What is Life?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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The First Life on Earth Was Built on Irona
I think the most attractive hypotheses at the moment, they are only a hypotheses. The first life forms were built on irona. Irona could be the starting material because it can code and at the same time have activity. And so i'm adding as well to what paul was saying there, em, you know, the way tthe first life would have existed wouldn't be exactly like life is now. But there's more than one possible way it could have happened. We can just talk about what's plausible and what's implausible.
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