Black Holes, Admissibility, and the Information Paradox

We present a conceptual resolution of the black hole information paradox based on a minimal reinterpretation of entropy as a measure of admissible correlations rather than microscopic disorder. In this framework, black hole horizons act as time-dependent admissibility interfaces that restrict which correlations are accessible to exterior observers. As evaporation proceeds, these constraints relax, naturally reproducing Page-time behavior and the necessity of island contributions without modifying local dynamics or violating semiclassical gravity. The paradox arises only if admissibility is implicitly assumed fixed. When this assumption is relaxed, global unitarity is preserved and information loss is reinterpreted as temporary inaccessibility. This work presents a conceptual framework intended to clarify the structural relationship between symmetry, entropy, cosmological initial conditions, and quantum gravity. It does not propose a new dynamical model.