Re: Life: Turn it upside down!

On 2024-04-09 20:34, JTEM wrote:

  Arkalen wrote:
 

The alkaline hydrothermal vent hypothesis doesn't involve modern alkaline hydrothermal vents, in fact it relies on the assumption the chemistry would have worked out differently in an acidic, non-oxygenated ocean.

 It's Faith-Based.

No, it's based on general knowledge of chemistry and the data we have on early Earth conditions.

 If you study non life you study things that actually exist.

That can be true or false whether you study life or nonlife. In this case while we no longer have an oxygen-less ocean we can simulate such conditions when doing experiments; those experiments involve things that actually exist.

 And I don't mean you begin with viruses or prions, either.
 "Spectrum."
 Create a "Complexity Spectrum" the way you might construct
a color spectrum >
Wait. That's not it.
 "Electromagnetic Spectrum."
 Because it doesn't begin with visible light, and it doesn't
even end there!
 Who knows? Maybe if we framed life within a proper spectrum
is wouldn't end with our concept of life!
 God?
 Forms of intelligence we have yet to imagine?
 That's pure speculation... speculating the spectrum... I
love it! I'm too clever by at least half! Or at least that's
what I say...
 Okay, but properly framed within a spectrum, we certainly
don't start with life. We know that.
 Where is such a spectrum published?
 

I don't know if any such spectrum is explicitly published, to my knowledge its contents are basically what you listed in your OP. So not exactly warranting a paper but maybe there are review papers or subject-matter papers with good introductions that address your idea. I'll keep you posted if I look it up.
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