Chemical evolution as a concrete scheme for naturalizing the relative-state of quantum mechanics

Abstract

The evolutionary onset of a reaction cycle such as an autocatalytic cycle requires a reliable framework for protecting the harbinger cycle, once it appears by any chance, against the hostile environments in the neighborhood. One natural candidate for protecting the fragile nascent cycle could be available from the operation of internal measurement envisioned in the relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics. Once every chemical reactant is taken to be relative to every other reactant in the act of measuring each other internally, the relative-state formulation provides the condition for favoring and protecting those events such that the reactions mediating between the reactants and the products may eventually form a reaction cycle.