The Model
If the Arena is the stage, this is the play. The framework's process runs here — the same settling of possibility into fact, but now in motion, something you can watch happen.
The Arena showed a space. The Model shows what happens inside it: possibility settling into fact, over and over, at the scale of a single measurement settling into one self-consistent, bound state — the framework's term is a “bound whole”. It is an illustration of the process rather than a calculation of anything, and the axis it runs along is qualitative: one end noisy and indefinite, the other settled and classical. Let it run, or drive it yourself.
Reading the model
Let it run. The sweep carries the field from one end of the axis to the other and loops: at the quantum end the field is dark shimmer — actualization is attempted fast and nothing persists; through the critical zone the red form ignites and strobes as one thing against the background; at the classical end everything glows steadily and the strobe washes out into stable matter. Take either slider at any time. Manual mode holds a position while you work the other controls; speed scales the sweep and the dynamics together, on one clock.
Nothing is scripted
Every dot is an antipodal possibility-pair running the same τ-cycle the Arena page shows, as a noisy oscillator among thousands. Exactly four quantities vary along the axis, each monotone: the actualization rate rises, persistence rises, phase noise falls, and the coupling that integration applies scales with the rate. No regime is programmed anywhere in the code — the dark quantum end, the ignition through the critical zone, the classical washout, and what the meter reports are consequences the dynamics produce. The mappings are scaled for legibility and the slider's traverse is normalized, so the axis carries an ordering and not a scale: nothing here is a measurement of anything, and no position on it should be read as a physical quantity.
The criticality meter
The meter reports one number, C: how much the form coheres apart from the surrounding field, times how sharply its actualizations still strobe. The two factors fail in opposite directions — noise destroys coherence on the quantum side, saturation destroys the strobe on the classical side — so C is peaked, and the dashed line marks the working criterion for criticality. The curve of C along the axis is drawn live from the running dynamics, only where the slider has actually been. Set integration to zero and C lies flat at zero across the entire scale: no position rescues it.
Integration, binding, and the form
Integration is a continuous gain on the coupling between neighboring sites, and it has its own threshold: sliding it up changes nothing, then the form snaps into lock — a second phase transition, orthogonal to the first. Binding is a diagnosis rather than a control: it draws an edge between two neighbors only when the dynamics have phase-locked them and they actualize together, repeatedly. With integration off it stays dark. The form is the content being actualized — an apple-shaped region whose sites are sampled denser, matter being denser than vacuum, with a narrowed frequency spread and colors fixed at the start as content, red body and green leaf. A deposit renders as its content color times a brightness the dynamics alone determine, so the colored apple appears exactly insofar as its sites actualize. Turn the form off and a faint density ghost remains, but nothing again actualizes as one thing.
What this does and does not show
The sandbox demonstrates that a bound, integrated whole — many separate events acting as one — is the sort of thing a projective process can produce, and that it appears only in a band, between the noise that destroys coherence and the saturation that destroys the strobe. Biology exploits conditions like these. Where that band sits on any physical scale is a separate question, and this page does not answer it. For the geometry the process runs on, see the Arena; for the argument the framework rests on, the Explainer.