Fractal Onto-Praxis: Viability, Non-Closure, and the Conditions of Form

Fractal Onto-Praxis (FOP) is a foundational Synkyria text that specifies an architectural and conceptual grammar for thinking viability under finitude without reducing it to optimisation, technique, or moral narrative. It develops a field-first orientation: viability is treated as a prior condition of form and decision, rather than an outcome of improved performance. The text articulates non-closure as a structural condition (not a defect): under finite horizons, continuation must remain admissible without consuming the possibility of further admissible continuation. From this basis, FOP clarifies the separation of roles across levels (field/execution/trace), and motivates why responsibility and refusal cannot be assigned to components in isolation but emerge at the level of coupled structures. FOP is written to function as an instrument-family anchor for Synkyria: it does not prescribe methods, algorithms, or protocols, but provides the conditions under which later technical and experiential work can be evaluated for coherence under finitude. Keywords: viability; finite horizon; non-closure; conditions of form; field-first architecture; refusal; accountability; Fractal Onto–Praxis; Synkyria