APS does not propose that living systems operate outside the laws of physics or chemistry.
Every biological process is physically realised. Metabolism depends upon chemical reactions. Development depends upon physical and biochemical interactions. Neural activity depends upon electrochemical processes. Nothing in biological organisation requires a suspension of physical law.
What distinguishes biology is not a separate set of laws but a distinct explanatory focus. Physics explains how matter and energy behave. Biology explains how physical processes become organised in ways that sustain viability, regulation, reproduction, development, and long-term persistence.
The existence of biological concepts such as function, adaptation, agency, and organised persistence does not imply that biology transcends physics. Rather, these concepts describe organisational phenomena that require biological explanation even though they are realised through physical processes.
APS therefore rejects both reductionist claims that biology can be exhausted by physical description and vitalist claims that life depends upon non-physical forces.
Biology does not transcend physics; it explains forms of organisation that physics alone does not describe.