It'll be interesting to see if this potentially very useful framework can play out.

At least the article failed to dig deeper into this:

>> by narrowing down relatively complex molecules to a small subset. Ordinary chemical reactions already “select” certain products out of all the possible permutations because they have faster reaction rates.

Since the theory is about assembly all the way down the the bottom, does it seem the theory needs to account for the next level down (and below that from quantum foam to atoms), relative to this chemical selection process? Why is it, or what is it about the universe that causes this, or makes it inevitable?