[wendy1946]

What Sheldrake is saying as I understand it is that once you have a dog or a horse on this planet, getting one on some planet 200 light years away becomes several orders of magnitude easier, same thing with any complex idea or concept more or less. I don’t see how that explains getting life as we know it from inanimate matter. Sheldrake doesn’t seem to be saying anything about abiogenesis.

[The Comedian]

Sheldrake doesn’t seem to be saying anything about abiogenesis.

Agreed. It's not an exact match, but I believe it is a step in the right direction. Remove time as separate dimension, and include the enfolded universe variables, and you get closer. And it's not abiogenic. That distinction starts from the viewpoint that there is such a thing as inanimate matter. What I'm suggesting is that all matter is more or less a projection of a deeper animation, in which case nothing is abiogenic, just from our perspective, it may appear to be pre-biogenic. And that may be wrong too.

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