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Genetic Information as a "Chord" of Chemical Oscillations: Emergence of Catalyst-RNA Systems Driven by Superposed Rhythms

Takeshi Ishida

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Chemical oscillations can bias binary polymer growth to establish catalytic loops and record functional sequences

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This paper presents a simulation of early molecular systems in which two internal chemical oscillators create rhythms that influence the choice of binary units as polymers elongate. The model incorporates protection and re-amplification of useful sequences to show that this bias produces catalytic networks and information-bearing molecules more reliably than random selection does. A reader would care because it links simple oscillating chemistry to the coupled origin of catalysis and genetic information through a concrete computational demonstration. The results hold across sensitivity tests with different random seeds.

Core claim

The central discovery is that superposing rhythms from two Lotka-Volterra oscillators during polymer elongation provides a temporal bias for 0/1 selection that enables the formation of interdependent catalyst-RNA systems, including catalytic loops, primordial tRNAs, and nucleic acids that record and amplify them, outperforming random models in loop establishment, functional molecule accumulation, polymer length, and entropy reduction.

What carries the argument

The synthesis of internal oscillations that supplies a temporal bias for monomer selection in polymer elongation, combined with mechanisms for protecting, recording, and re-amplifying functional sequences.

Load-bearing premise

That the internal oscillations generate a dependable temporal signal for biasing sequence choices and that the simplified rules suffice to protect and replicate functional sequences without degradation.

What would settle it

A direct comparison in which the oscillation bias is turned off but all other mechanisms like sequence protection and re-amplification are retained; if the catalytic loop formation rate then equals that of the random model, the role of the rhythms would be falsified.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic overview of the model. A population of virtual protocells (e.g., 50 cells) evolves based on fitness. Each protocell contains two types of virtual monomers. While random natural polymerization and decomposition rarely produce meaningful sequences, the introduction of two internal chemical oscillators and polymerization that probabilistically synchronizes with these [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_f… view at source ↗
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A central challenge in the origin of life is understanding how catalytic peptide-like polymers and information-bearing nucleic acid-like polymers emerged as an interde-pendent system. This study constructs a primordial cognitive model incorporating two internal Lotka-Volterra chemical oscillators to investigate, through simulation, whether a catalytic loop, primordial tRNAs, and nucleic acids that record and amplify them, can form through the interaction of polymers represented by binary (0/1) sequences. In this model, a mechanism was introduced where the synthesis of internal oscillations pro-vides a temporal bias for 0/1 selection during polymer elongation, while generated functional sequences are protected, recorded, and re-amplified. Simulation results demonstrated that the proposed cognitive model significantly outperformed a contrast model based on random 0/1 selection in terms of the establishment rate of catalytic loops, the accumulation of functional molecules, polymer elongation, and the reduction of Shannon entropy in sequence distribution. Furthermore, this superiority was generally maintained across sensitivity analyses, including batch calculations with different ran-dom seeds. While this study is a computational model based on abstract binary se-quences and simplified translation/replication rules rather than a direct reconstruction of life's origin, it provides a working hypothesis for the interdependent emergence of catalytic function and information retention by demonstrating that internal oscillations can bias sequence exploration within a framework linking autocatalytic networks, re-cording, and group selection. Future research must verify the generality and empirical validity of this framework by expanding monomer types, evolving into multi-oscillator systems, and establishing correspondences with compartmentalized experimental sys-tems.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes a primordial cognitive model incorporating two internal Lotka-Volterra chemical oscillators that supply a temporal bias for 0/1 selection during elongation of binary-sequence polymers. Functional sequences receive explicit protection, recording, and re-amplification under simplified translation/replication rules. Simulations show the model outperforms a random 0/1-selection contrast model in catalytic-loop establishment rate, functional-molecule accumulation, polymer elongation, and Shannon-entropy reduction in sequence distributions; the advantage persists across sensitivity runs with varied random seeds. The work offers a working hypothesis for the co-emergence of catalytic function and information retention via superposed rhythms.

