The Foundational Principles of Energy-Efficiency Theory (EET): Axioms, Core Concepts, and Logical Architecture

Energy-Efficiency Theory (EET) provides a unified, first-principles ontology for understanding the operation and evolution of all systems—from physical particles, through biological organisms and human cognition, to civilization itself. Grounded in the single premise that energy is the sole ontology, EET reconstructs foundational concepts (energy dualism, constraint, energy-efficiency regulator, inverse entropy, etc.) and demonstrates that all persistent systems follow the same universal logic: they maintain steady states through dynamic competition between energy storage and release, governed by the principle of optimal energy-efficiency. This document (Public Version 2.0) presents the three causal-functional…