Reply to post: Re: Bootstrapping actually seems to follow a maybe-necessary sequence

Lo and behold, Earth's special chemical cocktail for life seems to be pretty common

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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).

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