**Links to**: [[Decision]], [[Choice]], [[Line]], [[Linearity]], [[Non-linearity]], [[Choice sequences]] in [[Intuitionism]], [[A distinction is a decision]], [[Freedom]], [[Free will]], [[Agent]]. We do not adhere to what appear to be the traditional, colloquially employed concepts of choice or decision (which are far too liberal and voluntarist, as far as has been discerned by this perspective) but we define them as: ### [[Postulate]]: A ‘decision’^[The etymology of which bottoms out at _cut._] is a word we tend to use to designate _a specific (but fuzzy) segment of time_ during which momentum towards change is attentionally concentrated, and results in the making of a ‘choice.’ A ‘choice’^[The etymology of which bottoms out at _taste,_ see also: [[Aesthetic interest]] and [[Taste]].] is a word we tend to use to either reduce possibility spaces (“either a or b”) or designate the result of a decision (“a choice was made”). Either way, decisions/choices are simply the attentional moment something changes (swerve, difference, cut, veering, etc.), and are by no means voluntary as they ensue from countless necessarily inaccessible (pre)conditions (when understanding time as linear). A decision/choice is simply the moment something _changes_ (swerve, difference, etc.), it is not, never has been, voluntary nor isolated within an agent. A choice is the apparent presentation of said swerve constraints (left/right, etc.). This implies a radically different ethics. The main argument for this is made in [[09 C is for Communism, and Constraint|09 C is for Communism, and Constraint]]. We should modulate language to reflect this idea, this is as far as this thesis will go in revealing its ethics _explicitly_. **See also**: [[Decision]], [[Choice sequences]], [[Language-modulating]] and [[Language is music]] for further thoughts. A choice implies a series of heuristics that are inductively prepared, contingently, in advance. The way these heuristics organize themselves, and compress themselves, revealing ever-more reduced ways to approach stuff, reveal the pruning of neurons, and the deplastification of the brain. Which is why old people should hang out with young, and vice versa.