Addy Pross wrote a similar paper in 2011, but the neologism then was "dynamic kinetic stability" https://aeon.co/essays/paradoxes-of-stability-how-life-began-a

Addy Pross wrote a similar paper in 2011, but the neologism then was "dynamic kinetic stability" https://aeon.co/essays/paradoxes-of-stability-how-life-began-and-why-it-can-t-rest https://aeon.co/essays/paradoxes-of-stability-how-life-began... http://www.bgu.ac.il/~pross/PDF-10.pdf http://www.bgu.ac.il/~pross/PDF-10.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843823/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843823/ The upshot is that life is its own state of matter, essentially a self-stabilizing repeating pattern of matter and energy, like a waterfall or a chemical clock.