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Where Value Touches Ground

A weekend at the boundary where thermodynamics stops being physics and starts being theology.

  • ◇Value Is Not Arbitrary: Its Thermodynamic Roots in Existence Itself
  • ◇The Sacred as Thermodynamic Necessity in Complex Societies
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A weekend at the boundary where thermodynamics stops being physics and starts being theology.

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“If mattering is thermodynamic before it is psychological, what does that do to the distinction between sacred and secular?”

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Something is holding the universe together that isn't gravity. Three thinkers trace value from its thermodynamic floor to its sacred ceiling. Your task is to find the joints — the places where physics becomes meaning and meaning becomes obligation. The map has seven edges. Not all of them point in the direction you'd expect.

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Lee Cronin

Digital chemistry, assembly theory, origin of life — molecular complexity, programmable chemistry platforms, and co-developing assembly theory with Sara Walker

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Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, Cronin leads a large multidisciplinary research group at the frontier of digital chemistry, synthetic biology, and origins-of-life science. He co-developed Assembly Theory with Sara Walker — a framework that quantifies molecular complexity to address how life emerges and how it might be detected elsewhere in the universe. He also built the chemputer, a programmable robotic chemistry platform, and founded the spinout company Chemify.

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