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Agency as a Bookkeeping Projection

Amos Jay Maley

This paper argues that agency is not an ontic primitive but a representational bookkeeping projection within an admissible interior. Under standing conservation and fail-closed admissibility, agency is shown to arise as a descriptive convenience tied to particular partitions of the admissible structure, rather than as an independently acting causal entity. The analysis proceeds by exhaustion: treating agency as ontically fundamental leads either to redundancy or to inadmissible scope transport. No mechanisms, de...

All-version DOI
10.5281/zenodo.18522150
Archive page
https://constraintsystemsinstitute.org/papers/agency-as-a-bookkeeping-projection-10-5281-zenodo-18522150/
Report number
CSI-ZENODO-18522150
Publication date
2026/02/08
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https://zenodo.org/records/18522151