When Levin's team optimized the chemical soup for a single feature from causal information theory (not replication or survival), they greatly accelerated the appearance of replicators, showing that the pattern-bootstrapping process is functional, not merely random.
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Michael LevinEvidence Quote
“If you do that you greatly accelerate the uh the the appearance of these replicators. So it's functional.”
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Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 1)— The Trajectory with Dan FaggellaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:02:06 PM
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