The Unstoppable Ascent: Life, Evolution and Progress as Cosmic Imperatives in the Relational Coherence Framework

This paper expounds on the implications of the Relational Ontology Framework (ROF) and Relational Coherence Theory (RCT) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16423366 which argue that reality is essentially a dynamic web of relationships operated by the non-associative algebra of octonions, the Primordial Relational Field (PRF). In this context, the phenomena of life, evolution and conscious progress cannot be considered as accidental happenings but are the mandatory, mathematically determined consequences of the inherent dynamics of the field. We claim that this increase in complexity is not only natural instigated by an innate engine of creativity in the algebraic tangles of the PRF, but irreversible, as constrained by topological conservation laws, thermodynamic requirements and broken symmetries.