Froggle's Dilemma II: Survival-Conditioned Choice Dynamics Under the Noneness Boundary - Choice-Field Topology and Viability-Constrained Utility in Time-Scalar Field Theory (TSFT)

In Why Particles Exist: Survival-Conditioned Discreteness from the Noneness Boundary, TSFT was used to show that forward propagation is conditional: trajectories approaching the Noneness boundary (ρΘ → 0+) incur divergent temporal cost and effectively terminate, motivating a viability floor ρΘ ≥ ϵ > 0 and a constrained variational principle selecting persistent “rivet modes.” We extend the same survival-conditioning logic from physical trajectories to choice trajectories. We model actions (including inaction) as policies that select admissible paths through state space. Each choice is assigned a utility rate, but continuation is viability-gated: policies that drive the system below the Noneness floor are treated as terminal and contribute no realizable continuation. We formalize this as a viability-constrained expected utility functional that inherits the Froggle temporal cost CΘ[γ] = R dΘ/√ ρΘ and barrier suppression near ρΘ = ϵ. The resulting dynamics induce alternating dominance between locally attractive (short-horizon) options and globally survivable (low-leakage) options, yielding braided/helix-like geometry when projected onto survivability–utility coordinates. We outline stability metrics and propose falsifiable signatures in constrained interferometry, open quantum dynamics, and survival-conditioned macroscopic systems.