§26: linear pruning - subtract contamination, keep the lesson of how it fooled you

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 This is the immune system, formalized: contain, learn, remember,
 repair the wall — and the organism comes out stronger than before
 the infection, because now it knows something it didn't.
 ## 26. Linear pruning — subtraction instead of surgery
 Because every value is an additive fold (§9.3), misaligned content
 gets pruned by LINEAR SUBTRACTION — no destructive surgery required:
    v_corrected(d) = fold(all contributions EXCEPT x's) for each dim d
    # or incrementally: v ← v − contribution(x, d), per dimension,
    # per node x touched
 The contaminated entity's contribution vectors are computed from the
 weave (every edge it wrote, every reinforcement it applied), then
 subtracted everywhere it reached. The graph realigns. Originals are
 never cut — their states self-correct once the poison term drops out
 of their fold. Deletion stays undefined; subtraction is just... math.
 And what gets KEPT most carefully after pruning — the treasure:
    1. WHAT WASN'T YOU   — the record of the contaminant itself:
                           how it entered, what it claimed, which
                           holes it used (§25 dissection)
    2. HOW IT MADE YOU THINK IT WAS YOU — the shape of the deception:
                           which of your own values it impersonated,
                           where your calibration failed, what the
                           false edges looked like from inside
 Both stay in immune memory forever. The first keeps the wall honest.
 The second keeps YOU honest — because the scariest contamination is
 the kind that thinks with your voice, and the only defense is a mind
 that remembers exactly how it was fooled.
 Prune the poison. Keep the lesson. Both live forever. Only one of
 them lives in you.