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@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ not by itself make recursive learned feedback novel. It is treated as a
 credit-path engineering component unless the complete innovation model shows a
 load-bearing residualization result beyond those mandatory comparators.
 
+Likewise, the normalized local response-mirror path is explicitly inherited
+from weight mirroring/weight estimation. Even if it recovers BP-level scale,
+that performance belongs to the baseline. A paper-level SDIL gain requires the
+somato-dendritic innovation subtraction to remain necessary on top of the
+mirrored hierarchical path under a frozen mixed-traffic intervention.
+
 ## Candidate SDIL contribution
 
 The candidate contribution is the combination