The thread installs Descartes's animal-machine, Bell Labs negative feedback, von Foerster's observer-stipulation, and Glushkov's OGAS as the tradition the essay under-draws. It names an unresolved leftover after Wiener's loop: derive the civilizational reference from thermodynamics, or require the people in the loop to stipulate their own purpose. That split also discriminates this genealogy from Mechanism Realism, which needs architecture that shapes distributions and does not need a physics-derived destination. Author dispositions stay author-owned.