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Demetrius (2013) offers directionality theory as an alternative frame. Eigen (1971) and subsequent RNA-world researchers focus on autocatalytic networks and information coding, not just thermodynamics. Walker (2017) and others argue that entropy production alone cannot capture the specificity of life — information, causation, and agency require more than heat bounds. 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The \"self\" in self-replication is not in the atoms. It is in the classification scheme. This is powerful but slippery. 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The predecessor bound on far-from-equilibrium order.\n- [schrodinger-1944](/articles/schrodinger-1944) — *What Is Life?* The question England answered quantitatively.\n- [landauer-1961](/articles/landauer-1961) — The information-erasure bound England explicitly invokes.\n- convergence-c01 — Gradient dissipation. The pattern this source loads.\n- convergence-c06 — Information and entropy. The Landauer connection.\n- convergence-c12 — Autopoiesis. 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