Addendum: Reconciling Determinism and Meaning in The Relative Framework

Some questions emerge not from opposition, but from reflection, the kind that arises when two parts of a system, developed independently, seem to speak past one another: “If choice is an illusion, as claimed in the reactive model of consciousness, how can meaning, which in earlier work is described as a product of negotiation between self and world, hold any ground?” At first glance, this seems to challenge the coherence of the framework. However, on closer inspection, it reveals a layered compatibility between the experience of meaning and the deterministic structures that underlie conscious activity.