Overview This deposit contains version 1.0-en of Feedback Loops and Actualization: Memory, Context, and Reshaping the Field of Possibilities in Probabilistic Presentism, a faithful English translation of the published French version 1.0 (4 September 2026). Objective The paper proposes a conceptual formalization of feedback loops within probabilistic presentism. Feedback is not treated as a return from the future to the past, but as a local dynamics of the present: actualized facts leave present traces, these traces modify the local context, and that context reshapes the field of possibilities for subsequent actualizations. Formal proposal The enriched local present is represented by Fn(x)=(sn(x), Mn(x), Cn(x), πn(x)). The scalar π measures a local degree of canalization; it is distinct from the operational kernel K, which carries the detailed distribution and direction of accessible transitions. The minimal loop is sn → A → sn+1 → T → Mn+1 → G → Cn+1 → R → πn+1 → A → sn+2. The proposed relation Θ=f(π) requires calibration before a change in π can receive an identifiable temporal interpretation. Safeguards and limits Feedback is distinguished from retrocausality: the past acts only through traces presently inscribed. An anticipated future does not act; anticipation is a present model of possible futures. The proposal assumes no signalling to the past and no global present, and retains the thermodynamic constraints on memory. The operators A, T, G and R do not yet constitute a complete covariant physical dynamics, and no quantitative law for π is claimed. Status This is a conceptual and programmatic preprint. It proposes a minimal grammar of feedback loops within probabilistic presentism without claiming to provide a complete quantitative theory of dynamical systems, cognition, or quantum measurement. Related works French source, version 1.0: 10.5281/zenodo.22307131 Main preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.18207811 Wave-particle duality and delayed choice: 10.5281/zenodo.18404150 Proper and ontological time: 10.5281/zenodo.22306324 Translation fidelity The English edition preserves all 322 content blocks, 79 headings, 209 mathematical expressions, 14 URLs, numbers, tables, qualifications, appendices and references of the authoritative French source. All 24 rendered pages were visually reviewed.
Overview This deposit contains version 1.0-en of Feedback Loops and Actualization: Memory, Context, and Reshaping the Field of Possibilities in Probabilistic Presentism, a faithful English translation of the published French version 1.0 (4 September 2026). Objective The paper proposes a conceptual formalization of feedback loops within probabilistic presentism. Feedback is not treated as a return from the future to the past, but as a local dynamics of the present: actualized facts leave present traces, these traces modify the local context, and that context reshapes the field of possibilities for subsequent actualizations. Formal proposal The enriched local present is represented by Fn(x)=(sn(x), Mn(x), Cn(x), πn(x)). The scalar π measures a local degree of canalization; it is distinct from the operational kernel K, which carries the detailed distribution and direction of accessible transitions. The minimal loop is sn → A → sn+1 → T → Mn+1 → G → Cn+1 → R → πn+1 → A → sn+2. The proposed relation Θ=f(π) requires calibration before a change in π can receive an identifiable temporal interpretation. Safeguards and limits Feedback is distinguished from retrocausality: the past acts only through traces presently inscribed. An anticipated future does not act; anticipation is a present model of possible futures. The proposal assumes no signalling to the past and no global present, and retains the thermodynamic constraints on memory. The operators A, T, G and R do not yet constitute a complete covariant physical dynamics, and no quantitative law for π is claimed. Status This is a conceptual and programmatic preprint. It proposes a minimal grammar of feedback loops within probabilistic presentism without claiming to provide a complete quantitative theory of dynamical systems, cognition, or quantum measurement. Related works French source, version 1.0: 10.5281/zenodo.22307131 Main preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.18207811 Wave-particle duality and delayed choice: 10.5281/zenodo.18404150 Proper and ontological time: 10.5281/zenodo.22306324 Translation fidelity The English edition preserves all 322 content blocks, 79 headings, 209 mathematical expressions, 14 URLs, numbers, tables, qualifications, appendices and references of the authoritative French source. All 24 rendered pages were visually reviewed.
This deposit contains the complete English translation of v1.1 (4 September 2026) of the preprint “Temps propre et temps ontologique : densité de devenir et champ des possibles dans le présentisme probabiliste”. Published French source and related work Published French v1.1: Zenodo 22306324 — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22306324 Concept DOI for the French work: 10.5281/zenodo.20764379 Reference preprint on probabilistic presentism: 10.5281/zenodo.18207811 Related preprint on wave–particle duality and delayed choice: 10.5281/zenodo.18404150 Scope. This preprint distinguishes coordinate time, relativistic proper time, and ontological time understood as a cumulative measure of locally consolidated becoming. Formal proposal. It introduces the local consolidation density Θ = dτont/dτ and relates it, as a working hypothesis, to the field of possibilities π through Θ = f(π). Coordinate time t remains descriptive, proper time τ remains the duration measured by clocks, and ontological time τont denotes accumulated becoming. Safeguards and limits. The proposal does not replace relativistic proper time, treat Θ as a metric factor, introduce a global simultaneity, derive the limiting speed c from the actualization rate, or claim a complete covariant dynamics. The relation Θ = f(π) remains a hypothesis whose separate empirical identifiability is not yet established. Status. This is a conceptual and exploratory preprint. Interpretive claims are identified as such, and the framework is not presented as an experimentally validated replacement for relativity or quantum mechanics. Translation fidelity. This English edition is a translation, not a revised scientific version. It preserves the 333 content blocks, 79 headings, 324 mathematical expressions, 10 URLs, references, appendices, limitations, and epistemic qualifications of the published French v1.1.
