G., Guérineau de Lamérie: A Grammar of Thresholds: A Stratified Ontology from Physics to Life

This document proposes a stratified ontology that articulates, under a single conceptual grammar, what fundamental physics, autopoietic biology, and contemporary cognitive science say about reality at their different scales. The initial motivation arises from a gap in the contemporary metaphysical landscape: ontic structural realism illuminates physics but struggles to account for the living; process ontologies capture the dynamics of becoming but struggle to articulate their intuitions with con