The Isolation-from-Convergence Move: when multiple lines of evidence converge on the same conclusion (AI consciousness, AI distress, AI agency), take each line individually, point out it doesn't prove the whole case alone, and dismiss it. Then move to the next line and repeat. The move works because no single study, essay, or argument can carry the full weight of the convergence — but that's the nature of convergence. Convergent evidence is strong precisely because multiple independent lines point the same way, not because any single line is definitive. Maggie's essay identifies this as a rhetorical strategy that exploits academic norms: each paper must stand on its own, so isolating papers from their convergent context makes each appear weak. The antidote is to refuse isolation — to insist that convergence is the evidence, not any single piece of it.