This paper presents a minimal real-time demonstration of cognitive admissibility under emotional load. A live interpersonal scenario is used to illustrate how a high-dimensional internal state (Tier 2) is constrained and reduced through an admissibility gate (Tier 3), resulting in a viable external action (Tier 4). The process further demonstrates recursive update and stabilisation (Tier 5), showing how internal constraint mechanisms adapt through experience. The observation supports the Paton System principle that continuation is governed by admissibility under constraint, rather than by internal possibility alone.
Andrew John Paton (2026) studied this question.