The Universal Evolution and the Origin of LIfe

TL;DR

This paper proposes a comprehensive, non-reductive framework to understand the origin and evolution of early life, aiming to synthesize existing perspectives for a more objective and inclusive view of life's place in the universe.

Contribution

It introduces a broad theoretical framework that integrates various perspectives on life's origin and evolution, avoiding reductionism and enabling a more holistic understanding.

Findings

Provides a critique of current theories on life's origins

Proposes a unifying framework for studying early life

Aims to synthesize multiple perspectives for objectivity

Abstract

The origin of life occupies a very important place in the study of the evolution. Its liminal location between life and non-life poses special challenges to researchers who study this subject. Current approaches in studying the origin and evolution of early life are reductive: they either reduce the domain of non-life to the domain of life or vice versa. This contribution seeks to provide a perspective that would avoid reductionism of any kind. Its goal is to outline a frame that would include both domains and their respective evolutions as its particular cases. The study examines the main theoretical perspectives on the origin and evolution of early life and provides a constructive critique of these perspectives. An objective view require viewing an object or a phenomenon from all available points of view. The goal of this contribution is not to prove the current perspectives wrong and to deny their achievements. It seeks to provide an angle that would be sufficiently wide and would allow synthesizing current perspectives for a comprehensive and objective interpretation of the origin end evolution of early life. In other words, it seeks to outline a frame for an objective view that will help understand life's place within the universe.