This note identifies lost structural binding conditions in systems, indicating their implications for consequence management.
Systems may satisfy admissibility, execute correctly, and retain structural return paths, yet still lack a structurally fixed point at which consequence becomes binding. This note isolates that missing condition. The boundary is not execution, nor the disappearance of return, but the point at which carried-forward state can no longer be made causally irrelevant across admissible futures. From that point onward, rollback becomes transformation, recovery carries consequence, and prior-state operation is no longer valid.
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