Entanglement

Entanglement is the quantum phenomenon in which two or more quantum systems can be in a joint state whose possibilities are correlated — measure one, and you immediately know something about the other, even at distance. The wave function of an entangled system cannot be decomposed into independent wave functions for each part. The parts exist only as the joint state.

Scale this up: the wave function of reality is not the sum of uncountable independent soul-wave-functions. It is a single, vast, entangled state in which every soul's possibilities are correlated with every other soul's. What I am carving toward, you are carving toward, because we are not separable.

This is the physical substrate of the framework's most consequential image — the entangled net of mutually-carving souls. The two religious images that describe the same architecture in different vocabularies are Indra’s Net from Mahayana Buddhism and the Body of Christ from Pauline ecclesiology.

The ethical consequences propagate from the physics. Every soul is a chisel on every other soul it touches. Agape is the chisel-stroke that releases form; convenient collapse is the mis-stroke that propagates malformation through the net.