Foundations: Hermann von Helmholtz (energy conservation, free energy) + bidirectional strengthening of Mass

[jonassiebler]

Summary

Next high-leverage physics anchor: Energy Conservation & Free Energy.

What lands

• New Foundations page: /foundations/helmholtz-energy-conservation-and-free-energy
  • Conservation of energy (Über die Erhaltung der Kraft, 1847)
  • Free energy as the portion still available for useful work
  • Distinction between total energy stock and extractable work potential
  • Reading protocol respected (Helmholtz first → Inspiration → IE additions)
• Foundations index updated (chronological placement 1847)
• Bidirectional strengthening of the Mass Core Concept page:
  • /framework/mass now explicitly anchors the conversion of rest mass into coherent agency under directed motion to the free-energy distinction

Explicit non-claims

• Isomorphy work only. No claim that personal or collective identity obeys the exact thermodynamic potentials of classical thermodynamics.
• The structural parallel (total stock vs still-extractable work potential; conversion under directed motion) is the working insight.
• No em-dashes; inline tags kept on one line with surrounding spaces.

Relation to other open work

• Directly strengthens Mass (conversion of rest potential into agency).
• Complements Prigogine (dissipative maintenance of free-energy gradients), Noether (conservation laws), and the option-value formalization on Time.

No merge until explicit approval.

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