CT Framework (C-Theory): Draft preprint

This record contains the current working draft of C-Theory (CT), a formal framework that models experienced reality via a triadic kernel linking P (physical substrate / constraints), I (interface / projector), and E (experienced state). The document develops definitions, postulates, and supporting appendices, with emphasis on coherence dynamics, boundary formation (the “Now boundary”), and how observational constraints and projections shape modeled reality. CT is presented as a structural language for describing how models stabilize, how tension/entropy-like pressures arise at interfaces, and how “what is experienced” emerges from the interaction of constraints (P), projection/selection (I), and resulting experiential configuration (E). The draft also includes notes on multi-agent settings and admissible interaction, including the Privatism assumption: an agent’s internal I-state (intentions, priors, valuations, private models) is private by default and only becomes shareable through voluntary projection and observable traces. Feedback, critique, and replication attempts are welcome - especially on definitions, internal consistency, and whether the proposed dynamics generate falsifiable or testable consequences in specific domains. Naming note: although “theory” appears in the title for continuity, the work is intended as a formal framework / working note, and is expected to evolve through revision. Notation: I write Σ(τ)⇄∂B as a shorthand for the join/interface condition used throughout the manuscript (section–boundary correspondence).Inspired by foundational work of Witten, Susskind, Hawking, Penrose, Kähler, Bergman and many others; any errors are mine.