Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.

Free will — free will and volition, as philosophy and as science — compatibilism and its rivals, manipulation and responsibility, and the neuroscience of voluntary action such as the readiness potential (group: philosophy; ADR-025).

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QUESTION-068Would settling whose a will-organization is settle the agent’s accountability for what it does, or does accountability need conditions, such as normative competence and avoidability, that ownership does not supply?Filed in the fourth synthesis pass to give readings no question asked for a place in the argument. It bears on QUESTION-011, CLAIM-022 and CLAIM-016. THEORY-118, THEORY-119, THEORY-122 and THEORY-147 answer it in part; the body gives each one’s limit. Deferred with its line.Deferred
QUESTION-364When an agent’s own processes revise its will-organization, what makes the result the continuation of that agent’s will rather than a replacement authored by something else, and how can a history of authorization count when the standards for reading authorization are themselves revised?One of the four “hardest problems” A29 listed in its synthesis of the exchange “Analyze nucleation concepts” (2026-10-31), under “organizational identity and authorship”. A29 cited QUESTION-284 for it, which asks something else (whether constraints characterize or constitute). The nearest held question, QUESTION-118, asks the collective form without will or authorization. This is the will-organization form.Open