Liberating Time: Reflections on the JMAF Conception of Temporality

This essay presents a revisionary conception of time emerging from the Jestin Modal–Actuality Framework (JMAF). Unlike classical, relativistic, psychological, or informational accounts, JMAF treats time not as a dimension, measure, or experiential flow, but as the structural residue of collapsing possibility. This conception is unitless, non uniform, and characterised by a dual linear–cyclic form without beginning or end. After briefly clarifying the notions of collapse and structural residue, the essay contrasts JMAF time with several historical treatments of temporality, showing that while related in spirit to certain process oriented or relational views, it ultimately occupies a distinct metaphysical category. Though “useless” in conventional predictive or quantitative terms, JMAF time is meaningful as an explanatory insight into becoming and actualisation.