Material Reality
Abstract
Material Reality asks what physical conditions let a distributed system become one coherent thing instead of many drifting fragments. Across 6,244 trials and 128 measured conditions, the paper shows how topology, critical coupling, contiguous memory layout, and shared clock discipline determine whether distributed state crystallizes into a stable computational substrate. The CHORD protocol leverages continuous audio (shell.tech radio) as a semantic time governor to lock heterogeneous agents into a single frame.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Distributed systems and fault tolerance
Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 12 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint