FSC in Biological Systems_ A Universal Control Architecture Underlying Adaptive Life

This paper argues that the Founder–Supporter–Critic (FSC) triadic architecture, originally introduced in Reflective Humanism (RH) as a multilayer model of reflection in cognitive and social systems, is also present—at minimal form—within biological organisms at the earliest emergence of autonomous agency. Drawing on evidence from systems biology, chemotaxis research, homeostatic regulation, and origins-of-life theory, I propose that FSC is not merely a psychological abstraction but a general control motif evolution repeatedly converges upon. The FSC triad—generative direction (F), stabilizing mechanism (S), corrective feedback (C)—captures the essential structure of adaptive behavior even in single-celled organisms, and is absent only in “non-behaving life” (viruses, prions, viroids). This universality suggests that reflection, in its minimal biological form, predates nervous systems and grounds higher-layer cognitive reflection. I argue that FSC constitutes a candidate for a universal regulatory architecture of life, bridging molecular biology, cognitive science, and the philosophy of agency.