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The Seven Rules of Admissibility of the Communication Matrix: Minimum Relational Conditions for a Reality of Continual Becoming

David P Lowe

Published Aug 5, 2026• 0 citations
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This paper proposes the Seven Rules of Admissibility as a minimal ontological framework for understanding how a coherent reality of continual becoming is possible. Rather than replacing established physics, the framework identifies the relational conditions that appear necessary for distinguishable states, ordered transitions, maintained identity, accumulated coherence, transformation, and constrained interaction. The paper distinguishes between foundational admissibility (universal relational conditions), situational admissibility (locally conditioned possibilities), and realization (what actually occurs within a particular relational history). It argues that increasing complexity need not arise from an ever-growing number of fundamental principles, but may instead emerge through the accumulated consequences of a small set of consistently applied relational conditions. The Seven Rules are presented as an ontological proposal rather than a new physical theory. Existing empirical descriptions provided by quantum mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics, and the other physical sciences remain unchanged. The purpose of the paper is to examine the minimal relational architecture that would allow those physical descriptions to participate in one coherent and continuously developing reality. This paper serves as the first publication in a planned ontological sequence exploring admissibility, foundational ontology, persistence, accumulated reality, and the emergence of increasingly complex relational organization.

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10.5281/zenodo.21810686

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