William Morse  wrote or quoted:

> Now I agree that the phenomenological details are likely to be red 
> herrings, which is probably why Tim didn't like including electron 
> transport and it set off your pet peeve alert. I also don't like it for 
> those reasons - but as I thought about it more the knee-jerk reaction 
> subsided and it seemed that electron transport might in fact be a very 
> basic component of self-organizing systems that could create long-term 
> structures utilizing energy gradients.

I don't like electron transport being involved - since for one
thing it defines out of existence the possibility of life existing
in abstract mathematical spaces, virutal worlds - or other universes
with different physics.

I regard life as informational in nature - i.e. as pattern.  From that 
perspective, electron transport is an irrelevant implementation detail.
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