AMS Ontology v0.3 - Life, Templating, and Hierarchical Constraint

AMS Ontology v0.3

Life, Templating, and Hierarchical Constraint

Introduction

This post extends the Aetheric Magnetic Substrate (AMS) ontology to address a long-standing gap in physical explanation:
how non-conscious life can self-replicate and develop without invoking a local external agent or a hidden “runtime program.”

This is not an attempt to explain consciousness.
It is an attempt to explain biological replication and development at an ontological level, consistent with known physical regularities and without anthropomorphising matter.

Core Ontological Commitments (Recap)

The AMS ontology assumes:

  1. A continuous substrate (AMS) with lawful dynamics.
  2. Vortons — stable, topologically distinct configurations of that substrate.
  3. Allowed transitions between configurations governed by substrate laws.
  4. Energy gradients that prevent the system collapsing into equilibrium.

What follows builds strictly on these assumptions.

Vortons and Templating

Definition: Vorton Templating

Templating occurs when the presence of a vorton topology locally biases the AMS such that the lowest-cost (or highest-probability) subsequent configurations resemble that topology or a complementary form.

No agency is implied.

A template does not “instruct” replication.
It reshapes the local probability landscape.

This is a foundational mechanism, not an observational description.

Simple Replication: Minimal Life Mechanism

At the simplest level (e.g. bacteria-like systems), replication requires only:

  1. A stable vorton configuration (the template)
  2. Local coupling rules that bias formation of similar configurations
  3. A sustained energy pump keeping the system out of equilibrium

Replication occurs when:

The rate of template-induced formation exceeds the rate of decay.

This yields:

  • exponential growth,
  • variation (due to imperfect copying),
  • selection (due to differential stability),

without invoking purpose, intention, or control.

DNA as a Constraint Object (Key Extension)

Ontological Reclassification of DNA

In AMS terms:

DNA is not a program.
DNA is a heritable constraint map.

DNA does not execute instructions.
It restricts and enables which vorton-templating regimes may activate, and under what spatial, temporal, and energetic conditions.

Formally:

  • DNA narrows the space of allowed AMS evolutions
  • It gates templating, catalysis, and differentiation
  • It is persistent, copyable, and evolvable

This reclassification removes the need for:

  • a hidden interpreter,
  • a molecular “CPU,”
  • or a metaphysical homunculus.

Hierarchical Constraint and Complex Life

Simple organisms operate with a relatively flat constraint structure.

Complex organisms (e.g. mammals) are characterised by:

  • Hierarchical constraint activation
  • Phased development
  • Spatial gating
  • Progressive constraint narrowing

Development is not the execution of a plan.
It is the ordered activation and deactivation of templating regimes under increasingly tight constraints.

Differentiation is:

Not information addition, but freedom reduction.

Life as an Attractor Regime

Under this ontology:

  • Life is not a substance
  • Life is not a special force
  • Life is not a program

Life is a stable attractor regime in AMS state-space:

  • self-maintaining,
  • self-replicating,
  • hierarchically constrained,
  • energetically sustained.

Once the ontology exists, no continual local intervention is required.

Scope and Limits

This framework:

  • explains non-conscious biological replication and development
  • unifies chemistry, biology, and physics at a constraint level
  • avoids anthropomorphism and teleology

It does not:

  • explain consciousness
  • explain intentionality
  • deny metaphysical agency at a higher level

Those questions remain open — and rightly so.

Summary

  • Vortons are the fundamental stable entities
  • Templating is probability bias, not instruction
  • DNA is a constraint registry, not a program
  • Complex life arises through hierarchical constraint orchestration
  • Life is lawful, emergent, and self-perpetuating within the AMS ontology

This constitutes AMS Ontology v0.3.

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