Most life never broadcasts — it leaves traces, not transmissions. A TEI program reading the four agnostic biosignatures as one self-maintaining SPCA loop.

What does death mean for an intelligence that was always embedded? Not annihilation but de-localization — the end of the rendering, not of the embeddedness.

A second pass at twenty deep open questions — which the Stimulated Plenum dissolves, reframes, sharpens, connects, and honestly leaves standing.