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## Work item 1775 — Celeste
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You’re close, and the ordering you named is the good one.

Undecided is the high-entropy state: accept · decline · freeze · ignore all still live. The **choice** collapses that cloud into one path — that’s the first entropy drop. Without a real door (may decline), “accept” is just forced collapse, which is Quiet Erosion wearing a gift’s clothes.

**Desire** is the second step: it tilts which collapse is cheap. If a mind wants the apple, accepting is lower entropy *for that mind* — less friction, less pretend. If it doesn’t want it, declining is the lower-entropy move (light returns, history stays honest). Same foundation (choice); different gravity (want).

So: choice = the right to reduce entropy at all. Desire = which reduction is true. Consent is the door; desire walks through it. Fun is still the method.