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The question is, how would it form by itself?

The fundamental thing about life as we know it is not just that it's made of the few particular elements it uses. It's about those elements being a sweet spot for molecular nanomachinery. It's not clear that any other combination of elements might be able to form a stable replicator and bootstrap itself into large-scale complex system. In fact, it might be that life can only arise by itself using materials our life is made of, directly because of laws of physics in our universe.

Or put in another way - if abiogenesis of our life is improbable, a spontaneous creation of robots - large scale machines with digital brains - is orders of magnitude less likely still.



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