arXiv:2607.03198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models -- compressed latent representations of an environment that support action-conditioned prediction and planning -- are typically presented as a product of modern self-supervised learning. This paper argues that the functional anatomy of a world model was independently developed, deployed, and formally analyzed decades earlier in the model-order-reduction (MOR) and control literature, under different names and for a different purpose: the real-time operation of physical systems. We trace the anatomy across three communities. Low-dimens
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