The Fire of Life

author: Peter M.A. Sloot, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam
published: March 27, 2017,   recorded: March 2017,   views: 4980
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Greek mythology talks about Prometheus who stole fire from heaven to animate his clay men. My central conjecture is that what Prometheus stole was not fire but information in the form of Gibbs free energy. This resulted in our complex world, with zillions of molecules in the living cell to the billions of human individuals and countless living organisms that constitute our planet, all interacting in nonlinear and often unpredictable ways. In this talk I’ll explore a new way to connect the dots, from the life bringing free energy of the sun to the information stored and processed by the animate.

Where science has given us the limits and the laws that living systems obey, and Darwin has given us the conditions needed for life to thrive, what are then the rules of this information processing in natural systems? In this talk I explore a new way to connect the dots, from the life bringing free energy of the sun to the information stored and processed by the animate.

Professor​ Peter M. A Sloot is distinguished research professor and director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the UvA, a full professor and co-director of the Complexity Institute at the NTU Singapore and professor at the ITMO University, Russia.

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