Brenner makes the point that Schrodinger’s ideas of a fully dynamic source of genetic information (“architect’s plan and builder’s craft in one”) was shown to be false; replaced with the coordinated set of tokens and constraints of Von Neumann (with Turing and Peirce firmly in tow). Thus, there is the organizational “threshold of complication” that has to be specified by any precursor – regardless of what atoms it is made of.
As far as I am aware, you are not for the silencing those facts.
John, is it true that all an RNA at the origin of life needs to code is a start with AUG?