Life on Earth emerged fast. Far quicker than we thought | Aeon Essays
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Life on Earth emerged fast. Far quicker than we thought | Aeon Essays
These hypotheses suggest that deep principles govern the emergence of problem-solving matter, principles that push our understanding of modern physics and chemistry towards their limits. They mark a radical departure from life as we once knew it.
Chris Kempes • Is Life a Complex Computational Process? | Aeon Essays
So rather than asking how life arose on Earth, Cronin is asking How does life arise, period?
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
Life is order out of chaos. Life is cold becoming warmth. So alien life was seen as scientifically unlikely. But then came a new hypothesis that says no, actually, as heat is added to groups of atoms those atoms organise to receive that energy.