I've listened to Sara talk about this a couple times. It's basically about approaching chemistry and biology from the perspective of a physicist/computer scient

I've listened to Sara talk about this a couple times. It's basically about approaching chemistry and biology from the perspective of a physicist/computer scientist where everything is about information. The idea is that the possibility-space of molecules is combinatorially vast, even for nature itself. If you can identify a sort of kolmolgorov complexity for molecules (assembly index), the ones with high complexity are indicative of intentional, non-random processes like life. One of the key differences here from prior approaches is that the definitions they've chosen are computable and universal, though I haven't gotten the same impression of universality and utility from their papers.