Sean Carroll
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The Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology, 2016, lecture 4
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1:29:45Now PlayingThe Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology, 2016: The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. Prof Sean Carroll, Caltech
Lecture 4. Simplicity, Complexity, Thought: How do such complex, organized creatures such as human beings arise from the impersonal workings of undirected laws of physics? The universe goes from orderly to disorderly, but complexity naturally increases along the way – at least for a while, before gradually fading away. That's just as true for the universe as a whole as it is for mixing cream into coffee. The emergence of complicated, information-processing, self-aware structures such as ourselves is fascinating, but completely compatible with everything we understand about the underlying physical reality.
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