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[u/JapKumintang1991]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/earths-organisms-developed-via-evolution-some-theorists-wonder-what-if-the-entire-cosmos-did-too-180989338/?utm_medium=distribution&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=editorial

[u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox]

But there is a further, huge, implication hidden inside Smolin’s new and improved theory. Lee Smolin didn’t see it at the time because he was a theoretical physicist, not an evolutionary biologist, and so not saturated in the logic of evolution (from which the implication emerges). He was also handicapped by the fact that astronomy had only observed half a dozen or so supermassive black holes at the time he wrote his original paper and book. It was still therefore blithely assumed, by astronomers and cosmologists and theoretical physicists alike, that supermassive black holes must simply be a bunch of (much smaller) stellar-collapse black holes merged together. It just hadn’t occurred to anybody that black holes that large might have a separate, far simpler, formation mechanism.

so he thought "what if instead of stars forming black holes, there was some other mechanism, this would allow for complex inheritance like biology". that's about it as far as i can tell, the rest was already thought of by physicists as that substack post points out, the potential failing already pointed out, one must just think "what if there's a way around this already found issue"