Mike, list
Thanks for this post - and for your previous post on scientific and
natural language -
Yes, there are many hypotheses about the emergence of life; thermal
vents being a strong suggestion but who knows which will be 'the
infallible final' - but the key is,
Feynman in some of his teaching videos is disarmingly appealing in a way
that any thinking such as yours is also appealing -- it has no airs and
leaves room for understanding our limitations -- ergo fallibility. I am not
sure anyone will ever explain origins to the satisfaction of that imagined
List,
I think we can expand Stephen's suggestion, to which I think I
agree, that triadic action is involved Peirce's pragmatic maxim.
I think we can understand the supreme importance of triadic
action by questioning how life began from inanimate
