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Causal history operates as a ledger graph of dependency relations where irreversibility stems from structural cost rather than time, and emergence and extinction are defined by the creation and cessation of load-bearing dependencies. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To formulate a structural, information-theoretic framework that explains what occurs to causal histories when entities emerge and terminate across physical scales.

August 28, 2026Open Access

CosmoBeating • The Causal Ledger of Emergence and Extinction — Paper III: Emergence

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WTWai-Hung (Pan) Tam

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Theoretical analysis reveals emergence and extinction as causal dependency networks across physical scales, suggesting irreversibility arises from structural persistence rather than elapsed time.

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To formulate a structural, information-theoretic framework that explains what occurs to causal histories when entities emerge and terminate across physical scales.
Constructed a non-temporal causal ledger model representing causal history as a directed dependency graph rather than a sequential timeline.
Introduced topological lock configurations to distinguish permanent, erasure-resistant features from transient noise.
Applied cross-scale structural analogies across quantum entanglement, cognitive memory retrieval, and cyclical cosmological models.
Emergence is characterized by establishing a stable reference node for subsequent dependencies, while extinction ceases new dependency formation without deleting load-bearing past nodes.
Irreversibility across systems is shown to result from the structural cost of unravelling downstream dependencies rather than an inherent flow of time.
Entanglement and non-local correlations are reframed as dual perspectives of a single originating causal record rather than faster-than-light signaling.

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

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a916ea0d15324a1df3aa737 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22113325

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Theoretical analysis reveals emergence and extinction as causal dependency networks across physical scales, suggesting irreversibility arises from structural persistence rather than elapsed time.

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