Re: How life exists

"Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:[email protected]...

>Biological life is complex structures of matter. Complex structures of 
>energy can also at least simulate life, for example we use inert crystal 
>matrices that can store, interpret and transfer electric charge patterns to 
>create AI.

Evidence from space rocks and other sources suggests that clay minerals may 
have contained crystalline matrices that directed or aided the initial 
organization of naturally created chemicals into early life forms.

"First, there is the recent finding of a chiral amino acid (isovaline) that 
formed on the surface of a clay mineral on several carbonaceous chondrites 
[a type of meteorite]. This points to the formation of amino acids on the 
surface of clay minerals on carbonaceous chondrites from simpler molecules, 
e.g., CO2, NH3, and HCN."

Chiral means handed, like a screw having either a right or left hand thread. 
Chemistry in solutions produces equal mixtures of both versions, enzymes or 
other substrates guide the assemble of only one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarimeter