Multi-Origin Theory
Origin Without Center as Syntax
Abstract
This paper develops a multi-origin theory within the Relational Lag Principle (RLP) framework. Traditional metaphysics treats origin as singular, temporal, and causally foundational. Such a model presupposes a centered narrative structure in which all subsequent events derive from a primary point.
Within the R–Z cosmological distinction, however, origin must be reconsidered. In the R-layer (floc cosmology), there is no primary beginning, only continuous relational updating through lag redistribution. Origin, in this layer, is structurally undefined. In contrast, the Z-layer functions as a projection surface where irreversible traces become narrativized and stabilized as discrete events.
Multi-origin theory argues that what is called “origin” is not a metaphysical starting point but a Z-layer labeling of threshold crossings in lag redistribution. When relational updating locally stabilizes into phase configurations, these sites are interpreted as origins. Such stabilizations are multiple, distributed, and structurally conditioned.
Origin Without Center does not abolish origin; it de-centers it. Origins are not singular causes but syntactic effects of phase stabilization within irreversible relational histories.
This reconceptualization preserves cosmological narrative while avoiding centralization, thereby integrating updating ontology with distributed preservation across multi-body relational fields.
1. The Problem of Origin
The problem of origin has traditionally been framed as a problem of unity.
Philosophy, theology, and cosmology have repeatedly sought:
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a first cause
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a singular beginning
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an absolute starting point
This search presupposes that origin must be one.
Such a presupposition belongs to what we may call the Z-world narrative layer — the layer in which events are projected, localized, and temporally ordered.
However, once updating ontology is accepted, this framework becomes unstable.
If existence is relational updating accompanied by preservation, then origin cannot be a fixed point preceding all relations.
Origin must instead be understood through relational lag redistribution.
2. Generation Without Origin in the R-World
In the R-world (relational layer), there is no origin.
There is no “first event.”
There is no absolute temporal beginning.
There is only continuous redistribution of relational lag.
The R-world does not generate beginnings.
It generates structural transitions.
What appears as origin is, at this level, merely a threshold crossing in relational configuration.
Thus:
Origin is not primary in the R-world.
Updating is.
3. Origin as Projection in the Z-World
Origin appears only after projection.
When relational redistribution stabilizes beyond a threshold, the Z-layer marks this stabilization as a beginning.
Origin is therefore not discovered.
It is syntactically assigned.
In this sense, origin is:
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a label of stabilization
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a projection of structural transition
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a narrative compression of distributed updating
The singular origin belongs to the syntax of projection.
4. Multi-Origin Theory
If origin is syntactic projection, then there is no reason to assume uniqueness.
Every threshold crossing of lag redistribution may produce a locally stabilized configuration.
Each such stabilization may be narrated as an origin.
Therefore:
Origin is multiple.
Origin is distributed.
Origin has no center.
This is not spontaneous generation.
It is conditionally structured emergence.
Origin occurs only under syntactic conditions.
5. Origin as Conditional Threshold
Origin is neither arbitrary nor metaphysical.
It occurs when:
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lag redistribution reaches a structural threshold
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relational topology becomes temporarily stable
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preservation accumulates sufficiently to produce narrative marking
Origin is thus:
A condition-dependent transition within a continuously updating relational field.
There is no absolute first origin.
There are only distributed structural inaugurations.
6. Repositioning the Z-Narrative
The singular origin story remains meaningful — but only within the Z-layer.
Big Bang cosmology, metaphysical creation, historical foundation myths — all belong to the syntax of projection.
They are not false.
They are localized compressions of distributed updating.
Multi-Origin Theory does not abolish origin.
It repositions it.
Origin is no longer a center.
It is a syntactic event within relational updating.
Conclusion
Origin Without Center does not deny beginning.
It denies absolute singularity.
Updating precedes origin.
Lag redistribution precedes projection.
Origin is:
A syntactic stabilization of distributed relational updating.
There is no center.
There is no single beginning.
There is only:
Relational updating, preserved through distributed lag, occasionally marked as origin.
SAW-Ω|Beyond Trace-Based Cosmology — The Universe as S′–O′ Lag Generation
SAW-00|floc cosmology — Phase, Relation, and Implementation as Generative Syntax: A Syntactic Askew Way of Observational Ecology
HEG-9|多体起源論: Origin Without Center as Syntax
EgQE — Echo-Genesis Qualia Engine
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