TomHendricks474{at}cs.com wrote in message
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> Some say life 'emerged'. Then through
> the first replicator adapted to the environment
> it was in.
> But that supposes a 'grace' period during which
> the environment did not in any way hinder
> the replicator, until it had the needed time
> to adapt to it's environment.
> 
> There was no 'grace' period. And any scenario
> that allows for one is making a mistake IMO.
> 
> Comment?

There were several replicators but we descend from the only one that
kept adaptaing from the beginning, either by chance or superiority.
Environment is a single word for several aspects of Reality different
from biological entities. Those environmetal aspects that didn`t
change for a while contributed to the successful replicator`s
adaptation to the environmental aspects that did change. Once a
replicator emerges, its instances form part of the environment. Maybe
there was competition among different classes of replicators until
only one remained. But we can perfectly well envision a set of
conditions that favor the emergence of replicators that would last for
enough time to give it time to adapt, but to adapt there must be
changes to adapt to. So it adapted against other classes or
replicators, against other instances of th replicator, and/or against
some changes in the enviroment. There is no period of grace in
Reality, there are no stationary conditiond, Reality always changes,
but not all aspects cahnge at the same rate. There can be scenarios
withperiods of grace in only those aspectsof the environment that
favor the emergence of replicators, like for instance, stable
concentrations of chemicals durng long periods of time compared to the
quantity of replicators.
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