Assembly theory quantifies how complex an object is by measuring the minimum number of steps required to construct it and identifying evidence of selection through object abundance.

“Assembly Theory says that if we look at any object in the universe any object that we can quantify how complex it is by trying to find the number of steps it took to create it and also we can determine if it was built by a process akin to evolution by looking at how many copies of the object there a”

Assembly theory conjectures that life is the unique physical process capable of generating complex objects.

“Assembly Theory's key conjecture about the nature of Life Is Life is the only physics that can generate complex objects”