ACT yeast self-reproduction
YES for the viable starter culture.
NO for accurate self-reproduction in the non-digital contrast lineage.
The starter genome is treated as a replicator storing digital hereditary information, while the cell machinery is treated as the vehicle that enables metabolism and copying support. Under no-design laws, digital information makes accurate genome copying possible. Because the replicator is accurate and paired with a vehicle, the whole starter cell qualifies as a self-reproducer. With a variation source and a selection environment, natural selection also becomes possible. By contrast, the non-digital lineage cannot support accurate genome copying under the same no-design-laws assumption, so it cannot sustain the same accurate self-reproduction or natural-selection story.
C1 OK - no-design laws are assumed
C2 OK - digital information is physically instantiated for the viable lineage
C3 OK - a viable replicator is present
C4 OK - a viable vehicle is present
C5 OK - accurate genome copying is possible for the viable lineage
C6 OK - the viable lineage has a replicator-plus-vehicle architecture
C7 OK - the starter cell qualifies as a self-reproducer
C8 OK - heritable variation is possible for the viable lineage
C9 OK - the viable starter culture can support a natural-selection lineage
C10 OK - the fitter viable variant is selected in the fermenter
C11 OK - the non-digital contrast genome cannot be copied accurately under no-design laws
C12 OK - the non-digital contrast cell cannot achieve accurate self-reproduction
C13 OK - the non-digital contrast cell cannot support the same natural-selection lineage