BOOK XIV of XLII — LIFE (The Unified Cosmology, Second Edition)

This book develops an axiomatic account of Life as the first autonomous mode of Being. It defines Life as a self‑maintaining Form that generates its own Boundary, Biological Time, and persistence through continuous internal processes. The work formalizes the roles of Metabolism, Autopoiesis, Homeostasis, and the Vital Gradient as the energetic, structural, regulatory, and dynamical bases of living systems. Through definitions, axioms, and demonstrated propositions, the book presents Life as the unity of structure and process, of autonomy and exchange, and of interior temporality and form.