Significance. If the reported simulation outcomes prove robust, the paper supplies a concrete computational framework that couples autocatalytic networks, internal oscillations, and explicit recording/amplification steps, thereby generating a falsifiable hypothesis for how informational and catalytic polymers could become interdependent. The systematic sensitivity analyses with multiple random seeds constitute a methodological strength that supports reproducibility within the model's abstract setting.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract and Results sections: the central claim of statistically significant outperformance is presented without quantitative parameter values (Lotka-Volterra rates, bias strength, protection/amplification rates), without reported effect sizes, and without description of the statistical tests used to compare the oscillator model against the random baseline. Because the headline result rests entirely on these simulation outcomes, the absence of these details prevents independent verification of robustness.
  2. Model Description and Contrast Model paragraph: it is not stated whether the random 0/1-selection contrast model receives the same protection, recording, and re-amplification rules applied to functional sequences in the oscillator model. If protection is withheld from the contrast, the reported gains in loop formation and entropy reduction cannot be attributed specifically to the temporal bias supplied by the superposed Lotka-Volterra oscillators rather than to the protection mechanism itself.
minor comments (2)
  1. Abstract: typographical line-break artifacts appear (interde-pendent, pro-vides, se-quences, re-cording); these should be removed.
  2. Methods/Implementation: the exact discrete-time update rules for the two Lotka-Volterra oscillators and the precise mapping from oscillator phase to 0/1 selection probability are not supplied; adding the governing equations or pseudocode would improve reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments, which highlight important areas for improving the clarity, completeness, and verifiability of our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below and will make the necessary revisions to strengthen the presentation of our simulation results and model description.

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  1. Referee: Abstract and Results sections: the central claim of statistically significant outperformance is presented without quantitative parameter values (Lotka-Volterra rates, bias strength, protection/amplification rates), without reported effect sizes, and without description of the statistical tests used to compare the oscillator model against the random baseline. Because the headline result rests entirely on these simulation outcomes, the absence of these details prevents independent verification of robustness.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and results sections would benefit from greater quantitative detail to support independent verification. The specific Lotka-Volterra rates, bias strength, and protection/amplification rates are defined in the Methods section, along with the simulation parameters. We will revise the abstract and results to explicitly summarize these values, report effect sizes for the key performance metrics (catalytic loop establishment, functional molecule accumulation, polymer length, and entropy reduction), and describe the statistical tests employed (including the type of test, sample sizes from the sensitivity runs, and any multiple-comparison corrections). These additions will be incorporated without altering the core findings. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Model Description and Contrast Model paragraph: it is not stated whether the random 0/1-selection contrast model receives the same protection, recording, and re-amplification rules applied to functional sequences in the oscillator model. If protection is withheld from the contrast, the reported gains in loop formation and entropy reduction cannot be attributed specifically to the temporal bias supplied by the superposed Lotka-Volterra oscillators rather than to the protection mechanism itself.

    Authors: We apologize for the lack of explicit statement on this point. The random 0/1-selection contrast model applies identical protection, recording, and re-amplification rules to functional sequences; the sole difference is the absence of the temporal bias from the superposed Lotka-Volterra oscillators during the 0/1 selection step in polymer elongation. We will revise the Model Description and Contrast Model paragraph to state this equivalence clearly, thereby ensuring that the reported advantages are attributable specifically to the oscillatory bias rather than the protection mechanism. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: simulation results compared to independent random control

full rationale

The paper describes a simulation in which two Lotka-Volterra oscillators supply a temporal bias for 0/1 monomer selection during polymer elongation, while separately specifying protection, recording, and re-amplification rules for functional sequences. Outcomes are evaluated against an explicit contrast model that performs random 0/1 selection. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are invoked that would make the reported superiority (catalytic-loop establishment, entropy reduction, etc.) equivalent to the model's own inputs by construction. The central claim therefore rests on an external benchmark rather than on any definitional or self-referential reduction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

3 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The model rests on numerous domain assumptions about how oscillations translate into sequence bias and how functional sequences are protected and copied; these are not derived from first principles but introduced to make the simulation tractable.

free parameters (3)
  • Lotka-Volterra oscillator parameters
    Amplitude, frequency, and coupling strengths of the two internal oscillators are required to generate the temporal bias but are not specified in the abstract.
  • selection bias strength
    The degree to which oscillator phase influences 0/1 choice during elongation is a tunable parameter that directly affects the reported performance difference.
  • protection and amplification rates
    Rates at which catalytic-loop sequences are protected from degradation and re-amplified are introduced to close the functional loop and are not derived from external data.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Binary (0/1) sequences can represent primordial polymers with catalytic and informational properties under simplified translation/replication rules.
    Invoked throughout the model construction to allow simulation of sequence evolution without real chemistry.
  • domain assumption Internal chemical oscillations can be treated as independent Lotka-Volterra systems whose phases provide a temporal selection bias.
    Stated as the core mechanism linking rhythms to sequence choice.

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