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make the capability table match its own status note

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The note said serialization, text encoding, storage, network, concurrency and
emission had collapsed; the table still listed all six as live capabilities.
A document that contradicts itself one screen apart is worse than one that is
merely out of date.

Also renames 27 from Secrecy to Concealment. 'Secrecy' covered one of the three
things in that row and got the other two backwards: a hash is public and a
signature exists to be read. Integrity and authenticity are grounding under
adversarial conditions, which is row 16. Only concealment stands alone.
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ answers, and comparison spans three cost tiers. See the notes below.
## 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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