Table 1.

When any of the parameters for genesity is too high or too low, the environment is not conducive to lyfe.

Parameter	Too Low	Too High
Energetic driving force	Unable to supply work needed to maintain complexity, growth, and innovation	Turbulence; immediately overcomes kinetic barriers, producing chaotic behavior
Informational driving force	No incentive for evolution; no need for a living system	Prohibitively complex environment requiring an impossibly sophisticated first, putative learning system
Combinatorial diversity	Set of available components cannot produce systems above biological complexity threshold	Component configuration space too random/dispersed for biological emergence