Non-Narrative Café v6: The Antenarrative Theorem

Sequel to Non-Narrative Café v5: Non-Self Selection

1. Cast

(Seated at a round table that stubbornly refuses to symbolize anything)

• David M. Boje — defending a thesis he half-invented and now barely recognizes
• Geoffrey West — advisor, armed with scaling laws and a raised eyebrow
• Arthur C. Danto — sharpening a knife labeled Retrospection
• Stephen Jay Gould — already suspicious of teleology
• Daniel Dennett — quietly asking whether anyone here is a real pattern

On the chalkboard:

Claim: All systems that scale under the Carbon Rule generate antenarrative.

No one agrees on the font.

2. Opening Move — Boje Bets Before the Story

Boje:
Let’s be precise. I am not saying these systems tell stories.
I am saying they leave structural residue — causal asymmetry, foreclosed options, unresolved futures.
That residue is antenarrative.