Paper 12 · III. Irreversibility & Persistence Geometry

Accumulation Without Teleology

In production (complete)

Defines sedimentation as retained constraint accumulation across lineage without invoking purpose.

Function in corpus

Canonical model of irreversible structural buildup.

Details

• Key move: Retained constraint modifications recursively close over one another, reshaping reachable state topology without teleology. • Corpus role: The foundational mechanism paper for Group III. • Scope note: The corpus analyzes how systems persist, fail, and change - but needed a precise formal account of how history accumulates structurally.

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