A summary of my opinions about building artificial general intelligence: 1. Intelligence is theoretically inseparable from biological evolution, and understanding the origin of life and the dynamics of evolution are critical to building artificial intelligence. 2. Evolution is not dependent on the existence of self-replicators or natural selection; rather, it's a thermodynamic [[Optimization in physics|optimization]] process that generates stable patterns, somewhat like crystallization. 3. Evolution is dependent on the fine-grained causal structure of physics, which thermodynamics explicitly ignores in order to make statistical predictions. 4. The only tractable mathematical models that adequately account for fine-grained dynamics are [[Models of computation|models of computation]]. 5. Evolution must be explained through a synthesis of [[Computation and physics|computation and physics]].