Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
by arp242 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:42AM
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That's fair, but it's the best example I know of to demonstrate how this could have worked, even though it's not perfect. Happy to hear of other better examples.
Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
by akasakahakada on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:57AM
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Crystal can grow itself if you put it into or let it touch a solution of its own kind.
I would say solid state is more complex than fluid.
Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
by pfdietz on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:44AM
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Crystals have very little information content, though.
Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
by flangola7 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:50AM
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What do you mean by information content.
Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
by pfdietz on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:04PM
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The entropy of a perfect crystal approaches zero (at absolute zero). All the positions of the atoms are completely predetermined, so there is no information stored.
Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
by akasakahakada on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:20PM
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You remind me this thing. Those non perfect crystals which are dominant in the real world can have some of the most weirdest behavior in term of quantum chemistry e.g. photo synthesis.
Advanced material science is making use of those crystals to make semi-conductors and stuffs because they can just absorb sunlight and then react with other substances.
I feel this is a bad example to use because prions only do so due to the existence of plenty of things as complex as prions. We would need an example that creates more complex structures out of simpler building blocks, not equally complex building blocks.