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.
Ali Mofradi (Thu,) studied this question.