This isn't a new idea. It's self organisation. We know that this must be how life began because all of nature self organises or is part of a larger self organising system. Given a thermodynamic gradient and given the right ingredients, you will get them rearranging themselves to minimise the input of free energy. The problem is showing exactly how it actually or likely self organised and this is sadly lacking from the article.
I've created a computational model myself showing that a random collection of abstract particles that can combine together using bonds and break apart again can by a random walk merge into aggregate groups to minimise energy and even feed off their surroundings. Not that I've published it yet. I'm stumped as to how I can show that this is relevant or interesting to the real world.
I fall firmly into the school of thought that metabolisms developed first and that replication came afterwards.
I've created a computational model myself showing that a random collection of abstract particles that can combine together using bonds and break apart again can by a random walk merge into aggregate groups to minimise energy and even feed off their surroundings. Not that I've published it yet. I'm stumped as to how I can show that this is relevant or interesting to the real world.
I fall firmly into the school of thought that metabolisms developed first and that replication came afterwards.
