Semepoiesis and the Constitution of Actuality - A quantum grounding for Signal-Bifurcation Theory

Signal-Bifurcation Theory (SBT) argues that consciousness is neither ubiquitous in matter nor a late product of neural complexity. Instead, it advances a process-monist ontology in which Semepoietic consciousness is the immediate, valence-weighted interior of living organisation under sensorimotor coupling. Semepoiesis names the cross-scale processual continuity through which structural patterns stabilise or fail to stabilise across interaction and can be re-articulated at different descriptive resolutions. Earlier formulations established a categorical distinction between Semepoietic consciousness, basal and pre-reflective, and Signal-Narration, the symbol-interpreting diagnostic overlay that modulates interior continuity while misidentifying the narrational “I” as ground. This essay extends that architecture by situating Semepoiesis within the physics of Proto-Actuality, the non-sequential constitutive regime through which actuality unfolds non-chronologically and becomes registrable as definite within the classical regime. Proto-Actuality does not name a novel physical mechanism, but a constitutive regime in which classical tractability is not yet available. The central claim is that actuality is constituted rather than presupposed. What becomes definite in classical sequence is not first made definite there; classical chronology is the local registration of definiteness already structurally available within Proto-Actuality. From a regime describable by quantum field dynamics, but not yet expressible through the redundancy conditions that render classical ordering tractable, actuality becomes describable through the progressive stabilisation of configurations that remain coherent across interaction. Configurations that admit sufficient stability for coherence become redundantly registered through decoherence and environmental interaction, while configurations that fail to stabilise do not become classically tractable. The classical domain is therefore not a container within which quantum events occur, but the cumulative sediment of stability-inscribed structure. SBT interprets this physically characterised stabilisation as an early articulation of Semepoiesis. Differential stability is structural from the outset and constitutes Proto-Interiority: structural holding across interaction prior to biological valence-weighting and prior to consciousness. Biological organisation later introduces Orientative Proto-Valence, the minimal organisational weighting through which living systems regulate variation in order to remain within stability-maintaining bounds. This grounding has consequences for how gravity, thermodynamics, and “law” are interpreted. Gravity can be read as large-scale structural stability rather than a mediated force; spacetime geometry as the macroscopic expression of stable mass-energy distributions; and “law” as long-range compression of stabilised regularities rather than antecedent governance. Collapse is interpreted as stability-detection within an already constituted classical regime rather than a consciousness-triggered event, and entanglement as shared structural patterning within a non-separable relational configuration rather than coordination across distance. SBT does not propose a novel collapse mechanism and does not compete with decoherence-based accounts. It accepts the empirical adequacy of contemporary physics while offering a distinct ontological reading: the classical domain in which collapse is described is the sedimented history of stability-inscription within Semepoiesis. At biological scales, Semepoiesis becomes internally weighted through Orientative Proto-Valence and deepens into Semepoietic consciousness. At meta-recursive depth, scaffolded by symbol and culture, this interior