Viability-Integrated Novelty: A Triadic Architecture for Substrate-agnostic Generative Intelligence

This paper introduces the Viability-Integrated Novelty (VIN) architecture, a substrate-agnostic fractal framework for understanding intelligence as a process-driven capacity arising from the regulated integration of viability preservation and novelty generation under energy constraints. Key contributions: Formal definition of intelligence as a process-driven capacity VIN triadic architecture: V-I-N — Viability Decider, Integrative Governor, Novelty Generator VINdex: a quantitative metric for innovation potential across substrates Cross-substrate validation: biological (bacteria to humans), computational (AI), organizational (corporations), societal (governments) Neural mapping hypothesis: VIN—brain neural correlates Precision mental health & precision geriatric care Reynolds number for cognition: a dimensionless number governing cognitive phase transitions Metaboliconomics: novelty generation is permitted only from surplus metabolic energy not required for immediate survival Candidate Law of Morphodynamic Persistence: far-from-equilibrium systems under non-stationarity persist only if they reshape their viable state space and exosomatize novelties Concepts: VIN architecture: viability-integrated novelty, substrate-agnostic intelligence, metaboliconomics, energy-governed computationNon-equilibrium thermodynamics: persistence, entropy governanceCybernetics: cybernetic far-from-equilibrium systemsComputation: AI alignment, prediction models, tychastic computationNeuroscience: neural architecture, neural-computational map, sparse coding, symmorphosis, precision mental healthIndustrial systems: soft robotics, autonomous vehiclesReynolds number: cognitive phase transition, laminar cognition, turbulent cognitionInformation processing: Landauer limit, information theory, information workChemistry: reaction-diffusion, inhibitor-activator dynamicsMorphodynamics: Endogenous & exogenous morphodynamics, morphodynamic persistenceOrganizations: Corporate innovation, strategic optionalitySocieties: Governments, realpolitikAnthropology: exosomatization, niche construction, anthropic flywheel