Reciprocal Determination and the Reality of Time: Toward an Ontology of Excess

The contemporary debate on the reality of past, present and future offers three families of answer — the eternalism of the block universe, together with its moving-spotlight variant, presentism, and the growing-block theory — and none accommodates reciprocal determination among the three. An alternative account is advanced in these pages, drawn from Spiralismo Oltrante (the spiral that goes beyond), a structure of being in which exceeding and modifying coincide, and from that identity there follows the thesis about duration defended below. The system unfolds in seven notations, and the one that governs becoming — t : (R ⇌ F) ⟶ P ↶ (R′ ⇌ F′) — places the actual downstream of the tension between the sediment and the intentioned pole, with all three dimensions equally real and mutually constituting. Every actualisation composes in a single movement the impulse of what has been and the attraction of the intentioned pole, so that retroaction belongs to the genesis of the actual and does not arrive afterwards to alter a result already obtained. The argument measures the proposal against branching temporal logic, which holds the direction of conditioning constant, and brings together converging features from the debate on retrocausality, the two-state vector formalism, the delayed-choice experiment and process philosophy. The status of the generalisation is declared openly as a strong speculative hypothesis, distinct from any inference drawn from the empirical results that make it thinkable. The symbolic apparatus is offered as instrumentation for the thesis, with the caveat that it resemanticises signs inherited from the formal tradition without constructing a closed deductive calculus.