Abstract This paper develops the second stage of the Distributed Presence (DP) programme by extending the minimal framework of DP I into a more explicit ontological architecture. Its aim is not to introduce a new dynamics or a competing predictive formalism, but to clarify how several central features of quantum theory may be understood within a pre-dynamical structural ontology. The analysis begins by sharpening the distinction between structural determination and Realization. A system is determined by its admissible channels of presence and their associated presence fractions, whereas measurement is interpreted as single-channel Realization rather than collapse. On this view, the question of why one channel is realised rather than another is not answered by hidden variables or selection dynamics; within DP, it has no further structural referent. The paper then introduces minterms as the finest ontological units of distributed presence: complete signed patterns over state space. Observable quantities arise through sign-blind coarse-graining of this underlying structure. This framework offers a structural basis for understanding operational indistinguishability, structural multiplicity, and the restricted simultaneous articulation of incompatible observables. Spin is correspondingly reinterpreted as a topological closure invariant of signed presence, rather than as literal rotation or intrinsic dynamical angular momentum. Finally, Degeneracy is understood as the effective trace of unresolved structural multiplicity. Hilbert space remains fully adequate at the empirical level, but is treated here as a compressed representation of a deeper signed structural layer. The paper closes by locating DP in relation to major foundational approaches and by stating its present limitations and future tasks.
Abstract This paper develops the second stage of the Distributed Presence (DP) programme by extending the minimal framework of DP I into a more explicit ontological architecture. Its aim is not to introduce a new dynamics or a competing predictive formalism, but to clarify how several central features of quantum theory may be understood within a pre-dynamical structural ontology. The analysis begins by sharpening the distinction between structural determination and Realization. A system is determined by its admissible channels of presence and their associated presence fractions, whereas measurement is interpreted as single-channel Realization rather than collapse. On this view, the question of why one channel is realised rather than another is not answered by hidden variables or selection dynamics; within DP, it has no further structural referent. The paper then introduces minterms as the finest ontological units of distributed presence: complete signed patterns over state space. Observable quantities arise through sign-blind coarse-graining of this underlying structure. This framework offers a structural basis for understanding operational indistinguishability, structural multiplicity, and the restricted simultaneous articulation of incompatible observables. Spin is correspondingly reinterpreted as a topological closure invariant of signed presence, rather than as literal rotation or intrinsic dynamical angular momentum. Finally, Degeneracy is understood as the effective trace of unresolved structural multiplicity. Hilbert space remains fully adequate at the empirical level, but is treated here as a compressed representation of a deeper signed structural layer. The paper closes by locating DP in relation to major foundational approaches and by stating its present limitations and future tasks.
Abstract This paper develops Distributed Presence (DP) as a discrete ontological framework for the structural reconstruction of core features usually represented within nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Rather than taking the wave function, Hilbert space, or collapse postulates as fundamental, DP begins from the claim that a physical object possesses ontological presence distributed over a context-dependent set of admissible channels. Actualization is treated as a primitive stochastic event through which one admissible channel becomes manifest. Within this framework, a quantum particle and a die are structurally comparable as objects of manifestation: in both cases, the object’s identity is not exhausted by any single realized outcome, even though the quantum case requires a richer representational structure. On this basis, the paper argues that complex Hilbert space functions as a minimal manifestation-level encoding of distributed presence together with retained relational structure. The Born rule is reconstructed as a cross-layer identity between phenomenal probability and normalized structural presence fraction, while the Schrödinger form is interpreted as an effective law of pre-actualization redistribution. Measurement is correspondingly reframed as context-driven actualization followed by record stabilization. For composite systems, DP understands entanglement as the nonfactorizability of joint distributed presence, while operational no-signaling is expressed through invariance of local marginal presence fractions under remote contextual variation. The contribution of the paper is therefore ontological and reconstructive, not the proposal of a new empirical formalism. DP offers a single-world realist framework for understanding why central quantum structures take the form they do, while leaving the formalization of actualization, composite dynamics, and the derivation of physical constants for future research.
