A refined structural interpretation of life’s origin within Energy-Efficiency Theory: active maintenance as the decisive threshold, the membrane as the earliest broadly plausible buffer, and the first protocell as a nested buffering architecture. Operational indices are heuristic benchmarking tools, and proposed experiments discriminate buffered active maintenance from simpler driven persistence.
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