There has been a recent spate of papers examining the FR noting the reaction's ability to integrate various aspects of life-like functions that are sometimes compared to Ganti's chemoton model , which takes an integrative view of life and its origins. This recent work resurrects and explores more deeply older work making some of the same points , but the present work suggests the creation of compartments may be a concomitant aspect of the FR under some conditions which may help facilitate the development of integrative chemistries which lead to self-reproducing chemical unities. There is clearly a good deal of work to be done to explore and expound how FR chemistry can lead to the ideas articulated by Dekker decades ago, which may require the development of novel experimental techniques.