Abstract
The origin of life problem has defied explanation for more than a century. There are many different aspects to this problem, the extremely complicated biochemistry of living organism playing an important role here. I argue that the complex biochemistry is obscuring the more philosophical issues which I argue are actually rather trivial. By explaining the origin of life in terms of the relevant physical processes where the very detailed biochemistry is largely disregarded, we may get to a better broad perspective of how life came into being in our solar system.
Saibal Mitra