might start a collection of nonliving forms of life as a new special interest
- https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/trovants.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
are the two i can think of off the top of my head (plus viruses ofc)
@nova I haven't heard of trovants before, that's really interesting. It reminds me of a theory that before there was anything that could be described as life on earth, rna might have begun conserving information in chains within clay, and the physical properties of those rna chains could influence the propagation of structures within the clay and give selection advantages to particular types of mineral particles