But one implication of the article is that understanding the origin of life, indeed, a reproducible experiment to create life from scratch, could fall prey to H

But one implication of the article is that understanding the origin of life, indeed, a reproducible experiment to create life from scratch, could fall prey to Hofstader's Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter's_law