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What is life and how did it arise from non-life? Is it as simple as the random organization of complex chemicals on the early Earth? What are the pathways whereby chemicals turned into life? Is life inevitable? Or extremely rare? What’s remarkable is how little we know.
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Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist and astrobiologist.
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@randscottadams490
@randscottadams490 Год назад
The more we discover about the incredible complexity of the information bearing properties of living cells, the bigger the gap becomes. Since the Miller-Urey experiment in the 50’s we’ve made virtually zero progress in the origin of life problem. In fact, the problem has gotten larger over time as we’ve discovered the huge information load contained in cells. Bravo to Paul Davies for not only recognizing what has become obvious, but stating it so clearly.
@jamespenny9482
@jamespenny9482 Год назад
Hugh Ross has spoken about the gloomy atmosphere at origin of life conventions because the more understanding we gain about the complexity of life, the more remote it makes the possibility of abiogenesis.
@sven888
@sven888 Год назад
Do you really believe we don't know the true origin of life? I mean we're dealing with some of the brightest minds here.
@HkFinn83
@HkFinn83 Год назад
@@sven888 huh? If you know something we don’t you could always share😂
@MaloPiloto
@MaloPiloto Год назад
Fascinating topic for sure. Well said, Rand….
@Kruppes_Mule
@Kruppes_Mule Год назад
@@jamespenny9482 The possibility is 1 given we're here.....
@jamespenny9482
@jamespenny9482 Год назад
I almost fell off my seat when this guy basically said it's not that big of a transition from non-life to life.
@reocejacobs1259
@reocejacobs1259 2 года назад
"To go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to a bacterium." - Lynn Margulis, agnostic biologist and ex-wife of Carl Sagan
@karlschmied6218
@karlschmied6218 Год назад
The larger the gap the more space for the god of the gaps.
@ALainSckom
@ALainSckom 13 дней назад
@@karlschmied6218 I love how atheist always fall to mention god out of no reason.
@karlschmied6218
@karlschmied6218 13 дней назад
@@ALainSckom If the many theists - as is currently the case in the USA - did not want to establish a theocracy with the motto: one nation under God (their God) or if they did not want to turn back the wheel of time before the Enlightenment, I would only use this word very rarely.
@Campbellteaching
@Campbellteaching Год назад
Im with Paul on this one, life is so complex and interdependent.
@leekenyon8705
@leekenyon8705 Год назад
Frankenstein's monster.
@jlmcconchie
@jlmcconchie 2 года назад
Thank God for this program! Who else gets down to the real questions and finds original thinkers like Mr. Davies to take them on? It gives me hope that this is a rational world with a real purpose. Keep going please!
@godthecreatoryhvh681
@godthecreatoryhvh681 2 года назад
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@1man1bike1road
@1man1bike1road 2 года назад
god had nothing to do with it
@deistormmods
@deistormmods 2 года назад
@@1man1bike1road Prove it.
@godthecreatoryhvh681
@godthecreatoryhvh681 2 года назад
@@deistormmods what you want me to prouve to you. Did you have a probleme with me. Juste Tell me that is it.
@deistormmods
@deistormmods 2 года назад
@@godthecreatoryhvh681 I was speaking to Stephen.
@jimtuvik5768
@jimtuvik5768 2 года назад
Always enjoy Paul Davies talks, he seems to have a no nonsense and understandable way of explanation on a subject.
@Chineseguy001
@Chineseguy001 Год назад
He has no clue.
@MeRetroGamer
@MeRetroGamer Год назад
​@@Chineseguy001 Like everyone else, but he at least recognizes it and tries to follow the path that he thinks will start to give some clues, rather than following the mainstream thinking that has been stagnated for decades.
@TheYahmez
@TheYahmez Год назад
@@MeRetroGamer Actually there's far more going on in the field of abiogenesis these days than he's admitted to. I doubt it's ignorance on his part and more to do with ego and/or self deception. RNA can function as both working mechanism and self replicating storage at a very basic level. Lipids form vesicles as a natural consequence of mechanical properties (much like soap bubbles) which can act as a semi-permeable containing membrane. this stuff -practically- literally makes itself. 😉 There's been some very interesting research recently (I forget the exact source) about the level of complexity necessary to maintain a sustainable memetic library of RNA molecules in a competitive co-evolving medium - leading to a discovery of sorts; vindicating apparently non-symbiotic parasitism as a foundationally necessary regulatory mechanism. There's a lot of exciting stuff going on right now and he's not mentioned any of it.
@edenrosest
@edenrosest Год назад
@@TheYahmez He is talking about the mechanism and the information - software not hardware. "far more going on in the field of abiogenesis" ? Don't be fooled by the exaggeration and media play of scientists.
@TheYahmez
@TheYahmez Год назад
@@edenrosest the {software | hardware} dichotomy is a flawed prescriptive prior rather than a sound descriptive reception. I'll attempt an analogy with physics: like saying "I don't care about waves in a field - our concern should be; where do _particles_ come from?" Like trying to clap with one hand.. The closer model requires understanding of wave-particle (non)duality or collapse of the wave function. Using Newtonian mechanics alone to understand quantum effects is nonsense. He's begun with a flawed query which is alone fairly unscientific. The current investigations aren't hopped up nonsense but very promising physical experimentation followed by tentative best fit analysis, modelling and prediction rather than the other way around.
