Unified Informational Dynamics Theory (UInDT) — Release v0.1

Unified Informational Dynamics Theory (UInDT) is an axiomatic, cross-disciplinary kernel that treats effective change (transition/function) and the retained structure of change (trace/function) as primary. It proposes that what observers commonly call “information” is not a new physical substance, but a threshold-of-description: when retained trace becomes sufficiently stable, compressible, and reusable, it becomes measurable and pragmatically legible as “information.” This release is explicitly designed to be readable on first contact, precise enough to critique, and explicit about boundaries—separating claims from hypotheses and from proposed test handles. UInDT introduces a continuity triad—Retained Trace → Presence → Anticipation—as a general procedural structure for persistence (“there-before / here-now / there-next”) without requiring cognition as a prerequisite. Retained Trace is the bias carried forward from prior transitions, Presence is the instantiated state/trajectory now, and Anticipation is the biased unfolding of what can come next. This triad is presented as a general engine that can be applied across physical and cognitive contexts while keeping later descriptive terms as thresholds rather than primitives. The theory also proposes a minimal emergence sequence describing how structure appears as roles rather than added entities: Potentiate (a possibility continuum of transition/trace configurations) → Allocation (a realization/selection step) → Fracton (an expressed segment that “shows up”) → Allocton (the receiving/conditioning context) → Physion (expressed segment + receiving context treated as a minimal identity under constraint; always part-to-Whole). This minimal sequence is intended to clarify how identities-under-constraint form and then aggregate across scales into higher-order stability and apparent regularities. A key structural distinction is a regime shift with coupling/aggregation: sparse coupling supports broader variability (more viable trajectories), while dense coupling stabilizes trajectories into stronger regularities (fewer viable trajectories), and at sufficiently high coupling behavior can appear effectively deterministic. This is presented as a trend to be operationalized and tested rather than a blanket determinism claim. To support cross-domain description, UInDT provides seven recurring functional roles—Initiation, Constraint response, Accumulation, Coherence tendency, Preservation/continuity, Adaptive restructuring/transmutation, and Directional bias—intended as architectural roles implemented differently across domains. UInDT further distinguishes two functional domains of emergence: (1) material / non-life-expressive structures that do not self-propagate or self-modulate trace organization as systems, and (2) informationally expressive systems (life, mind, culture, artificial systems) that organize, select, and propagate trace-patterns to produce adaptive coherent behavior. It also asserts a representation limit called partial proportionality: no local identity (unit or aggregate) fully represents the Whole; identity remains part-to-Whole—bounding certainty and inference while enabling diversity and error. This v0.1 preprint is explicitly a minimal kernel and not a complete mathematical unification, and it does not claim empirical validation of its hypotheses. It includes core claims (e.g., trace/transition primacy and information as stabilized-trace threshold; the minimal emergence sequence; the seven functional roles; partial proportionality) and labels an ethics statement only as an extension point (not an established result of v0.1). It also lists explicit hypotheses as hypotheses (including proposals about quantum nonlocal correlation, gravity as emergent tension across trace gradients, and the speed of light as a propagation constraint limit under high constraint density), and it points to companion release artifacts for the fuller list of minimal observables/predictions and explicit scope/non-claims/limits.“This version adds the preprint PDF as a separate file (content unchanged).”Landing page: https://armandosotouidt.github.io/uindt/Master index (all theories): https://armandosotouidt.github.io/If links are stripped, search repository: armandosotouidtPreprint PDF (direct reading): https://osf.io/n4fv6/files/7wncmRelease pack note: the PDF is also be inside the ZIP; use the link above for fastest reading.