COSMOBIOLOGY OF MIRNY. REPORT NO. 19: LIFE AS THE FIRST HYSTERESIS CYCLE: THE FIRST ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE SLOW PENDULUM BECAME INHERITABLE

The vault closes the last monolith of the series’ vertical axis. Based on the axiomatics A1–A5, Principle P, and the results of notes No. 16–18, the definition of life in the method’s dictionary is formulated: \emph{life is the first medium in which the slow loop has become heritable}.It is shown that in this dictionary, the definition of life coincides with the definition of hysteresis: living is what remembers where it came from.The formulation is based on three pillars from the literature: measured hysteresis in organic reaction networks of a prebiotic type (Ameta et al., Nature 2016), bistability as a necessary condition for protocell metabolism and the transition of life through the region of coexistence of two stable states, and the transition of a protocell between attractors as a mechanism of primary selection. Three falsifiers with a measurable form are put forward. All statuses are formulations; none has been experimentally verified by us.