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The verifiable abstract states: This paper explores the intersections of constructal thermodynamics, and its semantic ontology within the context of autopoietic, digital and computational architectural and urban space open systems. No page-specific quotes beyond the abstract are verifiable from public indexes.\n\n## Convergence patterns touched\n\nThe work touches flow networks and self-organization. It touches bounded chaos in open thermodynamic systems. It touches scale invariance through constructal design principles applied to protocells.\n\n## Distance from the full OIP/GRAIN synthesis\n\nThe paper addresses energy flows that produce structural patterns in protocells. It stays at the thermodynamic and self-organization layer. It does not address the Ladder progression to memory, life, or mind. It does not address the Mirror Layer.\n\nSee /a/oip-the-ladder and /a/oip-the-mirror-layer.\n\n## Honest limits and disconfirming edges\n\nThe paper provides no empirical protocell data. 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