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Beyond a certain point organic forms have a kind of messy distributed recursion that non-organic forms aren't. At very small scales it's hard to tell the diffe
by TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
Beyond a certain point organic forms have a kind of messy distributed recursion that non-organic forms aren't.
At very small scales it's hard to tell the difference. The morphology is basically blobby, and blobs look like blobs.
But even if you ignore colouration and texturing, it's optimistic to claim that random chemistry can produce something that looks exactly like an ammonite, a moose, or a human. Repeatedly.
I would be surprised if there wasn't some morphological entropy measure that predicted this with workable reliability.
I suppose the claim is "We don't know where life starts." Which is fair enough. But we certainly know how it becomes more complex as it diverges from non-living systems.