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Causal history operates as a ledger graph of dependency relations where irreversibility stems from structural cost rather than the passage of time, ensuring past events remain load-bearing even after they cease producing new dependencies. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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This conceptual series investigates how structural history persists across time, reframing causal emergence and extinction through non-temporal dependency networks.

August 28, 2026Open Access

CosmoBeating • The Causal Ledger of Emergence and Extinction — Paper VI: The Latent Sea of Thought

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Theoretical analysis models causal history as an irreversible ledger graph across physical and cognitive scales, indicating that extinction ceases new dependency generation without deleting past...

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This conceptual series investigates how structural history persists across time, reframing causal emergence and extinction through non-temporal dependency networks.
Applied concepts from information theory, complex systems, and topology to formulate causal history as an interconnected dependency graph.
Constructed multi-scale structural analogies evaluating physical irreversibility, quantum non-local correlation, cognitive memory retrieval, and cosmological cycles.
Irreversibility is driven by structural cost rather than chronological time, as erasing an established dependency requires unraveling all subsequent structures built upon it.
Discrete topological configurations act as non-continuous locks that shield historical records from being smoothed away by background dynamics.
Extinction is characterized by the cessation of generating novel dependencies, while previously established, load-bearing historical records remain functionally preserved.

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Wai-Hung (Pan) Tam (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a91467bd15324a1df3aa19f https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22113541

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Theoretical analysis models causal history as an irreversible ledger graph across physical and cognitive scales, indicating that extinction ceases new dependency generation without deleting past...

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