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The Shortest Path to the Final Lego Castle?
Most instruments that NASA builds, for example, or any of the space agencies looking for life in the universe are looking for chemical correlates. But here we have something based on properties of molecules. It's not a chemical correlate. It's agnostic. Life is a system that patterns particular structures into matter. That's what it is. And if you're looking for a molecule, you're not testing any hypotheses about the nature of what life is.