PRN-023 · approved history
T0 · 2026-09-14
Scope
Before searching: assess the existential claim that living cells can causally maintain viability and organisation through bounded material/energy exchange mechanisms. Nominate bacterial starvation ion homeostasis and redox-supported non-growth maintenance as test cases; examine growth arrest as an alternative survival strategy. No origin, inevitability, or programme-specific mechanism inferred.
Uncertainty
The exact future mechanism and operational meaning of maintained organisation remain unspecified. S38 was assessed from its repository abstract, limiting evaluation of controls. S37 supports ion-homeostasis maintenance through several perturbations, but its cell-size experiment does not distinguish surface-to-volume scaling from a constant death rate; the detailed model is less settled than the generic capacity [S37,S38].
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