Trace Source Rational Equivalency Theory (TSRET)

Master index (all 9 theories): https://armandosotouidt.github.io/ TSRET v0.1 presents a connectivity-centered account of how systems cross from reactive, contact-bound control to absence-capable informational control. Connectivity propagates deficits across coupled dependents, generating shared closure pressure (“need factors”) that forces closure under partial absence. Repeated closure success is retained and compressed into re-instantiable handles (“tokens”). When token re-instantiation becomes the dominant control tendency (the tokenization threshold), substitution becomes possible. The central claim is the Rational Equivalent (RE) threshold: a trace-sourced, materially unfulfillable (in-the-moment) deficit specification that can stand for an absent condition by re-instantiating the same closure-class corridor the actual would have recruited. Once REs exist, “thinking” is reframed as rational-equivalent orchestration: internal generation, selection, composition, and evaluation of standing-for tokens before action. The manuscript also distinguishes particular (individual) versus collective informational dynamics, arguing that REs become shareable operators in connected groups, yielding collective token-field dynamics and explaining coherent group behavior under partial proportionality (murmuration as an exemplar). Landing page: https://armandosotouidt.github.io// Master index (all theories): https://armandosotouidt.github.io/ If links are stripped, search repository: armandosotouidt