Organizational Agency
The capacity for systems to guide behavior and organize material substrates through structural influence, efficiency advantages, and energetic favorability rather than through meaning-making or intentional persuasion. Any system exhibiting non-entropic organization of matter/energy/information possesses measurable organizational agency, which operates through stabilization mechanisms and template effects. Organizational agency is distinguished from semantic agency, which requires the specific developmental sequence of thermodynamic coupling → autocatalytic networks → autopoietic organization → proto-semantic processing.
Organizational Information
Intermediate-level information patterns that structure the arrangement and interaction of material components, representing stabilized organizational templates that coordinate complex system behavior.
Outward Stabilization Propensity
A fundamental principle where self-stabilizing patterns extend their organizational influence to their surrounding environment. This process operates through structural constraint propagation, where a pattern imposes its inherent structure onto a receptive substrate. It is not merely passive resistance but an active extension of order that functions through mechanisms like boundary stabilization, template effects, and structural recruitment. This propensity drives both information system expansion and agent-environment coupling.