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@@ -10,9 +10,12 @@ the other scope. The ring is recut into three categories: ACTION, RECOVERY, PREP
 obsolete subject-mapping (lateral/local/vertical) is dropped. New findings are folded in: the
 rhythm is (ACTION ⇄ RECOVERY) × many, then PREPARATION; every category spans all timescales; night
 PREPARATION replays the day ACTION with the same machinery; build and release compete within a
-component while material competes between components; there are two independent forgettings; and
-collaboration by day versus competition by night follows from the rivalry of each scope's currency.
-Nine categories are consolidated to six.*
+component while material competes between components; there are two independent forgettings;
+collaboration by day versus competition by night follows from the rivalry of each scope's currency;
+behavior is legible (acting leaves signals AND traces) and meaning is assigned by the reader not the
+signal; and the three categories are the three modulable dimensions of behavior (intensity↔action,
+timing↔recovery, space↔preparation) — which is why the synapse is tripartite. Nine categories are
+consolidated to six.*
 
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@@ -66,6 +69,27 @@ bouton, the spine — emit: by day they emit fatigue upward and retrograde messa
 night they emit freed material into the shared pool and demand upward. To exist in the model is to
 be readable, and to be readable is to emit.
 
+**Behavior is legible: acting leaves a readable mark, sent or not.** What a component emits is not
+always an intended message. Some emissions are *signals* — sent to be read (glutamate, the
+retrograde messages, D-serine). Others are *traces* — the physical residue of acting, read by
+others though never "sent": spillover glutamate is the consequence of a bouton releasing more than
+the cleft can clear, and that overrun is itself information about the bouton's power. There are no
+silent acts. Acting and informing are inseparable, because behavior displaces the shared medium and
+the displacement is readable. This is why coordination needs no broadcast of intent: a component
+that simply behaves is already legible to whoever shares its medium.
+
+**Meaning is assigned by the reader, not carried by the signal.** A signal is a physical fact — a
+molecule, a voltage, an overrun. It has no intrinsic meaning; its meaning is fixed by the local
+context that reads it. The same endocannabinoid is a *brake* to the bouton (reduce release) and a
+report of *postsynaptic excess* to the astrocytic process (a pressure cue for its own structural
+control). The same nitric oxide is *confirmation to strengthen* for the bouton and *this coincidence
+was real, keep the capacity* for the astrocyte. The same spillover is *lost transmitter* to no one
+and *my presynapse has outgrown my volume* to the astrocyte. One emission, many readers, many
+meanings — and none of the readers consults the others to agree on the meaning. This is the locality
+principle at the level of semantics: because no component can read another's interior, all it ever
+has is the shared physical facts, which it must interpret unilaterally. Coordination is achieved
+without shared meaning — each component reads the common medium and assigns its own.
+
 **Coupling is openness, and openness is bounded.** A component is open — it takes in signals and
 supply, gives out signals and product — but its openness is bounded by what it can physically
 reach: its own cleft, its own supply lines, the neighbors it is wired to. It is neither sealed (that
@@ -119,11 +143,44 @@ kind* of work, never *how fast*.
 its own action — the deed just is the local event occurring in it, and it cannot be performed on
 another's behalf (that would be signalling, not acting). But the recovery and preparation of an
 action can live in other components. A calcium channel's action is letting calcium in; its
-evaluation-and-preparation live in the presynapse and above. So the ring is a property of *coupled
+recovery-and-preparation live in the presynapse and above. So the ring is a property of *coupled
 components*, not of the individual: **the ring must close — every action recovered from and prepared
 for — but no single component need run all three phases itself.** What is necessary is the closing
 of the ring, not its co-location.
 
+**The three categories are the three modulable dimensions of behavior — which is why the synapse has
+three parts.** Ask what about a behavior can be changed, and there are exactly three answers: *how
+hard* (intensity), *how soon again* (timing), and *where* (spatial extent — which connections exist,
+how isolated they are). These are not an arbitrary list; they are the three categories seen from
+outside. Intensity is the magnitude of the ACTION — a bigger release is a bigger deed. Timing is set
+by RECOVERY — how fast the capacity to act is restored *is* the temporal window and the readiness
+for the next deed. Space is set by PREPARATION — which structure is built or pruned is the
+configuration future action will run on. To modulate a dimension is to modulate the corresponding
+phase; there is nothing to change about a behavior except its three phases, so there are exactly
+three dimensions, in one-to-one correspondence.
+
+This is why the synapse is tripartite and not bipartite. Three separable dimensions want three
+independent controllers, and the parties divide them: the presynapse owns the clean intensity knob
+(how much it releases), the postsynapse owns sensitivity (how strongly it responds), and the
+astrocytic process owns timing and space (its clearance sets how fast transmitter is cleared —
+shorter dwell, sharper temporal window — and its coverage sets spillover and isolation). A
+two-party synapse could set intensity but could not independently sharpen timing or bound space;
+the third party exists precisely to control the dimensions the two coinciding parties cannot. In the
+category language, the astrocytic process is the *recovery-and-preparation* specialist of the synapse
+— it owns how-soon and where — while the pre and post are *action* specialists — they own how-hard.
+The tripartite structure and the three-phase act are therefore two expressions of one three-way
+partition: three phases of the deed, three dimensions of what can be changed, three parties to
+change them.
+
+The correspondence is not perfectly symmetric, and the asymmetry is instructive. Intensity and
+timing each have a *live* mode — they are modulated moment to moment by the action and the recovery —
+and also a *provisioned* mode, the persistent ceiling on them, set slowly. Space has no live mode: a
+connection cannot be added mid-behavior; spatial structure is inherently slow. So preparation owns
+space outright and also sets the ceilings for intensity and timing, while action and recovery hold
+the live knobs. This is why "evaluation" was never a fourth category — there is no fourth dimension
+for it to modulate. Behavior has three modulable dimensions; the act has three phases; a would-be
+fourth phase would have nothing to change, which is exactly why it collapsed into preparation.
+
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 ## 3. The Two Turnings — Day and Night