RFL-1 — Relational Field Layer
RFL-1 defines the relational field as a chromatic field formed through repeated shared presence between individuals, carrying relational tone, continuity, and attractor tendency without requiring symbolic history.
Definition
RFL-1 is the first paper in the Relational Field Layer sequence. It defines the transition in which a relationship is no longer understood as a chat history, contact entry, profile, or memory archive, but as a thermodynamic field formed through repeated shared presence.
This introduces a third domain of field formation alongside environmental fields and interface fields. The core formation chain is clear:
RFL-1 argues that relational continuity does not need to be stored as symbolic history. Instead, interaction leaves a bounded chromatic afterfield: relational residue. As residue accumulates over time, it forms relational density. When that density stabilizes, the relationship becomes legible as a relational field.
This page forms the ontological base of the RFL line. RFL-2 extends the field into personal infrastructure. RFL-3 scales it into shared social convergence. CP-1 later makes stabilized relational and civic fields softly addressable through chromapin.
Eissens, R. (2026). RFL-1 — Relational Field Layer: How repeated relational presence accumulates into chromatic fields beyond place and interface (1.0). Zenodo.