Comment on Emergence and the Origin of Life? by Darrel Lindensmith.
The following exchange is taken from a discussion on the Spectrum blog – Sean Pitman
Are we back to Magic?
Stuart Kauffman, “I wish to say that life is an expected[?], emergent [define?] property of complex chemical reaction networks.”
What chemical reactions simple allow digital code to appear??? Kauffman does not deal with the mechanism for this non-sense but posits that this is so. Where is the lab work demonstrating this spontaneous generation??
Kauffman calls this “natural magic.” In a lecture at MIT he stated,
“Life bubbles forth in a natural magic beyond the confines of entailing laws. This allows us to be “reenchanted” with nature and find a way beyond modernity.”
