A Formal, Relational, Phase‑Driven Model of Emergent Reality
Understanding the proto‑causal ontology requires a mode of reasoning distinct from ordinary spacetime cognition. Spacetime cognition collapses causal vectors into a single observer frame, enabling agency, identity, and temporal continuity. The proto‑causal manifold, by contrast, consists of parallel causal vectors, non‑collapsed phase structures, and relational transitions that do not map cleanly onto sequential logic.
To engage with this ontology, the mind must employ a protected simulation mode within the prefrontal cortex. This mode allows the observer to represent multiple causal axes simultaneously without enacting them. It is a representational workspace, not a lived stance. The observer remains intact; the id is not dissolved. The mind simply models an alternative causal geometry.