Boundary-Maintaining Self-Organizing Systems under Finite Capacity: Maintenance Load, Phase-C Collapse, and Invariant Selection

Yining Wu · 2026-05-17

Complex-systems bridge for Active Finite Distinction Systems. Translates the FDS formal core into a normal-form account of boundary-maintaining self-organization: structural complexity versus maintenance load, effective organizational capacity, deficit-driven growth, resource-gated pruning, externalization and environmental clogging, Phase-C catastrophic feedback, invariant-supported persistence, and a bounded self-organization exit theorem.

@misc{wu2026fdsn1,
  author = {Yining Wu},
  title = {Boundary-Maintaining Self-Organizing Systems under Finite Capacity: Maintenance Load, Phase-C Collapse, and Invariant Selection},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20253151},
}