ACT barley seed lineage — can and can’t
YES for the viable barley lineage.
NO for the contrast lineages when digital heredity, repair, protected dormancy, or heritable variation are missing.
The main lineage can achieve genome copying under no-design laws because its hereditary information is digitally instantiated. It can also pass through protected dormancy, germinate, produce propagules, reproduce accurately, close its life cycle, and adaptively persist under saline selection. But the contrast lineages show the “can’t” side: non-digital heredity blocks accurate genome copying under no-design laws, lack of repair blocks accurate self-reproduction, lack of dormancy protection blocks lineage closure through a protected seed phase, and lack of heritable variation blocks adaptive evolution and thus blocks evolvability.
C1 OK - no-design laws are assumed
C2 OK - the viable genome can be copied under no-design laws
C3 OK - the viable seed can achieve protected dormancy
C4 OK - the viable seed can germinate
C5 OK - the viable adult can produce propagules
C6 OK - the viable lineage can achieve accurate self-reproduction
C7 OK - the viable lineage can achieve lineage closure
C8 OK - the viable lineage can exhibit heritable variation
C9 OK - the viable lineage can adaptively persist
C10 OK - the viable lineage is evolvable
C11 OK - the non-digital lineage cannot achieve accurate self-reproduction
C12 OK - the repair-deficient lineage cannot achieve accurate self-reproduction
C13 OK - the coatless lineage cannot achieve lineage closure through protected dormancy
C14 OK - the static lineage cannot achieve adaptive evolution
C15 OK - the static lineage cannot be an evolvable lineage