On Wed, May 27, 2026, 11:23 AM Quan Tesla <[email protected]> wrote:
> Abiogenesis is rare, but not improbable. All is relative. Suppose quantum > energy propagated at a factor of 1.8, where is the real potential limit? At > quaternion furcation? This sum scales beyond supermassive calculations to > observable infinity. > I don't understand what you mean. A group in Cambridge this February evolved a self replicating 45 nucleotide RNA strand called QT45 in a bath of activated trinucleotide triphosphate (RNA triples) in mildly alkaline eutectic ice, replicating both itself and its complement with 94% fidelity and 2.1% yield in 72 days. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2760 This is the critical step in abiogenesis, going from non-life to the simplest form of life. The raw ingredients including nucleotides and simple sugars are produced from lightning and ultraviolet light from Earth's early atmosphere of hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide, and also have been found in meteorites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis Obviously the rate of abiogenesis is going to be much lower in a soup of thousands of random chemicals, including both left and right hand versions of chiral molecules that don't appear in biologically derived organisms. But if we can calculate the yield, then we will have a good idea of the size of the universe beyond the event horizon and the bit complexity of the program that describes it. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7daa29d46d037f94-M5da2cc3c54ddee908163f1b2 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
