Re: Crystalline ancestry: Vegetative growth

"Tim Tyler" <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gmpqj2$1b83$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A recent video of mine:

"Crystalline ancestry: Vegetative growth"

"A video about the crystalline ancestry hypothesis, and the
possibility
that the first organisms propagated themselves using a vegetative
growth pattern."

- http://originoflife.net/vegetative_growth/

Interesting. The pictures of crystal-structure-models were very
helpful, but I have to complain that you didn't have pictures for
the heart of this presentation - the 1-D of information crystal,
which can have multiple genotypes in a single crystal. So,
I am not really sure what such a beastie or colony of beasties
would look like.

That is a big deficiency, because it makes it difficult to imagine
how each genotype would have its own phenotype, and hence
be independently selected from all of the other genotypes in
the same crystal. And I have no idea at all of what it would
look like at the stage where there are multiple genes involved
in each selectable phenotype.

In Wachtershauser's scenarios, it is easy to visualize the geometry
of how the crystal interacts with the organic components - but
it is difficult to see how the information (heritable selectable
variation) is handled. In A.G.C-S's scenarios, it is very difficult
(for me) to visualize the geometry, but easy to understand the
informational aspects.

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