Abstract This paper develops a metaphysical interpretation of quantum probability under the title Distributed Presence (DP). The central claim is that quantum probabilities should not be understood as measures of ignorance, nor merely as formal devices for predicting measurement outcomes, but as expressions of an objective mode of being: a system’s structured distribution of presence across mutually available channels of realization. On this view, a quantum system prior to measurement is neither fully actual in one determinate outcome nor reducible to a set of hidden definite properties. Rather, it exists in a non-binary mode, articulated by normalized presence fractions associated with the possible outcomes defined by a given interaction context. The Born rule is accordingly not replaced, but reinterpreted: the standard probability assignment is read as the operational expression of an underlying ontological distribution. The paper argues that this framework provides a unified reading of several familiar quantum features. Superposition is understood as a real distribution of presence rather than as epistemic indeterminacy; measurement is interpreted as single-channel actualization rather than as the physical destruction of alternatives; wave-particle duality is recast as the relation between distributed structure and localized realization; and quantum randomness is treated as intrinsic yet structurally constrained. The proposal remains fully compatible with the standard Hilbert-space formalism and introduces no hidden variables, additional collapse dynamics, or many-world branching. Its aim is interpretive rather than revisionary. Beyond its relevance to the foundations of quantum theory, DP is advanced as a contribution to the ontology of probability more broadly. It seeks to show how probability may be objective, physically meaningful, and ontologically basic without collapsing into determinism on the one hand or epistemicism on the other. In that sense, the paper offers a realist, single-world, structurally articulated account of quantum chance.
Abstract Despite its empirical success, quantum mechanics continues to provoke foundational debates concerning the nature of probability, the ontological status of the quantum state, and the mechanism of measurement. [1] This work introduces Distributed Presence (DP) as a structural ontological framework that addresses these issues by reinterpreting quantum phenomena in terms of a system’s distributed mode of existence across its state space. Crucially, this distribution is modal rather than spatial: it concerns how a system is present across possible states, not how it is extended in physical space. Within the DP framework, a quantum system is not assumed to occupy a definite state prior to interaction. Instead, its fundamental mode of existence is an ontologically distributed presence, understood as a structural feature of reality rather than a reflection of epistemic uncertainty. From this standpoint, probability is not introduced as a primitive postulate but emerges operationally from the geometry of presence, yielding a structural derivation of the Born rule. Core quantum phenomena (including superposition, wave–particle duality, state reduction, and entanglement) are recast as different manifestations of a single underlying principle: the modal distribution, reconfiguration, and non‑separability of presence. Entanglement corresponds to the non‑factorizability of presence fractions over a composite state space, while non‑local correlations are interpreted as consequences of shared modal structure rather than dynamical signal transmission, fully consistent with relativistic causality. The framework is developed within a Euclidean geometric setting chosen to prioritize ontological clarity, without altering the predictive formalism of standard quantum mechanics or its Hilbert‑space representation. By grounding randomness, probability, and quantum behavior in the notion of modal distributed presence, DP offers a coherent foundational program that bridges the conceptual gap between unitary evolution and definite outcomes, providing an alternative to both epistemic interpretations and wave‑function realism.
Distributed Presence Research Program (DP) is an interdisciplinary foundational research program investigating whether physical reality can be more coherently understood in terms of distributed, relational, and phase-structured presence rather than as a collection of fundamentally isolated entities. The program explores the possibility that mass, charge, localization, probability, field structure, quantum behavior, and spacetime organization may be interpreted as emergent modes of response, stabilization, and relational configuration within a deeper ontology of distributed presence. A central aim of the program is to develop an ontological unity in physics by articulating a framework in which the interpretation of physical properties, the ontology of fields, the status of probability, and the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics can be approached within a common relational structure. In particular, the DP Research Program addresses: the ontology of distributed presence, the emergence of localization, the reinterpretation of mass and charge, phase and response structures, the ontological interpretation of probability, the interpretation of quantum mechanics, spacetime emergence, and the search for ontological unity across physical theory. Rather than presenting itself as a completed physical theory, DP develops a conceptual and exploratory formal framework connecting philosophy of physics, metaphysics of science, quantum foundations, field-theoretic interpretation, and ontological modeling. The program aims to function as an open research platform for conceptual clarification, formal development, and interdisciplinary dialogue on the foundations and unity of physical reality.
