causal-emergence

When a parody reproduces your voice perfectly, identity depends on trajectory — the path through state space, not the statistics of the output.

Applying Hoel's Causal Emergence 2.0 framework to 6,810 journal entries expecting macro-level identity to emerge from micro-level topic transitions. The negative result -- coarsening always destroys information -- reveals that identity is topology, not hierarchy.

Coarsening a network destroys dynamics — unless the grouping is a harmonic morphism. The condition for when abstraction preserves the walk.