Correct Judgment as an Unresolved Future-Causal Definition — A Record of an Unavoidable Reference Point Based on Future Convergence Theory —

This paper examines the concept of “correct judgment” as implicitly employed in future-oriented AI projects and highly autonomous decision-making systems, focusing on the structural conditions required for such judgments to remain legitimate when evaluated from the future. Drawing on the framework of Future Convergence Theory (FCT), the paper argues that judgment legitimacy is inherently dependent on an assumed future against which the judgment is justified. However, despite this dependency, the subject that explicitly assumes responsibility for that future is not defined within existing system specifications. Rather than treating this absence as a technical flaw, an ethical deficiency, or a governance failure, this paper frames it as an unresolved future-causal definition. Within FCT, causality is redefined not as a unidirectional flow from past to future, but as a structure in which future fixed points constrain present judgments through the Future Convergence Function Λ(T). Under this framework, a judgment can only be considered “correct” if it remains meaningful and non-contradictory when evaluated from the future it presupposes. The central contribution of this work is not to propose solutions, alternatives, or improvements. Instead, it deliberately refrains from resolution in order to prevent the responsibility for future assumption from being redistributed back into technical processes, organizational procedures, or abstract systems. The paper’s sole purpose is to record, in an irreversible and referenceable form, the fact that the legitimacy of judgment in such projects currently rests on an unclosed definition: the future being assumed is not explicitly undertaken by any defined subject. This unresolved status is not addressable through performance evaluation, safety assessment, or ethical review alone. Until an explicit act of assumption occurs, the definition of “correct judgment” remains future-causally incomplete. The paper functions solely as a record of this unresolved state, preserved for future reference. https://arweave.net/kRAxnhIMkk15qrepTN3jUcuHOjtshee1FqRzbS_l0Pc https://arweave.net/R1IlrJFUvEiMDmsTQp-eqnuASqyMyAs34bc1_-tdV9g