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Chemists showed this in many different ways.

We can rip apart the entire machinery.

We know that at the core of it, there's an RNA that's...

that operates not only as an information system itself or information itself, but also as an enzyme.

And origin of life chemists make these molecules easily.

Now we know we can manipulate RNA, we can make even with single pot chemistries, we can create compounds.

I'm not sure if that's what they call it, but that's how I think of it.

Because it is all combined in a test tube and you know the outcome.

And it's mathematical.

Once you know the right environment and the right chemistry that needs to get into this container or this pot, you know what the outcome is.

There's no luck there anymore.

It's a pretty rigid, established input-output system.

And it's all chemistry.

My PhD is in chemistry, but I don't do origin of life chemistry.

Yes, absolutely.

Just make sure that you have good chemist friends if you're interested in origin of life.

That's 100% required.

It should be mandatory.

Well, chemically, I think that's it.

You have enzymes, you have proteins.