Systems remain coherent only when they maintain a stable distinction between inside and outside.
Coherence requires a predictable rhythm for sensing, regeneration, and action.
Systems must be able to trace causes to effects.
Roles must remain stable and predictable.
Signals must remain anchored to the substrate they represent.
Systems require slack to restore structure faster than it is consumed.
Internal geometry must resist curvature‑induced drift.
Systems need deterministic fallback paths when coherence degrades.
Meaning‑containers must reduce the energy required for coordination.
Meaning must survive replication across generations.
Containers require physical or ecological grounding to resist mutation.
As containers scale, their stability decreases unless reinforced by invariants.
Meaning collapses when containers no longer match lived reality.
Every system has a maximum drift it can absorb before coherence fails.
Systems require mechanisms to counteract drift.
Symbolic systems naturally drift away from their physical referents.
When cumulative drift breaches the drift envelope, containers undergo irreversible failure.
Any signal‑bearing system can be projected into DSLO through a total mapping ΦS.
A system must preserve identity across transitions.
Planning and action must remain within load tolerance.
Systems must obey lawful transitions in external geometry.
State changes must preserve invariants and maintain bounded mutation velocity.