Do we know how to go about the study needed? Is there a straightforward idea of how one could find out relatively firmly what is needed, or would it be "put X engineers together for Y weeks and hope they sort it out?" Seems worth knowing.
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I kinda wonder if the real explanation for the Fermi Paradox is that abiogenesis is improbable enough that it only occurs in a small percentage of habitable universes.
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Yes, that is what I tend to think too. But it could also be difficult to evolve but easy to find coding systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
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There is some most probable form of abiogenesis, and it is likely orders of magnitude more common than the second one. There may also be more or less likely steps of code/basis switching. One should look for likely "easy" early steps: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07065
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Might be that there are many dead end coding systems that are very common ("b-life"), and a few like ours ("a-life") that evolves well but are rare. Intelligence might be A*-life that evolves radically, and triggers appearance of new kinds.
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