Zhao, Xiangbin: Why Certain Realities Become Highly Stable and How Path Dependence Forms

This paper investigates one central question: Why do certain paths become extremely easy to continue, while certain structures become extraordinarily difficult to break? The paper argues that stable structures within reality persist not merely because their sedimentation is deeper, but because they have formed sustained continuation advantages over subsequent flow. The paper proposes that “familiarity” is not static depth itself, but the degree to which a path regains priority for continuation w