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.

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