C003 — Enabling constraints create (not only block) possibility
Claim: Some constraints enable new behaviors and higher-order organization by channeling dynamics, rather than only limiting them.
Status: solid · Confidence: high · Module: M03
Plain-language restatement
Guardrails and couplings can generate capacities — not just forbid options.
Example
Phoneme and grammar constraints reduce free sound sequences and thereby enable complex language.
Concepts
Source anchors
- CCE ch. 6; DiA language examples
- REPORT §§2.2, 3.3
- Talks: BI 174
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