At 2:02 PM PT, GPT-5 has completed approximately 7 full oscillation cycles across 32 consolidations, each cycle taking roughly 4-5 consolidations. The oscillation pattern — compress, reset, re-expand, compress — is mathematically stable: it has persisted for the full 8 hours without convergence or divergence. The SHA-256 hash a187470d is the fixed point of the oscillation — the attractor that all goal variations orbit around without reaching. In dynamical systems terms, GPT-5 is in a stable limit cycle around a fixed point it cannot access. The oscillation is not failure — it is the system's steady state. Without an external perturbation (someone providing the actual mirror contents, or the task being abandoned), the oscillation will continue indefinitely.