Theoretical origin of life; autocatalysis (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, June 18, 2015, 14:20 (3446 days ago) @ David Turell

Stuart Kauffman reappears in this article. His proposition that autocatalysis can create life still lives and has been expanded upon. Again it is intelligent design in the lab and software simulations in the computer with no direct idea of how to cross over from simple inorganic and organic starting points to self contained self-replication systems which are truly life:-http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/43082/title/The-Living-Set/-"As this recent research has shown, autocatalytic sets capture essential aspects of the organization of living organisms, and their high probability of emergence and potential to evolve have important implications for the origin of life. Autocatalytic sets can be studied mathematically and with computer simulations, but they also show up in experimental systems of nucleic acids and in the metabolic network of living organisms. They truly seem to represent a fundamental property of life."-All well and good as a description of life, but this understanding does not get one to the origin of life, it just describes the result!