Life, Information, and the Rendering Singularity: Absolute Potentiality, the Seed Cascade, P ̸= NP, and the Brain as Impedance Ladder in Array Cosmology

Abstract
Building on the consciousness framework of Paper XVI, we derive five additional
structural results from the Array Cosmology axioms {12, π, γ1, ln 2, φ}. First, the
Absolute Potentiality Λ∗ is identified with the σ = 1/2 state of the rendering function F(s), and its collapse to the physical universe is shown to follow from the least-action principle: the maintenance cost of perfect symmetry (∼ 1/Z → ∞)
exceeds the cost of existence (∼ Z), so “nothingness is more expensive than being.”
Second, the computational complexity separation P ̸= NP is derived as a direct
consequence of Z ̸= 0: zero rendering friction would eliminate the cost asymmetry between generation and verification, collapsing all potentiality into simultaneity and annihilating spacetime.