No Causal Chain Proceeds Among Multiple Lawful Alternatives Without Selection - A Structural No-Go Result
This note states a structural no-go: no causal chain proceeds among multiple lawful alternatives without selection — the taking of one alternative within the admissible set as the continuation actually realized. Admissibility presents possibilities; it does not actualize them. The paper isolates the distinction between admissibility (the standing of a possibility as lawfully open) and selection (the taking of one possibility as the one realized), and shows that a chain proceeding through a multi-alternative point requires the latter, not merely the former. The result is presented as a compact structural no-go with a clear falsifier.
Authors
- John Christian William McKinley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7097-5035)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-05-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20264520
- Primary Topic
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Type
- preprint