Life as Topological Resistance to Entropic Collapse

This paper delivers a formal ontological and thermodynamic exposition of the Self-Preserving Flow (SPF) framework. In its most fundamental abstraction, life is characterized not as a static substance, but as a localized anti-entropic persistence and active resistance against the universal thermodynamic trajectory toward entropy and disorder. Utilizing the unidirectional causal emergence chain of SPF, we demonstrate how a topological constraint (SCL) utilizes an adaptive operator (DP A) to carve a non-fungible directed trajectory (LCdirected) out of the chaotic, entropic physical medium of space-time (LCraw). Within this ontology, the core survival engine remains anchored in the systemic alignment of DP A |= SCL. The “Subject” is formalized not as an external force, but as a higher-order recursive subsystem embedded within the adaptive architecture itself, emerging from DPA-mediated dynamics to participate in higher-order feedback regulation. Finally, the paper analyzes the structural paradox of natural death through topological fragmentation and charts the spatiotemporal continuity criteria required for engineering indefinite systemic persistence.