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This research aims to explore how reproductive law affects replication during the life cycle of species, leading to extinction and loss of genetic diversity.

March 6, 2026Open Access

Fixation and Selection (II) — Reproductive Law Forecloses Replication / 固与选(二)——繁殖律封闭复制

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This research aims to explore how reproductive law affects replication during the life cycle of species, leading to extinction and loss of genetic diversity.
Investigated the fourth step (fixation) and first step (selection) in the Life Cycle Table paradigm.
Analyzed biological mechanisms affecting replication and selection.
Examined the threefold mechanisms of genetic path dependence, confirmation bias, and biological energy conservation.
Reproductive law leads to biological foreclosure, resulting in observable consequences such as species extinction.
Positive feedback loops from genetic path dependence and confirmation bias reinforce this foreclosure.
The only structural exit is found in Bridge 2, where offspring vary despite the organism's lack of choice.

Abstract

This series (Fixation and Selection) investigates the same phenomenon within each round of the Life Cycle Table: the fourth step (fixation) forecloses the first step (selection). This essay unfolds Round 2 (5DD–8DD): how reproductive law (8DD) forecloses replication (5DD). Round 2's foreclosure is biological — imperceptible but with observable consequences: species extinction, evolutionary dead ends, loss of genetic diversity. The threefold mechanism — genetic path dependence, confirmation bias in natural selection, biological energy conservation — forms a positive feedback loop. The only structural exit is Bridge 2 (8DD→9DD): reproductive law's remainder (offspring vary but the organism does not choose) gives rise to choice. 本系列(固与选)追问生命周期表每一轮内部的同一个现象:第四步(固)封闭第一步(选)。本篇展开第二轮(5DD-8DD):繁殖律(8DD)如何封闭复制(5DD)。第二轮的封闭是生物的——不可感知,但后果可观察:物种灭绝、进化死胡同、基因多样性丧失。三重机制——遗传路径依赖、自然选择的确认偏误、生物能量节约——形成正反馈循环。唯一的结构性出口是小桥2(8DD→9DD):繁殖律的余项(后代有差异但生命体自己不选)涌现出选择。 Keywords: Fixation and Selection, reproductive law, replication, evolution, path dependence, natural selection, genetics, Self-as-an-End License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Resource type: Preprint Language: Chinese / English (bilingual) Related identifiers: Is part of: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18808585 (Self-as-an-End Theory Series) Is continued by: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18859363 (Fixation and Selection I) References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18779382 (Philosophy as Subject-Activity) References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18818107 (Life Cycle Table Upper Volume) References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18818149 (Life Cycle Table Middle Volume) References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18818177 (Life Cycle Table Lower Volume) References: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18829136 (AI Consciousness Impossibility Theorem)

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