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This work proposes a non-mind-first account of how deterministic systems can generate structured novelty, suggesting implications for understanding intelligence.
This work proposes that deterministic systems can still generate structured novelty given that Trace, treated as hx/Actuality/Prospective state-order (trace order), yields Variable Complementary Determinism (VCD) through which reactive fields and reactants propagate into functions and reactions, informational dynamics, behavior (choice and creation), and, without mind as a first-source assumption, coordinative awareness/intelligence as scalar, legible threshold expressions. 3.2.1 Registration snapshot (frozen): https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JME9G
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