Actually, any continuity theory is ok by me, except perhaps life being imported from elsewhere, which is just punting.
This last paragraph did make me nervous. It seems to me that the one place where anthropomorphic or even biomorphic language should never occur is in discussions of the origins of life. And yet... *Showing photos of volcanic vents at Yellowstone National Park, Szostak said “life at the beginning depended totally on its environment. But as cells evolved, they learned more about their environment. That information was encoded into their genome and it allowed them to survive better and eventually colonize the whole surface of the planet.* *“I think we're actually getting pretty close to having a coherent picture of how life actually started.”* But I grant you that this text is highly secondary. Nick On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM Santafe <[email protected]> wrote: > Didn’t you hear that Jack Szostak debunked that? > > [image: 2025_1365_ry_0147_n.jpg] > > Nobel laureate shares research exploring the origins of life | Cornell > Chronicle > <https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/nobel-laureate-shares-research-exploring-origins-life> > news.cornell.edu > <https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/nobel-laureate-shares-research-exploring-origins-life> > > <https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/nobel-laureate-shares-research-exploring-origins-life> > > > > > On Oct 22, 2025, at 12:31, Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thank you for pointing it out. We hear a lot of grousing on the list > about PayWalls and > University privilege. If access has been keeping us from discussing the > Origin of Life, here is our chance. I am a white smoker man, myself. And > here, all these years, you thought I was a white non-smoker. > > N > > Nick > ------------------------------ > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Roger Critchlow < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 22, 2025 12:25 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Origins of life > > Hi Nick -- > > I don't know, but it seems that the Royal Society has a lot of open access. > > -- rec -- > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 1:19 PM Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Wow, Roger. Thank you. It seems like ordinary mortals can actuall down > load these. do you think there is some sort of time limit, so we should > grab them now? 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