294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life

3647.714 - 3671.432 Sean Carroll

Yeah, maybe we can put these in terms similar to what—we had Chris Adami on the podcast not too long ago, and he wrote a book about information in biology and makes the claim that every biological organism has a huge amount of mutual information with its environment, not necessarily because it's thinking about the environment, but because it is adapted to survive in that particular environment.