My polymath friend seems to think that science has managed to discover how life started with concepts such as emergence,  self-organisation and evolution. I tell him if you know something others don't know then why don't you go and get the Nobel prize in unravelling the huge mystery of life. The problem of transition to life from complex chemistry may become known but first we need to solve the information puzzle that dominates basic life. Structured complex information with specific meaning and teleology is a feature of a structured mind rather than unguided processes. So we need to look in this direction or uncover more complex guiding principles.