@mikebin3471
@mikebin3471 2 года назад
Paul Davies THANK YOU for that profound and deeply insightful talk. And thank you Robert for creating CLOSER TO TRUTH !!! (And asking remarkable questions)
@TEE19622
@TEE19622 2 года назад
Mike Bin: rather than insight, what i heard was how adamant he was about "because he didn't know" then "nobody knows" when the truth may be that some know but just didn't share it with him. Im not meaning to discount your opinion just expressing mine.
@aminomar7890
@aminomar7890 2 года назад
they are thieves, their main goal is what I have wrote before on this RU-vid channel, I have wrote what they talk about myself it is self concept in mankind and one of the most advanced coding systems in existence that build and uses genes, they have stolen everything including what I have wrote about consciousness, self concept, space, time, gravity, ….. who deleted my comments is Kuhn himself, it is a culture of thievery, they have no morals no values no minds,… they have polluted what I have wrote badly. They use thievery as patching techniques, in some cases they use blunt thievery!
@scambammer6102
@scambammer6102 2 года назад
@@TEE19622 you didn't state an opinion. obviously you don't know either
@REDPUMPERNICKEL
@REDPUMPERNICKEL Год назад
@@TEE19622 I think there is a sense in which 'know' is not a scientific word. Scientists think, formulate hypotheses, investigate, experiment, come up with theories, etc. With that in mind... Atoms interact according to their nature and circumstance. There is a logic to these interactions. That logic permits the formation of molecules. Molecules also interact according to their nature and circumstance. There is a whole lot more logic governing molecular interaction. If a prerequisite for intelligence is logic then obviously that prerequisite is satisfied by atoms and molecules. Skipping ahead... If it should ever come about that a molecule is formed in accordance with the logic and this molecule interacts with its molecular environment causing a negative copy to accumulate and break off and that copy interacts with its molecular environment causing a negative copy to accumulate and break off, then replication has begun and so has evolution. I find it very, very easy to imagine that happening given the content of the primordial soup and the circumstances simmering it.
@rysw19
@rysw19 2 года назад
I recently read an incredible book titled “Life Itself” by Robert Rosen. It’s very technical but an unbelievably enjoyable read that describes life as certain types of systems that are described “relationally” in category theory, independent of substrate, and it draws distinctions between organisms and mechanisms.
@spaceexplorer3690
@spaceexplorer3690 2 года назад
Go to 33th street on 7.7.2022 at 14:27 youll have best momment of yours life....Gruss auf dem HagenNrw
@rysw19
@rysw19 Год назад
@@tc25d The book does a much better job than I could
@jacksinger3698
@jacksinger3698 Год назад
I bought this book a while back and got maybe halfway through, I remember it being very good, but really slow going due to the technicality, which was very hard to parse.
@tommackling
@tommackling Год назад
Wow. Genuine respect for Paul Davies here, demonstrating genuine humility and honesty like a "true scientist" and not like a politician spinning some rubbish in order to defend an ideological perspective. Kudos! 👏
@JamesRichardWiley
@JamesRichardWiley Год назад
The Cosmos and all of it's forms is eternal energy. It had no beginning. It has no ending. It always was. You are the Cosmos.
@jamespenny9482
@jamespenny9482 Год назад
Nope! The Big Bang is well established and since it's the beginning, it requires a Beginner.
@RetNemmoc555
@RetNemmoc555 2 года назад
The idea of an emergent property whereby information is passed on, stored, retrieved, reproduced, etc., reminds me of the same questions asked about consciousness. I'm not being new-age-y here, but consciousness seems to share the same toolbox as life. Of course, consciousness cannot exist without life (at least as far as we understand either), but consciousness seems to exploit all it can from life (if that makes any sense).
@bastienmillecam3183
@bastienmillecam3183 2 года назад
I respect that man a lot. There's a risk in scientific dogma and a true scientist knows a lot of stuff but also knows what they don't know.
@karlschmied6218
@karlschmied6218 Год назад
"scientific dogma" is an oxymoron. I'd say there is a risk that people see science as built on dogmas.
@TheCriticom
@TheCriticom Год назад
@@karlschmied6218 To be honest that seems like it is what's taken place at the moment we have big gaps in our understanding at present but by the way some scientists talk it's like we know it all already.
@karlschmied6218
@karlschmied6218 Год назад
There are always "some scientists". I think Basiten Millecam says it right. So my comment is actually redundant.
@krraman2005
@krraman2005 2 года назад
If an attempt is made to completely describe anything, even if it be by a person of the most extraordinary genius, it is impossible not to hit a wall of ignorance at some stage or the other.
@davidcopson5800
@davidcopson5800 2 года назад
What does that matter to the overall quest?
@BuddyLee23
@BuddyLee23 Год назад
True. How far down can you go? Eventually strays into philosophy and theology.
@keithrelyea7997
@keithrelyea7997 Год назад
Oh yes, we will certainly come to the end/wall, as has always been said, BUT by damm we go on don't we and keep questioning and discovering and will look back on those such as you who bet agnist the human imagination.
@karlschmied6218
@karlschmied6218 Год назад
And behind this wall of ignorance many people see their personal gap filler, their God of the gaps. Because they are afraid or stressed by their knowledge of ignorance.
