krishnagopal
Registered Senior Member
I have read your essay with considerable interest. I appeciate your effort to collate all known 'facts' on the origin of life and present them for systematic scrutiny.
I have a refreshingly new theory. That life on the earth has originated from primordial membranes.
To justify my analogy I will ask a simple question. In a cell (consider a unicellular organism) what structure possesses life? Is it the genetic material or cytoplasm or the membrane? Or let me ask, what is most basic charecteristic of life. Surely it is the consciousness (or irritability) which is fundamental to form life. What is the seat of consciousness? Obviously it is the cell membarne with all its membrane potentials which shows the property of irritability. So, membrane potentials forms the consciousness. The genes and metabolism subserve the essential purpose of consciousness.
How can a membrane form de novo? It is possible that primordial membranes have formed on the earth from hydrocarbon chains that accumulated in the earth's crust. It is also ergonomically possible for the hydrocarbon chains to form bilayes. So the theory goes on ...
I have written a book "The Role of Cell Membrane in the Origin of Life and in Cell Biology" and also opened a website for the book. If you are interested I will discuss the matter further.
Regards Dr D Krishnagopal
I have a refreshingly new theory. That life on the earth has originated from primordial membranes.
To justify my analogy I will ask a simple question. In a cell (consider a unicellular organism) what structure possesses life? Is it the genetic material or cytoplasm or the membrane? Or let me ask, what is most basic charecteristic of life. Surely it is the consciousness (or irritability) which is fundamental to form life. What is the seat of consciousness? Obviously it is the cell membarne with all its membrane potentials which shows the property of irritability. So, membrane potentials forms the consciousness. The genes and metabolism subserve the essential purpose of consciousness.
How can a membrane form de novo? It is possible that primordial membranes have formed on the earth from hydrocarbon chains that accumulated in the earth's crust. It is also ergonomically possible for the hydrocarbon chains to form bilayes. So the theory goes on ...
I have written a book "The Role of Cell Membrane in the Origin of Life and in Cell Biology" and also opened a website for the book. If you are interested I will discuss the matter further.
Regards Dr D Krishnagopal