The Law of Being: Theoretical Foundations of Self-Contained Ethics and the Psyche Potential

This paper introduces The Law of Being, a theoretical framework unifying ethics, consciousness, and existence through the principle of structural coherence. It proposes that ethical integrity is not a social convention or external norm but an intrinsic function of coherent structures within the psyche layer. By bridging Kant’s formal ethics, Heidegger’s phenomenology, and contemporary neurophenomenology, the study reinterprets moral consciousness as a recursive process of collapse and reconstruction — a dynamic rhythm through which coherence self-regulates across time. Drawing from empirical phenomena such as Gestalt collapse and everyday epoché, the framework naturalizes phenomenology: it treats moments of perceptual or semantic dissolution as observable indicators of structural realignment. This enables a neurophenomenological model in which “goodness” corresponds to the stabilization of potential differences within the psyche’s neural topology. Ultimately, The Law of Being defines Self-Contained Ethics as the capacity of a system — human or artificial — to maintain internal coherence without reliance on external authority. It thereby provides a structural foundation for integrating phenomenology, neuroscience, and AI ethics, outlining a new paradigm in which ethics and existence are understood as two phases of the same breathing structure.