{"slug":"thinker-sumantra-sarkar","verification":{"valid":true,"entries":1,"head":"dc16c5621ca937c1079ff480b4497bf289204cee363f8a7f4d08bea74d9f054d"},"count":1,"sources":[{"id":"s1","type":"other","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09191","title":"Design of conditions for emergence of self-replicators","quote":"By analyzing the kinetics of a toy chemical model, we demonstrate that the emergence of self-replication can be controlled by coarse, tunable features of the chemical system, such as the fraction of fast reactions or the width of the rate constant distribution.","summary":"Toy model paper by Sarkar and England showing physical conditions for self-replication.","claim_ids":["c1","c2","c3","c5"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-10T13:01:03.664Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"genesis","hash":"dc16c5621ca937c1079ff480b4497bf289204cee363f8a7f4d08bea74d9f054d"}]}