And can we do that in a lab or does it take a whole planet to make that self-replicating chemical cycle?
I can cite several other somewhat similar self-replicating processes.
When a chlorine molecule destroys an ozone molecule the process releases a new chlorine molecule which then can destroy another ozone molecule, etc. This is why it took 30 years after chlorine-based propellants were prohibited, for the atmosphere to cleanse itself from these destructive ozone-depleting chemicals.
In a way that is almost like a destructive self-replicating cycle.
And at what point do you believe abiogenesis happened? Something magical or something natural?
I have been wondering if mitosis is a self-replicating process like the Krebs cycle. It is a faithful copying of DNA, which is a polymer of non-living bio-chemicals, and the process results in a self-replication of the mother cell, no?