Causality and Remainder: Self-as-an-End Theory Series Cosmological Physics Paper

This paper is the cosmological physics paper of the Self-as-an-End theory series, parallel to Paper 4 (Negativity and Subjectivity). Both share the same axiom — ontic randomness exists — and derive independently: Paper 4 moves toward the subject, this paper moves toward the cosmos. The paper argues that the two-dimensional meta-structure of the Self-as-an-End framework was already operative before subjectivity emerged. The negation of remainder by causality (horizontal axis) and the survival and self-organization of remainder (vertical axis) constitute the fundamental tension of the universe since the Big Bang. Subjectivity is the highest emergence of the vertical axis — remainder organized to the degree of self-acknowledgment. The horizontal axis in the subject application points in the opposite direction from the cosmological horizontal axis: cosmically, causality negates remainder; in the subject, remainder negates causality. Freedom is the self-negation of the universe's causality expressed in the first person.