Dr. Nick Lane is my favorite author on this subject. My reduced summary of a slide he presented titled "what is life" goes: - free energy powers growth - grow

Dr. Nick Lane is my favorite author on this subject. My reduced summary of a slide he presented titled "what is life" goes: - free energy powers growth - growth is thermodynamically favorable - heredity is growth, doubling by exact copying - growth combines carbon and energy metabolism - growth is driven by environmental disequilibria That doesn't explain away the mystery of the first RNA replicase, but I really like how it explains growth and doubling as a form a growth. That's copy-pasted from a newsletter draft I'm writing. It'll be posted next week on https://0123.substack.com https://0123.substack.com