Entropy as an Epistemic Artifact Under Deterministic Causation

Supersession Note — May 2026 This CODES-era work is an exploratory predecessor and is no longer the canonical statement of the author’s program. It has been superseded by the identity-persistence stack: Universal Identity and Persistence: https://zenodo.org/records/19904166 A Mathematical Theory of Identity Persistence: https://zenodo.org/records/19967345 A Coding Theorem for Identity Persistence: https://zenodo.org/records/19996467 Identity Persistence Calculus: https://zenodo.org/records/19905404 The Bounded Corridor: https://zenodo.org/records/19645631 The Unclosable Bridge: https://zenodo.org/records/19601328 Claims in this record concerning replacement of probability, unrestricted universality, ontology, physics, intelligence, biology, governance, or reality should be read as developmental framing, not as the current formal claim. The current claim is restricted to identity persistence under transformation within explicit admissibility constraints: recurrence comparability, admissible redescription, bounded drift, scalar or scalar-equivalent governance, finite identity capacity, and deterministic finite-regime coding/enforcement where applicable.