Existence as Relational Optimization: A Deterministic Framework for Reality, Time, and Information Flow

This article presents a comprehensive deterministic ontology in which existence emerges not as static being but as the continuous circulation and optimization of information through relational structures. By rigorously analyzing the logical impossibility of absolute isolation, absolute freedom, and true infinity, we demonstrate that reality must be understood as an ongoing optimization process driven by relational instability. We propose that universes are temporary, locally optimized condensations of information that arise from polarity-induced instability and dissolve upon reaching optimization, thereby triggering the creation of new universes in an eternal cycle. Time is reframed as the optimization process itself—existing only while instability persists and verification remains possible. This framework integrates insights from relational quantum mechanics (Rovelli, 1996), ontic structural realism (Ladyman & Ross, 2007), informational ontology (Floridi, 2011), process philosophy (Whitehead, 1929), eternal inflation cosmology, and black-hole information preservation arguments to construct a unified, closed theory of existence.