0310 What happens next?

The fatty acid serves as the emergent being_2b, because the carboxylic-acid side tends to favor the water and the alkane side stays in the oil droplet.

0311 In short, fatty acid is the emergent being_2b that has the potential of stabilizing oil droplets_1c, allowing them to “feed off” or “absorb” oil from less stable oil droplets_2c.

0312 Does Sharov’s scenario, as far as it goes, fit the Deacon-Tabaczek interscope?

Indeed, it does.

0313 Does this interscope associate to the S&T noumenal overlay?

Yes, it does.

0314 Well, so far so good.

Nevertheless, there is a long way to go to get to a prokaryotic cell (as noted in sections 5.8-5.10 of Semiotic Agency and 9.6-9.8 of Pathways).

For example, prokaryotic cells replicate themselves through cell division.  But, the replication is nothing like this oil droplet example.  That is because DNA plays a role in prokaryotic cell division.  Biologist call this type of replication, “template based”.

Also, there is the issue of the cell membrane.  The cell membrane is a lipid bilayer, consisting of phosphorylated fatty acids.  In other words, fatty acids may stabilize an oil droplet.  Once those fatty acids have a phosphate attached to them, then their phosphates love water so much that the alkane-portion of the molecule is excluded from the water so strongly that a bilayer is stable.

0315 Also, there is the formalization of pigments that capture sunlight in order to produce energy-rich sugar molecules.  Today, photosynthesis absorbs carbon dioxide (gas) and releases oxygen (gas).  In the early Earth, photosynthesis does the same.

Here is the balanced chemical reaction.