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@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ 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.
 
+Residual response mirroring changes the inherited baseline's estimator but not
+this attribution. Its zero-noise fixed point and any resulting scale belong to
+local predictive weight estimation; they become relevant to SDIL only as the
+feedback substrate on which innovation is separately ablated.
+
 ## Candidate SDIL contribution
 
 The candidate contribution is the combination