Tom Hendricks wrote:

As far as I can imagine what you mean, you made a mistake by including
"(waste)" in the line describing option #2.

Otherwise I can hardly complain about how deeply you have descriptively
boiled down the logic of life.

My similar but 'more EPT' (my tepid teasing that is actually true as far
as what EPT stands for) philosophical investment of emotional energy
produced thinking that amongst else became an attempt to identify the
minimal set of survival strategies available to single celled animals -
which resulted in something almost as "boiled-down".
That is, what I concluded was that "the four F's" [feeding, fleeing,
and (though not relevant to/not on repertoire of amoebas) fighting and
'fathering' (of daughter-cells), could with some confidence be extended
to include foraging and *freezing* (similar to the adaptive function of
both hibernation - whether general or specific/synaptic, though only
'general hibernation' is possible in the case of single-celled animals).