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An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem [PDF]
, 2017 I argue for an idealist ontology consistent with empirical observations, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism.
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Harnessing Dynamic Self‐Assembly to Accelerate Chemical Reactions
Small Structures, Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2026.Dynamic supramolecular self‐assembly offers a route to regulate chemical reactivity beyond diffusion‐controlled processes. This perspective surveys how dynamic assemblies organize substrates in space and time, increase effective molarity, enable emergent catalysis, and create specified microenvironments to accelerate chemical reactions. Precise control
Shunfei Cui +4 more
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Rethinking “Prebiotic Chemistry”
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2025.Abstract In origins‐of‐life research, the term “prebiotic chemistry” is commonly used to describe processes thought to be related to or required for the emergence of life. However, it suffers from several potential drawbacks that have caused the present group of authors to rethink their usage of the term.
Michael L. Wong +2 more
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The Origin of Life from Primordial Planets
, 2010 The origin of life and the origin of the universe are among the most important problems of science and they might be inextricably linked. Hydro-gravitational-dynamics (HGD) cosmology predicts hydrogen-helium gas planets in clumps as the dark matter of ...
Gibson, Carl H. +2 more
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Abiogenesis leading to biopoesis
Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 1968 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Bahadur, Krishna, Saxena, Indra
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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT Humanity seems stuck on different ways to fail to meet the challenge posed by a declared climate emergency and manifest problems of ecological breakdown. Rather than reprise these failures, we use the Fermi Paradox and simulation hypothesis to make a simple point about agency. The argument unfolds in two sections.
Jamie Morgan
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The HOMO-LUMO Gap as Discriminator of Biotic from Abiotic Chemistries
LifeLow-molecular-mass organic chemicals are widely discussed as potential indicators of life in extraterrestrial habitats. However, demarcation lines between biotic chemicals and abiotic chemicals have been difficult to define.
Roman Abrosimov, Bernd Moosmann
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A stepwise emergence of evolution in the RNA world
FEBS Letters, Volume 599, Issue 19, Page 2706-2717, October 2025.How did biological evolution emerge from chemical reactions? This perspective proposes a gradual scenario of self‐organization among RNA molecules, where catalytic feedback on random mixtures plays the central role. Short oligomers cross‐ligate, and self‐assembly enables heritable variations. An event of template‐externalization marks the transition to
Philippe Nghe
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The Nature of Stability in Replicating Systems
Entropy, 2011 We review the concept of dynamic kinetic stability, a type of stability associated specifically with replicating entities, and show how it differs from the well-known and established (static) kinetic and thermodynamic stabilities associated with regular ...
Addy Pross, Nathaniel Wagner
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Natural Radioactivity and Chemical Evolution on the Early Earth: Prebiotic Chemistry and Oxygenation
Molecules, 2022 It is generally recognized that the evolution of the early Earth was affected by an external energy source: radiation from the early Sun. The hypothesis about the important role of natural radioactivity, as a source of internal energy in the evolution of
Boris Ershov
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