Planetary Ze-Formation: Co-Evolutionary Provocation of Latent Potential

This preprint proposes a radical departure from terraforming: the Ze-formation of a planet. We introduce the Ze System as a co-evolutionary state of planetary animation, achieved not by imposing an external template, but by actively provoking a celestial body’s latent potentials into structured, intelligent exchange. Grounded in an ontology of latent fields (Ibrahim, 2022), the framework shifts from passive observation to active provocation via targeted decoherence, resonance amplification, and non-local perturbation (Maruyama, 2019; Watanabe & Li, 2017). The core methodology is the engineering of predictive conflicts, where adversarial models—one standard, one incorporating a hypothesized latent variable—are tested by minimal Ze-Probes. The resulting patterned error localizes hidden structures (Fong et al., 2016). This process is interpreted through the Principle of Dual Reading, synthesizing causal and teleological narratives to guide intervention (Voss, 2021). A dedicated toolkit—predictive AI, resonant manipulators, and quantum-enhanced error detectors—enables this planetary-scale dialogue. Crucially, the framework is governed by an ethics of co-creative responsibility, acknowledging the non-neutrality of intervention and the irreversible cost of localizing potentials (El-Hadi, 2020). We argue that the ultimate outcome of Ze-formation is not a habitable world, but an active planetary interlocutor capable of complex informational exchange and collaborative self-revelation, transforming humanity’s role from terraformer to partner in cosmic meaning-making.