Re: How did life begin?
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Let's not confuse the issue. The OP is 100% a materialistic question. The question is:
How did we get from lava to the first functioning cells?
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I know you define it as a completely materialistic question, but I don't know if it encompasses the whole story. We could say that if we took 100,000 grunting Neanderthals, and given enough time they would produce, "Phantom of the Opera". And in a materialistic sense, that's what did happen, but it seems like we're missing part of the story trying to describe it that way.
I understand your point, but matter is essentially patterns and structures of energy. We're really not talking about two different things here (e=mc^2). Thoughts are basically intangible patterns of energy, and it was the interaction of billions and billions and billions of these patterns that took man from grunts to an opera, with an almost imperceptible change in the physical or materialistic properties of the brain.
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