I know of the primordial soup, but where does just matter stop and life exactly begin? Have scientists agreed upon an answer? What makes life, life? Just ordered energy?
I know of the primordial soup, but where does just matter stop and life exactly begin? Have scientists agreed upon an answer? What makes life, life? Just ordered energy?
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No. Nobody has yet presented a detailed explanation of how life began. Some day, perhaps we can demonstrate spontaneous creation of life from chemicals thought to be present in the “primordial soup.” I would say that until it can be demonstrated in a lab, or at least in some type of controlled experiment in an apparatus, we will not be sure we understand exactly how it happened.
This does not mean that crackpot theories should be entertained. We do know a lot about when life emerged and what characteristics it had. But we don’t know exactly how it happened.
You’re going to want to look into abiogenesis.
It’s tantalising… I mean the findings that not long, cosmologically speaking, after the formation of the earth some 4.55 billion years ago that some Zircon crystals have carbon atoms in them that have C12 and C13 ratios that suggest life just may have existed surprisingly soon after the earth formed.
My opinion:
Concentrated energy packets created an ouroboros system upon itself, life is just movement pushed by forces. Rocks are alive just like “humans” are if you look at condensed timeline of billions of years, rock change shapes, age, erode just like humans walk, they take a step, the speed at which these materials with imprisoned energy are moving is difficult to imagine. Life is just insane speed movements creating emergent thing where the hive of systems become dependent on each other, creating a one whole creating an emergent consciousness which reinforces all kinds of defenses to support its energy. Maybe life is a system of preserving the concentrated energy within itself, like its trapped