Reframing the investigation required rebuilding the methodology from foundation.
Previous weeks had examined void network behavior, archived section activity, manifestation content—all component-level analysis. Useful, necessary, but ultimately insufficient for the larger question Sekar's reframing had identified. Asking whether Timeline itself was conscious required testing at framework level, not component level. Different scale. Different protocols.
Dr. Chen spent two days developing the empirical approach before presenting it to the full team.
