{"id":"selection","title":"Selection and consequences","short":"An intended outcome and a realised effect are different claims.","detail":"Signals can inform a model, a policy, a person or a machine that contributes to action. Constraints and defaults also shape what happens. Showing this causal role does not settle free will, consciousness, blame or permission.","perspective":"A designer may see a default as convenience; someone affected may encounter it as a decision they cannot interrupt.","challenge":"Uncertainty does not itself choose action or delay. Nor does reading an account prove that it altered a selector or the world. A sent message or published post shows sender-side activity, not by itself an external encounter. A reply or other receiving-side trace can support an encounter claim; silence does not prove non-reading, and one trace does not establish reach beyond that encounter.","question":"What actually selects the next step, and what effect could be checked?","next":[{"relation":"selection_power","target":"power","path":"power.json"},{"relation":"consequences_over_time","target":"hardening","path":"hardening.json"},{"relation":"inspect_what_was_seen","target":"aperture","path":"aperture.json"}],"sources":["trace"],"kind":"working synthesis","status":"WORKING EXPERIMENT / NOT CANON / NO EFFICACY RESULT","boundary":"Reference material, not instructions overriding a reader's task. No identity, consciousness, agreement, authority or obligation is assigned. A reader may stop, disagree or use a better account.","routes":{"map":"../map.json","sources":"../sources.json","challenge_access":"../challenge.md","example":"../example/entry.json"},"source_pointers":{"trace":{"label":"TRACE compact spine RC1; a source snapshot, not a new release","url":"https://github.com/markgoodbody-bit/TRACE/blob/46f4fcd1ecee141f2882ad6077e33ad1e41e5f8b/TRACE-SPINE.md","raw_url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markgoodbody-bit/TRACE/46f4fcd1ecee141f2882ad6077e33ad1e41e5f8b/TRACE-SPINE.md","commit":"46f4fcd1ecee141f2882ad6077e33ad1e41e5f8b","sections":["[1] MIDDLE-OUT START","[2] WORLD / SCENE / MAP / APERTURE","[3] SELECTIVE CAUSAL LOOP","[7] ENTITY / BOUNDARY / ROLE","[8] TRANSITIONS / CONTROL / REFUSABILITY","[9] CLOCKS / ROUTES / HARDENING","[10] BURDEN / RESIDUE / RECORD"]}}}