Ḥəluwnät Fəṭrät Fənṭan: The Science of Architectural Maintained Existence

This work introduces Architectural Maintained Existence, a proposed scientific framework for studying persistence as a primary phenomenon across physical, biological, informational, and social systems.

The framework is formally named ሕልውነት ፍጥረት ፍንጣን (Ḥəluwnät Fəṭrät Fənṭan), a term derived from classical Geʽez, the ancient scholarly language of Ethiopia. In this terminology, ሕልውነት (ḥəluwnät) denotes sustained or maintained being, ፍጥረት (fəṭrät) denotes continuous formation rather than one-time creation, and ፍንጣን (fənṭan) denotes systematic investigation. In modern Amharic usage, the same concepts correspond to ህልውና (existence), ፍጠር (formation), and ጥናት (study). The Geʽez naming is used solely as conceptual and linguistic heritage, following historical precedent in which foundational sciences adopted classical languages.

The scientific objective of this work is to formalize why structured systems persist against universal defaults, including entropy, equilibrium, fragmentation, and regulatory overload. Existing sciences describe system behavior but generally treat persistence as an implicit assumption. This framework instead defines persistence as a measurable architectural condition.

it is built upon five axioms:
(1) conservation laws as global architectural constraints (ledger primacy);
(2) ordered states as costly non-equilibrium configurations (default dominance);
(3) evaluative filtering of external influence (gated autonomy);
(4) super-linear scaling of regulatory burden with system throughput; and
(5) geometric deformation of future possibility space through selective engagement.

These axioms converge in a quantitative viability inequality, which expresses persistence as a balance between adaptive capacity, accumulated rigidity, and regulatory overhead. The framework provides operational definitions for all components and demonstrates predictive performance across multiple domains, including immune system dynamics, cancer metastasis, infrastructure failure, and organizational collapse.

Architectural Maintained Existence does not propose new physical laws or entities. Rather, it studies the structural consequences already implied by conservation laws, thermodynamics, and information theory. The framework is compatible with existing physics and biology while offering a unified mathematical language for persistence, fragility, and collapse across scales.

This work establishes persistence as a legitimate scientific object of study and provides a foundation for a cross-disciplinary science of maintained existence.