Lee Cronin: Chemist trying to make life from chemistry discusses genius, being wrong & Twitter mobs

Dr. Lee Cronin is a university professor that is searching for a way to turn chemistry into something living.  Cronin sat down with Vance Crowe to discuss what does it mean to be alive, how he has been a professor that has been able to question core assumptions in science, and why a Tweet almost got him canceled by a Twitter mob for a joke he made about the name of his lab POMHub.Vance and Lee talk about famous scientists like Stephan Wolfram (A New Kind of Science) and Joscha BachLink to Lee Cronin's Ted Talkhttps://www.ted.com/talks/lee_cronin_making_matter_come_alive?language=enJoscha Bach's Computational Meta-Psychologist  (Paper Walls)https://youtu.be/WRdJCFEqFTU](https://youtu.be/WRdJCFEqFTUVance referenced an article on the value of dreams: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/enter-the-supersensorium-hoel Chapters:3:12 | Start3:58 | What Lee Cronin's Lab Does7:12 | What really is AI?11:12 | Discovering the origin of Life12:57 | How long until material science becomes useful?19:55 | What does it mean to create life?28:08 | Being wrong as a helpful trait30:34 | How to survive in ivory towers34:17 | Joscha Bach's Paper Walls36:02 | Lee Cronin's Daemon40:03 | How dreams enter the mind42:31 | Dreaming a new model for time45:52 | Twitter Joke wakes mob50:22 | Using Twitter to offend people intellectually55:56 | What's Lee Cronin's social life like?59:13 | Where is Lee Cronin's work heading?1:05:03 | How can you help Lee?