wellwisher
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Say we start with yeast cells, alive in water. If we dehydrate them, nothing works inside these cells and they are no longer alive, based on any definition of alive. If we add water back, rehydrate, everything works again and they again become alive. If we substitute any other solvent, for water, the cells are no longer alive, and nothing works properly.Do you seriously think that you have a model? In the sciences a model and a hypothesis and essentially the same thing. So what is your model. Try to avoid excessive word salad. And how would you test it? If you cannot think of a reasonable test that could possibly refute it then you only have a hand waving explanation and not a model. Your model needs to be able to make de novo predictions. Or in other words predictions that are not known at this time. If you make a "prediction" where you already know the answer then that is not a real prediction. And if that prediction is false then your model is false as well.
This unique impact of water, on the only form of life, science can prove to exist; terrestrial, is a not a statistical observation. It is yes and no or odds of 1 and 0, indicating modeling life from the water side, is rational, for the parts; enzymes, DNA, as well as for the whole; alive.
If you have lab prove this to yourself. Do not take my word for it.
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If we try to model from the organic side, by removing and/or substituting organic pieces, one at time, there is no consistent effect. Red blood cells lose their nucleus and DNA and can still function for weeks. Statistics can help with that organic centric piecemeal approach, since reason does not fully apply. There is no simple universal logic for any and all possible organic tweaks. This is why we still get side effects from organic side medicines. If it had better logic you could design without the side effects. The dice and cards tool, leading, leave behind a dice and cards based side effects; methodological impurities due to math leading science.
The impact of water, and only water; single item, is the straw that stirs the entire drink of life, at all levels and components. You need organics for their added chemical capacitance, that water, and only water, can mold and animate properly. But in the end, water makes it all integrated and come alive, and be called life; on or off.
I don't have a lab, so I had to develop this the hard way, which is research what is already known and backed by experiments. I then tried, over the years, to reduce all that complexity, to simplicity; handful of principles, and then extrapolate back outward with chemical logic. I was a good Chemist so that part is easy and enjoyable. I could also compare with what was known but achieve with water side logic.
My original model was more organic centric, based on the hydrogen bonding of the organics. But eventually, I shifted to water, since the on off effect of water, implied a co-partnership between water and the organics. You need both. If you know one, you can predict the other, with water much more universal and simple, to have as the cause, to predict the organic effects.
Current life sciences, are based on math leading science, since the science is not self supporting by pure logic, so it can lead the math, that is needed due to the organic side complexity. They are stuck. The water side approach, offers the simplicity of one variable, with different settings, for any occasion; on or off.
To make how this all works easy to see, I use the water and oil effect, as the complementary and antagonistic, give and take, between water and the organics of life, that gives form to the organics. The two layers that form in the glass of water and oil, is repeatable, and reflects each other. Both seek minimal potential, with water leading, due to it being the dominant secondary bonding force; four hydrogen bonds per water molecule and 50 times more water molecules, than all the organics combined.