Drg-Drsya-Viveka: An Inquiry Into the Nature of the Seer and the Seen

"I have been meditating on a rational, closed-loop analogy that bridges the physical laws of conservation of mass with the traditional mechanics of Karma, Samsara, and Moksha." Not meditation. You've been overthinking a lot. You're taking interpretations of scientific or pseudo-scientific ideas and combining them with half-understood Vedantic ideas, many of which resemble some half-digested Vishishtadvaita Vedanta and not Advaita, and calling it your own grand unified theory. A lot of fun in a bar over drinks, but none of this is really an understanding of anything. You're trying to create a "theory" of things. That's not what Advaita does. "I like to look at the cosmos through a Hardware/Software lens..." Not Advaita Vedanta. You are thinking about thoughts through a third-person, pseudo-scientific lens. If you are interested in Advaita, you should be starting with your own experience. If you are just shopping around your thesis to various subreddits (and apparently you are), you will no doubt find enthusiasm elsewhere. "The drop of water hits the cosmic ocean and permanently realizes its nature as the ocean (Brahman)." See what I mean? That's not Advaita. You're not a drop of water trying to become the ocean. You are the ocean. If you want to understand Advaita, start with Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka (either the very good and also very cheap Drg-Drsya-Viveka: An Inquiry Into the Nature of the Seer and the Seen from Advaita Ashrama and pair that with a teacher, e.g., Swami Sarvapriyananda or, if you want one volume with teachings inside it, you can try Drg Drsya Viveka by Swami Dayananda Saraswati) and don't start trying to fit notions of "cosmos," "the universe," DNA or quantum mechanics into any of that (actually, you'd be better off never trying to combine them) until you have a strong understanding of this text in you direct experience. From there, you can then go to Vedānta-sāra or Aparokṣānubhūti. Good luck.