Re-emergence from Indistinguishability: Constraint Reset and New Admissibility Within the Paton System
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper establishes the structural relationship between collapse and re-emergence within the Paton System. It demonstrates that collapse does not eliminate structure but removes distinguishability, dissolving identity and prior constraint relationships. Following collapse, constraint conditions reset to a minimal state from which new admissible configurations may arise. Re-emergence is therefore not recovery of prior structure but the formation of new structure under renewed constraint. This provides a unified structural interpretation of renewal across physical, biological, computational, and cognitive domains.
Author: Paton, Andrew John
Language: English
Topic: Complex Systems and Dynamics
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7147714242
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