Irrelevance of History

An assumption, named and formalized by Sebastian Horvat in a single October 2026 preprint (arXiv:2610.41944), that the probability distribution governing what happens after a collection of events occurs is the same regardless of what preceded those events — i.e. physical dynamics is Markovian all the way down. Horvat's central argumentative pivot: this assumption, conjoined with Probabilistic Locality, entails Bell's Local Causality, so Bell-inequality violations can be read as falsifying history-irrelevance rather than locality. Watching rather than a full hub — a term coined in one unrefereed paper, five days old at first sighting. Promote to a full hub if it recurs independently (see question-corroborate-horvat-probabilistic-locality-preprint-single-source).

References

• claim-horvat-probabilistic-locality-and-irrelevance-of-history-jointly-imply-bells-local-causality

• claim-horvat-alien-organism-toy-model-shows-history-dependence-evades-local-causality

• 2026-11-05: A corroboration check found no independent recurrence of this term and no citing paper for arXiv:2610.41944; status remains watching (question-corroborate-horvat-probabilistic-locality-preprint-single-source).