Boogeyman:
"Ok, consider that perhaps you start with only RNA as a primordial situation.
Its still pretty useless unless it can replicate.
Which means the RNA, which has no intelligence, would have to somehow create a ribosome to manufacture the proteins that it needs to replicate itself?" But of course, it didn't start with RNA, but natural chemistry vastly simpler.
If you are interested in the best explanation I've ever seen, then I'd recommend:
Addy Pross, "What is Life, how chemistry becomes biology"
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