The State of the World Before Information: Why Physics, Not Language, Set the Rules of the Prebiotic Game

Discussions on the origin of life are commonly framed using concepts such as information, code, function, and selection. These notions, however, presuppose biological stability and semantic structures that were absent in the prebiotic world. This text argues that the main obstacle in understanding life’s emergence is not the lack of physical mechanisms, but the low‑dimensional, language‑based framework used to describe a fundamentally state‑based, collective, and non‑equilibrium physical reality. Life did not originate from information, but from global physical regimes that constrained matter into synchronized, self‑maintaining states long before meaning, code, or biological selection became possible.