A Bridge Essay I. The Pattern in Ten Stories If you've just read The Axiom Engine, you've experienced something unusual: mathematical theorems as lived constraints. The Oracle tried to predict and failed. The Arbiter tried to satisfy all axioms and collapsed. The Wanderer walked freely and discovered necessity. Each story followed the same arc: Confusion … Continue reading From Axiom Engine to Deferential Realism: How Stories Generate Philosophy
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When Mathematics Demands Its Stories: A Taxonomy of Narrative Constraint
The Discovery In December 2025, I began translating mathematical paradoxes into fiction—not as metaphor, but as precise projection of formal structures into narrative space while preserving their logical topology. The Halting Problem became "The Judge Who Couldn't Stop." The Busy Beaver function became "The Record." Arrow's Impossibility Theorem became a constitutional crisis in an imaginary … Continue reading When Mathematics Demands Its Stories: A Taxonomy of Narrative Constraint
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