"Jason H." wrote in message
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Paper - How bio-friendly is the universe, by Paul Davies at
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403050

Ah! Thank you Jason for finding these little gems ...


The paper posits 'biological determinism' as a factor in biogenesis,
"transpermia" versus "panspermia" and that "...the key property of
life is its information content, and speculate that the emergence of
the requisite information-processing machinery might require quantum
information theory for a satisfactory explanation."

Along similar lines, I have been reading a book called: "The Primal Bias"
http://www.sciam.com/marketplace/ (third item down)


(Note the life probability number ascribed to SETI.)

You mean P2 ~ 1 ?


TTFN, Jason H.

Al