A Calculable Model in One, Two, and Three Spatial Dimensions This preprint develops a first calculable basis for the treatment of records and feedback in probabilistic presentism. It introduces the V3 reconstruction through an explicit quantum model, retaining potentialities through the joint quantum state while removing an additional scalar degree of actualization. Model and contribution A propagating excitation couples locally to a two-state memory. The resulting record remains readable over a declared finite interval. A fixed reflector returns the excitation, and interventions on the memory affect its later field evolution. A sufficient storage bound follows from occupation of the interaction region. The same scalar lattice law is implemented in one, two and three spatial dimensions. Reproducibility The accompanying archive contains the simulation programs, 24 reference runs, 12 step/domain comparisons, four calculated figures, independent solver checks, storage-bound counter-tests, spatial-snapshot audits and instructions. The reference batch was reproduced from an extracted package in the recorded environment. A CPU is sufficient; no GPU dependency is required. Scope Quantum dynamics, Born probabilities and the terminal reading instrument are adopted. The results establish properties of the declared finite model. Physical outcome selection, emergent duration relations, gravity, continuum Maxwell electrodynamics and experimental discrimination of the ontology remain open. This is a partial calculable formulation of the presentist programme. Related publications and provenance Main V2: French original, 10 January 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.18207811; English translation 2.0-en, 9 September 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.22675807. Wave-particle duality: French original, 28 January 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.18404150; English translation 1.0-en, 9 September 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.22677490. Feedback loops: French original, 4 September 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.22307131; English translation 1.0-en, 9 September 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.22678920. Files and licenses The PDF contains the illustrated article. The ZIP contains the manuscript source, PDF, programs, figures, data, audits, instructions and license notices. Text, figures and data are licensed under CC BY 4.0; software source is licensed under MIT. These licenses apply to the respective components described in LICENSES.md. Author: Alexandre Leroy. Affiliation: LA RESIDENCE Développement. Independent research in theoretical physics and the philosophy of time. Contact: a.leroy.research@gmail.com.
This deposit contains the complete English translation of v1 (28 January 2026) of the preprint “Dualité onde-corpuscule, choix retardé et présentisme probabiliste”. Published French source and related work Published French v1: Zenodo 18404150 — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18404150 Concept DOI for the French work: 10.5281/zenodo.18404149 Reference preprint on probabilistic presentism: 10.5281/zenodo.18207811 Scope. Wave–particle duality and delayed-choice experiments are often presented as if present choices could rewrite the past. This article develops an alternative reading within probabilistic presentism: only the present exists ontologically, while the future corresponds to a structured space of possibilities. Central distinction. The wave aspect describes a coherent structure of possibilities before actualization; the particle aspect describes a present fact in the form of a localized event. The “late choice” fixes the experimental context in which a fact becomes defined; it does not retroactively alter an already factual past. Experiments and constraints. The discussion covers Born's rule, interference, which-path information, decoherence, outcome uniqueness, no-signalling, the double slit, Wheeler's delayed choice, delayed-choice quantum erasers, and EPR/Bell correlations. Conditional interference patterns are treated as post-selected correlations and not as signals sent into the past. Status. This is a conceptual and exploratory preprint. Interpretive claims are identified as such, and the framework is not presented as an experimentally validated replacement for quantum mechanics. Translation fidelity. This English edition is a translation, not a revised scientific version. It preserves the argumentative structure, equations, references, links, limitations, and epistemic qualifications of the published French v1.
Ce dépôt contient la version française publiée v1.1 (4 septembre 2026) du préprint « Temps propre et temps ontologique : densité de devenir et champ des possibles dans le présentisme probabiliste ». Versions publiées et travaux liés DOI concept (toutes les versions françaises) : 10.5281/zenodo.20764379 Traduction anglaise fidèle v1.1-en : 10.5281/zenodo.22678502 Préprint principal sur le présentisme probabiliste : 10.5281/zenodo.18207811 Préprint connexe sur la dualité onde-corpuscule et le choix retardé : 10.5281/zenodo.18404150 Portée. Ce préprint distingue le temps coordonné, le temps propre relativiste et le temps ontologique, compris comme mesure cumulative du devenir localement consolidé. Proposition formelle. Il introduit la densité locale de consolidation Θ = dτont/dτ et la relie, à titre d’hypothèse de travail, au champ des possibles π par Θ = f(π). Le temps coordonné t reste descriptif, le temps propre τ demeure la durée mesurée par les horloges, et le temps ontologique τont désigne le devenir accumulé. Garde-fous et limites. La proposition ne remplace pas le temps propre relativiste, ne traite pas Θ comme un facteur métrique, n’introduit aucune simultanéité globale, ne dérive pas la vitesse limite c du rythme d’actualisation et ne revendique pas une dynamique covariante complète. La relation Θ = f(π) demeure une hypothèse dont l’identifiabilité empirique séparée n’est pas encore établie. Statut. Il s’agit d’un préprint conceptuel et exploratoire. Les affirmations interprétatives sont signalées comme telles, et le cadre n’est pas présenté comme un remplacement expérimentalement validé de la relativité ou de la mécanique quantique. Édition anglaise. La version 1.1-en est une traduction fidèle, et non une révision scientifique. Elle conserve les 333 blocs de contenu, 79 titres, 324 expressions mathématiques, 10 URL, références, annexes, limites et qualifications épistémiques de cette version française.
