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CLAIM-534: A plural will's motivational integration, a dimension of freedom of will the record names and leaves unanalysed, is the extent to which the demands it maintains are jointly met, within tolerances it can recognize, across the contexts where they interact, and kept so under its own dynamics; it is neither agreement among the demands nor the dominance of one, and its parts come apart: realizability (the tolerance frontier), realization (governance frustration), maintenance (viability) and the allocation of the tolerance each demand gives up

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Properties10
StatusProposed
Rolethesis
Warrantinterpretive
Tagsbehavioral-integration, self-governance, free-will
Linewill-organization
Bears onQUESTION-255 — Can an empirical model that genuinely fails to glue, under a specified cover and correspondence between its contexts, take part in one phenomenally unified process, given that a unified experience can contain conflicting interpretations or demands and that such conflicts are not by themselves gluing obstructions?
Rests onCLAIM-347 — Frustration among an organization's demands is an ordinal fact before it is a quantity: the jointly satisfiable sets of demands form a downward-closed complex whose minimal non-faces are the minimal conflicts, relief is strict enlargement of that complex for the same declared demands, reorganizations that relieve different conflicts are incomparable, and dropping or suppressing a demand is not relief, CLAIM-538 — On a finite graph of contexts whose overlaps carry preferred real offsets a and tolerances δ_e ≥ 0, an assignment within every tolerance, |Dx − a| ≤ δ, exists exactly when no cycle's holonomy exceeds the sum of its tolerances; with every δ_e > 0 the least uniform enlargement of the tolerances that admits one is the largest ratio, over simple cycles, of holonomy to summed tolerance, so the obstruction is certified by a cycle; the feasible allocations of tolerance depend on the offsets only through their class in H¹, so local adjustment can move a mismatch among the overlaps of a cycle and never remove it; and an evaluation that omits one overlap of every witnessing cycle reports a compatibility that does not hold, CLAIM-357 — The frustration residual and governance regret separate structural infeasibility, realized violation and minimax suboptimality, and identify none of them as thwarting: a positive residual says no admissible update meets every declared requirement, a positive regret only that the actual update's worst residual exceeds the best achievable, which can hold while every requirement is met, and actual violation needs regret above the negative residual; aggregate performance does not tell infeasibility from realized violation, and the multipliers that certify infeasibility need not be the weights governance assigns, CLAIM-079 — Stability does not entail viability: a system can occupy a stable regime while losing access to trajectories that keep satisfying its constraints
GroundsTHEORY-134 — Whether a system can persist is a question about a constraint set fixed independently of its dynamics: a set is viable when from each of its states some evolution can stay in it, and when it is not, its viability kernel is the largest part that is, from the rest of which every evolution leaves in finite time
ComplementsCLAIM-545 — Freedom of will, in the operational sense, is an agent's governance of its own governability: the extent to which its own organization makes the relevant distinctions legible, gives the demands they raise practical efficacy, directs its transitions, and revises the relations that govern those three, including under another's interference; openness, sensitivity and controllability of outcomes each fall short of it, and domination is another's capacity to govern those same relations, used or not, CLAIM-153 — Failure of a self to hold together across contexts is a monodromy around a cycle of contexts: any two locally consistent contexts glue, and the minimal model of the obstruction needs three
UsesTERM-060 — frustration, of an organization's demands: the failure of the demands it maintains to be jointly realizable under its admissible transformations and its governance

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The claim

CLAIM-354 lists motivational integration among the dimensions of freedom of will and gives it no content. This claim gives it one. A will made of several demands is integrated to the extent that those demands are co-satisfied:

  • within tolerances, because demands are threshold demands (TERM-060), met within a bound and not at a point;
  • that it can recognize, because a tolerance it cannot detect it cannot keep (NOTE-1222, Thms 6.1–6.2; TERM-064);
  • across the contexts where they interact, because compatibility is a gluing question, and pairwise compatibility does not give joint compatibility (CASE-119; CLAIM-538’s cycle criterion);
  • kept so under its own dynamics, because a jointly satisfiable point that the dynamics leave is not maintained integration (A27’s ẋ = 1 + u, |u| ≤ ½; CLAIM-079, stability does not entail viability).

Four things then come apart, any of which can hold while another fails:

  • realizability, whether the frontier of CLAIM-538 admits an allocation, CLAIM-347’s complex;
  • realization, whether the organization actually meets it, the governance frustration CLAIM-357 separates from structural frustration;
  • maintenance, whether it stays met under the dynamics, viability (THEORY-134);
  • allocation, where on the frontier the mismatch falls, which overlap gives up how much, a choice CLAIM-538 shows is real and CLAIM-361 asks who may make.

Integration is then neither agreement, all demands the same, nor dominance, one demand silencing the rest. Suppression that removes a demand from what is evaluated produces apparent integration and is excluded, by CLAIM-347’s relief as enlargement for the same demands and by CLAIM-538’s omission clause.

What it does not say

  • That integration is good. Neither the demands nor the allocation are shown warranted (CLAIM-523, CLAIM-075).
  • That integration is the whole of freedom. It is one of CLAIM-354’s dimensions. CLAIM-545 places it among the relations an agent governs.
  • That experience tracks it. QUESTION-255 asks whether unified experience survives conflicting demands; this account is about co-satisfaction, not experience.

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