The course "Origins of Life" (https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/95-origins-of-life https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/95-origins-of-lif...) cov

The course "Origins of Life" (https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/95-origins-of-life https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/95-origins-of-lif...) covers this idea quite a bit. It's not a new idea, but so far of course, nobody has created new life this way. We're working on it. The general premise is that cells began organizing when a lipid membrane was formed that was hydrophobic on the outside, and hydrophilic on the inside (like every drop of oil in water). Many current examples do demonstrate features that are reminiscent of life, and so the study is to improve on these materials, in the hopes that eventually we figure out what happened to make them "spark" to life.