memory — Part 2

Image: wikipedia. A single celled living organism like bacteria is still nearly incomprehensibly complex. This complexity and the impossibility of random interactions to explain its emergence is a key concept of Assembly Theory as proposed by Walker and Cronin.

Astrobiologist and physicist Sara Walker and chemist Lee Cronin are proposing radically new ideas about nature to explain the mystery of abiogenesis — how life emerged from non-life. Their Assembly Theory requires that time, memory, causation and selection be understood as intrinsic, physical and measurable elements of nature.