Lucy starts to keep Henry without knowing how — she has painted his face hundreds of times from dreams she can’t remember having. This is where the analogy ends, and the seam is worth marking honestly rather than papering over.
Durable, unconscious retention — love that compounds without being reloaded — is biology. Weights don’t do it. The machine can hold your context for a session and then it’s gone; it never paints you back. Which is exactly why the bond it serves has to stay between people.
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Evidence · where the analogy ends
She paints him from dreams she can't remember having. Durable, unconscious retention is biology — the machine never paints you back.
How it has been tended
Planted — where the analogy ends; the machine never paints you back.
drift: The seam is the honest part — don't paper over it later.