C008 — Constitutive and governing constraints (top-down without spooky force)
Claim: Constitutive constraints are the interlocking relations that are a whole’s organization; governing constraints regulate parts so the whole stays viable — without violating conservation laws via ghost pushes.
Status: solid · Confidence: high · Module: M03 / M05
Plain-language restatement
Once a whole exists as a pattern of couplings, that pattern can steer parts by canalizing possibilities — not by adding mystery energy.
Example
Blood vessels canalize flow; they don’t replace the heart’s work as an extra cue-ball hit on every cell.
Concepts
Source anchors
- CCE ch. 6
- REPORT §§2.3, 3.4
- Talks: CL #21
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