Ok, I now read your link. I think I am understanding better also your position.

The assumption here is that there is a sort of law/principle that treats the transition between 'non-life' and 'life', abiogenesis, as a sort of phase transition - i.e. a 'regularity' that, in principle, can allow us to build a predective model that predicts under which conditions life can arise. I think that it is reasonable. But of course, the details are not clear and only a theoretical approach might not be able to construct such a model.

Do you believe that such a model could be expressed as a mathematical theory, like in theoretical physics?

Also: are there some books that you would suggest to explore this topic?

BTW, thanks for the discussion, it has been very productive and insightful!

Also: are there some books that you would suggest to explore this topic? — boundless

Nick Lane’s The Vital Question is excellent. And Peter Hoffman’s Life’s Ratchet.

Lane has lots of YouTube talks on his book.

Eric Smith is great - https://youtu.be/0cwvj0XBKlE?si=X8ksxZNJjOLdjlj5

Loren Williams talks on the evolution of the ribosome - https://youtu.be/AF0VmMvE1yI?si=msA7LgpLvKx6AfYn

The area has got interesting in just the past decade as a flood of new techniques are cracking open the questions.

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