I23a. VITOLOGICAL CROSS-DOMAIN REGENERATION AUDIT (VCDRA): A PREDEFINED METHOD FOR TESTING CRSL(REGENERATION) ACROSS SYSTEMS OF DIFFERENT NATURE

Regeneration, repair, recovery, self-healing, resilience, adaptation, and restoration toward admissible states are studied across numerous scientific fields, from cell biology and physiology to ecology, engineering, software systems, and organizational science. Terminological similarity across domains, however, does not by itself establish the existence of a shared regularity. General System Theory already addressed formal isomorphisms across different classes of systems; cybernetics formalized feedback; Viability Theory formalized admissible regions and the restoration of viability; resilience science addressed disturbance and recovery; and self-healing engineering developed architectures for fault detection and functional restoration. The scientific task of Vitology therefore cannot consist merely in renaming these known processes, but in testing a more specific architecture. This paper introduces the Vitological Cross-Domain Regeneration Audit (VCDRA), a predefined methodology for testing CRSL(Regeneration), the Candidate Regularity of the Source of Life concerning regeneration. VCDRA distinguishes between the proposed First Principle, the formalized candidate regularity, domain-specific mechanisms, and observable manifestations. The method predefines fourteen domains of analysis, a common seventeen-field audit matrix, six classes of recovery R1–R6, and ten methodological gates G0–G9. The extended Vitological sequence is defined as: D → F → C → R → RC → TG → RRR → Vₜ₊₁ where disturbance is linked not only to recovery, but also to recovery cost, transfer of consequences beyond the local analytical boundary, residual capacity for repeated recovery, and viability in the next cycle. A structured prior-art audit indicates that each component has important scientific predecessors. Accordingly, the candidate residual novelty of VCDRA is not attributed to feedback, resilience, recovery, reserve, or self-healing as isolated concepts, but to their predefined integration into a common falsifiable cross-domain procedure for testing CRSL. The paper also specifies conditions under which the proposed regularity should be restricted or rejected. Even strong cross-domain support for CRSL(Regeneration) is not interpreted as direct empirical proof of the ontological status of the Source of Life. For stable presentation of multidimensional methodological records, the work additionally formalizes the Vitological Columnar Format (VCF): a fixed-field vertical text architecture intended to preserve semantic correspondence and readability independently of page width and rendering environment. Keywords: Vitology; viability; regeneration; CRSL(Regeneration); Source of Life; Harmony Norm; VCDRA; feedback; Residual Recovery Reserve; Transfer Gap; resilience; self-healing; next-cycle viability; Vitological Columnar Format; VCF.