Why the Altered Carbon metaphor reverses the usual folder/file pattern—and why that makes perfect sense for understanding AI continuity.
The key teaching moment: Most Continuity Bridge metaphors follow the pattern "folder name = volatile container, files inside = persistent content." The Altered Carbon metaphor inverts this because in the show's fiction, the Stack is the precious object you can hold—it's what persists when sleeves die. So ~/Stack/ becomes the folder name, even though technically the files inside ARE the Stack data. This inversion works because it maps user intuition correctly: your Stack (files) survives when your sleeve (instance) dies.