one-world ontology

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

One-world ontology is the transactional commitment that one outcome becomes actual while alternatives remain possibilities rather than becoming separate actual worlds elsewhere. The actual is therefore one mode of a reality that also includes potentia. The corpus adopts this position in contrast to many-worlds; it does not equate one actual world with one completed container, a universal cosmic present or denial of multiple fields of sense.

Explanation

The source explicitly contrasts one-world actualization with an account in which all candidate outcomes are realized in branches. Kastner’s quoted formulation says incipient transactions describe possibilities and their interactions, of which one actualizes. The proposed entry preserves that attribution without recasting every rival interpretation as experimentally disproved or treating informal branch counts as established measurements.

Real but unactualized alternatives do not amount to a second actual layer hidden inside spacetime. RB1 identifies the possible and actual as modes of the real, while PB allows local resolution without a single cosmic now. One-world therefore concerns actual outcomes and should not silently import a globally synchronized metaphysical clock.

The claim also differs from a single all-encompassing field of sense, which the Gabriel discussion rejects. Event-specific exclusion changes what is later possible, so remaining potentia are not intact failed histories stored elsewhere. The broader ontology preserves both one actualization and continuing, reconfigured openness without promising that every imagined alternative can occur.

Scope and attribution

Retain the author’s adopted one-world commitment with its local and modal qualifications.

PB — The Possible Book

Local actualization need not posit a universal now and does not preserve failed futures intact.

Occurrence locators: 168.

RB1 — The Real Book, Volume I: The Possible Is Real

One actual outcome contrasts with realized branches while possible and actual remain modes of the real.

Occurrence locators: 68, 77, 78, 107, 109, 110, 115, 119, 252.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

The adopted interpretation is not an experimental settlement among rivals.

Occurrence locators: 55, 102.

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.