08 · GLOSSARY

The vocabulary of Unrealism

Definitions are load-bearing. Each term marks a specific layer or relation and should not be silently substituted for a neighboring concept.

A–C

Actualization

The entry of a qualified possibility into the realized world as a determinate event. See Architecture.

Addressability

The capacity for an event or record to possess a distinct relational where and when. Spacetime is the world’s address structure.

Anthropic selection, continuous

The coherent continuation of realized perspective through compatible actualizations. It is not personal wish-fulfillment or arbitrary universe shopping.

Co-givenness

The observer and world become determinate through the same relational event; neither is a finished substance before that relation.

Biological renderer

The living system that integrates sensation, prediction, memory, affect and action into a human experiential surface.

Causality

The propagation of recorded actuality into constraints and affordances for later events.

Choice

The perspective-mediated selection by which one actionable possibility becomes retained history. See Choice & freedom.

Coherence

The pre-causal fit through which distinctions can belong to one intelligible world.

Constraint

A condition limiting possible actualization. Constraint produces meaning and agency; it is not the opposite of freedom.

D–M

Death

The terminal failure of a biological interface and its local capacities. It does not, by itself, demonstrate universal nonexperience.

Determination

The degree to which a possibility has become definite, recordable and causally available.

Epistemic asymmetry

The difference between the immediacy of one’s own perspective and the inference by which any other interiority is known.

Extensible spacetime

Spacetime understood as an expanding address structure capable of retaining accumulating history.

Frame

The total active context in which distinctions, relations, memories and meanings are available.

Global coherence

The compatibility constraint joining local renderings into one shared, resistant and law-governed world.

History

The accumulating structure of actualized events and their surviving causal records.

Identity

Continuity reconstructed through memory, embodiment, artifact, relationship and context. See Identity & death.

Interface

A bounded organization through which perspective renders and acts in a particular form; the human organism is the known biological interface.

LLM mirror

The way language models expose that reasoning, self-report and affective performance are public evidence of mind, never direct access to perspective.

Temporal asymmetry

There is a changing present and the records its changes produce. What we call the past is a present record; what we call the future is not yet present.

Matter

Appearance stabilized by recurrent, law-governed and record-bearing causal structure.

Memory

The present’s access to records produced by change.

O–W

Observer

The irreducible first-person locus of appearance, not an object hidden inside the rendered world.

Other minds

Real localizations of perspective known through inference, relationship and shared constraint rather than direct first-person access.

Potential

Structured openness: possibilities conditioned by coherence but not yet actualized.

Perspective

The structural locus of delineation through which anything becomes available as a world.

Qualification

The context-dependent organization of potential into determinate distinctions and relations.

Qualified World

The shared, coherent and resistant field in which qualification supports records, causality, laws, bodies and lives.

Quantum actualization

The use of quantum possibility-to-record transitions as a physical analogue for actualization; not the claim that human consciousness must collapse wavefunctions.

Realism

The valid local model of stable objects and laws inside the Qualified World.

Rendering

The recursive organization by which differences form one coherent experiential surface.

Continuity

The preservation of an identity-pattern across change through memory, embodiment, relation and record.

Temporal asymmetry

The unequal relation between open future, actualizing present and recorded past.

Unrealism

The ontology in which realism is retained as a local crystallization while appearance, perspective and qualification replace view-from-nowhere matter as the foundation.

World

A coherent field of determinate and mutually constraining appearance—not a hypothetical totality detached from every possible perspective.