The Law of Pathological Stability: A Dynamical Definition of Disease and Cure

This work proposes a unifying theoretical framework—the Law of Pathological Stability—which reframes disease not as the presence of abnormal components, but as the existence of stable pathological system states sustained by biological dynamics. We demonstrate that disease persistence is governed by the stability of pathological attractors within nonlinear biological systems, and that cure corresponds not to component elimination, but to irreversible destabilization of these attractors. This formulation is substrate-independent, scale-invariant, and disease-agnostic. It provides a precise definition of cure, explains relapse and resistance as dynamical inevitabilities rather than treatment failures, and establishes principled boundaries on curability.