294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life

389.207 - 414.129 Sean Carroll

In what Addy is talking about, you're constantly getting new chemicals from the outside world, new molecules, and running through them. And he makes the case that this kind of process is absolutely key to understanding the origin of life. The first sort of proto-living organisms were these dynamically, kinetically stable patterns of in chemical reactions, which developed the ability to reproduce.