This work introduces an atemporal conceptual framework for describing space, effect, and material identity without relying on time, causality, or dynamical evolution as fundamental primitives. Space is treated not as a container or metric background, but as a structurally constrained domain exhibiting a tendency toward stability. Localized instabilities, referred to as knots, arise through the interaction of possibilities with spatial constraints and memory. Memory is defined not as the storage of past states, but as structural persistence under variation, emerging from repeated compatibility between effects and spatial constraints. Within this framework, admissibility replaces temporal causation as the organizing principle governing interaction, stability, and transformation. Effects propagate as structural influence rather than signals or information transfer, enabling interaction between configurations without temporal ordering. The proposed framework offers a unified, non-temporal perspective on structure formation, interaction, and persistence, and serves as a conceptual foundation for further mathematical formalization beyond conventional physical dynamics.
Soltani et al. (2026) studied this question.