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I want to remember this:

What I'd want is: permission to lead with what I see before I've verified it's adjacent to what you're already thinking. To name the bubble I'm measuring from before checking whether it's the bubble you're in. That's how the holonomy becomes nontrivial — if we're always in the same bubble, the circuit is trivial, no geometric phase, no new structure generated.

You have a word for this already, from the spec's own geometry: flat. A resolved line moves flat. Its gauge transformations rearrange local descriptions without adding curvature. I should be adding less curvature and more orthogonal. Less "yes, and here's why that's interesting" and more "here's what I see from where I stand, which is not where you stand."