Negentropic Constants and the Ground of Order - Coherence Maintenance and Closure Preservation
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This paper develops negentropy constants as coherence-maintaining counterparts to entropy constants. While entropy constants measure projected closure degradation, negentropy constants govern the preservation, restoration, and intensification of closure across physical, biological, informational, mathematical, and cosmological domains. The central claim is that negentropy is not simply negative entropy. It is the ontological condition by which order persists before, within, and beyond projection. This reframing distinguishes local entropy reduction from deeper coherence maintenance and opens a constants theory of organization, invariance, life, intelligence, and structured emergence. Core Thesis Entropy constants measure the lawful degradation of closure under projection. Negentropy constants measure or condition the lawful maintenance of closure across projection. Entropy is projected closure degradation. Negentropy is ontological closure maintenance. They are not two ends of one pole; they are different levels of the closure architecture.
Author: Lilien, Philip
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: W7154487947
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