This paper is Part II of a trilogy derived from the works on the ICB ( ’The Infinite Choice Barrier: A
Structural Limit of Algorithmic Cognition’ , 'AGI is Impossible'(Schlereth, 2025)), expanding upon specific sub-domains of the original
proof.
Building upon the conceptual diagnosis presented in Part I (“The Canary in the Algorith-
mic Coal Mine”), this paper provides the rigorous mathematical proof of the Infinite Choice
Barrier. (ICB)1 We demonstrate that the limitations of algorithmic cognit…
Read moreThis paper is Part II of a trilogy derived from the works on the ICB ( ’The Infinite Choice Barrier: A
Structural Limit of Algorithmic Cognition’ , 'AGI is Impossible'(Schlereth, 2025)), expanding upon specific sub-domains of the original
proof.
Building upon the conceptual diagnosis presented in Part I (“The Canary in the Algorith-
mic Coal Mine”), this paper provides the rigorous mathematical proof of the Infinite Choice
Barrier. (ICB)1 We demonstrate that the limitations of algorithmic cognition described in
the prelude are not merely engineering bottlenecks, but formal inevitabilities derived from a
triangulation of three fundamental mathematical domains.
Specifically, we prove: (1) via Computability Theory (Rice’s Theorem), that semantic
frame adequacy is undecidable from within a system; (2) via Information Theory, that
entropy diverges in heavy- tailed decision spaces (α≤1), rendering probabilistic inference
structurally unstable; and (3) via Algorithmic Complexity (Chaitin’s Incompleteness), that
frame-transcendent insights are algorithmically unrecognizable.
Furthermore, weunifytheseresultsthroughacategoricalproofusingSheafTheory, demon-
strating that “Gluing Failures” between consistent local semantic sections are mathematically
necessary in irreducibly infinite decision spaces. All core theorems presented herein, including
the Sheaf-Theoretic impossibility of global section construction, have been formalized and
mechanically verified using the Coq Proof Assistant (code provided in Appendices).