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To me, if someone were to find that no life can be created out of 99% of the stuff in the universe (by mass) that would be a very unsurprising result. By some
by jvanderbot 4y ago
To me, if someone were to find that no life can be created out of 99% of the stuff in the universe (by mass) that would be a very unsurprising result.
By some kind of power law argument, it doesn't strike me as particularly strange that the stuff that makes up life, a very complex chemical process, requires a sensitive mixture of the rarer components.
- Balgair 4y agoIt may be that our definition of life is then too narrow if it requires that life be made of chemical processes.
- jvanderbot 4y agoIt's not like our definition has any impact on reality, so "life as we know it requires chemistry" seems a reasonable starting point.