#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

3617.938 - 3634.162 Sarah Walker

And that's what we're trying to figure out is what are the causal constraints that close the loop. So there is this idea that's been in the literature for a really long time that was originally proposed by Stuart Kaufman as really critical to the origin life called autocatalytic set. So autocatalytic set is exactly this property. We have A makes B, B makes C, C makes A, and you get a closed system.