A Unified Ontological Proof of P ≠ NP Via the Configurational-Information Framework (CIF)

I prove P ≠ NP by introducing four self-evident axioms grounded in information physics and set-theoretic definability. I construct the Configurational-Information Framework (CIF), which models computation as a physical struggle between state-space traversal (solving) and point-wise verification (checking). I demonstrate that any deterministic Turing machine operating in polynomial time is confined to a local observational neighborhood (the Observable Projection). Solving an NP-complete problem requires traversing an exponentially large Configurational Space (Ω) to locate a specific configuration. By the thermodynamic asymmetry of information erasure and the set-theoretic necessity of enumeration for pre-image existence, this traversal requires super-polynomial time. Therefore, the complexity classes are strictly separated: P ≠ NP.