RELATIONAL GENESIS: A Theoretical Framework for the Emergence of Space, Time, and Physical Reality from Relational Interaction

This manuscript presents a relational ontology of physical reality, developed from first principles through the lens of computational analogy. The central argument is that space and time are not pre-existing containers within which events occur, but are emergent properties of interaction itself. When patterns of relation form, the counting of successive relational changes constitutes time, and the connectivity structure between those patterns constitutes space. Actualization of physical states is not random but occurs only when symmetry and synchronization conditions within the relational field are satisfied. Each field produces actualization with invariant properties because every actualization is the closing of the same symmetry structure. Probability, as encountered in quantum mechanics, reflects the local incompleteness of a pattern's access to the global synchronization state of the universal web, not an irreducible indeterminism in nature. This framework removes the need for absolute space, absolute time, and the external observer — replacing them with a self-contained, self-generating relational system that produces all observed physical structure from within. 1