SEQUENTION: A Timeless Biological Framework for Foliated Evolution
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I present \textsc{SEQUENTION}, a timeless theoretical framework for biological change in which the living biosphere is a three-dimensional shadow of a complete four-dimensional counterspace holding the full content of viable genotype--phenotype--environment relations. In this view, ontic time does not exist; what is commonly described as ``evolution through time'' is a foliation artifact of admissible projections from a unified 4-D content field. I formalize \textsc{SEQUENTION} with an \emph{extrinsic constitutive law} that maps informational gradients to observable fixation and trait-change fluxes via a single embedding scale (\aD). Classical population-genetic dynamics emerge as \emph{gauge choices} in a high-constraint limit. % === AMENDED v2.0 === The term "falsifiable predictions" is a categorical error, as A3 is non-falsifiable. Replaced. I derive a program of \textbf{cartographic inquiries}---curvature invariants for convergent adaptations, order-invariant terminal phenotypes within projection cones, slice-invariant developmental complexity, corridor-governed macroevolutionary bursts without temporal rates, and protocol-independent invariants in laboratory evolution---and provide protocols (deep mutational scanning, modular CRISPR assays, comparative morphometrics, microbial evolution) to \textbf{map them}. Recasting evolution as projection geometry rather than temporal process, I aim to unify convergence, canalization, and punctuated patterns under a single, testable law. Within \textsc{SEQUENTION}, \emph{uncertainty, randomness, and probability} have no ontic status; they are artifacts of foliation and incomplete conditioning.