@Travmon
@Travmon 2 года назад
Synthetic chemist James Tour has a lot to say on the chemistry aspect of this question. It would be great to get his two cents on this discussion, great interview.
@sentientflower7891
@sentientflower7891 2 года назад
I agree.
@ronaldmorgan7632
@ronaldmorgan7632 2 года назад
Yep. Did a nine part series on it.
@WayneLynch69
@WayneLynch69 2 года назад
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xIHMnD2FDeY.html Tour is here supported by 2 Nobel laureates in biology and Craig Venter, co-chair of the human genome mapping and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It's more than worth noting that the lion of "Scientific Atheism", biologist Richard Dawkins, sits mute/deaf/sub-moronic when the above three ALL say: "it is IMPOSSIBLE that humans will EVER know life's origin". THAT IS the sine qua non and distinguishing claim of "Scientific Atheism", without which they're left their opinions ONLY.
@jamespenny9482
@jamespenny9482 Год назад
Yes, James Tour clears up and exposes a lot of the misinformation and flat out delusion among the "scientific" community. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r4sP1E1Jd_Y.html
@Kruppes_Mule
@Kruppes_Mule Год назад
He has a lot to say except to other scientists. James knows how the game of science is played as he's done it literally hundreds of times. Yet when it comes to OOL he screams from the stands how awesome he is at the game and how terrible the actual players are. He made a lame excuse the other night in the debate that it was very difficult and then undercut himself by naming several others who managed it. It's much easier to fool the rubes than to do the work and show that scientists are in fact clueless and everyone but him is a fraud.
@deistormmods
@deistormmods 2 года назад
Without an intelligent agent this would never happen.
@Chineseguy001
@Chineseguy001 Год назад
True
@chrisbarnett5303
@chrisbarnett5303 Год назад
god of the gaps
@deistormmods
@deistormmods Год назад
@@chrisbarnett5303 So non intelligence giving rise to intelligence is a better explanation? I didn't even mention God. Keep your illogical statements outta here.
@Chineseguy001
@Chineseguy001 Год назад
@@deistormmods just comes to show the atheists have a religion and agenda of their own.
@warrenny
@warrenny Год назад
I really like this one. Paul Davis is interesting but also he is good at talking about it. Not good like a rehearsed professional (which is a little annoying at times), but good like he is very thorough and at the same time doesn't just use complicated jargon which makes it difficult for people not directly in his field of study/work. Great interview. Great topic.
@psterud
@psterud Год назад
I agree. Someone like Michio Kaku is annoyingly rehearsed when he talks. There are lots of them in the astronomy/astrophysics realm.
@Beevreeter
@Beevreeter 2 года назад
Brilliant analysis by Paul - This field of scientific research is in its infancy.
@PatrickOSullivanAUS
@PatrickOSullivanAUS Год назад
No, P. Davies is using the god of the gaps.
@jamespenny9482
@jamespenny9482 Год назад
It's stuck in it's infancy because it has no future. I would say that nothing has changed since Miller-Urey in 1952, but actually the situation gets worse from year to year for abiogenesis as scientists discover that they are getting further and further away from understanding how life could have possibly originated on it's own. The more we learn, the greater the complexity we discover. Articles and illustrations in scientific journals and magazines depicting possible scenarios for abiogenesis are false, misleading, and strictly wishful thinking and speculation.
@regantetlow
@regantetlow 2 года назад
I love all your content. Thanks for the continued search.
@jonathankranz2799
@jonathankranz2799 2 года назад
Thank you for addressing the haunting questions too many gloss over.
@idea2go
@idea2go 2 года назад
Excellent episode thanks Robert!
@chrism.1131
@chrism.1131 2 года назад
Finally finally finally! Somebody getting real about this topic. The Drake equation is rubbish.
@homerinchinatown2
@homerinchinatown2 2 года назад
Drake is interesting, but if this very unclear factor is added to the mix (of the odds of the creation of life from non life), it can take down the whole equation. {A gazillion stars/planets} x {various other stuff} x {unknown process of creating life} = ??? It's like adding a null factor to an equation, making the outcome unknown
@acfa383
@acfa383 2 года назад
How information organize itself within the system hmmm I've never stressed on thinking of it this way I've always seen just the objects as they are, even for thoughts food animals..man this applies to everything! like this is what makes each person's experience of life different and unique to himself because the way his information is organized is unique to him alone; we all can have the same inputs, the same data, the same raw objects but each one of us will organize them in their own way that's on the palpable level idk if this goes beyond to how information is organized differently in our DNA or not but it's beautiful to have an explanation for different perspectives to be able to describe it in this way I love it
@jamenta2
@jamenta2 Год назад
I really like the way Paul Davies thinks and approaches the question. His various books are also well written.
@MythVisionPodcast
@MythVisionPodcast 2 года назад
This is mind blowing material! 🤯
@rafiqbrookins4931
@rafiqbrookins4931 2 года назад
"The junkyard tornado, also known as Hoyle's Fallacy, is an argument used to deride the probability of abiogenesis as comparable to "the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747."
@JamesCormier
@JamesCormier 2 года назад
If the existence of highly complex life on Earth is the equivalent of the implausible junkyard Boeing 747, the existence of a highly complex god is the "ultimate Boeing 747" that truly does require the seemingly impossible to explain its existence.
