[There’s a reason Kauffman is an OG in this field – and even though I have increasingly less patience/excitement for discussions of the origins of life, life in the galaxy etc, this goes from (before) autocatalytic sets*, where a network of molecules mutually catalyze each other’s formation, to broader questions about the conditions and processes that facilitate life, potentially applicable across the universe, and broader concepts of complexity and evolution, economics technology etc.

*Wasn’t there a group of cyberneticians who palled around calling themseles ‘The Autocatalytic Set’?]

Main show link, with transcript etc https://www.jimruttshow.com/stuart-kauffman-2

EP 227 Stuart Kauffman on the Emergence of Life – YouTube