cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2147796

We identify “life” with the capability of self-replication plus some other features. In other conditions, for instance on other planets, it could be possible for self-replication to happen in a way different from the RNA/DNA-based one.

I remember stumbling, years ago, on research and papers that studied this kind of possibility. But I’m having a hard time finding the old references or new ones.

Do you have interesting papers and research material to share about this? Thank you!

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      It’s available for free on a popular “scientific research paper file sharing site”[1] if you search for its title.


      1. The founder of which just won an EFF Award a couple days ago! ↩︎

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        Got it ;) But I hadn’t heard about the award! can you share some link about that? Cheers!

        Edit: found it! Well done EFF! (I’m a proud member.)