Paper 24 · IV. Agency & Salience Mechanics
Purpose Without Teleology
In production (complete)Explains purpose as emergent trajectory constraint without final causes.
Function in corpus
Prepares Silence Limit boundary argument.
Details
• Key move: Once meaning exists in a system that persists under constraint and ordering, purpose is structurally structurally stabilized. • Corpus role: Completes the M → P transition and thereby completes the regime ladder derivation begun in Paper 1. • Scope note: Without a non-teleological account of purpose, the corpus cannot explain purposive behavior in organisms, institutions, and agents without importing assumptions it's des…