Let the dice play God

Einstein thought that "God does not play dice"

Instead, I think that the "throws of dice" that occur at the microscopic level, according to quantum mechanics, play in some sense the role of God, that is to say they explain life

Precisely, I define life as the amplification of quantum uncertainty up to macroscopic scales. A living being is an amplifier that achieves this goal

I argue that everything we know about life follows from this idea and actually we can start planning the creation of articifially living beings, which we might call "Q-droids"

Interestingly enough, a calculation shows that the amplification of quantum uncertainty from the atom to the cell in a single jump is so disfavoured that life should exist nowhere in the universe

Since it exists on earth, the amplification must be diluted into a sequence of several jumps

I show that nature must be equipped with a LAM, a ladder amplification mechanism, made of about ten jumps, each of which amplifies by a factor equal to about 10

Then the probability of spontanoues amplification is so close to one that every inhabitable planet of the universe must be inhabited

In summary, there should be billions of billions of inhabited planets in the universe, possibly one per star