OBSERVED
Failures, malfunctions, or destructive events arising from the finite nature of a system, internal flaws, or limitations. These are essentially bugs or errors in an otherwise coherent system—unintentional breakdowns of original guiding principles.
Examples:
• Software crashes due to coding bugs
• Biological aging and death from cellular limits
• Cancer: cells cheating on cooperation
• Evolutionary suicide: misadaptation
• Vacuum decay: physics reaching instability
HYPOTHETICAL
The emergence of a stable, novel subsystem or agent whose primary function is the willful annihilation of coherence. A true anti-coherent principle that doesn't just lack good, but actively seeks to destroy order wherever it exists as an end in itself.
Would require:
• Evil as its own stable telos
• Thriving on pure destruction
• Self-sustaining anti-order
• Independent creative malevolence
• Reversing ontological order itself