Again, it was not personal. He was a nice enough person. Two good friends of mine did their Ph.D. work under him. One of them switched to another advisor because he did not believe what he had been doing in his lab was science. No living system resembles Fox's proteinoids in any way.
All living systems are far from equilibrium, and remain there until they are no longer living.
All known living systems are information rich, and are capable of passing that information on to progeny in an organized way. To claim that Fox's proteinoid microspheres are alive is, in short, not to understand what life is. Sidney Fox either did not understand what life is, or made such claims in his own self-interest. Some articles have appeared in scientific journals claiming to have generated self-replicating peptides or RNA strands, but they fail to provide a natural source for their compounds or an explanation of what fuels them. Scientists in this field are able to demonstrate that random sequences of RNA sometimes exhibit useful properties.