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So chemistry is chemistry.
But are you just constantly sampling or are you building on your former solutions and then maintaining a memory of those solutions over billions of years?
Or at least that's what happened here.
I mean, life is obviously chemistry and physics leading to life.
So this is not a disciplinary problem of one discipline triumphing other discipline.
But what you need to have is definitely, chemistry is everywhere, right?
I tend to think you can be a chemist.
You can study chemistry.
You can study physics.
You can study geology anywhere in the universe.
But this is the only place you can study biology.
This is the only place to be a biologist.
That's it.
So definitely something very fundamental happened here.
And you cannot take biology out of the equation.
If you want to understand how that vast chemistry space, how that general...
sequence space got narrowed down to what is available or what is used by life, you need to understand the rules of selection.
And that's when evolution and biology comes into play.
I don't know if there are any rules like that.
It would be fascinating to find in terms of the biology's rules.