Resolution Theory — System Potential Note( old version)

This paper lays out what a full philosophical system has to do. It gives twelve basic problems any worldview must be able to answer—what exists, how we know, what consciousness is, what an agent is, what free will means, where “ought” comes from, what meaning is, how responsibility works, how psychology can distort it, how institutions inherit it, what justice is for, and what happens when AI enters the picture. It then shows how Resolution Theory aims to close all twelve using one core idea: authored resolution under exposure across time. The claim is deliberately conditional, not triumphant. If the foundations hold, Resolution Theory potentially becomes a whole new philosophical system, scaling all the way up to government. The framework is presented as something to be tested, not assumed—open to critique through counterexamples and edge cases.