On the central role of indefinition pressure

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Authors: Sébastien Landrieu
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Abstract

This paper proposes a radical redefinition of information grounded in ontology rather than communication or computation. Instead of treating information as a positive content carried by symbols, messages, or observers, it identifies information with the capacity to survive a primordial pressure of indefinition. This pressure, acting prior to geometry, time, or causality, expresses the intrinsic instability of a state where no distinction can persist. Informational existence is therefore defined negatively: a configuration exists if and only if it resists collapse into indistinction.From this perspective, ontological admissibility thresholds emerge naturally. Only configurations capable of sustaining minimal internal coherence under indefinition can persist, leaving traces that constitute memory, structure, and ultimately observable reality. Geometry, laws, and physical regimes are not fundamental entities but stabilized consequences of informational survival.By placing the pressure of indefinition at the center of the concept of information, this work establishes a unified generative principle applicable across physics, computation, and cognition. Information is no longer a descriptive measure but an ontological process: the outcome of a continuous struggle against logical dissolution.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Philosophy and Theoretical Science Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry Complex Systems and Dynamics

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Journal / source
Figshare
Publication date
1 January 2026
Document type
Preprint