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May 25, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Propagation, Admissibility, Redescription, and Reassignment Applied to a Prior No-Go - No Closed Physical System Internally Fixes the Onset and Direction of a New Causal Chain

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JMJohn Christian William McKinley

Key Points

  • The aim is to apply key conceptual distinctions to support a prior structural no-go regarding causal chains.
  • Analysis of four conceptual distinctions: propagation, admissibility, redescription, and reassignment.
  • Establishment of a reassignment lemma based on prior causal chain results.
  • Proof and falsification of the prior no-go statement using a dichotomy approach.
  • No closed physical system can internally fix the onset or direction of a new causal chain.
  • A fixing step on the causal chain cannot earlier establish internal fixation of that chain.
  • An earlier fixing step exists outside the closed system, highlighting the difference between internal and external contributions.

Abstract

This paper applies four conceptual distinctions — propagation versus onset, admissibility versus actual direction, redescription versus determination, and reassignment versus internal fixation — to a prior structural no-go that no closed physical system internally fixes the onset and direction of a new causal chain among multiple lawful possibilities (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.19464781). Taking that result as proven, together with results that any proceeding causal chain has an initiation (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.20263607) and that a chain proceeding among multiple lawful continuations requires selection (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.20264521), the paper establishes a reassignment lemma: reassigning the determination of onset or direction to a prior internal step does not supply internal fixation. The proof rests on a clean dichotomy. A proposed fixing step that lies on the new causal chain itself is not earlier than that chain's onset and cannot fix what it is part of. A proposed fixing step that is earlier than the chain lies outside the closed chain under discussion and is therefore a non-internal contribution rather than internal fixation. The paper restates the prior no-go in fuller form with a clear falsifier.

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John Christian William McKinley (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a13e83b0e02ee3982d32faahttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20350875
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