"Thanks for a very interesting interview. Please forgive me for bringing my perspective. I feel that Lee Cronin might be wrong in a number of ways. Maybe I have misinterpreted some of the interview.<br>1) Consider that in just a few hundred years our civilization has evolved to plan the colonization of Mars. What could alien civilisations do if they were millions of years ahead of us? They could easily design new species of plants and animals and conduct experiments on suitable planets. Given the almost miraculous abundance of plant and animal life on Earth", it seems more likely that we are part of an experiment, than that all life originated through mutation. But why don't they show up? They know that experiments should not be interfered with and that species should survive on their own merits. We are a mirror of them and they know how to communicate with us. When we pass our exam they will contact us. Alas," our wisdom level is now way too low!<br>2. Origin of life: This is a VERY complex question that must include how this universe began", which goes beyond Cronin´s explanation. From my view the universe is created when two waves hit each other and thereby go into loops. These loops can be defined as a particle (a shell with a wave spinning around). From this you can derive all four forces. The wavelength decides the particle “weight” which is not weight but gravitational field. Anyway, I will not go further in this subject. But any such particle has no consciousness in itself, if there was not a Creator, i.e. an omni-everything that is eternal. “It” has all the ingredients to permeate the "physical" universe (which is not physical but an “idea” in the Creator. It seems like the universe is a logical developing electromagnetic universe, which it is, but it is already from the beginning “thought out” because the Creator has this infinite capacity to know everything. Thus, Cronin gives an easy solution that is probably not right," even though it mirrors the real truth.<br>3. There may be many chains of creators between us and the ultimate Creator", i.e. we may have been created by aliens, who have been created by aliens," and so on.<br>4. Time does not exist", but it appears to exist (depends on the electromagnetic force that is created when two waves hit each other). Everything is in the the "thought" of the Creator (part of it) which gives us tremendous inherent capacity (if we know how to use it!). The memory is not in the particle/molecules/biology as such, but in the Creator's mind (which is partly us). Therefore “time” travel is quite possible, but it is not time travel, since the Creator has the whole story in his mind simultaneously. It also means that human memory may not be stored only in our brain, since the same Creator is everywhere in his digital “play”. Water may carry memory as could air," and basically everywhere.<br>6. Consciousness can never arise by itself", but must come from the Creator. In a wave the consciousness is minimal. In that way Cronin´s thinking is right, that more complexity creates more awareness. But it must not be physical complexity, as we think of it. It may be invisible complexity with less density than we can see," but with higher consciousness.<br>7. Meaning of life: a) expressing b) experimenting c) integrating d) transcendence<br><br>Alas", it is difficult to comment all what Cronin says in the interview.