Abstract
This paper establishes the origin of life not as a chemical accident, but as a critical informational transition within the TAGC–LQG–RG framework. It is proposed that life constitutes a second ontological anchor, emerging when a physical system crosses a universal critical threshold $\kappa_{life} \approx 3.1$. At this limit, the erasure of functional information becomes physically incompatible with system viability.The derivation defines a strict hierarchy: upon the background of emergent spacetime ($\kappa_c \approx 2.04$), life acts as a further symmetry breaking ($\Delta\kappa_{bio} \approx 1.04$) that instills irreversible memory and a reinforced local arrow of time. Methodologically supported by renormalization group analysis, spectral stability of the informational Hessian, and the Landauer principle, the work follows a Lakatosian structure distinguishing a rigid theoretical core from auxiliary biological scenarios.The framework generates falsifiable predictions regarding non-chemical life and minimal energy dissipation. Ultimately, this synthesis unifies biology, physics, and cosmology under a reduced ontology, demonstrating that life is an inevitable phase of the universe driven by the irreversible collapse of critical information.



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