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Most Scientists would
probably readily
agree, that at cryonic temperatures chemistry lacks sufficient potential
to make conventional life viable. "Arrhenius calculations" - they'd say - "do not lie!", and
in some sense they'd be right. But what about the many weaker low energy
inter-molecular interactions and arrangements which in some sense predominate in the dense cold atmospheric
broth of Titan?
In my mind simple entropic principles imply that: Irrespective of normal biological conventions, thermodynamic cycling/recycling quickly
pushes systems to express innate potential complexity regardless of interaction
type; That many forms of resulting complexity are de facto/proto evolutionary;
And that
consequently, "life-like" systems are a much broader proposition
than most would reasonably construe ---- Could
Titan bear
testament to such possibility?
Note - Care is taken to
avoid egregious errors,
but are no guarantees... |
