On Experimenting on the Emergence of Life : Appraisal of Demonstrative Pronoun

Abstract

Experimental endeavor addressing the emergence of life faces two different frameworks of space and time. While the space-time framework applicable to the experimentalist who is designing the setup is classical in accepting both space and time being homogeneous with infinite extension, the framework intrinsic to atoms and molecules moving around inside the setup is quantum-mechanical and accordingly nonlocal though limited in its extension. A descriptive access to those atoms and molecules carrying quantum nonlocality with limited extension can be made with use of the corresponding demonstrative pronouns. One advantage of referring to demonstrative pronouns instead of ordinary nouns rests upon the ease with which one can avoid an unnecessary theoretical burden of sticking to the classical space-time framework with infinite extension all the time. Once the empirical fact of quantum non-locality with limited extension is duly focused upon, atoms and molecules as quanta can become cohesive between themselves if they happen to interact with each other. Quantum non-locality makes material interactions cohesive in precipitating synchronization between the mutually interacting bodies. Assimilation as a material capacity grounded upon the cohesiveness latent in the act of coming into synchronization, which is totally absent in the classical framework, can underlie the synthetic chemical reactions which may have been relevant to the emergence of life.