New effective capacity

Current approved assessment

Evidence position

ESTABLISHED / STRONGLY EVIDENCED

Review depth

BASELINE SURVEY

Evidence movement

Initial observation — no prior comparable baseline linked

Established for bounded effective capacity; low distinctive support for any additional programme explanation.

Why it sits here

Synthetic biology offers direct functional composition cases. A starting NOR circuit has a defined input–output relation; communicating assemblies implement other relations [S87]. This is the relevant comparator, rather than every possible bacterium or molecular arrangement.

Principal uncertainty

The candidate leaves the particular capacity and earlier comparator unspecified. The existential reading is well grounded, but an application needs an explicit operational boundary; absolute physical impossibility for the comparator has not been shown.

What would change the view?

A stronger architecture-specific or natural-history claim, or disagreement over whether its proposed readout is only a probability shift, would justify a focused comparator review after its discriminator is specified.

Launch-v1 depth

Baseline-only public wrapper. No deeper evidence artefacts are fabricated.

Approved history