AMA | September 2024

13053.191 - 13078.689 Sean Carroll

Do you suspect there's a replicator involved here which might have gotten started a little like abiogenesis, the origin of life, or the brain fuck programs of Blaise Aguera? If so, what would this replicator correspond to? What is the fitness it's trying to maximize? So no, in the particular scenario that I have in mind, I'm not imagining there's a replicator of any such sort.