Philosophy of Discrete Being: Manifesto Executive Overview

This work presents the Executive Overview of the Philosophy of Discrete Being (FDB) — a theoretical framework that approaches ontology, structure, and order from the perspective of discrete locality rather than continuity. The manifesto develops the concepts of the act of coherence, discrete localities, structural invariants, and the FDB metamodel, which together form a foundation for describing how consistent structures arise and persist without presupposing continuous time, global causality, or fixed backgrounds. FDB proposes that coherence — not causation — is the fundamental relation through which discrete elements join into stable localities. The framework outlines how acts of coherence generate structure, how invariants govern stability, and how discrete systems can be modeled and reasoned about without reliance on continuous mathematics. The manifesto also articulates the methodological implications for system architecture, simulation, and modeling languages, offering an ontological basis for discrete, event-driven, and invariant-centric approaches to complex systems. This edition provides the consolidated conceptual foundation for the forthcoming FDB series.