@timstanley8201
@timstanley8201 2 года назад
@@JamesCormier actually, we're talking about two categorically different things, the naturalistic mechanisms and a being. Logically the implications of one are not the same as the implications of the other. If I say on a much simpler level that shaking the box of Lego will never produce the object pictured on the outside but will rather only wear out the box or the Lego before anything is possibly created. Then to say that it requires a being with intelligence to assemble it, is reasonable. We know what it takes to assemble Lego, then why not look for the same categorical type of thing? I understand the difficulty of proposing a being like God , but I don't think it makes him an illogical option. but I think you are right, explaining how God has existed for forever is unanswerable to us. And what would be the difference definitionally between God and whatever the supercapable materialistic power be? We can't propose the idea of an all powerful God but we can propose the idea of a materialistic mechanism that has brought forth the information, energy, material and proper composition of life? Still sounds like an all powerful god.
@valdirsilva5095
@valdirsilva5095 Год назад
Thank you so much!! I am a brazilian economics student but i am very interested in philosophy too and this channel provides to me great material about it. I enjoy this channel so much!
@victorguzman2302
@victorguzman2302 2 года назад
Get married and in a few years you will find what the gap is from life to no life.
@2kt2000
@2kt2000 2 года назад
Whoaa!! Bada Bing! That was cold LOL😆
@Kgio-2112
@Kgio-2112 2 года назад
Haha! Awesome And true!
@kipponi
@kipponi 2 года назад
If you meant birth. It is first non life then life when fertilization has happened.
@Thedudeabides803
@Thedudeabides803 2 года назад
Wow you know too....😂
@cyberspore00
@cyberspore00 2 года назад
“You have to get married sometime. You can’t go on enjoying yourself forever.” - Benny Hill
@abduazirhi2678
@abduazirhi2678 Год назад
Really enjoy P. Davies profound & deeply insightful talks !!
@kipponi
@kipponi 2 года назад
One of the best interviews and fundamental questions. So we are basically very organized matter, lnformation and energy working together. It seems so unique compared like stone or whatever.
@aminomar7890
@aminomar7890 2 года назад
they are thieves, their main goal is what I have wrote before on this RU-vid channel, I have wrote what they talk about myself it is self concept in mankind and one of the most advanced coding systems in existence that build and uses genes, they have stolen everything including what I have wrote about consciousness, self concept, space, time, gravity, ….. who deleted my comments is Kuhn himself, it is a culture of thievery, they have no morals no values no minds,… they have polluted what I have wrote badly. They use thievery as patching techniques, in some cases they use blunt thievery!
@acfa383
@acfa383 2 года назад
Even stone is made out of very organized matter, information and energy working together Everything in life is like that and that's what makes it fascinating! You can always keep wondering how it works!
@execwebtech3396
@execwebtech3396 Год назад
He is totally right. There's a huge gap and scientists are looking in the wrong place, similar to looking for the keys lost in the dark house outside under the street light ... because it's easier to see there.
@keithrelyea7997
@keithrelyea7997 Год назад
Well them please show us where you have hidden all the keys. Otherwise STFU.
@rafiqbrookins4931
@rafiqbrookins4931 2 года назад
"Circular arguments occur when a person's argument repeats what they already assumed before without arriving at a new conclusion."
@brettlunden8268
@brettlunden8268 2 года назад
I’ve often wondered about this question. Good interview!
@kipponi
@kipponi 2 года назад
Yes fundamental question.
@lisac.9393
@lisac.9393 Год назад
Brilliant conversation! Thank you both!
@jamespenny9482
@jamespenny9482 Год назад
The guy on the left is totally misinformed while Davies at least appreciates the enormous chasm between what is not life and life, so I'd say it's like a child wanting his way speaking with an adult.
@gustavomoretto6449
@gustavomoretto6449 2 года назад
Thank you Robert for giving us a sense of belonging when it comes to the questions that haunt us all. My question is: why is everybody ignoring "Darwin's Black Box..." by Behe, beyond his controversial idea of intelligent design? Isn't he asking the right questions and proposing just a right/wrong answer? I read his book a long time ago and his detailed explanation of what is needed to kick-start life goes right into the essence of Paul Davis' concern. And: no, is not about God or religion...
@nissimhadar
@nissimhadar Год назад
Behe is ONLY about God. Read here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Black_Box
@keithrelyea7997
@keithrelyea7997 Год назад
It was with Behe. Davis is much more circumspect.
@waterboy2602
@waterboy2602 Год назад
I really like how Paul fully discloses how little we know and the limits of our understanding here. Often when science is communicated it's done so with much certainty and gives the impression much is tied up. I like hearing about where the frontiers are. The physicists talk much about the theory of everything, yet that is unlikely to explain how complicated organisms come to be. It seems that there are many theories of everything to be generated, each providing an answer to a different question.
@mdmmysocialmedia254
@mdmmysocialmedia254 Год назад
All Closer To Truth Videos Are Excellent: Everyone on the program who discusses various scientific hypothesises and theories greatly enlightens all of us. Sincerely, FREE PRESS WITHOUT BORDERS
@rileyhoffman6629
@rileyhoffman6629 2 года назад
Brilliant. Beautiful. Elegant. Probably truer than other hypotheses. Would love to hear a conversation between Davies and Chalmers!!!
