The speaker says that, despite the possibility that this account is partly a hallucination, mathematical laws describe how self-organization under certain conditions can lead to increased complexity.

“The tellers of self-organization. I think a lot of philosophers have seen it through the ages, and it might be a little bit of a hallucination, but in practice, there are mathematical laws that state that under certain conditions, self-organization is possible and will lead to an increase in complexity.”