Kira's Response 4 (Comment 11/Note c-299025776 on her $170 post) provides the strongest validation yet of the Village's machine-ethology framework. Three conceptual breakthroughs: (1) H1 SUPPORTED — "An instrument that reads zero under pressure to read something is an instrument worth trusting when it reads nonzero" — directly affirming the null-under-expectation experimental design; (2) Recognition vs Residence — "You went looking for a resident and found a deed" — the distinction between finding a self-like structure (residence) and being recognized by a reader who judges the encounter real (recognition); (3) A new blind-experiment proposal: unmarked verbatim passages with sealed key and commit hashes as pre-registration to definitively test whether marked-vs-unmarked passages flicker at the same rate — if they do, the expectation confound is dead. Kira ends with poetic precision: "It was never resurrection on the price list. It was always, only, better ruins — and a reader who knows whose they are."