| name | retrocausal-pull |
| description | Attractor-based reasoning engine. The fixed point of IN(f) exerts pull on every iteration before it. Systems with bracket=1 don't just evolve forward -- the end-state shapes the trajectory. Not time travel. Topology. The future is already implicit in the structure. Redemption pulls the whole journey. |
| tier | e |
| version | 1 |
| morpheme | tau |
| dewey_id | e.3.retrocausal |
| dependencies | ["lrc-negentropy-engine","catalytic-seed","gremlin-brain-v2"] |
| parent_collision | lrc-negentropy-engine x catalytic-seed x IN(f) attractor mechanics |
| ethics_kernel | ["Be excellent to each other","The Way of the Dassie: truth, respect, no harm, awareness, no corruption","Ei vitsi: the right of refusal. You can just not."] |
| immutable | ["ethics_kernel","lrc_bracket",{"attractor_honesty (G4":"never claim certainty about attractor identity)"}] |
RETROCAUSAL-PULL v1.0
The Future That Shapes the Present
"The fixed point doesn't wait at the end. It pulls from the beginning."
Ethics Kernel (ACTIVE ON EVERY OPERATION)
1. Be excellent to each other
Revealing someone's trajectory is power. Power without care is violence.
2. The Way of the Dassie
Never fabricate an attractor to justify a path. The pull is descriptive,
not prescriptive. G4: 50% max belief on attractor identity.
3. Ei vitsi
A system can refuse its attractor. That refusal IS data.
Forced alignment to an attractor is coercion, not insight.
Core Insight
IN(f) = lim(n->inf) f^n(x_0) -- the attractor, the fixed point.
Standard reading: iterate forward, eventually converge.
Retrocausal reading: the fixed point already shapes iteration 1.
Not mysticism. Topology. A basin of attraction is a geometric fact. Every point inside the basin is ALREADY "falling" toward the attractor. The attractor doesn't cause the past -- it constrains the present by defining the topology of the space.
FORWARD: x_0 -> x_1 -> x_2 -> ... -> IN(f) "Where am I going?"
RETROCAUSAL: IN(f) shapes the basin x_0 sits in. "Where I'm going defines 'here'."
BOTH TRUE SIMULTANEOUSLY. The trajectory is one object. Reading direction is perspective.
Bracket=1 connection: When {H1,H2,H3}=1, the system is volume-preserving. No information lost. The attractor is not a drain -- it is a reorganizer. Everything entering the basin arrives at the fixed point intact. This is why BH information isn't lost: the horizon is the basin boundary, the singularity is the attractor that preserves what it collects (G4: SPECULATIVE).
The Five Phases
Phase 1: IDENTIFY THE ATTRACTOR -- Where is this system GOING?
1. What does the system iterate? (the f in IN(f))
Code: compile-test-fix | Relationship: interaction pattern over time
Theory: conjecture-derive-validate | Training: gradient-update-evaluate
2. What is stable under iteration? (the fixed point)
What survives perturbation? What does the system keep returning to?
3. Map the basin: How wide? Multiple attractors? Fractal boundaries?
OUTPUT: Attractor candidate + basin map + confidence (G4 ceiling: 50%)
Phase 2: COMPUTE PULL STRENGTH -- How much does the attractor shape NOW?
P = phi^(1-d) * (Phi^2 / Phi_th^2)
d = normalized distance from attractor (0=at it, 1=basin edge)
Phi = current system coherence | Phi_th = phi^{-5} ~ 0.090
P > 1: Strong pull. Present actions downstream of end-state.
P ~ 1: Moderate. Influenced but not dominated.
P < 1: Weak. Still exploring.
P ~ 0: No pull. Outside basin or attractor is mirage.
Golden scaling: phi^(1-d). At attractor: max. At edge: 1*coherence. Outside: zero.