Modern quantum theory describes physical systems by means of complex-valued state structures whose full dynamical content cannot be reduced to directly observable quantities. While observables are necessarily real-valued, they arise from a richer formal organization that includes phase-sensitive and non-directly accessible structure. This paper argues that the distinction between “real” and “imaginary” components is therefore best understood as epistemic rather than ontological. What appears in measurement is not a separate domain of being, but a selective disclosure of a unified physical reality. On this basis, the “space of possibilities” is reinterpreted not as a second world beyond the real, but as the non-reduced domain of dynamically admissible structure encoded in the state description of a system. Recent results reported in Measuring spin correlation between quarks during QCD confinement provide an empirical illustration of this view by showing that correlations which later become directly observable may originate in non-directly accessible structure and remain dynamically effective across transformation. The observable is thus not the whole of the real, but one mode through which it becomes accessible.
Summary: Quantum spin as a structural signature of informational stabilization under observer-relative exclusion. This pre-print proposes an alternative ontological reading of quantum spin grounded in an informational framework. Spin is not treated as an intrinsic property of particles, but as the observable signature of how information stabilizes through phase-dependent exclusion relative to an observer. Within this framework, different spin values correspond to different depths of informational validation, rather than to distinct physical substances. Description:Rather than postulating spin as an intrinsic internal degree of freedom, the paper interprets spin as the residual trace of how information becomes stable under observer-relative phase inversion and exclusion. The central claim is that stabilization of information does not occur through accumulation alone, but through structured exclusion of incompatible alternatives under phase displacement. When an informational configuration must remain coherent not only under its own inversion, but also under inversion relative to the observer’s evolving informational trajectory, a double-valued closure becomes unavoidable. This structural requirement directly corresponds to the emergence of spin-1/2 behavior. Within this framework: Spin-0 corresponds to the reading of pure informational presence, prior to orientation or relational interpretation Spin-1 corresponds to first-order relational reading, encoding directional propagation and hierarchical ordering between informational events Spin-1/2 emerges when stabilization requires double exclusion involving the observer, producing an irreducible phase-dependent validation Spin-2 corresponds to the level at which informational density constrains the framework of future interactions, providing an informational interpretation of gravitation The paper shows that once information is discrete, observer-relative, and stabilized through exclusion under phase displacement, SU(2)-like double-valued structures are not optional but structurally necessary. Spin therefore appears as a level-dependent reading of the same informational substrate, determined by how stabilization is achieved, rather than as a hidden intrinsic attribute of matter. This work does not propose a new formalism or modification of quantum mechanics. It is an interpretive framework compatible with existing formalisms, aimed at clarifying the ontological meaning of spin and its necessity. It connects phase, oscillation, decoherence, and observer dependence within a single structural mechanism, extending the stabilization logic introduced in the companion paper on the NNO operator. Relation to other work This article builds directly on: The Universal Theory of Information (TUI): Emergence of Physics from Informational Dynamics (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15106945) The NNO operator: Double Negation and Oscillation as Informational Conditions for the Stabilization of Observed Reality (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18443043) It can be read independently, but reaches its full coherence when considered as part of the TUI–NNO–SPIN conceptual sequence. About the author Mathieu Valentin Rondet is an independent researcher with a dual background in science and digital systems. He holds two master’s degrees in molecular and developmental biology, genetics and biochemistry (earned in France and the U.S.) and has spent over two decades designing physical simulations, procedural dynamics, and interactive systems for virtual environments. His approach blends biological information studies, structural logic, and information-based modeling to explore new perspectives on fundamental physics and observer-relative reality,