alt Hacker News> Except evolution does really exist without life.
Biochemist and OoL enthusiast here. This is very not true. Evolution happens in even the simplest complex systems. It's very likely a process of matter.
Look up the work of Dr Michael Levin. He shares on YouTube many of his convos with leading thinkers. He's quite prolific lately.
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sandworm101 • today at 1:49 PM
Evolution as in change from one state to another, but is that change from natural selection? I suspect it is change based on chemistry without inherited traits. A mountain can evolve through natural processes from a lump of fresh rock to a complex structure of peaks and valleys, but a mountain does not pass those traits along to offspring. So there is no natural selection driving the evolution of mountains.
Unless you have highly accurate replication, selection is limited in the amount of information it can accumulate. 90% accurate replication gives you ~10 bits of information. Much beyond that and information is erased faster than selection can create it.
So I strongly dispute your assertion there.