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Originally posted by on-ramp
repeatable? i suppose if you kill off all life as we know it and the same conditions exist as they did 4.5 billion years ago, then yes, it might repeat. but there's no guarantee.
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That doesn't mean we can't try
Seriously, let's say protein synthesis worked, via one way or another. What then motivated this "matter" to want to replicate itself? What made it possible for it to "want" or, at least at the very basic level, "think", i.e. become a "living" organism and not remain a blob of protein, sitting on the corner? Even if somehow the RNA and DNA assembled by itself this code to reproduce, it's not really a "life" is it? I think the synthesis of protein and such are all very plausible, but when did the mass of protein become what we consider as the first living "organism" and how would we distinguish it? Where did that "living" part come from? Did this thing just become self-aware (this did not until much later, I know) one day and start the first life? Going back to the original question, when/where is the beginning of life?