Philosophy of Discrete Being. Foundations and Structural Architecture

The Philosophy of Discrete Being (FDB) is a meta-ontological framework that models reality as a system of coherence-preserving localities updated through discrete transitions driven by a universal non-metric ordering source. Rather than assuming geometric continuity, FDB treats coherence, synchronization, and ontic-distance constraints as the primary structural conditions enabling persistence, identity, and interaction in distributed systems. The framework introduces four foundational components: (1) localities as minimal self-consistent units governed by internal metamodels; (2) the Global Tick Generator (GTG) as a universal discrete ordering mechanism independent of physical time; (3) ontic distance as a structural measure of compatibility between localities; and (4) acts of coherence as synchronization events aligning invariants and reducing structural divergence across GTG updates. This article provides a systematic overview of the structural architecture of FDB, including the emergence of temporal order, the dynamics of distributed coherence, and the formation of multi-local configurations. Connections to Coherent Observational Epistemology (COE) are clarified, showing how FDB supplies the ontological substrate while COE provides the epistemic constraints for inference across heterogeneous observational domains. The goal of this overview is not to establish a physical theory, but to outline the structural foundations of discrete ontology and to present FDB as a unifying framework for analyzing coherence-based organization in physical, informational, biological, and socio-technical systems.