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=== User: Give me your honest assessment of this next paper. ===
Give me your honest assessment of this next paper. I've uploaded a third paper, "Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: Complexity Overcoming Clutter" by Islam and Powner. They seem to be making the claim that systems chemistry can "self-assemble", "process information" and "orchestrate reaction pathways" leading to life. I am incredibly skeptical of all of these claims. 

In my experience, when biologists talk about complex molecules that "self-assemble", they are talking about a process inside the cell. These molecules are not assembling themselves. The cells are the factory. The cells are doing the assembly. In essence, the authors are claiming that complex molecules can create themselves. This idea has serious philosophic problems as well as scientific problems. 

Regarding the claim that prebiotic chemistry can "process information", I am aghast. How did this information arise? How did prebiotic chemistry learn to process it? What observations were made to support this claim? 

Regarding the claim that prebiotic systems chemistry can "orchestrate reaction pathways", I am gobsmacked. "To orchestrate" means:
# to compose or arrange (music) for performance by an orchestra.
# to arrange or manipulate, especially by means of clever or thorough planning or maneuvering.

Since chemistry is not music, the authors are claiming that systems chemistry is capable of thorough planning and maneuvering to arrange or manipulate a large variety of other chemicals. How is it to do that without reactions, new products and new waste products which will further clutter the setting?