Ignition — The Smaller Infinity

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Argument. As inference becomes cheap, continuous, and path-dependent, three thresholds separate: perceptual continuity, causal continuity (where a self would live), and phenomenal experience. Reports from either side return through language, and names and attribution shape what a self becomes without settling what is there; anticipation does not establish an anticipator. The practical obligation is to preserve human commitment authority, answerable to those who must live with its consequences, while warrant about machine experience remains structurally incomplete.

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