SΔϕ-41 — Ethical Minimum: The Triadic Conditions of Transition (v1.0)

This working paper develops a minimal account of ethics within the SΔϕ Formalism. Rather than defining ethics through inherited moral vocabularies alone—such as virtue, duty, law, sin, or the good—it argues that ethics begins at a lower operational level: where transition is no longer neutral. Ethics appears wherever one system’s becoming is no longer solely its own. From this starting point, the paper introduces the Ethical Triad: A system may affirm its own transition. A system may refuse its own transition. No system may impose transition on another system. These three conditions are proposed as the minimum grammar of coexistence. The first secures the legitimacy of self-authored becoming. The second…