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Salamander@mander.xyzM to Abiogenesis@mander.xyz · 1 year ago

Stability distillation hypothesis for the origin of life

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Stability distillation hypothesis for the origin of life

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Salamander@mander.xyzM to Abiogenesis@mander.xyz · 1 year ago
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Through in-depth thinking and reasoning about the conditions required for cells to maintain unchanged material distribution, it is concluded that life metabolic reactions require high information content. However, the self-replication of a few macromolecules such as RNA and DNA can only retain information, but cannot generate information. When thinking about the possible ways in which this information is generated, one possible way is to maintain the distribution of substances in the cell through selective permeability and active transport of membranes. This mechanism still plays an important role in today's cells but it is difficult to generate enough information. Another possible way is to generate information through stability-distillation, which continuously changes the molecular frequency distribution in the system through periodic changes in the environment and generates information from a consequentialist perspective. Unlike the RNA world hypothesis, under this hypothesis, life does not need to originate from a few self-replicating macromolecules, making the entire hypothesis more reasonable.
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