Abstract. Based on the idea that quantum physics plays a crucial role in the origin of life, in this paper a model of the likelihood of planetary "origin of life"-type events in terms of the quantum potential of a three-dimensional non-local quantum vacuum is proposed. In this picture, life emerges as a non-local global phenomenon expressed by a nonlocalized series of assembly steps or processes that lead directly and irreversibly to an evolvable living universe as a consequence of the non-local action of the quantum potential of the vacuum.

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