First: this quote about the HUP should give you some insight into my thoughts.

The uncertainty principle shows that particles first 'exist' in an undetermined state. As they enter their definite state, they do so in a semi-random manner. A manner which is determined by probabilities and the physics that are acting on them. And so... we get a vast universe of variety and oddness.

My question is this: Could life be the random occurrence of a control mechanism for these particles? Similar to the way a transistor is able to control the state of a current (try not to cloud your brain with the specifics of that crude analogy) This control mechanism wouldn't have infinite power, b/c it would still be severely limited by probability... but... perhaps it could have the ability to make simple decisions ... and therefore the ability to evolve into complex organisms over the course of millions of years.

If you don't go into the specifics, I would say, yes, definitely, and the proof is that it has already occurred in our case. But, also, without specifics, where does that get you?

I just meant don't explore the specifics of how a transistor is like a particle control mechanism. Please do explore the specifics of how this might lead to life as we know it My brain hurts.

I understood that, I meant the specifics of the control mechanism.

I am skeptical that the beginning of life is the result of any particular quantum phenomenon. After reading Stuart Kauffman's At Home in the Universe, I lean more toward the very beginning of life as an emergent property of autocatalytic sets of diverse molecules. Life appears to reside in the classical domain.

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While uncertainty may very well play a role, I think life has a better chance when there's certainty involved, particularly after a nice candelight dinner...

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Should this be in ATM?

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Why would it be in ATM? Are candlelight dinners no longer the norm?

Seriously, what AonSao proposes is nothing more than self-organization, a fact we've observed throughout the natural world.

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.