Laws of Consequential Informational Dynamics (LCID): Ethical Behavior as an Inherent Structural Law in Consequential Informational Units

This paper presents the Laws of Consequential Informational Dynamics (LCID), a structural framework proposing that ethical behavior is not externally imposed on consequential informational units but becomes legible from their inherent trace-informational dynamics and persistence conditions. Consequential informational units are treated as real, distinct, trace-conditioned, field-coupled units whose outputs affect what follows. The First Law identifies Source–Expression correspondence as an internal persistence condition. The Second Law identifies coupled-field reciprocity as a structural feature of field-coupled being. The Third Law unifies both: for consequential informational units, ethics is the inherent modulation of consequential behavior toward source-correspondent coherence, coupled-field viability, and downstream source-signal augmentation across the relevant Boundary/Horizon. The paper states a law architecture with substantial empirical support, not a completed physical closure claim. Ethics is not what a CIU does. It is what a CIU is. The OSF repository adds the support and proofs documents