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Re:Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-se... by metalman on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:39PM (#41874098)
my personal take on evolution,is based on two fact like pieces of information, first is that life can perhaps be seen as extreamly complex assemblies of matter and energy and second that the universe is a vast field of energy gradients with a general mish mash of all of the possible elements of matter lodged in a variety of disks,spheres,blobs,and ribbons, leaving much of it open for life to work in some form which is just a re phaseing of what many have suggested is the feeling of the inevitability of life,which I might add,is miracle enough
Re:Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-se... by viewtransform on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:57PM (#41875044)
You might enjoy reading "What is Life" by Erwin Schrodinger (that physics guy)

[1] http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/schrodinger-what-is-...

The conundrum is how did local regions of low entropy that exhibit both metabolism and replication come into existence.

Without replication there is no evolution. Without metabolism, low entropy cannot be maintained and replication cannot function.

Re:Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-se... by foobar1962 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:14PM (#41874770)
1) take a breath 2) the universe is big, really big...
Re:Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-se... by adolph on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:34PM (#41875889)
> life can perhaps be seen as extreamly complex assemblies

Sounds similar to Assembly Theory as promulgated by Cronin et al

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9

Re:Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-se... by steveoscaro on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:46PM (#41875936)
I’ve always had the vague feeling that life is like little whirl pools in the river of energy flowing from low entropy to high entropy. Water can flow uphill if you observe only snippets of the journey.
Re:Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-se... by 082349872349872 on Friday October 18, 2024 @03:35AM (#41877132)
anyone know the source of "life is fire, slowed down, with an attitude"?