FORESIGHT-1: Forward Projection Engine — A Formal Architecture for Parallel Reality Simulation and Anticipatory Processing

FORESIGHT-1 is a formal systems-engineering architecture that models the human capacity for parallel reality simulation — the automatic, continuous generation of multiple simultaneous future branches in advance of environmental events. Where STAE-1 (Williams, 2026) models bottom-up signal detection — environment to mind — FORESIGHT-1 models the complementary top-down process: mind projecting outward into possible environments before any signal arrives. The architecture treats divergent thinking, anticipatory processing, and intuitive foresight not as personality traits but as the outputs of a formal six-stage projection engine operating continuously below and alongside conscious attention. The engine's defining structural property is that branches are never pruned by logic or deliberate choice — they are generated continuously and held in a suspension bank until reality itself confirms one, at which point that branch becomes active while the others remain suspended and immediately available. The document includes: a six-stage pipeline specification; four governing equations including the anticipatory fatigue function and somatic residue accumulation; integration with the Williams Deviation Equation; formal connection to the Carlo Framework (Carlo, 2026a–e); and full pseudocode specification.