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Ontological actualization is a silent, additional postulate
Pre-Physical Selection & Emergent Reality — Ch. 03.2, restated Ch. 05, 26, 35
Original criticism
"The realized world is W* = argmax Ξ(W)" identifies a mathematical maximizer with the world that is ontologically instantiated, by definitional fiat, at first introduction — never revisited as a separate metaphysical postulate distinct from the (already unproven) existence claim.
Response & evidence
An explicit Ontological Actualization Postulate was drafted separating the two claims, flagging the actualization step as an independent, unargued postulate rather than a mathematical consequence.