References

Sources and publication relationships. The bibliography identifies the works and editions used in the complete argument. Source locators concern the specified editions; a preprint, publication, excerpt and web treatment are not interchangeable evidence.

References

Stefan Anderson. Levels of free will in a structural dual-aspect monism. Supplied undated five-page manuscript; no publication venue, DOI or bibliography stated, n.d.

Adriano Barenco, Charles H. Bennett, Richard Cleve, David P. DiVincenzo, Norman Margolus, Peter Shor, Tycho Sleator, John A. Smolin, and Harald Weinfurter. Elementary gates for quantum computation. Physical Review A, 52 (5): 3457-3467, 1995. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.52.3457. URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9503016v1. The inspected preprint is arXiv:quant-ph/9503016v1, 23 March 1995; Lemma 6.1 and its proof on manuscript pp.14-15 were checked for this revision.

Jason Brennan. Free will in the block universe. Philosophia, 35 (2): 207-217, 2007. doi:10.1007/s11406-007-9063-y. URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-007-9063-y.

David J. Chalmers. The combination problem for panpsychism. In Godehard Brüntrup and Ludwig Jaskolla, editors, Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives, pages 179-214. Oxford University Press, 2016. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199359943.003.0008. Oxford online publication 20 October 2016; often cited with 2017 imprint. Text inspected: supplied 37-page author manuscript; citations specify its local pagination.

Carl Hoefer. Freedom from the inside out. Measurement in Physics and Economics Technical Report 16/01, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, March 2001. URL https://web.archive.org/web/20060720222330id_/http://www.lse.ac.uk:80/collections/CPNSS/pdf/DP_withCover_Measurement/Meas-DP%2016%2001.pdf. Draft 2, March 2001. Author preprint, complete reading of printed pp. 1-19 and report cover; not the typeset 2002 edition.

Carl Hoefer. Freedom from the inside out. In Craig Callender, editor, Time, Reality and Experience, pages 201-222. Cambridge University Press, 2002. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511550263.011. URL https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511550263.011.

J. T. Ismael. How Physics Makes Us Free. Oxford University Press, New York, 2016.

Jiddu Krishnamurti. Does free will exist? Third discussion with Buddhist scholars, Brockwood Park, 23 June 1978; official transcript, 1978. URL https://www.krishnamurti.org/transcript/does-free-will-exist/. Additional primary passage checked 22 October 2026; not attributed as author of the supplied study guide.

Krishnamurti study guide. Understanding consciousness through krishnamurti: A question led study guide, n.d. Supplied synthesized study guide prepared for Jeremy; 88 questions and a source index; authorship not established, not a verbatim Krishnamurti work.

Marius Krumm and Markus P. Müller. Free agency and determinism: Is there a sensible definition of computational sourcehood? arXiv:2101.12033v2, 6 June 2023; manuscript dated 30 May 2023, 2023. URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12033v2.

Christian List. Can AI systems have free will? Synthese, 206: 115, 2025. doi:10.1007/s11229-025-05209-x. URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-05209-x. Additional primary comparison; published 22 August 2025.

Timothy O’Connor. Agent-causal theories of freedom. Author draft dated 25 January 2010 for Robert Kane (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, second edition; 38-page draft; selected original passages cited with draft pagination, not the later final chapter, 2010. URL https://toconnor.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OConnor_Agent-Causal-Theories-of-Freedom-2010.pdf.

Hilary Putnam. Time and physical geometry. The Journal of Philosophy, 64 (8): 240-247, 1967. doi:10.2307/2024493. URL https://www.jstor.org/stable/2024493.

C. W. Rietdijk. A rigorous proof of determinism derived from the special theory of relativity. Philosophy of Science, 33 (4): 341-344, 1966. doi:10.1086/288106.

Jeremy Rodgers. Source readout non-equivalence: Descent and equivariant reconstruction obstructions. Canonical Paper I. Printed June 2026; preprint deposited 15 July 2026; complete 23-page edition consulted, July 2026a. URL https://zenodo.org/records/21369967.

Jeremy Rodgers. Target-relative necessity of completion: When readout loss obstructs, and what a sufficient extension must retain. Canonical Paper II. Printed June 2026; preprint deposited 15 July 2026; complete 29-page edition consulted, July 2026b. URL https://zenodo.org/records/21370501.

Jeremy Rodgers. Canonical minimal source completion: The coarsest readout extension on which a nominated family of source relations becomes well defined. Canonical Paper III. Printed June 2026; preprint deposited 15 July 2026; complete 22-page edition consulted, July 2026c. URL https://zenodo.org/records/21370763.

Jeremy Rodgers. Observable quotients and exact projected dynamics: Closure, memory, minimal dynamical completion, and effective field operators. Canonical Paper V. Printed June 2026; preprint deposited 15 July 2026; complete 32-page edition consulted, July 2026d. URL https://zenodo.org/records/21371251.

Jeremy Rodgers. Non-source projection and internal identifiability. Canonical Paper VI. Printed June 2026; preprint deposited 15 July 2026; complete 31-page edition consulted, July 2026e. URL https://zenodo.org/records/21371451.

Jeremy Rodgers. Bounded agency and reflective freedom: Evaluative revision, information limits, and faithful realization. Public preprint, version 2.0, 6 October 2026; supplied 36-page edition, 2026f. URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23202999.

Jeremy Rodgers. Reflective alignment and AI consciousness: Awareness, agency and recursive cognitive scaffolding. Version 2.1, 11 October 2026; supplied 47-page edition, 2026g. URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23294465.

Jeremy Rodgers. From physical comparison to relational appearance: A defeasible current-act account. Version 1.4, 16 October 2026; supplied 25-page main paper, 2026h. URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23408737.

