Ontology
Resolution Under Degeneracy
In production (complete)A structural account of what happens when multiple admissible futures remain open and no unique continuation is determined in advance.
Function in corpus
Bridge from the ontological ladder into agency, freedom, and later responsibility papers. Provides the formal opening needed for discussions of choice, underdetermination, and constraint-guided resolution.
Details
The paper treats degeneracy as a normal condition of sufficiently complex informational systems rather than as noise to be optimized away. Instead of importing randomness or hidden selection rules, it shows how resolution occurs within a field of valid alternatives and why certain explanatory questions become illegitimate once multiple continuations are genuinely admissible. ā¢ Connected papers: Perspective-Induced Openness in Deterministic Systems; Agency, Salience, and Free Will; Freedom, Drift, and Renewal; Partial Agency and Mixed Responsibility