Guest: Dr. Stuart Bartlett \n\nComplexity scientist, astrobiologist, and artificial life researcher Dr. Stuart Bartlett joins us to discuss how information processing has been a key feature of life, from its emergence 4 billion years ago to artificial intelligence today.\n\nStuart's paper "Provenance of life: Chemical autonomous agents surviving through associative learning": https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.034401\n\nMike & Stuart's paper "Searching for Life, Mindful of Lyfe\u2019s Possibilities": https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/6/783\n\nFollow us on Twitter!\nStrange New Worlds: twitter.com/scienceoftrek\nMike: twitter.com/miquai