Re:The Conundrum of Life's Origin
by A_D_E_P_T on Thursday January 16, 2025 @11:20AM
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It's not clear what the probability is over the ~hundreds of millions of years that it took on Earth. Could be that, under the conditions and on that timescale, we're an average or statistically unremarkable case.
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Time means more entropy, so I would think that makes the calculation much more problematic, no?
Time may correlate with increase in entropy in general. But also consider assembly theory. Once certain assemblies dominate an environment, they constrain future possibilities. Environments and the life it supports evolve together.