Information-Energy-Situation Unity: The Foundation of Existence (v2.0)

This paper presents an ontological framework — Information-Energy-Situation Unity. Starting from three everyday examples (hard drives, genes, and rivers with their riverbeds), it demonstrates that information and energy are ontologically inseparable. However, information and energy alone are insufficient. Situation must be introduced — the overall state, pattern, tendency, or configuration of information-energy coupling. Situation is the reason a "thing" becomes a "thing," the key that transforms information and energy from scattered parts into a whole. Therefore, this paper proposes: Anything that exists is an inseparable coupling of information, energy, and situation. This paper redefines time as the causal, irreversible cyclic process of information, energy, and situation. It also defines space (the extensibility of informational differences), gravity (the curvature situation of the L4/L5 layers), and black holes (the extreme boundary situation of layers). The framework is cross-validated with the Seven Observations and Perception as the Dimensions of Existence. Falsifiability conditions are presented.