IOInformational Ontology
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V — Value

In Informational Ontology, value is not a preference or moral claim. It is a persistence constraint: a condition that must remain satisfied for the system to keep existing.

The diagram below is intentionally simple. It is an intuition builder, not a proof.

V — Value as a Persistence Constraint

failure regionfailure regioninternal state over timesafe band (persistence satisfied)exits band → fails

Value (V) in IO is not preference or desire. It is the condition that must remain satisfied for the system to continue.

The system does not “aim” for the band — it simply ceases to persist when the constraint is violated.