Paper 17 · III. Irreversibility & Persistence Geometry

The Silence Limit

In production (complete)

Argues purposive constraint cannot persist absent living originators.

Function in corpus

Teleological boundary condition of automation regimes.

Details

• Key move: Purpose cannot arise or persist in purely informational systems absent participation in a living constraint ecology capable of originating non-surrogable stakes, loss, and irrever… • Corpus role: The teleological boundary condition for the entire governance and AI alignment arc. • Scope note: The corpus builds to this point methodically through Groups I–IV.

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