Choice as a Systemic Output
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Philosophy Paper 7 in the Amirhosseini Cycle (AC) series. Building on the preset-frame architecture of Paper 6, this paper examines agency, free will, and choice. It holds that they are illusions of independent origin, not of deliberation or of experience: no chooser, inside the mind or outside the architecture, originates what is not already given within it. The paper distinguishes the deliberative configuration, real within each frame, from experienced deliberation, which manifests through traversal across frames, and shows that indeterminacy would not supply an independent chooser. In short, it relocates choice from the category of origin to the category of manifestation. No new primitive is introduced; observer identity across frames, the connective dynamics of traversal, and a full account of consciousness are deferred to future papers.
Author: Amirhosseini, Nader K.
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225596499