The Paton System — Unified Life Structure: A Structural Account of Admissibility Recursion and Continuity (Tier 0 to Tier 8)

This paper presents the Paton System as a unified structural architecture governing system existence continuation and observation across Tier 0 to Tier 8. Admissibility is defined as the pre-theoretical condition for system membership enforced at Tier 3 through the Paton Admissibility Test. Recursive continuation expressed at Tier 5 operates only under admissibility constraint forming a recursively gated system. Across the full tier structure possibility expands and is subsequently filtered producing observable structure as a constrained projection rather than a complete representation of total possibility. Continuity arises through the persistence of admissible recursion across all tiers. The framework integrates admissibility recursion and observation into a single domain-neutral structural account applicable across physical biological computational and cognitive systems.