Origins of life: origins of the Powers

I got quite excited when I read this article: The secret of life won't be cooked up in a chemistry lab | Paul Davies | Comment is free | The Guardian. One of the things that I have said in my recent presentations on corporisations, when I'm connecting up the theological/scriptural notions of the Powers with the emergent properties of much of the natural world and then applying the latter to the former, is that I am, in effect, proposing that there is a "creational trajectory" of emergence which doesn't culminate in humans so much as reaches beyond us and includes us. -We are held together in corporisations by mimetic instincts, shared projects, language and semiosis and these bonds along with the feedback provided by among other things, self-awareness and reflection by human beings provide the conditions for further living entities to emerge: the Powers; corporisations. The trajectory is of each 'layer' of emergent things to form a 'substrate' for the emergence of yet another layer of entities.

Anyway, in the article I'm pointing to, Paul Davis writes that he and Sara Walker are proposing:

... that the significant property of biological information is not its complexity, great though that may be, but the way it is organised hierarchically. In all physical systems there is a flow of information from the bottom upwards, in the sense that the components of a system serve to determine how the system as a whole behaves. ... In living organisms, this pattern of bottom-up information flow mingles with the inverse – top-down information flow – so that what happens at the local level can depend on the global environment, as well as vice versa ... Walker and I propose that the key transition on the road to life occurred when top-down information flow first predominated. Based on simple mathematical models, we think it may have happened suddenly, analogously to a heated gas abruptly bursting into flame.

Applying this in my 'creational trajectory' would suggest that where trans-human entities formed of human agglomerations emerge, then they do so because the 'top-down information flow' reaches a critical point. Given that the 'top-down' thing is about exercising control and is composed, at least in part, of human mentalities interacting, then we have the makings of corporisations: the Powers that Be.