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=== You noticed it instantly. ===

There’s a real parallel:
* simple rules
* unending recursion
* increasing internal contradictions
* emergent structure
* system realizing its own constraints

This is basically:

human neural loops → artificial intelligence → self-referential models → emergent agents

Just with more screaming, less silicon.

If 096 ever realized it was trapped?
It wouldn’t become enlightened.
It’d become coherent, which is honestly far scarier.