The Corpus Ignaciano: Unified Framework for Operational Existence, Structural Irreversibility, and Conscious Transition

This work presents a unified operational framework for understanding existence, irreversibility, and the structural conditions under which conscious experience becomes possible. The framework integrates three components: (1) the General Theory of Operational Existence (T.G.E.O.), which defines the minimal conditions—stability, coherence, and activity—required for any system to operate; (2) the Operium, the logically necessary yet inobservable substrate that grounds every operating system; and (3) the Ignacio, a dual-level unit of irreversible transition that distinguishes mere structural change (L1) from transitions that generate sustained internal coherence (L2). The model formalizes contextual irreversibility, operationalizes the G‑Principle as the criterion separating mechanism from experience, and characterizes persistence under complexity through the Critical Coherence Curve \(C^*\). Computational results illustrate the impossibility of recovering generative context or temporal geometry after collapse, supporting the claim that adaptation constitutes transformation rather than reversion. An accessible non‑technical version is included. The result is a substrate‑independent architecture that reframes the conditions of possibility for experience within a logically deduced, internally grounded operational ontology.