---
title: "Irrelevance of History"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "watching"
canonical_name: "Irrelevance of History"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-11-02T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-11-02-outside-arxiv261041944-locality-probability-and-the-relevance-of.md, 2026-11-03"
connects_to: ["Sebastian Horvat","Probabilistic Locality","Bell's theorem"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
---


An assumption, named and formalized by [[entity-sebastian-horvat|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 [[entity-probabilistic-locality|Probabilistic Locality]], entails [[entity-john-bell|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]]).