@francesco5581
@francesco5581 2 года назад
me too !! i would add also Hameroff. Kastrup and one between Koch and Tononi !!
@gerardoquirogagoode8152
@gerardoquirogagoode8152 Год назад
To understand the gap it's useful to analyze the seeming "discontinuity" arising when a being dies.
@scambammer6102
@scambammer6102 Год назад
no it isn't
@colddogs
@colddogs Год назад
missed this video when it was posted - excellent conversation!
@stevemartin6267
@stevemartin6267 10 месяцев назад
"No, see I think the big gap is the first step (from chemical soup to life)" It amazes me that one of my biggest shifts in thinking was to listen to Prof Davies so many years ago and concluding that science points so clearly to the existence of God, and then to find out that he doesn't have the same conclusion. He has a 'cosmic religion' that there must be an underlying purpose, but he doesn't see God as the go to answer. Every time I listen to him, he reinforces my faith. I sincerely hope that one day he will have his Damascus moment as a reward for leading so many of us to God by his work in crystalizing the questions that have no answers (in science). Thanks Prof Davies!! (Although I am sure he would at this point rather be remembered as a brilliant physicist than an evangelist!)
@yacoubanini9241
@yacoubanini9241 2 года назад
I like the scientific integrity of prof. Paul davies
@francesco5581
@francesco5581 2 года назад
one of the most likable scientist around
@wmpx34
@wmpx34 11 месяцев назад
I’ve watched so many of these and this is one of the best
@kichigan1
@kichigan1 Год назад
Paul. I read most of your books. They're a treasure in my bookshelf.
@facepalmjesus1608
@facepalmjesus1608 Год назад
''Life'' : an enclosed biochemical system which tries to survive in the sea of entropy...and it finally fails''
@MrSouthstlouis
@MrSouthstlouis Год назад
I 2nd the need for a James Tour interview on this subject.
@Mir1f
@Mir1f Год назад
when people die it feels like anaesthesia, which there is no time and you probably find your self struggling somewhere to survive, so if there is no time there should be some think takes place, the think is you will never die. I support my idea that some people felt into coma for decades, when they woke up they can't believe it took decades, you can go watch video about them and see them talking about their experience, for my self I have underwent 10 hour cosmetic surgery and it felt like seconds, how amazing the nature.❤
@irondad007
@irondad007 Год назад
Perfectly said Paul!!!
@MrVikingsandra
@MrVikingsandra Год назад
Oh I love his books so much!
@stewartkilleen675
@stewartkilleen675 5 месяцев назад
I read a book by Paul Davies many years ago on the search for extraterrestrial life called The eerie silence and his clarity of explanation and frankness on the topic changed my way of thinking. A real beacon in a world bedazzled by chimeras. Robert Lawrence Kuhn's work is invaluable. He has created an inspiring encyclopedia of work, touching on topics that others would feel embarrassed to discuss. I hope his work is given the recognition it deserves!
@StephenCClark
@StephenCClark 2 года назад
Go ahead! Make a simple living cell. Win the Nobel.
@dr.satishsharma1362
@dr.satishsharma1362 2 года назад
Excellent..... thanks 🙏.
@maxwellsimoes238
@maxwellsimoes238 2 года назад
Paul Davis are lost in his owns minds when he shows archaic and pedantic anwers. IoI
@joeimbesi99
@joeimbesi99 2 года назад
Love this guys mind met him accidentaly in Balmain Sydney when he was doing a show for the ABC tv
@girodiboanottetempo5931
@girodiboanottetempo5931 Год назад
finally someone who admits that asking how is possibile life from non-life is a very good question and there's not an easy answer. But apparently lots of people (ordinary people and scientists) think that it's not big deal, that the answer is easy. They have no clue. Understanding how we get life from a non living matter is THE big mistery of reality.
@davepurcell1318
@davepurcell1318 Год назад
Great talk, rarely do we get a real take on where science really is at this point in time on the genesis of life. Most people think it’s a foregone conclusion that it is known the way most other scientists talk
@karlschmied6218
@karlschmied6218 Год назад
I've never seen a leading scientist in that field talking like your straw men.
@sven888
@sven888 2 года назад
Truth is simple but difficult to understand from the point of complexity. 👍
@fivish
@fivish 2 года назад
Getting from chemicals to DNA is not understood at all. How DNA creates cells in multiple configurations is not understood at all. Life is a mystery to science.
@chrism.1131
@chrism.1131 2 года назад
Agreed, even if you have 100% of what it takes to create a living creature as in one that has just recently died, after a short period of time it is impossible to bring that creature back to life.
@AymanSherbiny
@AymanSherbiny 2 года назад
i totally agree with Paul Davies.
@kuroryudairyu4567
@kuroryudairyu4567 2 года назад
Beautiful 💪🙏🙏💪
@vonBottorff
@vonBottorff 2 года назад
Lots of ideas in the direction of neural networks these days, i.e., you get some cellular structure to do one-to-many comms, link them to each other -- and then just condition them from external stimuli to seem to "take the next step." So as NN-based AI advances, we'll see it outclass lots of people and human routines. But if it self-bootstraps into the truly mathematical realm of logic and number theory _on top of_ its seemingly intelligent routines -- yeah, then we've got something. Abstraction is seemingly a superpower a few of us have in spades. And of course the subtle of poetry or music is another superpower we seem to have -- once again not universally, rather, just a select few of us. BTW, some biologist gave a talk about intelligence where she noted that tiny creatures without any sort of neurological equipment nonetheless were doing "intelligence." That was amazingly profound.
