The Common Governance Model (CGM) is a first-principles model of reality that explains the emergence of space, structure, and motion from the fundamental condition of freedom.
Rather than assuming the existence of spacetime, CGM demonstrates that all observable phenomena originate from self-referential recursion — a generative process that differentiates itself through relational memory.
At its foundation, CGM asserts that all existence is associated through a Common Source, yet absolute associativity — the idea that combinations are indifferent to relational ordering — is rejected.
Instead, CGM introduces gyroassociativity, a relational structure where composition preserves differentiation through internal memory (gyration), ensuring that the history of transformations is encoded intrinsically.
Through this recursive process, CGM derives the necessary emergence of:
This structuration unfolds through four recursive phases:
Each phase transition is governed by mathematically necessary thresholds, revealing that stable physical reality — with its dimensionality, degrees of freedom, and internal ordering — is not arbitrary, but the inevitable result of self-differentiating recursive structure.
CGM begins with no assumed space, time, or external structure.
At its basis lies a pure act of self-referentiation — an intrinsic process by which a primordial condition, called the Common Source (CS), differentiates itself through recursive internal operation:
x ↦ x′
This self-operation is inherently non-associative:
(x • y) • z ≠ x • (y • z)