Karma Theory v1.0

Life as Trajectory, Causal Legacy, and Future Choice

Author: Kai Wang
Version: 1.0
Status: Conceptual Essay / Preprint
Role: Related / supporting framework

Karma Theory treats a life—or more generally an evolving entity—as a trajectory through a world that has already been changed by prior interactions and will itself be changed by new ones. It is descriptive rather than a theory of moral reward, metaphysical force, or deterministic fate.

Its central perspective is that historical interactions can leave persistent causal consequences that alter the world inherited by later trajectories. Those consequences can change probabilities and available futures without uniquely determining what happens next.

Relationship to the core program

Karma Theory shares dynamical and causal themes with Connection Theory and the Flow Shaping Principle, but begins from a different question: after an interaction enters history, where do its consequences go and how do they continue to affect the future?

Formal record

Version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21929099
All versions DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21929098
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