open actualization

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Definition

Open actualization is cumulative actualization represented by a directed history with no maximum stage and productive later extensions. Its transitions retain completed occurrences while leaving room for genuinely new ones. In the manuscript this is an explicit strengthened model of ongoing becoming: neither indeterminacy alone nor the absence of a preferred clock proves that actualization continues endlessly or singles out the next event.

Explanation

A directed index orders compatible partial records rather than all events by a universal clock. Monic transition maps express inclusion of recorded occurrences, and productivity requires a later non-isomorphic extension beyond each stage. Record retention concerns having occurred, not a guarantee that the resulting organism, institution or organization never changes or ends.

The source explicitly states that its earlier openness thesis does not imply endless actualization. The additional no-final-stage and productive-extension assumptions do that work in the model. Under those hypotheses the ind-object account avoids representation as a completed original-category object; the conclusion remains dependent on the chosen construction.

The actualizing interface is distinguished from the accumulated record in the RTI exposition. Weights constrain possibilities without selecting one global next event, and the formal analogy does not give whole-world alternatives Born probabilities. The proposal preserves the author’s ongoing-presencing interpretation while keeping model, physical account and ontological claim distinct.

Scope and attribution

Keep the strengthened hypothesis explicit and avoid a universal clock or whole-world Born weights.

PB — The Possible Book

Openness, retention and endless productivity are separately stated conditions.

Occurrence locators: 150, 165, 166, 167, 168, 173.

Background used in the editorial explanation

Named theories and mechanisms are distinguished from neighboring background, homonyms and the author’s own synthesis. Reproduced AI passages retain their separate voice.