Re: Bootstrapping actually seems to follow a maybe-necessary sequence
Clumping random data is still clumped random data. You need to provide a method of a system of random data becoming functional.
This is not putting parts together to get a function. This is getting a function out of noise. Evolutionary software, or evolutionary examples of methods of progression never actually tackle the biogenesis problem: Data -> mechanism of translation -> function.
This could be DNA:RNA:Replication. It could be 100% RNA in RNA data: RNA folding: RNA replication. Or even your Random Amino acid configuration: Functional Amino Acid configuration: Replicating Amino Acid configuration.
But no matter how we frame the problem and solution, we need a 3 step process to get from one system (data) to another (a function, such as replication or metabolism, homeostasis etc).