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I think the title is pushing it a bit. When I see "life-sparking energy source", I think of an inextricable property. Get that and you can spark life. But we ha
by mekoka 3y ago
I think the title is pushing it a bit. When I see "life-sparking energy source", I think of an inextricable property. Get that and you can spark life. But we have and we couldn't. They're merely ingredients, building blocks, fuel to sustain life as we understand it on Earth, as the article more sensibly admits. The "life-sparking" source itself remains a mystery.
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- dwaltrip 3y agoInstead of something extricable, I imagine a series of processes that, due to specific conditions, results in some new process that has distinctly different characteristics from the originating process. E.g. snowpack melt -> mountain stream -> waterfall A waterfall is a vastly simpler system than a living organism, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the origin of life has a flavor similar to waterfall formation. I like the idea that all phenomena we observe are emergent in a similar way.