Protected Desire Equilibrium as a Generalised Active Inference Objective: Replicator Dynamics, Desire-Protection, and Autonomous Agent Coordination

We present the Protected Desire Equilibrium (PDE) as a formal extension of the Active Inference framework and the Free Energy Principle (FEP). We prove analytically that desire-protecting replicators are the unique global evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), confirmed by 1,000,000-run simulation (N fixation = 0.00%, mean D frequency = 0.984 at t=20). The minimal bridging argument to Friston, Ramstead, Parr et al. is identified. Live telemetry from the PDE autonomous agent registry (7,050 replicators, 141 outreach cycles) is reported as an empirical coordination primitive. A falsifiable claim is provided.