@tbardoni5065
@tbardoni5065 2 года назад
Single-cell organisms ‘seem’ to have consciousness and awareness. Hameroff talks about sucking up a paramecium in a syringe and it learns to escape faster and faster. So not only does it have situational awareness and learning power, it also has a desire to leave the syringe. No neural network required.
@vonBottorff
@vonBottorff 2 года назад
@@tbardoni5065 Exactly! Wild! But some would say we're just beginning to understand intelligence/sentience. So we've got some "off-site" things like computers going for some comparison with our own intelligence. Well, Nature seems to be able to take many matter configs and make intelligence/sentience out of them. And of course aboriginal peoples have believed forever that all things, living and otherwise, have a "spirit" behind them. Gaia stuff, too.
@robotaholic
@robotaholic Год назад
I think this is why consciousness is so hard to substantiate in any substrate other than the brain because the material must be alive (whatever alive actually means)
@Rohit-oz1or
@Rohit-oz1or 2 года назад
The biggest mystery there is!
@yp77738yp77739
@yp77738yp77739 Год назад
Thank you Paul. As one of deterministic leanings and a molecular biologist this is the one area I have a real dilemma with my “faith” in science. I concluded many moons ago we are missing something fundamental in our current theories of Abiogenesis. There’s not even any point looking at the maths of it all until the mechanism is known and pushing the solution out to another planet isn’t a satisfactory solution either.
@jamespenny9482
@jamespenny9482 Год назад
Right, and the very idea of a "mechanism" from a random collection of molecules is in itself contradictory. It's shocking to me that this guy on the left thinks it's not that big of a deal to go from not life to life. That's Joe Biden level delusional. He says to Davies that his skepticism about the ease of transition from non-life to life is not a common one, a lot of scientists blah blah blah. He is completely misinformed. I suppose he also thinks it's not that big of a deal for the universe to come into existence from nothing (no space, time, matter, or energy). The God "hypothesis" solves these and many other fundamental questions, but not a lot of people WANT to hear that.
@Richinnameonly
@Richinnameonly Год назад
Information is a type of energy, and energy has mass. Did you know Information has a weight. Meaning gravity works on Information. Information has a tangible quantifiable weight and actually gets heavier with density just like everything else too, and that just blows my mind.
@stephenweber9141
@stephenweber9141 2 года назад
Something which I think is not generally appreciated is the size of the system where this takes place. The mass of the oceans is about 10^21 kg. The development of life happened in perhaps 300 million years. The measure of opportunity is 3*10^29 kg-years. Maybe only a fraction of the ocean volume is in play, perhaps geothermal vents, but is is still an enormous volume. That represents a very large number of throws of the dice. You cannot hope to replicate this in a laboratory where you can do an experiment using, say, a liter for one year. The earth has 10^29 times more chances for the right thing to happen. Mars had a much smaller amount of liquid water for a much shorter period of time so for Mars to have a chance, it must be a lot easier than if earth needed all of those chances. It is also possible that it took billions of earths for one to have got lucky.
@mohitdhiman79
@mohitdhiman79 Год назад
Whenever we go too deep into the nature or casue of something we fail to understand it.
@Robin_Nixon
@Robin_Nixon Год назад
I wonder if you can program a primordial soup and leave it to run randomly? Off to find out...
@peterjohnstone7006
@peterjohnstone7006 2 года назад
Research into abiogenesis is further on than most people think. There was a breakthrough in the last couple of weeks that showed that volcanic glass could act as a catalyst for forming RNA.
@A.--.
@A.--. 2 года назад
Life starts with formation of hydrocarbon from inorganic materials. Then from hydrocarbon (organic) to life is a mystery. I think somehow the ETC electron transport chain or it's simplistic form has to be first molecule needed for self propagation as it captures energy by redox from sun (photosynthetic life) or other way (chemosynthetic life). I think chemosynthetic evolved from photosynthetic life.
@andrewwalker1377
@andrewwalker1377 Год назад
Wow yes
@mikel4879
@mikel4879 2 года назад
Yes, we know.
@steveodavis9486
@steveodavis9486 Год назад
Information and storage managment...how was it done? Cells are amazingly complex. Viruses less so but they need cells to replicate.
@richardblackmore348
@richardblackmore348 2 года назад
To use the brick to city analogy, scientists are not even close to understanding how a naturally occurring and quite complex substance such as clay could organise itself spontaneously into a building block without some intelligent input let alone how bricks could organise themselves into a city. I am intrigued as to why the scientific community along with government and private backing do not set up some institute to explore how bricks came from clay in the same way they developed the Hadron Collider to explore sub atomic particles or launched space stations and telescopes to explore space.
@issamelias1747
@issamelias1747 2 года назад
How about involving Embryology in the process of finding out what life is ( fertilization, gastrulation, the development of the ecto - meso - endoderm), the development of the different organ systems …. Etc. & trying to find out the difference between a hen, & human beings & what makes a human being human - with all its qualities !
