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Hypothesis

Rethinking Life and Predicting Its Origin

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Diogo Gonçalves^*

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14 May 2021

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17 May 2021

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Abstract

The definition, origin and recreation of life remain elusive. As others have suggested, only once we put life into reductionist physical terms will we be able to solve those questions. To that end, this work proposes the phenomenon of life to be the product of two dissipative mechanisms. From them, one reinterprets extant biological life and deduces a testable scenario for its origin. The proposed theory of life allows its replication, reinterprets ecological evolution, brings new constraints to astrobiology and lays the foundations for groundbreaking technologies.

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Subject: Physical Sciences - Applied Physics

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