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…