Law 2a makes every entry a map — which means every entry, trivially, needs language to be said, cognition to be held, and memory to be kept. **None of that files an edge.** An edge relates what two entries *pick out*, at the object level; it never relates their shared condition of being concepts. "X, as a concept, depends on language / cognition / memory / abstraction / categorization" is true of every entry in the kingdom and therefore says nothing about X — it is the map's own shadow, cast on every wall alike. File `self DEPENDS_ON language` because the self is *constituted* by narrative (object-level); do not file `anomaly DEPENDS_ON language` because anomalies need naming (meta-level — so does everything). *Establishing cases: the 2026-07-20 deadlocks — anomaly/qualia/death/measurement/toponym → language, causation/intention → cognition, salience → memory — all meta-level, all filed nothing.*
I. The Line (scope)
Law 2b: The map is not the edge (ratified 2026-07-20).
Law 2a makes every entry a map — which means every entry, trivially, needs language to be said, cognition to be held, and memory to be kept. **None of that files an edge.** An edge relates what two entries *pick out*, a…
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