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Makes some sense if you consider that the essence of life (the genetic pillar) needs physico-chemical processes to express itself - in fact it is practically "i
by nologic01 3y ago
Makes some sense if you consider that the essence of life (the genetic pillar) needs physico-chemical processes to express itself - in fact it is practically "invisible", is more informatin than matter and has limited material footprint without them.
Inverting that map, that is, proving that a certain physico-chemical process must have been coordinated and catalysed specifically by genetic processes seems quite non-trivial. But maybe not impossible, at least in a probabilistic way, taking into account some objective measures of entropy or something similar.
- billyjmc 3y agoYou’re getting really close to the ideas embodied by Assembly Theory, mostly developed by the Leroy Cronin and Sara Walker research groups.
- nologic01 3y agoha, wasn't aware but couldn't miss Wikipedia pointing out it is a controversial idea (The 8 Fallacies of Assembly Theory) https://archive.ph/CUMSb https://archive.ph/CUMSb Nevertheless quite interesting set of ideas conceptually
- neontomo 3y agoAs a layman, seems to me that the cutoff for what would qualify as genetic is also a tough question that is more philosophical in nature.