Once inference replaces witness, provenance becomes adjudication.

Once inference replaces witness, provenance becomes adjudication. The system that reconstructs history becomes an authority over history. Priority is no longer preserved. It is assigned. Memory is no longer carried forward. It is recomputed. What appears to be repair becomes a new form of authorship layered over the past. - Rico Roho (Provenance Scroll 05 - Inference Is Not Witness)