This record contains two preprints and their supplementary material, in English and Italian, together with the code and LaTeX sources that reproduce every number and figure. Toward controlled retrocausal communication: the successive-rewriting model and its bottleneck (main paper). Can information be sent to the past? With known physics it cannot; the possibility is not, however, excluded a priori, and the Temporal Radio project asks what would be needed. We show that the bottleneck has a single root: making even a single controllable bit appear in the past without a cause in that past. We show it through the author's successive-rewriting model, formulated with declared premises: a message that reaches the past alters the causal chain, reality is perturbed and resettles, overwriting the future, and a protected log numbers the versions and guides the senders. We formalize it as a dynamics over the versions, in which consistency is not an imposed principle but the equilibrium between settling and the senders' choices; a toy model shows that the author's rule of intervening only for a serious reason allows the succession to stop despite a strong butterfly effect. The bottleneck appears in two forms. The first is the channel: the message must reach the past on a physical signal, which we discuss as a hypothesis in terms of the advanced component of the electromagnetic field; two entangled particles supply a key that only the receiver can use, but reduce neither the amount of information to be sent back nor the difficulty. The second is the persistence of information across versions: with a protected log the model makes a conditional prediction that distinguishes it from Novikov consistency, the alternating entries left by the paradoxical protocol. Future boundary conditions and feedback loops: two solvable models that send no signal to the past (companion note). In models with boundary conditions in the future it is easy to mistake a global dependence for a signal to the past. Two elementary, solvable models make the distinction explicit: two coupled linear oscillators with data at both ends, and a scalar field crossing the throat of an Ellis wormhole placed in a feedback loop. An operational criterion in five conditions organizes what each model does and does not show. The supplementary material contains the catalogue of models, the verification register with the evidence level of every number, and a guide to the computation package. The work was carried out with the assistance of an AI model, as declared in the papers.
Quantum mechanics describes the potential future; general relativity describes the actualized past; the present is the process of actualization that turns the one into the other. That single move is Time–Actualization (TA), the foundational ontology set out here. TA assumes the quantum formalism and the relativistic causal structure, and derives neither: it adds no new physics, makes no new prediction, and asks to be judged on coherence and unifying power rather than on a measurement. It proposes a common ontological reading of measurement, EPR and the structural arrow of time. D5 locates the einselecting environment in the event's causal past; the couplings within that past remain imported, and the system/environment split is relocated rather than removed. In detail. The ontology is a minimal triplet (ρ, ν, ⟨P,≺⟩): a positive normalized state ρ on a local net of algebras (the conditional future potential), a primitive tempo ν (the rate of becoming), and a growing causal set ⟨P,≺⟩ (the past). What is not derived, and is named as such throughout, is the Born rule, Einstein's equations, and the constants. Eight core hypotheses yield seven consequences. A structural arrow of time, prior to thermodynamics (D1). A partial dissolution of the measurement problem (D2), with definiteness posited and the trigger open. Conditional dissolutions of EPR and the signalling worry (D3–D4), requiring a propagation law. A preferred basis anchored in the couplings carried by the causal past (D5). A conditional thermodynamic reading of the structural arrow (D6), requiring a posited bridge to physical reset, and further thermal assumptions for its value. And a conditional coherence lemma (D7): the actualization dynamics is generally covariant and no-signalling once the substrate carries the standard locality of physics. D7 claims less than the Rideout–Sorkin Bell causality condition, which is a screening-off analogue of Bell's local causality and is not inherited. We then develop the proposed physics of the tempo ν: a correspondence with a local quantum speed scale and a saturation choice, both posited. Quantum speed limits alone do not bound an ontic event count. The missing bridge must specify event resolution, additive counting and an applicable composable speed bound. The substrate cadence that reconstructs proper time is kept distinct from a system's tempo; their operational connection remains to be supplied. TA aims at empirical equivalence to quantum mechanics on a causal-set substrate. We label the admissibility requirement P5; its verification, including instrumented multi-time statistics, remains open. No distinctive prediction is claimed. The causal-set "swerve" is inherited from discreteness, generic and not specific to actualization. We close with the open dynamics, its system/substrate interface, the conditional constitution of systems, and the inherited limits of the programme.