BU17 Self-Recognition and Indexability under Fixed Boundary Coherence

Abstract This paper develops Self-Recognition and Indexability under Fixed Boundary Coherence as a structural account of how a local ordered system acquires stable self-readability under one fixed admissibility background. Its central claim is that self-recognition is neither an extra entity nor an inner luminous substance detached from matter. Under fixed boundary coherence, self-recognition standing arises when a local high-order structure can continuously bind its own states into a readable, return-flow-stabilized, and settlement-capable loop. In this framework, indexability is not mere naming. It is the structural condition under which a system can stably point back to its own state, preserve that pointing across updates, and reinsert the result into one coherent causal-feedback chain. The paper formalizes self-recognition as a boundary-consistent self-indexing capacity rather than a vague introspective metaphor. It argues that not every complex or highly organized system qualifies. Dense organization alone is insufficient; self-recognition standing additionally requires sustained self-readability, internal return-flow, and persistence under one fixed boundary regime. This yields a sharper distinction between ordered complexity and true self-indexing structure. The result is a harder and more operational foundation for later work on consciousness, low-entropy self-realization, and higher-order ordered unfolding. Self-recognition is thus reclassified from a soft phenomenological notion into a rigorous structural standing within one globally coherent universe.