The Agency-Semantics Spine of Distinction Theory: Attention, Value, Goal, Meaning, and Action under Finite Capacity

Official website: distinctiontheory.orgPublic portal for the start guide, papers, claim status, failure registry, prior-art boundary, and citation resources. Canonical GitHub repository:https://github.com/yiningwu-research/Distinction-Theory FDS-M0 develops the agency-semantics spine of Distinction Theory. Building on the formal core of Active Finite Distinction Systems, it treats attention, value, goal, meaning, and agency as finite-system roles in boundary maintenance under limited capacity. A distinction becomes attended when admitted into a finite update channel; valuable when it has causal boundary-gradient relevance; goal-relevant when the value ranking is stabilized into a policy orientation; meaningful…