The conditional black-hole conclusion

The theorem does not establish its gravitational hypotheses. In particular:

• black-hole unitarity is not proved by assuming it;

• a horizonless saddle is not a proof that every inaccessible microscopic degree of freedom has become diary independent;

• a single-run quantum decoder is not reconstruction of a classical preparation label through repeated experiments;

• absence of a remnant geometry is not, without a dictionary, absence of a residual information sector.

The scalar-bath model of Gaikwad, Kaushal, Mandal, and Wadia has explicit low-energy evaporation solutions and a repeated-process initial-label reconstruction scheme GaikwadEtAl. Its bath preparation and low-energy assumptions are not identified with the vacuum, finite-band, reference-entangled diary specification here. Its geometry is not attached to our decoder by citation.

Island and replica-wormhole calculations provide substantial entropy and reconstruction results in their stated gravitational settings AlmheiriEtAl2020,PSSY. They are not dismissed as scalar curve fits. Conversely, they are not substituted for the missing fixed-realization complete-channel calculation of this manuscript.

For recovery during controlled evaporation, the required set is

Each interval must be established in the same model. A gravitational approximation allowance remains separate from the channel budget unless a conversion theorem connects them.