> This equilibrium mix of chemicals contains both food for
>replicators and interferers against replicators. 

Sideline, you still have not given me any plausible reason why there would be
replicators or metabolism.


>So by definition, when such
>a catalytic chain occurs with fecundity greater than one, that's
>already taking into account any interference you mention. You're trying
>an accounting trick of debiting something that was already debited.

But in this environment - if your magical replicator is not already adapted
there will never be a fecundity greater than one.
And there is no reason for it to be.

Let's re quote this again and again as needed:

The irreducible complexity of genetics-first origin scenarios is
high, requiring joint emergence of catalysis, compartmentation,
and heritability to make the minimal self-perpetuating structures.
The concentration dependence of their synthesis also has
been criticized as geophysically unrealistic"
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