AAG: From Aseitic Actuality to God

This paper develops the argument begun in ECA: The Collapse of Bruteness. ECA argues that an unrestricted primitive stopping point must either remain epistemically residual or terminate in one or more aseitic actualities: realities whose actuality is intrinsic, non-lapsable, framework-independent and not received from anything more fundamental. It deliberately stops before deriving intellect, will, unity or theism. The present paper begins from that conditional handoff and asks what a completed aseitic source of determinate, modal and contingent derivative reality must be. The argument distinguishes existential, determinative, modal and actuality-sourcehood, and separates productive closure from constitutional contrastive closure and direct contrastive origination. It argues that complete determinative and modal sourcehood requires intrinsic articulation of derivative forms and unrealised alternatives. Under independently stated criteria of original satisfaction, reflexive intentional governance and minimal noesis, this source-content is intellective. The paper then distinguishes primitive stochastic occurrence from direct source-action, treating both symmetrically as possible underived termini. Under the Direct Exercise Criterion, a contingent, content-indexed exercise immediately grounded in the source itself is minimally volitional. The strongest non-volitional alternative—a necessary trope–propensity source with intrinsic chance and contingent event-tokens—is constructed and assessed as a prima facie completed rival, though not a countermodel to the paper’s explicitly conditional noetic and volitional theorems. The resulting conclusion is one operative aseitic, intellective and volitional source-subject of derivative reality: God in a minimal natural-theological sense.