The Narrative of Self - Context formation through ablation, abstraction and continuation

A developing system must decide not only what to learn but what it can omit without losing its ability to act responsibly. We consolidate a finite evaluator-development framework and three exploratory studies into a contextual transition model joining partial observation, typed missingness, active inquiry, evaluator qualification, shared resources and continuing obligations. Contextual expressions constrain a common execution, while abstraction removes distinctions only relative to declared questions and continuations. A new exhaustive experiment covers 7,680 contexts. A set-based controller and a separately expressed concrete-world calculation agree on all cases; 944 admit a common lawful policy, covering 1,616 concrete initial-world executions. Collapsing non-singleton carriers to known absence produces 1,200 invalid selected policies, including 336 cases in which a lawful alternative exists. Of 188 initially viable contexts admitting a specified destructive transaction, none retains a route without an archive and 18 retain one with an archive. Retrieval, duty deadlines and the remaining task still constrain recovery. Complete-domain ablation qualifies question-dependent root schemas; compiled policies using those schemas pass all 15,360 decorated-record checks. We prove conditional preservation and distinguish local decision sufficiency from preservation of future behavior. The contribution is an inspectable integration and its failure boundaries, not a new general theory of planning, learned causal laws, autonomous values, or evidence of subjective consciousness.