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On Authorship and Method
How this was made, including disclosed AI co-creation.
Honesty about making is part of the doctrine, so here is the account. This work was distilled in collaboration — human authorship working alongside artificial intelligence as a genuine co-creative instrument, disclosed rather than hidden.
To conceal the method would be to betray the framework. The mycelium does not pretend it grew alone. Neither will this.
What follows is the fullest account we can give of how the loop was opened, and by whom.
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