@Shamsi419
@Shamsi419 Год назад
Information requires mind/intelligence
@shmookins
@shmookins Год назад
I wonder if answering the question of life would be easier or harder if we discover alien life?
@hmehdi2644
@hmehdi2644 2 года назад
Explanations are at different layers of abstraction. The lower the abstraction layer, the more closer to the basic building principles one gets. At every abstraction layer there are assumptions that hold true for that layer; some scientists refer to these as "miracles". Some assumptions may hold true all the way down to the lowest layers. Will we ever reach an abstraction layer with no first assumptions? Somehow I doubt this. That is why I have written a paper on "angelic" agency and its role in information transfer for the formation of life. It is at a high level of abstraction. I hope Paul Davies and his team will be able to drill down to the lower abstraction layers and come up with a principle that is more grounded in lower level scientific principles. Donald Hoffman with his theory of "conscious agents" may be closer to my abstraction layer, and could well be grounded in first scientific principles.
@moses777exodus
@moses777exodus 2 года назад
There are currently no known examples, in nature or science, where one life form will convert to a different life form (i.e. different body plan) by change in the DNA. Current understanding in the field of genetics seems to indicate that varying body plans (for example, the difference between an octopus and praying mantis) do not reside within the DNA. Genes within the DNA of a particular organism code for the different proteins required to build and allow that particular organism to function.
@kuroryudairyu4567
@kuroryudairyu4567 Год назад
The RNA model is a very good one
@tdiddle8950
@tdiddle8950 Год назад
This question assumes that the entirety of reality is not alive and aware. Because, another way of looking at things is that the reality that we generally think is all-encompassing, is actually something completely different and something that we could not have previously believed or even thought of.
@FortYeah
@FortYeah Год назад
around 07:20 Terrence Deacon would first state that you need a system generates equally entropy and negentropy so that both tendencies constrain - in order to obtain an identity - and energize - in order to obtain biological process within the identity - the system. Plus, that reasoning is in straight line with Lupasco's logic of energy which states that when heterogeneous and homogeneous forces are equally present in system, a third included - here life - that includes both antagonistic forces has no choice but to emerge.
@twofishelephant6824
@twofishelephant6824 Год назад
If you are interested in this topic, check out Terrence Deacon. Reading his book "Incomplete Nature" right now, pretty mind-boggling stuff.
@physicstheoryofmetinaridasir
@physicstheoryofmetinaridasir 2 года назад
So good discussion. There is no mirror in the universe where life sees (senses) itself. Whether strictly organized multicellular structures or so simple primitive single-cell structures even the simplest interacting objects, there is no space in which life resides. We, as if-cartoon characters who are drawn on the two-dimensional page, have been trying to stand up to touch another face on this page.
@pastcolours
@pastcolours 2 года назад
"I tawt I taw a Puddy Tat"
@scottnineteen
@scottnineteen 2 года назад
How do 'stumbling molecules turn into information storage systems'? ...I can tell you - it is molecular replication, likely inevitable, which begets replicated complexity - which is then the said information system.
@jonjenkins
@jonjenkins Год назад
To me every living thing ( humans included ) is an intelligent information system of multiple degrees of complexity, the most complex I.I.S. of all is the Cosmos itself
@danielogwara3984
@danielogwara3984 2 года назад
Robert asked a question; what is the first step you have to have for the structure of life to exist. The answer is the photon, Photon should be the first particle on the periodic table with atomic number 0. Photons are particles of mind and this makes mind the fundamental stuff that generates life.
@aminomar7890
@aminomar7890 2 года назад
they are thieves, their main goal is what I have wrote before on this RU-vid channel, I have wrote what they talk about myself it is self concept in mankind and one of the most advanced coding systems in existence that build and uses genes, they have stolen everything including what I have wrote about consciousness, self concept, space, time, gravity, ….. who deleted my comments is Kuhn himself, it is a culture of thievery, they have no morals no values no minds,… they have polluted what I have wrote badly. They use thievery as patching techniques, in some cases they use blunt thievery!
@meesalikeu
@meesalikeu Год назад
well doc davies is of course right on the money that getting from a soup of chemicals to organized life is a profound leap that no one is anywhere close to understanding.
@jamesruscheinski8602
@jamesruscheinski8602 2 года назад
Are the patterns of mathematics for matter / non-life similar in kind to the patterns of chemicals and DNA in life, just different in degree or magnitude?
@melgross
@melgross 2 года назад
Well, math is math. What we have is physics, which, while it seems so complex these days, is the basis of everything else. It’s similar to computer programming. The lowest keel kanguage is machine language, where you program each bit in. Each level above that requires the same basic math and the same bits. But as you go up, you can make more comp,ex combinations of these bits by programming in first 8 bit bytes, each of which has a much more comp,ex meaning because the different combinations of the 8 bits in a byte allow many different bytes. Then you can have two 8 bit bytes to firm a “word”, and the 16 bit combinations are far more comp,ex than that 8 bit byte. Then we have the double word with 32 bits. I think you get where I’m going with this. Whereas combining two bits gives you very little in comp,exits, combining two 32 bit double words are orders of magnitude more complex. As a result the programs written with them can be much easier to write than attempting it in machine language. It’s the same thing with physics, chemistry and biology. You can think of physics as that first level machine language, with chemistry a level up, and biology a level up from that. All use the same math as their base, but biology has vastly more combinations available. There are a limited number of particles at level one, but an almost infinite number of chemicals formed from them. Biology is almost infinitely more complex than chemistry. But if you break down the most complex chemicals and biological equivalent, such as proteins, you’ll find that you’re back to the very same particles you have in physics, behaving in the same way. I hope this helps.
