What exactly can cause a carbon-based molecule to begin absorbing more similar molecules and eventually split off copies of itself?
Is this the right train of thought? I mean the classic scenario is a literal soup of molecules “stricken to life” by a massive amount of energy… But why would that work?
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A replicator can be as simple as a combination of amino acids that just happens to have the right parts sticking out to *catalyze* other reactions of amino acids. So if all you have to begin with are a bunch of amino acids, it’s conceivable for one such replicator to spread by catalyzing more and more chemical reactions that lead back to itself.
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