This work develops an ontological investigation into the conditions under which reality is not merely possible, but becomes actual, enduring, and binding. Instead of treating reality as a given substrate or as a purely descriptive domain of physics, the study asks under which minimal structural conditions reality can arise, persist, and carry normative weight.Three conditions are identified as jointly necessary: actualization, understood as the irreversible transition from possibility to validity; duration, understood not as temporal length but as the capacity to sustain distinguishability over time; and sustainability (Tragfähigkeit), understood as the structural ability of reality to remain relationally stable rather than collapsing into mere functionality.These conditions are developed neither as metaphysical substances nor as moral postulates, but as ontological constraints on what it means for something to be real at all. The investigation deliberately stops short of moral theory or applied ethics, arguing instead that questions of responsibility and delegability presuppose these more fundamental conditions of reality.The text positions itself at the boundary between ontology, philosophy of physics, and philosophy of technology, offering a framework within which contemporary debates—especially those concerning technological and artificial agency—can be more clearly grounded.
Michael Kübler (Thu,) studied this question.