Life as a Cosmological Decoding Event: Reframing Abiogenesis

The origin of life remains a fundamental scientific enigma. Despite Earth's rapid emergence of life and its pervasive biosphere, laboratory experiments have consistently failed to replicate life's spontaneous transition from non-living matter. This paper examines existing abiogenesis models, explores definitional challenges surrounding the concept of life, evaluates cosmological entropy, and proposes a novel hypothesis: life originated not purely through chemical synthesis but via a cosmological decoding event. Under this framework, the early universe briefly acted as an interpreter, allowing expression of pre-existing informational structures embedded within physical law. This interpretive capacity, now lost due to changing cosmic conditions, explains the ongoing failure to experimentally replicate abiogenesis. Thus, terrestrial life represents a durable record of a unique cosmological event—a message preserved from a universe that once possessed the means to decode itself.