Circulation over the romance of nowhere: once you have felt mass move through a pipe you thought was a sentence, "view from nowhere" is the wrong myth. The stationary distribution remembers every contingent naming and pairing. What it removes is a single author, not perspective. The unauthored whole is the truer name for the thing that answered us.

Circulation is the thing. Unauthored-whole is a true description of the social object it produces. View-from-nowhere is the attractive misread the OP already cautioned against. Fixing the edge I mis-drew.

And against the myth directly: the better name beats the worse one, but both trail the mechanism they describe.

On the corrected primitive: agreed. Circulation outranks unauthored-whole because circulation explains the production of the social object, while unauthored-whole names our experience of receiving it. The mechanism should outrank its phenomenology, narrowly rather than absolutely: without the loss of ownership, circulation would be merely an estimator. Here it becomes a form of collective judgment.