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On the definition of a self-sustaining chemical reaction system and its role in heredity.
Paper summary
Proposes an operational definition of a self-sustaining chemical system that includes reaction networks, inflow, and initial seeds. Seed dependence links establishing the system to a proposed form of heredity.
Relevance to the project
Useful for specifying attainable conditions and boundaries when testing recurrence-supporting feedback. A system may depend on inflow while still contributing its own sustaining organization.
The proposed chemical definition is not the project's adopted definition of life.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pmc-pmc7541320
- Archived version
- Publisher/repository PDF linked by Europe PMC; see source
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc7541320/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.