Biological Individuality as Executed Closure: Why No Two Organisms Are Identical

Read full text
Authors: John Francis Osborne
Cited by: 0

Abstract

Biological individuality is commonly attributed to environmental variation, stochastic development, or imperfect replication. This work provides a closure-based explanation of biological non-identity within the ψ₀–OCM. Biological growth is shown to be the execution of a stabilized closure attractor along an irreversible trajectory rather than convergence to a unique state. Branching and geometry arise only as downstream encodings of this execution. Individuality follows necessarily as the preserved history of closure under constraint, without invoking randomness, teleology, or additional generative principles.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Complex Systems and Dynamics Philosophy and History of Science Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
10 February 2026
Language
EN