Posted: Feb 10, 2012 5:14 pm
rainbow wrote:Rumraket wrote:rainbow wrote:Rumraket wrote:
The first relicator would be replicating itself, making errors in the process(mutations), the nature of which would subsequently be either neutral, or selectively beneficial or deleterious, depending on the environment.
Sorry, but this fails to explain how the first replicator could be formed from a mix of so-called 'building blocks'. Please tell us how this could happen. Remember if it was the first, no mutations could occur previous to its formation.
The question you're asking now is different from the one I responded to. I can't tell you how the first replicator could form, other than to say that if it was a polymer, the joining together of the individual units would have been thermodynamically favorable under the extant circumstances, otherwise it wouldn't have happened.
...which is exactly like saying the nuts and bolts that make up a car have to fit together, otherwise it would fall apart.
Yes, but they don't attract or repel each other, and start making covalent bonds like molecules do. In any case, I don't presume to know how the first replicator formed, as a corollary of not knowing what it was made of.