The Physics of Dissipative Coherence: Regulatory Solvency as a Formal Basis for Agency and State Space Viability

A unified thermodynamic framework proposing 'Regulatory Solvency' as the physical basis for agency. This project distinguishes between Passive Dissipative Systems (driven by gradients) and Active Dissipative Systems (driven by internal models), positing that the transition occurs at a critical 'Complexity Gap'.Version 3.1 introduces 'Structural Drag' —the compounding thermodynamic cost of historical constraints—to provide a physical basis for senescence and the limits of reversibility.We define health not as static equilibrium, but as 'Bounded Instability' within a topological Viability Kernel, supported by a Stabilization Triad. Includes a substrate-agnostic taxonomy of pathologies and proposed isomorphisms with Renormalization Group flows in QFT.