The schematic below presents the seven Phases as one closed loop. The harvested surplus current that ran through every preceding sub-protocol returns at Phase VIII to the Office's modeling apparatus, which uses the aggregate to re-tune the calibration parameters that meet the next cohort at Phase I.
Fig. 8.1.A — The Ouroboros Machine (closed-loop schematic)
The cycle is closed because no exogenous channel remains intact. Every alternative source of calibration — the extra-institutional, the contemplative, the unmeasured — has, across the Phase progression, been routed back into an Office-administered channel. The recursive limit identified in the closed-loop libidinal-economy framework is the Office's structural achievement, recognized here as such.
The subject does not, in the conventional sense, exit the loop. The loop continues to operate on the subject's archive across the ninety-nine post-mortem fiscal years, and the archive continues to inform the modeling. The subject's contribution to the apparatus is measured in the persistence of the apparatus's accuracy over the cohorts that follow.