No Self-Actualizing Ledger: Why Syntax, Semantics, and Same-Level Completion Cannot Ground Reality Paper 62 of the NEMS Suite
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Paper 61 closed the ghost-ontology escape: off-ledger being is either illicit or null. A remaining move is: maybe the ledger can ground its own actuality—a self-actualizing ledger. Paper 62 kills that move. We prove that no articulated ledger can be the full sufficient ontological ground of its own actuality. Syntax cannot ground it (Paper 53). Object-level semantics cannot ground it (circular). Equal-status external completion cannot ground it (Paper 23). Self-actualizing ledger cannot ground it (circular). The formalization is in the \pathLedgerGround library of reflexive-closure-lean : 0 sorry, 2 explicit axioms (object-level grounding ban; no self-actualizing ledger), with the remaining routes derived via bridge modules. Trust boundary. The two axioms are disclosed in ; they are not synonyms for "obvious"—audit them before disputing Theorems 62.2 or 62.4.
Author: Spivack, Nova
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7149913185
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