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 ## The list
 
-| # | Capability | What it means | First read |
+| # | Capability | What it means | Verdict |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | 1 | **Comparison** | is this the same as that; is this greater | zero distance / sign of a displacement |
 | 2 | **Ordering** | arrange by a criterion | position along an axis |
@@ -45,15 +45,15 @@ answers, and comparison spans three cost tiers. See the notes below.
 | 17 | **Learning** | get better at something | standing changing over time |
 | 18 | **Projection** | render meaning onto a surface | change of basis onto a surface basis |
 | 19 | **Transduction** | take a signal in | change of basis from a sensor basis |
-| 20 | **Serialization** | write a value as bytes someone else will read | **convention** — the format was agreed |
-| 21 | **Text encoding** | what bytes mean which characters | **convention** — UTF-8, ASCII, case tables |
-| 22 | **Storage** | keep a thing past this moment | durability against a device that loses power |
-| 23 | **Network** | send a thing to another machine | wire protocol + socket |
-| 24 | **Process** | start, stop, signal, exit | the OS boundary |
-| 25 | **Concurrency** | more than one thing at once | hardware and OS scheduling |
-| 26 | **Memory** | hold representations while they are in use | the substrate that holds positions |
-| 27 | **Secrecy** | prove authorship; hide content; verify integrity | **structurally excluded** — see below |
-| 28 | **Emission** | write the surface out as bytes | the physical boundary |
+| ~~20~~ | ~~Serialization~~ | **collapsed → 18.** The format is a basis; projecting onto it is the act | — |
+| ~~21~~ | ~~Text encoding~~ | **collapsed → 18.** An encoding is a basis | — |
+| ~~22~~ | ~~Storage~~ | **collapsed.** No save — persistence has no caller. Durability survives at one site inside the engram | — |
+| ~~23~~ | ~~Network~~ | **split.** Wire format → 18; socket → 24 | — |
+| 24 | **Process / OS** | syscalls; the one-way boundary. Where monotonicity stops | CODE, form 2 |
+| ~~25~~ | ~~Concurrency~~ | **collapsed.** Monotone state needs no coordination; coordination is the price of forgetting | — |
+| 26 | **Memory substrate** | what holds the positions | CODE, form 3 |
+| 27 | **Concealment** | meaning made unreadable without a key. *Renamed*: "secrecy" covered one of three things and got the other two backwards — a hash is public, a signature exists to be read. Integrity and authenticity are **grounding under adversarial conditions** (row 16); only concealment stands alone | CODE, form 4 |
+| ~~28~~ | ~~Emission~~ | **split.** Laying out → 18; the device write → 24 | — |
 
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