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Re:The AI delusion: why humans trump machines by perl4ever on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:37AM (#22274346)
It's pretty straightforward to trace our evolution back to single cells, but to rocks? And I don't think there is a clear idea of where viruses and stuff come in. I vaguely remember an article suggesting there might be a previously unknown mechanism used by the brain to handle memories that resembles (literal) viral machinery. Some think there might have been a biosphere before DNA, that used RNA. But presumably early life underwent transformations that wiped out the very first, whatever it was.
Re:The AI delusion: why humans trump machines by 0xBABAD00C on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @12:48AM (#22306183)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

(see the "Origin of biological metabolism" section - lots of good new research coming out recently, including simulations of the very early processes predating life as such)