A Minimal Relational Model for Active Informational Monism

This paper presents a minimal relational model for Active Informational Monism, a proposed ontological framework in which information, understood asdistinguishability, is treated as the most fundamental category of reality. The purpose of the paper is not to provide a completed physical theory, nor toderive the equations of contemporary physics. Rather, it develops a first formal scaffold capable of translating the core concepts of Active InformationalMonism into mathematically tractable objects. The model begins from a dynamic relational network rather than from pre-given spacetime. At each update step, the universe is represented as a weightedgraph whose nodes correspond to informational units, whose node states encode distinguishable conditions, and whose weighted relations encode thestrength of interaction or coupling between informational units. Time is interpreted as the ordering of network updates. Space is not assumed as a primitivecontainer, but is modeled as an emergent relational metric derived from the strength and structure of network connections. The model introduces two basic tendencies of informational activity: diffusion and contraction. Diffusion represents the outward transmission andredistribution of informational difference across the network. Contraction represents the strengthening of relations among compatible or mutuallyreinforcing informational units, leading to the formation of stable structures. Energy is defined as the intensity of informational and relational change.Matter is modeled as a localized, cohesive, temporally stable energy-structure. Mass is defined as a function of structured informational binding andstability. Entropy is interpreted as a macroscopic measure of informational distribution and disorder. This model is intentionally minimal. It should be understood as a formal sketch or toy model rather than a mature physical theory. Its value lies in providinga coherent mathematical starting point for future work on emergent spacetime, informational ontology, relational physics, and the possible formalization ofActive Informational Monism.