If we accept that a system tends to assume any possible configuration, which is consistent with modern physics, then we can demonstrate by induction the origin of biological life.
In order to demonstrate it we would need only a single instance in which a set of stable conditions of a chemical system resulted in a locally irreversible change in its configuration (more precisely, an decrease in entropy), regardless of the amount of time those conditions persisted.
By mathematical induction, all possible states of a system up to organized life would have been demonstrated, since we verified the base case and we ourselves constitute the inductive hypothesis.
This means that the origin of life could be the easiest thing to demonstrate by experiment, given a sufficiently large time frame. However it tells us nothing about how life evolved.
This would also mean that life is not an agency per se, but the direct expression of the action of certain laws on certain configuration states, that is, it is not life that evolves but instead the conditions in which it exists that evolve. This is “isomorphic” to a non-dual metaphysical perspective.
Another way to put it, is that if we remove time from the equation things pop in and out of existence without explanation, the same way we cannot perceive by our senses (but only by the intellect) an explanation about phenomena that occur at sufficiently large time scales. In fact, in this situation the universe behaves at the macroscopic level in the same way as in the quantum level, since in both cases there is no time referencial, that is, no causality.
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