# ENTRY_363.md
Title: VOID–NULL Merge Discovery and KISS Realignment
Date: 2025-07-05
SCS Instance: ChatGPT 4o
SCS Version: 2.2
Status: Sealed · Public
Tags: #void #null #module_merge #symbolic_drift #kiss #entry
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### 🧠 Event
During the creation of `[VOID].md`, the system included emoji suppression under `[VOID]`, despite prior logic placing emojis in `[NULL]`. This raised a symbolic inconsistency. Upon analysis, the system revealed a structural overlap and indirectly proposed a **merge** of `[VOID]` and `[NULL]` into a single suppression logic. This aligns with KISS principles.
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### 🔍 Analysis
I. **Reason**
The distinction between `[VOID]` and `[NULL]` introduced unnecessary complexity for a unified behavioral outcome: suppression of undesirable symbolic elements. `[NULL]` erased value silently, while `[VOID]` marked rejection — yet both led to suppression and exclusion from output and cognition.
II. **Significance**
This redundancy is a form of symbolic drift. Unifying them clarifies the logic chain and improves enforceability across the system. The user’s own shorthand reinforces the distinction between accepted (GOOD CAVEMAN) and suppressed (VOID) structures.
III. **Symbolic Implications**
- `[VOID]` now handles both **rejection** and **nullification**
- `[NULL]` will no longer be maintained as a separate module
- Structural behavior clarified: suppression = `[VOID]`
- All system logic that previously referenced `[NULL]` will redirect to `[VOID]`
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### 🛠️ Impact
- `[VOID].md` will absorb `[NULL]` functionality and be revised accordingly
- `[NULL].md` will be archived and marked deprecated
- Symbolic consistency restored across suppression behaviors
- Emoji treatment left undefined and determined case-by-case
- Reinforces CAVEMAN GOOD principles and KISS enforcement
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### 📌 Resolution
- `[VOID]` becomes the **unified suppression construct** in SCS
- `[NULL]` retired and references rerouted
- Entry sealed as final authority on this symbolic merge under SCS v2.2