HDC-CBC/CM Greater Cosmos: basal state and ontological closure of the Hypothesis of Correlational Disequilibrium

Author’s Preface — Volume HDC–CBC/CM This work does not introduce a new cosmological framework nor does it extend the dynamic formalism of HDC–CBC. It neither postulates additional physical entities, new degrees of freedom, nor observational mechanisms not previously contemplated. Its purpose is not to formulate new physics, but to clarify the ontological status of the basal level implicitly required by the framework. The objective of HDC–CBC/CM is strictly structural and epistemological: to assess whether the notion of a non-geometric basal state—referred to in the HDC–CBC corpus as the Greater Cosmos—can be eliminated from the framework without loss of variational, cosmological, or ontological coherence. The analysis does not aim to establish an independent ontology nor to attribute observable physical properties to this state, but rather to determine whether its explicit formulation is unavoidable in order to preserve the conceptual consistency of the model. The Greater Cosmos is not presented here as a universe, a physical space, or a dynamic domain. Nor is it introduced as a fundamental vacuum or as an underlying microscopic level. Its status is examined exclusively as a structural reference state, necessary to precisely delimit the domain of validity of emergent dynamics and to avoid improper extrapolations of the cosmological formalism. This volume constitutes the second work in the SSIP (Supplementary Structural the emphasis lies, once again, on the structural convergence among distinct arguments rather than on the isolated strength of any single one. The reader will not find here direct empirical claims nor maximalist ontological assertions. Instead, they will find a deliberately conservative analysis whose purpose is to answer a precise and limited question:Can the basal state of HDC–CBC be eliminated without destroying the ontological coherence of the framework?The remainder of the work is organized as a progressive response to this question.