Jeremy Rodgers. Relational boundaries and awareness localization: Robustness, composition, and identification limits. Paper 2, preprint version 1.0, 29 September 2026; supplied complete LaTeX, 2026i. URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23075822.

Jeremy Rodgers. Bounded agency and reversible control: Information, compact interfaces, and the limits of deterministic refinement. Unpublished research monograph, version 2.0, 4 October 2026, canonical mathematical checkpoint and continuation state; supplied 79-page edition, despite v1 filename, 2026j.

Jeremy Rodgers. Relational development and conscious scaffolding: Conceptual foundations, strengthened results, and research commitments. Revised preprint, 6 October 2026; supplied complete LaTeX, 2026k. URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23190711.

Jeremy Rodgers. Learning effective interfaces from opaque stochastic systems: Capacity, selection, and validation limits. Paper 3, revised version 2 with post-hoc optimization sensitivity, 29 September 2026; supplied complete LaTeX, 2026l. URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23075824.

Jeremy Rodgers. Shadow theory and consciousness: Awareness, perspectival realization, and the source-to-experience problem. SPC-2, version 2 publication edition, 20 September 2026; supplied complete LaTeX monograph, 2026m. URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22853774.

Jeremy Rodgers. Technical supplement to from physical comparison to relational appearance. Version 1.4, 16 October 2026; supplied complete 82-page supplement, 2026n. URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23408737.

Jeremy Rodgers. Consciousness: SPC-2 and the source-to-experience problem. everythingequation.com, philosophical clarification and A0 note dated 20 October 2026, 2026o. URL https://www.everythingequation.com/consciousness. Consulted 22 October 2026; supplied editions remain baseline; no whole-site or byte-level public-version audit claimed.

Jeremy Rodgers. Sealed or leaky: The source tetralemma, Bell-certified hidden information, and finite-resource witnesses. Version 3.1, preprint edition. Mathematical revision 21 September 2026; publication preparation 1 October 2026. Complete author LaTeX source consulted, 2026p. URL https://www.everythingequation.com/sealed-or-leaky.

Jeremy Rodgers. Bounded perspective, real control. Everything Equation, extended agency inquiry 1, n.d.a. URL https://www.everythingequation.com/consciousness/agency/bounded-perspective. Undated web treatment of additional material from the unpublished control work, distinct from Bounded Agency and Reflective Freedom; complete page consulted in the 22 October 2026 snapshot.

Jeremy Rodgers. A chooser with a history. Everything Equation, extended agency inquiry 5, n.d.b. URL https://www.everythingequation.com/consciousness/agency/perspective-history-and-sourcehood. Undated web treatment of additional material from the unpublished control work, distinct from Bounded Agency and Reflective Freedom; complete page consulted in the 22 October 2026 snapshot. Archive example in the section entitled Conditioning can remain as content without ruling every act.

Jan Sbierski. On the existence of a maximal cauchy development for the Einstein equations: A dezornification. Annales Henri Poincaré, 17 (2): 301-329, 2016. doi:10.1007/s00023-015-0401-5. URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7591v3. Consulted arXiv:1309.7591v3, revised 2 July 2015, with PDF page locators. Published online 15 February 2015.

Jonathan Schaffer. Spacetime the one substance. Philosophical Studies, 145 (1): 131-148, 2009. doi:10.1007/s11098-009-9386-6. URL https://www.jonathanschaffer.org/spacetime.pdf.

Jonathan Schaffer. Monism: The priority of the whole. The Philosophical Review, 119 (1): 31-76, 2010. doi:10.1215/00318108-2009-025.

Arthur Schopenhauer. On the Freedom of the Will. Basil Blackwell, Oxford and New York, 2 edition, 1985. Translated with introduction by Konstantin Kolenda; translation first published 1960; supplied complete 132-page scan, main essay pp.3-103.

Benedict de Spinoza. Ethics, Part I: Concerning God. Project Gutenberg, 1997. URL https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/919. Translated by R. H. M. Elwes; eBook 919, released 1 May 1997, updated 14 April 2013; supplied Part I only, not entire Ethics.

Howard Stein. On relativity theory and openness of the future. Philosophy of Science, 58 (2): 147-167, 1991. doi:10.1086/289609.

Galen Strawson. The impossibility of moral responsibility. Philosophical Studies, 75: 5-24, 1994. doi:10.1007/BF00989879.

Pieter Thyssen. The Block Universe: A Philosophical Investigation in Four Dimensions. PhD thesis, KU Leuven, February 2020. URL https://theses.hal.science/tel-04437595v1. Supplied complete thesis, HAL tel-04437595v1 deposited 6 February 2024. Chapter 4 coauthored with Sylvia Wenmackers. Printed page numbers cited.

Sthaneshwar Timalsina. Self, causation, and agency in the Advaita of Śaṅkara. In Matthew R. Dasti and Edwin F. Bryant, editors, Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy, pages 186-209. Oxford University Press, 2013. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199922734.003.0009. Publisher chapter record dated 26 December 2013; volume commonly catalogued 2014. Supplied complete chapter, not whole volume.

Roderich Tumulka. A relativistic version of the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber model. Journal of Statistical Physics, 125: 821-840, 2006. doi:10.1007/s10955-006-9227-3. URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0406094v2. Consulted arXiv:quant-ph/0406094v2, 16 September 2006, selected sections.

Roderich Tumulka. A relativistic GRW flash process with interaction. In Valia Allori, Angelo Bassi, Detlef Dürr, and Nino Zanghì, editors, Do Wave Functions Jump?, pages 321-348. Springer, 2020. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46777-7_23. URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00482v2. Consulted arXiv:2002.00482v2, revised 12 April 2022, introduction and start of Section 2; preprint version distinguished from 2020 chapter.