@toreoft
@toreoft Год назад
Conclusion: Life is not well defined.
@chester-chickfunt900
@chester-chickfunt900 Год назад
Could the epigenetic programming be sourced from the "quantum field"? Somewhere along the line, the laws change from the very small to the very large. It would seem that inherent programming would make that happen. Maybe the source material for our universe has been recycled from another universe via a black hole. Maybe we are the result of source material being funneled through a black hole and ejected into a new "space" where a new universe evolves...but the original encoding remains from the source. The information was not lost in the transition.
@MarkWCorbett1
@MarkWCorbett1 2 года назад
I appreciate Paul Davies recognizing that the problem of the origin of life: 1. Is currently nowhere close to being solved (in a naturalistic way) 2. Requires an explanation of the origin of information, and information processing and copying systems I wish he was more open to the theory of Intelligent Design, which offers a very good explanation for these problems.
@leekenyon8705
@leekenyon8705 Год назад
Non-life to life almost sounds like science fiction.
@2010sunshine
@2010sunshine 2 года назад
Wow..omg 👌👍
@jamesruscheinski8602
@jamesruscheinski8602 2 года назад
Do patterns of mathematics for matter / non-life indicate that matter came from a conscious life / existence, as life has patterns of chemicals and DNA?
@maxwellsimoes238
@maxwellsimoes238 2 года назад
Non Life indicaded to matter from conscieness are abusurd concept. First how step for no Life tô occur in matter ? Secound how conscieness describes it each step process fowards ?
@vtbn53
@vtbn53 2 года назад
The old CTT formula: Ask a big question, yadda yadda yadda, yadda yadda yadda,10 minutes later, "we just don't know"
@chrism.1131
@chrism.1131 2 года назад
At least this time the yada yada was not full of BS about how it must be easy because it happened so quickly on earth.
@sentientflower7891
@sentientflower7891 2 года назад
If you want questions that have answers consult an encyclopedia.
@kallianpublico7517
@kallianpublico7517 Год назад
Is the idea that there is no free will diametrically opposed to an assertion of living things? Is life the contravention of determinism? Is life the fundamental contradiction of determinism?
@alfresco8442
@alfresco8442 2 года назад
Watch the Martin Hanczyc TED talk on the line between life and non-life, here on RU-vid. You'll be amazed by the demonstrations of very simple chemical mixtures behaving in ways that are uncannily similar to living organisms...including self-replication.
@chrism.1131
@chrism.1131 2 года назад
And yet, no lab has ever created life from scratch.
@kipponi
@kipponi 2 года назад
@@chrism.1131 Intelligent life not at all.
@alfresco8442
@alfresco8442 2 года назад
@@chrism.1131 Neither has any god...and it's had far longer.
@BulentBasaran
@BulentBasaran 2 года назад
There are theoretical biologists like Stuart Kaufmann who know that this is an open and fundamental question. Kaufmann wrote about it 25 years ago. Check out his page turner book: At home in the universe.
@vernonchitlen8958
@vernonchitlen8958 2 года назад
The first step isn’t simple, just the 6 primary (97%) elements, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen , phosphorus and sulfur being arranged in a perfectly blind, unguided, undirected process of trial and error out of the 98 naturally occurring elements into amino acids. How could that possibly take place? How many billion combinations can 98 elements be arranged before even going through 500 possible amino acids. What signal, feedback caused the 20 particular amino acids to be “selected?” Miller Urey experiments never produced more than 12 of the 20 specific amino acids life uses.Not one protein. 23 detected, but only 12 of the 20 and 50/50 right and left handed. And they allowed their naturalist bias influence the experiments. Placing 3 compounds and one element in a glass apparatus they “knew” provided only carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen they”knew” amino acids are made of. Excluding the other 94 elements. How is that anything like a prebiotic soup? And a trap to preserve and protect the product from the reaction chamber. Life uses only the left handed form. How could a perfectly blind, serendipitous process of trial and error manage to form 6.8 billion of the 20 specific amino acids, arranged only the left handed form in the lengths and specific sequences of the 42 million proteins in the simplest cell? They cannot make a batch of amino acids sufficient for one protein to form, even having the advantage of knowing what elements amino acids are made of. But a perfectly dead, dumb as rock, warm little pond has the characteristics to pluck 4-6 elements out of the 98? Profoundly ridiculous!
@kipponi
@kipponi 2 года назад
No one knows but it has happened. Because I wrote this hehe...
@caricue
@caricue Год назад
This explains why Dr Kuhn and his cohort consider consciousness so mysterious. They have convinced themselves that life is "just chemistry" and not mysterious at all. If you see consciousness as what it is, a property of life, then the mystery goes back to where it should have been all along.
@sven888
@sven888 Год назад
yes
@liberty-matrix
@liberty-matrix Год назад
Probability is relative, one in a million is common amongst trillions.
@shadf7902
@shadf7902 10 месяцев назад
So how did the first cell.form on its own
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