Autocatalytic sets — imported as mathematics, not analogy
This is Jonathan Hare's account, with its provenance shown. The person or organization named has not yet claimed or corrected it.
Theoretical biologist; Santa Fe Institute; founder of BIOS Group. His result on autocatalytic sets is one of the six formal frameworks this architecture imports whole.
A network of mutually catalyzing reactions crosses a threshold and becomes self-sustaining. Below it, nothing persists; above it, the set maintains itself without external input.
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The claim is explicitly about the topology of catalytic closure, not about biology. It holds wherever that topology obtains — which is why the Catalyst Network requires one trigger of sufficient standing rather than agreement among many parties.
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