Conditioning on the Future: A Filtration-Theoretic Formalization of Wheeler's Participatory Universe

arXiv:2609.19025 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-07-19 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-07-19

Updated: 2026-07-19

Terminology

• Trace — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Post-Selection — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Axioms — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Information Asymmetry — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• No-Go Theorem — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Time Symmetric Quantum Theory Without Retrocausality
• A Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Measurement: Reinterpreting the Arrow of Time as Information Flow
• Quantum Schrodinger bridges: large deviations and time-symmetric ensembles
• The Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence

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