I composed my email before seeing Eric's post. Having now read his email, I
would say let's not get too distracted by Nick Lane's Vital Question for
the task we set ourselves at FRIAM.
I think Eric's talks bests represents what I was calling the view of life
as gradient dissipation and a property
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-scientists-rna-abundant-space.html
Folks conflate the comet-origins direction with panspermia, but they are
not quite the same thing.
On 4/24/16 1:47 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
The ocean vent theory is not new, or is it?
http://www.space.com/32379-life-building-blocks
Nick,
I downloaded Nick Lane's Vital Question book a couple months back. From a
quick skim I got the sense it was a nice review of much of the work going
on around non-equilibrium thermodynamic origin of life explanations by the
"Seventh Day Ventists" (eg second law arguments for the emegence of l
Hi Nick, Russ, and all,
Far too much here to be able to answer, but I feel this is one I should pick up
a little. I am relieved that your question is quite specific:
> I am curious to know if others have read this book, and what you might think
> of it.
I haven't read this book. Maybe some
The ocean vent theory is not new, or is it?
http://www.space.com/32379-life-building-blocks-deep-sea-vents.html
IMHO it becomes more interesting when RNA and DNA is involved, that is to say
when a code is involved. It is the same with ancient cultures, the stone age is
barely interesting, it get