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+    "Neither mechanism is claimed as new.",
+    "we do not infer that cortex implements BP;",
+    "we do not claim arbitrary top-down traffic removal;",
+    "It does not support a ResNet-20-to-56 depth claim.",
+    "The joint biological gate nevertheless fails.",
+    "we do not call this variant single-phase."
+  ],
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+    "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10190-7",
+    "https://openreview.net/forum?id=ByeUBANtvB",
+    "https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2019/hash/f387624df552cea2f369918c5e1e12bc-Abstract.html",
+    "https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.16.732595"
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