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In What Configuration Is Necessity Itself Generated? — Xeno-Bullshit, Self-Generating Work, Autonomous Self-Revision, Xenoscience, and Xeno-Capital

Fujie, Naoto · 2026
PhilArchive · Papers · 2026
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This paper asks under what configurations necessity itself is generated rather than presupposed. It distinguishes metaphysical, logical, institutional, economic, and operational forms of necessity and argues that many claims presented as necessary are stabilized outcomes of historically contingent arrangements of resources, infrastructures, rules, dependencies, expectations, and feedback. The paper introduces the notion of configuration-generated necessity to identify cases in which alternatives become inaccessible not because they are absolutely impossible, but because the operative system recursively reproduces the conditions that exclude them. Xeno-Bullshit names configurations in which locally generated constraints are redescribed as universal necessities and thereby insulated from revision. Self-generating work provides a case in which systems produce the tasks, dependencies, and evaluative criteria required to justify their own continuation, while autonomous self-revision raises the converse problem of whether a system can modify the very constraints through which necessity is generated. The analysis extends to Xeno-Capital, where resource allocation, automated weighting, access, and accumulation can transform contingent economic relations into practically unavoidable pathways. Xenoscience provides the comparative framework for distinguishing genuine modal constraint from configuration-dependent closure. The broader claim is that necessity should be analyzed not only as a modal property but as an operational achievement whose generation, persistence, and disappearance depend on identifiable configurations.
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