Current state-of-the-art in this realm is probably around areas like "self-assembly" and "complex systems". The idea that simple rules locally can eventually gi

Current state-of-the-art in this realm is probably around areas like "self-assembly" and "complex systems". The idea that simple rules locally can eventually given long enough time scales organize into highly functional long range orders. Can "artificial life" really shed insights into what may turn out to be a huge contradiction from this assumption? It's certainly worth exhausting the negative case. But that would leave us right back to where we are today. With nary a clue as to how biogenesis came to be ;)